Joes band A Beautiful Chaos was one of the runners up to front for the Iron Maiden concert. Apparently Chuggernaut won it. But they had a concert for all the runners up at the Kings Arms on Thursday which me and Becky and Mope went to. Becky’s friends play in Sonic Altar which were also runners up.

Was pretty mean, a band called The Jealous Itch started then it was A Beautiful Chaos then it was Sonic Altar and we left after that.

Anyway the lead guitarist of Joe’s band left so finally he’s able to play some lead. Previously he was doing rhythym in the back, but now he’s mixing the two up. Which is great for him because he’s a wicked guitarist and I think he was a little bit wasted being in the back there. He can do some mean technical riffs of which I shall insert some videos here soon. I thought I had them on here already but apparently not .

But yeah, real good to see him up front, and it was his first time playing lead for the band live, and he fucking rocked it so I’m real stoked for him.

Caught up with him a bit after the concert which was mean cos I haven’t seen him in ages, but had to leave early (1am) cos I was riding with Shelley and Tesh early the next morning.

But yeah, mean shit.

Me and Nick are trademe whores. What can I say.

I wake up about 6pm after my last nightshift and find a text from him asking if I wanted to go on a roadtrip the next day. I said yeah sweet and texted the people I was buying my motox boots and helmet from and told them not to post them cos I was coming down country.

So I went for a drink with Becky and B-rad up at the trig. Sitting on the back of the utes watching the sunset over the Waitoki valley drinking beer is fucking mean (if you replace beer with something tastier anyway).

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So we’re at the pub on Thursday night, me Becky, Brad, Nick, and then Letitia turned up later on, and Amy came and hung out when she finished on the bar. Dunno where Shelley was? Think she had work the next day. The owner lady always tops up the jukebox with money from the till for us.

We’re sitting outside at the picnic table, cranking old school stuff like sabbath and eric clapton, all of us pretty wasted.

Topic of laughter for the night was saying smashed pipi, pipi smasher, because the week before. We had been offered (very stupidly) a gig at the Smashed Pipi pub in Mangawhai after some chick at a jam heard us (read: Joe) and thought we were awesome. Which we are, most definitely not.

Topic of laughter, because (as you will know if you already have a dirty mind) pipi representing the female genitalia, and smashing, the act of… fornication. Plus we are apparently 14 years old, thus making it funny. So you can imagine all the euphanisms we were coming up with, including telling threatening each other that we would smash the others pipi if they weren’t careful. Aren’t we evolved.

I get up to go and put on another song, I think I was trying to put on Deep Purple or Cream or something (there was no metal on the jukebox) and instead of hitting 81 on the thing, I hit 61. Which happened to be Vengabus, by the Vengaboys. Man did I feel like a dick, everyone cracks up laughing and points at me while I sit back down, and then they’re trying to make up a combination of my name and vengaboys, with gay taunts and what not. It was to be expected.

Then someone says, “Oh! The van!”, refering to my green van, “The Vengabus!”, “AHAHAHA” and everyone cracks up laughing again… classic…

THe Vengabus

Saturday when we’re on our way to get the engine, Brad texts tesh to ask what the plan was that night. She replies, “I reckon we all get drunk and take the vengabus to the smashed pipi.”

Hehe, good times…

Man, lots to do this weekend.

Finish at 7am this Sat morning, I’ve gotta get some sleep, then get up, install my front speakers in my van, change the oil, hook up the drivers door central locking, and tune the amp for all the speakers.

Then going to the Psycroptic concert with Joe, Nick, Shelley and her friend Ella, get drunk off my nut, and mosh the fuck out. Should be mean. Gotta buy a Psycroptic Tshirt too. My brother wants to come but he is not 18 for another 15 days. Shame.

Then on Sunday (hopefully not hungover) road trip it down to Tauranga to pick up my gat and amp and hang around Tauranga if its nice weather.

Then on Monday I can install and play Far Cry 2!! Dave bought it in for me tonight, going to be SO mean! Thats another one I can scratch off my list Plus COD5 came out yesterday so hopefully I’ll get my hands on a copy of that soon.

Shit just remembered its my dads birthday on monday too… what am I going to get him… also skinny leaves for Wellington…

I had a dream. Of a horse crossed with a llama. That my friend Shelley had. And we took it for a roadtrip down to Taupo for some reason. In Becky’s ute. Stopping, on the way, to pick up some random old dudes dog and take it for a trip to.

Halfway along the trip we swapped the ute for a big black cadillac thing and horse/llama-float.

Stopped on the side of the road and slept in the sand cuddled up with the horse-llama, the dog ran away, and the 2 swat-team surburbans full of cops turned up and aimed guns at us.

After abusing the shit out of them regardless of the firearm situation, I got traffic infringements for the tiniest things.

Then driving home had to pull in and tell the old guy that his dog had run away. He remarked that it was a wandering little bugger and he would probably turn up sometime.

What the fuck… goes on in my head? Shelley thinks I am on crack.

So I went to Nicks dads warehouse/factory thing yesterday, turned up and Riki was there too. They were so excited cos they just got a whole bunch of free shit from the people next door that were moving out. Pulled it out of the skip they had. Got belt sanders, jigsaws, boxes of electronic components. Tables, desks, all sorts. And a whole box of alcohol, like wine, gin, woodstock and stuff. These guys were throwing everything! (no kitchen sink, but there was a toilet seat.)

They’re setting up the factory as like a private workshop for the various hot rods they have and our cars etc etc. Got an engine hoist and they’re getting a car hoist and stuff.

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Holy fucking shit, thats all I have to say.

That concert was fucking mean. Subtract and Dawn of Azazel ^wiki opened for them, pretty mean.

It was me, Joe, my brother, Nick, Shelley and Becky who went.

The lead singer of Dawn of Azazel has a massive tribal goat head (symbol of rebellion) tattoo on his chest and he is a constable in the NZ Police. They tried to kick him out of the force for being in this band just because it has satanic lyrical content and talks about killing the weak. People in this country are wooses. He also said that Children of Bodom were from Sweden, but they’re from Finland. I’ve seen him before moshing at Amon Amarth, and at Oblivion a few times.

Pretty small venue, the Transmission Room. Like 150 (??) people crammed into this tiny room. The mosh pit was crazy. And then Children of Bodom came on. The only songs I can remember them playing was Needled 24/7, Hatecrew Deathroll, and Mask of Sanity (/fav). All of which went crazy. Little circle pits opening up now and then. I’ve never been so squished in my entire life.

And poor Becky, the look on her face. I’m sure she’d never seen anything like that before. But she was still getting in there and moshing with everyone. Was a little bit embarassing when my hand was squished against her boob by a wave of people hahaha. She was cool about it tho. Afterwards when we were all sitting in BK she was like “holy fuck you’re all a bunch of freaks, never again” rofl.

And there was some guy behind us who kept chanting “Tits, out, for the boys, Tits out for the boys”, so annoying, I so wanted to turn around and punch him in the face… but he was kinda big. Jerk.

Every time a song started you’d just get pushed and thrown from one side of the pit to the other, coming across your mates every now and then. Shelley was loving it getting in there and shoving people (what she does best lol). Hardly even saw my brother, Joe was standing off to the side cos he was a bit sick from the mould in his room at home . So most the time it was just me and Nick, and then it occasionally Shelley and Becky would turn up.

By the end of it I thought I was going to vomit from exhaustion (and the only thing I’d had to eat was a Red Bull). Everyone was just soaked in sweat. You could even see sweat and vapour dripping down the walls, and probably off the roof too. Was siiiick. I wonder if they even had the Aircon turned on.

Then as everyone left the streets of Auckland become over run by bogans and metal heads. Everyone else is like what the fuck as these rowdy cunts cruise down the footpaths, stopping occasionally to thrash out a drunken or stoned metal riff on their air guitar. In the middle of the road.

So just had some BK and then went home. Fucking mean night.

So I am on a town bash at the moment, dunno why. Not that great – just the compnay I guess lol. Went out Friday night with Troy and Hollie, Hollies friend Cat (Kat?), and Becky and Shelley.

I was sober driver (cos I don’t drink anyways) so we all piled in the van and cruised into town, parked at work. Stopped at the burger place. Shelley and Becky took off for the waterfront and we headed to Oblivion.

$10 cover charge cos there was a band playing, turned out to be Troy’s workmate. Then Boric turned up, then THEY PLAYED DETHKLOK! Was mean, I was wearing my dethklok shirt (still am ), so high fives all round and moshed out to that haha!! Everyones looking at us like wtf is this shit.

Silly people from Real Life

Then Shelley and Becky turned up and there was more dancing, played some Pantera and some System and Walk With Me in Hell. Was badass… most of the other songs were pretty woosy tho.. little bit disappointed.

Then Troy, Hollie and Kat (Cat?) took off home by taxi, and me and Shelley and Becky went for a lurk to see if there was anything to steal/vandalise/break into lol. Those girls are trouble I tell you especially when drunk. Shelley is so funny when she’s drunk, and a bit softer too haha (pls don’t hit me). And Becky is just quirkier than normal. Laughs all round.

Hey I think I just saw lightening..!?

Anyway, then we tried to go to Mount Eden (to freeze our asses off in the cold wind) but it was shut so just came home.

Then last night I went up to Zac’s place with Skinny and Co-oped Guitar Hero 3 Took my guitar so was all wireless baby! Yea. Was mean.

Hey I think I just saw lightening again….

This morning I woke up on the couch and Becky was pouring water on my face. Hardy-ha-ha always the joker eh… lol.

Went back to sleep and this random as dream. Don’t know where it was, maybe america somewhere. Me and Lilley were working(?) there for some reason. It was a place that looked like a cross between an office and a kitchen, but most people were playing games like UT.

Anyways there were some drinks or something and everyone was getting trashed and I think doing mushies. Was pretty fun. Could’ve been a representation of IRC perhaps?

I think someone spiked Lilley’s and she was getting a bit messy, then it was time to go and I ended up looking after some random chick and some dude was looking after Lilley. I was watching her incase that was the dude that spiked the drink but she looked with it and like she knew him so I didn’t worry too much.

We had to walk back through this forest place path thing the girl I was looking after got picked up and I came accross Lilley alone in the forest thing. I was like “Who the hell would just leave you alone here?”, and walked off with her.

That’s pretty much all I remember…

Had no friends cos Nick and Brad went out west to some party, I didn’t wanna go out there. Would’ve been shit.

So I went to my parents to drop off some stuff and along the way stopped in at Becky’s where Shelley was. They wrote this list thing of all these things to do, random as shit. Went and got a feed, got some sand (it was on the list). Seriously those chicks and liquor makes for some soul-cringingly quirky times, jeez.

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