Went to the Psycroptic concert on Saturday night. Was mean! Unfortunately Saturday morning I got a killer ear infection and went to the doctors. Had to pay $75 for him to tell me what I already new and get a script for some amoxycillin. Plus I still had a bit of headache and stuff from my sickness before that. So I didn’t drink or mosh to hard.

Shelley’s friend Ella is apparently into pop and stuff but she came anyway. Didn’t ask her if she liked it though. Pretty sure Shelley liked it, Nick and Brad just thought it all sounded the same, and didn’t like the growling vocals. Everyone is like that at the start though. They played Colour of Sleep and Skin Coffin and Lacertine Forest but unfortnately not my favourite song in the whole world, Cruelty Incarnate

Was still good though. Dawn of Azazel and Metal Tower supported them. The bassist in Metal Tower had a Warlock Bass Guitar.

Anyways, here’s some of their tracks if you haven’t heard them before:

They were out of shirts by the time we got there too which sucked. I was going to buy a hoodie for $40 but forgot… (??)

Unfortunately, I am a lazy fuck and I never got around to putting my speakers and central locking cable through, before Sunday but no one else but Nick came with me. Brad went riding, as did Shelley and Tesh. It was a mean sunny day, had a bit of a jam, got yelled at by Nicks mum for distrubing the neighbours, and left at about noon.

I love roadtrips. Grabbed some subway at Bombay. Got down there at about 3, met the dude in New World carpark in a suburb called Gate Pa (wtf?). Checked the guitar out, no wobbly neck, sweet as. Dude gave me some cash for gas which was cool of him, and we decided to go for a drive and check out the Mount (Manganui). Quite a few people on the beach. Nice girls everywhere, including one of my types (black tshirt and jeans on a hot day) lol.

There were tonnes of dicks just driving round and round in their peice of shit cars though.

Left there, Nick had a sleep in the back, while I stalked some chick in a white skyline all the way back to Papakura. Don’t remember what time we got home. Tried out the guitar, its got a mean sound but only on that amp for some reason. Sounds like crap on Nicks amp.

Then stayed up until about 4am playing Far Cry 2 (awesome game).

So I sold my Silvia two weeks ago .

Got $6400 for it which is pretty mean. I paid $7000 for it and pretty much never thrashed it. I also put $500 of new rear brakes in, and $1000 worth of soft compound anti-hydroplane tires on it so it had wicked grip in all conditions, I never once spun it out.

And it had the mean stereo setup, I did all the audio cabling in it, shielded and everything so no engine noise

But alas, losing my license twice in that thing is two times too much so I had to get rid of it.

So sold it to a friends boyfriends brother who had one but crashed it and got insurance so was looking for another one.

So anyway, saw this van on Trademe at like 730pm, rung the dude asked him some questions, told him I’d come down get it that night for $6000 cash. He said yep! So left at like 830pm and missioned it down to Tauranga to pick it up in my mates Hiace.

Got to the guys house, checked it out, all sweet. It’s even painted on the inside! Gave him the cash and gapped it, vanathon back to Auckland. Found out on the way back the lights are shit. I mean shit. High beam is like low beam and low beam is like… park lights.

Trying to keep up with Nick all the way back to Auckland because if I fall behind I won’t be able to see anything. That guy is fast, all through the Paeroa Gorge, and its my first time driving a van.

Anyways, got some spotlights for it, and some bullbars, put my own stereo in it, and now its a bit better.

My van on Flickr

Now I get to take it to Rock2Wgtn next weekend!!!