I wrote this first line a few times because I wasn't sure how to begin the beginning of this first post. The fact I've not deleted it and I'm still writing suggests I've opted for for the more 'narrated' approach, an almost casual inner monologue that is no longer a 'silent word companion' to myself, but one that I can now share with people reading this...either that or I'm masquerading as a wannabe journalist that just "can't understand why Pitchfork won't accept my submissions".
I moved to Brisbane, Australia on the 27/09/07 and subsequently came down with one of the worst flu's I've had in recent memory (the line 'recent memory' I feel gives the impression that we're dealing with a diary of some kind written by an explorer whose days have become months have become years. I'm going with a nautical themed explorer, due to the amount of sea I've had to cross to get here. Admittedly it was pre-determined and I hopped on a plane as opposed to a boat, but regardless of this, hopefully I'll be able to relate it all back to 'water' and 'river', like the photo above shows evidence of, at some point later in the post...I realise I've crossed as much land, but that doesn't really work with the imagery of 'aqua based stuff').
Back to the flu. I'm pretty much over it now and my body clock has been able to correct itself to Eastern Standard Time so I'm now functioning more normally. The one plus side of not being able to sleep until 6 in the morning meant that I was able to get up at 4.30 on the 4th October to watch Liverpool play some of the worst football I've seen them play in 'recent memory' and subsequently lose 0-1 to Marseille. Actually, why was that a good thing...(that's rhetorical).
Brisbane is a lovely city. It's pretty small, so it's a great change after having spent 8 years in London (beep beep, mind the gap, can you spare 5p, how did you not know she was a man). Whereas the River Thames 'divides' London, the Brisbane River 'connects' the city. I think there is a metaphor loosely based around how friendly the cities are that I could use, but instead I'll just opt for the phrase 'you do the maths'...not actual maths though.
There is a ferry called the City Cat that you can catch and get dropped off at various points. We all know how buses or public transport in general works don't we yeah? Well imagine a water based version of a bus, or a water based version of a plane, whichever works for you, but imagine people getting on, paying money, then getting off at the stop they so desire. I gave a woman $2 (about 80p UK money) the other day because she didn't have change for the ferry and the guy wouldn't accept her $50 note and was about to make her leave the ferry. She said I was 'an angel', I said 'don't worry about it, although I must point out that angels are without genetalia so if you're implying I'm some sort of eunuch, then that's the last time I'm giving you $2'. She laughed, we laughed, probably for a little bit too long if truth be told, so I went and stood at the front of the ferry at the very tip of the boat and pondered this whilst not laughing. But instead listening to the album 'Enter' by 'Russian Circles' and pretended for a second that maybe I was an angel, but then remembered I was an atheist, so I imagined the word 'SCIENCE' flashing in front of my eyes just because.
Anyway, there have been storm warnings these past few days, but nothing massive. To me it just seems like heavy rain. It certainly can't be compared to the storms that my brother and the
Strom's have endured on the east coast of the US these past few years. There has been some pretty cool lightning though, especially last night. (I didn't take this photo by the way).
So that's my first 2 weeks pretty much. A bit uneventful due to the flu, but I have grown a sweet beard which has been exciting I guess. Plus I did see Pelican play live the other day, who were amazing as always.
Before I forget, this diary is called 'Dead Scenes' because I'm documenting events that have happened, so subsequently don't exist anymore other than in memory, although I realise it sounds a little macabre. I also realise that this is just a standard practice of documentation and that it's actually pretty tricky to document events that haven't happend so everything is naturally going to be in the past as it were. Also, it's in black because apparently, a black background is more environmentally sound on a page than a white one...something to do with kilowatt hours. Speaking of which, the average lightning bolt contains 250 kilowatt hours. So that's 1000 just in that photo above from the other night. What this means? I have no idea...what we can learn from it? Again, nothing much other than I had to use google to find this out and the link and information about black backgrounds.
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