Whats Annoying About Sydney

So UK/Italy are the fashion capitals of the world. Whatever is in style there one winter/summer, is popular in the US the next winter/summer...and Paris Hilton of course acclaims she bridges that gap. Unfortunately, Australia style trickles down off the US...so of course, just as that SUPER ANNOYING fad of super big sunglasses was dying out in the US...it is full blown here in Australia....and of course so are those advert t-shirts like "C0nserve water...drink beer". UGH! Any sunglass stand I see from a distance I think they're selling helmets...but of course, its those Armani and Dior sunglasses that cover 98% of the face.

I want to start a petition where everyone in the US throws in $1.00 to a bank account, and we pay off TMZ and every paparrazo to not cover a single story about Paris Hilton. Hopefully it'll be the same effect as turning on the light with a cockroach, she runs away and you'll never see it again. Don't get me started about her publicly stating she wants kids. TMZ is set for life if that happens. The census says the US is 300 million, but by the # of illegals in my old building in DC alone ...its probably closer to 400 million. So that's $400 million to the paparazzi. They can retire and be done and we can live in peace.

What has Paris even done? All the terrible perfumes and songs came AFTER she was famous. Why is she famous?!! Why are people obsessed? I mean, the 76 different STDs she has is kind of interesting, but again, thats all AFTER she's famous. Jesus, now I am pissed off again. OK, i gotta run. Its the Miss Bondi Beach competition today...get out your big, bug-eyes sunglasses.

I am no longer homeless!!...temporarily

So with one day to spare until my hotel reservation expired (everything is sold out)...I got lucky and found an ad on craigslist for an apartment for 3 weeks. This is a PRIME-A apartment in regards to location. The dude is actually an American who moved here for 3 years ago for the summer and never left. He was actually the punter for Stanford which is kind of funny. By the picture it might be tough to tell, but he is straight and doesn't look too much like that pic anyway. haha. Anyway, it was good to talk to someone to help me out on where to go. For example, I never would have known the Ms. Bondi competition is this Saturday, who a former Ms. Universe won.

Anyway, the other 2 roomates, one is supposedly hooked up all over town so hopefully I can hit the town with some people and not be that tourist at the end of the bar crying in his drink. haha. Actually, a lot of the bars here have no bar stools so that makes it even worse. I've actually been too busy to go out yet anyway. I went down to my hotel bar Tuesday night for a drink and started talking to this one drunk dude who had an accent thicker than I have ever heard. Turns out he's from the Highlands of Scotland. I made the mistake of telling him that my grandmother was from Scotland to which "Ewww-en" (Ewan) replied, "Ah, ya ne'er beeen to Scootland? Aye, what r ya wait'in fur? GO HOME!! Your grand muver iz turn'in in hur grrrave! GO HOME!" At which point he left to go have a smoke, so I started chatting it up with some New Zealanders and about every 30 minutes for the next 2 hours I would just hear out of nowhere, "GGGO HOME!". haha, classic. here's some pics of my new digs. See the red dot for the location. I gotta be out of here by Dec 23rd but that should give me enough time to find another place.

Living room:

Bedroom:

Bedroom view:

Becks and the Olympic Stadium

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So at lunch with some people in my office I found out Beckham was playing at the Olympic Stadium. Sold out? No problem. After dealing with the scumbags outside Verizon center, this should be a snap...and it was. The scalpers were actually really polite and it was haggle free, but I was not paying $100 to see Becks. Hanging around will call I ran into some chicks who had an extra and got it for $10 under face. They wanted $20 over and I was like "all I got is $50" and the other girl to her friend was like "take it!!". haha, great negotiators. Of course I had like seven 50's in my wallet when I went to pay, but whatver.

Holy crap Olympic Park is bad ass. The stadium is cool as shit. here are some pics of that. The locals I was sitting with I was getting along with great, until I took a jab at Sydney FC's uniforms:

Me: "Don't you think Sydney FC's uniforms look funny?"
Girl: "How do you mean?"
Me: "They look like something gays would wear to bed."


The people around me got a big kick out of this but I was just being serious. The LA Galaxy blow bad, and I left pretty much after Landon Donovan got red carded and applauded himself running off the field while everyone booed him. Amazing how one player can get booed so much. All he needs is to play a match in Antartica and he's got all 7 continents covered.

One thing is clear is that Australia is similar to America in its need for celebrity gossip. People were going NUTS to see Beckham. These Sydney FC games usually pull in max of 20,000 people and this was sold out. Almost every kid I saw was wearing a LA Galaxy Beckham jersey. Anytime he did a corner kick, it was like the World Series first pitch....camera flashes everywhere. And when he scored on that free kick from the top of the key with a nice bender...holy shit, you would have thought they announced world peace. The stadium went bananas. I am still without an apartment so i gotta jet.

I have arrived....

So the plane ride was actually pretty easy...I can't imagine my flight if I did not have the seat next to me open. I actually had the whole row but some obese lady decided to sprawl all over it before I could (on her back). It was not a pretty site.

It was pretty cool walking around my new digs once I dropped my crap off. This picture doesn't do justice, but it will this weekend when I repost some pictures of me and my bird cage chest on this sunny piece. A couple quick observations:

1.) A ton of the dudes wear this hairstyle that is a cross between the rat tail and mullet. It looks retarded.
2.) My first meal was Fish and Chips and my waitress had a hickey the size of a softball and didn't seem to give 2 shits.
3.) Look RIGHT when crossing the street. I almost got plowed twice. (2 americans actually died in Brisbane on Monday from this).
4.) the food IS TERRIBLE. My belt is defintely looser if you can believe that. Holy crap the food is terrible. I am considering going to McDonalds tonight and I hate McDs.
5.) My new office is money. I take the harbour bridge everyday to work and see the opera house and full skyline. More pics of that to come.

Ok, i'm in this all Chinese internet shop...gotta jet.

PS - This is the emptiest you'll ever see this beach (9am on a Monday). You can barely see the sand on packed days.