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TUESDAY 9th September 5:13pm
Back from California and it was awesome. Very busy and very fun. But due to that I had slept on putting up the Pirate Party pics. This was one of the all time partys fo real, too too fun. As you can see most everyone got their Pirate gear all up in the piece. Props to Ben, Heath, Jarrod and Jo for putting on such a sweet gig, the crew was off the hook and except for one little thing at the end of the party it was the bizomb. Word to Sean, Wade & Jarrod for keeping the vibe going 'til about 6am. Everyone's mouth look strange in the pics as everyone was saying "arrrrrgh" all night, it's all you could hear!
SATURDAY 13th September 9:13am
Well well well Party Peep's!!! Tonight is the night for the Bungie Party in sweet sweet Rosebud with the jumping castle in full effect. Sound's like there are heaps of heads coming down so things will be wild. I love the calm before the storm, after the night who will hate who, who will love who, who will pass out and who will pass on nothing. Time will tell!!!
In the meantime here's a pic of one of my favourite people; my niece Jette (her mum and dad wanted to give her a "Steele-ish name = dope), she is one of the funniest people I have ever met. Her favourite sayings seem to be "don't diss the playa diss the game" and "can you dig that... suckaaaaaaa". I probably shouldn't of encouraged her to say that at play group, but she is straight gangsta!!! HA HA HA.
SATURDAY 13th September 10:01am
"YOU'RE MY BOY BLUE"
TUESDAY 23th September 11:23pm
OK finally got my shit together and got my pics inside from my laptizzy so we can all enjoy them in cyberspace. First up are some snaps from my trip to California. I went to go there for two trade shows one in San Francisco and one in San Diego with some meetings in between.
I have to give a big shout out to Elisha who hooked up all me and Ken's travel requirements very sweetly and whose fav saying of mine would no doubt be "peep the vibe". Anyway some people hate flying to the US, I don't mind it now they have that AWESOME video system in the back of every seat!!! You can watch a choice of about 6 movies or TV shows or play video games. I watched Finding Nemo, The InLaws, Identity and something else I forgot. I had my laptop too so a fair few Futurama's too.
First day we had to spend about 6 hours in LA and we had breakfast at this ace cafe we had been to before opposite the Beverley Centre. I was waiting to use the bathroom when I started talking to this very cute and very LA girl...
LA GIRL: Where are you from?
ME: Australia.
LA GIRL: Oh do you surf?
ME: That's like me asking you if you act 'cause you're from LA.
LA GIRL: I do.
ME: What have you been in?
LA GIRL: Oh nothing yet, but soon.
I think there are like 1,000,000 people in LA that you can have that conversation with!
San Francisco was that night and is the most ghetto place I have ever been. It's awesome in the famous places and all that but on the next block there will just are tones of homeless peeps begging and stuff. It was fully the vision I had of America when I was little and used to hear about the homeless and stuff.
The first night was the Thrasher party so I walked by myself down there and I honestly thought I was not going to make it there with my sneakers still on, a few too many crew commented on them while I was walking there for my liking. But I kept my "I'm furious and about to crack" facial going and I made it there. Only to find it was sold out!!! I talked to the girl on the door and said I was the Thrasher distributor from Australia and had just arrived in the country and she hooked me up with entry and a couple of drink tickets = JUST LIKE HOME!!! The party was in this club Slims and they had some punk rock bands playing, it was average.
Ken hanging at some famous SF hill
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That is me not knowing how crap these all in one camera's can be!!!
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The next day was the Thrasher tradeshow, it was pretty mellow but we got heaps of shit done so sweet! The next day we did a ton of shopping and walked up all the steep hills and stuff. Ken was buggered so I went and did a tour of all the famous skate spots in town. I borrowed a kid's board and had a bit of a skate at Pier 7. For the skaters reading Aesthetics AM John Igel was there skating and 360 flipped the block and there was this FTC guy there who kickyfront noseblunted and switch flipped the block.
EMB for skaters is the birthplace of modern streetskating.
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EMB sadly with all the famous ledges and stairs long since removed.
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Me at Hubba Hideout
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Some serious anti skate caps going on here.
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Pier 7 (thats John Igel in the white shirt)
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Pier 7 is meant to be in the background of this one.
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Upon getting to LA we hooked up with my boy Benny Hayes from Rosebud who is in the USA caddying on the US golf tour. He's one of my best friends from all the way back in Primary school so it was pretty hot that he flew down and very funny two boys from the bud partying in Hollywood!!! Again props to Elisha as our hotel was like 5 min behind where they have the Oscars and had a very dope pool spa combo where they didn't come out and yell at you for drinking beers.
The casual corner didn't really live up to it's name.
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Just a couple of boys from the Bud all up in Hollywood.
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While Ben and I were drinking by the pool we hear this voice from the spa "don't tell me you's two are Aussies". We're like yeah. Now I can't really type how this guy talked but he was a full beer swigging party ocker from Queensland and had a very heavy Aussie country twang to go with it (about 25-30). He's all "how you boys feel about me coming back for a beer with you boys, we're like yo!
Paying homage to Chris Rock.
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Carmel and me at the Hollywood party.
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So he comes back down and by now Ken was with us and he sat down "Steelo, Benny Boy and..." So we introduce Ken. "Well Kenny, what's your story". This comment does not type very funny but the way he sat down and held court was hilarious. For the rest of the trip we kept saying "Well Kenny, what's your story".
His story was very sketchy but apparently he and his girlfriend were there to help their friend set up a boutique in Santa Monica. Now the friend apparently already was bringing clothing over to Melbourne, he couldn't remember where when he says "one of those places like Frankston or Rosebud you know where everyone drinks coffee" (we hadn't mentioned Rosebud so me and Ben looked at each other quite surprised). Ken's like "Chapel St?" and he says yeah. VERY DUBIOUS.
He then says he's sneaked down from the hotel room while his girlfriend is asleep. Later on we see him at about 11:00 down on the boulevard and he's seriously off his face. I was just pissing myself laughing at him and asked him where his girlfriend was "oh she is in that souvenir shop across the road so I'm running down to get some beer". We never saw his girlfriend and were pretty sure he either killed her or simply that like in the Matrix there simply was no girlfriend.
One of the nights in Hollywood we went to the Strength Magazine closing down party that was pretty good. Heaps of skateboarding celebs were there like Stevie Williams, Spencer Fugimoto, Greg Carroll and Kenny Hughes were there. Funnily enough these two girls from Melbourne were there that knew heaps of people that I did and were even at the Pirate party from a few weeks ago. Upon retuning I found out that one of them was Lars EX who he is not very found of, a small world indeed.
Next up was San Diego which is so much nicer than Long Beach where I have been to the same tradeshow before, it's more of a vacation spot. Did tons of work, caught up with my boy Vince, got snubbed by people who are friendly back home but can't say hi 'cause they are with "certain people" and went out a bunch.
The new San Diego baseball stadium as viewed from our spa.
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I loved this blimp here with Ben.
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Hey there blimpy boy.
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Ben "In Da Club"
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Just like at the SandBar back in the Bud, Benny ain't never short of dance partners.
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This guy had the worst pick up lines I have ever heard, what a playa!!!
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In the States it's considered real bad to drink on the streets, but back in Rosebud it's all good! And you know you can take the boy outta the Bud, but...
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We met some girls on the streets of SD.
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This one seemed alot smarter when her mouth was full of hotdog, trust me.
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What do 2 drunk lads do when they get back to the hotel room do...
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...mess with whoever is asleep!!!
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A happy Ben after winning a $800 golf club at the trade show after going in a longest drive comp. Or is he thinking about the Reef girls he met still?
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Plane back home had the emergency seats with sweet sweet legroom. Movies were X-2, Anger Management and a lot of sleeping.
Special thanks to the amazingly kind person who picked me up!!!
Come back in 24 hours for jumping castle pics!!!
WEDNESDAY 24th September 11:52pm
Here are some snaps from the Bungie Jumping Castle Party. The night was an absolute blast, for me anyway (hope y'all had a goodtime too). I'll find it very hard to throw a non-jumping castle ever again, thanks heaps Ange for hooking it up for me.
Ange and I have about 3 dozen of this same pose.
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Me after the dreaded beer bong (which Mischa did to the delight of all)
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Craigie Bryant has had many a hard night in the Bungie, add another to the list.
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Dom, Dave, Kirby, Me and Lars watching the action in the Jumping Castle.
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Crew lurk behind the cock.
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Me pulling quite the model pose with my girls (who I realised in the morning smoked about 80 smokes at that table).
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The girls admire the 8 footer!
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This was quite scarey to walk into. Serious womens meeting in the Bungie.
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Greyson cops some tit.
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Don't both these guys have girlfriends? They look way to happy with the big nipple.
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Darren dreams of what could be!
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Lars, Greyson & Mappy get very casual.
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Me and my ruler of a brother = HOLLA.
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Pre beer bong Misch!
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Few people have more Bungie Tales about them than Parky.
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Sarrai and Dylan love the Bungie.
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Tommy C enjoys a cuppa!
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The breast to breast jump was all the rage. Timmy was all up.
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Woody gets some shaft.
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Photos don't get too much more bungie than this.
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Sean get's some footage (I'll post some frame grabs soon).
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Just think of the terrible jokes these two would have been telling each other.
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