So what have you been up to?
Cool. Very cool. Wow, really? Jeez, that must have been awesome!
Me? Not much. Just the usual. Ambling around Sydney, looking at stuff...
Pop quiz time!
1) The reason why Sydney Party People hadn't started a blog before this week is:
A) We've been too busy losing our asses at Internet poker.
B) We've been too busy crying from losing our asses at Internet poker.
C) We've been trying to blag our asses into events and were just kind of lazy about it, but plan on blogging a lot now, we promise, please don't be angry
2) This multiple choice blog format is:
A) An easy way to avoid having to worry about proper sentence and paragraph structure.
B) A gimmick I came up with to make my blog posts more interactive.
D) Starting to work the nerve a little.
E) What happened to C?
Answers in tomorrows blog!
It was fashion week a few weeks ago here in Sydney, and Icon Brand held a launch party at Oxford Arts Factory on Oxford Street with a free bar and food, with some DJs and bands performing. Not much to report other than the ridiculously tall models in attendance and discovering this cider... it's amazing!
A couple of days later, I went along to the 'After Hours Athlete' event. Vice and Puma teamed up to put on a promo night at Strike Bowling in Darling Harbour with The Go! Team performing live on a stage above the bowling lanes. Again, free food, booze along with free pool, arcade games, karaoke, bowling and Puma trainers (although I missed out on this as I was too drunk to notice) = WIN! The video below shows clips from the Puma Social night.
PUMA Social - After Hours Bowling from Vice Magazine on Vimeo.
I guess Vice must have taken a liking to me lately because, as well as letting me into the Puma Social event, they also gave me a double pass to this creative and design conference called Semi-Permanent, which I attended a couple of weeks ago (mainly for the after-party in Surry Hills). Interesting couple of days with some talks from the likes of Annie Sperling (set designer for music video director David La Chapelle) to the guys behind this Gucci advert, Fuel VFX, which was directed by Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit etc.)
My streak of losing stuff has continued with the loss of my driver's license the other night after some heavy boozing. The inability to strike up a succesful conversation with the opposite sex whilst inebriated has also followed me from the UK. Example from the other night, outside a kebab shop at 4am:
Me - "Hey girls, hows your night been?"
Random girl - "Yeah great, until you started talking to us!"
BBBUUUUUUURRRRNNN!!!!!!
Also, I've getting shit from my wisdom teeth for the past few days. I don't know why they have to call themwisdom teeth. I mean that's a pretty cool name, I don't think they earned it. I don't think they're that wise because with all their infinite wisdom, they thought it'd be a good idea to grow upside down into my brain and try to kill me in my late twenties!! Unless they know something I don't??!!
So I had to find a dentist in Sydney and at the dentist they made me fill out a lot of forms, which is understandable. These forms ask you some serious questions about your health...
"Have you ever had a Stroke?" No
"Have you ever had a heart attack?" No. I was just there to get my teeth cleaned. Were they planning on scaring the shit out of me? Is this some new dentistry technique where they try to startle the plaque out of my mouth?
More serious questions...
"Have you had diabetes?" No
"Have you had high blood pressure?" No
Then right in the middle of the list, amongst all these serious, life threatening issues, the form asked "Have you ever had diarrhoea?" I felt uncomfortable about that. I thought it was an inappropriate question. I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to get it wrong. If I'm honest and I say yes, is that a deal breaker?
But if I say No, and I sign a legal document, claiming I have never had diarrhoea am I going to be able to hand over that piece of paper to another adult human being and keep a straight face?
I wouldn't know what to say. I don't think that's appropriate whether or not I've had diarrhoea? That's totally irrelevant when I'm getting my teeth cleaned! I can understand them asking the question, "Have you ever eaten diarrhoea?" then they might want to use the robot arm and double glove up.
Until the next time! Shalom!
xx