Thursday, February 5, 2009

Things you say can and will be used against you... or written down at least.

Team Fantastic Quotes:

 

Ben on Dida’s nosebleeds:

 “Maybe you’re getting your period out of your nose.” 


Ben halfway to the top of the Devil’s Marbles posing naked with his “female vagina” (Ben, a vagina is a female thing in the first place, man...)

 “What am I doing up here?”

Eirik sitting on a rock down below:

“You’re being weird again, man.”

 

Eirik on Steinar wanting to tie Chris Martin to a tree and fuck him so hard up the ass with a stick it comes out of his mouth:

 “It still sounds awfully sexual, man...”

 

Ben on Navman: “It’s so clever!”

 

Ben hot and sticky in his swag in Kununurra:

“I’m sleeping naked and I don’t care if anyone sees my penis. “

 

Eirik to Xenon on being accused of looking at Xen's cards during poker:

“Sorry, dude, I’m not looking at you 'cause you’re actually not all that interesting.”

 

Ben trying to find a better expression for ‘big dick’ in a conversation on Russell’s (Wycliff Well) penis:

“He’s got a massive DOODLE.”  (Still sounds like you’re talking about poo, Ben.)

 

Steinar to Xenon on the Darwin sculling-contest where he kept yelling at this guy that he was an irish cunt:

“ I reckon you scared a lot of people.” (So do I, man, but it was funny as hell!)

 

Xenon to Eirik on speaking Australian (during poker):

“Hey man, you’re the one that learnt overseas that they don’t speak better Australian anywhere than here.”

 

Xenon on Ben’s amazement of seeing rainbows next to the car while driving through a big puddle of water:

(Ben: Wow! A rainbow next to the car! How did that get there?”)

Xenon: “Sometimes you gotta wonder...”

 

Ben: “I’m a real fool.”

Dida: “Why is that, Ben?”

Ben: “ Oh, I don’t know. Because I ate a subway, an ice cream and a milkshake.” 

Team Fantastic Abbreviations (most of which are Ben’s or about Ben)


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LWD- Loose Water Drink

LWDWDAS- Loose Water Drink While Driving And Smoking

PBJ’s- Pre Bed Jobs

LPD- Loose Powerade Drink

PBSM- Pre Blood Sugar Monster

WAWFU- Walking Around With Fly Undone

WAWFUAPO- Walking Around With Fly Undone And Penis Out

NTOTS- Nearly Trod On Tiger Snake

BYFO- Ben, Your Fly’s Undone

CFOSCAT- Can’t Find Object So Chucks A Tantrum

ALAP- A Long Awaited Poo

NPIS- Naked Poo In Shitpit

ABNDE- Another Ben Near Death Experience

BBH- Ben’s Black Hole

CBMADWW- Chased By Motorbikes Across Desert While Wasted

TOFBB- Thrown Over Fence By Ben

WIMHYSM- Where Is My, Have You Seen My

Rub a dub dub- I can feel my own grub(biness)...

After a fair few weeks on the road, I have come to this list of things that make me happy and generally keep me happy wherever I am:

 - A toilet (with a door)

- A shower

- Regular feeding

- A night temperature of less than 30 degrees so I can sleep

- Sleep

- A day temperature of 35 or less (preferably around 27)

- Dry heat opposed to  the horrible sensation of 90% humidity

- Semi-clean or so clothes

 - Occasional privacy

- A good game of poker

- Snuggles

- Selective occasional contact with the outside world

- Some level of tidiness

- Money

- My pillow

- Escapism

- My camera

- 18 bottles of free red wine and more coming!

- Texts or emails from people I love

- Occasional phone calls

- Meeting gorgeous, new people

- Making new discoveries

- Swimming

( And probably a whole lot of other things that escape me for now...)

I've felt pretty damn grubby these past days. Some things, like shoes, are getting rather smelly. Other things are just rapidly falling apart and waiting to rest in peace. 

Monday, February 2, 2009

A not so itty bitty, but very friendly giant says ta ta for now...


Eirik, prince of jeans, in Westgarth street 

Eirik went back to Norway on the 20th of January.

We were all drinking, being merry at the airport, forgetting why we were there when it all happened too fast. He had a ticket in his hand and walked through the bye bye gate. I don’t like the bye bye gate much, and I didn’t like Eirik leaving. At all.

Drinking at the airport (photo: Steinar)

Looking slightly tired from pre-roadtrip shopping...

Eirik the explorer!

In a lot of ways Team Fantastic was reduced to Team Great.

I miss my not so itteh bitteh giant kitteh.

A lot.

Escaping the nudie beach in Aldinga


In a lot of ways he’s still very much here, and always a part of the team. In Margaret River we ended up at some people’s house late one night for a game of poker. I couldn’t help but think of Eirik’s reaction to that game had he been there. Every hand was like a Bob Dylan (in present time) concert. Slooooow and very unorganized. Alright, it’s not fair to Dylan to call him unorganized, so I’ll keep him out of that part of it. But it sure was slow. Ben and I wished Eirik were there, because this game (which was already driving me insane) would have made him crazy. And Eirik would have kicked some ass and wiped the table, I reckon! 

Eirik as sound man in Geraldton

Riding a pretty sweet home-made bike in Geraldton

I guess I could keep going on and on about all the things he would have loved and all the things I would have loved top share with him. I could spend hours writing about things we did when he was here and how much fun we had, but that’s not going to change anything. Eirik is awesome. He's by far one of my favorite people to play with, to photograph and to hang out with. He's an awesome co-procrastinato, adventurer and just a fantastic guy.
At the Pinnacles...

Fishing in the sunset in Perth

Eirik is still here. Kind of. First day after he left I renamed my Buzz Lightyear Eirik, name tag and everything, and he goes where I go. We have yet to record some of our adventures, Eirik and I. We got interrupted by hippies or happy’s or whatever else we were surrounded by. We have not surrendered to the interruptions...and will return!

Pre-poker drinking in Perth

Attempted sand surfing in Aldinga

Yeah, I miss my not so itteh bitteh giant kitteh. He has the best laugh and some of the best hugs. These photos can't even begin to describe his part of the adventure, but if nothing else, they should tell you that

I loves my Eirik.

Until next time, kitteh! 

Speaks for itself...  :(  (photo: Steinar)

Perth

We rocked up to Ben’s uncle Brian’s house in Perth a few days before Eirik was leaving us. Wow, what a change of scenery. A spa before breakfast, a bed to sleep in, and lots of yummy food. Mmmmm... We didn’t do much work while there, but tried as best we could to enjoy our time with Eirik. Playing poker, fishing, drinking too much and seeing a band very hung over. It was a good few days. I really enjoyed Brian and Carol’s (his wife) company. They are really good people and lots of fun!