No more Margaritas early in the day, if i do that i'll be fine, i hope.
Been hanging out at a $1 margaritas place for sunset drinks, and things have been a little bit too crazy, too crazy indeed, no more, that will be all.
Rory Gallagher
America Chris was telling me about a book called 'Many lives many masters'
2 Canadians i met last week were called 'Scooter' and Ted, who the fuck calls their kids Scooter and what were they on, or what was the bet? I'd like to think there was one and they lost, so now the kids name is 'Scooter', lovely, now the kid will get beaten with an ugly stick for the rest of his life, just lovely.
Bruce Mathskie
Oscar Wilde a good man for a quote, dont quote me on that one!
Iberian traders were the first to introduce tobacco to asia, where is Iberia?
One i wrote already, 'Trust levels are a good indicator of a countries economic growth'
Sheryl Crowe
Jennys friend from Canada, took up for a drink the other day, 5 of us in total, in a car with 2 seats, so 3 of us go on the back over the engine, with out legs hanging over the spoiler, the Canadian was driving pretty fast too especially on the corners, anybody else would have said transporting 5 people in that car was impossible, well it was time to think outside the box and he did, well done Canada.
I took Jenny from San Francisco, to a gay bar, what a crazy night
The same Canadian (he was a bit crazy) told me his mother love's strip bars, and used to hang out at a whore house all the time and was madly in love with a good looking pimp, until he got shot and she ended up hooking up with his dad, lucky for him, i guess.
His dad told him this pimp was so good looking he (the dad) would have had sex with him, hmmm, seems like a strange type of dad to have?
Showing posts with label san francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label san francisco. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Strange tales from San francisco
Alcrataz
Fireworks in San Francisco
I was in the Green Tortoise in San Francisco, and since it was raining people were all talking a little earlier than usual.
This Italian from New York goes to Italy, the old country, there's more than 1 you know
and was having his cereal in a restaurant one morning, his name was Mikey, something was a bit off, we pick up the story when he calls the waiter over
Mikey: There's something wrong with this cereal
Waiter: Oh thats probably the goats milk, it's an Italian tradition
Mikey: Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey: No, Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey (Hands waving): Why dont you try my balls
Met up with a chick Nora through Couchsurfing, went to see her on Haight s. They were hosting a guy from Boston that wants to teach Africans how to make recycle clothes.
We made tea and walked around, it was a lot of fun, no alchol, a good thing.
After walking around for a bit i went for the bus.
Nora decided she was going to hitch hike up the road, about half a km, heaps of Taxi's stopped for her, Nora's response was 'I'm hitch hiking', they declined to help, it was very funny.
A girl stopped, and the 2 of them were dancing, all good fun.
Then a truck stops, Nora jumps in, and she's waving for everybody to join her, except no one wanted to, i was too tired.
Fishermans wharf at night
The girl goes over, opens the door and tells her to get out, a paper falls out, the guy from Boston goes over and picks it up puts it in the truck and comes back with a DVD.
Now i'm thinking, he's stolen it and hell is going to break loose, except the, he said the driver gave it to him, Green light, truck drives off, bye bye Nora.
Nora was sober, i was tired, a very strange situation.
I emailed her, she told me the party she went to was 'Fun Crazy, then Crazy fun' and the next day she got nocked down.....by a wheelchair.
Popular activity in San Francisco, Ghost Riding
Fireworks in San Francisco
I was in the Green Tortoise in San Francisco, and since it was raining people were all talking a little earlier than usual.
This Italian from New York goes to Italy, the old country, there's more than 1 you know
and was having his cereal in a restaurant one morning, his name was Mikey, something was a bit off, we pick up the story when he calls the waiter over
Mikey: There's something wrong with this cereal
Waiter: Oh thats probably the goats milk, it's an Italian tradition
Mikey: Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey: No, Give me regual milk
Waiter: Just try it
Mikey (Hands waving): Why dont you try my balls
Met up with a chick Nora through Couchsurfing, went to see her on Haight s. They were hosting a guy from Boston that wants to teach Africans how to make recycle clothes.
We made tea and walked around, it was a lot of fun, no alchol, a good thing.
After walking around for a bit i went for the bus.
Nora decided she was going to hitch hike up the road, about half a km, heaps of Taxi's stopped for her, Nora's response was 'I'm hitch hiking', they declined to help, it was very funny.
A girl stopped, and the 2 of them were dancing, all good fun.
Then a truck stops, Nora jumps in, and she's waving for everybody to join her, except no one wanted to, i was too tired.
Fishermans wharf at night
The girl goes over, opens the door and tells her to get out, a paper falls out, the guy from Boston goes over and picks it up puts it in the truck and comes back with a DVD.
Now i'm thinking, he's stolen it and hell is going to break loose, except the, he said the driver gave it to him, Green light, truck drives off, bye bye Nora.
Nora was sober, i was tired, a very strange situation.
I emailed her, she told me the party she went to was 'Fun Crazy, then Crazy fun' and the next day she got nocked down.....by a wheelchair.
Popular activity in San Francisco, Ghost Riding
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Got to Muir woods and Sausalito.
.............and now i'm going to tell you about it.
Not really much to tell, the bus picked me up, the big one, we went to the office, i paid, i got in a little bus, the 'Driver' drove the bus, it's all what you'd expect, the wheels went round and round, do you see where i'm going with this? No? Neither do i.
Anyway got there, oldest trees in the world, pissing rain, off i went walking, there's no signs saying 'This is the oldest tree in the world', because, and when i herd the answer, it really mad sense.
People would take their penknives out and write 'KEVIN WOZ ERE 2006' of 'KEVIN LVZ STEPHENY', our friend Kevin should learn to spell proper, don't you think?
Called into Sausalito on the way back, now before i dive in here, let me tell you.
Once you cross the bridge, your in Marin County, yipee
The average house in Marin county is 900k, and thats cheap.
The chic i was talking to in the art gallery i called into told me she pays $2500 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment and there's a 3 year waiting list, she when she goes traveling she has to keep paying rent or else she has to start all over again, with her dog, people love dogs here.
A guy i met in Toronto in a bar called 'The village idiot' told me about how he used to wake up on the weekends and have coffee on his balcony and isten to Van da man composing songs.
Santana, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead were his neighbors too, he's now an assistant to high court judge's, cant tell them stories, no, no, no. Crazy parties, you could only imagine
Going to buy Neil Cassady's autobiography 'The first third' , well it's something !!
Got to know more about that crazy guy, and buying his book is a good way to do that, makes sense when you think about it, but don't think too much, you cold get a headache or something??
It's raining more than i would expect, and i'm writing more than i would expect, maybe there's a connection, Rainman
I should go to the Mission, but that might be 'Mission Impossible', it likes to rain here, i like to let it, Hell yeah, the wetter the better
Since it's raining so much all i've been doing is writing, maybe i should stop, and let new things happen, and then i'll write about them
Ok so
Not really much to tell, the bus picked me up, the big one, we went to the office, i paid, i got in a little bus, the 'Driver' drove the bus, it's all what you'd expect, the wheels went round and round, do you see where i'm going with this? No? Neither do i.
Anyway got there, oldest trees in the world, pissing rain, off i went walking, there's no signs saying 'This is the oldest tree in the world', because, and when i herd the answer, it really mad sense.
People would take their penknives out and write 'KEVIN WOZ ERE 2006' of 'KEVIN LVZ STEPHENY', our friend Kevin should learn to spell proper, don't you think?
Called into Sausalito on the way back, now before i dive in here, let me tell you.
Once you cross the bridge, your in Marin County, yipee
The average house in Marin county is 900k, and thats cheap.
The chic i was talking to in the art gallery i called into told me she pays $2500 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment and there's a 3 year waiting list, she when she goes traveling she has to keep paying rent or else she has to start all over again, with her dog, people love dogs here.
A guy i met in Toronto in a bar called 'The village idiot' told me about how he used to wake up on the weekends and have coffee on his balcony and isten to Van da man composing songs.
Santana, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead were his neighbors too, he's now an assistant to high court judge's, cant tell them stories, no, no, no. Crazy parties, you could only imagine
Going to buy Neil Cassady's autobiography 'The first third' , well it's something !!
Got to know more about that crazy guy, and buying his book is a good way to do that, makes sense when you think about it, but don't think too much, you cold get a headache or something??
It's raining more than i would expect, and i'm writing more than i would expect, maybe there's a connection, Rainman
I should go to the Mission, but that might be 'Mission Impossible', it likes to rain here, i like to let it, Hell yeah, the wetter the better
Since it's raining so much all i've been doing is writing, maybe i should stop, and let new things happen, and then i'll write about them
Ok so
Saturday, January 05, 2008
How much information can my head hold?
I've been learning stuff again, by my self this time, i've graduated from Baywatch teaching me stuff, to doing it all by my self, natural progression you'd think, an extention to 'Intellegent design' all you religious nuts might say.
I digress
San Francisco, San Francisco, where do i start, well with the name i suppose, start at the start.
It turns out the Bay got it's name before the city and the city name was changed to reflect this.
The city and bay are named after St Francis of Assassi
Someone in 1848 discovered gold in a sleepy Mexican village called 'Yerba Buena' and the population shot up to 30000 in 2 years, and the name of this village was changed to San Francisco, it would seem the Spanish were very holy fellows indeed and liked to go to places that had Saint names, Yerba Buena doesn't sound too holy, they fixed that one, onward christian soldiers!
Another problem they encountered, the west and east wasn't joined by a railroad, in step's 4 shopkeepers to finance this, they were known as the "The Big Four", the big 4 referred to themselves as the "The Associates".
The next problem was the gold rush, with a fortune to made in the hills, not too many white people were going to work on this railroad, announcing the arrival of Chineese.
Strange it would be the arrival of Chineese from er.. China that would make the railroad possible, and it turns out they were better workers too.
Hi Jinx in the club, Ruby Sky
In Australia when the gold rush was on, a lot of lighthouse men stayed at their posts when the goldrush was on, they were the most important people in the country as after sailing all the way from Europe, the last few kilometers were the most dangerous, so many ship's full of people sank, this was a time too when:
1, Not too many people swam, not too many wanted to get lessons from the fishes either
2, They were paying english people 10 pounds to go there, Irish got 50 lashes (good tricep's workout)
3, They needed to get the population up to 20 million for the country to work
4, It's not very encouraging to go if you think you might not make it
The Chineese stayed to work on the railroad, yipee!!!
Now to the Interesting stuff, Alma Spreckels AKA 'great grandmother of San Francisco'
It turns out after being poor for her whole life, she wanted a rich man, and she found one, she wanted to get married, he didn't, he had Syphilis, 5 years lated he married her (she must have did a fair bit of convincing) and then she took off to Paris to spend spend spend and live it up.
The guy she married was the heir to the Calafornian sugar company, and the term 'Sugar daddy comes from this pairing.
She didn't stop there, she built the biggest house in San Francisco, it takes up a whole block, now the writer Danielle Steele lices there, with her 48 cars parked out on the street, much to her neighbours frustration and the're not even good cars, all ordinary cars.
I digress
San Francisco, San Francisco, where do i start, well with the name i suppose, start at the start.
It turns out the Bay got it's name before the city and the city name was changed to reflect this.
The city and bay are named after St Francis of Assassi
Someone in 1848 discovered gold in a sleepy Mexican village called 'Yerba Buena' and the population shot up to 30000 in 2 years, and the name of this village was changed to San Francisco, it would seem the Spanish were very holy fellows indeed and liked to go to places that had Saint names, Yerba Buena doesn't sound too holy, they fixed that one, onward christian soldiers!
Another problem they encountered, the west and east wasn't joined by a railroad, in step's 4 shopkeepers to finance this, they were known as the "The Big Four", the big 4 referred to themselves as the "The Associates".
The next problem was the gold rush, with a fortune to made in the hills, not too many white people were going to work on this railroad, announcing the arrival of Chineese.
Strange it would be the arrival of Chineese from er.. China that would make the railroad possible, and it turns out they were better workers too.
Hi Jinx in the club, Ruby Sky
In Australia when the gold rush was on, a lot of lighthouse men stayed at their posts when the goldrush was on, they were the most important people in the country as after sailing all the way from Europe, the last few kilometers were the most dangerous, so many ship's full of people sank, this was a time too when:
1, Not too many people swam, not too many wanted to get lessons from the fishes either
2, They were paying english people 10 pounds to go there, Irish got 50 lashes (good tricep's workout)
3, They needed to get the population up to 20 million for the country to work
4, It's not very encouraging to go if you think you might not make it
The Chineese stayed to work on the railroad, yipee!!!
Now to the Interesting stuff, Alma Spreckels AKA 'great grandmother of San Francisco'
It turns out after being poor for her whole life, she wanted a rich man, and she found one, she wanted to get married, he didn't, he had Syphilis, 5 years lated he married her (she must have did a fair bit of convincing) and then she took off to Paris to spend spend spend and live it up.
The guy she married was the heir to the Calafornian sugar company, and the term 'Sugar daddy comes from this pairing.
She didn't stop there, she built the biggest house in San Francisco, it takes up a whole block, now the writer Danielle Steele lices there, with her 48 cars parked out on the street, much to her neighbours frustration and the're not even good cars, all ordinary cars.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
More thoughts, before i forget
Moon buggie
More thoughts on San Francisco
Walked one morning to the bridge (my first time) is was only a few inches on the map, the map wasn't to scale, what could go wrong.
I'll start of by saying i forgot my camera, you see my camera is what distinguishes me between a visitor and a local, my status in society was taking a turn for the worst, not to worry, it was a crap day for photos.
On my second attempt, this time by bus (very nice) i had a perfect day with new batteries.
Lots and lots of cool houses here, where do people get all the money.
Alcatraz was booked 5 days in advance, not many inmates could have predicted tourists paying money to go there, over 1 million people a year go, this year 1 will be one of them.
Wright brothers plane
Went on a night tour around the island, not bad for $10
Moving to a hotel today, not sure i sleep is on the agenda, but it's covered. Now i can sleep during the day if i like, oh what joy :)
Alis Gloves
Hills here aren't as bad as Cork, 'You call that a hill', walked down the windy hill, Steve Mc Queen drove down, all you movie buffs know what i mean, if you don't, it's 'Lombard st'
Went into a Beat Museum.
Ken Keasy 'Lets see who we are, lets turn this thing on and see what kind of shadow we have'
Allan Ginsberg
'Turn on, tune in, drop out'
Oh yeah went to a club called 'Ruby sky' and they had acrobats and dancers, pretty awesome and then they stopped serving beer at 2am (San Francisco -1 point)
More thoughts on San Francisco
Walked one morning to the bridge (my first time) is was only a few inches on the map, the map wasn't to scale, what could go wrong.
I'll start of by saying i forgot my camera, you see my camera is what distinguishes me between a visitor and a local, my status in society was taking a turn for the worst, not to worry, it was a crap day for photos.
On my second attempt, this time by bus (very nice) i had a perfect day with new batteries.
Lots and lots of cool houses here, where do people get all the money.
Alcatraz was booked 5 days in advance, not many inmates could have predicted tourists paying money to go there, over 1 million people a year go, this year 1 will be one of them.
Wright brothers plane
Went on a night tour around the island, not bad for $10
Moving to a hotel today, not sure i sleep is on the agenda, but it's covered. Now i can sleep during the day if i like, oh what joy :)
Alis Gloves
Hills here aren't as bad as Cork, 'You call that a hill', walked down the windy hill, Steve Mc Queen drove down, all you movie buffs know what i mean, if you don't, it's 'Lombard st'
Went into a Beat Museum.
Ken Keasy 'Lets see who we are, lets turn this thing on and see what kind of shadow we have'
Allan Ginsberg
'Turn on, tune in, drop out'
Oh yeah went to a club called 'Ruby sky' and they had acrobats and dancers, pretty awesome and then they stopped serving beer at 2am (San Francisco -1 point)
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Kieran feels like he's in the Truman Show in Stockholm
Well well, it's been a week and we all know what that means.
'You buy a ticket, you take the ride' thats what Hunter S. Thompson once said and since your here, your on the ride, no refunds, keep you hands by your sides at all times.
I went to Sweden and all i brought with me was no expectations, and a bag full of books that i didn't bother reading some of them had pictures so i suppose there was no excuse for me except i was having too much fun, every single night too, not a bad effort considering that most backpackers stay away away from the place like the plague, but that's also the story for the Galapagos and they stayed away from there too, not very smart....the backpackers that is.
Me too, not very smart that is, but no man can be smart 24 hours of the day, a smart man once said that, and by repeating it I'm hoping some of that smartness will rub off on me, I'd doubt it, but it's worth a try.
Basically all i knew about Sweden was Ynwie Malmsteen (See below)
And the Chef from the Muppet show (See below)
What did you do ? What did you do you say, well the first night i arrived, seemed a bit strange the fact i couldn't book any accommodation in Dublin for Stockholm for my first night, but then the words of Dean Morrarity from Jack Kourack's 'On the road' came to mind.
Basically he was saying people when wanting to travel from A to B worry too much about where they will eat, sleep, piss, whatever that they usually end up being deterred about going and don't. But you always eat somewhere, sleep somewhere so don't worry about it, just go, so i did, with his words in mind, and i didn't mind.
Arrived, and tried to find accommodation, i tried, then i said feck it and went for a beer, met some people, went to a club met some more people, ended up drinking beer on the street until 8am and then went to check into the hostel, citybackpackers.se i think.
The helpful and later on became a bit of an issue and I'll get to that too was looking at the sky and then looking at the clock set me into a bit of a confusing state, i call this confusion, if i was i was a physiologist I'd have a better word to describe it that i still wouldn't understand, but some guy sweeping the street in Sweden would, how can their English be that good ? The confusing thing was Do i sleep or wake up, eat, drink (Didn't need any reminding there) ?
The next part of the story is called 'The chicks run the game in Sweden' and this is true. Seemed a bit strange to me anyway that in Sweden, women walk home, cycle home, do everything by themselves.
As one girl said 'Boyfriends, what do we need them for' and the proof of this was the morning of 'Glad Midsummer' they were all walking to the train station, oh yeah, they all pretty much left town, bad weekend to leave town, well so i was told, me thinks not, and for the first time i thought, I've met women who are like me, well except they all look extremely hot, me? Not, well not yet anyway, but I'm trying anyway.
The point is, it's a very very safe city and men are more afraid of women that they are of them, basically it's the complete opposite of Cork which is more like a cross between Mel Gibsons Apocolipta and Brave heart, which had me wondering.
Why is Mel Gibson making movies set in Cork ?
Speaking of Cork, i came back one night and i had to watch this.
Best hurling goal ever
See what i mean, the place was driving me crazy, well my head anyway. It's too perfect and that would drive anyone crazy !
Compared to do whatever you like South America, and I'm going back. I need anarchy, i love it!!
Actually i created a Job profile on Monster.com stating I'd be interested in a job in Sweden, but not too much.
I felt like i was on a Hollywood set half the time and half expecting I'd walk around a building and it would be all cardboard from behind a bit like that Jim Carey big brother movie The Truman Show, very annoying indeed. There all laughing now i bet, I'll bet.
Went out with a hot Lesbian to a club with a German guy, yeah even the lesbians a hot, what the hell.
Here it is, the Vikings came to Ireland, took all our gold, raped pillaged and stole all our beautiful women and now they're in Sweden, i did try asking for them back, it got a few laughs, good trade, beautiful women for a few laughs.
Maybe i should have asked for Magic Beans, that would be handy, i could climb it and get a golden goose.
On a happier note
Got an email from Kieran from Cork, don't get me confused with the other kind (Galapagos) and i could be going to the US well east coast, the west coast is locked in, well at least in my mind anyway.
Peace out for now.
P.s.
Back to the peoples republic today, Cork are playing Kerry this weekend in Kerry, wouldn't mind going, but time will tell, and I'm not in Sweden so i can be guaranteed that if time says 11pm, it will be dark, oh what Joy. Joy to the world, which
reminds me, Handel's Messiah was first performed by Himself just around the corner (Christchurch Dublin)
nuf
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