jay red is limerick's finest rapper.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
BARCELONA
me and the three housemates jake, yukio and adrien all went to barcelona for a week, staying with yukio's family. they live in an apartment in the city centre. i'm not going to be able to say anything about barca that hasn't been said before, just go if you haven't been.
we arrived at midnight, but that's early enough in spain so we were in the pub by half-past.
drank absinthe in a bar called absint... am i mean a bar called "London".
drunkness ensues... the apollo nightclub adrien and yukio.
a really nice market just off la ramblas. liked this photo due to the skinned rabbits beside the carrots.
museum of modern art. the feet on the tv jump, and the wires holding the tv up are connected to little arms that move it in time with the jump. so the feet jump left, the tv sways left. just thought it was cool, no idea what it represents. i'm holding a competition for the best answer, send emails to shewasmadeofchimps at gmail. i will post a prize to the winner. and by best i mean funniest obviously.
146 at the beach. it was raining the first 4 days. bummer. (chortle/snigger... "bummer"!)
jake bought a barca jersey. we're known as 146 because we live at 146.
Temple of La Sagrada Familia. Goudi started it in 1882, and they hope to have it finished within 100 years. lazy spaniards, stop going to sleep in the middle of the afternoon and you might get the thing finished a little quicker.
Barcelona from up high. a reminder of how shit cameras are compared to the naked eye.
Yukio has a theory that in any neighbourhood you see these it is tolerated to smoke hash in the bars. this one is outside his local.
Limerick Bar! 2 blocks from Yukio's house, he's drank there many times but it never clicked with him about the limerick bit until i pointed it out. lot of irish pubs in barca. lots of irish pubs everywhere.
Dow Jones Bar. every drink has a price on the screen, and if a drink is in demand, the price goes up. something's not selling, the price goes down. every thirty minutes or so there's a stock market crash, and all drinks drop to the minimum price. everyone runs to the bar and sometimes you can get a round in for nothing, or even half-nothing. pint of guinness starting price: 4.60.
next we went to razzmattaz, the biggest nightclub i've ever been in. 5 rooms catering to all types of music. this was taken on the roof, all my other photos are too crappy due to low light. great club.
Yukio's scooter. pretty.
Beach II: sunny edition. yukios parents and little brother also present.
Camp Nou, Barcelona v Mallorca. Yukio has two season tickets, and he borrowed two more off a friend. not the best game ever, barca won with a scrappy OG in the 88 min. the job.
again at night.
next day, our last day, we took the open top bus to catch the few touristy things we hadn't done yet.
airport. done.
we arrived at midnight, but that's early enough in spain so we were in the pub by half-past.
drank absinthe in a bar called absint... am i mean a bar called "London".
drunkness ensues... the apollo nightclub adrien and yukio.
a really nice market just off la ramblas. liked this photo due to the skinned rabbits beside the carrots.
museum of modern art. the feet on the tv jump, and the wires holding the tv up are connected to little arms that move it in time with the jump. so the feet jump left, the tv sways left. just thought it was cool, no idea what it represents. i'm holding a competition for the best answer, send emails to shewasmadeofchimps at gmail. i will post a prize to the winner. and by best i mean funniest obviously.
146 at the beach. it was raining the first 4 days. bummer. (chortle/snigger... "bummer"!)
jake bought a barca jersey. we're known as 146 because we live at 146.
Temple of La Sagrada Familia. Goudi started it in 1882, and they hope to have it finished within 100 years. lazy spaniards, stop going to sleep in the middle of the afternoon and you might get the thing finished a little quicker.
Barcelona from up high. a reminder of how shit cameras are compared to the naked eye.
Yukio has a theory that in any neighbourhood you see these it is tolerated to smoke hash in the bars. this one is outside his local.
Limerick Bar! 2 blocks from Yukio's house, he's drank there many times but it never clicked with him about the limerick bit until i pointed it out. lot of irish pubs in barca. lots of irish pubs everywhere.
Dow Jones Bar. every drink has a price on the screen, and if a drink is in demand, the price goes up. something's not selling, the price goes down. every thirty minutes or so there's a stock market crash, and all drinks drop to the minimum price. everyone runs to the bar and sometimes you can get a round in for nothing, or even half-nothing. pint of guinness starting price: 4.60.
next we went to razzmattaz, the biggest nightclub i've ever been in. 5 rooms catering to all types of music. this was taken on the roof, all my other photos are too crappy due to low light. great club.
Yukio's scooter. pretty.
Beach II: sunny edition. yukios parents and little brother also present.
Camp Nou, Barcelona v Mallorca. Yukio has two season tickets, and he borrowed two more off a friend. not the best game ever, barca won with a scrappy OG in the 88 min. the job.
again at night.
next day, our last day, we took the open top bus to catch the few touristy things we hadn't done yet.
airport. done.
PRISCILLA BROKE HER LEG
its been over a month since i did this, so i'm going to bash up a lot of stuff today hopefully. Priscilla couldn't go to the st patricks party because of her leg, that's how long ago this happened. someone fell on here in the nightclub. she broke her tibila and fibula. nasty.
Friday, March 23, 2007
TRAM DERAILMENT! UPDATE!
just noticed Nico has a great picture on his blog of the crash, from before i arrived. check out his blog at
http://la-haye.blogspot.com/
http://la-haye.blogspot.com/
St PATRICK'S DAY - PARTY
all the foreigners were told to wear green, and they largely complied. fun night i was allowed to put on some music, so i played christie, pogues, wolfe tones, westlife, b*witched, Mark McCabe, you know, all the classics.
Here's the four Irish before we went out.
Leah (french)
Antoinette and Randy (USA)
Miriam and Dimmi (greek)
Me and Dimmi
Nico, Carmike, Lucille, (french)Virgine,(belge) and Darragh. carmike's orange do-rag is amazing, the best effort of any of the foreigners.
Nico, Carmike, Yukio, Barbara, and Jake. Apologies if this isn't Barbara, i constantly get the two Austrian girls' names confused.
Here's the four Irish before we went out.
Leah (french)
Antoinette and Randy (USA)
Miriam and Dimmi (greek)
Me and Dimmi
Nico, Carmike, Lucille, (french)Virgine,(belge) and Darragh. carmike's orange do-rag is amazing, the best effort of any of the foreigners.
Nico, Carmike, Yukio, Barbara, and Jake. Apologies if this isn't Barbara, i constantly get the two Austrian girls' names confused.
TRAM DERAILMENT!
And things kept getting better. when we got home there was a tram after derailing right outside the rijkwijksweg balcony. didn't actually see the crash, but was a great time watching them trying to fix it.
Nico with the tram.
to get it off the road they had to jack it up.
took them about an hour to move it.
Aftermath... note the scratches on the road and the broken pavement where it hit.
Nico with the tram.
to get it off the road they had to jack it up.
took them about an hour to move it.
Aftermath... note the scratches on the road and the broken pavement where it hit.
St PATRICK'S DAY - DECORATING
i think i've sort of explained the pub before, its a small dingey bar, only for exchange students, and run by the university. for St Patrick's they let us paint the walls. we're not sure if they meant to this extent but we didn't need to be asked twice.
We made stencils and bought a cans of green and orange spraypaint and then wrecked the place.
This was a shitload of fun.
We made stencils and bought a cans of green and orange spraypaint and then wrecked the place.
This was a shitload of fun.
BRIAN IS IN THE KITCHEN
i get this a lot off the french. in france the first english you learn is
Where is brian?... Brian is in the kitchen!
the french go nuts for it. i'm basically a god to them. especially if i'm within ten feet of a kitchen.
here's a french comedian doing his brian is in the kitchen bit. sorry its in foreign, but stick with it there's some english.
Where is brian?... Brian is in the kitchen!
the french go nuts for it. i'm basically a god to them. especially if i'm within ten feet of a kitchen.
here's a french comedian doing his brian is in the kitchen bit. sorry its in foreign, but stick with it there's some english.
MILLER VISIT
Brendan Miller came over to visit, which was nice. somebody misses us.
Me and Miriam went to Eindhoven to pick him up. the train to eindhoven has really cool carriages, with individual rooms just like in the movies.
Chief innovation of miller's visit was this. Miriam has the full series of black books on her computer, but the subtitles can't be switched off. they are very annoying, sometimes they go out of sync. they're generally distracting.
Me and Miriam went to Eindhoven to pick him up. the train to eindhoven has really cool carriages, with individual rooms just like in the movies.
Chief innovation of miller's visit was this. Miriam has the full series of black books on her computer, but the subtitles can't be switched off. they are very annoying, sometimes they go out of sync. they're generally distracting.
NICO AND LUCILLE
Nico and Lucille are two french people who annoy me constantly. they want me to make them famous by putting them in my blog. I will oblige.
Here's the two of thm at the bar in the pub. note the clean unpainted walls. also bonus Miller action in the background!
Here's Nico and Antoinette, dressed up for a Masque we went to a couple of weeks back.
Here's Lucille, she had a cool cigarette holder thing like bet gilroy from coronation street, and it worked too.
HAPPY!?
HAPPY?!
Here's the two of thm at the bar in the pub. note the clean unpainted walls. also bonus Miller action in the background!
Here's Nico and Antoinette, dressed up for a Masque we went to a couple of weeks back.
Here's Lucille, she had a cool cigarette holder thing like bet gilroy from coronation street, and it worked too.
HAPPY!?
HAPPY?!
HOLIDAY - PARIS DAY THREE
wow, its been a while. i've had college stuff to do. here's the last day of our trip to paris.
We didn't have much time, so we just explored around Gare Du Nord, one of the train stations in Amelie with the photo machines.
the film was made all around this area.
Very nice.
We didn't have much time, so we just explored around Gare Du Nord, one of the train stations in Amelie with the photo machines.
the film was made all around this area.
Very nice.
Monday, March 5, 2007
HOLIDAY - PARIS DAY TWO
day two in paris we did the whole tourist shebang, the lourve, arc de triomphe, champs elysees, notre dame cathedral, eiffel tower.
the venus de milo:
the mona lisa:
you're not allowed to take pictures of it but yukio took that sneaky one.
notre dame:
eiffel tower:
camera was awful in the nightclub this is about the only legible one:
clemence brought us to a nightclub on the champs elysees, called "the queen". naturally at this point we asked whether the club was of a "flamboyant" nature. she said that normally it was a gay club, but on thursdays it wasn't. she was right it was only half gay. french girls made up for this. here's how she sold it to us: free in, and free drink before half 12. sold. then there's what actually happened. the bars were understaffed, and the portions were tiny. half twelve rolls around and we've had maybe two normal drinks. then we notice the pricelist for drink, all of which are €10 or more. crafty. ended up putting four drinks on my credit card, but still €40 for a night out in paris ain't too shabby. and anyway its on the credit card which is basically free money.
the venus de milo:
the mona lisa:
you're not allowed to take pictures of it but yukio took that sneaky one.
notre dame:
eiffel tower:
camera was awful in the nightclub this is about the only legible one:
clemence brought us to a nightclub on the champs elysees, called "the queen". naturally at this point we asked whether the club was of a "flamboyant" nature. she said that normally it was a gay club, but on thursdays it wasn't. she was right it was only half gay. french girls made up for this. here's how she sold it to us: free in, and free drink before half 12. sold. then there's what actually happened. the bars were understaffed, and the portions were tiny. half twelve rolls around and we've had maybe two normal drinks. then we notice the pricelist for drink, all of which are €10 or more. crafty. ended up putting four drinks on my credit card, but still €40 for a night out in paris ain't too shabby. and anyway its on the credit card which is basically free money.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
HOLIDAY - PARIS DAY ONE
we arrived in paris wednesday evening, and clemence put us up in her house. we just stayed in that night and watched tv.
all over french mtv is this song,
its called marly gomont and by a guy called kamini. he grew up as the only black kid growing up in a small village of 400 people. his dad was the village doctor. the lyrics are basically about how unlike all the other rappers in france, he's not from paris, he's from marly gomont.
here's clemence's house:
and dog:
the dog's name is "one". in france the dog owners accociation have this system where every year all dogs will be named beginning with a particular letter. 1998, when he was born, the letter was "o". he's a Chihuahua, which of course led to much singing of:
and much confusion on jake's part.
all over french mtv is this song,
its called marly gomont and by a guy called kamini. he grew up as the only black kid growing up in a small village of 400 people. his dad was the village doctor. the lyrics are basically about how unlike all the other rappers in france, he's not from paris, he's from marly gomont.
here's clemence's house:
and dog:
the dog's name is "one". in france the dog owners accociation have this system where every year all dogs will be named beginning with a particular letter. 1998, when he was born, the letter was "o". he's a Chihuahua, which of course led to much singing of:
and much confusion on jake's part.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)