gotta stop staying up until like 5:30am.

when i tongue my front teeth they feel shiny and clean. this is how i judge whether or not i've eaten badly on any given day. fun fact.

also: from now on i'll be putting in brackets some info about random names i may mention to give you context. if there's any names you want to know about that i forget to do this for, leave a comment and i'll hop to it.

i went to bed too late and woke up at about 2pm. rohin had woken me a little earlier to see if i wanted to go play pool in a "real texas pool hall". i was keen but i fell back asleep. after eating nothing for breakfast we (rohin, jack and i) headed into town to meet claire (she's a music promoter and manages art vs. science) and once we'd done that we started walking toward the thrift/vintage shops to find boots and coats. it took ages to get there, we must have walked for a half hour. we stopped at a cafe and i got an orange juice and some yoghurt with granola. we exchanged "unfortunate accidents involving stray object trajectory and placement" stories.

claire had her phone fall out of her pocket while walking down the street once and into a bucket of water that just happened to be there. i told them about powys' phone flying out of his pocket as he jumped for joy on the street after he, ben and i had our application for bruce approved. his phone flew out of his pocket and got run over by an 18 wheeler. i was the only one who saw it (in the rear vision mirror), i had to tell him he'd done it when he got to the car with ben and i inside. the phone still worked. incredible! then rohin told us that two weeks ago in townsville someone was mowing their lawn with a big heavy duty mower. one of the blades came loose, flew out of the mower and about 30m across the street cutting a woman's head clean off. the blade continued on for about 50m after that. people walked up cause they'd seen something weird to find a body and a head lying a few metres away. this actually happened. what a world huh.

claire looked up some stores on her blackberry so we started making our way around. first place we went was allen's boots. they had more boots than i have ever before seen in my life. i found one pair for $1200. i found a pair of sea turtle (yuck) boots for $500. the boots i wanted were around $300. toooo much. we moved on. at a st vincent de paul i bought a mid-length brown leather jacket (double breasted) for about $50. would have been hundreds new and at least $150 at a vintage store in australia. insane. jack got some boots from there also. we found a vintage store that had a ping pong table in it. ro and i had a few games. definitely going back there.

we ended up at a store called new bohemia where i found my boots. they fit like a glove. dark red (almost black). called deep oxblood. sounds nice and southern huh? bought those suckers, snatched them right up. from there we checked out a few other places before ending up at an organic grocery. jack got some coke, i got carbonated grapefruit juice & a bottle of water and claire got carbonated apple juice. we enjoyed those drinks until jon and the rest of the guys came and picked us up to go register for our SXSW passes. after a bit of parking confusion we finally registered and went for a walk to meet rich (our US/world manager) and then go say hi to aaron (he runs spunk). after saying hi to aaron we all (minus claire and jord) walked back to the van and came home where i had some tomato soup with some rice & adzuki bean chips. nice. also jon/joe cooked some fajitas so i had some of them too. i am now full.

tomorrow...begins hell.

speak soon.