what it is I know....

....... you have always been my safe home.

Sort of.

Sydney was dead to me when I left and moved to Melbourne in august 2008. I vowed never to return. But failed. Good friends and of course sydney gets more shows than melbourne so I had to return at certain times. Melbourne and a select group of awesome friends put up a strong case for me to stay there too - even with its bleak weather and pathetic thai food. But you adjust to the weather and you eat indian food (sydney has pathetic indian food and melbourne indian food is amazeballs so it all balances out in my world).

But with each return trip to sydney, the town became less and less dead to me. One trip in particular.

So today I arrived here. Sydney. Back in black. Literally. Its been a while. "I aint here on business, I'm only here for fun". Sort of. Helping a brother out for a few days then its back to the bleak weather, bad thai food and the 2 best goddaughters I could ever ask for. And that's just 2 of the reasons why its good to be back here. Huh?

Here. In Australia. Let the games begin.

I ain't done yet. Sort of.



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been a million years that ive been gone

ive been everywhere now i heading home

 

 

Warning – the below statistics might make me sound like a travel w.nker. I concur. **shakes pony tail**

 

-          1 year

-          120+ beds

-          47 flights

-          6 days i don’t remember

-          30 countries

-          4 ferries

-          60+ shows and festivals

-          4 life altering moments

-          5 continents

-          Postcards as promised

-          2 trips to Disneyland

-          Multiple bucket list ticks in the music and food categories

-          3 phones / 11 SIM cards

-          2 ambulance rides

-          1 piece of artwork

-          9800+km on a truck

-          1 new guitar

-          Dozens of new friends

-          An unknown amount of records, CDs, posters, DVDs, t shirts and books. Im scared to work out how many and what it all costed me.

-          Countless hangovers. Im scared to work out how many and what it all costed me.

-          And a lifetime worth of memories. Some i might even tell you about.

 

Me, my bag(gage) and my iPod left Australia. Me, my new bag(gage) and my iPod are coming back to Australia.  

 

More info on the re-entry to follow. Be good to see some of you. If you remember me. I don’t.

 

Im sure you’ll have questions. Ill have answers. But i gots me the real questions. Answers appreciated. Is Karl Stefanovic still a d.ckhead? Is David Koch still a c.ck muncher? Is fire crotch woman still the PM? Does Mtv play music videos yet? Is the NRL still full of morons? Is Rove back on TV yet? Are the fricken roadworks on the Monash freeway finished yet? Does Melbourne still have no decent Thai food? What happened in the last season of Underbelly? Is JB Hi Fi still the most awesome shop ever? Will i fit in?

 

He said he’ll see me on the flipside.......

 

 

 

i dig my toes into the sand

 

the ocean looks like a thousand diamonds

strewn across a blue blanket

i lean against the wind

pretend that I am weightless

and in this moment I am happy...

happy