last post

it sucks to think that this will be our last post but we are at the end of the trip and must go home. so my question is: where is this warm winter everyone was talking about? it looks pretty damn cold to me. anyways, sweeden was rad, much better than we expected. we met all kinds of cool people, saw some sweet shows and blew loads of cash. we are now back in amsterdam and hating every moment of it. the weather is god aweful and it just gets old fast, too many stupid americans (man, have you tried the hash...dude.......). Its hard to meet anyone cool here when half the hostel is blazed out of their gord. We'll see you all at the cc on thursday.

once again, mike is a freak.

so guys,
sweden has been the coolest shit ever. the people we meet here are soooo nice and open minded. we went and saw "career suicide" last night and i was not to impresed. really mediorce hardcore in the weak vain of "fucked up" but with more hype and less talent. but enough of the shit talk...... so we will be back on the first of march and i expect EVERYONE to be at the C.C. CLUB! this includes everyone from j.j. to mike lee! i really dont want to come home but i know i have to and that honestly makes me happy. to see all of you guys again and punch boof in the nose for pretending that he chills with picard, i think he deserves the shameful bronze..... buddy lee is going to get the million hit combo, dooley dosent even know what is about to hit him, j.j. is going to have jerte stop when he sees me, the band(boof and stupid nick) are going to take over the world when we get back, and for the rest of you ....... watch the fuck out, iam gonna tie your hands and feet and put you in a sack......... blagghhhhhhhhhhhh!
see you all in two weeks,
clover.

p.s. i was really drunk when i wrote this and it may not make sence but that is really cool to all of the aussies in the world because they think about this stuff at breckey when the shrimp is on the barbie and the wavey is heating up the corny and they are trying on their new boardies to match their new thongs..........

outrage

ok so the liquor store called the system boget closes at 15 on sat. that's right 3 in the afternoon! we had to go buy some 3.5. the title of our new seven inch will be: fuck the systemboget!

sveeden, ya!

we are in stockholm now and it fucking rules. last night we saw bruce banner who were awesome and tonight we will see ...to what end. career suicide is playing on tuesday and of course we will see massgrav and diskonto on friday, its gonna be a good week. I've determined that the mediocre bands in sweden are miles above the bands that are suposed to be hot shit in america. all of the bands we've seen have been extremely tight and on the ball. the scene here is much different also, it appears that all shows take place at proper clubs. people here are really nice and actually want to talk to you compared to the rest of europe. last night we met one of the guys from sunday morning einsteins who was super rad, he is gonna meet us before the diskonto show and buy us beers. cheers! the beer laws here are even more fucked up than our own. you have to be 18 to drink in clubs but 20 to buy in liquor stores. you can only buy beer at liquor stores just like home, they have 3.5 (not 3.2!) everywhere else. the liquor store is only open until 6 mon to wed and open to 7 thurs to sat, closed on sunday with no sconnie near by. not to mention that the beer is rediculously priced. also when you go into a bar you must pay to check your coat which costs around $3, a beer at the bar costs at least $5. it's been snowing but it is not really cold at all, i see y'all in minnesota are finally getting the freezing balls cold, it's about time I say. i also learned there is a such thing as a swedish mile, it's ten km, figure that one out.

update

after frankfurt we went to cologne. cologne was really nothing special, we couldn't find much to do; the highlight of our cologne visit was drinking a 3 liter tower of beer. The waiter gave us a snotty "good luck" when he gave it to us as we had only an hour to finish before the bar closed. shit, we almost got the 5 liter tower. anyways the 3 liter tower was comleted with little problem and the prick waiter took our change thinking we were tipping him. after cologne we went to bremen and went to the becks brewery. it was cool, they give you plenty of beer and afterwards we went to the bar with a highschool band who was there with their band teacher. when they invited us it was a little strange, us being 24 and all but it turned out to be pretty cool, i wish i was getting drunk with my highschool teachers at 17, shit. we are now in copenhagen, its a cool city but it costs a fortune. we went and bought 3 beers each at the corner store last night and when we got out and I did the math in my head I realized we had just paid 8 dollars for 3 fucking beers. much to our delight we found some mexican today...ten dollars for a fucking burrito! arrrg. sorry to hear about getting beat up pete, though we are having problems telling exactly what happened, elaborate! We are going to sweeden on wednesday and get to see ..to what end?, massgrav and diskonto! cant fucking wait.
please do not use the comments as a bitching forum (jj i know you excited about joining the 21st century but shit!)
see yall in a few weeks
any progress on the party?

überbowl

we watched the superbowl at this irish pub in Frankfurt. the guy who owned the joint assured me that he would keep it open for the whole game, every one else I asked couldn't tell me if they'd stay open or just looked confused when i said "super bowl?" he was a very wierd guy making off hand coments like "rothlesberger, ah yes, its a kind of cheese from switzerland." anyways, good game, it was worth staying up til 5 for (i think boofter was the only person in the world that thought the seahawks could win that game but he also thinks they have sool jerseys, he probably thinks they are red and black or something).

today we went to the town where andy's parents lived in like '71. It was this little town called Ried not far from Frankfurt. We found the appartment that they stayed in and started taking pictures and this guy comes out and says some shit in german to us, he didn't sound too happy. Andy explained to him that his parents used to live here and introduced himself. He turned out to be the guy who owned the building, Gunter, and he remembered Andy's parents and invited us inside. He was so happy that we were there and showed us every angle of the building and even took us up to the Clover's old apartment. We talked with his wife and his son and they even fed us lunch! The language barrier was a little thick but they seemed so happy to have us and wanted to know everything about Andy's family. I can't even count the number of times he told andy "you say to parents, you say come to germany" and then made a circular motion with his hand; we got the picture. Gunter was a interesting old fellow, he said he was mad when we came up cause he thought we were gangsters or something, I had a little trouble following his explaination of why since it was in half german half english. anyways, it was a good experiance.

It really sucks to know that we are going to be home soon, our schedule is set: Tomorrow Köln, then Bremen, Copenhagen, Stockholm where we fly back to Brussels on the 25th then to Amsterdam for a few more days. We'll be back on the first of March, We'll be at the CC the second of March. Join us please. And I assume there will be a party on the weekend, who's throwing it???

On a musical note we saw Hjerte Stop from Copenhagen in Hamburg. Awesome band, they sound like regulations if they were as cool as everyone thought they were but faster. Get their seven inch at the record store, I think kick and punch put it out...

just some tidbits.

well, its been a while since i last posted on this here fine blog. as you all may know, mike done got his picture taker stoled. man that is so fucking lame. the worst part about the whole thing is that that was half of all the pictures we took. and secondly my camera takes the worst pictures known to man. i think i might just make one of those pin hole cameras and call it a day. but i digress. now, we are in hamburg for about 5 days and it seems pretty cool. lots of young people and MAD graffiti on every building. im not just talking about illegal graff, like huge murials on every building. we got into hamburg yesterday at about 3pm and checked into a hostel in a pretty cool neighborhood. we bummed around till about 8pm and then went down to the ever so famous reeperbahn where the beatles got their start. i had no idea that such a place existed in hamburg let alone anywhere outside of amsterdam. mike kind of knew what we should check out in the area so we began the tour of the reeperbahn. this place is a strip of a road about 10 blocks long where prostitution is legal, there are sex shops every 10 feet, weird old perverts lurking around every corner and "the gaurds" as we like to call them. "the gaurds" are the most intimidating females on the face of the planet. they are hookers who post up on this one block of the reeperbahn and gaurd this tiny block where the hookers are behind glass like in amsterdam. apparently to enter the tiny block you have to be 18 or whatever, we never found out because we were to scared of these prostitutes to have a look. so mike and i were walking down the street that runs parallel to the gaurded street and we chose the wrong side to walk down. these hooks stay on the opposite side of the street from the police station and spread the length of the entire street with about 4 feet between eachother. they were stopping us in our tracks speaking crazy german and broken english, pulling on our jackets and just generally harassing us. never in my life have i been so intimidated by a woman or should i say a gang of women. this block is pure insanity! i am so scared to even cross the street there. so after being accosted by crazy hookers we went to an open mic poetry slam. that was interesting to say the least. didnt understand a word that was said, but there were lots of fine women who didnt accost us in the place so that was alright. we are trying to spend as much time in germany as possible so as to avoid the highway robbery called sweden. the country is soooooooo expensive it hurts my brain just to think about it. but, we get to see to what end? diskonto massgrav bruce banner just to name a few. thats all for now, snorkel is a god among men, twentysevenshots is going to level the twin cities in about a month, ben rasta is the funniest man alive, dooley needs to cut his beard, j.j. holds it down like no other, mike lee, we will no longer be in amsterdam so dont bother, jordan kills it, and to everyone else, stay up!
clover