| Photos For Carlson |
[05 Jan 2010|12:55am] |
Here is a bunch of pics that wanted to send to Carlson in Canada. Rather than just email them i thought i would put them up here so everyone can see em.
Just came home from an AMAZING first show of Poy and roobs band, was so awesome, so many people and they ruled! so proud of poy, hes like an asian/ german bush poet dumped in the suburbs who thinks he belongs in the city while channelling the boss, cash and paul kelly.
Love this time of year, everyone is in the mood to hang, great weather, fun times. Viva 2010
Some shots from around, also, my camera is waterproof, and recreating the nirvana baby shot is actually harder than it seems
miss ya carls!
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| Is this thing on....? |
[08 Nov 2009|04:54pm] |
Im not sure if anyone goes on here or whatever anymore but no one is on myspace, my facebook is mostly old school "friends" who i have not seen since shcool which is 6 years ago, and twitter is only a small bunch of my friends
SO anyway. Im alive and well, im in Seattle with Mo. We leave for a week in NYC on monday night, im so damn excited. I love that city
Other than that i have just been busting out work here and trying to not spend too much money.
Municipal waste are playing here on the 20th or something so im gonna see if old carlson wants to come down for a visit! siked to see him too.
Ill be home december 4th, and im siked for bbq's, Hot weather, hanging out, night-time heat, and all the other good things that australian summer brings
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| well |
[24 Aug 2009|01:33pm] |
I feel like the internet is becoming a graveyard
things i used to check out on here have become boring. Myspace, LJ, blogs, forums. Email is just email, it doesnt count really
Bit of a bummer, but i cant speak to soon, i know i will fully sucked back into some other internet thing soon. Oh yeah, twitter, i guess i have kind of. But yeah.
In other news Mo is arriving on friday and I am more excited than i can express.
Also The Snowdroppers from sydney are my new fave band after i saw them play with Poys band at ding dong the other night, made me wish i was 22 years old, living in the 1920s in kentucky or something playing in a band in some speakeasy. So good
My parents are away, Europe for 2 and a half months. Ive hardly been at home really, i realised i only really come here to have dinner with them a few nights a week and as a place to sleep. Yet somehow the house gets really messy really quick when im here by myself. Better clean before friday
andddd im out
Oh yeah, I turn 25 this sunday. that kind of sucks.
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| Zee Germans |
[02 Jul 2009|11:16pm] |
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Wow, LJ really is rather dead. I cant help but feel partly responsible
So, im on tour in europe still, have been for 3 weeks now.
Im in germany somewhere, i have actually lost track, its been a different country almost every day, with the same gas station food.
you can see pics here
www.sincealwaysxo.tumblr.com thats chris from blkouts blog
the other night at the show there was a dog in the pit.
and last night we stayed in a squatted out mansion from the 16hundreds.
Lifes weird. Better in Australia
Im flying home in a week.
Cant wait!
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| Pretty sure that if razors were not invented... |
[03 Jun 2009|01:25pm] |
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this would be me
Currently in Perth till we fly out next thursday morning at 5 am to Europe for a month.
Played two shows on the weekend. Day Of Contempt were really great. Reminded me of hanging out at Goo with the boys then going back to house of goon and Cheyno (silo) burning all the furniture.
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[01 May 2009|03:01am] |
www.callumpreston.com
just posted pics from New York City and Philly
Leaving NYC in the next few days. driving to Seattle. some time with Mo, then LA for 5 days with Nat Perry and Mel Pack! DISNEYLAND!
Then its home. Im getting excited.
what the hell is eveyone doing? does anyone even still read this? or post there own?
Callum
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| BAW-STAWN |
[28 Apr 2009|12:59am] |
Finally got net to post boston pics.
www.callumpreston.com
Right now im in New York, Its really awesome, i love this city and definatly would like to live here at some point in my life. well, actually. Brooklyn is where i would like to be.
Its the 28th of April. I fly out of the US on the 15th of may. Thats soon!
Hope i am not over in baggage weight
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| Frequent posting?? what is this |
[20 Apr 2009|05:13am] |
So I only just posted some new pics, but ive have found myself on a 4 and a half hour bus ride to new york that has power and internet, so why not include my boston adventures also. Im about to upload them hopefully if i can get a good signal.
I will have two uploads to my site, Boston in general, and Johnnys house that i stayed at for the 5 days, Which is so awesome it deserves its own post.
enjoy.
im hoping this is what your hair is like when i get home Carlson. But somehow i think it will be closer to this..
either way im siked.
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| Still on the road. Still having fun. Still alive. |
[19 Apr 2009|12:39pm] |
Just put up three lots of new pics from some recent adventures on my site. They are from the Seattle, Canada and Portland. Im currently in Boston, decided to stay an extra night, headed to New York on a bus tomorrow. Sweet!
Check the pics
www.callumpreston.com
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| Chester Copperpot never made it this far... |
[15 Apr 2009|04:44pm] |
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I Cannot remember a time in my life when i didnt love the Goonies, actually, i cant remember a time when i didnt know what the Goonies was.
Its always been with me, and always caught my imagination.
Last weekend i had the pleasure of taking a two hour road trip with my wonderful girlfriend Mo and visit Astoria Oregan, Home of the Goonies.
Being in front of the house was one of the most surreal moments of my life. We also saw the Museum where Mikeys Dad works, the Jail where the Fratellies broke out and the bowling alley where chunk squashes his pizza and milkshake against the window.
Im heading to the airport in an hour. Flying out of Seattle to Boston. Then it goes roughly like this
Boston for 4 days. Bus to New York City.
New york city for 4 days. Seeing The Bronx and Trash Talk
Mo Arrives in NYC, Driving to Philidelphia, staying the night.
Driving to Bethlehem staying the night, seeing Alkaline Trio
Driving back to NYC, Mo leaves, I stay on for a few days.
Trash Talk finish tour in New Jersey. They band flys out to Australia i think.
The Roadie Ad Ross is coming to pick me up in NYC and we are driving across the country from New York back to Seattle.
In Seattle for about 10 days.
Fly to LA on the 10th of May. Meeting up with Mel Pack and Nat Perry, Hanging in Orange County,
Parkway show In LA on the 12th, Earth Crisis in Hollywood with Web-yay on the 13th. Hanging out in general.
Fly out of LAX on the 15th of May.
Back home on the 17th of May.
then
Heading to Europe for 30 days on the 10th of June.
Im really excited to get back home, I have seen a lot of really inspiring stuff during my travels and am excited to work of some ideas that i have and generally appreciate the friends and opportunities that i have at home.
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[30 Mar 2009|05:00pm] |
Just uploaded heaps of pics from my trip on my website
www.callumpreston.com
In seattle now, settled in for a few weeks, really cool town. really cool girlfriend. having a kewwwl time
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| Time Travel |
[16 Mar 2009|02:17am] |
still alive, still.
In Oakland California, right across the bay from san francisco.
Staying here till thursday. Then heading to atlanta, then seattle.
Seattle is where the Mrs lives.
Thats right. I have a girlfriend now.
AND IT RULES
someone please invent a teleporter from Ascot Vale to Seattle.
yes. Photobooth photos. With props. its THAT serious.
also. saw this.
And bought some arts and crafts supplies and painted this for Toast whos letting me stay here at his house for ten days as a thankyou. Hes a fan of Nick. The 99cent store came good with that frame! Thought of you Carls. he has loads of nick cave stuff in his house. And signed Moz records.
Ok, full photo update of my time in seattle and my time in Oakland, Berkerly and San Fran is now up on my site. You can lurk out who the girl is a little too if you are curious. shes in some pics from the seattle part.
www.callumpreston.com
Still miss you all, but am having a blast. Last night i rode a bike 20 minutes through psudo ghetto to see Mike Vallely play to a bar with about 22 people in it. But i chatted with him for quite a while and it was seriously awesome. Long story, but ive been following him as a skater and personality since 1994 as far as i can remember from when i was in the states with my parents back then.
Weird full circle shit going on in my life.
This was April 2005
This is March 2009
weird thing is, i dont really wear misfits shirts very much. And that was a total accident, didnt realise till i looked at the old shot.
Im pleased with how i am aging though. hahaah
Ok. time to sleep, its 2.30 am
Bye friends
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| I am |
[03 Mar 2009|01:30pm] |
still alive.
Still.
Update in the next few days
brb. Exploring seattle
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| ...through the desert on a horse with no name. |
[17 Feb 2009|06:28pm] |
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So much to the discust of some on here im sure, im going to post majority of stuff from my trip on my actual website, i will post some stuff on here, but majority of pics will be on there.
You know that feeling when you are about to do something that you think might begin a chain of things that will change your life, be they bad or good, it will still be a change. I have that feeling now, its in the pit of my stomache. and its really quite comfortable.
Im gonna miss my friends a lot. But thats how it should be right?
Adventure. Take me away!
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| last year stuff.. |
[01 Jan 2009|11:17pm] |
So uhh, happy neew year and stuff, just another night really.
Ive just packed all my stuff to leave tomorrow morning for the houseboat trip. I feel like back in primary school before school camp and you would pack all your stuff and get all excited and stuff. Its pretty much going to be exactly like that i just have more chest hair now than i did in primary school.
so anyway, hers some pics from the couple of days before new years. Ill have a full house boat wrap up on here after the trip.
Xmas present to Mum and Dad this year was a painting for their beach house at Torquay. They were stoked, although they dont really look it here. Xmas day.
Here it is hanging in the house, i forgot how big that wall is, im pretty happy with how it ended up looking.
I stopped in at the beachhouse on my way to falls festival where i was driving for a dude called Donavan Frankenreiter, he was actually pretty god, surfer style funky beach rock stuff, easy listening.
I drove this 3 tonne truck, which was a new exxperiance, i usually only do vans.
Donovan and band onstage. Killer Pants duuuuuude, he has a hulk hogan goes copa cabana vibe happening
festival crowds, when i went in 03/04 it was such a dirty hippy crowd, all the girls were pretty gross, now i felt like i was in a walking general pants catalogue, hot babes everywhere, with an equal amount of buff metro dudes pinging off their brains, loads of southern cross tatts, and the obligitory dreadlocks here and there.
Best of all was that true life babes Tegan and Sara were playing right after donovan, i met them and they were lovely, and i had an awesome view to watch the set, im missing there show here cos im on the houseboat, so it rules that i got to see them.
After they played i loaded up the truck and head back home, it is a really nice drive along the great ocean road, but id prefer not doing it in a huge truck with 50k worth of fragile music gear in the back. I should make better use of the beach house here in 2009 i think.
Im setting myself some goals and challenges for 2009, nothing really unachievable, but im looking forward to working hard to be happy, healthy and new experiances that im hoping to gain once i head off on this trip.
25 this year, well, not till august, but its a scary thought. But exciting year ahead.
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| The Bronx, The Barbie, The Boys, The Wall and missing The Don Bomb, |
[28 Dec 2008|04:44pm] |
So i work for myself as most of you know, doing design stuff freelance, but to earn extra money Ive been doing a few driving jobs for tours and shows in melb since around september i guess, Ive had the chance to drive some pretty cool bands, and some wankers, but all in all its a nice little side earner.
So a few weekends ago i got the chance to drive for one of my most favorite bands. In fact, top 3. The Bronx.
They played a show at the corner, then an afternoon show at Meredith festival, which was even better than the corner hotel show in my opinion. Here are aq bunch of photos of my time with the Bronx. when they came two years ago i felt it was one of the best shows i had ever seen, and their music reminded me a lot of a time when I lost a great person in my life, as i have posted about before, to find out through working for the band that they are actually really nice and fun guys was a big relief.
Corner Hotel soundcheck
Dressing room Meredith
Backstage at Meredith
"I see yall looking at us thinking we are looking dry and clean, but lets get one thing straight, I came here to traaaaaaashhh!!!!!" soo good
After the set they did a photoshoot for rolling stone aus. sweet background (not), was fucking hilarious to watch, genuine bunch of mates having fun.
So the following weekend was the annual Fitzy Bowl BBQ, heres a few shots from that, was awesome weather, ended up staying there till like 7.30pm from 2pm, got pretty wasted, carlson put on a dress, we all walked to the studio from there and played a bit of pool then went to the tech reunion.
Ahhh shot boys.
Ice cream makeout two years on.
The next day we had an Everfresh Xmas break up style session with a bit of a paint at a spot that maka hooked up. It was really awesome hanging out with mates from the studio, I did however miss out on seeing The Don Bomb play at the arty and he covered flame trees. Spewin but thats life. Saw Parkway that night, was awesome to see some old friends that havent changed except for the fact that their band gets 10 time sbigger everytime i see em. Ridiculous.
Did a driving job this morning which consited of getting to the airport at 7.45, picking up a van, then sleeping in said van until 10.05 when the band finally arrived, then drove em to St kilda, home by lunchtime, easy $150 for the halfday. Gotta drive for them tomorrow then tuesday to falls festival, then drop at the airport new years eve morning at 6.30am. Keeping me busy, saving those dollars for the USA.
And so yeah, i guess thats it. New years eve will be Blueline at the arty, then some house party, Im not gonna drink, im sure it will be low key, Houseboat on the 2nd! gonna be the best/worst week of all of our lives. Lord of the flies style.
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