triple j Hottest 100
I voted for my top 10 songs of 2007.
Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races
Bumblebeez - Dr Love
Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
M.I.A - Paper Planes
Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda
Midnight Juggernauts - Road To Recovery
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb
Panics, The - Don't Fight It
Samim - Heater
Soko - I'll Kill Her
These lists annoy me though because I just know there are songs I liked more than some of these but I don't remember the names of them or need my memory jogged. Anyway this is the best of what I can remember without hearing them.
Who did you vote for?
Saturday, 5 January 2008
Pics!
I have been going crazy taking pictures-but I've been seeing so much already!
Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame. Was closed today so it goes without saying there was no soup for me.
Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon.
(some of) Central Park south
More Times Sq
I love this...it's right outside the IRS building. I watched it go up a couple of hundred dollars in about 15 seconds.
Great....the stupid fucking mouse on this computer has stopped working.
Will have to finish this later.
*ok back to it!*
View from Top of the Rock. Spectacular...utterly breathtaking.
Christmas Tree and Rockefeller Center
One last pic of Times Sq, around W 45th St and 7th Ave, looking north.
It's just such a photogenic place!
It's raining and 40F, which makes it feel more like spring than close to the middle of winter...tomorrow I think I might take the subway down to the ferry and take a trip past the Statue of Liberty. I hope the weather clears up for it.
Take care and keep your fingers crossed for me getting my VISA, and now my travel insurance. Stupid Covermore being tightwads. LISHA ANGRY, LISHA SMASH!!!
xxx lisha
Soup Nazi of Seinfeld fame. Was closed today so it goes without saying there was no soup for me.
Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon.
(some of) Central Park south
More Times Sq
I love this...it's right outside the IRS building. I watched it go up a couple of hundred dollars in about 15 seconds.
Great....the stupid fucking mouse on this computer has stopped working.
Will have to finish this later.
*ok back to it!*
View from Top of the Rock. Spectacular...utterly breathtaking.
Christmas Tree and Rockefeller Center
One last pic of Times Sq, around W 45th St and 7th Ave, looking north.
It's just such a photogenic place!
It's raining and 40F, which makes it feel more like spring than close to the middle of winter...tomorrow I think I might take the subway down to the ferry and take a trip past the Statue of Liberty. I hope the weather clears up for it.
Take care and keep your fingers crossed for me getting my VISA, and now my travel insurance. Stupid Covermore being tightwads. LISHA ANGRY, LISHA SMASH!!!
xxx lisha
Thursday, 3 January 2008
HOLY CRAP NEW YORK NEW YORK
Sorry for shouting but....HOLY CRAP!!!
I've only walked a short way around Broadway and Times Square but hot damn is New York busy and jam packed with stuff. I already enjoy being able to walk fast and dart through the traffic. Anchorage has no traffic to speak of and it's not a wise move to run across the road between the cars because a) you'll slip on the ice and b) they all drive 4x4s up there so chances are they won't stop and they'll run you over.
Times Square is nuts. Completely nuts. I think I'm culture shocked. Alaska was so sleepy and comfy, here it's like...nothing else I've ever seen before.
Leaving Anchorage wasn't as heart-wrenching as I thought it would be. Mercifully I was kept distracted right up until I got out at the airport so I didn't have time to sit and stew about it. I am so grateful I met the people I did there, they made my time in Alaska worthwhile. I wish I could say more but...you never know who reads these things! Last thing I need is to get somebody in trouble or start off more gossip or anything like that. Anyway, I do hope I get to go back to work there...it would be very fun I think. I got to take photos with the friends I made there though which was good, but the bad part is the computer I'm on won't take my canon so I only have one pic of me and a friend (Aaron). We had a 'normal' photo before this but he thought he had a gut in it so we mucked around in this one.
Times Square! Seriously like, 50m from the hostel.
Hersheys Building
Oh oh red eye! I'm in front of the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza. It was freezing.
I don't know what building this is but it's damn tall. The Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree is right in the bottom of the pic (NYC equivalent to the Martin Place tree in Sydney, I guess).
Tomorrow I've got a tour, and then need to go to the consulate/embassy to work out my passport and VISA. There are flights to Dublin for $230 if I can only get an EU VISA. Also want to try and get some cheap theatre tickets (there is a way) because there are so many shows around here...Spamalot, Avenue Q, Chicago, Phantom, one with Bob Saget, Mary Poppins, etc etc. Tomorrow night I will walk around again with my canon (and try not to get rolled for it) and get some good quality pics of Times Square, Broadway and Rockefeller Plaza.
Right now I'm in the common room with 2 other Aussies and a kiwi. Ergh. I didn't go halfway around the world to hear strine and kiwi talk. Maybe it's just the impression I get but all the Aus/NZ travellers I meet are pretentious wankers. I'm the exception, of course! haha
I think that's about all I had to talk about for now...New York is so overwhelming. It really is a city for couples I think.
Oops 50seconds left!
Gotta goooooooo
I've only walked a short way around Broadway and Times Square but hot damn is New York busy and jam packed with stuff. I already enjoy being able to walk fast and dart through the traffic. Anchorage has no traffic to speak of and it's not a wise move to run across the road between the cars because a) you'll slip on the ice and b) they all drive 4x4s up there so chances are they won't stop and they'll run you over.
Times Square is nuts. Completely nuts. I think I'm culture shocked. Alaska was so sleepy and comfy, here it's like...nothing else I've ever seen before.
Leaving Anchorage wasn't as heart-wrenching as I thought it would be. Mercifully I was kept distracted right up until I got out at the airport so I didn't have time to sit and stew about it. I am so grateful I met the people I did there, they made my time in Alaska worthwhile. I wish I could say more but...you never know who reads these things! Last thing I need is to get somebody in trouble or start off more gossip or anything like that. Anyway, I do hope I get to go back to work there...it would be very fun I think. I got to take photos with the friends I made there though which was good, but the bad part is the computer I'm on won't take my canon so I only have one pic of me and a friend (Aaron). We had a 'normal' photo before this but he thought he had a gut in it so we mucked around in this one.
Times Square! Seriously like, 50m from the hostel.
Hersheys Building
Oh oh red eye! I'm in front of the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza. It was freezing.
I don't know what building this is but it's damn tall. The Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree is right in the bottom of the pic (NYC equivalent to the Martin Place tree in Sydney, I guess).
Tomorrow I've got a tour, and then need to go to the consulate/embassy to work out my passport and VISA. There are flights to Dublin for $230 if I can only get an EU VISA. Also want to try and get some cheap theatre tickets (there is a way) because there are so many shows around here...Spamalot, Avenue Q, Chicago, Phantom, one with Bob Saget, Mary Poppins, etc etc. Tomorrow night I will walk around again with my canon (and try not to get rolled for it) and get some good quality pics of Times Square, Broadway and Rockefeller Plaza.
Right now I'm in the common room with 2 other Aussies and a kiwi. Ergh. I didn't go halfway around the world to hear strine and kiwi talk. Maybe it's just the impression I get but all the Aus/NZ travellers I meet are pretentious wankers. I'm the exception, of course! haha
I think that's about all I had to talk about for now...New York is so overwhelming. It really is a city for couples I think.
Oops 50seconds left!
Gotta goooooooo
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
hmmmm
I found out why people always know when I am sleeping hahahahaha
Leaving Anchorage today. So long, farewell, good bye, sayonara.
I want to come back here definately. But I want to come back here for the right reasons. The reason I loved it here so much was not because there was alot to do here, or anything like that (I mean come on, it's winter!) but because of the people I met. Of course *some* more than the others-but you know what-that is NOT the way to travel. People lie and they aren't always the people you think they are.
So coming back here to work will be the right thing to do I think. Focus on making money and seeing the land. Because the land is always beautiful and it doesn't keep secrets (but if it does they are ones you are glad to find out!) and generally it won't muck you around.
Sorry this is sounding a bit misanthropic but I've just been a bit cynical in the last few days.
Excited to go to New York now. It's not breaking my heart to leave here anymore. I'm ready to move on (run away?) and see what else there is to see. Bring my focus back on track-which is seeing America. Going to go to Montauk and try and get a weekend to Washington, DC. Seeing Allison and her family will be the highlight, as will be going to Niagara Falls. It's all looking up again. I have to be optimistic.
Another good thing about going to NYC will be the myriad of photo opportunities there will be. I've been so lazy lately just because there hasn't really been anything new to take photos of! But that will all change.
How was my NYE, you ask?
Well, in a nutshell it was boring. But I suppose it was better than last years?
Went out for drinks with some people from the hostel and we nicked an Alaska Aces pint glass, then I went with one of the guys to the Bush Company (a strip club) and saw a very lame 'Grease' theme show (like the movie Grease) and then went back to the hostel. Lame. I hope everyone else had a better time than I did. I got to see the youtube of the Sydney fireworks though which looked spectacular!!! (As always)
Wish me luck in getting a replacement passport and getting a VISA when I get to New York. Have a feeling I will need to go to Canada to get my VISA though. I've been told I can get a job in Dublin if I go there (connections from one of the staff at the hostel), which if he is being serious, would be pretty awesome. 2008 is here and the world is my oyster. What I will do with the opportunities in front of me and where I will take myself is a mystery right now. Isn't it exciting having the whole world in front of you and endless choices about where you can go and what you can do?
Everything happens for a reason, and I hope in 2008 I accept the things that happen and understand the reasons behind them. I think I'm off to a good start so far!
Next entry will be from New York City. Hopefully I will have lots of new pics, too :-)
Take care my Australian friends-enjoy the nice beach weather you guys are having.
xxx leash
Leaving Anchorage today. So long, farewell, good bye, sayonara.
I want to come back here definately. But I want to come back here for the right reasons. The reason I loved it here so much was not because there was alot to do here, or anything like that (I mean come on, it's winter!) but because of the people I met. Of course *some* more than the others-but you know what-that is NOT the way to travel. People lie and they aren't always the people you think they are.
So coming back here to work will be the right thing to do I think. Focus on making money and seeing the land. Because the land is always beautiful and it doesn't keep secrets (but if it does they are ones you are glad to find out!) and generally it won't muck you around.
Sorry this is sounding a bit misanthropic but I've just been a bit cynical in the last few days.
Excited to go to New York now. It's not breaking my heart to leave here anymore. I'm ready to move on (run away?) and see what else there is to see. Bring my focus back on track-which is seeing America. Going to go to Montauk and try and get a weekend to Washington, DC. Seeing Allison and her family will be the highlight, as will be going to Niagara Falls. It's all looking up again. I have to be optimistic.
Another good thing about going to NYC will be the myriad of photo opportunities there will be. I've been so lazy lately just because there hasn't really been anything new to take photos of! But that will all change.
How was my NYE, you ask?
Well, in a nutshell it was boring. But I suppose it was better than last years?
Went out for drinks with some people from the hostel and we nicked an Alaska Aces pint glass, then I went with one of the guys to the Bush Company (a strip club) and saw a very lame 'Grease' theme show (like the movie Grease) and then went back to the hostel. Lame. I hope everyone else had a better time than I did. I got to see the youtube of the Sydney fireworks though which looked spectacular!!! (As always)
Wish me luck in getting a replacement passport and getting a VISA when I get to New York. Have a feeling I will need to go to Canada to get my VISA though. I've been told I can get a job in Dublin if I go there (connections from one of the staff at the hostel), which if he is being serious, would be pretty awesome. 2008 is here and the world is my oyster. What I will do with the opportunities in front of me and where I will take myself is a mystery right now. Isn't it exciting having the whole world in front of you and endless choices about where you can go and what you can do?
Everything happens for a reason, and I hope in 2008 I accept the things that happen and understand the reasons behind them. I think I'm off to a good start so far!
Next entry will be from New York City. Hopefully I will have lots of new pics, too :-)
Take care my Australian friends-enjoy the nice beach weather you guys are having.
xxx leash
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Pics!!!
Got some more pics-yayayaya and a cheeky video clip or two, as well.
Heading out of Anchorage in a few days. Seriously it's going to break my heart to leave here. I really hope I can get a visa in New York so I can come back...I just know that if I go back to Australia I will fall back into a life of mediocrity and get a (crappy) job and probably go back to uni and get stuck back there. Plus it costs a bomb to get over here from Aus (and takes ages) so if I can just stay here then I would much rather do that. The Fur Rondy is on in February, there are ice sculpture contests/displays in March-plus the start of the Iditarod...then it goes to spring and all the snow melt and the flowers come back out. Jobs galore, too. Ones that pay fairly well, too.
It's making my upset just thinking about leaving all this.
Anyway enough of the emo-check out these:
First off the bat is a video from the hockey game I went to the other night. I was a bit too slow to catch the start of the brawl but I did the best I could.
Yay dogmushing! This was so much fun-the dogs love to run and it's pretty awesome being in the sled (and driving the sled, too, which I got to do!).
Look at his eyes!
Frozen car! Just down the road from my hostel in Anchorage.
Downtown Anchorage at 'night' (more like 5pm?)
View of Fairbanks
It was a warm day this day:
Arctic Circle:
Under the trans-alaska pipeline
Tundra (I guess). I love how vast areas in the country have no people in them...
Except for me!
Nothing but whiteness...
My camera battery just died so that will have to do for now...
Happy New Year, my antipodean friends!!!
It's a long-running 'in' joke that you come to Alaska if you are running away from something. Perhaps I am running away from my life back home...afterall, why even think about coming to Alaska? Subconsciously I bet it was because I knew it's far away and people go there to get lost. If you want to be really mushy about it I suppose you could say they also go to find themselves...
Heading out of Anchorage in a few days. Seriously it's going to break my heart to leave here. I really hope I can get a visa in New York so I can come back...I just know that if I go back to Australia I will fall back into a life of mediocrity and get a (crappy) job and probably go back to uni and get stuck back there. Plus it costs a bomb to get over here from Aus (and takes ages) so if I can just stay here then I would much rather do that. The Fur Rondy is on in February, there are ice sculpture contests/displays in March-plus the start of the Iditarod...then it goes to spring and all the snow melt and the flowers come back out. Jobs galore, too. Ones that pay fairly well, too.
It's making my upset just thinking about leaving all this.
Anyway enough of the emo-check out these:
First off the bat is a video from the hockey game I went to the other night. I was a bit too slow to catch the start of the brawl but I did the best I could.
Yay dogmushing! This was so much fun-the dogs love to run and it's pretty awesome being in the sled (and driving the sled, too, which I got to do!).
Look at his eyes!
Frozen car! Just down the road from my hostel in Anchorage.
Downtown Anchorage at 'night' (more like 5pm?)
View of Fairbanks
It was a warm day this day:
Arctic Circle:
Under the trans-alaska pipeline
Tundra (I guess). I love how vast areas in the country have no people in them...
Except for me!
Nothing but whiteness...
My camera battery just died so that will have to do for now...
Happy New Year, my antipodean friends!!!
It's a long-running 'in' joke that you come to Alaska if you are running away from something. Perhaps I am running away from my life back home...afterall, why even think about coming to Alaska? Subconsciously I bet it was because I knew it's far away and people go there to get lost. If you want to be really mushy about it I suppose you could say they also go to find themselves...
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