So here I am in Perth after a week. I have seen a lot of things but I know there is plenty more to see. In this entry I will discuss some people I met over the time here and some of the things I did. I went to the bar round the corner on Sunday. We talked through the rather timid heat compared to the days previous. What is great about Australia, is the randomness of it all. Because the country is relatively young and with western influences being the most dominant, being being much closer to asia... you never quite know what you're going to discover round the bend. So first thing first I finally was about to see an RX-7 FD in real life, it was black and had a body kit but I was so impressed I stopped on the pavement and went, hell yeah (come to think of it I did see a blue one in Cyprus but meh). So we kept walking and outside the bar, on the other side of the road, was a Lancia Stratos. Now, surprise is the limited word for what I felt. I could not have predicted that I would have seen this car there... I might have expected so many other random things but not this... so I was quite surprised. I won't bore you with all the details of how I felt, but you should understand.
Inside the pub we order two pints... and there is a good reason they get more orders for half pints here... the change we got from a twenty was one dollar.... argh! So, as I tried not to think about, and also tried to imagine that this was the nicest beer I'd ever tasted, I started talking to the lad from Liverpool. He is here backpacking and had done some welding work... but mostly he was saying about how much he wanted out... to go back home and see his family. We talked about Formula one and football, and about how he was going to Melbourne next year to catch the first race here before heading home (me = jelly). We guessed the barmaid's nationality and got it wrong.
I met a guy staying in my room called Matt, we went to Julia Ross (rossjuliaross) and got some paper work for a job. In order to get to the reception you need to walk into the door and get into a lift... this was a new experience and was very odd. When we got out we approached an interesting looking girl who had a very white fake face (those words ←). She had a 60s line trim black hair and too much black eye stuff (it was just very black) anyway she was no help, but the man loitering in the corridor came in and introduced himself. Now I don't know if you've ever played the game Modern Warfare 2 but on the campaign, imagine this with me, there is a bit when you walk into Moscow airport... anyway to cut a story short this guy standing in front of us was no other than Macarof. If not him, then a super villain nonetheless. This guy... well anway it was hard not to see him as a scary individual, but we talked and he handed us some paper work and asked us questions about working for an agency and signing your life away, ok it wasn't that bad but with this guy I dared to imagine.
We left and walked around town. We visited some comic shops and I found the amateur section where you can sell your own work (so it was true....) and things to be looking really good. Later this week I visited the other shops and oh my god some of the things in there are awesome. Anime can be soooo cute, but hey... I remembered I had no money so I stayed my hand but oh deer because I really wanted to buy some things (so things for me, some things for friends, some things for Lucy and some things for Lucy and I) :I We also saw something interesting in another comic store, it was called 'the big book of pussy' and on the front was a picture of a woman's private area (luckily the front cover had pants on it), things to note... the book was big and thick (worried) oh and before you're wondering too much all the books in that shop have covers around them. We went down to the water front (this was not the beach) and we watched some interesting people do some odd things like playing football with a floater, while tied to another person by the leg :/ We found a drinking fountain and talked about girls and shit then headed back.
Other people I met. I went to Quality Comics and was able to meet Emily Smith who is someone who wrote a comic that I read on Saturday. She told me it was an old thing and that he mostly does western style (which made it seem as though manga can be drawn at short notice whenever she feels like it). We is like twenty something (so older than me) and she told me that she isn't the best in Perth (I didn't bring this up) but it reminded me of that Simpsons episode when Homer tried to be an inventor and goes to Thomas Edison's museum and seeing that he was just trying to compete with someone else. So she was talking about how she completed her work but I really needed to know more like see it done... but hey. Well I got an email so we'll have to see what I can learn. She was telling me about the scene here in Perth and how there is a lot of it. There are a lot of groups for drawing and art work and a convention soon to show it all off.
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