ok, so in my last posting about rome, i was irritated. i had a lot of sad things happen, but now its better, cause it was sooooo sunny in rome that i gave myself a sun stroke and had a nasty headache. i guess i deserve it. anyways, im fine now, and have seen the roman forum, the colloseum, the fountains of trevini, (the one with the horses and water and people) its cool. and the spanish steps. plus, ive gotten so good a batering with the douchy vendors that i got an action figure, way overpriced at 8 euros, down to only sorta overpriced at 5!! how cool is that! the dude even looked sad and said " you are a good businessman" and deep down in side i laughed till my heart burst with joy. or not. anyways, im off to the vatican, and maybe again tomorrow. then paris on the 7, so wish me luck!!
-ben

a fat dooky. seriously, my flight got delayed by two hours, i had to waste a bunch of cash on a taxi, my phone is dead (which isnt so bad cept i need a clock. i guess ill go buy one....), and my camara died too. damn. oh, and its raining HARD. bummer. oh well, maybe tomorrow will be better.....

so today, i slept for 12 hours, and slowly got up to do something.  greece's islands are some of the best in the world, and one of them, aegina, is just an hour outside of port. so after a brunch of gyros (mmmmmmmmm greasy), i headed off to pireaus, the atheanian port, jumped on a ferry, and within an hour was on the mediterrainian (oops) island of Aegina. sunny, warm, but not hot, teal waters, shitty food, it was a tourists paridise. i had a great time, and wish i could go back for more island hopping. anybody up for it in the future??

so i'm in athens still, and the weather is great. i'm all sunburnt, and sweaty, but after 12 hours of sleep, i feel great. had no problems with pickpockets, but the athens skeeze is still here. the metro is nice, tho. today, i saw the original olympic stadium, as well as climed lykippos hill, which had amazing views. ate a fantastic gyro, met some chinese people, some people from so cal, and am planning on bouncing off to the museum in a moment. having a great time, but rome is gonna be way better!TTYL!
-ben

So i've found this really good internet cafe in athes, and since i booked WAAAAAAy too much time in greece, it might be worth my while to write everything that i do down. expect photos up in about two weeks btw. anyways, i got into athens around ten, athens time, and promptly went to bed. traveling is really exhausting. anyways, (i aslo got back from liverpool the night before, where i saw a ton of beatles stuff.) athens is a skeezy town. where my hostle is, i wouldn't necesssarily go to at certain times of the day, but thats how it is. today, i checked out the acropolis, and DAAAAMMNNN, that thing is huge. there is a ton to see, yet i got through most of that and the parthenon in about 4 hours. tomorrow is a 4 hour tour, and then i'll check out anything i may have missed, and friday i'm going to the close island of aegian (i think that's what it's called.) it kinda sucks being by myself, but at the same time it's realy nice, as i don't have to bother with dealing with other people. after athens, i'll go to rome on saturday, and paris five days after that. kaela, if you read this, please come to paris with me, it'll be a blast, and make it work. i'll call soon!
-ben 

So today at Starbucks, Sean, from Wilco, came in again. today he invited me backstage of the show where they would be doin a two hour performance and I would get to go to the after party. My co-workers were throwing me a going away party at the same time, and i couldn't say no to that. five people showed up, and we watched white chicks.





i hate everything so badly right now.




meanwhile, my grandma is sick




and my mom told me to not do drugs.






i still hate everything right now.






the only thing that could make this good is if Sean from the band decided to invite me to the show tomorrow, OH WAIT, IT"S ONE IN THE MORNING CAUSE THE TUBES STARTED TO SHIT ON ME. So that means that the only thing that could improve my mood is if Sean invited me to TODAY"S concert, after a nine hour 7-4 shift.




I'm done now, but i'm stilll pissed.

Yeah the band. I effing love Shepard's bush. It's a neighborhood in london, and there's a theatre that kaela works at. anyways, my starbucks is on the Sheperd's bush Green, and there's a really popular hotel for all of the bands togo to. So today Wilco came in, or at least two of the dudes. I haven't had a chance to listen to much of Wilco, but I'll check them out. anyways, you can usually tell a rock band in starbucks, cause of their hair and I can tell if they are american. also, they had touring tags on their bags, so i asked. I love working in london. anyways, this brings my total of cool meetings to 4.

1. conor oberst's manager who was a douche and wouldn't introduce me cause i didn't give him a free drink

2. AFI. This was really cool cause i got to meet davy and all of that stuff really hardcore and talk and everything.

(edit 1) I also met the lead singer of Better Than Ezra

4. Now I met members of Wilco.






I love london

From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 11:59 AM


perfect. I love it!!!!!! Can i post it in a bullitain all anonymous and stuff, but i will make a blog out of this.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 11:52 AM


[Okay I'll post it in mine too]


After she carelessly ate her grandchildren she moved on to America, she hopped on a plane anxiously awaiting her arrival , because she craved the flesh of all the morbidly obese children that america puts on their commercials and what not, she stepped off the plane and immediatly saw two little sausages she wanted to enjoy, so she gobbled them up and moved on to the next chunky little vicitm, as she crazily roamed the streets she stripped and ate all the children sTall && skinny, Short && fat, The queen didn't care jsut as long as she got the flesh of children, she then began to feel bloated and her zombie body was growing a bit tired so she decided to take a break from her rampage and take a small [and very much needed] zombie nap. As she dozed off she began to dream of all her glorious accomplishments she had made that day, as she dreamed she fell deeper and deeper in her sleep un able to wake from her lovely fantasies, She relived her grandsons deaths and Dianas vicious attack, she saw mother teresa being torn to shreds, and all those little children who never had a chance, seeing this put a smile on her zombie face and made her want to stay asleep, so there she lay in the street, Exposed for all to see her true zombie self, By this time all the Zombie slayers were looking for her of course, so it was very careless of her to just lay in the streets where anyone could find her, A scared by stander waltzed up to the zombie queen and immediatly went with his instincts, He grabbed the nearest boulder and smashed it on her face, The queens dreams came to a screeching hault, and she could no longer keep herself alive, The Queen and no one else knew the secret to killing a zombie was smashing their faces while they dreamed, So everyone cheered for the man that killed her, they were all to excited to go on living their lives they never realized the innocent by stander who "JUST SO HAPPENED" to save their lives was the strong, the lean, the amazing,
CHUCK NORRIS.


[dude I lost my touch there at the end I had to end it quick before I made it worse than it already was]




----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 11:35 AM


ok, when we're done with this i'm gonna post this in my blog.....


the skin on the zombie queen's skin begins to grow tight and painful. she's a zombie, so it doesn't really hurt. anyways, she rambles around london. in picadilly circus she scarfs down all of the asian tourist children, and in trafager square she run's by, because it's boring there.then she gets to her palace. her stupid grandsons, the prices william and harry wait to great. she's been wanting to eat them for as long as they've been alive, but the evil diana would bring smack down on anybody who would try to eat them. by the time diana's cold corpse was chillin in it's grave, the boy princes were to irritating. as she was worried that all of the children would be gone before to long, she ate her stupid grandsons. harry was fatter, so his squishy goo-goo'd grossed her out. she puked all over william, who drowned. she then ate the baby puke and william. then, in the blink of an eye, harry potter came out of nowhere. he cried "lumos!" which made a very pretty flash light, but was no stopping queen lizzies zombie flesh. harry's eyes were sucked out and then he died. she giggled when she saw him naked, (cause she can't eat clothes, duh) cause he was really an annoying little turd.....

that got dumb. see what you can do to fix things

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 11:12 AM


As the queen devoures the massive amount of children mother teresa only grows more and more angry, She tries to stay good [for the children of course] but the queen continues to test her strength my plucking the limbs of the children and slowly eating them one after the other, The sight of the childrens innocent blood dripping from the Evil Queens wrinkled old lips only infuriates Mother Teresa to her breaking point, She leaps across the yard right on top of the queen and starts to beat her senseless when along comes diana [who was feasting on single men while all this was happening] and begins to rip mother teresa to shreds, and yet again mother teresa is far to weak to keep up with the fight because her kindness was just to strong, so Diana eats mother teresa and then queen turns on Diana and rips off her CHA CHA'S and devours them one at a time, as Diana tries to get away the queen then rips off the back of her head and scarfs that down also, she doesn't stop there, she continues to rip off every limb of the zombie princess and eat it very quickly
[see she ate Diana out of anger but only the flesh of children can keep her alive] when she finishes eating Diana she goes on the hunt for more children, Also eating everything else in her path, As her zombie body stretches and stretches [due to the massive amount of flesh being consumed] the queen starts to panic,



Your turn
[I'm not sure where I went with that one?]

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 10:55 AM


then, princess diana comes back from the dead. everybody thought she was cool and nice and wonderful, but it turns out that she was the ultimate in evil. see the paparazzi were really a squad of fighters against evil, so they chased her with their evil killing cameras. anyways, she's still pissed at the queen, who is almost as evil as diana. diana's pissed, cause the queen still wanted her dead, though both are evil. so diana throws molten lava from hell and melts the queens hat boxes. now, the queen is effin livid, so she shoots old people liquid from you don't want to know where at diana's zombie face. diana uses her summoning powers to summon mother teresa, who is still really good. theresa is beatiful in death, and she always knew what diana really was, though diana didn't know. theresa, the nun, is a good zombie, and hate royaly. she summons squads of children from india to attak diana and the queen. the queen starts to eat thousands of children. which pisses off mother theresa.

back to you

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 10:43 AM


although I have no idea who these people you speak of are I shall continue this story to the best of my ability.




The queen is searching Frantically for the flesh of children, To keep her zombie body strong, because charles kept you from viciously tearing her apart, while she searches for flesh you search for her, She eats most of londons children when you catch her off guard stabbing her in the face with a spare Trident you just so happened to have tucked away in your pant leg, she shrieks with pain plummiting off of a 12 story building, Just when you think you've saved the day The queen miraculously pieces herself back together and begins her rampage yet again.....


YOUR TURN!

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 10:35 AM


Oh, my gawd. I can't believe what you just said. that makes me so insanely happy, cause that is just the sort of thing i wish more people would say. in this spirit, i'm going to continue the story of the zombie queen



so she would eat fetui and toddler skin. plus, she's an anchor to the britsh economy, with her hats and all. anyways, charles, who is the latest in occult fashions, decides that he wants to protect her from me. I will throw a rock at his stupid head, which will make him bleed. camlila will go crazy at the sight of his blood, cause it remines her of the time blood came out of her nose. She screams "no diana no!!!!" then her evil head will explode. charles will turn into a crazed vampire, and i'll chop off his head, which freazes people like medusa.

end of part one (now it's your turn)

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 9:57 AM


yeah then you could have the priviledge of stabbing her in the head && be all of londons hero, because the queen craves fetus flesh and toddler skin, the londoners won't be so fond of her when she's climbing through windows to feed on their only children....


you have the chance to be a household name
[keep some stakes close by just in case she drops before the scheduled date]

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 09:54 AM


that would pretty cool. then i could see her rotting corpse walk around london. cause she'll be a zombie

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 9:49 AM



I honestly did...
I told like three people and they were like UHH I'M NOT SURE YOUR RIGHT ABOUT THAT?


I was pretty sure of myself till I got shutdown by my aunt.


maybe I was seeing into the furture.
she will die may 20th.


you watch and see.
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 09:44 AM


Ha ha, oh man *wipes tear from eye* "kia thought the queen was dead!" *glee* well, she should die pretty soon, so maybe it'll be in 'merica?

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 7, 2007 9:18 AM


ha ha shows how much I know I thought she died...
[my aunt recently informed me she was IN america not they brought her body here cuz she dropped dead?]




----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 07 May 2007, 09:12 AM


many londoners are very rude. it would be good if they pooped themselves. especially the queen. she's a brat. btw, i hear she's making quite the scene in america. there you go, always stealing the spotlight

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Karate Kiah [GangsterxCore]
Date: May 6, 2007 8:29 PM


ahh as I would do the same...


i'd feel just awful if some londoner pooped themselves simply because I didn't let them use my FREE facilities.


[although I'd get a good laugh at a londoner who has pooped themselves]

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: bEn
Date: 06 May 2007, 03:10 PM


sometime desperate londoners have to go poo, but they don't want to pay for the public toilets. i let them poo in our toilet, and then they are sooper pooper happy.

so yeah, today I met AFI in Starbucks today!!!!!!! It went like this:

So I was taking orders and handing off drinks when this girl in pink hair comes up. with her is this dude with crazy hais and a pink and baby blue jacket, and this other dude. I was talking to them about their drinks (davie likes digestives and innocent smoothies) and then I asked them where they were from, cause I didn't realize it was him, though I suspected. Davie said Oakland California, and I said, "oh, I'm from Santa Rosa." He then got surprised and said, "well, actually, I'm from Ukiah." then, I knew..... I didn't want to freak out or anything, so I said "oh, my dad is from Ukiah" then davie asked me questions about my dad, my name, then I got the nerve to ask who they were.....AFI. I freaked out a little bit, but then they went on to get there drinks, and they chilled for bout an hour. after a shit load of customers, I was finally able to get a chance to talk to them again. I asked about their tour (davie hates Paris) and their concert tonite. Then I shoke their hands and they introduced themselves to me formaly. Kat (or something) was the girl, Davie introduced himself (as if he had too) and then andy introduced himself. after wards, i said bye and thanks for comeing, and they were all very chill and happy. It was so insanely awesome!!

so anyway, yesterday i went to a concert with violet, a girl on the trip with us. it was I'm from barcelona, an insanly happy band from sweden. it was sooooo good. we had to sit through some realy aweful euro-trash rock bands, but the people are pretty chill. anyway, when the headliner band started to play people got so crazy happy. the band has like 29 members, but ther was only 17 that night, but it was the last day of the tour , so they were all very excited.  they all got into the crowd, jumped around, and i had the mike put in my face, then i forgot the words, then the lead singer looked at me blankly. it was great. oh, and the whole band is so ridiculously swedish, from the way they look to the stilted english and odd jokes. AWESOM-O! i got photos of me with band members, and they all hug so nice. swedish people rock! today, i had work, and a dude came into teh 'bux, and he was american, so i just asked him where he's from. he said he was from LA, but originally from new orleans. Turns out, he is the freakin lead singer for Better Than Ezra. I've never really listened to them, but it was really sweet to meet him. freakin a, b, c, and d-list celebrities come out of the woodwork all of the time here in london. if you know anything bout them or know them, tell me. also, to all of my happy starbux0rs from roh-town, they want me to be a part of an elite training squad to teach these damn euro-trash how to do a drive thru. 2 weeks of paid housing? heck yes!!!!
-ben