captain awesome

Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA


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About Me
I'm Brendan and I'm awesome. I like drinking beer and offending people. I'm a professional tattooist by trade, it's the best job in the world.
Studied Graphic Design and IT before realizing that both of those things were lame and didn't suit the rockstar lifestyle that I want to live.
On weekends you can find me floating between various bars around Brisbane and the surrounding coastal areas.
Every three months or so I go on a drunken rampage to various cities around Australia, so I'll be sure to post when and where I'm travelling.
I'm a sucker for girls who have fake boobs and low self-esteem (read:strippers) so if you fit those categories, be sure to leave me a message.

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I'm so damn classy it hurts.

April 25th 2007 11:31
At some point on Saturday night, I dropped my phone into a urinal and then proceeded to try and piss it down the drain. Guys, you know when you've been holding in your pee for a long time, and you're standing there at the urinal and you try to push the urinal cake thing down the drain with your powerful urine-stream? Yeah, I did that. If you squint, my phone kind-of looks like a urinal cake.

You see, I was quite intoxicated. Partially on the superhuman amount of alcohol and miscellaneous pharmaceuticals coursing through my system, but mainly on my own sense of awesomnity (yes, that's a word, and I lay claim to it). I was enjoying several beverages with some good friends at the Townie Hotel in Sydney.

I excused myself to go and drain my bladder in the upstairs toilets. Now, when I need to take a leak at home, I will usually pee sitting down, mainly because if I try to do it standing up, I end up pissing all over myself, the walls, the pet dog, pretty much everywhere except in the bowl. Ah, the joys of retiring a large-gauge genital piercing. It's ok though, I'm allowed to sit down while peeing because I have a beard, a hairy chest, no respect for women, I'm constantly drunk, and I quite often talk like a pirate. So sitting down to pee really doesn't compromise my manhood too much. It's pretty much at superhuman levels already.

So anyway, whilst at home I choose to grace the toilet seat with my tattooed buttocks, when I'm out it's a different story. You see, when you're not in your own house, it's ok to pee on things. In fact it's not just ok, it's encouraged. Usually by me. So when I'm out, I find it's best to pee on something vaguely vertical, such as a BMW. Or failing that, the humble urinal. It was the latter of these that I found myself standing proudly in front of on this fateful Saturday evening. Now I needed to pee pretty badly. I'd just finished telling everybody one of the many adventure stories that I haven't posted on here because I'm saving it for my book. It was a long story. My bladder had become pretty damn full. So when the stream started, it was somewhat like a firehose, and almost indescribably satisfying.

For some reason I had my phone out, vaguely fumbling around with it whilst trying to keep my urine-stream pointed in a general forward direction. I can't remember exactly what I was doing with my phone. I was either trying to send a text message, or taking a picture of my weiner to harrass Gab with. Both are likely. It was at this point that time slowed down. Now, this didn't surprise me because around 15 hours prior to this, under the influence of miscellaneous pharmaceuticals, my mind spent a very brief period in the future. So time slowing down for a few seconds was nothing amazing. I did wonder for a moment though, why my brain would choose that particular moment to slow things down.

That was when I spotted my phone slipping out of my fingers, ever so slowly, and tumbling down towards the cold steel floor of the urinal. The second it hit the metal floor, it made a vague clunk, muffled only by the light coating of urine, water, soap, and whatever the hell else was in there. Time returned to normal speed. For some reason instead of frantically grasping for it, I remained calm. The stupid side of my brain must have bashed the smart side of my brain with a crowbar or something, because the first thing that I thought was "Man, I didn't need that phone anyway. Fucking stupid phone. I'm glad it's sitting in the piss-trough. I can afford a new one. Sucks to it."

So I started to pee on it. It didn't move very far because my urine-stream was beginning to subside by this point, but I managed to move it a little. When I was done, feeling very satisfied with myself, I zipped up my fly and headed back to the table to join my friends. I got aboot three mouthfuls of beer before the smart side of my brain regained consciousness (better late than never, I suppose). I had a brief wide-eyed "oh, shit, that thing's got all my phone-numbers on it!" moment and ran straight back into the toilets. Thankfully, it appeared that nobody else had been in there in those fateful few minutes, and my phone was sitting there exactly where I left it. Covered in my urine.

I think you can guess what happened next. If you guessed urinal-diving, you're a winner. To my credit, I did wrap my hands in toilet paper first, although I'm not entirely sure that helped. I took my phone apart in the sink and thoroughly rinsed and scrubbed it, taking precisely zero care to save the electronics. I was mainly concerned with not losing the sim-card which contained all my important phone numbers, without which I would be pretty much stranded. After scrubbing like crasy and almost gagging several times after realizing exactly how disgusting I am, I put the pieces of my phone back together.

Miraculously, it switched on! All the buttons down the right-hand side of the keypad didn't work, but that didn't matter. I could still scroll through numbers, which was the most important part. Dried the thing down, and put it back in my pocket. Feeling quite proud of myself, I headed straight back to the table and continued drinking. I kept that little adventure to myself though because it was quite embarrassing. And after all, I was having a good time and didn't want people to think I'm more disgusting than they already do. I apologize to anybody whose hand I shook that night. I washed it, I swear!

I will post one more Sydney anecdote in the next week or so. I was there all weekend, and spent Sunday afternoon smoking cigars lit with $20 bills. American $20 bills. No shit, I actually went to a currency exchange after I realized Australian money doesn't burn that well at all. I had my heart set on it, dammit!
Stay tuned...
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Phone tag.

April 19th 2007 01:14
When I go out drinking, I inevitably end up with a whole bunch of phone numbers in my phone, and no recollection of who these people actually are. Sometimes when I get phone numbers I have a moment of clarity as I enter the name, and add details to help me remember who that person is. A couple of examples are "Kel..wantsarmink", "Jess..hugetitsbutstupid". You get the idea.

So I met this girl on Saturday night, and I want to hook up with her, but I can't for the life of me remember her name. I distinctly remember getting her number, she gave it to me while her friends were dragging her away, classic cockblock style. She's a cool girl too, and probably a 7.5, though she'd go straight to a high 8.5 if she got fake boobs. But fucked if I can remember her name, dammit. Going through my phone doesn't help at all, there's waaaay too many numbers in there to sort through. So I decided to conduct an experiment this morning.

Sending "Hey, who's this?" is too boring and seems a little rude (for some reason, I was actually concerned aboot sounding rude, hahaha. Shut up, I was still half asleep), so I decided to send something a little more interesting. The other night I was browsing online and came across a parody of a "Racial Equality In The Workplace" pamphlet. In it, there is a large black man in a meeting, and the speech bubble above him reads, "OOGA BOOGA WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT".

Now to me, that is the absolute height of comedy. Seriously, I challenge anybody to come up with a funnier phrase. I was in hysterics when I first read it, and I can't stop saying it now. So I decided to send that brilliant phrase to all the names I didn't recognize in my phone to try and provoke interesting responses, and also to see if it provided any clues as to who they are.

I sent around 30-35 text messages, and within an hour I had recieved quite a few replies. I have no idea who these people actually are. Here are the replies, just as they appear on my phone, for your viewing pleasure. Responses to "OOGA BOOGA WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT":

Trish..shorty: Lol whose this
Stuart: U crazy cunt wats doin
Frances..bigtitp: Brendan!U never msged me u bastard lets hang out
Daniele..blonde: Hey babe wotcha upto
Emma: I dunno im surrounded by niggers
Jayme tattoo: Not here man, wanna see my bike videos?
Danielle..ttsmchee: Lollol miss u x
Emily..blueeyes: Haha ur so funny. Stl wanna hook up? xox
Rnbeyo: Dunno man but be sure to let me know when you find out
Fiona2: Lol u know im asian x
Kristyblonde: Hey when u coming bak 2 adel???xoxoxox

And the best response so far? It came from a number I didn't even have in my phone:
6140524xxxx: Stay the fuck away from my girlfriend

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I have no idea who this is or who it's referring to. Awesome.

BTW. I didn't have diarrhea, my home internet is dead at the moment. Posting from work. Classy.
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The Redneck Bar.

April 14th 2007 11:34
OK, so across the road from work there's this pub called The Queenslander. It's not just any pub, it's a fucking experience. It's the kind of place where people threaten and berate you for looking different before you've even set foot in the door. Ever seen The Blues Brothers? There's a bar in that film, you know the one I'm talking aboot - "We've got both kinds of music, Country AND Western!". The one where there's a chicken-wire fence in front of the stage to catch the broken bottles being thrown at the band. The Queenslander doesn't have the chicken-wire fence, but you get the general idea.

Now, heading down to the Queenslander is something that I'd advise against. But sometimes when you've exhausted all the alcohol in the house, and you're just at the point where you think locking yourself in the car and singing along to the radio, burning yourself with the car keys, or roaming shoeless in a construction site is a good idea, you just get that certain urge. The urge to be a complete idiot and flirt with danger, if you will.

Don't get me wrong, I've had some damn good times there. But sometimes it's only in the morning that you realize how close to death you came, and that listening to your friends once in a while can prove beneficial. My memories are foggy, but here are a couple of Queenslander anecdotes:

** I think the first time Poo and I went there, we were out looking for something vaguely female to ruin. Only problem was, even in our massively intoxicated state, there was literally NOTHING there that wouldn't make me vomit if I had the misfortune of seeing it naked. We'd spent almost all of our remaining cash and were aboot to call it a night, when she appeared. A goddess of sorts. Probrably a 6.5 under regular circumstances, but we were at The Queenslander, so she was in the lead with 9.5.

We watched her for a good few minutes to make sure she wasn't there with a boyfriend/brother combo or anything. All clear. Game on. Downed the last of my Schooner (they don't serve pints there for some reason), and went in for the approach. Can't remember exactly what line I used on her, I think it was something witty like "I hate blacks, don't you?". Something guaranteed to illicit a response. Nothing. She stood there looking at me for a good few seconds processing whatever I'd just said.

And then the gates of hell opened. The gates of hell being her GODDAMN JAWS. She started to laugh, and I swear I was witnessing hell itself. You know in the opening scene of 'Saving Private Ryan', where they land on the beach and there's blood and dead soldiers and all sorts of spent ammunition and big fucken pointy spike traps and things strewn all over the beach?? Yeah, that's what the inside of her mouth looked like. Seriously, I grew up next to Musgave Park, I've seen some nasty crack whores with better smiles than that. It sounds horrible of me, but I couldn't deal with it. I stammered something whilst backing away, grabbed Poo, and we caned it out of there.

** The first time we took Tina there was scary. I don't like taking girls there because there's a possibility they might get raped, and that shit's just not cool. So we were sitting around at a table with beers, and Tina went to make a phone call. There's shitty reception inside and it's hell-of loud, so she stepped outside for a bit. Poo and I agreed to keep an eye on her through the window, but after a few minutes we got distracted by a couple of rednecks who recognized me from the tattoo studio, who'd decided to come over and be all chummy in the hopes of getting cheap ink.

So after a while we got rid of them and realized Tina wasn't standing where she was a couple of minutes ago. I tried buzzing her phone, but it was still engaged. That's cool, she's still talking, we'll finish our beers and go see her outside. A couple of minutes later she still wasn't back, and the bar was closing up. Caned the rest of our beers and went looking outside. No Tina. Adrenaline mode kicked in, and we split up to go looking around the bake of the pub. Met up with Poo again around the front, both of us had found no sign of her. We went back inside, and were aboot to inform the security guard that our friend had gone missing, when she showed up randomly behind us, happy as ever. In hindsight it doesn't seem that worrying, but given the nature of the rest of the patrons of the pub, it was fucking terrifying for a few minutes.

** You know how there's an arsehole in every crowd that yells at the house band if they don't play requests? I was at the pub with Poo and Kaz one night, and I was in a shitty mood for whatever reason and decided it would be a good idea to be that arsehole. We yelled random crap at the band in between many many schooners until they asked the fateful "Think you can do a better job?!"

Obviously they'd never encountered me before, because of course I can do a better job. I think they were a little taken aback when I climbed onstage and asked for a guitar. I have to give credit to the band though, they were damn good sports and let me play guitar for a few covers before asking me to leave the stage. Afterwards, we all shook hands and the bass player gave me one of his drink coupons, which totally ruled. Stupidity pays off once again.

** The night after that, everybody had piked out and gone to bed except for myself and Kaz, so we went on yet another Queenslander mission. This night was karaoke night. Believe me when I say karaoke nights get goddamn rowdy, and these motherfuckers (in every sense of the word) get serious aboot their karaoke. So naturally, Kaz and I decide to completely take the piss out of all of them and just generally make fools of ourselves. There were people yelling and getting very very agitated at the both of us. I think what saved me from being beaten and Kaz from being raped was the fact that a few of our regular tattoo clients were there, and they are people that are generally not to be fucked with.

As we were stumbling home after karaoke, Kaz saw it fit to throw a TV at my head. I didn't even realize what had happened until I saw the pile of broken glass lying all around me. The strange part was that it didn't even seem like an odd occurrence until I woke up the next morning. At the time, having a TV lobbed at my skull seemed perfectly normal.

** Around a month ago, Poo and I ran out of booze and decided to go on a pub mission. Unfortunately, we'd forgotten that the bar closes at 2am. We got there at aboot 1:58am and they refused to serve us. We were nowhere near ready to call it a night, so we wandered around out the front of the pub asking all the inbreds if there was a party around that we could gatecrash. There wasn't. So we sat down and started talking drunken shit to one of the less-threatening looking randoms.

Now, since it tends to come in handy a lot, I always carry a tube of Bepanthen in my pocket. I'm not even entirely sure how it came aboot, but all of a sudden I'm squeezing it out onto the table and using my bankcard to cut it into one big sloppy line. For some reason we'd dared the non-threatening redneck to do a line of Bepanthen.
"What is this shit, anyway?"
"Relax, it's an antiseptic cream, that means it can't hurt you"*snicker*
"I don't know, I never snort nothin that I don't know what it is"
"Seriously, I guarantee this stuff is safer than anything you've snorted before"
So eventually he agrees to do it. Meanwhile, I'm chatting up his bushpig of a girlfriend/sister trying to get her to take us to a non-existant party. When I look back, non-threatening redneck is coughing and spluttering with a big yellow line of snotty bepanthen bubbling out of his nose.

Now, I think this is the funniest thing I've ever seen, so I point and laugh accordingly. Unfortunately, non-threatening redneck's brother, who we'd not yet been introduced to does not find it so funny.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO HIM? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?? IS THAT SHIT POISON?!"
Poo and I try to calm him down, but this guy was flipping out, convinced that we'd poisoned his brother. Poo and I looked at each other while this guy just got angrier and angrier. So we did the manly thing and ran the fuck away before someone pulled a knife. Then we hid in the servo for a bit and ate sausage rolls. Yup.



I apologise for the lack in frequency of updates, work has been absolutely nuts the last couple of weeks. I had sex with an asian the other night though, which was notable because I can now cross 'asian' off my list of things to do. I'll write the story to go with that soon. Next update is on Monday unless I get diarrhea or something. Enjoy.

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Convicted of murder, you say?

March 28th 2007 03:33
I know I said I'd post the rest of my Sydney story today, but I'm running a little behind. Bear with me. Instead, here's the story of last Saturday night, when I managed to drunkenly piss off two convicted murderers. Good times!

Sat 18/3


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This is the story of the time I tattooed the phrase "Will Screw For Beer" on my arm and went to Sydney.


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Allow me to introduce myself...

March 21st 2007 02:19
My name's Brendan and I'm awesome. I like drinking beer and offending people. Adrian has been kind enough to allow me to take over this blog for a while and post tales of my own intoxicated debauchery whilst he takes off in pursuit of something apparently known as "career" and "life purpose" or some such nonsense.
I probrably won't be able to post quite as often as you're used to, but if you don't like it you can lick my nuts. I'm a tattooist by trade and totally wail at guitar and other instruments. As such, I hang out in hugely different social circles to Adrian, which I think will add a nice contrast and slightly different angle to this site.
My stories might start out a little confusing because you may not know the people involved, but that's OK. You can deal with it.

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