howie’s halfpipe

It didn’t rain!

As usually blackstump was quite the awesome. Although there were a few strange occurrences that i have the pleasure of sharing with you.

On the friday afternoon i travelled down to stump with tom and some others from belrose, which was nice. It was good to be back at stump, i was volunteering at the TEAR cafe for a fair bit of stump, which is good because i got a free ticket and i got to help TEAr but dodgy cause i had the graveyard shift to nights in a row after a week and a half in tasmania getting little sleep at the conference.
Anyway i was walking back from the cafe to my tent at about 1:30am and as i was walking down the road there was a boy standing ahead of me. a bunch of girls were walking kind of close to me towards the boy and he said to one of them “you have a very nice chest” the girls kept walking and and muttered a few offensives. Quite a pick up line if i didnt have a lady i might try it. Actually no i wouldnt really.

Then after a short sleep. i woke and went to have a shower. whilst in the shower there was some boys in showers opposite me and they where loud and laughing at each other. One of them was telling the others to look into the drain becasue he was pooing into the drain from the shower. Bit gross really. Then a little while after this one of them shouted that his towel had been stolen then so did the others and low and behold so had mine. Eventually it was found by a nice fella who got it out of the sink that was further down the bathroom.

My other poo story was that this morning i went to drop the kids off at the pool and my traditional cubical was too gross to to use so i was on the prowel for another toilet to park my date over. Most of them had floaters or wee everywhere, quite gross and then there was one, it was a white seated toilet that had a brown collage of artistic fecal media smeared across the seat. How do you get poo on the seat if you are sitting on it.
I eventually went and found a reasonable cubical to do my business then headed for the shower only to find that the first shower i walked into had a poo sitting on the floor in the middle of it.
i moved to a different shower.

I know so far my documenting of stump hasnt been all that uplifting but i had an aswomse time, good music, good friends, good atmosphere and good community. Although i did stumble in a moment of weakness and agree to helping my work do some festival stuff.

All in all stump 05 rocked.