I was going to see my grandparents today in Gran Canaria, although my ship docked in Lanzaroté. Turns out it's a bitch trying to commute between the canary islands. So I can't get my presents... I'll just be the grinch for this christmas, I guess. I'll make everybody's christmas as bad as mine! Mwahahahahaha! Just kidding.
I was really looking forward to seeing what my family had given me for christmas and my birthday, though, but I'm o.k. I'll just start wearing in the new clothes I bought today... a T-shirt from Jack & Jones and a shirt from Zara. I ordered the queer-eye makeover... Looks like I'm getting the deluxe package... hehehe.
Anygay... I mean anyWAY...
Over and out,
Ellert.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Hahaha!
Yeahhhh!
I'm watching the port of Barcelona fade away into the sunset right now and it's friggin' awesome. I bought a F.C. Barcelona uniform today (number 7, of course). About that last post... I still absolutely mean it, though there are always exceptions to pretty much every rule.
This cruise will be interesting. We just got a new bass player, who seems like a decent guy... well anything slightly better than the last one would be a god-send. And we will be crossing the Atlantic ocean on this cruise... i.e. 5 days back-to-back at sea. :-/ not too excited about that. But I AM excited about where we're going. CARIBBEAN, BABY!!!! Fuck yeah! I'm going to be spending my christmas holiday in a place that knows no frost. Mwahahaha!
Also, on this cruise are 93 Puerto Ricans and they brought their own salsa band, and I'm going to jam with them as much as I can. In fact, I'm going to see if they'll let me jam with them tonight.
I'm going to see my grandparents on either the 11th or 12th of december. They have my christmas presents! YAYYYY! Merry christmas to me. They're also bringing me some dry fish (harðfiskur), which I can't wait to eat.
That's all, you slags.
Ellert.
I'm watching the port of Barcelona fade away into the sunset right now and it's friggin' awesome. I bought a F.C. Barcelona uniform today (number 7, of course). About that last post... I still absolutely mean it, though there are always exceptions to pretty much every rule.
This cruise will be interesting. We just got a new bass player, who seems like a decent guy... well anything slightly better than the last one would be a god-send. And we will be crossing the Atlantic ocean on this cruise... i.e. 5 days back-to-back at sea. :-/ not too excited about that. But I AM excited about where we're going. CARIBBEAN, BABY!!!! Fuck yeah! I'm going to be spending my christmas holiday in a place that knows no frost. Mwahahaha!
Also, on this cruise are 93 Puerto Ricans and they brought their own salsa band, and I'm going to jam with them as much as I can. In fact, I'm going to see if they'll let me jam with them tonight.
I'm going to see my grandparents on either the 11th or 12th of december. They have my christmas presents! YAYYYY! Merry christmas to me. They're also bringing me some dry fish (harðfiskur), which I can't wait to eat.
That's all, you slags.
Ellert.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Women!
I would like to declare that I think all women* are idiots.
Later,
Ellert.
*this excludes my relatives and the ever lovely, fantastic, awesome, sweet and beautiful Sigrún Ása Magnúsdóttir.
Later,
Ellert.
*this excludes my relatives and the ever lovely, fantastic, awesome, sweet and beautiful Sigrún Ása Magnúsdóttir.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Newsflash!!!
I just got some even better news. I will get 9 more days on vacation back home. To qoute Þorvaldur "that's 18 extra parties for me"... hehe. I'm looking forward to going to the Carribean because it's getting a bit cold here... well... I suppose it's all relative because it's probably ball-freezingly cold back home right now, huh?
I've started writing some music with one of the singers from the cast. He's awesome at making up catchy melodies, and I think we might be on to something good, but we'll see.
So where's my first party gonna be? Who's got the best offer for me?
Ciao,
Ellert.
I've started writing some music with one of the singers from the cast. He's awesome at making up catchy melodies, and I think we might be on to something good, but we'll see.
So where's my first party gonna be? Who's got the best offer for me?
Ciao,
Ellert.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Egypt!!!
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
So now I've seen the pyramids and the sphinx!! FUCK YEAH!!! Egypt has got to be the coolest, and the scariest place I've ever been to. The pyramids are amazing but there was something that made the experience less fun than it could have been. There are about 100 guys trying to sell you postcards, memorabilia or a camel ride. They are so aggressive, and they DO NOT STOP FOLLOWING YOU... EVER!!!
The only thing to do is ignore them. Talking Icelandic only backfired on me. It gave them an excuse to use a hands-on approach to try and sell you whatever they had to offer.
I'm going to buy a suit next time we're in Istanbul. I'm going with my production manager, and he got a suit from there last time for $70!!! That's nothing. So I'm gonna get a tailored suit for probably around a $100. How awesome is that... and my current suit hasn't been cleaned in 4 months, and I've worn it almost every single night since I got on the ship without cleaning it because it usually takes two or three days to clean it on the ship. Gross, huh?
That's it for now,
Ellert!
So now I've seen the pyramids and the sphinx!! FUCK YEAH!!! Egypt has got to be the coolest, and the scariest place I've ever been to. The pyramids are amazing but there was something that made the experience less fun than it could have been. There are about 100 guys trying to sell you postcards, memorabilia or a camel ride. They are so aggressive, and they DO NOT STOP FOLLOWING YOU... EVER!!!
The only thing to do is ignore them. Talking Icelandic only backfired on me. It gave them an excuse to use a hands-on approach to try and sell you whatever they had to offer.
I'm going to buy a suit next time we're in Istanbul. I'm going with my production manager, and he got a suit from there last time for $70!!! That's nothing. So I'm gonna get a tailored suit for probably around a $100. How awesome is that... and my current suit hasn't been cleaned in 4 months, and I've worn it almost every single night since I got on the ship without cleaning it because it usually takes two or three days to clean it on the ship. Gross, huh?
That's it for now,
Ellert!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Yo!!!
I just got some awesome news. I got offered a job on the Celebrity Mercury. I will be sailing in Australia and then Hawaii, Alaska and then all along the west coast of north america. Woohooooo!!!! It's such good news. I will most likely start on february 8th. That means I'll only be home for 3 weeks... so you better make the most of it, people!!!! I want parties!!!!
Gimme some lovin',
Ellert!
Gimme some lovin',
Ellert!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum!!!
Hey y'all!
I attended a halloween party last night. My costume was quite a hit. You can see pictures on my photo site later today or tomorrow if you want. Some of the costumes were... well... provocative. One of the dance girls was dressed up as Malibu barbie and she was wearing the world's smallest skirt and the girl that does the solo gymnast acts on board was dressed up as a nurse... need I say more. I was going to go as a pimp and I had even found a purple leather jacket with a fur neck, but it turns out that Ukrainians don't know the difference between 100 grivna (20 USD) and 1000 grivna (200 USD). So, unfortunately I didn't buy that. Instead I bought a mask, a shirt and a tie so nobody could recognize the clothes I was wearing and it worked like a charm.
We played with a xylophone player two days ago... oh, dear. He had a backing track which we had to follow, and guess what he used as the metronome sound..... A xylophone... so every time he was playing the same notes as the metronome we lost the click track... and what I found out after the shows is that it's not even a programmed click track. Appearantly he just recorded himself playing the xylophone as a click and that was it. So you can imagine how difficult it was to speed up and slow down when the tempo was supposed to be steady.
We're playing what is appearantly a very difficult show tonight. It's a piano player called Elliot Finkel. You might know his father, Fyvush Finkel, from a TV show called Boston public. His brother is also a piano player and his show is appearantly even more difficult. But have rehearsal in about 90 minutes from now so I'll find out just how difficult his charts really are.
We're going to Egypt and Cyprus for the next cruise which starts in about a week. I'm really excited about it. There's even an organized tour for the crew to go see the pyramids and the sphinx and all that jazz.
Over and out,
Ellert.
I attended a halloween party last night. My costume was quite a hit. You can see pictures on my photo site later today or tomorrow if you want. Some of the costumes were... well... provocative. One of the dance girls was dressed up as Malibu barbie and she was wearing the world's smallest skirt and the girl that does the solo gymnast acts on board was dressed up as a nurse... need I say more. I was going to go as a pimp and I had even found a purple leather jacket with a fur neck, but it turns out that Ukrainians don't know the difference between 100 grivna (20 USD) and 1000 grivna (200 USD). So, unfortunately I didn't buy that. Instead I bought a mask, a shirt and a tie so nobody could recognize the clothes I was wearing and it worked like a charm.
We played with a xylophone player two days ago... oh, dear. He had a backing track which we had to follow, and guess what he used as the metronome sound..... A xylophone... so every time he was playing the same notes as the metronome we lost the click track... and what I found out after the shows is that it's not even a programmed click track. Appearantly he just recorded himself playing the xylophone as a click and that was it. So you can imagine how difficult it was to speed up and slow down when the tempo was supposed to be steady.
We're playing what is appearantly a very difficult show tonight. It's a piano player called Elliot Finkel. You might know his father, Fyvush Finkel, from a TV show called Boston public. His brother is also a piano player and his show is appearantly even more difficult. But have rehearsal in about 90 minutes from now so I'll find out just how difficult his charts really are.
We're going to Egypt and Cyprus for the next cruise which starts in about a week. I'm really excited about it. There's even an organized tour for the crew to go see the pyramids and the sphinx and all that jazz.
Over and out,
Ellert.
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