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.
Friday, November 23, 2007
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.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Newsflash!
Hahahaha.....
I broke up with Erin. She cheated on me with her ex. OMG. The irony. Anyway, she wants to still be friends. I say fuck that, I got plenty already. I'll find myself a prettier girl and hook up with her. I'm not an emotional wreck or anything, far from it actually. I've been working out a lot and keeping myself busy with various things. I actually find it amazing how little it bothers me that we broke up. To be fair, we only dated for 3 weeks. But the main thing is, I'm fine and in a better mood than I've been in for a long time.
What else?.... hmmm.... let me think...
Oh yeah!
We played a prank on our band leader yesterday. We were playing Mark Donoghue's show and he just happened to own a fart machine and we decided to place it underneath the band leader's chair. The look on his face when the farts started was priceless. It's the simple things that are the funniest, right?
The night before we played a show with a comedian called Scott Record. He's one of the funniest people I've ever seen or heard. He'll be on the David Letterman show pretty soon. Keep an eye out.
Well that's it for now.
Over and out,
Ellert.
I broke up with Erin. She cheated on me with her ex. OMG. The irony. Anyway, she wants to still be friends. I say fuck that, I got plenty already. I'll find myself a prettier girl and hook up with her. I'm not an emotional wreck or anything, far from it actually. I've been working out a lot and keeping myself busy with various things. I actually find it amazing how little it bothers me that we broke up. To be fair, we only dated for 3 weeks. But the main thing is, I'm fine and in a better mood than I've been in for a long time.
What else?.... hmmm.... let me think...
Oh yeah!
We played a prank on our band leader yesterday. We were playing Mark Donoghue's show and he just happened to own a fart machine and we decided to place it underneath the band leader's chair. The look on his face when the farts started was priceless. It's the simple things that are the funniest, right?
The night before we played a show with a comedian called Scott Record. He's one of the funniest people I've ever seen or heard. He'll be on the David Letterman show pretty soon. Keep an eye out.
Well that's it for now.
Over and out,
Ellert.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Alright... sorry about the delay!
Soooo... We visited 2 new ports this cruise. Yalta and Odessa in the Ukraine. To be completely honest, both ports are extremely boring. The temperature is getting gradually lower around these parts of the world. The Caribbean is still a month and a half away. I'm starting to feel like I'm back home because yesterday the temperature was 11° celcius. That's cooold, all things considered.
Erin and I are still dating and it's all creamy crusty goodness (copyright Roland Hartwell).
I went out in Istanbul again, but for the first time not on a saturday. It was weird and there were a couple of guys that tried to convince us that we shouldn't go to the main shopping street because of a bomb threat. But basically they were full of shit. They said: "Come to china town with us" yeeeeeaaaaahhh.... riiiiiiiiight. As if there just happens to be a "china town" right down the street from Taksim square. Sorry, not buying it. So, there was no bomb, no cops, bunch of people so we decided we made a good call by not joining those guys (which would have been the smart thing to do; bomb or no bomb.)
Earlier that day I had some Turkish apple tea. Mmmmmmm.... I loooooove it. It's so tasty. We also had some Nargile (some call it Hooka, some call it Shisha). It's basically fruit tobacco smoked through a bong... I know what some of you are thinking, but it's perfectly legal and I would pass every single drug test after smoking that stuff.
Anyway... not much else to report on. I've stopped drinking every night after I got a girlfriend. I've become extremely boring and reclusive... hahahahahahaha.... as if that could happen. But I HAVE stopped drinking as much, but I still like to go down to the bar to get down and boogie.
Over and out,
Ellert.
Erin and I are still dating and it's all creamy crusty goodness (copyright Roland Hartwell).
I went out in Istanbul again, but for the first time not on a saturday. It was weird and there were a couple of guys that tried to convince us that we shouldn't go to the main shopping street because of a bomb threat. But basically they were full of shit. They said: "Come to china town with us" yeeeeeaaaaahhh.... riiiiiiiiight. As if there just happens to be a "china town" right down the street from Taksim square. Sorry, not buying it. So, there was no bomb, no cops, bunch of people so we decided we made a good call by not joining those guys (which would have been the smart thing to do; bomb or no bomb.)
Earlier that day I had some Turkish apple tea. Mmmmmmm.... I loooooove it. It's so tasty. We also had some Nargile (some call it Hooka, some call it Shisha). It's basically fruit tobacco smoked through a bong... I know what some of you are thinking, but it's perfectly legal and I would pass every single drug test after smoking that stuff.
Anyway... not much else to report on. I've stopped drinking every night after I got a girlfriend. I've become extremely boring and reclusive... hahahahahahaha.... as if that could happen. But I HAVE stopped drinking as much, but I still like to go down to the bar to get down and boogie.
Over and out,
Ellert.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Well well!!
Ok... you're patience shall be rewarded.
My girlfriend's name is Erin and she's an australian hairdresser. We couldn't go official yet cause she was kind of dating another guy on the ship, but I'm just so irresistable... hahaha. She's awesome and we really like each other.
Anyway... enough with the sappy romance.
I went partying with 2 guest entertainers in Mykonos, Greece yesterday. Mark Donoghue, Jamie Allen and Z.J., Jamie's girlfriend. I don't think I've had a better time since I got on this ship. Those guys really know how to party. When we came back to the ship we were joined by the 3rd entertainer, Michel Bell. He was a member of "The Fifth Dimension" they had hits such as "Aquarius" and "Let the sunshine in" both of which were used in a musical called "Hair". AND..... His son is an actor and he was on "The third Watch" where he played a cop call Ty Davis you can read more a bout that here. I'm going to put a link to my photo website today so it should be on the right side of the page later today.
Over and out, you slags!
Ellert
My girlfriend's name is Erin and she's an australian hairdresser. We couldn't go official yet cause she was kind of dating another guy on the ship, but I'm just so irresistable... hahaha. She's awesome and we really like each other.
Anyway... enough with the sappy romance.
I went partying with 2 guest entertainers in Mykonos, Greece yesterday. Mark Donoghue, Jamie Allen and Z.J., Jamie's girlfriend. I don't think I've had a better time since I got on this ship. Those guys really know how to party. When we came back to the ship we were joined by the 3rd entertainer, Michel Bell. He was a member of "The Fifth Dimension" they had hits such as "Aquarius" and "Let the sunshine in" both of which were used in a musical called "Hair". AND..... His son is an actor and he was on "The third Watch" where he played a cop call Ty Davis you can read more a bout that here. I'm going to put a link to my photo website today so it should be on the right side of the page later today.
Over and out, you slags!
Ellert
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