KARAOKE ATTACK!

Hey folks, we've escaped the clutches of the horrible rogue assassin group HAETCC! Apparently my bro was the only one willing to save Baxter from the horrendous acts of the organization that captured us! Baxter sends his infinite thanks to you Aaron and also his disappointment to the rest of you who were silent during his troubling and scarring experience! I am happy to say that he is resting and recovering now by drinking copious amounts of red wine and soaking it up with a large spread of french breads and pastries!

I am also happy to report that we have slowly recovered from our harrowing experience and felt the need to celebrate our freedom with what else but a little bit of karaoke! We went out to Cafe L'Epoque again and had ourselves a giraffe of beer! It was unreal!

Then, Nat and Mike began their serenade with a lovely little diddy known as Sweet Caroline! Please note that when Mikey Mike sings his voice mysteriously loses it's Australian accent and becomes like 12 octaves lower than normal! We think he is secretly not really an Aussie at all and really Marvin Gaye trapped in a 20 year old white guys body! And yes, that is Alvar and I having a good giggle about it in the background!



Here's a few photos from the ocassion:

Mike, Nat bust it out!

DANCE DANCE!
Oh Alvar, you're so cute!
WHAT?
Crazy dude at O'Sul's was creeping on us
Alvar's creepin' too!
We started to get a little scared before we got his crazy butt kicked out of the bar!

I also just had a chance to check out Rachael Yamagata's show here in Paris at Le Boule Noir and she was beyond incredible! If you don't know who she is or haven't heard any of her stuff, I added her to the music player and you can check out her myspace page at:
www.myspace.com/rachaelyamagata

or, check out a couple of vids I found on youtube. She really is an amazing talent and such a beautiful songwriter. She was so warm and humble on stage with her broken French and cute giggle! Nat and I could totally relate! Do yourself a favour and take a listen, you won't regret it, she is absolutely stunning!

THE REASON WHY


WORN ME DOWN


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LETTER READ

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AIDEZ-NOUS!

We are a rogue group of French nationalists known as the HAETCC, The Humanoid Animals for the Ethical Treatment of Clothed Creatures. We have taken hostage both Natalie and Jacie for their derogatory comments against those creatures appearing in Orangina ads across France and for their general dislike of animals who are only trying to make a living in this world by using their sexuality to sell a product.

If you wish to see or hear from them again, speak now or the consequences will be catastrophic...

BAXTER WILL BE FORCED TO JOIN IN OUR CRUSADE!

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KID'S SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS!

By now you all know that on occasion I like to sing a little diddy or two. I think that perhaps my love of le chanson may stem from songs I learned when I was a wee babe in Madame Thibeau's french class. So, I thought I would share some funny vids I found on youtube of a couple of my favs:

The first is called Je suis une pizza (and yes it does mean I am a pizza)
(Sidenote: it gets a little emotional at the end *single tear)



The next, I have often sang since we arrived here in Paris, it's called Petite Poisson
(Sidenote: I hate it when I forget the words too!)



In the spirit of funny kid related stuff, if you haven't seen these hilarious clips on youtube, consider yourself lucky that you can check it here:

This little girl makes geeks like me a little cooler with her description of Star Wars, plus she has fierce hair! (Sidenote: The shiny guy does always worry!)




These next ones are commercials for Trigon medical insurance and need no introduction:








This little girl drops some truth bombs!




This 2 year old puts my geography skills to shame!
(I didn't even know that Turkmenistan existed!)

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VIVE LA FETE!!

Well, I can say now that I am one year closer to being a quarter of a century! It's pure craziness that I am the big 2-4 now and we of course had to celebrate it like only we know how... with cake, karaoke, and various assorted shenanigans!

Tuesday was the big day and it began in the late afternoon (cause we're lazy bums!), with a darn good cake that Nat snagged from the patisserie down the way. Can I just say it was completely edible and you know we demolished it all!

BONUS VIDEO: All edible?

This is me pretending to blow out the candles for the token birthday cake shot!

Of course, we had to make a toast to the occasion and we had been saving a special bottle for just such an event, that had been aged to perfection! (Sidenote: check out my blazer, I've apparently become mature enough now to own one or as Nat says I could be the ringmaster of a circus... I like option 2!)

BONUS VIDEO: A toast to the power of 24!

After toasting the evening we headed out for dinner with Morgen, Joe, and Jon at an Ethiopian restaurant called Entoto. For anyone who doesn't know much about African cuisine you eat everything with your hands. It usually comes in a large pain covered a special flatbread that has different kinds of spicy stews that you eat by picking them up with pieces of the bread. We also enjoyed some taj, which is a honey wine that is apparently similiar to mead. It was amazing and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!

When supper was finito we headed off to a karaoke joint so Nat could belt it out, but not before we ran into a couple of funny places along the way!

I love me some impromptu dancing in the streets!

This is a giant vending machine from the future that is ALWAYS open... you never know when you might need some flour or granola bars!

This is where I am sending Nat when I get sick of her!

Finally we made it to the joint and thus began the mayhem!

Subtitles: Me "Yeah it's my birthday!", Eva "No pictures!", Finn "I have a secret!"

Linda and Nat keepin' it real with some Tom Jones... She is a lady!
BONUS VIDEO: Linda/Sporty, Nat/Scary, Eva/Baby, Finn/Posh representing the Spice Girls!

BONUS VIDEO: Laura and Nat get emotional over Meatloaf!

After we had our fill of all that is singing, we headed down the O'Sull's to visit with everyone who had the misfortune of working on my big day! As one of my birthday wishes, we decided that we were only allowed to do glamour shots the whole night!

Work it ladies!
Still lookin good bros!
Allen and Richard will not be out classed!
You know it... FIERCE!
Even Mikey Mike aka Bobby B showed us what he's got... Dave is impressed!

After about 4am hit, it really just became crazy... and by that I mean crazy ridiculous... and by that I mean pure GGGOOOOLLLLDDDD!

Bobby B takes a stellar blackmail photo!
Tonsils...check
Who's leg is that?
After we closed up shop at O'Sullivans and waited for the metro to open back up we finally arrived safe and sound in the wee hours of the morn at around 7 bells and Nat gave me a final birthday wish and posed with her 'mom' hair!... Tho thexty!

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THERE'S PANCAKES EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

Hello hello, I hope everyone is doing just dandy after the weekend! We had a lovely fun filled end to our week. We had a bit of a shin-dig in the form of pancake night at our flat on Friday and let me just say there is nothing quite like an angry Aussie in the kitchen. Alvar and Mikey Mike took over the cooking operation and it was like a pancake monster had thrown up in our wee kitchen!

Andy, Finn, Christelle, and Laura enjoying the spoils

Laura and Allen chowing down, Bearyn is just enjoying his brewsky

Check out the look in his eye... pure evil Nazi pancake chef

We're frightened!

It was a bit chaotic but at the end of the day and after our pancakes turned into some form of hybrid crepe we were all stuffed and had a good laugh. Check out some of Mike's magic in the kitchen:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Hell's Kitchen


This is what happens when you have people over to your flat, you're left with tiny amounts of liquor, so Nat thought it would be a good idea not to waste it and peer pressured me into drinking some bourbon those class Aussies blokes left behind!

BONUS VIDEO: Just another liquor advert!

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