Mast in Japan

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Going all Euro

So, after leaving Japan I flew to Munich to meet up with Paul and then catch a train to Austria. Paul had a conference in St. Christoph Arlberg in Austria so we decided to meet up a week earlier to go snowboarding as the conference was right at the bottom of the mountain. After that week, Paul went to the conference and I was an "accompanying person" and basically just did more snowboarding!

This was my carry on luggage from Osaka to Munich, Europe has real strict rules about taking liquids on and I had a bottle of Shochu in my backpack and this had to check in my carry on backpack, so they gave me a rubbish sack to put my stuff in, wicked.

This place is MASSIVE

The powder is awesome

This is an 8 seater covered lifts with HEATED seats!!!

Jumping into snow is neato super rad fun times

Bye bye snow

Olympic ski jump in Innesbruck, shit!

Interesting tree art, Sardagna Italy

Cheese/salami/bread all bought from the market, mmmmmm

Venice

We spent Christmas with Laura's friends, both of whose boyfriends were chefs, thus we had a crazy massive feast.

After Venice we rented a car named Skyrat, Skyrat by day but Discorat by night!!

Verona

This hot chocolate was so thick the spoon stayed upright.

New Years, Genova (we actually did leave the hotel, honest!)

In Milan they do this thing where you go into a bar and buy a drink and then they have all this real nice "snacky" type food like cheese and meats and stuff, its awesome!

Milan

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Hokkaido fun snowboarding times

After, leaving my home of Kurume to go back to NZ I embarked on a big adventure on the way home which consisted of seeing many people and going to many places, the first being meeting Dom, and also Trinh and my old student Emiko, in Tokyo then going to Niseko Hokkaido to go snowboarding and then head down to Osaka to meet up with Tomomi and finally fly out to Europe to meet up with Paul.....

I was only in Tokyo for 2 days and most of that time was spent in these places:

Then it was off to Hokkaido!

Me and Dom with Yotei san in the background, Hirafu as!

Lets Go!

Ichiban codomo crew ONLY rides though the trees in untracked powder, ONLY!!

Mountain services in Japan are much nicer than in NZ, imagine chilling here with your boots OFF and eating a delicious bowl of Miso ramen and then possibly having a lie down on the tatami before heading outside for some more knee deep powder tree runs....oh, its terrible......

After lunch funtimes, yup thats my track, the ONLY track

Every night we went to the Onsen (Japanese thermal hot pool) which was REQUIRED after a hard days boarding, I took no photos there (cos its a whole bunch of naked men!) but the Onsen was awesome, outside with snow covered rocks around it, some nights it was snowing when we were in the Onsen, super awesome. This photo is taken walking down the mysterious road going towards the Onsen.

This is the main street of Hirafu village where we stayed, just past those traffic lights is where the lowest lift was and our lodge was just behind me and down the road, only a 5 minute walk! Snowing looks good at night.

It often snowed REALLY hard at night.

Inside our lodge, fire going strong thanks to Aussie Koppa! We stayed with these dudes called Niseko Powder Holidays, it wasnt very expensive and was SUPER good, real nice lodge, real onto it lodge managers who helped you out with anything AND cooked you eggs in the morning!

Bye bye Hirafu Niseko Hokkaido, see you again real soon k?

Then after a MAMMOTH travelling expedition of buses/planes/train/shinkansen/subways we made it to Osaka and magically met up with Tomomi somehow even though I had disconnected my phone at that point. Apparently this place where this photo is taken is a famous place in Osaka....

Rollin' rollin' rollin'

After going to the 280yen Izakaya we of course went to Karaoke! This was/is very important especially since it was my very last night in Japan.

So yeah, that was Hokkaido etc, next up, Austria!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Mast Dance Practice (another mix)

hi there again, so heres another mix I did at about the same time way back in 2005, its dancehall mostly but also some reggae. you can practice dancing to it like these bad ass Chinese kids! Have a neato time listening of downloading.

Tracklisting:
1. Dean Fraser Dean in Chinatown
2. Home T Don’t throw it all away
3. Yammie Bowlo Isn’t she lovely
4. Don Carlos Laser beam
5. T.O.K. Shining star
6. T.O.K. She makes me weak
7. Sizzla Smokin’ herb
8. Elephant man Mad instruments new dance
9. Elephant man kopa dance
10. Elephant man Father elephant
11. Sean Paul Straight up!!
12. Tami Chin Hot!!
13. Destiny’s Child Lose my breath (Kopa mix)
14. Sizzla Pure love
15. King Tubby I trim the barber
16. Sizzla Jah never fail I
17. Admiral Bailey Think me did done
18. Damien ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley Welcome to jamrock
19. Barrington Levy & Beenie Man Murderation
20. Beenie Man Row like a boat
21. Beenie Man Nuh promise
22. Zahair Nuh theif
23. Skitta Pop up
24. Sizzla Rich and beautiful
25. Elephant Man Get mean
26. T.O.K. Unknown language
27. Cobra Wuk date
28. Mr. Vegas Pull up
29. General B/Lexxus??? Taxi cab
30. Beenie Man Good ohh
31. Kelis Milkshake
32. Sean Paul Feel alright
33. Elephant Man Hate mi
34. Jagwa feat Angel Doolas Worldwide
35. Taz feat Voice Mail Gangstas
36. Vybz kartel Buddy nuh done
37. Bounty Killer Man a killa
38. Capleton & Sizzla Never scared blend
39. Bounty Killer Sleng Teng?
40. Bounty Killer Blast Uny?
41. Mad Lion Shoot to kill

This is my 100th post!!!!

yes I know its mostly Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man but dont hate i didnt know much else back then!!!!!

Friday, October 26, 2007

The Niceness (again)

Hi I know Ive posted this before, but this new player thingy that I got figured out has got me all excited and shit, so expect more posts with music.

This is a mix I did the summer before I left to go to Japan, I havent made any since cos Ive been in Japan with a little portable turntable to listen to records, thus no mixtapes. I think when I return to NZ the inevitable unemployment/boredom/me not having played around on turntables for 1.5 years will mean I will prob make a whole bunch of mixes then I think, yay!

tracklist and shit here

2nd best scene ever

CAAAAAN YOOOOOOUUUUU DIG IIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!

7" of the moment #2!!!!

aw c'mooooooonnnnnnn!!!

first off, this is an amazing song, the original by Stevie makes me almost cry when I listen to it (seriously), but this cover is just awesome, somehow it adds even more soul and feeling to it and makes it bump with the classic Taxi rythm, Bitty Mcleans vocals are sooo nice. If that doesnt sell it enough, it has lasers!!!!!

When Geo at the store put it on the system and that first vocal intro starts and then the wowowowowowow! lasers and effects kick in and then "lately I have had the strangest feeling...." Niceness!!!! I was sold!

So, I found this choice file sharing site where i can embed the player in my blog like you can see above and also you just click on the player and it takes you to a site to download the file too! Or you can click on this to download. Sweet!

bonus!heres 7" of the moment #1! (Read here)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Best scene EVER

really.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Summer is officially over

you know summer is officially over when the iced coffee in the vending machines all change to hot coffee :( anyways, heres some neato rad summer funtime memories (click on the links for more neato super awesome pictures and words) sound track here......

Beach BBQs........................