James Brown - Soul Brother #1 Forever

just found out James Brown died, damn........

dude was the man, I mean try imagine hip hop today if james brown hadnt existed

Rest In Peace

I'm in Korea!!!!!

just been in a nice hot spa thingy, nakedness, interesting, but well realaxed

just about to go hang with my friend Kim Jong Ill cos hes trill

Merry Christmas

Doom says

http://www.youtube.com/STONESTHROW

"ho-ho-ho-ing and things of this nature", nice, hehehe. If you dont know who the supervillain MF DOOM is you should aks somebody


Anyways seriously though......

Merry Christmas to everyone everywhere!!!! and have a choice as New Years too, Ill be think of everyone hanging out on the beach in NZ while I freeze my ass off in Seoul

Haha whatever Im going to Korea to hang out with Kim Jong Ill and his homies, yeeehaaa!!!

This shit is BAD (meaning good)

OK so Im not sure how to link audio, so just click on this link to the Round Trip Mars Myspace and listen to the top song by JeffersonBelttheGreat. If you dont like it I hate you and everything you stand for and I will track you down and extract your ears cos you dont deserve them.

Seriously though, this shit is totally sweet, Im just listening to it for the 3rd time IN A ROW and will most likely listen to it a few more times. I REALLY REALLY want to hear this on a big system.

Anyways, my NZ friends, can you let know some more info on this dude? Is he a NZer or is it just being released on roundtripmars or what?? It says that the album is just about to be released, someone send me a copy!"!!!!

ps. Table tennis rules, wanna mess?

J Dilla

This is a beautiful video. Its part of the Stones Throw/Adult Swim collaboration "Chrome Children". The music is by J Dilla (RIP).


chur

Skate Vid Blog!!!!!

OK, so I got a bit of downtime cos I only have one class today (hahah yeaaaah!!!) thus the youtube watching etc has increased......

but you know I only post quality awesome shit (haha)

anyways, check this kid out, he's totally rad! looks like a choice dude too. I mean, check the shit with a skipping rope at the beginning, ayyyy???!!!!!


haha just watched another video, dude's a funny man


I wanna be this guys friend

Look at my striped shirt!!!

well I'm not totally against stripy shirts as I own a fair few myself, but you know the ones/guys I'm talking about (see photo). read this link, its freaking funny, well I think it is, and I know my opinion counts (thats what my Mum told me)

"Look at my button down striped shirt! Fucking look at it! This shirt means one thing! I’m coming home with some pussy tonight! That’s right! It’s been a long week at the office and it’s time to blow off a little steam! I am a Junior Vice President! I have business cards that say “Junior Vice President” on them! They’re glossy and magnificent! Here! Have one! Take it!"

P.S. I swear I'll put something proper like some photos up soon......honest........

Pharrell can't skate

So, after my request for videos of Pharrell skating (or not) my bro Paul came through. haha, lame, weak, lame, weak


anyways, fun weekend, went to a choice reggae party and the GEOS xmas party which was also pretty fun, will post some pics up when i get around to it. you seen a green jacket anywhere?

I want some of these

Christmas present? <==== Click the link spaz

Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers

Seriously what the hell does that ^^^^^ mean?? Vans ARE sneakers! Is there something I dont know about?


Anyways, when I first heard this song I instantly hated on it but now I cant stop walking around my apartment/GEOS singing it. I have thus come to the conclusion that this song is choice so ya'll should listen to it cos I said. Seriously, what the hell are they talking about? Its totally retarded but I love it, the beautiful paradox that is hip hop today. But how about that bass line?? rauw rauw!!

Also it seems skateboarding and hip hop have aligned themselves once again as being "cool" (what happened to the tight jeans punk rock phase?). haha speaking of skateboarding and hip hop whats up with that dude Lupe Fiasco? Does he actually skate or does he skate like Pharrell says he does (i.e. prob as much as me, which isnt much). Someone tell me, if you have video proof that either Pharrell or Lupe can skate please email me and let me know. Me, Im gonna get my cargo pants and flannel shirt out and start a 90s fashion revival, thats where its at.

Hello

so, this is pretty funny for various reasons

Holy Aquatic Action Batman!!!

So, after seeing this, I have come to the conclusion that NZers are pretty much totally awesome, I will fight anyone who dare disagree with my Shaolin Sword style.

Anyways, seriously, you gotta check this out

This dude whose a NZer (but now lives in America) designed this boat thingy that looks and swims (kinda) like a dolphin, it jumps outta the water, does barrel rolls and everything!!! First the jet-boat, now this!!! Also, it was named in Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2006. Nice!! Check out their website and this video I found on youtube


ps. the people that host the Today Show are retards. That is all.

Balloons!!

In SAGAAAAAAA!!!!!! (Note, SAGA must always be written in all caps, I decided that on Sunday, it is now by law, SAGAAAAAAA!)

Annyways, on Sundey, me, David and the 3-piece rhyme gang Floe, So & Saeko (see all their names rhyme!!) All jumped in Saekos redlight running car and headed down (kinda) to SAGA to meet the Canadian Sam for some balloon action at the annual Balloon festival.

train-times are fun-times

After parking in SAGA and getting on a train we eventually got off at the special temporary station at the ballon festival. There is a station on the train line that they only open for one week year when the festival is on, cool huh? First impressions were, lotsa people, lotsa yakitori/yakiniku/beer/okinomiyaki/omiyage, but hey, wheres the balloons???? After an initiall walk around there still seemed to be no ballons insight but there was meant to be some sort of "key race" happening later so we figured we might see some balloons

come get yer souvenirs!!!

what the hell??!!!!

3:30 rolls round and the uber-hyper Japanese annoucer dudes on the megaphone announces that the key race will be starting "hurrah!". So basically it went like this: theres this big long field with about 6-8 big ass cardboard keys hung up on 20 foot high poles along it, and the dudes in balloons take off prob a couple of km away and try to take the right wind and whatnot and come down at the right time so that they can pass by one of the poles and grab one of the keys. Sounds super hard and it was, with the first 5 or so attempts failing by a few miles or so it seemed like the balloonists quests for the magical keys were fruitless. But they obviously had judged the wind wrong cos the next dudes came way more closererer and finally some dudes got one!!! Wow!! he must have won a million dollars or something!!!! No. The genki annoucer announced that they had just won themselves a nice windbreaker jacket. Wow. Thanks grandma. Anyways, thereb were better prizes, like the $(US)7000 car, wicked, what kinda car is worth $7000???? A 1993 Honda Civic?? Anyways apart from the decidely lame prizes the poor balloonist dudes got, once things got going it was kinda exciting and there were about a million balloons flying around everywhere close as to the ground/crowd/each other which was kinda cool.

Almost got the key!

Balloooooons!!!!!!!!!

lots of balloons!!

close balloons!!!

daijobu desu ka???

After that we were all kinda buggered after having stood up all afternoon so food was on the agenda. I got myslef one of the ever-famed "Sasebo Burger"s which was pretty good, but I think "Karatsu Burger" was better, man do I missed Burger Fuel..... After that we kinda missed the night time balloon thingy so we headed off home and dadadada dunno how to finish so Im just gonna say dadadadada ballooners are cool, even cooler than ravers........

ps, oh my god, my mouth is literally watering after looking at the Burger Fuel website....

I see ya'll!!

Strats, Dom, Carl, I see ya'll!!!


Looks like good times, I miss the Auckland music scene and stuff....
and shimmying to the Whipping Cats (to all you peeps in Japan listen here cos theyre choice)

Halloween Madness woooooo!!!!

So, on Sunday was the kinda-Kitakyushu area Halloween Party/Pub Quiz at Xelha in Kokura. I think all up there were about 60 people, 6 representing Akama. Some of the costumes were pretty funny, highlights were James' giraffe thing, David dressed as Claire, the dude dressed in the white super hero costume. Notable mentions; Claire trying to look like David (you really needed a plastic hair wig), Jenns big bad (or was it good?) witch, Yuichi's cardboard-robot-snake-thingamy, and most of the Orio students had pretty funny costumes. I was dressed as a Pac-man ghost (cant you tell!!!)

The pub quiz was a crack up, you should have heard the uproar (and rush towards me) when the question "Who is the Prime Minister of NZ" was called out. I was impressed with how well my students did in the themes songs section (as I helped out with this part, thinking "nah theyll never know this one!!") getting all but one (the A Team theme). Unfprtunatly it was not to be Akamas day to shine, I cant remember who won but Im pretty sure it was cos of the evil biased cross-dressing quizmaster, eeeeevvvvvillllll!!! Also the dual quizmaster-age of Claire and Jenn (or British-American English translation!) was pretty funny/effective

So of course after we went to Grassroots which just happened to be pretty full that night and with all the students etc it was probably the most packed bar in Kokura that night!! Thus goodtimes ensued and many dancing was had and whatnot and eventually at closing time it was whittled down to just James and I, we still had 2 hours to kill before first train so we followed these crazy rock and rollers to this bar which was called "Crazy Bar!" which ended up being not that crazy but pretty cool anyhoo. Sidenote, Japan has an endless supply of little teenyweeny bars that you can go into and pretty much claim as your own (cos normally no one else is there!) I dunno how they survive but its pretty cool, down with big bars, up with little small bars!!!

Anyways, a big cheers has to go out to Claire Kurosaki for pretty much organising the thing herself, Im pretty sure everyone involved had a super awesome time and all the students will be hunting out pubs with pub quizzes next time they go to England. chur chur (thats NZese for thanks bro!), much appreciated.

some Akama and Orio and Kurosaki crew

Akama number one!

Yuichi, Miho-rastafari, dunno who that drunk guy to the right is

Claire I can see your nipple!!!

Pass.......
the..........
sunglasses!!!




Some random lock N lollers representing Grassroots

Happy Birthday Paul!

Its my little bro Pauls 25th birthday today so everyone reading this say "Happy Birthday Paul!" OK?

cool

Happy Birthday bro, miss you heaps

My blogs pretty informative huh?

best trilogy. ever


lets see if this thing can do 80

great scot!

indians!!!

and a special bonus

dont take no credit card to ride this train

Mt. Sarakura

so, like, totally, yknow, oh my god, ages ago, me David and Claire climbed up Mt. Sarakura, it was totally gnarly, heres some pictures

The Aliens have landed, man they look stupid...

Seen-ery

Ambassador Gary

Automatic Sports

look! a driving range where the tee automatically reloads!!!!


Claire at Edamistu driving range

auto baseball pitching at 100 km/hr!!!!


David at Round 1

SUGOI!!!!

Sporty weekend spice

So last weekend I had a decidely sporty weekend, but fortunatly I wasnt a spice girl (buh).


Saturday straight after work went to the driving range at Edamitsu where my driving game was absolutly on form thanks to coach Sam, hitting to 200-250 yards heaps alot! I made the mistake of not stretching and now my back still hurts 4 days later :(


Sunday night went to the Orio hood to Jenns house for some impromptue 'Texas Hold em' (thats poker for youse that dunno), after a few beers and a bit of tuition it was ready to pull out the big money. 5 yen bets were the norm with a maximum raise of 10 yen (oh shit damn we high rollers!!) and in no time I was rinsing Jenn and David of their 100yen, but alas it was not to be and eventually Jenn cleaned us out....... after that we went to the Orio Billiard hall, yes! I hadnt played pool since leaving NZ so I was well excited, twas great fun


Next day myself and Aqua-asian the motorbike riding extraordinaire went to this big ass multi sports plavce called Round 1, basically you go pay 1300 yen for 3 hours and they have two floors (the top one is outdoors) of sports and what not that you can do as much as you want! like pretty much EVERYTHING!!!! basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, tennis, soccer, frisbee, archery, shooting, FISHING (with real fish), rollerblading/skating, video games (infinite credits!!!!), billiards, baseball etc etc so it was pretty fun, probably my highlight was the baseball batting nets where the balls were pitched to you at 100 km/hr (or was it miles??) like woooooosh

from here..

to here...

the fishing hole was quite out of it, they had real fish in there, im not sure what they were but they looked like trout, you just went and baited up and sat and fished, anyone in NZ knows i hate fishing so i was outta there and went to the auotmated table tennis table and left David to it, he said he caught a fish but I reckon he's lyng, you know you cant trust Americans




prob the next weirdest thing was going on these little miniature motorbikes, so after a big rigmarole trying to get a go on them including signing a disclaimer/injury form written in Japanese (haha) and then getting suited up in enough safety gear to attack a gorilla safely with on we got on our bikes for a cruise which was especially amusing cos david had never ridden a motorbike before and started driving straight towards the wall.....

whats up ladies....

holy shit I'm hungry I gotta go get some food, laaaaaateeeeeeerrrrrrrr

Attention English Teachers

Check THIS link out, its pretty funny, also the rest of the site is pretty damn funny too (that is, if you have a sense of humor similar to mine)

One good example....

That ad

Also just cos I'm nice, heres that choice sony ad (some peeps havent seen it), pretty awesome huh?



Also heres an even better thing with a whole lotta balls off Letterman

Happy Birthday Jack Bauer!!!!!!!

So, out in Kurosaki somehow we managed to get everyone to think David was called Jack Bauer and it was his birthday, so of course we tried to get everyone in the bar to sing Happy Birthday to him. This is the first attempt, note the false starts where everyone breaks into the Indiana Jones Theme song (long story). This was done at least half a dozen more times that night at various other bars. Comedy gold.

Out in Kurosaki

also a few weeks ago, went out with the Claire Kurosaki, Jack Bauer and other peeps from the general Kurosaki area, was a most enjoyable time, I think the bars there are possibly more fun than the ones in Kokura, or maybe it was the exquisite company (nah couldnt be!)

"Jack Bauer" looking badass with his newly acquired womens bracelet

cheesu!

yeeeaaaah!!!!

I was well impressed with this girls singing.......

and this girls piano playing

all in all a great night was had by all, of course capped of by karaoke and me spilling my drink and smashing a glass, classy!

Ashiya

a few weeks ago myself, Floe and Aqua-asian decided to go on a little trip to somewhere/anywhere, after a super fun time trying to look for a bus from Orio we ended up going to this beach Ashiya, which is OK but pretty dirty and stuff, but check out this big arse Jellyfish we found!!!!!!!

anyways a lovely day was had by all, watch out for Aqua-asian and his side kick "oar-man" with the power to row (he just needs to borrow your boat) and "Anchor-man" with the power of Anchor!!

also the day before that i went on a brisk bike ride, check the choice beach/coast about 1 hour bike ride from my apartment

Yes Now I have put some photos up!!!!

yo, so after much a hiatus and too many stupid youtube videos (someone, anyone try tell me they werent quality!) I have finally got my arse together to post some pictures and stuff of actuall worth (well thats debatable too)

so here we go....

Learn how to grill

Get this video and more at MySpace.com


OK I promise I'll put up some photos and stuff soon......

This!!!!!!!!

No explanation just click on the link, awesome

dont worry its noth anything scary or anything lame like that

Jack Bauer is my homeboy

I am addicted to 24.......



WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!!!!!!!