Weekend

Made a concerted effort to stay in niigata this weekend, havent been in niigata for about 7 weeks. friday night i went to see a mate play a gig. was in a pretty cool venue. realised its about the 4th gig ive been to in a couple of years (shocking statistic i know...threw me) (prodigy in kl, weeble notts, selecter notts summer 06) was pretty good...the thing about small 'local' gigs like this is that i actually hate them, well, not hate the bands, but all i want to do is be on stage playing, is sooo frustrating watching bands and not playing, im not talking about big prodigy style gigs, but local ones, hate hate not playing. no one really understood this but my good friend deccy who plays in a band, so we stood together grumbling to eachother. saying that i did in fact really enjoy the gig...miss that scene, the dark sticky floor, beer in plastic cups, awful awful support bands etc...

sat went shopping and had lunch with kat and justine and had a thoroughly excellent day. had every intention of going to the cinema but was too tired from late night previously (stop me if this is boring you...christ knows this is boring me)

sunday was a snowboarding free weekend. myself and gareth went to a place called Round 1. id heard about it and always wanted to go. its basically my heaven (being a bit of a jock and arcade game nut) its got 2 floors of the craziest japanese arcade games, bowling, all manner of other sports, and on the roof there is crazy golf, baseball nets etc... had a great day, was kinda like a kid in a sweet shop...was so excited! anyway, the photos kinda describe what went on. top top day, validated by the fact that its ruddy freezing at the mo so didnt miss the outside at all. pretty relaxed and fun weekend