Mega sunday update!

Reet, this was meant for the 'Skate Newcastle' blog but for some reason it won't work on it, so decided to put it here.

We started the day like our friends across the pond in the US with some dirty chicken!



As usual the first spot of the day was the wasteland where 'The count' and Carmine were throwing down some stunts on their wheelie bikes.



The wind proved to be to be far too annoying so we decided to hit up town, but not before we reverted to kids and threw big rocks into big puddles.



On the way back Adam got his special bar to the top and landed the first of many gnarly drop in's. All while belting out the latest HIM song.



Northumberland street was crawling (excuse the pun) with people trying to get people to have chlamydia tests.



Joe wasn't convinced even after some free pants were thrown in to 'sweeten' the deal. The pants even came with a pocket for condoms! Who keeps condoms in their boxers?!



Next on our little tour of town was a visit to Matty Smith on his last shift in Office, he was stoked.



At this point the rain decided to descend so it was decided a trip to American Diner was needed.



Milkshakes and food were consumed but I opted for pancakes, sausages, bacon and maple syrup. The results as usual were glorious.



Tom Fone wasn't feeling the 'Diner' so went to subway instead, this didn't stop him getting involved with a cheeky coffee though!



Joe was filming with the camera which I sold to him years ago, alot of 'Bishcam' was filmed on that old war horse!



Anyway on the way out we ran into these cheeky little fellows hiding from the rain.



Since the rain had stopped and it was drying up we decided to keep the fire burning and keep skating. Joe and Adam found this block in a skip while looking for 'Jazz' mags.



Weeman proceeded to drop that shit. Wee was over HIM so he just sang the latest D12 joint , apparently its 'ill'.



Seeing this Adam feared his drop in throne would be usurped so he threw down the horns of Satan.



Having the gained the power from the Father of lies he did a drop in worthy of even Blahbag himself.



Tom Fone felt a bit left out, so he tried some Indiana Jones style tight roping across a chain. A small Indian man looking out of door looked stoked unfortunately for Tom none of us were.



Continuing his wanton destruction of Newcastle's skate spots Adam decided to film a line for Joe; I was there to capture it mid action.



So another day drew to a close for me and the only thing left for me to do was to blog this sign.



Until next time goodbye and goodnight.

I havn't had the net for while as I havn't paid my phone bill, but back the rents for the night so thought I'd take advantage of some cybertime. Below are 4 sections which to get me stoked and if you havn't seen them I think you should have a watch.
Every once in while gonna post 4 sections that I used to like but won't bore you with them every week.

So to start with with have a montage from Transworld's 'Sight Unseen'. I watched this video (And Unabomber's 'Headcleaner') 8 times a day for 2 weeks when I was in India in 2001 as I couldn't skate over there and back then I used to want to skate 24/7. Mint song choice and the usual quality skating you can expect from Transworld.




Then we have Mike Manzoori's section from a British video called 'Hating life'. This was the first video I actually paid money for and I have to say all the sections were amazing. I stupidly sold this video along with most of my skate vhs's when I had no money. If you get a chance watch it because this is the only section on the net; Rodney Clarke also had a banger of a section.




Next we have the trailer for Viewfinder 3, I put the trailer up because I couldn't find any of the best sections on the night and the trailer sorta gives you the feel of the video, staright up funny grimey british skateboarding. Loved this so much especially some of the song choices. Plus it was like 2 hours long and back then when you didn't really have videos on the net (Or conections strong enough to watch them!) and the fact not that many videos were coming out, I loved seeing as much skating possible, bad or good!




The final video down memory lane is Heath Kirchart and Jermery Klein's section from Birdhouse's 'The End' (Original music). This was such I sick part, it had everything I wanted when I was younger, fire, skating, comedy and people in suits. To be honest I still want all that now. The fact that they were grinding buildings and bus stops blew me away! This resulted in me dressing in a cheap and boardsliding... benches! Below is me peforming such a stunt.



I loved this section.




Hopefully I'll have the net again soon so I can blog a bit more than once every 2 weeks!

Amazing.

Vegas DIBS!

Right been back from Vegas for about a week so I think its time to update the blog. As you might have guessed it's no longer 'Bangers' and 'Mash', this is because people kept complaining all I blogged about was food. Well don't worry though its gone I will still have some tasty pictures of food, but not just said pictures!

Ok, so I just got back from Vegas with the crew of Big Neill (The organiser of the trip).



Jackie, who was having his first holiday in about 4 years!



Richy, thrash master extraordinaire.



And of course me!



So after being on a flight with about 6 stag parties we arrived in Las Vegas only to be kept on the air strip for an hour as President Obama was landing at the airport aswell! Anyway we finally got off the plane and made our way onwards!



So Neill had booked us into a Planet Hollywood suite and ever suite is furnished with memorabilia from famous films, we were hoping on the Bruce Willis suite, or maybe the Arnie one. We got the Star Trek suite... That said it was geeky but RAD! The room was insane, 2 bedrooms with 3 double beds, 3 bathrooms, a hot tub connecting the sitting room to the master bathroom, a 50ish inch plasma screen and a massive panoramic window view, straight west coast'n!





We hit the club hard on the first night, after finding an energy drink called AMP to power us through our jetlag. Let me tell this drink is fucking mental and will send you crazy as Neill found out on the last night... So we all hit the sack at about 6ish in the morn, I awoke to find Jackie standing next to me asking if I knew where Richy was as he hadn't slept in his bed last night. After a quick look around he was no where to be found so we left him a note and went down to the breakfast buffet.



And who did we find gambling with a drink in hand at 10 in the morn? Richy, still mortal asking us whether it was morning yet. We informed him it was and he proceeded to go to bed, this was his position for about 12 hours.



So we went and hit my most anticipated part of Vegas, the buffets! 14 dollars all you could eat and did I eat! In 2 plates I had sausages, scrambled eggs, steak, eggs Benedict, hamburger meat, breakfast biscuits (like scones) all covered in some creamy white sauce, BOOYA!





While Richy slept, we hit up what Vegas had to offer in the day, this consisted of gambling.



Big buildings.



Asian men claiming to be the only ones playing guitar in the whole of the US.





And Fat people, there were so many fat people that we invented a game called dibs. Every time you see a really fat person you have to shout Dibs and take a sly photo. Immature? Yes. Fun? Most definitely. Here are a few of the best Dibs.







We wandered for a few hours and then went back to the suite to freshen up, Neill decided to take a bath while watching the tv.



Before we went out that night we decided to hit up a 28inch pizza which was pretty damn tasty!



After another night of getting to bed when it was light and getting up after about an hours sleep we decided to have another good wander around Vegas.



We found some Broon!



So before getting mortal on our last night we decided to hit up a posh meal. The venue of choice was a steakhouse and let me tell you it was amazing! Jackie and Neill went for various steaks while myself and Richy went for Steak and Lobster, surf and turf style! Add to this the various sides and you have a top notch meal!





To finish Richy and Jackie decided to get 2 pieces which were meant to serve roughly 4 people...





So arrived our final afternoon which started with me taking a few arty photo's in the room



We then headed out to waste some time before the plane.
Neill found his perfect drink.



Richy had an intense hotdog and chips.





We saw the fountains at the Bellagio.



And finally some more fat people.



We then made our way back to the airport where everyone looked tried from the holidays fun and frolics.





All that was left was a quick munch at Heathrow and then back home!



Catch you all for the next exciting blog update!

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