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Some better video from takraw tonight.

Sepak Takraw, Bang Lamung, Thailand

Here is a nice shot from the other night at takraw. These guys were pretty dream team. But, I was pretty much the best white guy out there.

It’s a complete toss up, this Miike Snow album or Phoenix’s ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix‘. I could ride out 2009 on these 2 albums alone. If Velveteen put out a new album right now, my head would explode.

And I leave you with nice picture of food taken by Lorraine. We tried to take the motobike over to Koh Larn which is a small island just off the gulf. We were denied for the noon ferry. As we were about to leave the pier we were treated to a nice moto-on-moto crash. I looked away at the last second but, Lorraine had to see how it ended. Jeb! Meh, we wound up at Jomtien Beach.

Food vendor on Jomtien

What a great day we had today. Today was a big party for the 100th celebration of Chevy and Chevy threw a very large party. The headliner of the music bill was a very famous Thai rock band called ‘Carabao‘ which oddly enough, translates to ‘Buffalo’. Awesome, our first thai rock concert and these guys were great. I tried to snap some pics but I was left with only my cell phone, oh well. These guys are now located out of Bangkok and they play here once or twice a year. These guys like the Jimmy Buffet of Thailand. Maybe even moreso the ‘Rush’ of Thailand.

Then I was able to sneak in a few games of takraw before heading out to see ‘Bangkok Dangerous’. It was great to see our new country on the big screen but otherwise, this movie sucked. I celebrate most of Nicholas Cage’s sub-par movies and I certainly have a few favorites (Raising Arizona, National Treasure I and II, Gone in 60 Seconds) but this movie went nowhere! Not only did it go nowhere, but it made up stupid shit while it was standing still.

Great angle of Bangkok and small snapshots of life here in LOS, but otherwise this movie lacked any substance from beginning to end as far the story went. Too bad. Time to tune the radio dial into WGR55 for some Buffalo Bills!

We tried to play on the usual grass/sand court last night but due to the heavy rain we recieved in the morning, we had to move over to the concrete court. This court was poured by one of the guys in his spare time some time ago. Since it’s been poured, the area around it has become a Cambodian work camp. I’ve posted some pictures and some video on Flickr for you to see. I took a foot to the face in the midst of some fierce competition and oddly enough, I was invited out for beers afterwards. A little blood for beer, not bad.