Monday, August 1, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Documenting the Trip to the Southland
Got in at 1am
Sat - Went to the dentist to get my teeth fixed for free (made possible through the generous sponsorship from the parentals). It's all guilt, they get honestly mad if I spend too much of my own money because in L.A. you can go to a Korean establishment and get everything for cheaper..and my parents won;t only show me the way, they will pay for it. That's how they show their love. old school Korean style. How can I deny love. You don't understand or maybe you do, but if you only saw their faces when I try to decline their offer - you'd understand. Plus I went a dentist up here for my diagnostic and scaling - came away with a $4,000 dental plan. Stressed me out for a week...felt like all my teeth were going to rot out unless I got rich quick. So I tell him (Korean) what she (Filipino) said and he says it's actually less than $1000 (given he just did a quick look scan), but of course he had to add "Filipinos are a problem." To which I had no comment.
Went to the Torrance Farmers market. Bought some Bison meat which they claim to be healthier and leaner than most other meats except chicken, but left before even getting a chance to cook and try it. Chicken always comes out top. The bison still sits in my parents fridge as we speak. Bought some fruit, ate some food and played in the park with Harmony, taught her, kind of, how to roll down the hill. No body bought the pies from the lonely pie lady.
On whim we decide to go the OCF - Orange County Fair
Part rodeo/part comedy show/part carnival/part amusement park/part motorcross/part farm/part art show/part museum/part hypnosis/part peking acrobats/part circus/part zoo = Orange County Fair
Man, all that for the low admission cost of $11. Worth it. Food though, that's where the money is made or lost depending on where you are: vender or consumer.
Rodeos are rad by the way! Always wanted to go, never knew. Add that to your bucket list.
Loved it! Recommend it to everyone and anyone. Something for the whole family, something for everyone: gangsters, cowboys, girlfriends, artists, dancers, lovers, old people, motorcyclists, biker gang members, yuppies, gays, people who believe in sasquatch, Russians....oh but not hipsters, I saw no hipsters.
Sunday - 8am Harmony wakes up, climbs down the stairs and looks for "oncol daybit". Finds him passed out on the couch because he has no where to lay his head in his (well, his parents) own home. His former room is well, former - full of kids toys and clothes. We attempt to get breakfast at the Original Pancake House which upon arrival had just as many people tailgating while waiting as there were inside. So pass. Ended up getting Y Not (3 stars), like half a block from my house after driving around for 5 miles.
Headed to Reality L.A. with my sister close behind. My sister, I never have to worry about losing, she's one who I have 100% confidence will be following right behind me no matter what crazy L.A. driver tries to come between us. Inseparable. You know why? because she's one of them: a crazy L.A. driver just like me. Birds of the feather flock together. So enroute we get lost for like 30 minutes before finding the place. Elaine and I get in a fight..but we need not talk about that here. The stupidest thing was in the end I realized I knew where the place was, but for some reason I go to google and look up directions (now I'm not blaming google for getting us lost, it was human error, I read the directions wrong), it's like drugs, we don't need them but we're so used to them we take them without even thinking. Luckily the guy talked for a long time so we made it for half the message, and got to listen to the band, who was so nicely, hollwoodly polished that I had to put on my sunglasses, so I wouldn't go blind or maybe to blend in, or feign ignorance by cutting off all chance of making eye contact with anybody.
Jimmey Chen, my friend from back in SF, attends the church so we had kabob lunch afterwards.
We parted ways: Elaine to the her wedding (which is really why we came down(I tagged along to L.A.)), Jimmy to his BBQ, My sister, Harmony and I LACMA bound.
Sat - Went to the dentist to get my teeth fixed for free (made possible through the generous sponsorship from the parentals). It's all guilt, they get honestly mad if I spend too much of my own money because in L.A. you can go to a Korean establishment and get everything for cheaper..and my parents won;t only show me the way, they will pay for it. That's how they show their love. old school Korean style. How can I deny love. You don't understand or maybe you do, but if you only saw their faces when I try to decline their offer - you'd understand. Plus I went a dentist up here for my diagnostic and scaling - came away with a $4,000 dental plan. Stressed me out for a week...felt like all my teeth were going to rot out unless I got rich quick. So I tell him (Korean) what she (Filipino) said and he says it's actually less than $1000 (given he just did a quick look scan), but of course he had to add "Filipinos are a problem." To which I had no comment.
Went to the Torrance Farmers market. Bought some Bison meat which they claim to be healthier and leaner than most other meats except chicken, but left before even getting a chance to cook and try it. Chicken always comes out top. The bison still sits in my parents fridge as we speak. Bought some fruit, ate some food and played in the park with Harmony, taught her, kind of, how to roll down the hill. No body bought the pies from the lonely pie lady.
On whim we decide to go the OCF - Orange County Fair
Part rodeo/part comedy show/part carnival/part amusement park/part motorcross/part farm/part art show/part museum/part hypnosis/part peking acrobats/part circus/part zoo = Orange County Fair
Man, all that for the low admission cost of $11. Worth it. Food though, that's where the money is made or lost depending on where you are: vender or consumer.
Rodeos are rad by the way! Always wanted to go, never knew. Add that to your bucket list.
Loved it! Recommend it to everyone and anyone. Something for the whole family, something for everyone: gangsters, cowboys, girlfriends, artists, dancers, lovers, old people, motorcyclists, biker gang members, yuppies, gays, people who believe in sasquatch, Russians....oh but not hipsters, I saw no hipsters.
Sunday - 8am Harmony wakes up, climbs down the stairs and looks for "oncol daybit". Finds him passed out on the couch because he has no where to lay his head in his (well, his parents) own home. His former room is well, former - full of kids toys and clothes. We attempt to get breakfast at the Original Pancake House which upon arrival had just as many people tailgating while waiting as there were inside. So pass. Ended up getting Y Not (3 stars), like half a block from my house after driving around for 5 miles.
Headed to Reality L.A. with my sister close behind. My sister, I never have to worry about losing, she's one who I have 100% confidence will be following right behind me no matter what crazy L.A. driver tries to come between us. Inseparable. You know why? because she's one of them: a crazy L.A. driver just like me. Birds of the feather flock together. So enroute we get lost for like 30 minutes before finding the place. Elaine and I get in a fight..but we need not talk about that here. The stupidest thing was in the end I realized I knew where the place was, but for some reason I go to google and look up directions (now I'm not blaming google for getting us lost, it was human error, I read the directions wrong), it's like drugs, we don't need them but we're so used to them we take them without even thinking. Luckily the guy talked for a long time so we made it for half the message, and got to listen to the band, who was so nicely, hollwoodly polished that I had to put on my sunglasses, so I wouldn't go blind or maybe to blend in, or feign ignorance by cutting off all chance of making eye contact with anybody.
Jimmey Chen, my friend from back in SF, attends the church so we had kabob lunch afterwards.
We parted ways: Elaine to the her wedding (which is really why we came down(I tagged along to L.A.)), Jimmy to his BBQ, My sister, Harmony and I LACMA bound.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
To Suffer
When self confidence starts to wane you grab for anything to gain it back as soon as is possible. And usually that thing isn't the best choice, it's a temporary plug to fill the hole but in reality the hole still exists. Sometimes its best to live in that lack, because it takes time to get rid of the hole for good.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Dayfly
Why is it that when someone comes from a disadvantaged life, the incredible talent they have moves you to the core until you can't help but to cry?
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Tupac Tribute
Apparently Issac finally admits he shot Tupac.
"I want to apologize to his [Tupac's] family and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Rosemond]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com today (June 15), on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday.
2pac & Nas - Thugz Mansion - MyVideo
Every corner, every city
There's a place where life's a little easy
Little Hennessy, laid back and cool
Every hour, cause it's all good
Leave all the stress from the world outside
Every wrong done will be alright (I wanna go)
Nothin but peace (I wanna go) love (I wanna go nigga)
And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion
I remember back in '97 bumping this super loud on repeat, in my black honda accord two door coupe, on the way to Wakkos funeral. His name was John, I'm pretty sure, I'm surprised I still remember. I ditched my AP tests that day. I tried to go back and demand the tests I paid for but the librarian wouldn't give them to me.
Oakland baby!
and we'll end with something a little more wholesome...
This dude was dope. What a shame, would've been 40 today. The memories...you know how there are those songs that you associate with a certain time in your life - this was straight up my high school years. L.A. 213. These songs would definitely take up at lot of track space in the sound track of my life right there in between like 1994 - 1997. I was traveling in Australia back in 2002 I went to see the movie Biggie and Tupac and I walked out of the film feeling all crazy, kind of depressed, sentimental, a little disturbed.. I remembering trying to explain it to a girl at the hostel, I was spewing out nonsense, she had no sympathy, I guess she didn't get it, I didn't really get it, I recall thinking she probably thinks I'm nuts. Looking back and I didn't realize it then but I know now exactly what it was: nostalgia, along with the subject of the movie it brought back the bittersweet feelings associated with memories (but not the memories themselves) of my teenage years lived out on the streets of L.A.
Here is it: the Best of Tupac. I did all the dirty work for you now all you gotta do is listen....to the greatest hip hop artist ever. Enjoy!
"I want to apologize to his [Tupac's] family and for the mistake I did for that sucker [Rosemond]," Dexter Isaac told AllHipHop.com today (June 15), on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday.
2pac & Nas - Thugz Mansion - MyVideo
Every corner, every city
There's a place where life's a little easy
Little Hennessy, laid back and cool
Every hour, cause it's all good
Leave all the stress from the world outside
Every wrong done will be alright (I wanna go)
Nothin but peace (I wanna go) love (I wanna go nigga)
And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion
I remember back in '97 bumping this super loud on repeat, in my black honda accord two door coupe, on the way to Wakkos funeral. His name was John, I'm pretty sure, I'm surprised I still remember. I ditched my AP tests that day. I tried to go back and demand the tests I paid for but the librarian wouldn't give them to me.
Oakland baby!
and we'll end with something a little more wholesome...
This dude was dope. What a shame, would've been 40 today. The memories...you know how there are those songs that you associate with a certain time in your life - this was straight up my high school years. L.A. 213. These songs would definitely take up at lot of track space in the sound track of my life right there in between like 1994 - 1997. I was traveling in Australia back in 2002 I went to see the movie Biggie and Tupac and I walked out of the film feeling all crazy, kind of depressed, sentimental, a little disturbed.. I remembering trying to explain it to a girl at the hostel, I was spewing out nonsense, she had no sympathy, I guess she didn't get it, I didn't really get it, I recall thinking she probably thinks I'm nuts. Looking back and I didn't realize it then but I know now exactly what it was: nostalgia, along with the subject of the movie it brought back the bittersweet feelings associated with memories (but not the memories themselves) of my teenage years lived out on the streets of L.A.
Here is it: the Best of Tupac. I did all the dirty work for you now all you gotta do is listen....to the greatest hip hop artist ever. Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
A Small Painting
Done on a pretty small old canvas. 12 x 6. the details in the face I did with some really cheap crayola color pencils in found in the dumpster. No wonder they threw them out but worked for me, better in fact than some really expensive old prisma colors I had, go figure..Well, I bet the prisma work real nice on paper and the crayolas suck. One mans junk is anothers treasure, I'm a firm, firm believer. Because I used canvas the fat pencil tip wouldnt get down past the textured canvas which is why there's the gritty look, it's not just crap pixilation. But I used watercolor washes to put in some flesh tones and smooth out the gritty. Can't go wrong with Pelikan colors, expensive but worth it for sure. I need to go back and get more colors, more options, more flair. And I just used a gel ink black pen for the eyes, super black and clean, perfect for that. In the background, I used cheapo art store brand acrylic for the yellow, had to do a thousand layers, the paint sucked, doesnt stick to the surface, it basically crumbles on and you have to kind of squash it on there. The finished product was nasty. The Liquitex medium magenta went on smooth, like peanut butter, it just feels good, for some of the rays I only needed one layer, a second just for good measure. An universe of difference. Too bad I'm stuck with a crate load of crap art store brand acrylics that I got when I was a broke ass art student. I never skimp on materials anymore, it pays to pay. My advice to you.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The 95th at 17 in 2010
17-year-old Castlemont High student slain, sister wounded in shooting outside East Oakland home
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 01/01/2011 08:47:11 AM PST
Updated: 01/01/2011 06:22:54 PM PST
OAKLAND -- In what one homicide detective denounced as "one of the most cowardly acts" he has ever investigated, a 17-year-old Castlemont High School student was killed and his older sister wounded Friday night outside their home by a gunman who opened fire moments after they put the woman's 5-month-old daughter into her car seat.
The infant was not hurt, nor were two other female relatives who were present, police said.
"It was a miracle no one else was hit," homicide Sgt. Gus Galindo said Saturday. "We could very easily have had four or five people killed."
Killed was Christopher Jones, who Galindo said was a churchgoing, music-loving, "good kid who never had been in trouble." His family told police he was a senior at Castlemont who got excellent grades.
Police did not release the name of his 24-year-old sister who was wounded in the foot or any of the other family members present.
The shooting happened about 6:30 p.m. New Year's Eve outside the family's home in the 7400 block of Fresno Street not far from Eastmont mall, a half-block from 73rd Avenue.
Galindo said Jones, his sister and the others were going to drive the infant to North Oakand to the her father's home for a visit after stopping for dinner.
They never made it.
Neighbors and loved ones tied balloons with "RIP Chris" and other messages printed on them to the gate outside Jones' home Saturday. Across the street, piles of broken window glass
marked the scene of the shooting.
Galindo said police do not have a motive for the attack and no arrests have been made.
"From what we've learned so far, it appears they were ambushed" just after putting the infant inside the car, he said. "There was no apparent warning and no indication of any argument or fight."
Jones died at 7 p.m. at a hospital. His sister was treated and released.
An angry Galindo said, "This is one of the most pathetic cases I've ever had."
"Anybody who does something like this does not deserve to be a free citizen," Galindo said. "They need to be locked up. What a terrible way to end the year."
The killing was Oakland's 95th homicide of 2010. There were 110 in 2009. The city's first homicide for 2011 would soon follow, when an 18-year-old Bay Point man was shot to death in East Oakland just nine minutes after midnight.
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 01/01/2011 08:47:11 AM PST
Updated: 01/01/2011 06:22:54 PM PST
OAKLAND -- In what one homicide detective denounced as "one of the most cowardly acts" he has ever investigated, a 17-year-old Castlemont High School student was killed and his older sister wounded Friday night outside their home by a gunman who opened fire moments after they put the woman's 5-month-old daughter into her car seat.
The infant was not hurt, nor were two other female relatives who were present, police said.
"It was a miracle no one else was hit," homicide Sgt. Gus Galindo said Saturday. "We could very easily have had four or five people killed."
Killed was Christopher Jones, who Galindo said was a churchgoing, music-loving, "good kid who never had been in trouble." His family told police he was a senior at Castlemont who got excellent grades.
Police did not release the name of his 24-year-old sister who was wounded in the foot or any of the other family members present.
The shooting happened about 6:30 p.m. New Year's Eve outside the family's home in the 7400 block of Fresno Street not far from Eastmont mall, a half-block from 73rd Avenue.
Galindo said Jones, his sister and the others were going to drive the infant to North Oakand to the her father's home for a visit after stopping for dinner.
They never made it.
Neighbors and loved ones tied balloons with "RIP Chris" and other messages printed on them to the gate outside Jones' home Saturday. Across the street, piles of broken window glass
marked the scene of the shooting.
Galindo said police do not have a motive for the attack and no arrests have been made.
"From what we've learned so far, it appears they were ambushed" just after putting the infant inside the car, he said. "There was no apparent warning and no indication of any argument or fight."
Jones died at 7 p.m. at a hospital. His sister was treated and released.
An angry Galindo said, "This is one of the most pathetic cases I've ever had."
"Anybody who does something like this does not deserve to be a free citizen," Galindo said. "They need to be locked up. What a terrible way to end the year."
The killing was Oakland's 95th homicide of 2010. There were 110 in 2009. The city's first homicide for 2011 would soon follow, when an 18-year-old Bay Point man was shot to death in East Oakland just nine minutes after midnight.
Foster The People/Pumped Up Kicks
I just like it.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
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