Washing car saturday night and heard familiar whine of HFD1. It wasn’t totally unusual to hear them at night, but I started to take notice because they were hanging around the area. Sure enough they headed to the Koko crater and lit up a portion of the “stairs”. I had been thinking the other night when this would happen as I watched close to a dozen lights on that trail. Was it sooner rather than later? Hfd1 didn’t hang around that long then cruised over to Koko Head then moved on, so I thought maybe they were just being friendly. Continue reading ‘Good evening HFD1’
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Just got back from the HIFF screening of this anime feature, just found out that it was actually the US premier, and I scored a free ticket and got in the door before the crowd to boot! Directed and story by Mamoru Hosoda who previously also directed and did the story for Summer Wars which I also saw. ANd previous to that he directed the most recent anime version of Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Lept Through Time) which was excellent.
Super brief synopsis, this is the story of the life of a mother and her two half wolf children she raises. The wolf husband/father figures so briefly in the story that you don’t know much about him, which in the end works perfectly for the story.
Continue reading ‘Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki – The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki’
Pours a dark brown, medium heavy head, good persistant carbonation. A nice smooth dark, probably a good introduction to dark beers for someone not used to them. It’s got a nice mellow roastyness that is not too strong. There is not a overwhelming smokyness and the bitterness is well moderated. Easy drinking crisp, and tasty, damn I just downed one with my dinner just now and am feeling happy.
My final rating is probably colored by my buzzness and feeling of well being of having this with dinner after a hour+ ride, 4 out of 4 relaxed out monkeys.
Went to go watch the HIFF screening of this latest from director Noboru Iguchi. Here on our shores, he’s probably best known for Machine Girl which got fairly wide exposure, in addition to the usual film festival screenings it also got a US DVD release. His other works that I’ve seen are Mutant Girl Squad, Sukeban Boy, and he directed some of the eps of the Dogou Girl series. If none of these ring a bell, then you probably are not part of the demographic of those who enjoy these types of films. Were talking B (is it even that high?) grade Japanese gratutious splatter, nudity, prothstetic makeup, low budget effects, violence movies. Continue reading ‘Dead Sushi’
Seen late last night at 12:30 on my way home cruising through Waikiki on Kalakaua in front of the Outrigger, two JDM girls in one piece dresses playing around on skateboards. Wonder if the cops came by and gave them skate punks hastles for inappropriate behaviour.
Oh look who! So how much does each of these trips cost? Maybe those ideas of building a tram & restaurant, or zipline don’t sound so bad now?
Overheard as I was walking to Don Quixote. Two guys were parked on the street curbside parking debating the signs lining the side of the road. Begin 10/9/12 No Parking Anytime. One guy was justifying his parking there by saying it doesn’t specify an end period. Huh? No Parking… Anytime… Begin 10/9/12. Anytime… No Parking… Begin 10/9/12. How much more succinct can you get? It’s these people that would not even understand the Hot Coffee Is Hot warning, which despite all the chiding that McD incident gets, if you look into it I think the suit had validity. This incident however does not.
I just recently stumbled across KORL at 97.1 on FM radio. Radio? What’s that? In this age of MP3, digital streaming, there still does exist old school radio. I remember the KORL call letters from decades ago, but can’t quite remember what the format was. It’s gone through a number of changes. It is now featuring J-Pop. They claim to be the only FM J-Pop station in the nation, 24-7. They’ve actually been on air for a number of months already. Continue reading ‘KORL’
It’s been a few weeks so I guess it was due time for another visit by the HFD fly boys. This time a sunrise job thus the difficult lighting for the pics.
Saturday was the first race of what is the third season of RallyCross. Three? Wow! Anyway, they’re doing a bunch of work at KRP and us being the orphan racing event that kinda gets ignored by the track owners, we don’t pull in spectators after all, we got stuck into a small space. We made the best of what we could and it was a fun day. The back corner however was uncompacted and soft. It quickly turned into a rutted moondust silt fest mixed with rocks and mini-boulders. One of my first runs I managed to do this number to the front driver side rim. Didn’t blow the bead though. After the morning heat, I rotated it to the rear and aired up the tire. It held for the rest of the day.