LA is fun at night

Man was this last weekend dope. Friday night I went to a bar in Torrance with my friend Daniel. If I remember correctly, there was quite a bit of tequila, jack daniels, moet, and dom perignon involved (Daniel is a baller). I got home at 7:30am after some breakfast at Denny's. Now that was a dope night.... I was able to somehow wake up on Saturday and get some paper work done. Then I took a nap and then Saturday night began. It started with a trip to club Circus in Hollywood where my high school buddy, Paris (so named before Ms. Hilton was big shit), did a DJ set from 11-1...

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La Cita

Last Friday I went to meet up with some friends in downtown LA. Somewhere off of 2nd St., between Broadway and Main there's a whole bunch of new bars. They're all a bit more upscale so they have dress codes on Friday and Saturday nights. So since I rolled up in my new balance, jeans, and a t-shirt they told us we couldn't get in. Not to fret said Anne, who said we should roll to La Cita. I think it was on Olive and 3rd or 4th. Anyhow, it's not a place I would have rolled into on my own, but she goes on Thursday nights sometimes when Swindle Magazine has their parties. She's an editor over there I think. Swindle is an undergroundish, random, artsy kind of magazine that's pretty...

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Drifting Golf

No, I'm not talking about drifting a VW Golf. Ken from American Gymkhana organized a golf game at El Dorado in Long Beach, CA with a bunch of friends in the "industry" this past Saturday. It was a nice day with a slight breeze. Everybody had a good time and since nobody was a serious golf player, it seemed like we all just went out there to fuck around (at least in my group). In my crew was Andy from HKS, Eddie from Mackin, Kenji from Mackin, Masa from Club Zero. What's Club Zero? Well, we'll save that for another day and another post, but it sure as hell isn't a car tuning related business. For those of you lucky enough to have been there, ya'll already know. Since Ken is pr...

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Long Beach Grand Prix 2007 - Saturday

Today I went to the grand prix to meet up with Gary from Design Craft, Alan from Sparco, and Jacky the hot freelance journalist chick. We cruised around and saw all kinds of stuff. Today the ALMS (American Le Mans) cars were running which are way dope. I also cruised around the Champ Car paddocks and ran into some of the Cosworth track support peeps. Andy from track support gave me a quick tour of the Aussie Vinyards paddock which was dope because I got to see a lot of the details of the Champ Cars. The Cosworth track support peeps hooked me up with an overcrew pass so I had access to everywhere including track side. Tomorrow is the Champ Car race and SCCA World Challenge race ...

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Hot Import Nights - March 24, 2007 Pomona, CA

I got a VIP pass to HIN last Saturday and I went to check it out with my buddies Troy (XS), Brett (Vivid Racing), and Jimmy (RHD Motoring). I haven't been to a HIN since the 2nd one ever I think. My has it grown. Let's just say that it's not exactly my scene. My buddies thought the same thing. Chingy the "hip-hop" artist was there on stage with his entourage. I put quotes around hip hop becuase today's hip hop isn't actually hip hop. It's hip pop, but that's another story. Anyhow, it was big, sponsored by Mazda, and there was a shit load of people. How would I sum it up? Lots of skanky models (most of which shouldn't be modeling), "show" cars, and vendor displays. Vendors like ...

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Snow

I just got back from Mammoth Mountain yesterday evening. Snow boarding is the shit! That's all there is to it. It was my 4th time boarding, but this time I really got the hang of it. There's something about gliding over the snow at a speed which man is not supposed to that makes it fun. I guess that's the thrill of it. I can see how x-games athletes become adrenaline junkies. I went up with a bunch of my cousins and their friends. I had a good time hanging with my cousins and stuff. (excuse the shitty motorola RAZR pics)

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Akihabara - Otaku Heaven Pt.2

Continued from yesterday's post...scroll down for part 1.

So after the maid cafe, we were walking down the street and we saw this 4 story building dedicated to old school video games. We all love Donkey Kong, Galaga, Space Invaders, and Asteroids right? Perfect for the 30 something year old otaku in us so we went to check it out. The first floor was old school game consoles like the original JDM Nintendo Famicom. The second floor was the middle school shit like the PS1,Sega, Colecovision, Intellivision, etc. They even had some Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 400/800/1200 stuff. The 3rd floor was used new school games and old school J music. The 4th floor was old school game ...

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Akihabara - Otaku Heaven

The last time I was in Tokyo, I stopped by Akihabara the "Electric Town". For tourists, it's known to be the spot to get deals on new or unreleased (in their country) electronic devices. So you can get the coolest stuff before anybody at home does. It's also known as the favorite spot for Otaku. A friend of mine's told me that Otaku can mean freak as in you like something a lot so you're a freak. So if you like golf then you're a golf freak or golf Otaku. But in today's world I believe the word Otaku refers to a dude who is shy around women, nerdy, and/or geeky. They are typically into electronics, computers, cameras, anime, toys, and women. Except that they don't actu...

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Dinner with Tarzan and Toshi

On Friday I had dinner with Tarzan, Toshi, Troy @ XS, and some friends at a Japanese BBQ Yakinikku spot in Fountain Valley. I think it's called Tsuruhashi (good stuff by the way). We ran into Moto Miwa the noodle king and Drift Day founder and his family there too. We didn't take any pics because we had way too much sake, but I thought I would mention how much fun we had. We had this whole 30 minute making fun of Toshi session on how Toshi was the gatekeeper in F&F3: Tokyo Drift. This is when the hick and Bow Wow roll up in the incredible Hulk VW and Bow Wow says, "What up, Tosh?!?!" Toshi proceeds to be the gatekeeper and opens up the gate. It took 4 hours to shoot this scene a...

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New Years

I spent NYE at Toshi's pad. Yes, Mr. Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, official English D1 announcer, JDM-Insider super star himself. Also there was Yu-san (JDM magazine photographer and JDM Insider), Phil from JDM Insider/360 Video who also doubled as the bad ass DJ, our good friend Jeff Igushi, Jimmy Lin (F&F Tokyo Drift super star), my friend Dave, and all of their associated girlfriends and friends. Was it a party? Today is Wednesday and I am just BARELY recovering. Unfortunately I was unable to take too many pics due to the fact that I was partying super hard, but here a couple. Most ...

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