The Optical Inch

I'm pretty sure I was telling some of you Kokura ninjas about this website last week. Just thought I'd post it up.

http://shaveeverywhere.com/

Enjoy

PS

The real PNC; this is a good song and the video is funny as shit too

I promise this is my last post today

More youtube funnyness

check the PNC Raptor scratchin up a storm

My brother's smarter than yours

check this out, my little bro was on the news! They called him a "pioneer" even (haha), I taught him everything he knows I tells ya


proud big bro

More ghost riding goodness

this guy rules. watch how he runs around the car. awesome

GHOST RIDE THE WHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yo, this is what its all about, ghost riding and getting hyphy, posted just for David, a great explanation about how to ghost ride the whip and what hyphy is and stuff (haha)




but anyways you all know that in Akama its all about ghost riding the train, heres a sneak peak of the new hit song by MC G-ary (straight outta Akama thug-life)

"Ghost ride the train"

(sung on a karaoke mic)
yo, yo, yo, yooooo

i ghost ride the train
im kinda insane
i do it in sun,snow or the rain
u may think im crazy but thats not true
i get out at the platform and drink a cool brew
then i eat a rice ball
dance with everyone and all,
cos im the tall shawl in the big ramen stall
cos im a ghost rider u know what i mean?
im a ghost rider,my homies are keen
got my man in JR hooking me up with that straight gangsta cream
ghost ride the train!
ghost ride the train!
u know u saw me and u know i came
chill on the platform then back on the train
cos i b doin it again and again

Ghost ride the train bitches!!!!!!

keep it real yo, keep it hyphy

Stones Throw tour pt 2

read part one first!!!!!!

OK so it would seem that I couldnt put any more pictures in the last post so heres the rest

so, Madlib was cool, would have been nice if he played for a bit longer but its all good, it was just nice to see my favouritist producer and prob just one of my fave hip hop artists in the flesh live and direct

"do you know what live and direct means?"

"live and direct"

OK so heres a picture with the flash on, doesnt look as cool and arty but ill just chuck it in for variety. next on was Egon, he was possibly the unexpected highlight. He basically played a whole lotta shit that probably hardly anybody woulda heard before. He started off by playing all this music that I thought was bhangra later to find out that it was Turkish music (I think Egon is Turkish) and it was totally badass, that shit has the baddest basslines and drums and just the tempo and beat you cant help but wiggle you hips like youre in a bollywood movie (even though it was Turkish), pretty much as soon as Madlib finished a shitload of people left so there was heaps more room too which ws nice, although i dont think the Japanese people really got the whole world music styles and not many people were dancing. Next up he went to Italy and played this Funk track from 1974(?) which is sampled on a DJ Shadow track, which was very cool and he played a few more Italian funk songs. I never knew that Italy had funk bands! Then he played this old funk track by this Jpanese band which had THE BADDEST MOST RAWEST BREAK EVER!!! Seriously the drums were so hard and ruff and just totally mad everyone go ohhhhhh!!!!! I have to find out who it was by. Then he went back to Turkey and played some Turkish funk songs which were pretty mean also.

Then that was the end of stones throw so i just hung out and waited till it was time for the first train, started walking from Tenjin to hakata station at about 3*30am at a leisuely pace, got to the station at about 4*15am with just enough time to get a cup noodle and hang out with the homeless people before catching the 4*53 train back to Akama.

I gotta say, theres something quite nice and peaceful about walking around a city at 4 in the morning completly sober by yourself, i think ill do it more often, who says going out by yourself is boring!!! (maybe a little lame but oh well thats me).

Stones Throw Tour, Japan

so at long last I finally got to see Madlib do a DJ set live, the Stones Throw Japan tour came thru town, it was, Peanut Butter Wolf, MED, Madlib and Egon, whatta mean lineup!!!!

So anyways, was a pretty cool night, just went lone warrior cos no one else was really that keen. Turned up to the club (Decadent Deluxe) at about 10:30pm which was relatively empty at that time (just like back home!), but that was cool i had a good look around the place, 3 floors, was very cool, kinda like an abandoned apartment turned into a club, had a look at the merchandise and got me a limited edition J Dilla 'Donuts EP' and a also limited edition J Dilla picture disc 7" with 2 tracks not on the album, sweet!

there were some Japanese DJs starting off the night playing some really cool jazzy hip hop instrumental styles which was cool, then this funny hardcore rap group came on, there were like 5 dudes all yelling and shouting over a wu tang beat and trying to act tough, i could what they were trying to do but it just came off a bit too shouty and stuff, was kinda funny

so after a little bit of that i decided to venture down to the main room and noticed PB Wolf was setting up so i thought id get a beer and find a good vantage point, done. PB Wolf was using Serato which was surprising cos he's such a vinyl fiend (actually no one used vinyl, both Madlib and Egon used CDs), but his set was pretty cool, at least half of it was a J Dilla tribute where he played alot of songs that he had produced and stuff like that, the dude was a legend man, actually throughout the night there was lots of Dilla related stuff played, was very cool

so after that PB Wolf stayed on and MED came out and did a set which was cool as, he even did the song that he featured on on Madlvillain (Raid), it was awesome hearing those songs (and lotsa madlib intsrumentals) on a big ass system instead of just my ipod headphones

after that Madlib came on, he started off just playing instrumentals, heaps of ones id never heard before, it was cool. haha everything was cool. anyways, the order of the night seemed to be funk and he played a boatload of really cool funk and stuff, would have been cool if he was MCing as well as DJing but maybe next time

Crazy freaking CATS

OK,

so I had the weirdest night last night. After getting home on the last train from Kokura, then listening to my new records (Max Roach, totally drums!!) and kinda having a boogie by myself (sad I know), I had me some water and went to bed. Thats when i Start hearing this crazy rrrrrreeeeeeoooowwaaaaarrrrrrrrriiiiiiieeeeewwwwwwweeeeeerriiiiiiiiieeeeoeowwwww!!!!!!!!!!! Kinda noise out on the street (Im on the 2nd floor), at first i thought it was a baby crying but i quickly figured out it wasnt human and it was a couple of cats trying to freak each other (and me) out. I though, OK ill ignore it and theyll stop soon enough, WRONG!!! 20 minutes later they were still at it and then they actually started fighting.

I have to say, cats fighting at 3am has to be one of the weirdest scariest things i have ever heard, and it kept going and it sounded like it was right outside my apartment so i thought stuff this im gonna have a looksee, went out on my balcony and on closer investigation i see this regular size cat and think "hmph"

and then.....

the mother load crazy ass godzilla cat comes into view, seriously this cat must have been the size of a doberman (no joke) it was without a doubt the biggest cat i have ever seen, a rottweiler would have freaked out. unforrtunatly by that stage they had finished their fighting and all they were doing was posturing and making crazy meowing noises, i tryed to get a photo but it was too dark and they were a little too far away for the flash, and to be honest i was a little freaked out to try go out onto the road and get a closeup of this cat, um and so yeah thats it, was quite surreal, maybe i dreamt it


so, conclusion is: Cats are totally bad ass and you should not mess with cats cos they will F$%& you up, they are way more badass than dogs. Therefore, cats rule.

Night night

Gary (dawg hater)

Look, its some drunk people!!


Everyone say Mi-hoooooo!!!!




David read manga porn





David dream manga porn









Sam says "suGOI!!!", Miho says "zzzzzzzzz"




No apologies for my shitty formatting, computers can eat a poo

Would post more but Im gonna go see Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, Egon and MED now, yeah!!!!

Mt. Adachi makes you sweaty

Climbed up Mt. Adachi with some American and some British person, we saw a monkey and we were all scared and thought it was going to attack us but it didnt do nada. Haha, I basically just put the other photo up to show how sweaty we were, was disgusting.

Also on the way down it started raining and we got completly soaked, was hillarious walking thru Kokura completly drenched, all these Japanese people just going heeeeeeehhh??! Had to buy a hyaku en t shirt, left the t shirt i was wearing at Starbucks, stink!!!! Someone send me a new Traffick t shirt.

Gary chan interior decorator at your service

So, I am basically a genius. There was a door that I didnt need in my apartment and some empty cardboard boxes, so I put two and two together, took the door off its hinges strengthened the boxes with some masking tape and wahey, its a table!!! (note the previously made table from a fedex box to the left). Check the door handle, classy.

So like, if you want any furniture made or some advice on gift giving, you know who to call.

RIP Steve Irwin

I know this is a little belated, but I just wanted to say that its kinda sad that the crocodile hunter died, however much people took the piss out of him he just kept doing what he did and he was the man, did alot of shit to help charities for animals and the environment that not many people really knew about cos he wasnt the type of dude to make a big deal about it, which in my opinion is super awesome in this day and age where you have dryballs' like Bono trying to "rid the world of poverty" by thrusting his $400 sunglasses around on some huge stage (anyway thats for another post)

crocodile hunter/Steve Irwin: respect bro

crikey!!

wow so this is kinda neat

anyhoo, I did have a bit of a blog thing going at myspace if anyone wants to look, its pretty average cos i didnt know how to put pics up and shit

http://www.myspace.com/31800916

anyways you should just go so you can hear this new song by PNC called just roll, its pretty rad

Wow now I have a proper blog instead of a shite myspace page

testing testing


Kia ora bitches

I thought Tom Kokura's (although not anymore) blog thing was so pretty lookin that I would do my own so I can show all youse NZ doodes and Japan peeps some photos and rantings and the like (and also i just wanted to be able to comment on other peoples blogs)


I am doing this from GEOS at the mo cos I dont got no interweb at home so once I get some file transfer action going on I will post some more stufffff