Stuff to Do, starting now.

SO ya ya ya summer is over. Come on you guys. Is it REALLY that bad? Maybe I'm just clueless since I live alone and have no associations with anything seasonal (including the weather-- it's always nice here) or educational (unfortunately), but I REALLY could care less that it's Labor Day. You shouldn't either. The year is winding down, that's sort of odd. It went by fast. I'm not sure what makes time go by fast anyway. I mean-- it's always going at the same pace, it's just when we actually stick our head up and notice it.
Well whatever. It's just Labor Day. Not like the craziest milestone. Let's talk more about time and legacies at the end of December, K?

Meanwhile-- DON'T get overwhelmed for this weekends activities!!! Let's just take it one day at a time. It's always better to have 7 things on your plate that way when you only make it to 4 or 5 it's still a very successful weekend. I'll take it one day at a time for your weekend suggestions on here anyway. With the exception of Skin, because you need to plan for that one. The rest? Eh. Just do what I do and have one drink at each event. I swear one day I'll make a party hopping pop-up book. For now, here:

Lunch at the Contemporary Museum today would be a good idea. Get up there! They are debuting the new exhibit and it's supposed to be HELLA dope. All smoke and mirrors. I already mentioned something about this. I'm hella excited to see the Phantasmagoria.... and eat an avacado wrap. [photo by c. russell -sb]


Whirl away from the office and right into the lovely property of the Honolulu Academy of Arts for "Endless Summer" and see Keoki make surfboards. These are always fun and overflowing with interesting people. Lurk the photo galleries from past events to see what I mean on their website.


Go to Art After Dark early. Like, right at 6pm. Do a whizz-through-whirlwind tour of everything and then get your ass over to UH for Jake's Onthe1. He does these regularly and knows what he's doing. ALLLLL college students are free so get there before its over at 10:30


NEXT!! More Hip Hop because that's the best stuff to dance to. Let's just dance dance dance tonight ok? Check out the Nomasterbacks album release at Tropics over by Ward:


If, for some reason, you aren't down with that then you can't go wrong at Soul Clap. That's Esake's deal so you know it goes off, and when I say "off" I mean very good vibe, you can dance if you want to, you can chat if you want to, and guaranteed there will be a nice chill place to kick it if you want to. Nocturnal Sound CREEEW!

Weekend Highlights....

...on a Thursday. I know, it took me a bit to get em done-- and the week has just floated away right out from under me. DAMN!

Highlights? Well!
moose's anniversary party

care package from HEAVEN otherwise known as italy

kid koala koolness

cold turkey is a bit.... cold

headed for the hills

and BIANCA was back in town. so we skylined.


THE ENTIRE BLOG IS READY!!

Thursday will be....

...great! I think?



ALSO: Prepare for this if you so wish:

Tau Dance Theater
Deca Dance Remix
A fundraiser celebrating over a decade of art featuring
an evening of dance, music, food and fashion.
Saturday, August 18th
6:30pm -10pm
Honolulu Design Center
1221 Kapiolani Blvd.
$20 General Admission
$100 VIP Table Service, Pupu’s and a $20 Amuse Wine Bar Card
Exclusive Fendi Fashion Show
$250 Ultra VIP – Le Chef’s Feast, private dining room with four-course
dinner and wine pairings. Valet Parking, $20 Amuse Wine Bar card
and exclusive Fendi fashion show.

Tickets: Call 227-7718 or on-line at: www.taudance.org
featuring dance performances by Tau Dance Theater, 24-VII Dance Force, Shakti Dance Movement, Cocoa Chandelier, Derek Daniels and Poi Licious. Dance to the music of DJ Jedi.

So Yesterday...

...was try something new day. Did a double smackdown on that starting with lunch at the new I Love Sushi in Kaimuki with Kalima. Uhhhh. That sparseness on the belt was because we were the only ones in there. I think that gap is what we wolfed down 2 seconds after we sat down. There is something about instant gratification, especially when it's mixed with food. Oh man.

The second new thing? Oh, trying to take video. I'm no iJustine but here's the banger from last night's fashion show. Models! Don't be in such a hurry to get off the runway. That last pose before stepping down MATTERS :)


Ok. I promise no more of these unless they are good. :)

TONIGHT. Oh man. I already talked about tonight on Tuesday. I've seen Jake every night this week and he is pretty hyped for tonight. For the love people. He's got this amazing act that is going retro style (um, that's 90's to some of us) with the hip hop and live art. Think Tribe-- like that early to mid decade boom bap era. Oh... and fashion shows. Fashion!

Don't not go. The last one was epic. So much love in the room.

Public Enemy....

...was totally here a few years ago. Remember that? You might have missed it. Even though there was a ridiculously loyal fan base that turned out for this, I think the show was an overall miss but ONLY as far as profit goes. Ask Dave Hisaka, some people can stand to lose 50K here or there...but for the people that WERE at this show and WERE fans of Public Enemy it was an outstanding afternoon. Amazing even. I'll even stretch that and say it was the best show in terms of hip hop I've seen out here. Davie says it's the best show he's ever seen and he doesn't even LIKE hip hop.

The venue was perfect-- outdoors, plenty of room, bathrooms, choke parking. No bottleneck situations as far as entering or leaving. The vibe and energy of the crowd was top notch. Just a great well thought out plan. The only thing missing? PEOPLE. I seriously respect everyone in concert industry on Oahu. You never know what people will show up for. It's a gamble probably pretty much every time.

What got me on that? Oh, Jason's column mentioning Wu Tang's full lineup heading out here with Supernatural and Bone Thugs September 1st at the Blaisdell. Do they have enough Hawaii fans to fill that place? Will they actually buy tickets and show up? And WTF Living Legends?!?! WHY aren't you coming as well, you are part of the Rock the Bells but you can't make another trip to your 'second home' again? What's up. We love you... we THOUGHT you loved us. So anyway, ya there's no question that this will sell out. Right? RIGHT?

We'll see... I know I'm buying my ticket as soon as they go on sale just in case. You never know!

Thursday Hip Hop. Hip HAWP.

After work you should make an attempt to eat something delicious... and I'm talking about stuff like potato chip nachos. Macadamia nut crusted warm brie with honey and basalmic vinegar. Etc. Kincaids! Pupus are half-price and YES it's a ZONE event... but good is good-- and those eats are damn good. I've been loving that spot for years. Proof.


TONIGHT as in late nite is another fantastic hip hop show that you won't regret seeing at Next Door. Pharcyde's Fatlip is there with OMNI who has been known to cahoot with the likes of Aceyalone [ahem, the best kept secret in hip hop but whatever]. Side note: hip hop show is the most underestimated source of pure unadulterated GOOD there is. Never not fun... especially the underground shows at Next Door. Good vibe. AMAZING vibe. Much love. Much energy. Much dancing.
I'll be all up in that mix.
Word.

Highlights of Last Weekend...

...are noted below. There is also a new photo update for you to waste the next 8 minutes of your time. Happy Thursday, world.
massive ART

massive ANTON

anniversaries of the go! airlines

anniversaries of the prototype

birthdays of vince, grady and chittom at kaimanas


ALSO: thanks for your e-mails and text messages about the new job. I LOVE it! The job, that is. You as well though. It's really good here as far as people and opportunity. Radio. DUH! This is totally what I should have been doing like forever ago. Just wait and see what happens next... cause the ish is gonna get better.

The Zone 93.1
KUMU 94.7

Siiiiiick!

Luuuuuucy I know your secret

Lucy is back. She's going to be at 80s tonight. So are the Nocturnal Sound Crew! I just 'happened' to be there one time for one of these and it blew me away. Most fun everrr.

I guess I have to say goodbye to Melissa and Stephanie now too. Even tho I don't want to. Maybe if Dan ever updates danceonpartyon you will get to meet them and see why I'm straight-woman-crushing. Either way. BYE GIRLS! Last night ruled.

Ok that's all.

Everything looks better in white....

...wait that's totally not true. Forget I even said that-- and excuse my total lack of enthusiasm today. I haven't been this angry in a super long time. 18 months to be exact.
Sorry. Moving on. The photo blog is done.
highlights? ok.
Spent a lot of time at the Sheraton this past week. You already saw Ryan's going-away. Spent the weekend there with Derin too.

It was Skyline's anniversary as you know... and some other stuff.

Also kicked it with Nu Mark from Jurassic 5 which was a hell of a treat.

I guess stuff like this will pass. Seriously. Stay away from me.

Richard Cheese from Lounge Against the Machine....

....was kind enough to take over Honolulu's Nightlife Diaries while I was away this weekend. His update has posted!

PS: Check out his albums, Aperitif for Destruction is my fav ;)

THURSDAY STUFF:

I meant to say that Streets of NYC skate vid thing is tonight at Next Door. I guess they are here filming Streets of Honolulu right now. THAT will be one to see. The vid will be followed by Hip Hop show. I love hip hop show.

Busy week means un-busy weekend. Ya right! Hello Saturday.

Right THIS second I'm off to tea with the fasion and SMART ladies in Manoa then to indie night tonight at Next Door with the CD-release party of Sattelite Grey. Very much looking forward to this.

As for the past week? The entire set is uploaded. Just want highlights? OK!
models on the bar at pearl

dueling watches with sakara's visiting brother rob at the ice bar

streaming live from manoa!

and finally, the best hip hop show since kool herc

HELLO Friday!

Anything of note tonight? A few f-f-f-fabulous f-f-food f-f-friday options that I know of are the openings of both Cassis [Harbor Court] and another Roy's [Waikiki Beachwalk].

There's also a new party happening at Thirtyninehotel for the indie/dance crowd. It's supposed to be pretty fun, I chatted with one of the promoters about it last night. New parties are fun!:


PS: Last night was crazy. Like a dream or something. The show was VERY good though. I had nightmares for the 2 hours I laid down though so please excuse me for now. Tired.

Learning! I learned a few things.

SO!
i'm totally excited in geek-land right now because i just figured out how to search just one site on Google. it was to find this picture:

i was looking for mako on my website so i put "mako site:supercw.com" in the search window and it pulled up everything from my site that has that. i'm SURE someone out there was wondering how to do that.

Last night was pretty ridiculous, by the way. If "ridiculous" means "BEST time ever". The pics are slowly making their way to the world of cyberspace so i'll let you know when. Actually, it appears that Chris's take is way better than what i can whip up so enjoy that for now.

Tonight is the last night of the Honolulu International Film festival AND the Zion i/The Grouch show at ND. I might go.