fpac. 2008.

 

san pedro.

hey people. i went to fpac this weekend with a couple friends just to chill cause we really didn’t have anything else to do on that saturday. so we took a drive down to san pedro instead. for those of you who don’t know what fpac is, it is the festival of philippine art & culture. i have been to one of these since tyrone lue was a laker. weird fact on whhy i remember it, because my family and i went to his autograph signing before we went to fpac. so it had to have been at least 5 years old. so anyways, i mainly wanted to go because of a couple of the headliners, ms christine “happyslip” gambito and ms camile velasco. more on them in a bit. but before we hit up fpac, we had to do some stuff at frank and sons, i wish i was strapped with cash cause i could have spent a lot on there. but anyways on to fpac.

 

thai food at a filipino event. good thing there are long lines.

so me steve and paolo finally get there. there was a little parking situation where there were signs put up saying you should park on 22nd street. but it was further out than 37th street. that was wayyyy too far, so we looked for parking at the event, and found one sorta fast, in an illegal type way. everyone seemed to be parking along the coast and curb of the road. signs were clearly posted no parking and no stopping, but hundred of people disregarded the signs. so by the time we get there, we hadn’t eaten yet. and it was already 1:30. we headed straight to the food stands, we look and the filipino food had a long ass line. so we decided to eat at the thai bbq stand. and thats where i found my cousin scott, he also was celebrating his 24th birthday. happy birthday again. anyways, while we were inching closer to the cashier, i decided to go in line for smoothies at another stand. and there was this girl there that looked familiar, but i just couldnt lay my finger on it. until that night when i found out it was paola’s sister. its a crazy small world. and so as we were bringing our food to the benches was pass by the bakitwhy.com booth. i look to my right…….. it was christine! so i get to the bench get a little antsy and then eat eat eat eat. i finished eating and then headed out to see her. 

 

i got her digits.

i had a cameraman and a videographer with me to capture this event. and yes, i youtubed it. first question i usually get is, why did i let her sign my powerbook. it is because the very first video i saw of hers was her mac beautiful video. thanks sister. in it she sings about her powerbook, and i find out that we have the exact same one. a 12″ g4 powerbook. and shes a mac user as well, and when i watch this video, i like the part where i ask her if she could sign it and everyone just goes “wooowwwwww”. that was pretty cool, but here it is:

yep. you cant really beat that. or can you? so after my happyslip moment, we finally got to go around the place, check the sights and sounds of what fpac had to offer. they had many booths there on clothes and stuff. they had some good designs and some ghetto ones too. and so while making the rounds on the grounds (it rhymed) we got back to the main stage….

 

guy in the blue! its Travis Kraft !!!!!!

you need to press play on that. i really wanted to meet him too. he was selling his dvd there on how to cook filipino food. i bet its pure comedy too. oh well.

 

korean friendship bell.

since i haven’t been to san pedro in ages we decided to get out of the place for a bit and check out the korean friendship bell at the top of the hill. it seemed like an awkward place to put a korean bell, but after checking out the view, it felt like a good place to have the bell at. i just remembered that they did a scene in hamlet 2 here. its the part where his wife is doing a photoshoot. go watch the movie too. but yeah, we chilled there for a while, and came back down as soon as we heard camile starting to sing. we barely caught the last parts of it and as soon as she finished, she went to her booth in where she was going to sign autographs and such.

 

yesssur. its camile.

oh man was she awesome, ill go straight into the video this time:

this absolutely made my day. when she said she knows me, you could see myself smiling for days on in.  pause at :38. =) and its like that every time i watch it.  she does explain how she knew me, but for those not wanting to watch it, she watched one of my video responses from her first video. in it i say whuttup and that i support her and the camiletv crew. and for her to remember just a kid with a youtube account, it truly meant a lot. and i would have to say it was better than happyslip. but i love them both. we left during happyslip’s speech just so we dont run into the heavy traffic on the way out. after that, we went to some halloween stores and ate some yoshinoyas .. lol at yoshinoyas. but that was about it. my crazy day. im going to save this document, sign off, and then look at my powerbook. =) . my powerbook says ” i hope you do wonderful things on the wonderful machine.” i thank her for writing that, now i have to live up to it, which i can’t and won’t let her down. and now, im going to go to sleep. 

 

oh yeah, the vmas really sucked hard. i have so many issues on it in which i will blog on it in another episode. blah. peeeeeeace out people.

i am 8-bit (take 2)

its a great show. here’s info if you want to go:

World of Wonder Storefront Gallery
6650 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, California

monday through friday from 12 pm – 7 pm.

free admission, free parking if you can park on the side, free posters, and free stickers.

GO! and have fun.

i am 8-bit sunday.

if you guys haven’t heard about the i am 8 bit art show thats going on, it’s an art show based on 80′s & 90′s video games. so if you’re an 80′s baby like i am, you should definitely go check it out. its located at the world of wonder gallery, i forgot the address but it’s on hollywood blvd, and right next too skooby’s hot dogs. me, steve, paolo and his brother john, we out to hollywood to go to the show and then we saw this:

 

CLOSED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the world of wonder gallery was CLOSED! wtf! they just opened on thursday, and were closed on the weekend. that was sad. we could see some of the art through the bars, but we couldn’t get inside. i have some pictures of some of the art that was on the outside windows, but i feel like you should go and check the art out yourself. there were some real big pieces too, like the toy figure of blanka, and one cool looking toy grenade of pac-man. and so we were bummed out. 

we walked around hollywood for a minute, and realized there really isn’t that much going on there. we turned back around and i figured since we were here we might as well go a couple streets down to sunset and visit my favorite place in the world.

 

ahh .. amoeba.

yes indeed, amoeba records. god how i love that place. we went all around the building, like we should. and if you haven’t gone yet, you really need to. its one of the best locations in so cal. anyways, i usually go to the vinyls sections in amoeba, particularly the clearance hip hop bins. you’ll usually find me there create digging hip hop or soul. this time i walked away with just 15 bucks worth of vinyl, i had to cop the limited press of portishead’d machine gun.

 

i love portishead.

and i picked up some other rocafella shit. usually you can always find memphis, beans and free in the 50 cent isle. which i clearly don’t mind, so i picked some of that up. but my friend paolo might have got the pickup of the day. he got tiny toon adventure’s season 1 vol.1 on dvd. after our short trip to LA we went back to paolo’s ate some food and watched some tiny toons. yeah, that show is still dope. brought back lots of memories too. 

i am going back to i am 8 bit some time this week, for sure, cause the show is there only til september 7th. i will re do this blog when i get to go inside tis time around. and other info for people who want to go, it’s from 12 pm – 7 pm monday – friday. =) peace!