The After Party

So after the Incubus show ended kinda quick and the HPD got all crazy on people trying to force them to leave quick, I went for a bite to eat.

Went to this place called MAC 24-7 which stands for Modern American Cuisine and open 24-7.

Ridiculous place, kinda retro hip with locals and tourists alike.


So they serve these enormous portions of food, it's really awful actually cuz no one can hope to eat them....and they are not that expensive considering the price of food...

here check out the pancakes....you get three and like a quart of blueberries for 14$...the blueberries alone in a supermarket here are like 5-6 bucks..

the salsa and chips is like an entire huge bag and two huge huge heapings of salsa, like a jar each....

it's really fun cool and interesting but I could help feeling like it was such a freakin waste....

but if used wisely.....what a deal.

INCUBUS

So on Friday Night I went to see Incubus one of my personal favorites, perform at the waikiki shell....

It's at the end of the Waikiki area where it turns into this large park called Kapiolani Park.

it's near the beach, yet secluded so it's not the most identifiable structure near by.

as you can see, I watched a Moon Rise....

yeah a fricking moon rise over diamond head crater to the very Right side of the Amphitheater.

Concert was OK....just I've seen them a few times and they have been so much better.

Plus the show ended early...

Still the crowd was a bit tame, but that was partly my fault cuz I stuck close to a co-worker who I met there. Her and the boyfriend where together and we all snuggled up on a blanket on a lawn at the shell....kinda nice, but when the music started I was kinda Isolated adn around boring concert goers....I shoulda kinda ditched them and went up close to the stage...but whatever.

there was a couple cool moments.

I bought a lighter before the concert, ya know trying to bring back the raising of the lighters instead of the cell phones at a concert.....anyways it had this extra light on it, that I only realized during the concert....it was a rainbow light that would shift from red to blue to green to red and so on and so on and if you held down the button it would go faster and faster adn kinda crazy....So naturally I started creating my own laser light show as I danced on the grass...it was one of those little cool moments I won't soon forget.

then the very best part....the end they played a song called....Aqueous Transmission off of a very cool album called Morning View..(ya know the one with Warning, nice to know you, and Wish you were here)

Well it's freaky, tranquill, meditative and atmospheric and I laid on the grass and stared up at the night sky and the stars and the moon over the old volcano and let the vibrations come up through the ground.....and I was completely sober by the way.

So it was another one of those little moments....turned big.

Also a little cool pic of this Smoothie, health food store called blue Hawaii. nice wave on the wall.

Mahalo

Waimea

seriously holly shit, this place was awe-inspiring and breath taking...I didn't even see some of the nearby trails and roads that would have taken me to huge falls and cliff's u can jump off... not that I would want to....

people freak me out about the cliffs over here, telling me, yeah there is always this one guy who doesn't come back up....thanks.

this was the most spectacular beach on this journey with beautiful shots at each angle. You can see I approached and took a few shots, then from the bridge I took a shot of some still water that is actually behind the beach, which is like a giant raised mound of whitish sand....so it's like a fun frolicking hillside of a beach with big surf, big lava rocks nearby, then after I passed the beach I looked back and saw it from it's most beautiful angle, you can make out a giant rock on the beach which as signs all over it warning not to climb and in the distance a lighthouse church kinda thing....not sure actually what it is....across from all this on the mountain or Makau side of things is Waimea Valley, where the cliff jumping streams, lakes and trails are...I have not seen this yet.

Sunset Beach

HO HUM, another gorgeous stretch of surf and beach...blah blah :)

A Few pics from the MacNut Farm

Windward to Northshore

North Shore via the Windward Kam highway

So here, after going over the LIKELIKE hwy, I cross onto the Kam highway and head north.

Past HEEIA, HUULA, and KAAWA, I'm the farthest I have gone.

I pass the Macademia Nut farm, mmmm. covered with Kona coffee and dark chocolate.

I drink a free cup a joe and urinate like a race horse...

my butt is sore, I think I will have to check my prostate levels after all the pressure it has been put through...

Pass the Polynesian Cultural Center, each time I think to go, I flip flop from wanting to go to not wanting to go there....someday.

I pass shrimp ponds and shrimp trucks selling fresh shrimp plates.....mmm good, garlic butter shrimp, huli huli hot schrimp, coconut deep fried love schrimp....I urinate in a most disgusting porta potty...I imagine all sorts of creatures in their and freak myself out a bit, I imagine having to do Number 2 in this place and shudder at myself for thinking such fearful thoughts.

Food is overpriced 12 plate, and the schrimp are living next door, so it can't be any fresher or cheaper, but alas.....you cannot win here in the price game....so i eat my 10 prawns, two scoops a sprinkling of boring lettuce loaded with dressing....and I'm on my way....a huge crowd of tourists from buses start rolling up, I'm so glad I beat them by a few minutes...

my helmet crashing off of my scooter, attracting unwanted attention...I wash my hands in these sorta funny ready made sinks under a gianty canopy that houses picnic tables at the Fumi schrimp stand.

as I stated before the road is curvy and travels along the coast, the water is beautiful as I venture further north the mountains and valleys to the L of me become more and more bright lush green colors a sign of significant rainfall..

I end up at a small beach area and walk along into the water....and can never get all the sand off my feet for the next 4 hours :(

I take pics of my footprints cuz it looks like i'm the only one who ever traveled, of course people are near me, but I like to play these-I'm tom hanks in castaway where's Wilson the volleyball kinda games in my head when I'm alone...

MalaeKahana State Park

this place was nestled along the windward coast....imagine

trees, forest. camp grounds.....a few paces past some tents and bushes oh shit there is this giant raging ocean...

so cool, again strong current, rough choppy seas-breathtaking visions of another Bay and a small isolated island just offshore.

this is just one of the areas visited along my 6 hour ass and back breaking trek on the scooter around about 1/2 the island.

I crossed the ever so treacherous LikeLike, as usual fought some Rain. and did what I had to do.....cry the whole way inside my head...

actually it was an awesome ride....especially in the tunnel through the mountain, again my shadow chased me and raced me from over my R shoulder, such an interesting visual game to play....love speeding through the tunnel the wind whips, the echo of my WWWAAAAAHHHHH motor drowns out my IPOD, the CLICK_CLUM of the beat of every ten feet of road breaker that I pass over and the blast of light every 1=2 seconds from the overhead lights in the tunnel which create an instant shadow that seems to fly past me as I tend to see three shadows at once, one from the light I passed, one from the light I am alongside and one from the light in the future (like animation, frame by frame giving life to still art)...gives me chills how cool something seemingly insignificant can be...

More pics of this journey

Honolulu Festival PICS

Honolulu Festival

So I went to this place on saturday or sunday I forget, it was the Honolulu Festival where all sorts of Asian cultures collide and do marches, dances, fight-dances, marching bands, martial arts, floats...phat beats.

So the best where these group of bad ass koreans, one girl had a giant attenae around her head attached to a long ribbon, I followed this chick for at least ten minutes and her head kept bobbing the whole time so that the ribbon would whip around and around her head like she was performing in the Olympic Floor Mat freestyle program...

I was impressed, especially they had the best music, they just rocked out like a hip hop drum beat kinda thing with some chimes and were very loud and cool

other groups consisted of a bunch of clearly UN-HOT old Geisha ladies, but they still broke shit down. They were doing this Tai-Chi kinda cheerleader dance, people kinda went a little nuts for them.

Met some friends on the beach had some conversation, wine and brownies, and wine and hummus....had the famous Teddy Burger later that night, pretty good, but it's a burger.

Oh yeah and there were all these Raiders of the Lost Ark of the Convenant things everywhere.....

I don't know what they were for, perhaps someone opened them all at the end, while people shouted don't look into the light, whatever you do don't look into the light.

Maybe you remember the scene from raider of the lost ark. Maybe you don't....

Excited over a brand new Indiana Jones movie coming to theatres in May right?

So there were all these giant asian floats too, check out the huge green dragon,

Very funny actually, earlier in the day I went and got a manicure and pedicure, I know go ahead I don't care say it....anyways, my nasty fungi long curled toenails and blistered feet needed some desperate love that only less than minimum wage filipina and vietnamese women can give....also I was starting to dig into my patients too much and need to buff down my fingernails.

Hysterical they all seemed to hate me when I walked in there, I was wearing a shirt I used to wear when I worked at the Westborough office Park with my brothers,

the women Jenny thought I worked at the zoo, I laughed and asked her IF it was because I smelled like the zoo, she told me she was good girl, no dancing, only work exercise threee times a week and pray with my children and listen to children.

I took it as an offer of marriage...I dunno maybe that was just me picking up the wrong vibe.

thanks Jenny.

PunchBowl Closeup of tomb of unkown soldier

Also, Pretty rocks mark the front of the Aquarium....

the kitchen sink... well it was neat

and the Leonards Bakery is the famous spot to get the Malasada's a portuguese doughnut thing fried dough of love..... that rips through my intestines.

PunchBowl....the other old volcano crater

Went atop Puchbowl finally, atop is the pacific war world II memorial honoray cemetary of japanese american soldiers lost in the pacific rim....I dunno but it has a long title.

It is a nice place, similar to Arlington National Cemetary in Washington DC except no rows of white crosses, only green fields, massive with headstones in the ground, so at certain angles you see all these cool reflections.

I've been baby sitting the anxious roomate, we have been ok together he has survived.

He took me up to these place punchbowl and on top of this scenic drive nearby called Tantalus drive.....

that is where I saw the downed scooter, just a joke it is not mine, mine is still operational as planned.

Happy Easter everyone...

I actually did this on last Saturday....a ton of posts to come...

North Shore Pics