Filed under: OTAKU, Shoes / Clothes | Tags: air jordan, space jam, retro, AJ11, air jordan retro space jam, foot locker, finishline, champs
All the hype, and all the craziness for today’s release. It is pretty ridiculous how people craze over a pair of sneakers.
My acquisition of this sought after sneaker release started about 9pm online. Foot Locker, Champs, and Finish Line websites were being held up due to high traffic volumes. Foot Locker and Finish Line had splash pages that apologized for not working. Champs sports actually had a working site but was very slow. The AJ11 was published on the front page for purchase. After 2 minutes of entering my information, the check out page froze 5 times. After the 5th time I received a confirmation number, but no actual bill. I already had a feeling it didnt go through.
11pm rolled by, I headed out to my local mall where I had signed up on their security list for the 12am release with the mall security 3 days ago. I was on page 8 of like 15 pages of names. Luckily this placed me in the middle of the 300+ people that signed up. 40 degrees outside with a windchill waiting for mall security to escort 1 by 1 people to the store to pick up the store. Out of the 200 pairs expected, only 140 of them were accounted for in the various sizes. Fortunately for me, my size is not one of the more popular sizes as 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11, 11.5 were sold out in a matter of 10 minutes. Long story short, I made my way up to the door and luckily the security guard called my name for the last pair of the last adult size. I was escorted with 2 other lucky crazed sneakerheads to pick up the last of the Space Jams for the night. By the time I got home, it was 2:30 am… 5 hours until work. Despite all the hype, freezing my ass off, and the price tag of the shoes….it was very exciting and rewarding experience as I had avoided the next morning full of violence, crowds and craze of this Air Jordan re-release.
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: b18c1, exedy, exedy clutch, exedy sport, garageworks, honda, jdm, n1concepts, sex
Got around to changing the clutch on my car. Lost count of how many miles I had on the motor with this car, but I approximate about 100k + This is what was left of the clutch disc. The clutch was not slipping yet, but it was making some rattling noises. I am assuming it was trying to grab or the throw out bearings were worn. Special thanks to the Garageworks crew for helping on the install.
Filed under: Life
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. For those who are going “Black Friday” shopping, good luck and be safe. I will be updating this blog as soon as I can find some time to upload and write new entries. Lot’s of new things in the past few months. Stay tuned!
Filed under: Shoes / Clothes | Tags: air jordan, air jordan air force, air jordan IV cement, AJF4 cement
Picked up a new pair of beaters. AJF4 Cement. Not the OG design, but close enough. Don’t have to worry about ruining or creasing 500+ dollar shoes.
Filed under: Shoes / Clothes | Tags: air jordan, air jordan 3 2009 retro, air jordan 3 true blue, air jordan retro, true blue
Picked up the re-release of the Air Jordan 3 True Blues. Suppose to be an Asia only release. I found it online for retail plus shipping. Good retro, seems like it is identical to the OG except of course for the jumpman logo. Now I just need JB/Nike to re-retro the Air Jordan 4 Cement/White and we are good!
Filed under: OTAKU | Tags: comic con 2009, iron man 2, lightbike, lost, megan fox, olivia munn, san diego, san diego comic con, san diego comic con 2009, slave leia, tony stark, tron 2, tron legacy
Made my way to attend the SDCC 2009 on Friday and Saturday. From the stats, the attendance soared to about 125,000 people. CRAZY! Too much to talk about. I will outline the biggest highlights for me:
- Megan Fox (promoting Jonah Hex). Got about 3 feet from her. Too many bodyguards
- Olivia Munn (Attack of the Show G4 TV)
- Walt Disney Pictures – CRAZY promotion this year. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, TRON LEGACY!!! AIWL had a traveling prop exhibit. Actual props and sets were viewable at a remote location in SD’s downtown. TRON LEGACY had their awesome promotion with FLYNNs ARCADE at a remote location in SD’s downtown as well. A well setup 80s arcade with working coin ops and 80’s music. At the end, they kick you out through a concept art exhibit and the new Lightbike prop from the new movie! Free tshirts as well. AMAZING!
- Cosplayers! Met the regular usuals that attend all SW events and cons. Miss Christie Marie. She’s a huge Star Wars fan with a custom made Slave Leia costume made for her figure. Thats hot! Check out her youtube video interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_XYTA5SB6A
-LOST – final season and many cast members and the producers showed up to please the fans! I actually camped out on the lawn to get good seats for Hall H on saturday just to see them. DIE HARD. I don’t think I’d ever do this for anything else besides Star Wars.
- IRON MAN 2 – Downey JR, Favereau, Cheadle, and Scarlett Johanssen show up for their panel to promote the new movie for 2010! Exclusive trailer is freaking awesome!!!
Also partied it up at Hard Rock Cafe across the street from the convention center on Friday night. They hosted all the celebs and it was great seeing all of them. I will try to make this an annual event for myself. Cannot wait for the 41st event next year!! Enjoy the very fractional amount of pics I have uploaded :p
Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: 3GS, apple, apple iphone, incase, iphone 3G, iphone 3GS, ipod
Finally updated my phone to the iPhone 3GS. Never had a smartphone before so this is a huge update and upgrade for me. Haven’t had time to put this thing down. Im frequently downloading new applications everyday. I hope I am not going to be rude like all my other friends at the table texting away during a meal or a movie….hahaha.
Also picked up the inCASE slider protector sleeve for the phone. Probably the best case out there for the iPhone right now.
Filed under: Food and Drinks, OTAKU | Tags: droids, R2 Cake, R2 droid cake, R2D2, R2D2 cake, Star Wars
A project collaboration with my 2 cousins and myself on a Star Wars birthday cake. The whole cake is made from scratch. Here are the following steps we took to build our lovable Droid 
Step 1, 7 layers of cake to build the body and dome. Body consists of 2 layers of confetti cake, 2 layers of chocolate cake, and 3 layers of red velvet. Body of cake and frosting made by my talented partners in this project.
Step 2. Attach dome to body of cake
Step 3. Frosting the body of the cake with R2D2 colors of white, grey, and later with blue and gray. Frosting and color matching applied by my talented cousins.
Step 4. Apply details of the R2 unit with frosting by piping. Detailed frosting applied by myself with useful pictures of R2D2 technical details from the web
Step 5. Add additional details with frosting
Step 6. Construct R2’s legs out of rice krispie treats. Treats and base frosting made by my talented cousin. Details piped by myself.
Step 7. Apply leg unit to the body unit. Skewers were used for extra structural rigidity.
Step 8. Apply touch up details and frosting and present!!
Filed under: Movies | Tags: green day, linkin park, megan fox, megatron, michael bay, optimus prime, pat lee, transformers
Transformers, Revenge of the fallen. What the hell did Michael Bay do to tarnish this 80’s cartoon franchise which I grew up with and loved. The first Transformers movie was at least entertaining. Revenge of the Fallen was just total garbage. Not even entertaining. 2 1/2 hours of just huge explosions and tin foil throwing each other around. I think the best part of the movie was the end credits when Linkin Park’s new single cued.
Even Green Day’s single got annoying as they played it about 3-4 times in the movie including the end credits. I cannot wait until somebody comes in and restart the franchise like they did with Batman. Transformers Begins: The Cybertronian Wars
Filed under: Music | Tags: bad, beat it, billy jean, king of pop, michael jackson, moonwalk, moonwalker, thriller
Sudden and shocking. It still hasn’t hit me yet. But as everyone knows, king of pop star Michael Jackson passed. He was my favorite rock idol back in the 80’s. I use to pretend the floor lit up under me like his Billy Jean video. I use to want to do the zombie dance just like Thriller. I still cannot do the Moonwalk correctly. I still remember the 83 Music Awards where he took many awards for Beat It. I had his Thriller VHS video and his MoonWalker VHS video. Still can’t believe it.
RIP Michael Jackson.
