Summer Sonic

It's in Japan, It's epic, and I'm at it right now. Japanese fans know how to pay homage to their artist. I'll go more into detail about this fascinating event when I get back into america. Until then here's the line-up for this event.

The perfect vegas scenario

Everybody has their vegas story. Everybody has that one spontaneous day they came up and something excited happen. But have you ever had a vegas trip where everything went without a hitch. I mean sure you have your highlights, but is there a time where its truly perfect. Now I've had my fair share of good times, I've also had my share of bad times. Mostly these bad times happen because of stupid reason and a hotel is trying to maintain a image or a profit. But on my way back from vegas this weekend, I was thinking to myself what would be the ideal vegas weekend for me.

So here's my perfect vegas scenario. I'm not going to be too outrageous, but enough to make it seem like it can happen.

To start off it would be a Friday afternoon, I would land in vegas on a airplane in first class. When I immediately leave the airport, I don't need a limo, just a shuttle to get me to my destination. The taxi line would be non existent and a taxi/shuttle would arrive the minute I enter the line. I arrive at my hotel, I check in and I immediately have a good time with my friends. We would have drinks, chit chat a little bit and we would then have a nice meal. Nothing too fancy but still have some class. I'll save the really fancy dinner for Saturday. After the meal, we go too the night club, any night club and get in automatically with little or no charge.

See what I don't get is the whole clubbing deal. It disappoints me that it is always impossible to get into the hottest club. And that the club is really crowded where you barely have room to move let alone dance. The club shouldn't be crowded, it should be very spacious and have music playing, but also have a place where people can talk. It is pretty difficult to holla at someone when you have techno music bumbin on full blast. I understand that you want the ratio not to be a dude fest, but at least let the dudes have a fighting chance of finding girls in the clubs before giving them the cold shoulder. I'm more than willing to pay to enter in a club, but don't charge me $20 for a $4 drink and $50 for admission because I don't have a lot of females in my party.

With that said, clubbing should have good music, decent priced drinks and should be spacious. While in the club, I wouldn't mind meeting a friendly group of people who are down to party like my friends. You know the "tell your friends, to get with my friends, and we can be friends" type deal. None of this, "I know I'm pretty so buy me a drink" mentality.

After the club, we hang out with our new found friends and get a bite to eat. We figure its pretty late, but you still decide to be spontaneous and gamble or do some wild night event. Go back to your hotel room, (or maybe your friends hotel room hehehe) and sleep.

After 6-7 hours of uninterupted sleep, we head straight to a cabana by poolside. The cabana will have a fully stock fridge & bar and unlimited food orders (if I want Pescatora, I want Pescatora dammit). With the pool in front of us, drinks are allowed in the pool but please no peeing in the pool. It's nasty when you go in a pool fool of people and its just oddly warm. There should be some shit to make your urine blue to show who be peeing. Everybody is friendly and they play some hip hop/r&b in the background. Not techno or slow rock. Get a full body massage at the cabana and then get ready for a scrumptios dinner.

Saturday night dinner is the fancy one that won't cost you a arm and a leg. It should be new and surprising, it should also feel familiar and comforting. And if you say the price is $50, the price should only be $50. The dinner should be one of those dinners where you're thinking "this is one fantastic meal, I definitely have to go and recommend my friends the place."

After your dinner, you repeat the club cycle, however after the club, instead of the meal you chill and a nice lounge and smoke some cigars with your friends. Gamble a little bit more and win. Meet some new friends from the club and crash again for another 6-7 hours.

Sunday you wake up to no check out deadline, you just leave whatever time you want. You hop on a taxi which won't cost you a arm and a leg just to get to the airport and you have some Jason Mraz songs playing in the background like it was rolling credits in a movie. And if your driving home, there is no traffic because there are no idiots on the road.

Now that there is the description of a perfect vegas weekend. Keep in mind thats just the mood I have now and it could change tomorrow. But if I just experienced what I just said, I might goal would to have the perfect overseas trip. Maybe I'll think about that for the time being.

Like the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" says... Stay thirsty my friends.

JDrama Review: Bambino!

I don't have time to go into full detail about this show. But if you want to see a complete review. Come check Japanator's review on this show.

I don't even have to mention that this stars Matsumoto Jun. This Arashi star has made any JDrama that he's in pretty dayam good.

This drama follows the usual underdog formula. Kid from a small town wants to be a big time chef. So kid goes to a big time restaurant and discovers everything isn't as easy as it was in the small town. So this story is about Matsumoto Jun a.k.a. Bambino working his way from the bottem to the top.

I myself am a fan of cooking, especially italian food. This show just made me hungry and wanted to watch more.

A must watch so definitely check it out.

Props to BON Fansubs for subbing this show.

JDrama Review: Love Shuffle

As I'm sure you know if your a JDrama fan that the actors of these shows get recycled and get paired up with the many different actors out there. For example actors from Gokusen could be paired up with actors from Hana Yori Dango to act in a totally new show. For this case you have actors/actresses from Bambino!, Hana Yori Dango and Nodame Cantible in one show. What's the show you ask? Well that would be Love Shuffle.

First off let me thank Queerbeet for subbing this show, and mass props to all the fansubbers out there. Support the fansubbers and not the streaming sites.

Now the whole premise of this show would not even be considered for American TV due to the fact of all the promiscuity going on. The show is about these 4 characters (3 guys and 1 girl), who all live in the same apartment complex. One day they get stuck in a elevator so they all introduce themselves and talk about their problems with their lovelives. Each has a problem with their current partner but are not really sure how to solve it. So what idea do the 4 come up with to solve their problem... exchange partners. Thats right, a total of 4 couples trade a partner for a week and do whatever they want. Now don't think its just them exchanging partners just to have sex all the time. On the contrary, this "Love Shuffle" is to see if their true loves were the first loves they started will. Will their faithfullness be tested, will bonds be broken? Anything can happen in the love shuffle.

Now what got me interested in checking out this Drama was seeing the commercial with all it's star power. I mean you got Chiaki from Nodame Cantible, one of the Members of the F4, and you have one of the chefs from Bambino. I really felt I had to see one episode. And I don't regret checking out this Drama. Watching this drama makes you realize how good Tamaki Hiroshi actually is. Because in Nodame Cantible, Tamiki plays as a really strong minded person. In Love Shuffle, he's more of a weakling. But when he plays his roles, he plays it to the tee.

The whole cast of characters is a interesting bunch, you have a really strong and straight forward woman, and weak minded businessman, a womanizing photographer, and a gentle psychiatrist. Now when watching this show, it will definitely not be straight forward. It won't be a exchange partners then choose type of story. Because they do add twist and turns to the show to make you really think, who will end up with who.

Normally I would gripe about how dramas being 11 episodes or less are too short. But for this one, I really think 10 episodes fit this series really well. The use of old school english love songs adds a extra touch to the show.

If you have enough time to watch 10 episodes and is a fan of any of the J-Actors mentioned above. I would recommend checking Love Shuffle out.

"hibi no neiro" by sour

I saw this video on the angry asian man blog. It's pretty cool. Love where this music video is going.

SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura on Vimeo.

Must watch videos of the week

With the passing of many famous celebrities, its easy to see how precious life is and how we shouldn't take it for granted. RIP Ed Mcmahon, Farah Fawcett, and the King of Pop MIchael Jackson.

With the king of pop passing away a lot of dedication videos have been coming out. One in particular is a really good one, is performer Jane Lui doing her rendition of "You are not alone" with a mix of Ave Maria. Jane Lui is a real good performer as I have performed with her before at a talent show at SDSU. Check this video out and see how great this song is. You can find more of Jane Lui's stuff here.



On another note, this past week the hip hop crew Deep Foundation debut their video for Sleep f/ Jay Legaspi, now I posted about Deep Foundation before. But personally the way the animation was made really stood out for me. Check it out.



Lastly, I found a treasure on youtube with an artist who used anime in his music videos before anime got big here in the US. I really give this guy props because when I saw his videos, it pretty much gave a spark of interest about anime. Now I originally wanted to post Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend video, but I can't find it anywhere. So here's another one of his videos where he uses anime.

My homie's trip to Europe

A good friend of mine recently went on vacation. He took a little amount of video footage and multiple pictures. But with his artistic skills, the video he created came out fucking fantastic. I'll say it again... fucking fantastic.

Check it out

glenn and jason and europe from glenn Pajarito on Vimeo.

You can see some pics from his journey here

This just makes me want to create a video of mine own.

Man I'm jealous.

JDrama Review: Celeb To Binbo

Ok so I've been on this live action binge lately. But I'm still checking out the latest anime. But there are a ton of shows out there that are pretty entertaining. I'm going to highlight some of the shows from the past couple years to watch. Some honorable mentions include Gokusen, Hana Kimi, Hana Yori Dango and Densha Otoko

But today I'm going to cover Celeb to Binbo Taro

One thing that I like about JDramas is that they keep familiar stories fresh. This can be seen in the show Celeb To Binbo or literally Celebrity and Poor Person. The star of the shows Attention Please and the movie Azumi Ueto Aya stars as Alice alongside co-star Crows Zero star Kamiji Yusuke as Taro. Kind hearted but poor father of three Taro tries his best when it comes to life, he cares about his family and friends very much. And even though he doesn't have much to work with or a wide range of skills, Taro is a very hard worker. Alice on the other hand is at the top of the food chain, born into wealth, Alice is a famous fashion designer that has expensive taste. I wouldn't really compare her to a Paris Hilton because Alice in this show actually runs a company instead of just partying. Taro always gets the short end of the stick finding himself in dire situations such as finding out ways of feeding his children. Alice on the other hand is one of those "I want it right now" type of people.

As fate would have it, Alice is in need of a new limo driver and Taro decides to apply. Alice hires Taro sensing something different from him. The story continues as we meet the enemies of Alice which includes past lovers and a evil Step Mother (no pun intended). Both Alice and Taro begin to fall for each other, but will the worlds of the rich and poor prevent them from being together?

Being a fan of Ueto Aya, I decided to give this show a chance. And I don't regret giving it a chance. The mixture of comedy and romance for this show is a perfect combination. Now Ueto Aya doesn't have her outgoing attitude which you saw in the show Attention Please. But she does play the role of rich celebrity to the tee. There will be times where you watch this show and you wonder if Taro will prevail, because it looks like Taro just doesn't get a break in this show. But he continues to perservere. Without divulging much, the love triangles in this show does spice it up a bit. It comes to a point where you wonder who is going to stay with who. I would suggest checking out the previews at the end for the next episode because the previews is what got me to watch more. If your debating to watch this show, check it out. You'll definitely laugh and you'll definitely shed a tear or two trying to figure out if Alice will end up with Taro.

So this show gets a thumbs up in my book. Check it out if you have time to check out 13 episodes of a show.

GSC is BACK!!

Time to get the followers back. Time to get you guys interested. Time to provide you with shows that you'll be interested in from Japan. Time for random laughter, thoughts and philosopies. I'm back and I'll walk towards a height higher than before.

Be on the lookout: Children of the Sun by Deep Foundation

I found this one on both the Bambu blog and Angry Asian Man but this video is freaking hot. The beat is tight and their lyrics are simple but definitely get the point across. To all my filipinos out there, check this song out.

Deef Foundation- Children of the Sun

auto tuning in the office... freaking hilarious

My bad for not putting a anime post. But I'm getting my pics prepared for that post. But OK, I caught this video on twitter. And I can't stop laughing, maybe because there was a similar conversation at work... minus the autotuning.


Auto Tuning from Casey D on Vimeo.

LA is a different beast

So I've been living in LA for a good two weeks now. And let me just say that LA is a beast. A really big beast. A beast filled with traffic, potholes and crazy drivers. But their nightlife is crazy, gauranteed there is something going on in this city. Whether its a show or a art exhibit, there's always something going on. Since I left the comfort zone that is known as San Diego, I really do miss my homies and I realized I took some stuff for granted down there. But living in this city just made me realize that life is not always an easy street and you gotta take on some challenges. I'm definitely going to take this challenge head on and make it in this city. I know my homies got my back and with the inspiration from the playlist below. I'm definitely not going to make this just a short-lived stunt. I'm going to make this last for a long time. So if you guys are in LA, give me a holla. I'll show you this city and what it has to offer.

I'm definitely not going to forget my roots and I'm definitely looking towards the future. So my friends, A chapter has closed in the life of da GSC and a new chapter of the GSC has just begun. Thanks for reading.

P.S. Expect the next post to be anime related for all the anime fans out there.

The "I'm going to make it" playlist revised

I touched on this playlist earlier and I figured it'd only be right that I would revise this list. A lot of change has been going on in my life, but it has been change for the good. This playlist inspires me to keep on going. Keep on pushing at my low times. Listening to this playlist made me always believe something positive will happen. So take a listen if you want to have some inspiration to do something.

Christina Millian- Believer
Outkast- In due time
Trey Songz- Just gotta make it
Incubus- Drive
Nas- I can
A tribe called quest- Stressed out
Talib Kwali- I try
Linkin Park- Somewhere I belong
Common Market- Push
Bubba Sparxxx- Deliverence

Im going to make it playlist

Poster in my room

I'll elaborate on the beginning of this new chapter of the gsc in the next post.

But for now, I want to show everybody what's hanging in my room. Wanting to have a new start in this new chapter, I created a poster to look at to keep me inspired and motivated in dark times.



If you can't read what it says, here's the text:

Work harder than you ever have. Master Japanese. Connect with the unconnected. Never ever give up! Still practice those Bboy poses. There is no such thing as impossible. Play the piano. Compete in a marathon. Write more songs, pieces, spoken word. Get that six pack. You can do this. Stop thinking about the negatives and think about the positives. Cook the meal that will amaze everyone. Learn from the past but don't dwell on it. Always keep your head up. Get on the cover of that magazine. Make Photoshop and Illustrator your best friend. Keep moving forward. Don't sell yourself short. It's your time to shine. Work on more visual art. Make the blog famous. Follow your heart but use your brain. Only you can make the change. DESTINY AWAITS

BE YOURSELF. BE GLORIOUS. BE GOD SENT

GSC

To be honest with you, after typing that again. It just made me more juiced to be successful in life. LETS DO THIS!

Ted Chung- A thousand words

In a quest to keep occupied on this President's day. I found this brilliant video on the Disgrasian Blog.

Inspiring film maker Ted Chung made a really good video about going with your gut feeling with this short film called "A thousand words." I took a look at this vid and thought it was really done well. At first I thought they were going to say a thousand words in the film, but I found out it was the exact opposite. Check it out and give this dude props.


A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.

P.S. More playlists is on its way, plus some anime reviews for the anime fanatics out there.

The Lonely Island- I'm on a boat

Props to Thomas Phantom for this one.

From the people who made the classics like D*** in a box and Jizz in my pants. Brings you their next great hit, I'm on a boat.



The Lonely Island's album is in stores right now. Cop it if you like buying comedy albums, it should be there in between Wierd Al and Jeff Foxworthy's albums.

inspirational pic: Will not runaway from problems (HSD Kenichi)

This is from a manga, so read from right to left.

Slow Jams and the Rain

It's raining pretty heavy right now. And there are a lot of people who dislike the rain. I actually like it when it rains, it gives you a perfect excuse to stay home and relax. And when I mean stay home and relax, I mean really relaxing and setting the mood right. The ideal situation is watching the rain while listening to some slow jams with a cup of hot chocolate. What's even more ideal is if your doing what I just mentioned with that special someone in your life. You can set the mood even more if your chillen in front of a fireplace. Say what you want, call it corny, call it hopeless romantic-ish, call it whatever. But listening to slow jams in the rain is like listening to the perfect dj set in the club. It just sets the mood.

Now in order for this to work it really has to be raining, not sprinkling but raining hard. It's the sound effects from the pouring rain that sounds calming. Now throw that in with some smooth grooves that you usually hear on those late night dedications on the radio, and you got a really relaxing setting.

Now I'm sure you can come up with a long list of slow jams to listen to while its raining. But for those who want some ideas, here's a quick little "slow jams and the rain" playlist.

Allure- Last Chance
Shanice- Saving Forever for you
Guy Sebastian- How
New Edition- Can you stand the rain
Aaliyah- At your best
Jon B. f/Babyface- Someone to Love
Joe- No one else comes close
Blackstreet- Before I let you go
112- Crazy over you
Boyz II Men- I'll make love to you
Darren Hayes- Insatiable
Janet Jackson- Anytime, anyplace
Marc Dorsey- I Crave
Surface- The first time

Slow Jams in the Rain

Quote of the day

"Life doesn't always smile on you kindly. But I'm going to live my life for the people who are important to me."

Making 09 mine, it's time for a change, My Time is Now!

WWE Themes - John Cena - My Time is Now FULL.mp3 - John Cena and the Trademarc

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, let the theme song above play. Because after countless times of resumes, interviews and false hopes. I finally found a new position. And even better, I found a position that I'm really interested in. I got too comfortable down here in San Diego. And it's time to buckle down and deal with the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. I dealt with a lot of stuff just to get to this position that I am in today. And in two weeks, will start a new position and work towards my life goals.

What's the position you ask? Well, to put it simply I'm promoting Japanese rock bands here in the US. Specifically Visual Kei bands. So it's the best of both worlds, I get to work for a Japanese company in the music industry. I couldn't ask for anything more.

Like I said before, 08 was great but its time to make 09 mine. 09 is going to be the year of change. 09 is going to be the year where I work on my goals that I lost touch with in 08. A opportunity has opened its doors and I'm going to walkthrough and embrace it. I'm so excited for what's to come I'm not really sure how to react.

But I'll tell you this much. What's going on in my life will definitely be tracked on this site. Playlists will still be on here, new discoveries I will put on here. Anime reviews and other related stuff will be posted on a new site that I'm going to create. But I will also post them here for those who don't want to go to 2 different pages for me. I probably should go more in detail of what's going on for the next couple weeks, but know this, its a new city, new people and new goals.

This year started off with a rocky start, I'll probably post about it another day. But yeah, it's time to run towards the sunset because this time will forever shine.

The Can't Get You Out of My Mind (in a bad way) Playlist

Still having feelings to the last person you were dating? Broke up with your significant other? Found out they did you dirty? Trying to forget about them but for some reason they still pop in your head everyday? I know its hard, I'm pretty much in the same boat. But listen to this playlist, listen to the words of the songs. Remember that you can move on. And they did YOU wrong. It's their lose for losing a great thing. These songs will probably describe how your feeling in this situation. After your done with this playlist, the Moving On playlist will soon be posted.

Mario Winans- I Don't Wanna Know
Blackstreet- Don't Leave Me Girl
Boyz II Men- Pass you by
Carl Thomas- I wish
Mario Winans- Never really was
Latif- Who's Loving her now
Ne-Yo- So sick
P. Diddy- I need a girl part 1
Omarion- Ice Box
Carl Thomas f/ Craig David and Shyne- Can't Believe
Craig David- One Last Dance
Babyface- What if
Casely- Emotional

Trying to get over

the running playlist

So when prepping for a run, I usually run with music that is high energy. So I usually listen to rock or to some techno, hip hop doesn't have enough bpms for me to run with. Surprisingly there are some Japanese songs that keep me motivated too. I just finished running a 1/2 marathon today, and these are the songs that got me through the 13.1 miles.

UVERworld- D-Tecnolife
ZZ- Be Survivor
Breaking Benjamin-The Diary of Jane
Breaking Benjamin- So Cold
Breaking Benjamin- Breath
Papa Roach- She loves me not
Symbol- Forever Young
Leslie Parrish- Remember Me
Max Coveri- Running in the 90's
Edo Boys- No One Sleep in Tokyo
M.o.v.e.- Noisy Tribe
Linkin park- Somewhere I belong
Linkin Park- One Step Closer
Linkin Park- Faint
Papa Roach- Last Resort
Trapt- Headstrong
New Found Glory- All Downhill from here
Yellowcard- Way away
Flyleaf- Fully Alive
My Chemical Romance- Helena

running mix

Great 8 bit music video

Tripped on this video today.  For those who are fans of 8 bit video games or Ikimono Gakari.  This is a great music video from them.  The song is called Kimagure Romantic.

Barack Obama is officially President as of Tuesday 01-20-09.  Today is a good day.

Looking back in 08

I would just like to recap a couple of things that happened in 08 so I have a little reminder when I reread this blog like rereading my old xanga.

Barack Obama becomes president.  Yes we can, change the world.  

Bush gets some shoes thrown at him.

Pacquiao wins not one but two matches this year.

The economy goes down the drain

Surprisingly gas prices go down by the end of the year (This didn't last long)

Kanye West comes out with a autotune album, with lyrics that sound emo.

Traveling to Japan will never be forgotten.

My brother graduates from college

Planet Bboy was in the theaters

It is difficult to find a job for anybody.

Layoffs were inevitable

A lot of companies went out of business

Semi Pro's Jackie Moon was a very popular costume

Facebook is better than myspace

Crunchyroll.com becomes legit

The trips to vegas, the bay and... need to venture to other places

Nike world race with Kanye West performing after a 6 mile run

Attending The Spike Scream Awards 2008 and being that close to wes craven

The Red Bull Drifting World Competition

The 09 new years countdown to midnight that will leave me scared

The christmas party that everyone enjoyed

Weddings, clubs and birthday parties

I probably should've went more into detail about each.  But this blog will be more enticing soon enough.  Thank you for sticking close and checking out GSC's Blog.  To all the faithful readers out there.  I make promises, it may take awhile, but I won't break them.

The "Just Friends" playlist

So you've been talking to someone for awhile. Say you feel like its going somewhere. You tell this person how you feel. And then boom, that person gives you phrase you fear the most. "Let's just be friends." Feel like the planet just crashed on you? Well my friend don't feel too down, this playlist is designed to help you though that down phase before you get to the up phase. So cheer up my friend, listen to these toons and let it marinate.

For those who can't see the imeem here's the playlist

Musiq- If U Leave
Evanescence- My Immortal
Stain'd-Outside
Stain'd -It's Been Awhile
Dashboard Confessional- Screaming Infidelities
Dashboard Confessional- This Ruined Puzzle
Augustana- Boston
Sum41- Pieces
Green Day- Wake me up when September ends
Michael Andres- Mad World
The Starting Line- Cheek to Cheek
Papa Roach- Scars
System of a Down- Lonely Day

Just Friends