“It’s only cool if everyone’s doing it,” a kid in a flannel button-down quipped at Dana Paresa’s Uncontrollable Urge show (see “Crazy For You,” May 8). Her new works, up in ii Gallery at R&D, had gathered an eclectic bevy of artists, musicians, intellectuals and mainstreamers, which seemed to irritate the flannel-clad lad.
When I try to break it down, I come up with three types of people who immerse themselves in the scene: those who are well-known, those who want to be well-known, and those who help the unknowns become known. As a vehement scene-lurker since my earliest days, I have seen all three types of “sceners” (for lack of a better term) come and go.
“I don’t know how you do it” could have been the phrase of the decade, if the Internet weren’t around. It’s still pretty popular, but with all the sharing and over-sharing I think almost everyone has some idea, no matter how minute, of how things are done.
When I get interested in something I tend to get obsessed with it. It’s a 100 percent, give it your all, in-depth sort of curiosity.
I don’t know how to fit in. I never did.
“How old are you, 35?” a friend asked me. “Think about it this way; you have another entire lifetime that you’re still going to live.” As simple as it sounds, this statement rocked me to my entire core and kept me up very late that night thinking about it.
“After 10 days, I like Flash [Hansen, BAMP Marketing Director] more than 80 percent of my own friends,” Collective Effort Talent Buyer Johnny Kenny told me over street tacos in Cabo San Lucas last week. It was the same taco joint we had been eating at every night since I got there.
The manifesting worked; I’m sitting in LAX right now on my way down to Cabo San Lucas to lurk the Electric Palms Music Festival. Of course, it’s with paint still in my hair from the previous weekend, so I’m already a step ahead of all these spring breakers heading down to get crazy.
It’s always exciting to move into a new season. I’m still reeling from a crazy weekend of new parties, old parties, the return of some of the best parties and a completely new venue.
I played my first ever EDM event last weekend. King Kekai invited me to open for the DSKOTEK Hawaii Tour, and the experience of working with him and his Ekahi Mngmnt crew was, like, seven trillion times more awesome than mixing through Hardwell and Hypercrush for an hour on their bananas sound system.
As someone neurotic about being on time, I can tell you: Timing is everything. For the most part, things usually have a pretty awesome way of falling into place for me, and it’s 100 percent due to timing.
Whew, what a week. Talk about hitting the ground running; I still don’t know how I got through Hawaii Cocktail Week after a week off from work.
CORRECTION [3:20pm, February 26, 2013]: Tadpole Studios worked in conjunction with woodworkers from New Weather Woodworks and Leahi Woodworks. The original article is below.
Wow! What a weekend.
What a weekend for live music! Seriously, you might not even realize it, but the variety of acts that are flying in this weekend is all across the board.
My Internet obsession lately is the Grumpy Cat meme. Have you seen it?
I remember the year when we didn’t have the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. January of 2010 seemed so empty.
Christian Mochizuki reminds me why I love music. His is virtually limitless.
Destination partying is definitely something I would recommend for anyone coming of age. Ibiza or Corfu were the hot spots to hit in my day, easily accessible by plane and with mega fun dance music playing all the time–a holiday package where all of your entertainment and leisure is pretty much decided and scheduled out for you?
A year ago, I cruised with Caleb Shinobi, in his eyepatch and Alexander McQueen platforms, at one of the first events then-promoter Andreas Counnas pulled off at Aloha Tower. Now, Counnas is set to open the next level in nightlife: The Sunset Room, and I am more excited about the giant lanai at this 7,000-square-foot space than the sound system and all of the headliners set to fly in for the first month!
Whatchu say, Oren J.? It’s this time of year that brings home so much talent and energy, and Shake & Pop at thirytyninehotel is usually the first place everyone congregates.
Last December, I struggled to pull together a huge end of the year party in a warehouse so big it felt like it was an airplane hangar. Bringing in risers for a DJ stage, having artists paint the walls and renting tables and chairs didn’t do much to make the place appear any smaller, and the amount of people I expected to come was considerably less than what it would take to fill the place.
Well, it’s now officially December, which makes ten years that I have lived in Honolulu. Ten years.
I’m not even sure what to do with myself after such a long holiday weekend. I usually try not to get too excited about having four days off in a row because I may/may not be a workaholic.
For as long as we can remember, Chinatown has been notorious for drugs, homelessness and filthy streets. Some claim nothing has changed–and that it never will.
Bicyclists have long been overlooked by four-wheel riders on Honolulu’s congested streets. In the gleaming, armored pecking order of the road, cyclists are too often dismissed as lane hogs, hand-signaling nuisances and unfortunates who can’t afford cars.
The fate of some 1,525 acres of land at Hoopili in ‘Ewa may have been decided last Wednesday in Hawaii’s First Circuit Court. The decision might have gone differently, but the appellant attorneys’ strategy seemed to collapse as Judge Rhonda Nishimura picked it apart based on technical errors.
Last Thursday, May 9, the Caldwell administration revealed its action plan for solving Honolulu’s homeless problem. But at the City Council’s budget meeting the same day, Budget chair Ann Kobayashi wanted to know where the money for “Housing First” (see Cover Story, pg.
The Mayor Wright Housing project has been slated for major redevelopment by the Hawaii State Housing Authority (HSHA); requests for qualifications will be going out to developers in three to six months. Nonprofit group Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) wants to make sure the project’s tenants have a say in the redevelopment process, which could include major renovations or a total rebuild.
The Honolulu City Council held a special Committee on Transportation meeting on Tuesday, May 7, to go over its Complete Streets initiative with input from the department directors of Design and Construction (DDC), Planning and Permitting (DPP) and Transportation Services (DTS). At prior meetings, including the Moiliili workshop, community members pressed the idea of combining Complete Streets with Caldwell’s repaving projects, which Dan Burden of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute and some councilmembers have said makes sense.
Not much to agree with my friend Doc Berry (“Limits of Growth,” April 17). None of the scenarios he posits will ever materialize.
In your Diary of May 8 (“End of the 27th)” you reported on SB 1214, passed by the Legislature. In their nimble way, the Legislature tacked the wheel boot prohibition on a bill that was intended to abolish the Commission on Transportation.
On Friday, May 3, at 3:45 p.m., I was driving town bound through the Wilson tunnel on the Likelike. I was parallel to another car, and there were several other cars following closely behind me.
Congratulations Honolulu Weekly on the recent Pai award for investigative reporting (“Boss GMO,” Jan. 4, 2012).
When the biofuel guys say that costs are “confidential” (“Big-foot Biofuel,” May 8), I reply that since I am the one who is going to end up paying the cost, I have a right to know. Frankly, when everybody tries to hide the costs, I smell rat …
The Foster Botanical Garden never ceases to inspire for an urban setting it is like a step back in time (“See the Flora,” May 8). If Koko Crater Botanical Garden contains the world’s largest plumeria collection as suggested, it may be thanks in part to the Prussian born Dr.
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