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About Me

To the Japanese, I'm an American pilot flying over Nagasaki.

Civil Engineering. My boss listens to 80's music, so I look up to him.

Born in San Francisco and raised just north in Sonoma County, Los Angeles is a vastly different world for me. I moved down here to engage in Civil Engineering after two years of Architecture told me that it wasn't for me. If anything, I've realized how much my friends back home mean to me and how much I can connect with them. Subsequently, I try to perform all of my social interactions with the utmost in honesty, integrity and honor. Hip-Hop is a staple of my existence.

My Interests

Going out with my friends to par-tay. Members Only jackets and cranberry sauce? Fasho, you betta know...

I'd like to meet:

Jared from Subway and the Screenwriter of Footloose
Robocop

I've met a lot of people since moving to Southern California, and for the most part they're all very interesting. It's only too bad that I've gotten to know just a few of them well. I wanna touch base with those who I can eventually fold into my personal network of good friends because they are the most important people in anybody's life. Hip-Hop DJ's - especially Turntablists - and Producers make good Hip-Hop conversation. Oh and if you're Balkey from Perfect Strangers then you need to come kickit homie!!!

Music:

Hip-Hop & 80's. Period.
I love Hip-Hop in all of it's forms. I fell in love around '92 and it's been more than a decade. From the early days of waiting until 2 a.m. to see Yo! MTV raps, to waiting all week to see a local 2 hour Hip-Hop video show in Fridays. Nowadays Hip-Hop's on all the time on MTV. I used to complain and complain as to why Hip-Hop wasn't better represented in pop culture during the days when alternative and punk were much more omnipotent. Nowadays you have R&B sounding like Hip-Hop, boy bands and teen pop stars singing over Hip-Hop beats, little kids reppin G-Unit. This is all sickening, but it's the price to pay for the popularity of urban music, and I have to remind myself that there was a time when this is what I wanted: for Hip-Hop to be more accepted. I've DJ'ed in the San Francisco Bay Area for about 6 years, and it was nothing short of amazing. I watched the Invisibl Scratch Picklz go from Daly City friends-of-friends-of-cousins to renowned Turntablists, I remember the times when P. Diddy used to be called Puff Daddy and didn't get much respect from the real MC's. I remember listenting to 50 Cent in '97 when he got no respect from his failed first album. I remember hearing Eminem freestyling on the Wake Up Show before getting a deal and blowing up. I remember where I bought my turntables, when I first learned how to Flare scratch, when I made my first beat. I remember break dancing on cardboard in my friend's garage in high school. I hear Pop songs taking the very music that I grew up on and exploiting it and I have nothing better to do then to think of those days.

Movies:

A lot of people list the movies that they've just seen, probably because those movies stick out in their minds. The most recent sh!t that I've watched that's still in my head is La Bamba and Fahrenheit/911, also Better Off Dead.
Juice, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Footloose, Rad, Soul Man, The Goonies, The Newsies, Electric Boogaloo, Wild Style, Style Wars, Thud Rumble, man those are great.

Television:

Northern Exposure, Quantum Leap, Mac Guyver, Wings, Who's The Boss, Growing Pains, The Wonder Years

Books:

Y'know that Will Smith movie I Am Legend? It's a book, a good book at that. The Pig Who Sang To The Moon, The Emotional World Of Farm Animals also good; a plethora of footnotes, but good nonetheless, The Freixenet Social Survival Guide. I finally finished Stupid White Men, and Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore. I took a liking to Angels and Demons, but I haven't yet read The Da Vinci Code. Somehow, my copy of The Communist Manifesto keeps finding it's way into my hands. And right now I'm reading the menu. I'm gonna go with the Adobo

My Blog

On Ignorance, Ignorance, and Imitation

Young "Lovers":I reserve a bad taste for those who take break-ups too seriously. I think the age of the freshly-separated couple is in order here. Married in mid-life? I guess that can elicit pangs of...
Posted by Paul John on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:19:00 PST

Vegas is even the shittier yo!

So it'd been a while. It had been about four months since I'd visited home. I loved it. Christmas, tennis, long walks in San Francisco with two dudes. Asking anybody and everybody if they wanted to se...
Posted by Paul John on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:58:00 PST

San Francisco is the sh!t, yo!

No, not really. I finally went back home again this summer. That is, I managed to click some buttons on Southwest.com and go to the airport on a prescribed date - you can trust that took copius effort...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:17:00 PST

It's an invasion

My sister is scheduled to visit me starting today at about 6:30 p.m. when her plane touches down in Ontario, California. We're going to a comedy show - Brian Regan if you've heard of him. It's at "The...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hollywood makes me sick ... literally

A fortnight ago I found myself on the receiving end of a telephone call from my old City Hall coworker. She let me know about her upcoming birthday suaré (yes, I spelled soirée wrong) at Joseph's Cafe...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A lot of people go to restaurants after a night of drinking

I've chosen some rather odd foods at times, alcoholic influence being a factor: A small cup of ranch sauce, straight. "I'll take a shot of Hidden Valley®!" The pizza crusts of someone that I...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Another weekend in Tijuana

What's a guy to do when one of his best friends from San Franciso is visiting another best friend in San Diego? Hop that ass outta L.A. and hit the 818, that's what I say! As is per the usual, we deci...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cultural misunderstandings on MySpace

Recently, President bush rooted for the Texas Longhorns and displayed the hand gesture for the school. When Norweigians saw said signal they interpereted it as their symbol for the devil, and Bush mad...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rap Up 2004

What happened in the world of Hip-Hop and entertainment in 2004? Here's a recap by Mad Skillz: It's ya boy Skillz ya'll with the facts fasho, Back to recap two thousand and four. Now, things sta...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New Roommate!!??

I guess all renting-a-room-in-a-house-stories have good endings. Or good chapters. My climax just ended: that is, my 4 (four) month stint of living alone and having a four bedroom house (okay, so I co...
Posted by Paul John on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST