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January 30, 2007
love...
"love as if you've never been hurt"
Posted by soul sista' at 11:27 AM | Comments (0)
January 29, 2007
tradewinds...
it's a windy day here on the island...the kona winds are here. the hawaiians would say that these are the winds of change. yes, change is in the air, as always. soak in the moment while it's here, because "this too shall pass."
Posted by soul sista' at 03:34 PM | Comments (0)
no snow here...
shessssh. i was looking at king nimby's site today. that guy is one dedicated sicko for cycling in snow, freezing rain, skating in about 3 layers of clothes etc etc.
rock on man...thats inspiration.
grind a few rails for me. here's some alohas for you to munch on while daydreaming in mile 16 of your 20 mile commute.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:07 PM | Comments (1)
January 27, 2007
nina & sunshine
been twisting a nina simone remix into my head this week. love it and she has a wonderful sweet voice. since a kid i've loved her sounds and could close my eyes and she made life just warm and understanding.
today while surfing this was the lyrics going through my mind as i dropped in the glassy curl. its not her song, but she did a version thats burned in my heart:
Some day, some day, some day
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, some day, some day
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter
Ooh-oo child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child, things'll be brighter
Ooh-oo child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child, things'll be brighter
Right now
You just wait and see how things are gonna be
Right now...
Posted by Single Fin at 06:00 PM | Comments (0)
January 26, 2007
locoroco
this game is twisted and i love it. nice sense of humor with simple 2d feel, chipper music and fun creative art. chalk another one up for the japanese designers. they've taken an old idea and really added some appeal. primary design is for the PSP handheld and i've been playing it alot here at work. i even have the music on mp3 format. the theme is chipper enough to sound like something you would here if you lost your mind and were trapped in willy wonka's world or a varied state of a japanese version of the smurfs.
lol....we're at that stage for one game that we are doing alot of testing of games in the market to gather ideas. this one strikes me as a nice original idea out from the ashes of an old era. people think i'm nuts cuz i'm a believer that people have a little child inside that can be let out through animations and music.
i say let them eat a fat slice of kiss my ass pie! sit them in front of a DDR machine, guitar hero, a puzzle game, a music game or better yet tetris. see if they can resist. find me a crusty geezer and i'll find a child inside. find me a boring stiff and i'll show you a sad converted adult who has lost their inner kiddie. (at least until they have a kid of their own, then all of the sudden they are fun to be with again cuz they are as wonderous as the little tike is)
i am a punk ass little kid inside who loves games. so be it.
i think they can let people have fun, smile, laugh and not take life so f'n serious. i think casual games have been a part of all our lives since the day we could play peek-a-boo or slap jacks, pac-man or modern day physical sports. even the most recent market space creation from the nintendo DS brain games market is a key sign. did you know nintendo created a game specifically to stimulate brain activity for older people? they spent many a 6 figures plus doing reseach with various scientific communities to dicsover how to make a fun brain game so that people could stimulate their minds. that target age for the market was 50+.
i say why not let the little kids inside come out and play?
Posted by Single Fin at 04:53 PM | Comments (0)
surfy surfy
small kine on the south side. took the fish out last night. caught a nice sunset and a few small waist high waves. headed out again this morning for a 2hr session at dawn patrol. kinda windy but low crowd factor. several nice sets with bowling out little pits. enough to get into and hit some nice high banking turns.
if your looking for some serious surfing smut check this link out. they have some wicked wicked sticks here.
http://surfysurfy.blogspot.com/
single fin~
Posted by Single Fin at 04:30 PM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2007
lead with your heart
'doing backbends in my yoga class right now. i'm pretty excited about the fact that i'm able to drop into a back bend all by myself. my legs are strong and grounded, completely connected to the earth. as i spring up from my backbend, i have learned that i need to lead with my heart first then let my head be the very last thing to come up. keep your chest open, exposing your heart...let it guide you, then allow the mind to follow. that's it!!! words of wisdom to live my life by...that's the answer.
on a side note, i'm back in the world of being on-call for babies again. there's a deep sense of calm inside of me, ready for anything, yet completely present in the moment. being a part of the miracle of childbirth has been so rewarding and enlightening for me. living your life, yet not fully attached to being anywhere or doing anything, because i may have to drop everything and go on my birth. just going with the flow of life, of nature...listening, watching, being in stillness amidst the chaos.
'surfed today without single fin. he's working pretty hard these days, herding the cats from all different directions...LA, india, montreal, romania. so i jumped in the water with my 9'0" buddha longboard, the cleanse the day away. i kicked butt on the surf. was pretty focused on catching waves, played all over....out deep, in shallow, all by myself, in the pack.
there were a few paddle boarders out there in the line up. they were definitely making their presence out in the line up. for some reason, they loved to drop in on me. so i chased one guy off, hollered at another guy who almost dropped in on me, and then had another guy paddle up to me to apologize for dropping in on me. i told him that it was okay, i was just gonna drop in on his wave next time. he said it was okay :)
alas, it's all about sharing your wave with much aloha...nothing is YOURS. it is a gift to be a part of the crazy blue world of the mysterious sea creatures. i saw a turtle pop its little head up as i was ready to paddle in. it brought a smile to my face. and then i could see a couple of whales slapping their tail against the water & propel their huge bodies up into the air. and another little smile & giggle came to me as i was loading my board up.
so full of gratitude for life, all the lessons learned and all the precious spirits around me...
Posted by soul sista' at 12:20 AM | Comments (0)
January 22, 2007
small kine on da south side
stressed out at work today. wanted to take a day off and head to the country for some overhead bombers. no luck though, to many fires blazing at work that needed to be put out. did end up catching a great booming orange/ pink sunset with soul sista. coupla quick rides at diamond head then in for a cold beer & a seared chunk of ahi thats been ripe in da fridge.
shoots brah, life can be simple if it wasn't for working?
hmmmm...
Posted by Single Fin at 09:37 PM | Comments (0)
north shore last sunday
2hrs of good waves, over head about 2-3ft, glassy walls, good sun burn, hot coffee and breakfast at haleiwa cafe while looking at some classic bonzer art.
nough' said....
Posted by Single Fin at 09:33 PM | Comments (0)
January 21, 2007
focus & intention
happy sunday, to you all! we just got back from surfing in the country. a truly enlightening experience for all of us. needless to say, i've been all over the place these past few months, or shall i say years since we've lived out here in hawaii. there are so many options, so many possibilities...a lot of the times running around like a chicken with my head cut off, enjoying every minute of my self-absorbed life. coming to the islands has been about so many things...one of them to escape what we used to be, to get lost into whomever we want to be and it all comes back to our roots. acknowledging our roots, blossoming from our solid base in so many different directions...that is what what my family is to me.
and so, single fin & i decide to do dawn patrol up at the north shore. we just wanted to surf our worries away, be lost in the big, deep blue ocean...be in the moment. no clinging onto the past, no worries about the future, completely immersed into the present...that is what surfing does for us. it is our temple, our meditation in motion.
anyway, the beginning of my surf session wasn't so good, as far as optimal wave catching. sitting out deep with the 50 something baby boomers, trying to be away from the crowd. i try to find my little place of peace in the ocean, amidst the chaos of the sea of people...so i strategically place myself way out deep. so there i am, with my 9'0" buddha board...looking into the ocean, watching whales throw their bodies up into the air, playfully wagging their tails in the water, seeing sea turtles mate, and paddling my heart & soul out for waves, as old "geezers" yell to me, telling me how i should paddle, when i should paddle. and there it was, my wave...a classic, picture perfect big ass wave just for me. i turned my board slightly, then stopped. i let it go by. ugh!!! i thought someone else would catch it and i'd catch the next one. nope. and there's single fin yelling to me that i should've caught that one. i was pissed!! and then proceeded to yell back at him that i didn't like this break & was tired of a-holes (all the men) telling me what to do, excluding him.
angry & frustrated at everyone and in reality, it was at myself, i paddled in on the inside, got thrown around, did some deep breathing and yoga on the water...then got myself back in the game. i was focused on what was really important. i'm out there to catch waves, not escape. no more worrying about everyone else, listening to everyone else's issues...head down and paddled with focus and intention.
yay!!! i caught a big ass wave, double over head, carved sharply into the wall, hugging it close, yelled at an old geezer to get off MY WAVE...that was it!!! listened to my gut/intuition and went with it. a lesson that i'm constantly working with. i thank you, deeply from the bottom of my heart, single fin for inspiring on so many levels, especially to listen to my gut feeling, all the while using my heart. i love you!!!
~namaste
Posted by soul sista' at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2007
chun's
surfed our melons off on MLK day. stroked out with about 40 people in the lineup. after a few hours it dwindled down to about a dozen. caught enough waves in 3 hours to make us very happy, hungry & sunburnt.
riding the fish was super sweet & the 8'8" was mad fun. lots of over head to 3' overhead waves. even had a pair of fat turtles in the line up for a few hours. they looked prehistoric with shells about 3-4ft wide.
a new swell is on the way for the north shore...might play hooky this week!!
Posted by Single Fin at 02:47 PM | Comments (0)
January 14, 2007
check it out....
not sure who is interested in japanese animation? needless to say one of the new things we've been watching at the studio is "afro samurai" http://www.afrosamurai.com/.
pretty good stuff brought over from japan to the western market. they hired samual jackson, wu tang clan and many others to do the voices, music/ scores etc. its a nice piece of work.
this is helping mark a huge influx of mainstream actors trying to do more cutting edge multimedia animations. ie: stuff like scanner darkly is a good example. the conversion of comics into movies are going to revert for a new twist on an old idea. one that america once invented (marvel comic days) and then sucked at while the japanese picked it up and brought it to levels we see in the industry as of now.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:19 PM | Comments (0)
small kine surf
twas able to get out in the surf a couple times this week. even with the hellish deadlines at work. finally able to take a day off after 11 straight infront of the computer. all i need is a few set waves, a long nap or 2, a little nightlife and i'll be a new man ready for another long run starting tuesday. heeyaw mule! gitty up.
probably going to keep riding the quad fin all winter as the main stay. that board is just way to much fun in small surf. wanting to get to north shore tomorrow morning for a holiday surf. suppose to be 6ft-15ft with low winds and nice new n/nw swell bumping through the week.
Posted by Single Fin at 12:02 PM | Comments (0)
January 07, 2007
a dream....
i have a dream of sitting ring side in mexico after a days long session of surfing perfect point breaks.
next year we are going....to take the 15hr car ride from cali aross the middle of nowhere desert until we can hit southern baja. i want chase the horizon in search of an idealistic thought that i hope would be around the bend. then discover something completely ironic about some apparent half baked idea i thought might have been true. only to discover that i was being small minded and that life is a twisty road leading to an unknown reality. (pheew)
we can have chats about the oddities of shit we've been through and how we think we know something about something. then laugh at one another for attempting to prove it. we can rent a place...get sun burned to the nth degree, drink bad takillya and warm beers we once buried in the sand, eat fish tacos until we can't stand it anymore and then surf point breaks until the wee hours of the orange sunset.
after i want to go to a rusty ass dirty wrestling arena match and proceed to get rowdy ...in the morning we can sleep in. then for the final act we can surf until the sun burns away the white spot where our watches would normally be on our wrists. maybe a nap or 3 and finish the day with fish tacos and salsa dancing until our feet hurt.
the humor about this all would be that we might not even get very far from LAX. might even get a flat tire outide of san bernadino county or get mugged on the way to this vague lavish trip of wasted time and youth.
i know this sounds nuts...but gettting lost just sounds like fun lately...anytakers?
Posted by Single Fin at 04:45 PM | Comments (0)
January 05, 2007
i'm a rocker in my own twisted world!
rising up for some fresh air tonight or tomorrow...
also been neglecting the blog out of pure lazy energy & i feel bad for that.
its that time of the games schedule where i'm cranking. many days of 10-12+ hours lately with no real end in sight for a while. hmmmm now that i think about it maybe around April i'll be able to get back to normal. lol....what the hell might that be? less coffee? more sanity? less guitar hero 2?
which by the way i've been playing alot of guitar hero 2 & i'm loving that game. in my own world i'm black sabbath or GNR live in berlin in front of 80,000 screaming kids. on tour playing with a streak of fire fire fire...
other games that are wicked fun that i've been playing alot of lately to break up the long days at work:
- need for speed carbon
- nfl 2007
- tiger woods 2007
- burger king races
- brain games for the DS
Posted by Single Fin at 01:10 PM | Comments (0)