j-grub...

I woke up hungry, and was thinking about the last time that I had really good Japanese food... New Year's Day '10 was good, with pop-in-law's Osechi-ryori that he had received from his employees!

Fuzzy tweeters...

With baby around, there's not much time to spend in the garage working on big stuff. The CD player in the G35 has been busted for the past two years, and my co-worker has been constantly talking about car audio stuff for the past half-a-year, so there was good enough reason to futz around in search of some beat. Here are a couple pics of the tweeter panels, fiberglassed, flush mounted and done up in black fuzzy stuff to match the texture of the a-pillars. (This is the kinda stuff I'm doing to maintain sanity, all while baby's sleepin' and momma ain't lookin...!)

Approved? or not-so-frush?

Thanks to the Fatlace guys and HellaFlush, kids in 2010 are trying to do an automotive version of HOT-OR-NOT, buying all sorts of expensive wheels and learning how to beat up their fenders, all the while praying to GOD that they earn the internet-fame status of "HellaFlush Approved."

It's pretty ingenious, hyping up something to that extent. Most of the car heads that I know would do up their cars so that they turned out exactly how they wanted. Nobody gave a fuck about if other people loved it or hated it. I guess it's different now.

With these kids trying to feel loved with "HellaFlush Approved" status, they're spending more on their car than it'd cost for a girl to get a set of breast implants or a new wardrobe... How is that right?

Old school?

Some of the dudes at work are getting all excited about Honda Civics, and are talking about how they're so "old school." I guess you can probably find a cheap Civic, throw a thousand bucks worth of knockoff ebay parts on it, and you're good, right?

Anyhow, I got to thinking about it, and the methods of improving a Honda Civic nowadays has progressed enough to become pretty "new school." This car was at Spoon/Type One in Shinjuku, in 2007. Suspension, brakes, chassis lightened and stiffened. K-series, with enough power that they chose to use 255/40's up front. The fiberglass flares came off of something else. Can you tell what they're from?

Everyone thinks that Spoon Sports is all about money. True, their quality is tops, and you can't cheap out on that. It's also about making good choices; There's no price on that.

It's still basically the same ballgame, though it's all driven by performance. You gotta love a car that can do the work.

Oliiiivia!

Everyone's said that since day one, Olivia looked like her papa. I think that she looks like papa when she's in a good mood, and that she looks like momma when she's fussy. !!!