Good ol’ San Francisco. I am actually glad to be home from Hawaii. I don’t hate island living but SF is what I have come to love and appreciate for my own life.

So you think you have balls. My friend Amber decided to test her stones on her 30th birthday by shaving off all of her hair. Welcome to the gOLD club my dear.

You tell me what’s wrong. I decided to go check out the Blue Angles at Twin Peaks Sunday only to find out that it got cancelled due to weather conditions. For real? Too much blue for the Blue Angles to cut through? I stood up on the mountain and seriously didn’t get what the hell was wrong.

This is number five. Count it…1,2,3,4,five! If you can believe it, this will be my fifth concert seeing my favorite band ever, Incubus. The first time I saw them was back 2002 in SF at the Civic Center Auditorium, second time was in LA the following year during Halloween, the third time was at the Greek Theater in Berkeley in 2005 and then again in SF at the Warfield in 2007 and now in 2011, I am seeing them at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View.

I have no idea why I like these guys nor do I try to understand it. I was first introduced to them from MTV and the rest was just full commitment on my part to want to follow their illustrious career. I mean their new album sucks and I know it sucks and yet, I don’t think it sucks. Now that is dedication.

Dare I even mention Sade, Mobb Deep, Dogg Pound or Public Enemy‘s name in the same sentence with Young Jeezy. Dare I even think what is seeping in my head right now. Dare I say it? Fine. Jeezy and Freddie Gibbs’s concert last night was the best concert I’ve been to this whole year. For real. No bullshit.

*** Pics and video taken with an iPhone 4.

Concert season is still in effect and my bucket list continues to get crossed off. I finally hit one on the top of my list right next to walking The Great Wall Of China and fucking a fat chick for sport. Let’s be real, some of these things are just never going to happen. I really don’t even want to go to China.

Sade has to be somewhat happy that she has created thousands of unnecessary births in this world. Her music just makes people flat out want to fuck the shit out of each other with no contraception in mind. Hell, I’d fuck a doughnut just cause it has a nice chocolate hole in the middle if Like A Tattoo played in a coffee shop. I have no shame in my game. I just love Sade’s music that much.

Up to bat first…John Legend. Dude is the modern day Stevie Wonder of our time.

I have been waiting twenty plus years to see this woman sing and finally…

…Sade Adu has arrived! She did everything that I wanted to hear and some. And talk a about bang for your buck. She came and performed for almost an hour and a half, taking you back to the classic songs that I have been hearing when getting my teeth drilled at the dentist to the new stuff that hasn’t really settled into my heart as of yet. And most importantly to all men out there, this chick still looks good for her age!

My only gripe about comedy is it should only be so long. This is my third Comedy Jam in a row with probably the most star studded cast of them all and yet by the fourth act (mind you it was Dave Chappelle), I could feel that sense of down syndrome infecting my eyes.

7:00pm start time and the whole damn lawn was filled to the rim.

There were hightlights of the show but I always have a hard time remembering jokes after the facts. I don’t think no one sucked but then no one really killed it either. If I had to choose, the Golden Globe would have gone to Jo Koy for his impeccable performance of the stereotypical Vietnamese dude. That shit got me.

And a new photo of the current ink on my arm. Needed one for reference to see if I can get some work done when I am in the islands next month. It’s a long shot but I am going to see if I can get Mandy Garcia to bless me and fit me into her busy schedule. My body morphication continues. Next up…bigger balls.

Edit: I even photoshopped someone else’s tattoo after they saw mine online. Comparing the two arms, it looks like I was masturbating with lipstick on my hands.

*** Additional pics and video taken with an iPhone 4.

The Mezzanine is like the Area 51 of concert venues. Last night I smashed a whole DSLR along with a kilo of heroin in my ass and even with my personal wit and charm, security still required that I have a full search of my anus. I guess they knew better that an Asian shouldn’t have a booty the size of a dump truck, let alone a guys. So I am sorry to say, you guys will have to deal with these cruddy iPhone 4 pics.

Let’s talk about the real grit and grime of it all though. Mobb Deep is for the bad kids. They represent punching your mothers belly while still in the womb, stickin’ up kids for their bologna sandwiches, placing razor blades on teachers chairs and stabbing fucking bosses with paperclips.

The guy in the hat is Prodigy aka H.N.I.C. Dude just got out of jail a couple of months ago. I would imagine even in jail, he could have held his own and became the butt-fucker and no the butt-fuckee. Gay butt sex is one thing but taking up the ass will shoot that street cred straight down the tubes.

I love these guys though. Still bump their music to this day and probably forever. Let’s hope the new album comes correct when it comes out later this year.

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Cross another one off the concert checklist. The Dogg Pound Gangstaz came to my neck of the woods last night to the Rock It Room. I know I probably say this all the time, but this was one of the best concerts I have ever been to. I think I know what it is though. I am just a fanboy. These are the guys I grew up on from that G-Funk era in the 90′s. Listening to Dogg Food on my walkman and just imagining gangsta shit in the streets of my non-ghetto suburban neighborhood. What a time of life…

“We live…tonight I serve two thousand MC’s. We live…cause none can’t fuck with the DPGz!” – Kurupt on the song New York New York

The night starts off at a Ethiopian place around my block called the Piano Lounge. It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad….it was just forgettable.

I am going to construct a list. See if I can use my pea brain to somehow jot down every single concert I have ever been too and all in sequential order. At the top at number one would be Boys II Men featuring Tevin Campbell and Babyface and at the bottom would be Public Enemy.

It has been said in books and magazines that It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is one of or if not, the top hip-hop album ever to be created. Even when the Rolling Stones mag was creditable, it placed that album as #45 out of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

My man Flav. Dude is over 50 years old and he still wears his clock prouder then ever. Regardless of his questionable career as of late, you have to appreciate his energy that he brings to the stage. All positive aggression and cussing and middle finger pointing that all supports the cause. I can only hope I am the same when my time comes.

My niece is already one years young. I did the math. By the time she is 18 years old, I will be 48 years shitty and balder then a brand new dildo.

Dennis Eckersley is probably my favorite Oakland Athletic of all time. From the stash to the side arm delivery, the guy was a rare breed in today’s baseball. I’ll even over look the infamous 1988 Dodger game when he got rocked by Kirk Gibson. Fuck that dude straight in his testicles.

Monday night Warriors game. They almost blew a 32 point lead. Thirty-two points! By the end of it, we got the “W” only by four points. They sure know how to make a shitty game dramatic. Mind you the Pistons are in last place in their division.

Big fist pump for all you bastards!

Stopped by FIFTY24SF Gallery to check out the new installation by those pot smokin’ creators, Imaginary Foundation.

This is no cut and paste job using photoshop. All these pieces have been hand created the old fashion way with oils on canvas. The beauty is not within the technique of the brush but the idea that all these images were conceived through someone’s artistic creativity.

My favorite piece from the show. I’ve seen this on shirts and skateboards but the original kills them all.

Speaking of killing them all…tacos from the taco truck near Best Buy. If you don’t know, now you know.

SF Auto Show was also in town during the Thanksgiving break at Moscone Center. This is the new Lexus LFA coming out in 2012. A mean son of a bitch for a car and you can just get it for a measly $375k. On a side note, taking pics of cars has got to be the most boring shit in the world.

Last but not least, I saw one of childhood R&B groups last night at Yoshi’s SF. Tony Toni Toné was one of the great bands of the 90′s and best of all, they were from our city around the Bay that we call Oakland. Only one thing unknown to my knowledge…

Who in the fuck is the fake as Raphael Saadiq on stage! Did I miss something? I had to double check some Wikipedia pages when I got home just to brush up on some info. I knew they broke up at one point but I figured they’d unite just to do some concerts for some cash.

Super producer Just Blaze performed at Yoshi’s this Saturday. Special surprise guest of the night was Jay Electronica, boyfriend and third baby daddy to the most tantalizing vagina in the biz…miss Erykah Badu. Hope dude doesn’t tweak out after the break up. Goat leggings with snow boots is not a good look no matter how famous you are. Big thanks to Steve and Adam of the Jazz Mafia band for the free tickets to the show. Excellent performance as usual fellas.

Mother fuckin’ poonani yeah! Shit doesn’t get much better then this! Sun on my back, wind in my face…all I need is some sperm and I’ll feel like a born again adolescent tween in my hay days.

Decided to go and head over to the Francis Ford Coppola bar to get our mafia zone on. They say the Italian beer will make you feel some indigenous thoughts but it only made me want to pee every three seconds.

Later in the night, we got to check out Audio Alchemy at Yoshi’s SF presented by Dan The Automater (above) featuring DJ Q-Bert, Shortkut, The Jazz Mafia All-Stars and Mars-1.

Special appearance of the night with the Hieroglyphics featuring Casual and Knobody

And the man, the myth…the legend. Second to Pacquiao, Q-Bert has to be the 2nd most famous Filipino out there. Dubbed the Hendrix of DJing, the dude is absolutely the best at his craft…and he represents Daily City of all places.