Brekkie @ Toby’s Estate Potts Point this morning. Coffee was creamy and strong as. I’m still surging!
One of my fave staple foods, the humble bacon and egg roll. I was supper chuffed to see it on the menu, ordered it only to be told that they were not available today… I expressed my sorrow (lol) and ordered something else, but 5 minutes later the waitress plonks this on our table :) #winning
Nanami went for the BLT.
Nanami’s relo’s are over from Japan, and they brought a bag of these evil individually wrapped crunchy things… #converted
My trusty (dead stock) DC2R.
The best time I could manage. I really wanted a 1.16. I was confident I could do it, glad I did it (last session too).
Yonas let me drive his supercharged EG Civic. I think I lost 5kg in sweat driving it, what a beast!!!!!
Mark Pakula let me drive his NA (again) and yes, fell in love with it (again). Found it harder to drive than last time, got caught up in some traffic too just when I thought I was on a flyer. I’m so rusty though (need more balls!).
Howie brought his 911 along, he was going hard all day too. Still the best car I’ve ever driven to date. Love it, lots.
Rad dudes. Ex-Autosalon staff Herman and Mark :)
Check the fucking hammock! So pimp right?! My Zen Garage work buddy John Lor lost his license a month ago, being driven to the track, driving on the circuit all day long, then being driven home = winning at life!
Awesome day at the track again today. Zi from JDMyard organised another private track day, where we basically own the track, to ourselves, for the entire day. 20 cars, so much track time it’s ridiculous.
The VWGolf.netg.au crew made up some numbers and tracked in style with an audio/speaker set-up at the pits, and a BBQ lunch. The west side boys (John lol) brought a cars made out of 5 cars, and a hammock too (which I admit was pretty damn pimp!).
I got to fang Yonas’ JDMyard Civic and damn fucking shit it was hard to drive. I even came off on the last lap… what a beast! Crazy responsive, no power steering made you fight with the wheel all the time, get the line right and it powers out in a nice slide, get it wrong and understeer fucks you up hard. It’s so fast it hits the rev limiter before you’re ready (it whips into high rpm’s!) and getting all that shifting and braking done from 5th to 3rd is so hard… what a challenging car to drive.
I also got to drive Mark Pakula’s NA MX5. I’ve been in love with this car for ages and I’m still in love with it (last time Mark let me drive it I refused to pitt!). I’m just so rusty with a rear wheel drive car though, and Mark’s new 6-Speed gearbox had me mis-shifting a few times too. I thought I absolutely nailed some corners, only to stuff up in other corners on the same lap, or come across some traffic so I failed to stitch together a clean lap unfortunately.
And finally my own car, my stock DC2R with a massive 170,000kms (still going so hard!). I aimed to get a 1.16. I started with 1.22’s. Staying in 3rd gear in turn 2, the hairpin and the last corner just didn’t work, tyres were too shit. I ended up having to shift into 2nd for all these corners and I finally got my 1.16 on my last session. Wasn’t easy… been way too spoilt with modified cars with semi-slicks for way too long!!!
Anyways I’m home now and still soooo fucking pumped! SO PUMPED! Damn I needed that, so pumped!!!!!!!
Max & Mia.
Since late last year I’ve noticed Max getting more and more demanding to the point of destroying stuff in the house, meowing a lot, pissing on things he’s not meant to, he even shat in the middle of my office (knowing that’s where I spend a lot of my time!!!).
He needs a LOT of love as he’s the sookiest most affectionate cat I’ve ever met. I’m hardly home at all these days so I’ve been pushing Christina to take him (being single right now I can’t help but feel like cat man too with 2 cats!), problem is, she’s got a dog! She’ll be moving out in August and can take Max then, but she’s been looking for someone to take him off me until then. The first friend fell through a few months ago, but some new friends have decided to take him on and yesterday I said goodbye.
Super sad :( Mia’s been following me around the house everywhere, she’s being all vocal now too, and hearing that Max has been hiding behind the bed of the new owners place all night and this morning too makes me feel rotten :(
View from the top. Antons place @ Rushcutters Bay.
The world’s a much happier place from up here.
The million dollar cruiser had us balling out of control again last night. :)
So good to be a tourist in your own city.
We docked up at Cocklebay Wharf, turns out the whole of Sydney was there as Darling Harbour put on an awesome fireworks display.
A few weeks ago I closed up the shop one night and had the Dopesource Media guys come over to shoot unsigned 21 year old Artist Christian Joseph performing his original song titled ‘Fool For You’. The results are amazing, one guy, a guitar, unplugged… it’s so raw, no synths, overdubs and drum machines, nothing to hide behind (unlike his official video).
I was instantly jealous of Christian’s amazing voice, which filled a dark and quiet Zen Garage with emotion so thick you had to wade through it.
I’ve put a feature, with more links up on Zen Garage, so click for more, if you like.
Early last month I bought Nanami a SIT print, happy to say it’s now back from the framers, still wrapped in plastic, but once that’s off she’s ready to get on the wall!
Logo design for ALL STARS, a car show we’re working on. More news soon!
We had Mr. Campbell Milligan from Monster Children up on the stage last night.
Packed out crowd despite the rain!
Field Trip is a new conference from Australian Infront and Jacky Winter. We’re pretty damn excited about this!!! The first one is taking place this April the 20th at ACMI in Melbourne. It’s not your regular run of the mill conference either: Think live action, taking a brief on stage. IE: No portfolio slide shows here, 100% process process process! Head on over to http://www.thefieldtrip.com.au/ for artist info, tickets, schedules and more!
PS: I’d really personally appreciate it if you could spread the news on this one. It’s been a long time coming, and with your help we’re hoping it’ll be a huge success. :)