The whole weekend. Let's do it. Better relive the moments before I kill more brain cells thanks to the NBA/NHL playoffs
I bring to you...
THE RECAP!! Featuring ALL NEW details and photos XXXclusive to
hANGRY & ANGRY in Seattle
IT WAS ALL A DREAM!! I USED TO READ WERD UP MAGAZINE!!To pump up peeps for Anime Expo in Los Angeles, to bring NATIONAL PRIDE to HiPSTAZ WORLD WIDE. No Ghostwriters involved. I'll post them in segments:
PART 1 : Intro + Autograph Session
(Posted! 2009/06/07)PART 2 : Interview & Guest Reception
PART 3 : Concert
PART 4 : Q&A + Outro.
LET'S GO! JPHIP! 
Day 0 | Thursday (2009.04.09)Intro: Pre-Con / LandingLanded in Seattle, early morning/afternoon. Shit was drizzly. Got in at the fucking Roosvelt, nice joint. Planned to meet up with rev2hd aka Dinny to pick up our badges so had a little time to kill. Txt'd a few homies (tama asked if it was raining
) and began work on updating the site / announcing the interview cuz that was what I promised Japanfiles Dave and I had spent the previous night packing lol. Procrastination sucks!
After wank 'n shower, I stepped out to grab some foods from Wal-Greens cuz I forgot to pack my gel then Dinny calls me and goes "Where u at? I'm in the lobby." so I rush back to the hotel and see this tanned lady in the lobby and she was "You daigong?" and I was like "...Dinny? rev2hd??" did NOT look like the facebook pic then ZIP opens the elevator and pops out Dinny! OH. It was actually Linna2040, a lurker who had specifically met up with rev for the Sakura Con and had drove her from the airport. NICE! So instead of the two people, there were three!
The line was ridiculously huge, almost half an auditorium full. We sat there and actually "breezed" through within the hour. I then went to pick up my press pass and asked the people there where stark was and told him I said hi. Starving, we rolled on out...suddenly this huge breasted girl peered over us DAMN!! and was like looking at us while were tourist-mode looking at our map. "Theys looking for ya!" I turned around and shit, it was the man stark. We bullshitted and they suggested Dragon Fish, Asian Fusion. Not bad, ordered a ton of rolls n noodles. Dinny has the appetite of ten big men!!
Stopped by an Asian grocer to stock up for snax for the next day. Lotsa line ups anticipated, it was nicely situated next to Safeco and Qwest Field. That was about as close as I got to the House that Ken Griffey Jr. Built. And knowing I forgot my H&A goods, we went to find a Hot TOpic but the malls were already closed soo..
Back at the hotel, me and Dinny got to work on the scrap book. All I did was bring a photo printer and a random idea in my head - "To illustrate the events of JPH!P involving IshiYoshi, HANGRY & ANGRY, etc." Shooting ideas back and forth, we inserted the three messages that were submitted and ended up just making a who's who of HiPsters along with gorgeous pix of Rika and Yossi. The paper was also larger than the 8 x 8 inch book so Dinny had to cut it all fancy. We worked so fucking hard till 3 nearly 4 am that Dinny began to nosebleed. That's right, WE BLEED FOR JPH!P
That was a wrap. The scrap book looked fabulous. The next day would be EPIC.
Day 1 | Friday (2009.04.10)The Autograph Session #1The plans for the day was go to autograph session, group interview session, then finally guest reception.
Woke up and ran to Hot Topic cuz fuck me, I forgot my official Rika merchandise. (Dinny had brought her H&A lunch box plus a Gatas jersey that was so fucking rare!!) Apparently, they don't sell them at that particular store (just around the monorail) cuz the dude there had no idea who Hangry & Angry was. I had to take my luck at the Dealer's Room. The shit was autograph session started at 12:30pm and Dealer's Room opened at 12pm. So me and Dinny laid back and prepared our gifts to IshiYoshi: The custom T-shirts with their name individually written plus a birthday card for Yossi, that came with sound and you could record a message lol. It was not what we had planned, but they were handmade gifts from the heart and we were confident they'd appreciate it.
We met up with Linna2040 again and headed to the hall to scope the action. Linna2040 read on the sign that there was some sorta lottery system and were like WTF!! We ran into stark who said "Ya missed H&A at the opening ceremonies!!" D'OH!! He told us they just flew in, possibly jetlagged, and that the Japan government dude was hilarious. We did an impromptu interview with stark and peace'd out. Noon was creeping on up so I went up the dealers room and FUCK!! The line was about as crazy as the registration line. I bit the bullet and waited, luckily when the doors opened it swiftly piled us in. I ran and asked where the Japanfiles section was but there was none, instead there was a table selling just Hangry & Angry and Girugamesh stuff. Apparently you get 1 ticket for front of the line autographs cuz you were buying "official merchandise" so I slammed down for three CDs and ran back with 5 minutes to spare!
There I met up with a bunch more H!P fans: iceymoon and Bryan, alohellofan, Rickker708, OpsMonkey, and a couple (I forget their names but they were iceymoon's friends). The representation of H&A fans was fucking great, we were (kinda lol) worried that no one would show up. The more the merrier right! They finally let us into the giant hall and we filed in. There stood in the back this long table with "Sakura-Con" logo and "Autograph Session" ... it was just fucking surreal, that in mere moments IshiYoshi 14:44 would appear. Me and the others (alohellofan, Ricker, dinny, Liina) chatted then BAM! In they came, could not see them but we screamed. There was this nervous hush as we filed along "Y'all who have tickets line up here!" - line was moving fast. Me and Dinny shuffled along. When we finally got up, Dinny had her lunchbox signed, each person they would make comments about the item. Like for the lunchbox, they'd go "You got in Japan?" or something. Everyone piled their gifts, bags and bags. I gave the handlers our T-shirts and scrapbook.
First pic: back- Rickker708, alohellofan, daigong, chick, chicks hubby, OpsMonkey
FRONT: dude from JPM!? iceymoon (with the book) from JPM, and rev2hdAnd proceeded to meet face to face, first Yossi. I said "daigong dess" or whatever. Rika observed my freebie poster and pointed to the energy drink "Rockstar" lol First time, up I gotta fess up. I was a nervous wreck. GOD stood before me, but GOD as I met Rika Ishikawa face to face, Her eyes, hidden in the eyeliner. Her smile with the largest teeth ever, each one perfect. I showed em the T-shirt, I asked Rika to sign "To: jphip.com" and she stared right into my heart blazed with the JPHiP logo and carefully printed it out "j...p...h...i...p..." she gave me a giant grin and all I could go was...THANK YOU" I said. THANK YOU.
I stumbled to the side where rev, iceymoon, and the others were and just fucking hugged them all. Collapsing to the ground, I had made my mark. The journey of meeting THE FOUNDATION had been reached. Few things made me weak to my knees, I just lay on the ground soaking it all in. Then I saw dinny & alohellofan re-enter the line, they were going back. Bryan was like "Nah, I can't go in...like (resepect idols blabla)"... I thought of that at first but I came here to get shit signed for my homies too, so I got back a second time - For my homie Masa!
The sad thing...or probably coincidentally - the crowd was not as big as the auditorium, and most likely because it was a Friday and peoples were still in school (like DifferentStory12).
As we were in the line again, dinny was like "Dude gotta get this GATAS jersey signed" and we met wings4dreams. A real nice girl, taller than me lol. I looked into my bag and SHIT through my first bout of FREAK OUT I forgot to give Yossi the birthday card. It was one of those "Record Your Message" Hallmark shit, with "I'm So Excited!" as the music. As I dug deeper, I FUCKING REALIZED I GAVE THEM THE WRONG FUCKING T-SHIRTS. The ones we made for them each had their own names on the back, rather than the IshiYoshi that we wore. Plus these were small ladies (I assumed I'd meet up with ds12, etc) and the ones we made were ladies medium. HOLY FUCKIN SHIT!!! LIKE IT WAS SOME FUCKING GODDAMN SIGN!! OH RIKA <3
This time around, I told the handlers straight up "Gave em the wrong shirts" and got them back. Then I got Yossi to sign "To Masa" and then I took the birthday card and I tried to record it in front of her and it didn't really work LMAO PLUS Yossi didn't really get it
she just said "Oh thank you!!"
Then The PIMP tookover. "Yossi, present for you" I showed her the H&A JPHiP shirt I wore, then gave Yossi the H&A T with her name on the back, and they were like WOW!! All the while, Rika looked on feeling left out but was like WOWing at the side
And without missing a beat, I was like "Rika, for you!" and showed her OWN personalized JPHiP Rika T-shirt!!! They were like WOW Thank You kinda deal and I was like "See you at the press conference / interview" and "Blblblblblbl" and "Thank you, thank you" winked at Rika and totally walked backwards until I collapsed back to the group. HAHAHAHA! SUCCESS!! I knew ZERO japanese so sign language. I didn't give a fuck about holding up the line. I didn't even think "C'mon, this is my one shot!" - It was the natural SWAGGA that presented the GOODZ and DELIVERED!! Making shit up as I went along!
Shit - after all that, I had only touched Yossi's finger tips accidentally when giving her the poster to sign.
WE just collapsed in a heap and soaked it in again and again. Everyone was satisfied, just surrealness took over. H&A had to leave early for the press conference so we had time to spare...then iceymoon suggested we go the seats that they were in. GOOD IDEA!! And I proceeded to put my face in the seat where Rika sat!! SNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFF!!
LOL plastic just ain't the same as the real ASS. We then took pix, Greg aka OpsMonkey humped the chair, Dinny spread her cheeks across both seats. Then this short haired Chinese girl came up and asked "Doh! Did I miss the autograph session!" It was Terrie, from Hello! Project Taiwan and she just got in. Explained she was the ultimate fangirl with FC shit, and we was like BOW DOWN! Time to part, we took a video shot of us doing the hand on top of hand "TEAMWORK!!" kinda rally chant and then...parted ways cuz I had to go to...whatcha all been waiting for...
THE INTERVIEW!!
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