{"id":322,"date":"2002-05-04T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-04T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2002\/05\/04\/322\/"},"modified":"2002-05-04T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-04T17:04:00","slug":"322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/322\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy Sat&#8217;day! It started off with the usual Japanese class. We learned how to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to scale buildings and shoot webs from my wrist with my friend Tanaka-san,&#8221; and I had pennies thrown at me by resident anime fans.<\/p>\n<p>Those anime fans, along with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/prinzesspms.tripod.com\/artindex.html\">Prinzess PMS<\/a>, along with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.batjew.com\">Batjew<\/a>, along with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\">Greg Dean<\/a>, all went to Fanime 2002, whilst I was stuck in my Japanese class learning how to make katanas out of origami.<\/p>\n<p>But I showed them! After Japanese, and a shot of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rockstar69.com\">Rockstar<\/a>, I was off to the new arcade <a HREF=\"http:\/\/midgarswamp.tripod.com\">James<\/a> and I had discovered on Fourth Street, downtown San Rafael. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Star Base 1,&#8221; and it recently celebrated its 20th birthday (hence the cheesy name). It&#8217;s got a hell of a lot of great games, including Tekken 4 and Tag, Aliens vs. Predator (Capcom), BAD DUDES VS. DRAGON NINJA (not), and of course, Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix Plus!<\/p>\n<p>For only 25 cents a dance (75 cents a game), James, his friend Hayato, and I danced our asses off for 2 hours straight. Amazingly enough, even though Hayato Wong is half Japanese and half Chinese (making the ULTIMATE ASIAN), James was even better than him at DDR. A picture gallery (mostly of James &#8211; bleah! :P) for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1812.jpg\">Hayato and James start off.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1813.jpg\">Not sure what song it is, but according to the bar, they must really be sucking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1814.jpg\">While Hayato is great, James is GODLY. Er, perfect.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1815.jpg\">James begins to break a sweat!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1816.jpg\">James goes wacky with the camera and shoots me playing &#8220;Have You Never Been Mellow&#8221; (not).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1817.jpg\">Trick! Yet again, while Hayato is &#8220;PERFECT!&#8221; James is &#8220;<b><big>PERFECT!<\/big><\/b>&#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1819.jpg\">&#8220;Duaaah&#8230; I step on the buttons.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1820.jpg\">An amazing 4-step combo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1821.jpg\">James, bathed in sweat, chooses from a million remixes of &#8220;Paranoia.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1822.jpg\">Hayato takes a break, and learns to breathe again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1823.jpg\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a MANIAC, MANIAC, on the pad.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1824.jpg\">James&#8217;s lucky number.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1826.jpg\">My camera has a really fast shutter, but trust me: James is breaking the speed limit with his feet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1827.jpg\">OH MY GOD, I&#8217;M PASSING ON TRICK.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1828.jpg\">James goes Double.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1829.jpg\">Wow. My camera, like, kicks a lot of ass.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1830.jpg\">Tee-hee&#8230; a 0-combo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1832.jpg\">&#8220;ARE YOU A MONKEY?!?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1833.jpg\">James starts off on Non-Stop Mode, has written a will.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1834.jpg\">A momentary rest between songs&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1835.jpg\">Sweaty backs are the style this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1837.jpg\">MOVE JAMES! FOR GREAT JUSTICE@~!~<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.tripod.com\/photos\/1840.jpg\">The owner of the arcade, once a devious youth like us, adjusts the bass and does a little dance.<\/a><br \/>So that was like the best way EVER to spend a Saturday afternoon. After that, I was very uptight, and a shower was so relaxing! (I did it! A <a HREF=\"http:\/\/rivercityhigh.keenspace.com\">River City Ransom<\/a> reference!)<\/p>\n<p>I went with my mom to this church, where the &#8220;Field of Dogs,&#8221; and organization that owns a field&#8230; for dogs&#8230; had a meeting. My mom gave them some moneys because like all free organizations, they&#8217;re eternally financially strapped.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was off to Dominican University, a nearby private school, to watch their orchestra and choir sing Mozart&#8217;s &#8220;Mass,&#8221; and &#8220;Requiem&#8221; by John&#8230; Sutter or something. There are too many composers out there named John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy Sat&#8217;day! It started off with the usual Japanese class. We learned how to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to scale buildings and shoot webs from my wrist with my friend Tanaka-san,&#8221; and I had pennies thrown at me by resident anime fans. Those anime fans, along with Prinzess PMS, along with Batjew, along&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/322\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Untitled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}