Andre Cabrales

This is probably one of the coolest things I'm a part of.

Every Tuesday night a group of us (consistently; Shane, Amanda, Ashley, and Shey) go out to try new places. We've recently been to America's Taco Shop (Named after a person, not our country), and Pizzeria Bianco (don't even get me started! Excellent place to go spend money on world class food). I missed last week due to a meeting on Tuesday night.

Last night we went to Chino Bandido on greenway and 19th ave in Phoenix. This place has been on 'Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives'... so it was an easy choice to make.

I had the Jade Red Chicken and the... i don't know.. some sort of pork. The pork fried rice was good, the black beans were AMAZING, the pork was okay (didn't really stand out for me), the jade red chicken was RIDICULOUSly good (had it in a quesadilla).

The place looked like a run down hole in the wall... which it is... BUT i'll definitely be back for more!

Well... not really. But I'm pretty sure I would know how to if I became so desperate.

Went to Best Buy to waste some time and I saw something called Drive+play by harman/kardon... pretty much an ipod radio transmitter on steroids.

I saw them for 20 bucks... couldn't pass it up!

So... I spent a lot of my night taking my dashboard apart and gutting my stereo. I made a lot of mistakes (didn't unhook the battery... blew a fuse that took me an hour to find) and pretty much wired, re-wired, repeated for 3 times.

It really sounds great... you wouldn't believe it's just an FM transmitter.

Now I can say I'm pretty confident how to install stereo stuff... the right way.

the blunt club in Tempe... Usually known as Club Red.

Every Thursday they have an underground hip-hop... thing. It was pretty dope... to say the least.

I met up with my cuz Angel, Mike Steezy, and this other guy Chris. We probably showed up at 1045... It was crazy late.

Abstract Rude was great....

He's an underground legend... seen him years before with Mikah 9 and Aceyalone as Haiku d'etat.


Then Busdriver took the stage...

Man this guy is weird... but genius.

He did a few classics... everyone went crazy when 'imaginary places' came on... that song live was RIDICULOUS!

This was definitely one of the best and weirdest shows i've been too.

Why are artist all about smoking weed? I just think it's weird and unnecessary... who really cares?

AND... there were people pop locking everywhere... it was soooo dumb. I could imagine if they were messing around and having fun... but some people were serious... AND SUCKED!

at the end of the show the dj threw on a NAS track 'Hip Hop is dead'.... people actually gathered around them! We all looked at each other with that "seriously?" look.

That's about when we left... good show... weird crowd.

Then... as i was relieving myself between some cars.... Busdriver so happened to walk by.... told him good set... looked like he didn't care... i went home.