JOURNAL:
TheNanashi (Brandon Baity)
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"took my love and took it down, climbed a mountain and i turned around, and i saw my reflection in a snow covered hill, till landslide brought it down."
2002-02-10 22:48:05
Well...an exciting week for me.
Not really, just another week of procrastination and wanting to stay home from school to tune my car some more.
"Oh no, hes not gonna tell another drag racing story..."
Oh yes baby, i am indeed. So heres how it started, Wednesday...me and my friends decide its time, we are going the legal way. So we drive an hour and a half to Bithlo, FL(outside Orlando). Where they have a drag strip ad open "Test & Tune" Wednesdays and Fridays. So, me being the smart one, says "dude, my car sucks, so does your, lets just go down there and have some fun."
"Ok" say my punk friends.
My friend Coy drives a '96 Mustang V-6 3.8L(wussy one)(chooe not to race, wuss)
I drive a '87 Prelude 2.0L SI
My friend John drives a '99 Oldsmobile Alero(big boat)
Myother friend Greg drives a '98 Crysler Cirrus(he has a '99 Mustang GT, but is parents wont let him race it.)
We get there at about 6:30pmtheres aout 500 cars there), I get in these long ass lines...and guess what see pulled up next to me on both sides of me...on my right is a Mustang Saleen(fastest bitch, a Saturn twin cam(sucks)...on my left is a 90's Camero SS(faster bitch), and a '98 RX-7(fast bitch).
But luckily the way they select who drags against each other is kinda random. So i am nervous as fuck as this is my first time draging at a real strip, and im seeing all these hella tricked out cars. Im just hoping im not the slowest guy out here.
So anyway im next in my line(there are 5 different lines), he points to me, and then the car behind me...which is this hot girl in a Mazda MX-6 i was just chatting with before while we were waiting for the crotch rockets(fast fuckers) to finish up there runs. But this girl is really nice and shes only 17, but her parents let her race there car, very cool.
So we both pull into our lanes, and i try to do a burnout...didnt work, my car just kinda started wiggling in place, and no smoke came out...oh well, i move up to the line. I know im gonna lose since her car is faster, unless she screws up...
(let me explain a bit about drag racing, to get the best possible start you take off a slipt second after the light hits the thrid yellow...me being a newbie to this legal stuff am thinking i take off on green...very logical) The light hits the first yellow, then second, then third, she starts rolling a bit, then gree and we both take off.
I get this ass start and my car drags it heavy ass for the first 2 seconds. But i hit second gear and im surprisingly catching up a ittle bit. But alas, i could not catch up, she wins with a 16.8, and i ran a 17.6(slow, but not depressingy slow), plus i got a shitty start.
After getting my timeslip i get back in line to do a second run...it takes another hour before i get back to the strip.(tons of cars, mean waiting is long)
I get ready for my second run...the dude calls me and the car next to me, a Dodge Neon that looks like an Impreza WRC car cuz it has that bubbly lookin hood scoop on the front. Now i was pretty sure this Neon was fast cuz i heard him talking about it.
So we pull into the lane, a do a somewhat better burnout, i get a bit of smoke, but not much. I pull up to the line, but since i know when to go this time, i should have a much better start. Im revving it hard...first yellow, second yellow, third yellow(i begin to tap the gas pedal, then slam it has i turns to green), green. But my car, being that it has almost bald tires, peels out for waaaay to long and i get an ok start. But his Neon is fast and just pulls away the entire race. He wins with a 15.9, and i have a 17.1(decent for my car, but i still think i can do much better.)
And another thing, according to Honda, my car is supposed to run 17.2 stock in a quarter mile. My car is practically stock and it is running with no exhaust system on it and no air intake(i took them off due to other things i am doing to the car with the emmisson controls, so i consider i did well for the suggested stock time.)
Well, my friends didnt know anything about legally draggin either so when we got there...John and greg are both 17 and didnt have the parental release form filled out and signed...so they didnt get to race, and my friend Coy, choose not to race. So i was the only one to race, but we are going back up there this wednesday and we are all going to race cuz Greg and John both got the release signed...and Coy just got his car back from the shop friday.
Anyway...the next morning, my car was having problems starting, then it died, and wouldnt turn over, the onl way it would somewhat turn was when i took a hammer to the starter and beat on it a bit, but then it continued to die...its the Starter...its been fixed since then.
Well, im sure you all love these stories of my life, then again, you could probably care less. Oh well, it was fun for me.
Im gonna get my car running low 16's or high 15's soon...
So until thursday...ill have another "track report" then, with all the race details of all my friends and myself. Time to go back to working on my latest video that i keep putting off...
peace out.
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"Im never coming back, im never giving in, ill never be the shine in your spit."
2002-02-02 13:03:00
"Ive got a machinehead, its better than the rest..."
This is a post i made on the MoreThanToast message board yesterday, but since it pertains to my life and everything about me, i think i should post it in my journal here as well, this all happened yesterday. Check out www.Morethantoast.com *shamelessplug*, here is the post I, TheNanashi, made:
"Well here it goes, me and my friends were at school today and we were talkin smack to each other about cars and shit. So we decided to go find a place to drag race against each others cars for no apparent reason, just having fun. So heres the senario, im in my 1987 Honda Prelude SI vs. my friends 1996 Mustang V6 3.8L(the wussy one, not the GT). We find this wonderful back road out by the Kissimmee municiple airport.(Kissimmee is by O-town and Disney, and close to where i live.)
This race is supposed to be a joke because he is royally gonna kick my ass, his car is just faster in the higher gears.
So we are down this back road, my other friend is watching for cops, he calls from his cell phone to my other friend to tell him the coast is clear.Just to let you know, i chose to race on the wrong side of the road,(it was only a 2 lane back road) cuz im fucking crazy.
We begin revving...(my car sounds gay, cuz its an import rice runner with a pipe, blah...), my other friend stands inbetween us and holds his hands up and gives us both the thumbs up.
He drops his hands...time to go!
I feather the gas for a split second(my car doesnt like it when you stomp on the gas off the line) and then i floor it. I peel out, but only for about a second, the mustang besides me peels out for a good 3 seconds. I get the jump on him off the line(im lighter, less torque too.)
I get the RPMs up to 6500 pretty quick in 1st, then slap shift that badboy into second, im still ahead, but i can feel him gaining that lost ground pretty quick. I slam it into third, but he is gaining strong now and we are even, with me in 3rd gear, him in 2nd gear(damn mustang). He goes to shift to 3rd, but fucks it up an misses 3rd. I hear his gear grinding noise from my car, then slam the hammer down into 4th a bit early to take advantage of this screw up and pull away by a car length and a half. We both hit this retarded bump in the road that we didnt notice, my car gets a few inches off the ground cuz im going like 90 MPH and the Mustang bounces pretty heavy. He hits 4th gear and is making a slow come back again, but it is too little too late.
I pass the road marker we set as the end of the quarter mile and i pull in front of him in his lane and we both begin to slow down.
After the race were cracking up about how shit like that happens. My friends were all talking about how my car went airborne for a few seconds, i guess its pretty cool too. (My friend greg, brought along a group of freshmen that he is supposed to be taking home, but instead he decided to watch the race, these freshmen had never seen a drag race before on the street and were so in awe, it was freaking hilarious to watch them touch our cars and stuff.)
Moral of this event, drag racing fucking rules!!!
2nd moral of this event, no matter how badass your car may be and how fast it goes...if your a bad driver your still gonna lose.
Thanks for listening. Today was really fun too.
Oh yeah, I will be rematching my friend later next week, I will then most likely get my ass handed to me, but i dont care. Im just having fun and think its fun to race. peace "
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"Mispent youth, faking up a rampage, to hold off, the real slaves, paid off and staid."
2002-01-30 22:09:45
I participated in the AMV contest at FITcon this year...well the convention wasnt very big, thats for sure. But the AMV contest was fun, Cumcumber Studios Giligans Island video set to Ranma won for Fan Favorite, and a mediocre DBZ video won the contest overall. With my video "Irises Smell Better In The Rain" coming in second place(keep in mind its not the same video i have here on the site, its the updated version, much better). 2nd place is very cool, but it still is diappointing to lose to a DBZ video that i personally dont feel was better. I thought there were some really good video there by other people that deserved to win over me or anyone else. But alas, such is life...next up MegaCon, rock on!!
Well, I just recently bought all of Vandread, very good stuff. I love it, nuff said. I also bought some Hand Maid May...fan-service, fan-service, fan-service...which isnt really that bad, but still sometimes it goes overboard. Nanbara, the amazing Nanbara, he has to be my favorite character. His crazy little dances for everything and his high-pitched screams are hilarious.
I just finsihed watching Evangelion the whole way through for the 2nd time since i bought the series on DVD. I am still baffled by certain things...i guess thats cuz i havent seen End of Evangelion, but then again, i hear that EoE leaves more holes than it fills. Still EVA is such an impressive series, Sinji pisses me off and yet i still have pity for his situation...he tries to reason to many things, he makes thing waaaay to complicated for himself.
Anyway, enough of EVA, time to move on.
Well I topped my POS Honda out at 112 MPH...that sucks so much...i dont like driving imports(aside from a few select really fast cars, like Skylines, RX-7s, Supras) or Hondas in particular, i hate Hondas...Im a big Mustang fan, but i couldnt afford the insurance on a mustang this year, but next year, ill be putting down a nice down payment on a new Mustang. And have the money for insurance to be taken care of. Hellz Yeah!!!
Anyway, im gonna go make my nominations for the VCA now, peace out.
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"i lie, i wait...i stop, i hesitate..."
2002-01-20 17:56:42
well, i would just like to apoligize to all the people in the Music Videos awards...since i havent seen nearly 1/4 of the vids in the contest, my nominations will go to things i have watched, which is unfortunate since i havent seen all that is up for awards.
I will d/l as much as possible between now and the 28th...but still, it wont be enough.
Anyway, good luck to everyone.
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"who are you, this time, are you one of us, flying blind..."
2002-01-20 00:55:15
Hmmm...Ive been coming to this site for quite awhile now, but today is the first time ive actually posted in my journal. What to write....
Well i just got done watching my Wings of Honneamise DVD for the 4th time...what a great anime, the story, the animation, the emotions it conveys...
good stuff.
Watching my Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits DVD a few minutes ago...Pumpkins rule, nuff said.
I was tuning up my car today...new exhaust system, new spark plugs, new intake and air filter.I ll be putting a new header on at a later date. I added about 30-40 Horsepower to my car today, that should be sufficent for now.
Next weekend is FITcon here in Florida, ill be attending to support my AMV i entered there. Its the updated version of my "Irises Smell Better In The Rain." The one not on this site.
I want to apoligize to everyone because i didnt post that version, which I feel is so much better. But for some reason i just left the original unrefined version on the net...sorry.
AMV ideas have been just popping left and right into my head today.
"My mind is glowing...", glowing with ideas...just a few hours ago in the shower i thought of about 3 new ideas. and earlier today i had an idea when i woke this morning. I wrote all of them down...so that brings my total up to 44 AMV ideas written down.
Too bad im a big procrastinator so a majority of those wont ever be done...but i do have certain moments when i go nuts and start creating like crazy...like now, im working on 3 different videos at the same time, and 1 large project.
Anyway, ive written alot now, way more than i thought i was gonna write.
Ok, im gonna make this journal a habit. A forum for my thoughts...
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