Dog Eaters

Posted on 11.04.23 under Uncategorized

Rainbows in My Eyes

Posted on 10.28.23 under Uncategorized

Elements of a matrix

Floating on darkness alone
Sliding down the mountain
To the great unknown

Flying high above the clouds
They say you can see
Beyond eternity

Twilight closes in

Buckets full of tears
And rainbows in my eyes
Static in my ears
Can’t camouflage the lies


Dreaming at the speed of thought
Lost in a smokescreen
Destination unseen

Propagate baseless hope
Pump on the brakes
Before you awake

Twilight closes in

Buckets full of tears
And rainbows in my eyes
Static in my ears
Can’t camouflage the lies

credits

released October 21, 2023
Written, performed, recorded by Malcolm Wong
Sax stylings by Jason Gay

Photos by: Junko Wong, Malcolm Wong
Photo collage by Malcolm Wong

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It’s old but it’s new again.

Posted on 10.11.23 under Uncategorized

SplashPlates and Bowl

And some gobs…

Hole in My Heart

Posted on 09.16.23 under Uncategorized

There’s a hole in my heart
where the sun never shines
I knew from the start
self pity enshrined

There’s a girl on a train
Instead of a plane
It’s not going far
to reach for the stars

Going backwards in time
Going backwards in time

There’s a hole in your hearts
You never felt loved
You went over the top
And never looked back

There’s a soul lost in space
Untethered by time
There must be a place
That I can call mine

Going backwards in time
Going backwards in time

credits

released September 16, 2023
Written, performed, recorded by Malcolm Wong
Sax stylings by Jason Gay

Art by Malcolm Wong

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Biden goes to Maui – August 21, 2023

Posted on 08.22.23 under Uncategorized

President Biden came to Maui on August 21, 2023 the day and time we were scheduled to fly out from Kahului, so we changed our flight to the evening of Aug 20. The morning of the Aug 21, we saw this rainbow from the Ala Moana Hotel that pointed directly to the spot that Jack Yoshitami Tasaka‘s ashes were scattered off of the jetty at Magic Island in 2014.

The jetty

Magic Island

He died just a four months short of 100 years in 2014. Jack Tasaka was a Japanese in Hawaii historian, the first Japanese radio announcer in America, hobnobbed with the Japanese sumo, baseball, singers and actors of the 50s and 60s and was also Junko’s step father. August 21, 2023 would have been Jack’s 110 birthday.

Later that day, Junko’s kumu, Hokulani Holt led President Biden and other Hawaiian Cultural leaders in a purification ceremony at Moku’ula, the original capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Kumu Hokulani Holt is to the left of Biden in the yellow kihei

It’s interesting to see how the news of Biden’s trip to Maui has been covered by pro and anti-Biden media. The New York Post covered the protesters’ complaints about the government response and the jokes and stories that made the story about Biden and the $700 one-time payment to the survivors. The pro-Biden (never Trumpsters) covered the talking points in the speech. There are no winners, obviously. It seems that there is very little objective news coverage — there’s always a spin on it. Why can’t the news be “Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”

We’ll see how it all plays out in a year or two…

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