Darryl's Interesting Life

On this date I got to interview Pashyn of Hawaiian style viral comedy fame. The first time I learned of Pashyn was from her work with Lanai in the Consolidated Theaters 100 year anniversary shorts before movies were played last year. I didn't know who she was but my friends were familiar with her comedy. I had to interview her for work and I'm really glad I did. She is a very friendly local girl from Hau‘ula and Waianae respectively. These days she is a full-time content creator for her many social media channels and other businesses that conduct business in Hawai‘i (she was most recently featured on a Volcano E-Cig commercial with other local comedians. I met with her wife and we had a great conversation about her start in content creation, how she utilized social media to get where she is today and what she is doing now such as helping younger artist grow their platforms. I admired the way she goes out of her way to help people including aspiring performers or those who...

OK. I'm gonna try and jump around here with dates because I've been so busy these past week but I did do something cool yesterday. I interviewed Lanai of Lanai and Augie fame. I feel like a lot of people younger than me may not know who he is because I grew up listening to him and Augie T. on the radio and understanding Lani to be Augie's best friend as Augie grew into a larger solo act. Upon doing research for my interview with him, I learned that Lanai owns a slew of businesses including a coffee line, wine line, a food truck and travel club amongst other things. He is a very interesting entrepreneur who has survived the death of radio as we see it today. These days he does 100% of his marketing and advertising for his businesses on social media as opposed to old forms of mass communication like radio, newspaper or TV. Although Lanai does appear on TV, he creates video content to license, which I think is a genius idea. To get a better idea of who Lanai is than I ca...

Aloha. Yesterday I attended the Mayjah Rayjah music festival. All thanks to the Iration bass player's mother for getting my friend and I on the guest list. I only started listening to "reggae" or roots music about two months or so ago and I feel like I have a very specific interest in it. As someone who loves music and previously despised reggae for my whole life, the festival was fairly uneventful. I only listen to Father Psalms Studios and their affiliates. The music festival featured some people I've never heard before and artist I recognize by name including Rebel Souljahz, Eli-Mac, and Spawnbreezie. The only reason I went is because my friends first introduced me to reggae  through Iration and I think their new album has a couple songs I like so that was that. I did not like the music besides Iration. I feel like they were phenomenal artist and were the only group that was actually a band, meaning they played all of the instruments themselves. They played a...

Although I am posting today, on July 27, I attended Hawaii Business' 5th annual Leadership Conference yesterday and was able to hear Captain Scott Kelly speak. He is an astronaut and holds the NASA record for longest consecutive days in space which is something like 340. He gave a humorous, yet inspiring, talk about his upbringing and what he did at NASA. It was extremely interesting and for this blog post I'd like to share a little about it. I could relate to Kelly because he was like me. He wasn't very interested in school and was a very poor student as a child. It wasnt until he realized that if he fixed his study habits, he could someday be an navy test pilot like some famous astronauts were in a book he read. So he changed them and became a pilot in the Navy. This is similar to myself because I could care less about school but understood that if I could buckle down and learn to accept some responsibility, I could go far in life and to this day going back to school i...

OK so although its only been mid-week so far I still did something somewhat worthy of a blogpost.. I saw the movie "Sorry to Bother You"! It is a movie about a young man looking to find his calling in life. He lands a job at a call center by sheer luck after lying on his resume. He eventually becomes the highest grossing caller at the call center and finds out that people at the big time of his job, power callers,  are selling labor - like slaves! This conflicts with not only his girlfriends beliefs but also the beliefs of his former lowly coworkers who start a strike at the company to recieve better benefits. I don't want to ruin the whole movie for you because there are so many twists and surprises but this is a MUST SEE. The movie is weird and has so many little things you think you may have missed throughout the movie and you'll want to see it again, and again. The main actor is a man named Lakeith Stanfield who also stars in the hit series Atlanta on FX. If...

Aloha, Today was quite cool for the second (semi) day off I've had in about two weeks. I've been busy writing stories for Hawai‘i Business Magazine during this 10-week internship over the summer. The stories I'm currently working on involve the decline of country clubs on O‘ahu and about local designer Rumi Murakami for our waihine issue. I've been working so much, even over the past weekend, because I needed to go to the Moana Lani Festival at Salt Friday, Saturday and Sunday to not only cover the zero-waste summit held by the Surfrider Foundation but to also model in the We Are Worthy fashion show. I do not consider myself a model so I didn't have the best time psychologically but helping my friend (and getting my COM 201 homework done backstage) was a great experience. Included below is a preview of the fashion show. https://www.instagram.com/p/BlixSxcH4b8/?taken-by=worthyclothingco So this weekend I've had the opportunity to go to ‘Ehukai beach, which ...