{"id":389,"date":"2004-06-01T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=410"},"modified":"2004-06-01T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T11:43:00","slug":"memories-of-honolulu-makana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/06\/memories-of-honolulu-makana\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Honolulu; Makana"},"content":{"rendered":"

I contributed some of my WWW2002 photos<\/a>\nto the very cool W3 Photo<\/a> project last week, and stumbled upon\nsome others<\/a>\nthere that reminded me of what an awesome time I had in Honolulu. There was this one party\nin particular, at the “home” (read; “estate”) of\nKevin Hughes<\/a>,\nthat I’m sure I’ll never forget. Located on top (and I do mean top<\/em>) of one of the\nrolling mountains behind Honolulu city, it had the most spectacular view; you could see all the\nway from Diamond Head on your left, to Pearl Harbour on your right, with Honolulu seemingly below\nyou; breath-taking.<\/p>\n\n

Later in the evening, Kevin introduced a friend of his,\nMakana<\/a>, who proceeded to enchant us on his\nguitar amoungst a mini-studio Kevin had setup in his living room. Makana told us\nthat he played in “slack key”<\/a>\nstyle which I hadn’t heard about before, but fully enjoyed … I think; I’m not\ncertain that I was able to identify that particular style in amoungst the melange\nof styles he exhibited, primarily (to my untrained ear) classical, blue grass, and\nfolk. Really really wonderful. With the warm, gentle breeze blowing through the\nhouse as Kevin opened many of the windows, most of us were hypnotized.<\/p>\n\n

But, as if all that wasn’t enough fun, one of Kevin’s friends who I had seen\ndragging in a cooler earlier, cracked it open to reveal a damned fine wine\ncollection which included a bottle of\n1990 vintage Penfold’s Grange<\/a>.\nDespite a corking incident, I managed a fairly healthy glass which I nursed for the\nnext hour. Wow wow.<\/p>\n\n

Anyhow, I was disappointed to learn while looking up Makana’s web site, that I missed\nhim in Toronto a couple of weeks ago. Though perhaps that’s for the best;\nMassey Hall<\/a> just can’t top\na breezy mountain top paradise on Oahu, and a cosy, private performance for 25. But\nFWIW, if he’s coming your way, and you enjoy guitar, I’d highly recommend seeing him.<\/p>\n\n

P.S. Damn I miss travelling.<\/p>\n\n

Update; Savas, you suck<\/a> 8-(<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I contributed some of my WWW2002 photos to the very cool W3 Photo project last week, and stumbled upon some others there that reminded me of what an awesome time I had in Honolulu. There was this one party in particular, at the “home” (read; “estate”) of Kevin Hughes, that I’m sure I’ll never forget. […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}