Yeah, I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing people say that, so I’m giving you something different!
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Camp Lo – Luchini
So I just found this list while looking for some pics of Irwindale Speedway today (I can’t believe the drifting season is ending already!):
ZipTied’s Top 20 Drift cars of all time
Hey look at that, my sileighty is in the list. Wow really? Of all time? That’s pretty big. The poll was asked of ziptied.com members and it was posted as “what cars do YOU feel are the most influential, iconic, memorable, drift cars of all time”. I for sure don’t think my car should even be considered in that context, but I’m flattered nonetheless.
It’s kind of interesting to look at the results because you get an idea that the people on ziptied have a unique outlook. I remember back in the day watching drifting videos with Andy Yen and others… Haruguchi was definitely a memorable character, but not necessarily a top influencer. The ziptied guys LOVE him because of his ride height and crazy car/driving style. With ziptied members posting all over the place about how much Haruguchi is the coolest drifter of all time, suddenly people love him to death. He’s #2 on the ziptied list. Kind of crazy how that happened. You will also notice that in the list there are a lot of cars built more recently, which probably says that the people who voted are of a newer generation of drifting.
What’s your top 20 list? Actually 20 is pretty hard… here’s my top 15? I would tend to think about the cars that influenced me and made me want to get into drifting. Here’s my go at it:
1. Koguchi – black 180sx
2. Imamura – brown ae86
3. Taniguchi – red hks s15
4. Kumakubo – orange s15
5. Utsumi – blue onevia
6. Ueno – red soarer
7. Nomuken – white s14
8. Alex Pfieffer – various ae86s
9. Kamimoto – red supercharged ae86
10. Ueo – cream ae86
11. Fukuda – yellow 180sx
12. Hiroshi Takahashi – red ae86
13. Keiichi’s TRD AE86
14. DJ Electrique Mike – blue S13
15. All of those beautiful Night Walkers sedans
I read something recently about Lauryn Hill being the original singer of the song sampled on Kanye West’s “All Falls Down”. It reminded me of how talented she is and how much I wish she was still producing music these days.
Longing for some new Lauryn Hill music, I came across some music that was not new, but new to me.
Lauryn Hill Unplugged – I Gotta Find Peace of Mind
Go find it on iTunes!
Sometimes a song can bring a rush of memories to my head.
This song was playing during our first dance at our wedding. It really just melts my soul every time I hear it.
When Simba was here visiting, he was commenting on how I have Chicago music in my car (Common, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco)… and my reply was along the lines of how I don’t like much new music, and for some reason the new music that I do like, comes out of Chicago.
He posted The Pharcyde as an example of a good west coast artist. I love the Pharcyde, and I busted out my old Bizarre Ride II album and have been listening to it everyday for the past 2 weeks straight. This got me thinking about other old west coast artists that I really like.
I was gonna post Xzibit, but I just heard these guys on my iPod and I couldn’t pass up sharing the nostalgia.
Dilated Peoples – Work the Angles
Dilated Peoples – Worst Comes to Worst
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