Today’s video is a followup from the last one.

Not long after Epe-e & Uncle Robert’s band gave a stellar performance, the entire night market was hit with an unexpected downpour, so I shot this brief video of the torrent.

In the end, this was the only time such a thing happened at the Wednesday night market while I lived there.

Anyway, this one’s called “Sudden Downpour @ Uncle Robert’s”:

Transcription

Me: Well, this has never happened at Uncle Robert’s since I’ve been here. About 8 months I’ve been coming. It’ll let up.

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In today’s video, we visit one of my favorite places in all of the Big Island: Uncle Robert’s.

If you haven’t heard of it, Uncle Robert’s is a piece of private land in Kalapana town on the southeast edge of the island. Owned by Uncle Robert and managed by his children, the venue is used for live Hawaiian music, cultural events, and, most famously, their weekly night markets showcasing the best of what the Puna district has to offer.

Of course, the most memorable part of their Wednesday night market is the music, and for almost every week I went there, a man known to most only as Epe-e would sing his heart out. Once, he told me he was the oldest living rocker on the islands, and the video below is a fun example of his talent. Here is Epe-e’s finale of “Ride Sally Ride” which I think is originally by Al Green.

Enjoy!

Transcript:

None. It’s all just jams.

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Today, we visit the wildest eco-village I ever came across on the Big Island of Hawaii: Cinderland.

Established in the year 2000, Cinderland is pretty famous in the Puna district for holding weekly Taco Tuesday free dinners, made vegan and GMO-free. When I lived nearby, I would go every week to witness the rainbow of personalities it attracted from all around Puna. And the dancing.

This short video has been tweaked to give you more of a feel of the dance. I call it “Abstracted Patterns of Taco Tuesday @ Cinderland”:

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Our Hawaii adventure continues today with the final video in the Richardson Beach trilogy of Big Island, Hawaii shorts.

After making the dangerous jump, we enjoyed sea turtles, hilarious tourists, and exploring the rocky coastline. And we soon discovered a truly bizarre creature nestled under on the rocks, a creature I’ve come to consider the scariest ocean creature I ever saw on Hawaii: the 27-Tongued Nightmare.

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Transcription

Me: Now you gotta touch one of those white tongues.
The Lady: Eww, what if it stings me?
Me: And tell me if it stings you. Haha, just kidding, don’t. Anything could happen.
The Lady: I’m just not sure what this organism is. I don’t think touching it is a good idea.
Me: No I don’t think so either.
The Lady: I mean, part of me is really tempted to just…
Me: I’ve done that. But not with something that looks like it’s out of my NIGHTMARES. It’s really nightmarish. Look at that, imagine something, with twenty-four—
The Lady: We need to get out of the way!
Me: Oh, god! And now it’s dead. No it’s not cuz I can breath underwater. It’s just gonna be there chillin’, and waiting for some dumb fish to touch one of his twenty-seven tongues.
The Lady: He’s gonna spiral it into his ever-capacious mouth.
Me: He’ll secret it away into his 15th stomach, like the sarlacc.

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