1. The genesis of the cakes
, he's the Dim Mak label executive who gave them a big break. For LA party hipsters, he was a beacon of a changing musical landscape. For hardcore fans, he was an influential promoter, and before all that, he was the son of infamous restauranteur Rocky Aoki., Aoki reveals that he's all of those things and more. Truth be told, Aoki is an awkward young man who found himself in sweaty crowds, liner notes and more than a few moments of tragedy.
But while Steve and his two older siblings were growing up in Miami, Florida, his dad was having three children by another woman named Pamela in New York City. The two families met over father Aoki's hospital bed when a boating accident put him in a coma. Both sets of wives and children rushed to his side, discovering each other in the process. A seventh Aoki child was later discovered in a paternity suit..
He tells how the air is full of ash and smoke, and when he found his friends at Union Square, one of them had a camcorder. He immediately began filming and interviewing passersby. He and his friend ended up interviewing historian Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker for a documentary they called, but in the end, they never released the footage. They never even rewatched it, with the video just becoming a surreal collection of living nightmares and collective pain.
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