Brent Yamada, also known as Budo by his close friends, is a man of many words. Many thoughts. Many opinions. He is known for his unwavering beliefs. He is an intense fellow who is not afraid to voice his opinion or sound like an asshole. I sat down with my best friend on his lanai of his Alewa Drive home. After a few heinekens we started talking. Does Budo have any Good Habits? You decide. Pardon all of the f-bombs.
Good Habits: Full name?
Budo: Brent Musashi Ken Yamada
GH: Do you have any good habits?
Budo: Nope.
GH: I've known you for a while, describe our relationship.
Budo: I've known you for a while, right? (clears throat) Yup, I've known you for a while.
GH: What are your interests?
Budo: I have many interests depending on what time of the day it is. My interest right now would be to finish my beer, preferably go inside and get another one before I finish this one. I got a lot of things on my mind.
GH: When do you plan on graduating?
Budo: I dont know, a couple of months or something.
GH: Your thoughts on aliens and the universe...
Budo: Aliens rule the universe. We live on a planet with aliens, we are all aliens. There are aliens out there. We are some alien's son's science project. We are a flinger, i mean a finger, we are a finger snap of somebody's lunch break in the universe. Okay, on the real, we were built by aliens.
GH: Would you consider yourself a Scientologist?
Budo: I am a Scientolo-athiest. But if I'm getting raped by a serial killer I'm going to be praying to god and my grandpa. I believe in reincarnation and Buddhism... so I'm a Bu-Scien-Athiest.
GH: Your thoughts on 9/11
Budo: Fucken conspiracy. World Trade Center 7, you know what that is? That fucken thing went down. Like a demolition. All of those things, fucken set by demolitions.
GH: So you're saying that someone went there and set up explosives?
Budo: The day before the attacks they took off the top cameras of The World Trade Center. Why? I do not know. It's fucked up.
GH: Describe the relationship between you and Chad Sugimoto.
Budo: (laughter) Me and Chad Sugimoto... we have a battle. Okay, I'm super fucking competitive. I am the most competitive person when it comes to shit that nobody gives a fuck about. If I lose I'll be super mad. I could give a rat's ass if i lose to anybody in anything, but not with Chad. I will beat him in whatever I want. Whatever he wants to do, I want to beat him in it. You fucken need to interview that guy.
GH: Three favorite artists of all time.
Budo: How did you memorize all of these questions? My three favorite artists are: Derrick Rose, Colt Brennan and Danny Boyle.
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| Brent asleep after a UH football game...on my bed. |
Budo: I think that that bill should go through. The bill that says if you smoke and get caught you pay a forty dollar fine. (stuttering)It's estima...it's esti..it's...(long pause) we can get twenty million dollars from it or something.
GH: Your thoughts on Shoyu.
Budo: I think it is probably one of the most important things in life.
GH: I'm going to give you word associations...
Budo: How many words you got?
GH: I'm gonna freestyle the words...
GH: Flags.
Budo: Blueberries.
GH: Bottles.
Budo: Caps.
GH: Lori. (girlfriend)
Budo: Mission.
GH: Porsches.
Budo: Crazy.
GH: Mountains.
Budo: Crippled.
GH: 9/11
Budo: 7/11
GH: 7/11
Budo: Christmas.
GH: What would you want to be doing right now?
Budo: I want to be in Italy on one of those cliffs and have my own fucken villa hanging off the cliff. Then I feel like having a stick, connected to a wire with a blunt on it. And I feel like holding it far away from my body and looking at it with my eyes. The smoke that comes out of the blunt turns into a dragon. It goes to the left and I see it coming and then it goes into my mouth. And I'll kind of feel like Bruce Lee.
GH: Thats seriously the best thing anyone has ever said during an interview.
Budo: I know. Thats what I saw.
GH: Three words to describe you.
Budo: Comically-stern...
GH: Is that one word?
Budo: Fuck, I'm just making it into one word. Haha, thats two words. Im gonna make up my own word. Comically-stern.
GH: Okay, next two words...
Budo: Moist.
GH: HAHAHAHA. Third word?
Budo: Size.
(laughing)
GH: What are people saying over your casket?
Budo: This fucken guy was kinda funny.
*following the interview Brent quoted the movie Almost Famous, saying to "write whatever you want".
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