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| well, au revoir my xanga friends.
this experiment with dual-blogging has been.....fun, but in the end,
all the strictly linear comments, debates on whether or not to eprop,
pages with LOUD MUSIC, aNd PeOPle WhO TyPe LyKE diS, scared me off.
while the "currently listening/watching/reading" thing is cool, i think i'm gonna stick to my livejournal. but at least y'all know where to find me. and besides, at least LIVEJOURNAL allows anonymous comments.....multiple user pics, access to peepz friends lists, more intuitive interface, better userinfo pages. etc etc. etc. ps. xanga stalker is evil. | | |
| ok here's the deal, i get to tell you five songs that i'm feelin right now.
then i tag five of y'all...and you tell me the same (in your LJ) & tag some other folks.
i've
taken the extra step to actually upload these songs to yousendit.com,
so..in the immortal words of Reading Rainbow's Levar Burton, don't take
my word for it...see for yourself!
1) Stevie Wonder - That Girl
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09CZZ9HDVWYHB3FKCCRREE483F
2) John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood
http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BQG3ZIBQFQ0K0XFOQPFMO5IAU
3) Sound Providers - Autumns Evening Breeze
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34VD17IUSYLPJ2D736B9R63V06
4) Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Panini Puakea
http://s34.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12RMFMR1TWENY1UOVWBQFNK1OV
5) TLC - Diggin' On You
http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JUOMB435X5BR0ZX03NW1CGYVB
tag!
dalkikat
snixkuo
debzbebz (tagged TWICE)
CaliHawaiiGirl
rin0
dkoh
and mlecm
y'all are it.
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| I'm not really sure what possessed me this weekend, but I saw 5 movies
in 5 days.Starting with Thursday, I watched: Unleashed, Crash, Star
Wars, Saving Face, and Mad Hot Ballroom.it's a good thing i've got class tonight, otherwise i'd be forced to go see Monster In Law or some shit.
I'm happy to say, with the exception of Crash (which was much worse than unleashed), each movie got progressively better.
saving face:
was really good. while i thought that the movie might have been
stronger had they focused only on the mother/daughter story, or the
love story between the two leads, the movie was overall entertaining.
it's nice to see an asian american movie that...while talking about our
community...doesn't shove its identity down your throat.
mad hot ballroom:
oh man. this movie was AWESOME. go watch it. but fellaz, if you're
gonna go..i'd take a date. or go alone. not really a movie to watch /w
your boyz. but yeah, it was really..uh. cute. yeah.
ps. for those keeping count, i have officially contributed $110 to hollywood's coffers.
pps.
one of the most refreshing things about the movies i watched was that
the best two movies (saving face & mad hot ballroom) were not the
huge hollywood blockbusters that are so overhyped these days. rather,
i'm thinking they probably had the smallest budgets of the bunch. it's
amazing what a little creativity will accomplish :)
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ok. so i hope y'all will benefit from my stupidity and NOT see the two movies that i've seen in the past 24 hrs.
1)
Unleashed - Jet Li's american movies SUCK. Somebody said that this
might be his best american movie, and I actually think that mayybe just
maybe "Romeo Must Die" was better than this. If you want to see a real
Jet Li movie, go check out "Once Upon A Time in China" or "Legend,"
among others. I think Once Upon a Time in China is my personal
favorite.
2) Crash - suffice it to say that I felt like
screaming throughout the entire movie. While I'm glad that someone is
trying to at least make a movie that discusses some of the racial
issues in this beautiful city...the messages that this film was putting
out were totally problematic to me. things were completely
oversimplified, characters were shallow, cliched, and often
stereotypical...and finally, to paraphrase my good friend gl,
i felt like it was trying to justify racism. basically telling people
"look, everybody else is racist, so go ahead and do what you're gonna
do. cuz in the end it doesn't really matter." and while mle didn't
really believe me, i think it was a fucked up version of "I <3
huckabees." and to make matters worse, people actually applauded this
piece of shit movie at the end. *YAY DIVERSITY!* </sarcasm>
heh.
yeah so i hope the rest of this weekend is better. | | |
| hey all you korean people...
will someone explain to me why google searches of my last name tend to
turn up articles about matchmaking services like this one: http://http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/20/200505200017.asp
i mean, ok i understand that the service is named SUNOO.....but why?
is there some significance behind that?
ps. i think i've told almost everyone about this... *BUT* for those of you who i HAVENT told (all 2 of you)....
my friend umar is makin some tshirts. tshirts /w pictures of baby seals on them. (everybody say "awww...")...
but here's the punchline....the caption on the shirt? it says..
we be clubbin!
hahahahahahaahha. oh man that's some funny shit.
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