Percussion Gun

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

a video that (and in this case, literally) revolves around the music always scores huge points with schmee.

Things that make my mouth water and ears bleed joy

I've really been enjoying listening to music and exploring Valencia & Mission as of late, but today I had to cut my walk short because for the first time in two weeks I felt really sketched out by being out alone at night. Maybe because the last hotel was, though much sketchier, located in a busier area of the Mish. Or maybe there was just something about today that made me feel extra sensitive to the general public. Anyway, didn't like the feeling so I just made my way back to the hotel after 15 minutes. Such a shame because I was so sluggish today/it's been so hot lately that I was dreading going back to the stuffiness that is currently my room.

Talking to Stenny always cheers me up. You can never have enough posi people around you. And foodies. She barely just got offline (it's 4:20am in Brazil right now) after an amazing 1 1/2 hour long AIM conversation we had about a plethora of glorious topics, such as bleeding meats, our future restaurant venture (which I promised would be 51% devoted to fried foods), and crazy bad recipes we will undoubtedly cook up upon her return. When talking to the Keebz, it always comes back to food, especially ones that are terrible for you.

me: dude i just got a craving for meat
me: i guess thats what happens when i talk to you
stenny: BEST
stenny: COMPLIMENT
stenny: EVER
stenny: i'm honored to awaken that fire within you

It's me who should be honored, my friend.

It was soon revealed that we were both scrolling through this site without either of us knowing. Typical. But nothing to be ashamed about. It's ridiculous how happy that site makes me. Whenever I see the craziest shit (like THIS ...and THIS!) I can't stop myself from smiling ear to ear. It's sick, I know. But how comforting it is to know that there are so many more sick twisted kindred spirits out there, ones who are actually making their gluttonous dreams into reality.

Enough about food. On to MUSIC!

Lately I have been finding such great pleasure listening to certain albums, both new and old. Only problem is that I didn't bring an ipod cord, so I'm unable to take my new finds out into the Mission with me. Actually that's something that's really pissing me off right now. Fixable, but hugely annoying for the time being.

Not enough to cloud my excitement, though. New Interpol is right around the corner, but Turn on the Bright Lights has never sounded more amazing. And I just found out the White Rabbits are opening for them!!! ASTRONOMICAL upgrade from The Liars. They are my faaaaav band currently, and I haven't been into an album this much since...err... Congratulations... which came out months ago, sure, but like I said, such an exciting time for music/my ears right now.

WHY DID I EVER LEAVE FULLERTON

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I've only been to Heroes Bar and Grill ONCE.... for drinks!!!! IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN WHAT I KNOW NOW NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just sent this post to Stenny. Here's how she responded:

stenny: fuck you

It's one of those staple restaurants in downtown Fullerton you'll always see a local ad on tv for. It's fun because they give you unlimited bags of peanuts, and they let you toss the peanut shells all over the floor. Portion wise, you can pretty much say that the mantra "go big or go home" applies to everything at Heroes. The cider I ordered was bigger than my head (and trust me that's saying a lot).

stenny: no
stenny: its inhumane

To a point that it renders me speechless. I'd been living in Fullerton for how many years, seeing the same cheesy commercial for how many years, and talking about going for how many years?!? Only to find out about all this through my former badminton coach's fb birthday party pics!?!?

stenny: also, props to the fact that you stole that shit off of a facebook. that's pretty creeptastic.

I try.

CARAVAN TO FULLERTON, TONIGHT?

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Shit my mom says.

Sometimes I laugh, but most times I weep.
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Yoon,

I really don't want to hear again about ticket. Don't you know that the Auto Insurance will be raised if you get the ticket?

Please be cautious to follow the rule always!!

Yeah, we came back from the Bob Dylan concert.
It was actually a joint concert with John Mellencamp who I don't know well and Mr. Dylan. People in the concert went crazy with the singers, but unfortunately we were not so familiar with the songs they sang. But it was so great experience overall, and quite a shock to see that Mr. Dylan never tried to communicate with the audience. The all stage lights were off whenever he finished a song, and he just said only "thank you!" to audience at the end, and never came back again. People didn't know the show was over.

So unique, but I kind of like it. John Mellencamp really communicated well to audience all the time, and people seemed to enjoy very much. But Mr. Dylan was so arrogant compare to John.

Appa and I finally understood why you were the same way when you finished your show at Davis. (wow, thanks mom)

We laughed alot and talked about it. Also we sat a couple of row behind of a crazy dancing girl who stood and danced from the beginning to end, and it bothered us a lot. People shout several times, but she didn't care it. However, unlike appa and I, people were so patient.

Pls. don't do that if you go to a concert. I wanted to kill her.

Okay talk to you later. Time to fix dinner.
umma

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In times like these I realize it's probably good my mom doesn't know what I'm actually like outside of the house, as if I had been at that same concert that very night, the next day's papers would've read something like, "Filicide at the Vegas Dylan/Mellencamp Concert."

Gay Street Commencement Party

My law school bix.

My beauty school bix.

My rappin' bix.

My baked goods bix.

My baby bix.

My south central bix.

My arty bix.

My playtime bix.

Can't stop us!

We are your majesties.

Hayo!

UUH.

Daahhling.

mono a mono... get it?

Hot gossip?

Setting up for yet another win.

What's that you say?

Love me... P.S. I have mono.

a mike's... really?

Still winning.

Still losing.

Freshman yr. besties lol

dance dance dance!

What a party, what a year. Thank you all for the memories.

Breaking point.

The boy who cried wolf,
There's a reason he is dead.
Stupid little prick.

Thug life.

Yesterday he said,
"Hit me up and I'll save you."
Like a movie scene.

What was and what should have been

August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993

Some bougie ass wine tasting

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Fav wine of the night: Moschofilero, an aromatic white grape from Greece

And Jesse's Japanese fusion noodles to end the night!

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Bombay Ice Cream

Black Sesame Seed on top, Almond Pistachio Saffron on the bottom :]

alas, the luxury of comfort.

Aw!

This is an email my mom sent me about reuniting with a childhood best friend after 37 years of no contact. Brought a tear to my eye :') Enjoy!

As I told you on the phone yesterday, I got an email from my friend in Germany. It's been 37 years since we haven't communicated. She left Korea in 1973 when we were 13 years old.

She went to the same elementary school with me, and we became a very close friend when we went to the same middle school. However, she went to Germany after staying only one semester in the middle school to live with her mother who was a nurse in Germany. We wrote so many letters to each other for about 3 years, but lost the contact gradually. From time to time, I missed her and I still have so many memories of her in my mind. However, I didn't know how I can find her. The letters from her swiped away when my little office in the cellar of our house in Mangwon Dong in Korea had a huge water damage before you were born. I have nothing about her but her name and memories.

About 2 month ago, I received a Korean book as a gift from my teacher in middle school. She was a homeroom teacher of my friend at that time, and she loved my friend and me. We were probably the teacher pet.

When I explained our long lasting relationship to your father, I brought up my friend's name, and my longing for her seemed to burst. So I started to search some Korean internet newspaper in Germany. There were so many small websites for the Korean Germans, so I didn't know what to to. I just wrote an article saying in one of website, "I want to find my friend, Gloria Choi, who came to Germany in 1973. Please give this message to her if there's anyone who knows her."

I didn't expect anything at all that I could find anyone who knows her. That was only my longing message about missing her in vain.

After 3 weeks of the listing of my article, I received the email from my friend, Gloria!!!!

She said that her mom (I think her mom is 75-80 years old) saw the article, and gave my email address to her. My friend was in awe, so was I.

She became a medical doctor, a surgeon, as we both promised each other in middle school, and got married to a German doctor, a head of the medical school in university, and had 4 kids age of 5-15 years old.

I didn't think life is beautiful. However, the moment I received her email, my life was so so beautiful.

Respect

Creative minds. Fucking awesome performance.

The Passion

A new Kanye album is just what I need in my life right now.

UGH. COME TO ME.

OH SHIT!

Crystal Renn

went from an unhappy, anorexic size zero model to a healthy, curvacious size 16. Now she is the most famous plus-size model in the world. Read more about her here.

When you love a song even more after a million listens

Pretty great vid. I like the low angle. The live sound takes me back to October. And JP looks/sounds great.

I'm posting the lyrics because they're all kinds of wonderful. The song is somber sounding, yet unassumingly hopeful.

There's no chance survival,
and no hiding place.
you must be my rival,
I remember your face.
a sweeter denial's become familiar to taste

there's no chance survival
and no hiding place

you can live your whole life in a cave, man.
you can learn to love uncertainty.

And I won't spend my whole life without some cold disregard
for the sweet sleep, eternity.

may you be praised for all your ways tonight
may you be praised by many ages tonight

there's no chance survival
and no side to take

I'd be less than primal
with no heart to chase

when something so vile has become so commonplace,
i know there's no chance survival.
to the flesh now we race!

and you can expect more gails violence that have blown so far
across the good ship, "The Sure-to-Be"

we are the golden,
we are the strong, static showing the random calls
fear the ocean,
don't fear the frost
don't fear the motion that cosmic toss
we are the old ones,
we are the lost static showing it comes with a cost:
we can do wrong

well, your heart and your smile align me.
and i make you safe.

there's no chance survival,
but slow time to waste.

Best song off /\/\/\Y/\ ??

Guetta is annoying as fuck

But I hella love this song.

Adaptation.

This film is in my Best of the Best. A brutal but painfully hilarious journey into the super-ego of one very self-deprecating and, well, pathetic man. If the real Charlie Kaufman, my hero, is anything like Nick Cage's Charlie Kaufman, life must be a Dostoevskian samsara of missed connections and yearning for the fruition of meaning and hope. But how funny it is to watch it all unravel--at least for us, the viewers. If there's anything Charlie Kaufman specializes in, he surely knows how to sprinkle some charm into his factory line of sad-sack, middle-aged protagonists (i.e. this film, Synechdoche, New York, Eternal Sunshine), even when it isn't so cute in real life. But that is precisely the appeal of writers such as Charlie Kaufman and Woody Allen--the vulnerability and complete lack of ability in their characters to put theories into motion resonates to that passive, wistful side in all of us. In actuality, dealing with these people/ourselves can be an incredibly frustrating task sometimes, thus watching them on screen can be a very entertaining and cathartic experience.

Now I know words like "genius" and "brilliant" are used loosely in terms of art these days, but I wouldn't hesitate to call Adaptation one of the most genius, brilliant scripts ever written. I've always had a thing for stories about writers (saw this one in my UWP Writing for Film class in which all of the films we screened were just that) His Girl Friday, Moulin Rouge, The Hours, The Squid and the Whale... just to name a few. This one, however, takes it to the highest level of metatextuality, mixing genres of drama, action, and comedy, all into one bizarre but ever so glorious adaptation.

Below is what I rep as one of my favorite scenes of all time.



Brian Cox! Perfect. Not even DeNiro could've done it better.

However, upon a second viewing, I see that it's clearly Meryl Streep who steals the whole damn show. Below is a VERY close contender for what might be the BEST scene in the movie (Anthony says no contest). It won't ruin anything if you haven't seen the film, it could only make your life better!



Beautiful.

But you know what really makes this movie ON POINT? The cast. All you need to know is that Meryl Streep is in it, but every other character, no matter how little the part, is played by an actor I already really fucking admire. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox, and Catherine Keener (my screen momma!) probably have a combined screen time of 15 minutes, but fuck do they really make it count. Oh, and fuck, CHRIS FUCKING COOPER! I said goddamn. He's amazing/hilarious as the gap-toothed, red-neck, botanical expert, John Laroche. So much more lovable than his character in American Beauty. Shudder.

AND YET: I still can't get past my disdain for Nicholas Cage as the lead, no matter how much I want to wholeheartedly embrace this film. He's the only low-point for me.... which is not to say he isn't good..... but shit...... well I mean shit. When it comes to Nick Cage, there's always someone else who could've played it better.


I am pathetic. I am a loser.

And I was convinced... I guess.

In any case, I appreciated the fact that watching this movie the second time around was much less of a stressful experience. When I first saw it, I was utterly panicked; I didn't know how close of an adaptation this film was to real life, certainly when it got to the ridiculous denouement involving crocodiles and rifles. Of course, upon an imdb search I discovered what an idiot I was, and after that, all was good.

I just saw in an interview that Meryl Streep wanted to do this film because it was "the best script I have ever read", and coming from her, that is saying a whole. bunch.

SO RENT IT/COP IT/WATCH IT/LOVE IT.

Punks are grool.

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Posted on my acting teacher's fb. So. Good.

O. M. G.

I have not been this visually stimulated in so long. AMAZING. Kanye ALWAYS taking it not only to greater heights but to the greatest heights possible. My heart is sweating with excitement.

Karen O gettin her leather on

and dancin through the streets. one of my favs! <3

YYYs, SO SHRIMPDACK

One of the greatest misses of my life. Shieet.

Awesome.