Activison's Ex is Now Playboy's Miss November

It’s easy to empathize, because we’ve all been there, or close. You have your 9 to 5 job, it’s a good gig, the work’s interesting. Then an amazing once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes along and you have to sneak out to chase it. Grace Kim, as Activision’s PR lead for Guitar Hero, was in that spot a year ago in October 2007.

“I was giving so many excuses,” Grace said, “I even went to CVS and bought crutches, and pretended I had a fractured ankle. At this point, Activision was getting annoyed. They were really heavily promoting Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and Guitar Hero for the DS. My boss was getting really upset.”

Finally, on the fifth straight day away from the office, she couldn’t think up any more alibis. So she quit, but she couldn’t tell Activision why.

She was in front of a camera, taking off all of her clothes for Playboy, becoming Miss November, 2008.

“It was difficult for me to come home from the shoot and then write a bunch of press releases for Guitar Hero,” she said. “I couldn’t tell them I was going to be in Playboy. At that point, I didn’t want anybody to know at the time. I hadn’t told anybody, not my parents or my friends or anyone.” (more at Kotaku)

Myspace blog+Playboy.com

Probably not the hottest Playboy model...but certainly a girl geeks and gamers can drool over. Now she can go get a job at G4 with...

Natalie Portman & Rashida Jone's solution to our economic crisis

See more Natalie Portman videos at Funny or Die

Colin Powell Endorses Obama

Colin Powell for the win.

Blue Scholar 2006

Opening up for Kanye West - "Sagaba"

"The Ave."

"No Rest For The Weary"

Hayden Panettiere PSA: Vote For John McCain

Nobody fucks with John McCain.

Register to vote at Wockano...

w00t…my flyer is on Olivia Munn’s blog.

Come and register to vote and even if you choose the side McCorpse and Bimbo, "I ain't mad at ya." Just register to vote.

Sam Kang

Palin Boo'd by Hockey Fans

Way to go Hockey Mom.

G4: Code Monkeys

Turning Japanese...

Cock Goblin...

Petting a monkey...

McCain Forced To Defend Obama

Here's a side of John McCain his campaign has been missing...but it's sad that a majority of McCain supporters are like that lady and just as stupid.



If McCain had picked a more serious VP and used a different campaign strategy...I'd at least be lukewarm towards him.

McCain tries to hide behind another....

....skirt...and still comes off as an idiot. 

Talk about EPIC FAIL.

But hiding the facts is the Republican way...which is why we have over 4k US soldiers dead over an illegal war with no WMA.

ill-literacy: Bigot?

"That one..."(source)

Some Examples of Dumb America

McCorpse 2009! (more about this video)

Homer for Obama

Personally, I'm a moderate when it comes to choosing sides...but more liberal in principle. So when it comes to picking a president, it's not always about issues. It's about the person and how he or she has seems smarter than the average voter. If I feel like a genius compared to Palin/McCain, that's a problem. I don't think Obama is the best for the job but his heart is in the right place when he is seeking for a change. Perception is key, and if I don't see a candidate who has my confidence in being bad ass like President David Palmer, then Obama will do. He's at least not expecting his voters to be suckers.

A vote McCain/Palin is a vote for Dumb America.

Songwriter Gretchen Peters is donating the royalties from her song "Independence Day" during this election cycle to Planned Parenthood -- and asks that donations be made in honor of Palin. Planned Parenthood provides women's health-care services, including abortion clinics, and is frequently a target of social conservatives. Peters was angered by the McCain/Palin campaign's use of the song, which is about domestic abuse.

"The fact that the McCain/Palin campaign is using a song about an abused woman as a rallying cry for their vice presidential candidate, a woman who would ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest, is beyond irony," Peters says on her website.

"They are co-opting the song, completely overlooking the context and message, and using it to promote a candidate who would set women's rights back decades," she says.

Planned Parenthood spokesperson Tait Sye said a separate online campaign to raise money on its behalf "in honor of Sarah Palin" has netted more than $1 million from over 38,000 donors in all 50 states and two-thirds of the donations are from new donors who have not contributed to it before.

Organizations and activists who support abortion rights are a base for the Democratic Party. Abortion is a sharply divisive and highly partisan issue in the United States.

Palin, who bills herself as a moose-hunting mother of five, gave birth last spring to a Down syndrome baby and strongly opposes abortion rights. (source)

You would think by now...after pissing off so many musicians time and time again, the latest being Peters and the Foo Fighters, they'd figure out which singers and songwriters are for them. I said it before and I'll said it again, Palin is a cheap gimmick and anyone who supports her are the type of idiots the Republicans are looking for. Using racism, fear, and ignorance within White America has been their whole campaign since they can't admit that being the next Bush republic is on their agenda. Ron Paul was the only Republican who could have used "change" as part of his campaign. While Pain doesn't have a whole lot of experience using substance over winks and Disney movie personas, she certainly knows how to manipulate idiot voters and play the political game of stealing money from them and lying about it.

Dog bless Palin's America and her classiness to have rape victims pay for their own rape kits.





Chris Wallace is the only guy on FOX who isn't afraid to speak the truth.

The VP Debates

So Palin said McCain is a maverick who knows how to win a war. Last time I checked, we lost the Vietnam war and we aren't winning anything in Iraq. She also keeps on repeating she's a hockey mom with her Canadian accent...little does she know by living in Alaska, the rest of America is about Baseball, Football, and Basketball....our pro-hockey can only be found on the obscure Vs. channel. Biden should just say he's a Nascar man then he'd probably win the rednecks of America over quicker....he just can't say which driver (since beer guzzling Nascar Fans are pretty psycho about that topic). And McCain isn't a maverick, he's a walking corpse with puppet strings attached and Palin isn't that different from him.

I'm not the brightest guy when it comes to politics...but even I could tell she was dodging questions. She really gave no insight...and had no idea what the hell she was talking about.

1. Palin mispronounced our commander in Afghanistan, Dave McKiernan's name and also claimed that he supported the idea of using the Iraq surge as a model for Afghanistan even though just yesterday he said he did not.

2. In response to a question on Iran and Pakistan Palin answered by starting to talk about Iraq. Similar to McCain's obsession on Iraq with complete neglect for all other national security priorities.

3. Palin promised that the Middle East peace process would be a top priority for a McCain administration. But McCain's own advisors last week said that it wouldn't.

4. Palin was unable to distinguish any specific difference between Bush and McCain on any foreign policy issues. Joe Biden made that point very clearly.

5. Sarah Palin seems to rely quite heavily on her notes and on a very limited set of talking points. She has been dodging questions all night long. (source)

With Biden...I don't know much about him, because no one has been making fun of him on a regular basis. He has a reputation for talking too much despite not knowing the whole story....but he wasn't the one that night displaying it. From what I saw, he held his own by acting like the average blue-color worker people could relate to...I just wish he didn't play so nicely and ripped into Palin when she got the general's name wrong. He could have said, "excuse, can I just say one thing in response to that....our general is not McClellan, it's McKiernan. 'So the price is wrong bitch.'"- Happy Gilmore

People said Palin did well that night....by dodging questions she couldn't answer...seriously? Is that a good thing? She couldn't answer simple questions by Katie Couric, like where she got the news...and during the debate, she didn't come off any better. If the walking corpse and bimbo from Alaska wins this election, I hope the dollar becomes weaker than the peso just to make everything that much more painful.

And in the world of Politics....

Sometimes, you don't really need to write great comedy....you just use reality to make fun of itself by composing it.



Sarah Palin on SNL



McCain thinking he's Crafty



Sarah Palin with Katie Couric

JCVD Trailer

Full Description:
In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme portrays a washed-up, aging action star. His career is a joke, he loses all of even the meager straight-to-video roles to his nemesis Stephen Segal and he’s in a custody battle for his daughter who is too embarrassed of her father to consider living with him.

Returning to Brussels, he pops into a post office to send a money order to his divorce lawyer in Los Angeles only to find the facility held siege by robbers. The absurdity of the situation gradually escalates, and our action hero star must decide – cooperate or save the day in true hero fashion!

In a word, this role choice for Jean Claude Van Damme is BOLD. He’s faced ninjas, wild animals, space aliens and multiple arenas of death, but in JCVD he’s confronted with the naked truth of his own career: z-grade roles, worldwide ridicule, drug addiction, bad haircuts and some truly inspired wacko TV interviews, many of which are replayed in the film. The wickedly crisp script realistically captures the comedy inherent in the day-to-day life of a superstar: autograph and picture hounds, mocking haters and delusional überfans. Through it all Jean Claude Van Damme delivers with a sly wit and assured demeanor that for much of the film, I forgot I was watching a work of fiction, but was lost in what surely had to be a Jean Claude Van Damme reality show.

He understands the humor associated with his career, acknowledges it, pokes more than gentle fun at himself and even waxes philosophic on his past and his future. What emerges is a sophisticated, intelligent and wildly comedic performance. This is the stuff of true career renaissance. Forget about Pam Greer’s potential resurgence after Jackie Brown. After this performance, Jean Claude Van Damme deserves a shot at the best roles in Hollywood!

I watched JCVD at this year’s Cannes Market and the excitement in the crowd was palpable. Market screenings are for the industry worker-bees, you can’t gauge an audience because they are either asleep from exhaustion or texting on multiple blackberries trying to seal the next deal. Not so with JCVD. The crowd laughed and cheered and actually stood to applaud at the end. And when the man himself popped up from a seat in the back of the theater, clearly proud of the chops he had just shown on screen, the audience went absolutely nuts.

Van Damme? God Damn! This movie is AWESOME! Support this film, write about this film, and most importantly watch this film when it comes out in theaters. If for no other reason, I personally want to see more comedic drama out of, who woulda thunk it, one of the mostnderrated thespians working in cinema today! (Tim League) (Fantastic Fest)

Paul Dateh in LA Weekly

Paul Dateh: Hip-Hop Violinist Superhero by Night, Mild-Mannered Bookstore Clerk by Day

By Gendy Alimurung

Published on September 25, 2008

He’s the sweet, classically trained, violin-toting Japanese boy you imagine thugs would be beating on in the parking lot. Instead, outside after his show at Inglewood’s Savoy theater, Paul Dateh’s face hurts from smiling. He’s shaken hands and accepted compliments and business cards from people expressing interest in what he does and who he is, which is not just a violinist but a hip-hop violinist — essentially, an incongruity.

“I don’t know how to explain it,” the show’s host had told the audience, “except, it’s different shit.” Then the sound of Dateh’s wailing violin — rhythmic, surprising, new — filled the room. The music, classical, filtered through the aesthetic of funk and hip-hop, is exuberant. Dateh closed his eyes, a slight figure swaying onstage.

The band at the Savoy stopped playing. The drummer shook his head, mouthed the words “No way” to the keyboardist, who shook his head. The guitarist cupped his hands around his lips and whistled.

“Who is this guy?” a woman in the audience asked.

When Paul Dateh was ready to graduate to a serious instrument in 2001, Robert Cauer at Robert Cauer Violins laid several violins on a table. When you choose a serious violin, you are choosing a life mate. For his life as a classical violinist, Dateh chose a 19th-century Saquin, which has a clear, round, resonant, bright sound. Professional-quality violins can cost upward of $100,000 and you’d as likely play hip-hop on those as you’d drive a Bentley in a demolition derby.

So it’s the beat-up Tambovsky he used in high school that is now his best friend. It has a dark, rich, slightly muffled tone that matches well with Dateh’s butter-smooth, slightly breathy singing voice. Of all the instruments, the violin sounds most like the human voice. Dateh and his violin take turns speaking. He’s had it for a decade and when it’s not with him, he feels its absence, like the strange ache of a phantom limb.

The Tambovsky is with him a few weeks later, when he schleps over to Time Warp Music on Venice Boulevard, to try out some pedals. They’re for guitars, but he means to experiment with them on the violin, which he’s brought in a soft black nylon case, carrying it down low by his hip like an old-fashioned Mafia Gatling gun. The case is a body with organs: a cushiony endometrial black velvet lining, a small glass vial containing a thimbleful of water to moisten the air inside, a hygrometer, a clawlike nib to grasp the bow. Despite these fail-safes, a violin reacts to extremes of environment: Too hot or too cold, and you can hear its varnish cracking.

Attached to the violin, the wah-wah pedal produces a woozy, nasally, otherworldly gasp. Hendrix revolutionized guitar sound with the wah-wah, which mimics the human cry: waaaaaaaaaaaah! “This is so cool,” Dateh says. “I’m ashamed that I’ve been performing onstage for years and have never done pedals.”

“Don’t be ashamed,” says a customer who has stopped to listen. (Dateh’s playing tends to stop people in their tracks.) “Most folks go to the pedals right away. You’ve taken the time to master an acoustic instrument. Though there is something to be said for pedals. Have you seen Radiohead play? They’re literally on the floor fiddling with knobs.” Dateh obliges us with a version of Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It.”

“Oh, my God,” the storeowner’s wife says. “Anything sounds virtuoso on a violin.”

Paul Dateh did not grow up in the hood. He is not ghetto-fabulous. He blogs about eating lettuce and accidentally gooping lotion instead of conditioner on his hair the first time he stayed out all night, which was at a show in Las Vegas, where he opened for Public Enemy. He grew up in Walnut, California, a sleepy bedroom-community suburb east of Los Angeles, a privileged neighborhood, two-thirds Asian, one-third white, average household income in the six figures. There is an ease to life in Walnut that makes him uncomfortable.

“This isn’t me,” he says, waving off the teenage-boy messy bedroom, the rumpled twin bed, the metal stand with a piece of sheet music, a jaunty oberek, which he’s been playing to keep up his finger work. “It’s just where I sleep.”

The struggles of youth in upper-middle-class suburbia are not the problems of life on the street romanticized in hip-hop but the quiet, strangling ennui of a life measured out in cul de sacs and carpeted rooms and identical tract homes.

He is crashing there at his parents’ place, an hour’s drive from the Little Tokyo district, where he hopes to live in a few months. “I’m carving notches on the wall until then,” he sighs. “It’s hard when you see cows and freight trains.....(more)

Asian American Hip Hop Artists

StarS tudded Music Group

Son of Ran

Blue Scholars

Nam

ASA + Common + Pharrell +Rino + Maryss+ BennyBen + Born + Phsyicx

ASA (ASHA) FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN



New Song Common ft. Pharrell- "Announcement" with Rino Nakasone and Maryss.

BBoy Physicx in Australia

BennyBen, Rivers Crew only US (or Australia) member...and Bboy Born in Japan.

When it comes to dubbing over foreign films..

No one does it better than Uncle Morty's Crew.

Goatman Menthol Rap!

They are the cousins of Santa Claus...

Red ninja looking for love...

Don't mess with Q as he seeks out having fun with his GO Production crew...

Internatiol Secret Agent Clips

The acts were Magnetic North, Tatum Jones,and a dance crew called Quest...oh and Youtube singing phenom Jennifer Chung. However, it was FM and Dateh who rocked the show....even though the sound level could have used some tweaking. I know Magnetic North could have benefited from it. Oh yeah, Wong Fu Productions was there......

The Super Talented Paul Dateh...

Far East Movement

John McCain is an old tard

Jon Stewart for Prez

Even if it's just for a month...

Diddy on McCain's running mate...

Let’s just say John McCain does win to become the President of the USA…I don’t think he’ll be able to live out his first term. So if he croaks, we’ll have the governor of Alaska with 5 kids to hold power over the red presidential nuke’em button and America would officially have the dumbest population of whit……nvm…I will not finish that sentence.

I may not care for PDiddy but I’m on the same boat with him…and it is time for a shift of power since the Republicans have been f*cking up for too long. Who cares if Obama isn’t as old, experienced, and two faced as most seasoned politicians, he’s something new.

USA! USA! USA!

Somewhat in the words of Shaq..."Spain, tell me how my ass tastes!" :)

(2007)All hail the Japanese kids of hip hop dance...

The first group of ninja wonder kids killed it...

Fast 2 forward 2:41 with the Hip Hop group Oops..."AHHHH". Fanny Pack, Boogie Bots, and So Real Cru got nothing on any of these groups.

A Moment of Zen

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Fashion Show + Rino + Yuri Tag + Taeko + Bboy

So I've been working on a small magazine for my company and our client. We did a photo shoot with Harajuku girl Rino Nakasone and our project editor, Echo of Partytilam, managed to get Yuri Tag of Kaba Modern to interview her. Since we both really don't know much about dancing, it was a good idea to let the two dancers talk....dance. In return for her help, we made an ad for Yuri and Taeko (Fish N Chicks) in the magazine for their new entertainment project. The magazine will be distributed in Hawaii, SF, and other West Coast locations....and the first event the magazine will be given out at is at Area in Hollywood on August 30th. So come out and check it out and you might win a free Palm Centro.

http://www.blogger.com/www.theyuriandtaekoshow.com

and just in case you missed it....IBE 2008, where the BBOy powerheads of the West faced off against the powerheads of the East. Ronnie, Born, Kaku, Hong 10, Baek, Cico, KYS, and more...



This is also the event where Hong 10 broke his arm....

Olympics: Spain Basketball Team being stupid…

Spain's Basketball Federation has published a good luck advert for their men's team, the world champions, in which they stand pulling at the sides of their eyes in a slit-eyed gesture.

There is no obvious intention to upset their Olympic hosts in Beijing, but the irresponsible picture is likely to cause controversy and could be interpreted so as to lead to accusations of racism.

Spanish sport has been mired in rows over racism in the last few years. In November 2004 black English footballers were subjected to relentless racial barracking from home supporters in a match in Spain. Before the World Cup there were calls for Luis Aragones, then Spain's football coach, to be sacked after he called Thierry Henry a "black shit". And last year Lewis Hamilton suffered racist abuse during testing for the Spanish grand prix near Barcelona.

Spain play their first match in the Olympic basketball competition against Greece at 7.30am BST today. (The Guardian)

Is the typical Spaniard really that stupid beyond all rational thought? These douchebags better get boo'd while they take the court in China and as team USA beats the crap out of them. I'm a Laker's fan and even Pau Gasol is in the mix...which is very disappointing to me.

Pau Gasol is not only a douchebag....he's a typical stupid jock. You'd think living in America and Los Angeles he'd be better educated on the fact that white people aren't funny when they try to take a stab at racial humor, especially when it comes to Asians. But hey, at least he's doing it for his country...and they think it's funny.

And the slanted eye posture is offensive because it was always used to mock Asians by white people. Team Spain might as well be called Team Rosie O'Donnell.

LG DARE FT. FAREAST MOVEMENT

New LG Dare Cellphone....Viral Ad! Spread it!
Text "DARE" to 41055 for your chance to win the new Dare by LG!!

"Beggin" - Madcon + ABDC2

A cool BBoy track from 2007. And if it sounds familiar...it's the track Super Crew danced to on the first ABCD2 try out episode.

ABDC2….Fanny Pack should not have been sent home. While I’m glad that Super Crew outlasted them, I would have preferred they lose to them in the final. So Real Cru is a nice young dance group but their “bboy brothers” doesn’t hold a candle to Super Crew. They also aren’t as creative as Fanny Pack and their body control isn’t even as tight as Kaba Modern’s. They are just “okay” both in being entertaining and in comparison to their competitors. Fanny Pack may not be crazy ass dancers but they certainly hit their beats harder….especially in that 2nd to last episode. If I was a judge, I would’ve voted for them over Super Crew just on that performance alone….and because of that little Asian girl crawling on the table.

Dance Like Michael Jackson

Far*East Movement's newest single off their highly anticipated new album coming October.
Produced by Wong Fu Productions.
Featuring the widely acclaimed Quest Dance Crew.
Also featuring Brian Tee and Amber Nimedez

For more on the video visit
http://www.wongfuproductions.com/FMMJ...

Get your own official Dance Like MJ tshirt (designed by Wesley Chan of Wong Fu) at
http://www.dopeusa.com/servlet/Detail...

Get the official Shutter Shades 2.0 FM edition at
http://shuttershadesonline.com/fareas...

Check out more of FarEast Movement's music at
http://www.fareastmovement.com

Check out more music videos and short films at
http://www.wongfuproductions.com

Check out Quest Dance Crew at
http://www.myspace.com/questdance

Kollaboration Acoustic Show 2 + Project Michelle

WWW.PROJECTMICHELLE.COM

Kollaboration will be hosting a Bone Marrow Drive for Asian Miracle Marrow Matches at our Acoustic Show.


Michelle is 26 years old. Diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in February 2007, Michelle underwent chemotherapy for seven months but relapsed in May 2008. She now needs to find a bone marrow match to save her life. You could be that person.

What you can do to help Michelle or others like her. The first step in becoming a hero requires a cheek swab and ten minutes of your time. If you are a match, the transplant can often be done entirely through the blood. We have less than a month to find a match for Michelle. The outcome is simple -- someone lives because of your donation. You could be the one to save Michelle, or one of thousands of other people like her.

Your generosity knows no bounds. We cannot express in words our immense appreciation for everyone that has registered. Team Michelle has been working around the clock organizing bone marrow drives around the country to find Michelle a match. With each person that registers, we are one step closer to saving the life of someone in need.

From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU.



Friday, July 25, 2008 - 12:29 am
Follow Through (Update from Michelle)

The search for a donor is a long, slow and winding road. There are so many bumps to overcome in the process, from the very initial point of contact where you try to shed awareness on someone who may have never heard of bone marrow donations, to the final steps in getting a potential match to commit as a donor.

The entire donor recruitment journey is important, but in my opinion the most crucial part is the final follow through. There is nothing more disheartening than hearing about patients who find matches, only to have their only life-saving donor back out of the process. I can’t imagine how it must feel to know that someone has the power to save your life but simply chooses not to. It surprisingly happens all the time–about 50% of registered Asians who are contacted as potential matches will decline to donate. Crazy, I know.

Despite the bumps in the road to finding my donor, I’m so inspired by the help and support from all of you who have been helping with the search. It inspires me to keep fighting.

Reserve your tickets now! 

Whomever is heading to AC2, be a man or woman...and go donate some time and take the test. And if you by chance you get the honor of saving someone's life, don't be the 50% of Asian Americans who become little bitches and flake out.  I did my home kit test weeks ago...

The Cleaner with Hotty Grace Park...

Each week THE CLEANER follows Benjamin Bratt as William Banks, a recovering addict who helps others get clean by any means necessary as he struggles to maintain his own rocky personal life. William works with an eclectic team. Swenton is a wily smart aleck who is great undercover and always jealous of Akani, the beautiful, manipulative, and mysterious woman who always seems to get the best assignments and might just have a romantic past with William. Darnell is the newest member of William's crew. Darnell is deeply indebted to William for helping his younger brother get clean, but he must balance his deep religious convictions with the kind of work required as part of William's team.

Together with this eclectic group, William works week-in and week-out to bring addicts of all kinds to the point where they are ready and willing to get help and begin the difficult process of getting clean. With every success and every failure, William wrestles with his own demons through an unusual relationship with God. He's a man caught between an unwavering commitment to his work, deep love for his family, and the ghosts of his own addictions. Bad for his personal life, perhaps, but these are the tensions that make William the one you want helping a troubled loved one, the one you trust to do whatever is necessary, the man you want by your side in your darkest hour. In the face of tragedy and addiction, William Banks will risk everything to be The Cleaner. (The Cleaner on A&E.)

And another thing...In Hollywood, the tag line for Japanese acting roles seems to be "Korean, the other Japanese..." Is there a shortage of Japanese American actors?

Leonardo Nam plays a Japanese American during World War 2 when he is forced to go to an internment camp in American Pastime. He also plays a Japanese gangster in Fast and the Furious 3.  

Aaron Yoo also plays  a Japanese American in American Pastime.

Brian Tee plays D.K. in the Fast and the Furious 3. ...oh wait, he's half-Korean and half-Japanese. nvm.

James Kyson Lee plays Ando Masahashi in Heroes.

Joon Park plays a Japanese Gangster in Speed Racer.

Jamie Chung plays a Samurai Girl on some family network.

Linda Park plays Hoshi Sato in Star Trek Enterprise.

Rick Yune...is a Japanese guy in Rain's ninja movie.

Hollywood even imports Korean actors to play Japanese characters...

Bi/Rain will play a ninja warrior and in most cases...ninja's are Japanese.

Lee Byung-Hun will play Storm Shadow in GIJOE.

Jun Ji-hyun plays Saya Otonashi in Blood the Last Vampire.

July 19th, an Audrey Kawasaki Print is available...

An Audrey Kawasaki print is finally up for sale....220 for a print, 450 framed...on the 19th. I just might....waste money on it. I would have preferred one on a skateboard plank instead...but the print is PG-13 and can be hung on the walls modestly.

Audrey Kawasaki...

I have a new crush...and her name is Audrey Kawasaki...and if I had $45,000...I'd commission her to paint me 3 Giant Robot Rocket Punch stylized girls...using 3 skateboards as her canvises...and then marry her!!! Just kidding...but I'm serious about the Giant Robot thing...

Audrey Kawasaki (born March 31, 1982) is a Los Angeles-based painter and erotic artist, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of young, adolescent girls. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga.^{[2][3][5][6][4]}

Kawasaki studied fine art painting for two years at the Pratt Institute in New York City, but left after two years without completing her degree. She cites the emphasis in the New York art scene on conceptual art, an approach at odds with her figurative, illustrative style, as among the reasons she left.^[2][3][4][5] As of 2006, Kawasaki is considered a rising star in the Los Angeles art scene.^[7] In 2005, Kawasaki designed the cover art for Alice Smith's For Lovers, Dreamers & Me.^[4]

• Official site
• okonomide – Audrey Kawasaki's blog
• Audrey Kawasaki at MySpace
• "Hot Young Artists", Jane, November 2006.
• "Audrey Kawasaki" interview, IdN Magazine 13(5), January 2007.
• "Naughty but Nice" by Kate Atkinson, Vogue Australia, October 2007.

Electric Daisy Carnival 2008

I went to Electric Daisy Carnival last Saturday…and I wish I could say I had a blast. I started off all hyped up but I got there sober as a nun at a Sunday school and ended up leaving feeling older than Danny Glover in Lethel Weapon 3. Initially, I did not want to go because I thought I outgrew it….but I had a night when I went drinking with some friends and came home overly buzzed….and when I’m buzzed, my spending habits become less rational. so far, I’ve bought a $1500 digital camera & my first Ipod thanks to liquid inhibition. I ended up buying 3 tickets for a kinky sidekick, her mistress of Ktown, and I…for that Woodstock of Raves.

When we got there at 8 something, the event was an unorganized mess. The line to the entrance was just one big cattle herd pushed together in a tiny ass barn despite being outdoors. My friends and I were stuck in it, belly to belly with other pieces of meat for a whole hour. There was so much body heat illuminating that everyone was turning into a sweaty compost dump of flesh. To say the least, it really killed my mood….

I was spent and when I looked around already jaded, all I could see were little kids dressed up in scantily clothes with even younger children hopped up on E. That was when I really felt old…more so than when we into the LA coliseum football stadium to watch our favorite headliners of trance, Paul Van Dyk & Christopher Lawrence. Kids in there were making out with each other and giving each other lap dances. It was very uncomfortable….I guess I was just too sober for my own good. It’s funny though, you see a pattern with couples on E who are rolling together. They first start dancing like crazy….sit down in a sleepy trance and then all of sudden spring wide awake just to make out like bunnies in heat. After a few minutes of saliva transfer and groping, they’d pop back into reality, get up, and walk away from their audience. I had to hide behind my cousin just so I could block a few views….

DJ Paul Van Dyk was really good though, especially his signature anthems…and the production, carnival rides, light shows, and videos were amazing. The main dance area was exactly like that scene in Matrix Reloaded…when you saw thousands of people jump up and down like the ocean. They had this one set where the big video scenes were showing bubbles float around and then all around the stage were actually bubbles flying off....It was definitely a sight to see…but by the end of the day, it was a complete waste of money and like Danny Glover said after getting his ass kicked by Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4, “I’m too old for this $hit.”

America's Best Dance Crew 2 - ep 1.

1 thing I like about this season...Super Cr3w

4 things I don't like.....

1) It's still super cheesy with people crying and little mama asking what seems to be scripted Oprah moments about certain individuals and their personal life.

2) Team Millennium wasn't picked.

3) The Boy Band group....and how they went to get a pedicure and wonder why they don't get "street cred." "Wack...." is a understatement by Shayne after their performance, they simply sucked ass......

4) Randy Jackson's name is still on top of that ABDC logo.

All hail the Goddess of Dance, Rino Nakasone

Happily married and still hotter than hell..

Rino Nakasone (stage name "Music"),grew up in Okinawa. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to Los Angeles to study dance. She later taught dance at a performing arts centers, and formed the dance group "Beat Freaks".(wiki)



She's also Kaba Modern's Yuri Tag's inspiration.

Priscilla Ahn @ Hotel Cafe

June 10th was my Bday and I was suppose to go see her Priscilla Ahn's album release show at Hotel Cafe...but I flaked. I was too lazy to drive up there since I now work 8 hours again with 3 hours worth of traffic, not to mention I wake up at 6 every morning...so I was exhausted. Plus I heard it was sold out but luckily, someone on youtube had clips of the show. Her album can be found on itunes...but I'm rather disappointed that she did not record her Boob Song on it.

I Don't Think So by Priscilla Ahn

1. Leave The Light On by Priscilla Ahn


2. Red Cape by Priscilla Ahn


3. Opportunity To Cry by Priscilla Ahn


4. Dream by Priscilla Ahn

R16 2008 FINAL BATTLE-GAMBLERZ vs TOP 9

Part 1



Part 2 - Gamblerz win of course.

Live in LA @ Tangier - June 6th

Jinah Kim: http://www.myspace.com/jinahmusic
Jason Arimoto: http://www.myspace.com/jasonarimoto
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Andrew Ahn: http://www.myspace.com/aill
Shin B: www.myspace.com/shinb.
Tier 2: http://www.myspace.com/tier2movement
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70's Old School R&B and Soul

There's just something about live horns and instruments that make 70's Soul Music so much better compared to what we have today, like Danity Kane. Add in a DJ who appreciates it's vibe and you have some kick ass remixes....but for now, here are some song in their purity.



California Soul - Marlena Shaw



Giving Up - Zulema


I Believe in Miracles - Jackson Sisters

Grace Park going American Apparel...

on the pages of Complex Magazine...

Complex Interview/Gallery

Cute Korean Girl - Last Comic Standing

Ballsy girl considering how thin skin our fellow Angry Asian men are when it comes to jokes like hers. She's cute and her jokes are purposely offensive...but not as smart as Russell Peters.

Hawaiian Music + Asian American Culture

Hawaiian music...it has hints of Reggae, R&B, hip hop, and rock blended together with a feel that's distinctly Hawaiian and Asian American.

HO’OKOA (myspace)

Ryan Hiraoka(Myspace)

Ekolu(Myspace)

Josh Martinez - Canadian Rapper

Canadian Rappers are coming strong...with Josh and K-OS leading the way.

Josh Martinez is a machine. A well-oiled, straight-talking, globetrotting sex-machine. Having traveled the world more than the avian flu, Martinez has built himself a devout following, addicted to his hopeful perspective, joie-de-vive and a live show that brings the heat like a Catholic school girl in a confession booth.(facebook)




Just a Dood....one of my favorite songs on my i-pod right now.

Priscilla Ahn - June 10th at Hotel Cafe

Singer Priscilla Ahn was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania. She grew up singing in her school and church choirs, and later in coffee shops, bars, and music clubs around Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York City. After deciding to move out to the West coast Priscilla began establishing herself on the Los Angeles music scene, and became a fixture at LA’s Hotel Café where a fortuitous opening performance for singer Joshua Radin led to an invitation to open his entire U.S. tour. In 2006, Priscilla recorded and released a self-titled EP which began to win her fans such as influential deejay Nic Harcourt of LA’s KCRW. Priscilla Ahn featured her own original songs including “Rain” and “Dream,” the latter of which appeared in the DreamWorks film Disturbia. In 2007, Priscilla was signed by Blue Note Records and began recording her major label debut with producer Joey Waronker, which is planned for a Spring 2008 release.

myspace page

And June 10th is actually my bday...and it will be a great way to celebrate it.

The Good, The Bad, & The Weird

Dragonball actors in character...

http://dbthemovie.com/

I can't help but....laugh. I try not to judge a product before it comes out, but this movie is going to......be.......pretty bad.