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Tweetsgiving: What I’m Grateful For

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Usually, I’m not one to write posts titled “What I’m Grateful For.” It reminds me of some boring music award acceptance speech: “thanks to my moms, my fans…and Jesus a.k.a The Big Jeezy.”

Being grateful sure feels crappy, as well. Charities are constantly forcing us, between Nov. 1 – Dec. 31, to feel like shit. The other day, I was at the Staten Island Ferry when the Salvation Army decided to send over a 5-piece brass ensemble (playing grand Christmas songs) to help the chick ringing the bell in front of the donation pail.

But no one donated. Probably partly because the bell ringer had this disgusted expression on her face, like, “we’re entertaining the plebeian masses, who won’t even spare a quarter…H-E-L-L for everyone!”

So when @CTK1 asked if I would do a Tweetsgiving post, I was wary. Am I capable of writing on this topic without sounding too much like an ungrateful asshole?

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Today, I cleaned up a puddle that my sister’s dog left on the kitchen floor (a 5-lb dog, he excretes half his body mass twice a day. Oh, did I mention he is a walking sulfur lab?). He’s sitting on my lap right now. My legs are falling asleep.

But damn if he’s not the cutest thing ever.

And damn, I have legs to fall asleep.

Plus, a kitchen. In a warm, snuggly apartment.

I have a gazillion deadlines: a follow-up article to “He Wants to Wait“…a screenplay that a production company has been waiting a year for…and I have zero word count for NaNoWriMo.

But damn, I actually have people interested in my work.

And a computer with Internet that helps me get my shit done.

Plus a small nook in the corner of the apartment. Virginia Woolf would be relieved.

McSpanky has been working a lot of hours this week. And he made me watch “2012,” which is quite possibly one of the worst Armageddon-themed movies of all time.

But he’s getting doughnuts and eggnog right now. And when he comes back, he’s cooking a Thanksgiving feast.

I actually have the faculties to be assaulted by bad movies (sight, hearing, taste + decency, etc.)

And, he gave me some sweet sweet loving this morning. And by sweet, I mean he held me down and fucked me so hard I begged and pleaded for him to “stop.”

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‘Nuff said. My everyday life = gratitude gratitude gratitude.

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KFANYC2: Notes from my talk about “Yellow Fever”

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Here is my talk, via mp3 (on Vimeo).

I was videorecording it, but the camera was knocked over (you can hear it within the first 10secs) and then the picture was all weird afterwards.

So, I put the mp3 up with the picture of my iBook desktop wallpaper.

Attempting to pass my kvetch as a semi-intelligent argument…

Asian woman are constantly sexually harassed in America.

White girls, black girls, Latinas…sorry, I love y’all but what Asian women go through is ridiculous.

I mean, even my mom gets harassed. And she’s a slightly frumpy middle-aged woman who walks around in golfing clothes. Although, yes, she has a cute figure and looks really youthful.

Anyways, I’ve had strange men proposition me on the street (this is a thread I started on FetLife)

Just walking down the street -- I have a sense that all the boys think I’m the modern-day reincarnation of this chick:

I mean, when I came home from post-KFANYC2 partying, some guy tried to follow me into my apartment. This happens more often than it should -- to me, to my fellow Asian female friends.

And I don’t even want to get started about the racist harassment that happens on social networking sites.

But y’know how we deal? Or at least, how I deal?

You’re gonna harass me anyways? You’re gonna send me creepy messages with pictures of porn Asian chicks?

Fine, I’ll wear short skirts. I’ll put on ‘ho gear. Because the fact is, I ain’t fuckin’ you. You’re hurting yourself waaay more than you hurt me.

Ok, end of bitter rant.

Back to regularly scheduled programming of rainbows and kittens.

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The Children Need Le Sexy Musique

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It’s almost 4am. And I’m tired.

What’s keeping me awake? Putting together a music playlist for charity. A seeeexy music playlist. ‘Cause that’s how I roll.

12 for 12K FTW!

There is an amazing organization called 12 for 12K (visit the site - the “12″ repeat motif shall be fully explained).

The lead organizer is the fabulous Danny Brown – who lives in Canada but is a Brit…blimey! (<– not sure what this means exactly, but I want to use it at least once in a blog post)

June Tweet-a-Thon FTW2!

A few weeks ago, 12 for 12K put on the June Tweet-a-Thon spectacular. And that’s when I joined, thanks to my cyber gf with the delish rump and lady lumps, CTK1.

Imagine: 24 hours of streaming online video, kind of like the Jerry Lewis stuff on TV. Comedians, musicians, smut peddlar (me). Powered by 2.0 social media.

There were prizes for those who donated at least $12. Not to mention the karma point accumulated (my younger sister, who is totally broke, donated $5. ‘Cause she’s awesome)

I went on at 11pm, and helped raise approx. $240 during the 40 minutes I was breathing heavy into the webcam It’s the most money I’ve ever made in an hour – and the fact that it went straight to UNICEF made me feel shiny and new.

Nice post-script to that event: one of my friends donated $12 and she won one of the prizes.

Masquertweet

So, PRCog decided to organize a masquerade for NYC locals to help raise some green.

Enter Masquertweet! It promises to be kinda like the masquerade in “Eyes Wide Shut” sans orgy. Or so I like to think.

And me…my teensy part in helping out is to put together a 1-hr playlist for the event.

Compiling playlists gets me SPRUUUNG

What can I say? I’m a music whore, with 70GB of mp3s and too many sleepless nights under my belt.

My mp3s are simply my digital version of Yu-Gi-Oh cards. It’s the sountrack to my mental masturabtion, as I have internal debates over why a certain bassline or loop changed my goddamn life. It’s pathetic.

So – nothing pleases me more than using those music files for the greater good.

Le Sexy Musique Playlist

Here is my 1 hour playlist. Oh, and there is a certain irrational logic to the sequence. You putting this playlist on shuffle voids any sort of warm feelings I had for you.

“Inside a Silent Tear” – Carmen McRae
“Hell is Round the Corner” – Tricky
“Come into My World (Fischerspooner remix)” – Kylie Minogue
“Poison” – Bell Biv Devoe. (it’s the longer version, with the “grown-men-barkin’-like-Dobermans” part in the middle. I believe this adds to the atmosphere, don’t you?)
“How We Do” – Mount Sims
“Das Model” – Kraftwerk
“My Secret Garden” – Depeche Mode
“Iron Man” – The Cardigans
“Vienna” – Ultravox
“Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Rainbow” – Miyake Hiromi
“As the World Falls Down” – David Bowie

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Nerd Nite (For The Win)

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

It was this May when I went to Nerd Nite for the first time -- to see a presentation about Teledildonics (and may I just add -- that presentation rocked pretty damn hard)

So, for whatever drug-induced reason -- I later emailed Matt (the main organizer of NYC’s Nerd Nite) and asked to do a presentation on Korean Pop Music.

He said yes.

Ready…Camera…

The presentation was officially bequeathed with the title:
“From Seo Taji to Wonder Girls: Video Intro to Korean Pop Music (and why even Perez Hilton is a Fan)”

And then I fucking procrastinated, was attacked by ugly things, and freaked out (I have deep fear of public speaking).

…ACTION!

But July 10, 9pm -- I gave that presentation (along with other awesome presentations about the harp and Godzilla). And I didn’t puke all over the mic.

For your viewing pleasure is the video recording of my presentation.

P.S. I added annotations (ghetto-ass closed captioning) on the videos because the sound quality kinda sucks.

If you want to see the annotations, I’ll put the links below directly to Youtube. But I’m late for a party so it gets progressively sloppy. Oh well.

Oh well.

Part 1 of 4 or ghetto-ass closed captioned version

Oh well.

Part 2 of 4 or ghetto-ass closed captioned version

Oh well.

Part 3 of 4 or ghetto-ass closed captioned version

Oh well.

Part 4 of 4 or ghetto-ass closed captioned version

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Flu flu go away please come back (NO!) another day

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Having a sore throat isn’t fun.

Having a sore back from laying in bed all day isn’t fun.

Having fever…then chills…then more fever…is definitely not fun.

Why this week? I had so much to do this week: visit CPA, go to my class, finish an Excel spreadsheet project at work.

And, oh, WRITE SOMETHING, DAMMIT!

Instead, I’ve spent past 2 days just hanging out on Fetlife and Twitter, complaining and whining. Ugh, hello drama queen.

There is no point to this post, except to document the fact that I indeed had the flu at this time. And ultimtaely, aren’t blog posts merely snapshots of a certain time?

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