May 22, 2007

• THE BOOB TUBE

  Since my last entry was so text heavy, I figured this one should be the exact opposite.   Little words as possible and filled with lots o’ video images to balance things out.  (Apologies to the new subscribers that expected to read further about hot topic/political issues – but stick around, I have my moments every once in awhile).

  A few weeks ago I spoke at a convocation for Carleton College.  Throughout the year, the college does a very cool thing and shuts down classes every Friday for one hour (10:50am-11:50am) and brings in a different guest lecturer/performance group to address/enlighten the campus on the speaker’s respective profession/outlooks — I was brought in for Asian American Heritage Month.

  So here I am in action — if anyone’s ever been curious as to what I do when I speak at colleges, this is a fairly good example (although it’s usually less formal … Con-vo-cation.  The word itself even sounds fancy):  http://apps.carleton.edu/reason_package/reason_4.0/www/displayers/av_display.php?id=301862

  Then Pearry Teo, the director of “The Gene Generation” sent me the nifty new trailer of our film…

   

  … along with a sneak peek of one of my scenes with co-star Ethan Cohen  –

  And then I got this cool email from Adam Green the director of my movie “Hatchet” opening nationwide on Sept 7th:

  Just went to see “28 Weeks” – They showed the Rush Hour 3 trailer, Die Hard 4…and then f***ing HATCHET!!!!  I almost had a seizure in my seat!  Full theater and the crowd all clapped and cheered when it was over!  Can’t tell you how surreal it was… Apparently it’s playing all over the country this weekend before 28 Weeks.  Which FYI- may have been better than the first one it was so scary.  But then again- I missed the first 20 minutes as all I could hear was my heart beating and that little girl whispering “stay out of the swamp”.

  I can only imagine how he felt.  Knowing a project so well — from conception to completion and then kicking back to relax at a theater and then go, “Wait a second… I know this movie…”  I must be like when a singer hears themselves unexpectedly on the radio for the first time.  Anyway, here’s what he saw:

  The next entry will hopefully return to this journal’s visual status-quo: A frothy blend of a few paragraphs wrapped around scattered photos to compliment the entry’s content; capped off with either a witty, off-topic remark or silly-faced icon.

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