August 2010
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July 2010
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“Take, for instance, graduate school. As soon as Franco finished at UCLA, he...”
– - A New York Magazine profile on actor/student/weirdo James Franco.
It would be a stretch to call him a classmate of mine, but we did technically go to school together. I’ve never actually seen him in person, but he did, for whatever reason, agree to be featured on the cover of this little...
The Internet, Edward Truong style
Check Gmail
Check Facebook
Check Tumblr/Twitter (the order varies depending on the day)
Read Los Angeles Times, New York Times (ditto)
Read Gawker
Read Oh No They Didn’t!
Repeat
Though I rely on Gchat to pass the time in between, this is really not enough to fill up a full work day. Even worse, sometimes everyone I talk to online (all two of them) are offline, so sometimes other...
While on a weekend trip to San Francisco, I picked up an autographed copy of “The Beaufort Diaries,” a graphic novella of sorts by T. Cooper at Booksmith, a store on Haight Ashbury full of interesting titles that I have added to my ever-expanding list of books to read.
At 90 pages, it is an incredibly short read and a surprisingly sweet and tender little story that reveals itself...
I finished reading “I’m Down,” the 2009 memoir from humorist Mishna Wolff. Her story is of a childhood spent being raised in Washington state by a jobless single father who really overidentified with African American culture and focused on keeping it real, dabbling in growing marajuana, pushing his kids to join the basketball team and other black stereotypes. Told with a sense...
I saw “In the Heights” on tour in Los Angeles last night. I liked the upbeat songs, light humor, hip hop influence, and really great dance numbers full of energy. I didn’t like that I had orchestra seats and I wasn’t sure what half the lyrics were (enunciate or get better sound?) and I find it irritating when characters sing-speak their lines. You don’t have to be...
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The Kids Are All Right: A Review
Since it turns out that I’m not really one of those elite LA people who gets to see movies all the time before they come out, I paid like a regular person ($15! When I was your age I paid $5 to see a movie!) to see Lisa Cholodenko’s wonderful family comedy/drama about a lesbian couple whose lives get slightly more complicated when their teenager children seek out their biological...
Irrelevant non-sequiturs in "Summer Girls" by LFO
So this might be a few years late, but basically the formula for song writing is to find a rhyming dictionary and not worry about the whole “making sense in the context” thing. Genius.
New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes (the singer) sick
Hip Hop Marmalade spic and span
The great Larry Bird Jersey 33
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call...
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Chinese cover of Janet Jackson’s (how do you...
One Day: A Review
Since my 9 to 5 (well, 9 to 4 thanks to budget cuts) job largely involves being rude to people, I have a lot of downtime that the Internet fails to occupy. So another week, another book, this time a British romance novel by David Nichols. Embarrassingly, I learned of it through this week’s Entertainment Weekly - the staff behind Bullseye really has good taste.
I can’t help but...
