Some articles on the new K-Pop show making the rounds starring a bunch of North American Asian faces including Megan Lee, Louriza Tronco, And Erika Tham (of whom is the only actual high-schooler)
See it @ at the MSPIFF.
Call me crazy, but if you want to come out and align yourself with pretty much everyone except right wing fascists wearing purple neon tutus - so they can point to it and say "yeah, I see myself there too and yes, that means something to me and how I will vote" - I would say job well done.
Inspirational even.
P.S.
Still could use some more Asian American male face time. If anyone needs any recommendations...
His last performance
While he didn't make the top 12 cut the Film Am made some pretty great runs and gave everyone some nice performances.
On Twitter, Nathan Hermida said: “That’s the way the cookie crumbles! Thank you for all the support through my journey. This has been amazing and I’ve met so many talented people. But this isn’t the end! I’m going to be on a musical grind with covers and original music as soon as I can do so! So stay tuned and always keep up with me! Love you guys“. PS: “I swear I wasn’t pitchy on ‘Chains’ in my band rehearsals LOOOL.” Meanwhile, Adam recall the first time he met Nathan, “This kid, when I first met him, he was so uncomfortable on stage and I could tell that your biggest hurdle was gonna be performing. Honest to God, there were some issues with the vocal stuff, but I have to tell you man, you gave 100% for the effort and the fearlessness that you had to show to come up here and really perform“.
Sometimes I think I have to make that conscious effort and think about what that means and how that manifests itself in what I do, or alternately, what I don't do - and not on any grand level because if anything I'm not that grand, but simpler - what makes me salivate.
At 700+ pages again - I'm not sure you can call it little.
The lock on the toolshed is smashed, the motel door is kicked in and a child emerges — blinky, freed from years of sexual service, the violence finally at an end. The newspapers celebrate another triumph of the human spirit, and move on. But does the victim do the same? How does someone go from years of suffering and shame to live out the rest of a life? This is the question Hanya Yanagihara, author of “People in the Trees,” takes on in her second novel.
This 700-plus-page narrative follows the lives of four college friends who come to New York seeking fame and higher tax brackets. Malcolm is an architect, Willem an actor, JB a painter. The fourth, Jude, is a litigator with a secret, painful past, and the book is primarily his story. He’s a beautiful orphan, now surrounded by loving friends, even formally adopted by Harold, his former law professor. Inside, though, he is sick with self-loathing — a veteran returned from the black site that was his childhood.
An interesting article down at The American Prospect:
Patel is the second women to be prosecuted under Indiana’s feticide law. The first woman was also an Asian American [...]
With a history of stereotyping Asians as untrustworthy, perfidious foreigners, it is highly probable that racial assumptions played a role in singling out these immigrant women of color for prosecution.
By all means this wasn't a film that had landmark roles (or even large ones) for Asian Americans - but we were there - and seeing how it's 20 years old I'll have to go back and re-watch it.
I know - it's barely just Spring.
But things take time to catch on?
Maybe?
But what do I expect from myself anyway because it's dark and I can't find my other hand, and pecking versus typing isn't always a smooth experience, and under those circumstances now that I think about it I'm surprised I'm not letting my Gobot write more posts.
I haven't read the whole article - I skimmed this one - but looks interesting and I'm sure I'll get back to finishing it soon and if you are so inclined and not as lazy as I, who knows, maybe you will as well.
"I guess that I’m still not quite sure how to describe this experience of being an Asian-American woman philosopher. Working on the American Philosophical Association committee on Asian and Asian-American philosophy and philosophers, I am very much aware of how few of us there are in the discipline."
Say what you want about numbers but this is an interesting quote:
While the "Furious" series stretches across racial lines, the same cannot be said for Hollywood. A 2015 report by UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies found that minorities are underrepresented in leading film roles by more than 2 to 1. The report also found that films with relatively diverse casts enjoyed the highest median global box office numbers and the highest median return on investment.
I know what you're saying - but Han is dead - and didn't 7 JUST COME OUT - can't you let it breath for a bit?
Yes - this is true, and yes, I also did tear up at the end of 7 - but - it's never too early to start thinking about it even if it is a few years away (because who knows - maybe there are some spin-offs...).
We've never seen a body though...
Which leaves it open to say that Han had to have his death faked.
Sure - say what you want - but lore and stories change.
And yes - I also want Justin Lin back for what could be the final too.
James Wan did a kick-ass job - but if there's one final one left - I think it's the J to the L time.
I had a random late night Friday thought but then it disappeared and I was left with this video. Which is still okay.
The video I mean.
I'm sure there's more and maybe it was something having to do with the Indiana and Arkansas laws and how they still discriminate regardless of what just happened, or the fact that North Dakota is still...well North Dakota - but - I don't quite remember anymore...
Soothing retro Shanghai Restoration Project.
https://twitter.com/francesrivera
Caught Frances Rivera on as MSNBC News co-anchor on "MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts".
https://twitter.com/francesrivera
From NEO:
Rivera joined MSNBC in February of 2014, and often filled in on MSNBC and NBC'S Early Today show, and also contributed to the Weekend Today Show. Prior to joining MSNBC, Rivera spent two years at WPIX-TV CW 11 in New York City as their morning anchor. From 2001 to 2010, Rivera was in Boston where she anchored the 5, 6, and 11pm newscasts on WHDH-TV NBC 7 as well as the 10pm newscast on WLVI-TV CW 56. While at WHDH, Rivera was recognized with several Emmy nominations. In 2003 and 2007, she won the Emmy award for 'Outstanding Anchor.' Rivera has also worked on-air at KWTV-TV in Oklahoma City, OK and KFDX-TV in Wichita Falls, TX. Rivera has also worked behind the scenes at 'CBS This Morning' and also covered the 1996 election for CBS's political unit. During that time, she was a freelance co-host and reporter for the nationally syndicated PBS program "Asian America." A native of the Philippines, Rivera immigrated to the United States when she was three years old. She went back to the Philippines for college and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of the Philippines.
