Art
Happier
Guster's music was familiar, like the friend who agreed with all my dreams, through anxiety and vindication.
Art
Twentysomething
The Beautfiul Country
Bụi đời – n. dust of the earth aka Vietnamese - American, Ameriasian. The Beautfiul Country – A haunting, subtle and evocative telling of one person's arduous journey to discover his background and ultimately, himself. I liked it because: Vietnam's sceneries reminds me of the vitality and struggles
Art
Children with Cameras
I saw the movie Born into Brothels a long time ago, but this site that I came across today jogged my memories – it's really well done documentary that follows the pitch: what happens when you put cameras into the hands of kids who have been born into the
Art
Magicians
Two of the best films of 2006 involve sleight of hands, illusions, and pure movie wizardry. Yep – both dark, but vastly different in tone and plot.. but both deal with magicians. Christopher Nolan strikes again with The Prestige, a magic trick disguised as a movie, and the twists, turns, loops,
Twentysomething
Shakespeare Tour
Kelly Curran, my subleter, is touring the country in a production of Jane Eyre for The Acting Company. Check it out if you're in the area and say hello! Tell em' Josh sent ya. I always liked Shakespeare.. you can always drop random quotes and pretend to
Travels
Selected Readings
Traveling alone means: times of frenzied activities when your orbit merges with the spins-spuns of other backpackers... and times of silent introspection (and by this I mean the increasing volume that silence brings inside your head until your brain devours itself).
Career
The Projectionist
A loud shoutout goes to K-Dawg, currently starring in the Projectionist, a short film now playing in NY theatres for the Tribeca Film Festival. Some days, when we are both side casualties of art-laced ambitions, I feel like a Siamese twin with the guy... here's to many more
Travels
Bitter Asian Men
Of course, as an Asian guy, I'm tempted to say 'grow some balls' and dare to be different to all these Asian guys who complain about their station in society. But I feel a little sorry for them too, because after centuries of Western stereotypes, we are in a pretty bad position.
Art
Starstruck (sort of)
Now, you may not be able to pick Johnny out of an Asian crowd – and I couldn't either until I remembered that I saw this horrendous movie with my Dad before I left for Asia.
Art
Review: Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a de Palma-Pacino dessert to their earlier flick, that Pimp Your House must-have DVD Scarface.
Art
Review: The Mystic Masseur
There is a childlike honesty to Ganesh, a gift for perceiving truth in men but not in himself. Naipaul gives him a cast of characters that ranges from the wily to the vain to the boorish.
Art
Cos' it's all right
The sun is out. I have $3 in my pocket. The sun is out. There's more to this than making it right. The sun is out. I'll make it out of this life. And can't you feel it, cause the sun is out. And