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• Blog: Monday, Dec 17

  Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007 5:02AM / Standard Entry

  first of all.... Lakers won, Clippers lost.  yeah baby!  this is lakers' town y'all!  i'm a huge NBA fan and long time laker.  even though i didn't grow up in LA, i fell in love with SHOWTIME lakers when i was just a kid.  it's really awesome to see the young talent on the lakers squad mature and improve.  funny thing is, it's just about exactly the same squad that was so horrendous last year.  off to a great start this year, but they started incredibly strong last year, too..... well, we'll see if they can keep it up after the all star break in february.

  anyway, if you subscribe to the los angeles times, there's a nice, yet depressing article in it about chinese opera.

  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-opera17dec17,0,5365061.story?coll=la-home-center

  A note of foreboding for Peking opera

  

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  Chris Hyde / For The Times

  WEARING THE MASK: As a painted-face actor in Peking opera, Qiu Jirong has played leading roles, but says he feels like more of a curiosity than an artist. He performs out of a sense of duty to a six-generation family legacy in the art form. His real love is modern dance.

  The 200-year-old Chinese art form, with its painted faces and pageantry, now draws mostly tourists and aging stalwarts. The government launches an effort to save it.

  By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
  December 17, 2007

  BEIJING -- Qiu Jirong sits at a mirror in his dressing room, painstakingly applying his theater makeup.
  
  First the white, then firm strokes of gold, black and finally red -- the face ...............

   

   

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  ultimately, what i'm seeing is that theater in general can and does survive.  so the give and take is whether or not chinese opera should adjust to the times and try to appeal to the newer generations, should it simply maintain the classics and try to preserve a centuries old artform?  can it do both as many artforms do?
  
  

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• lust, caution

  Monday, Dec 3, 2007 2:21PM / Standard Entry

  interesting that some blogger on AnD is writing about testicles and scrotums.  just the other night i went out with the significant other (yes, this in itself is a new development that could be blogged about...but i won't  ;)  ).  anyway, as we were watching we both saw something quite interesting.  that something interesting was tony leung's nutsack....

  for chinese actors in general, any nudity in film is quite a stretch.  mild simulated sex and a little T&A is typical of the cat III films....but man.  i was totally not expecting the extent to the sex scenes in this movie.  all i can say about it is WOW!!!

  all the sex aside though, i have to say i really liked this movie.  tony leung, tang wei, joan chen.... very solid performances.

   

  
  

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• Blog: Friday, Nov 9

  Saturday, Nov 10, 2007 11:50AM / Standard Entry

  wow...been pretty busy lately.  work is semi-stressful but it's been fun.  not much time for wushu or blogging because of other stuff....good stuff  ;) .  anyways miss the peeps here.  will try to leave some comments when i have time.
  
  

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• Blog: Monday, Oct 29

  Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007 1:25PM / Standard Entry

  been watching lots of movies lately...some not so good, some really good.  memorables recently:

  finishing the game.  had to go see this past friday just to support they guys.  went down to south coast edwards cinema on sunflower and bristol.  such a dive of a movie theather, but what a better place to see a throwback 70's themed movie?  unfortunately  can't say that it's a great movie.  there's funny moments, and moments of brilliance... but there were also lot of slow spots that i was kinda bored...maybe if i wasn't quite so sleepy..  ... good to see elon.  hope his career takes off.  hey, and where was j-to?

  dan in real life.  i have to say i loved this movie.  steve carell is really quite the  actor, and juliet binoche is so pretty, dare i say it, i think she's kinda hot.  i don't usually agree with storylines that involve stealing a bf/gf away from another (ie my best friend's wedding or serendipity (although i did like serendipity too)), but it just seemed so right in this particular story that i couldn't argue with it.  as you watch the movie, 2 questions will come up.  where the hell did that little asian girl come from?, and do families like this actually exist?

  
  

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• Blog: Sunday, Oct 28

  Monday, Oct 29, 2007 12:28AM / Standard Entry

  no danger of fires atm.  just stale smelling smoke and ash everywhere.  bad air quality.  you can feel the smoke in the back of your throat.  news makes it seem like evacuees are being taken care of as best they can.  hope it's true.  they also keep saying how much better this is handled compared to hurricane katrina.... well, it's not really a fair comparison....  affluent white folks that have easier options after a disaster v poor people that had not much else than they walked out with...

  anyway..i need more sleep.  amazing how much energy students drain out of you in the course of a 6 hour day.... otherwise, feeling good in general  :)

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

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