shanghai'd

Ah, I haven't been very good about keeping up with my blog the last couple weeks.  I don't even know where to begin.  I'll get back on here hopefully soon and barf out what's been going on, but all I know is that I'm now in Shanghai (again) and want to know who can get me tix to Kanye for this Monday?!?  

Thanks everyone for the b-day wishes!  I reallyappreciate it!

humdinger

I am homesick. 

There, I said it.

But hey, if I wasn't, I wouldn't be human right?  It's all part of life.  You take the good with the bad.  Laugh, cry, happy, sad.  I've been on the road for just about a month now and today I found myself making my way back to Beijing, where I started this crazy adventure weeks ago.  In fact, I checked into the exact same spot I stayed when I first got to China.  I was supposed to be in Taiwan this week, but that will have to wait.  As does Singapore.

So, I decided to take ...Read more

back to beijing?

Wow, things just got really interesting...I was given an offer to play a part in a play in Beijing.  I didn't see this coming!  Well, I know that on my last night in Beijing a couple weeks ago, I went to meet the director of the play and auditioned for him.  It was really difficult as I don't speak perfect Mandarin.  This he knew.  But as it turned out, they are doing a Chinese adaptation of an off-Broadway hit called "Love Letters" that was seeking a guy who wasn't a China Chinese native.  I went in for the read, but I...Read more

i hate hong kong

Okay, I'm just kidding.

Actually, I love it.  It's just the hanging out till 6am part that kills me. 

Last night, I didn't even know, but I dropped my wallet on the street coming out of a cab.  My friend Grace gets a random phone call from someone saying he'd just found it and dialed her number as it was the only HK number in my wallet.  We weren't far from each other since he immediately found it after I hopped out.  I coulda kissed the man!!!  Thank the heavens I had her number randomly in my wallet wr...Read more

hong konged

Here and happy in Hong Kong - despite the rain.  The last couple weeks in China have been a blur, a good one.  I am still absorbing everything and processing it and need to straighten my thoughts out, perhaps in blog form soon.  I barely had any downtown in Beijing and then spent 2 quick days in Shanghai running around for meetings before jumping down to what I think is the only city in the world that has an escalator in the middle of it to help people get to and from.  Hilarious, the concept.

More business to take care of here next week,...Read more

beijing brian?

Well, I've been here in Beijing for a week now and it's been non-stop.  I guess this is what I asked for!  I've been to Beijing once before but it was part of a family trip and we did one of those tour things so I've never truly absorbed the city until now.  Man, I had no idea China's capital was this BIG.  Shanghai truly is New York while Beijing is LA.  A massive sprawl of land, spread out, such that people live in rings.  I now know that if I need to go to Ring-6, I may as well be taking a plane.  I've hit the ground...Read more

Beijing Bling

I've made it to Beijing for the start of my 6 week trip throughout Asia.  I still don't know what it will bring, but I've already started forming some meetings, so we'll see!  Gonna attempt to blog regularly from the road here...for some reason, before I started this excursion, I'd been feeling like were I actually to make the jump over to Asia, Beijing is where it would be at.  They call this city the Hollywood of Asia now and so, with that in mind, I've kinda been preparing for this to be the place where the most actio...Read more

bad blogger, bad!

Man, I've neglected my bloggin' lately.  Many reasons, but really most of it is just due to being busy - but all in a good way.  It's been one hell of a fun summer here in NYC and as it draws to a close, I have so so much to look forward to this Fall.  I can't wait!

First, next week, I'm shooting a short called Yes, Yesterday that is an homage to the films of Hou Hsiao Hsien and Wong Kar Wai - 2 geniuses in the cinema game.  I've been prepping for this role like nothing I've ever done, even if it is a sh...Read more

full circle...sort of

It's been one kind of busy summer!  After getting back from LA a couple weeks ago where we wrapped Quentin Lee's latest project, The People I've Slept With, it's been back to the New York grind.  Can't complain though.  It's been a fun summer to be sure.  There's no place like NYC in the summer time.

First, a little on PEOPLE...I had the pleasure of serving as an executive producer on it (I also had a small role in it) and from my van...Read more

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