Hello all out there.  Just got a minute to say hey.  I am alive.  Been in Vietnam for the last few months, including TET new year.  The more time I spend in Asia, the more I feel it's the place.  although, I do miss all my bros: Roger, Sung, Justin, Julie and the whole FTG gang!  It's strange to have spent so much time with them last year, and then go for some time without seeing them.  Everyone busy doing their thing, I suppose. I gotta figure out some time to post some pics from Vietnam soon.  But for now take care all. dustinxxx      

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAY 2008 BE FILLED WITH GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOR YOU. DUSTIN       

By the way, to all who have been commenting on these blogs: I can't figure out for the life of me how to respond to your comments.  It doesn't work, or I can't get it to work when I click on reply to these comments.  Even Roger Fan is stumped!  He said it has something to do with the routing operating system.  Don't think I've been ignoring you all!!!  Happy holidays by the way.  Dxx

Been a while since my last entry, but being on the road took it out of me.  So here we are, Julie and I, in Toronto with Reel Asians!! As opposed to ... fake Asians??  The opening night was a fantastic way to close out our "tour" - sold out crowd. And the people in Toronto are such great film lovers!! I remember being here 2 years ago for LITTLE FISH at TIFF, and the reception was awesome.  It was strange being there without the guys, but I gotta say: Julie was awesome, mellow and kept me out of trouble. She even managed to get me to shoot for the cover of ASIAN WAVE magazine on the day I left for the airport!!  We did a hell a lot of walking.  I, of course, searched for the best coffee which led us to Little Italy.  And the expresso (double) hit the spot.  I also have to say our host Heather and Patricia were awesome.  Took us to Vietnamese food, and I was surprised to see so many Vietnamese restaurants!

Julie reconning for my expresso!! in Little Italy.

It had been a great journey on this grass-roots tour.  I, and we collectively, feel that we had connected with the community out there.  And every seat that was filled at all the showings ... we earned it!!  Thank you for all your support and love.


Julie with Heather and Raymond from REEL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

From San Fran we went to Hawaii Film Festival.  Unfortunately, Justin had to leave early due to work for FAST FURIOUS 4.  Roger and I carried on; tough job, but someone had to do it.  To be honest, we were exhausted from San Fran, and was on auto-pilot most of the time.  The cool thing is we met up with the guys from alivenotdead.com.  Daniel, Andrew, Conroy, Jack and company ... cool guys who have been big supporters of GAME.

The alivenotdead crew -- after party.

Superstar Daniel Wu -- love the jacket! What a nice guy.
Roger and I went to speak at McKinney High School where The Rock graduated.  The kids were great, but they must have wonder what was wrong with Roger and I when we carried on about how challenging it is to be Asian-Americans in the media.  95% of the kids was Asians!!!  Our friend Daniel Day Kim did say that if you are an Asian American, Hawaii is the place to live.

Next stop, last night's LA premiere.  Great turn out.  The cast and crew were all there.  It was good seeing everyone on home court.  We were all very touched by the support.  If you know the Nuart Theater, you'd know how hard it is to find parking around there.  Yet, they came.  And they cheered.  Both shows were sold out.  The folks at myspace.com threw us a party at Shag on Highland.  And a good time was had by all, even grumpy old me.  I even got my best friend Vincent to come out!!  The guy never goes anywhere.


Vincent -- in the middle -- camera-shy.

Sung -- thinking "I gotta piss!"

My Angela.