公告
- "the older I get, the less I know..."
我的BLOG
-
My Animal Friends of Canada...
2007-11-07 5:16PM / 標準BLOG
Ahhhh yes...Vancouver, Canada. Truly an amazing place it is. A place where nature and humans coexist in peace and harmony. A place where man and animal live as one. A place where interspecie encounters have the potential to blossom into life-long friendships. Such nature bonding is virtually impossible in the United States. So I took full advantage of my time in Vancouver to introduce myself and get to know the many wonderful creatures who call Canada their home. These are my pictures. This is my story...
While on the Capilano Suspension Bridge, I saw, for the first time in my life, a bald eagle in majestic flight. To my surprise, the eagle landed and perched itself upon my arm, for it was the first time it had encountered an Asian person. Though I spoke only english and the bird could only squak, we were somehow able to communicate and made quick friends.
Mr. Deer was in a somewhat surly mood. While exploring Grouse Mountain, I wanted to take my first photo with a Canadian black tail deer. His response was to point his ass at me and piss out his entire bladder. It was not nice.
3 hungry, baby Canadian wolves. Only 2 nipples. 1 wolf would have to go without...
The Canadian Grizzly is known to have a foul temperament and a penchant for disemboweling unsuspecting humans. As a sign of respect, I picked out the belly lint from her rather large and hairy navel. This Canadian Grizzly turned out to be a rather fine lady who invited me to spend the day with her in a freezing stream to catch spawning salmon with our teeth. I had a wonderful time. I believe that the Canadian Grizzly is a misunderstood creature.
Spend life in tank. Then get boiled to death. The life of a Canadian lobster sucks crap.
The guy on the right is Vancouver's most famous sushi chef. He supposedly invented the California Roll. That would be fellow filmmaker, Quentin Lee, second from the left trying to hide from my camera. He too is a wonderful Canadian animal friend of mine.
-
Oh Canada, Oh Canada, oh how I love thee!
2007-11-01 3:29PM / 標準BLOG
Well, technically, the FINISHING THE GAME Grassroots Tour is over. However, not all good things have to come to an end. Much like in Empire Strikes Back where Luke and R2D2 detour from the Ice Planet of Hoth to Degobah to search out Yoda, Justin and I venture to Vancouver, BC tomorrow morning to search for moose, goose, dry, and a film festival.
As foreigners, Justin and I hope to encounter and befriend one of these 4 legged, Candaian locals.
I have great admiration for Canada. In many ways, I find it a nation that possesses all the great things of Americana without all the smelly bad things like the current leader of our country, GWB. Just returning from Hawaii, however, I realize that we are in for a serious temperature shock. Hawaii was about 85 degrees and humid. I just checked weather.com and realized that 40 degrees and rainy will be the climate while we are north of the border. Personally, I prefer warm weather to cold. However, if I had to choose a way to die, I would probably prefer to freeze to death than to burn to a crisp.
Whether male or female, The Canadian Goose looks exactly the same. This is a scientifically proven fact. How such a physical trait is an evolutionary benefit is beyond me.
One great thing from the past year of Grass Roots traveling is that I have learned to pack really, really light. Tomorrow I will exercise my travel knowledge by only packing 1 small backpack for a 4 night stay. I will bring 2 shirts, 3 underwear, 2 socks, 1 toothbrush, and just wear the rest on the plane. My hope is that it does not get hot. I am relying on zero sweat to avoid that dank smell of skin and body that we all know too well but refuse to speak of. Tomorrow, we got North! : )
For those of you who love to drink Canada Dry, this is what the stuff looks like under a black light. Water is not supposed to look like that.
-
Boy Band Inspiration... Thank you Heavenly Kings!
2007-10-28 4:31PM / 標準BLOG
One of the great things about Hawaii was I was able to see "The Heavenly Kings" for my first time. Outside of the fact that I laughed my balls off, the film served as an inspiration to pursue my lifelong dream to become part of a boy band. The following two pictures will be our lead album covers. The only thing left to do is to learn how to sing...which will be a serious problem since all of us are rather tone deaf.
Here's a fine pic of Dustin and I looking cool in a parking garage. I also think we look like humanoid insects.
I understand that the sexy quotient isn't too high in this photo. But just imagine us in white sequin vests and gold, buttless chaps...that would most certainly be hot...or make you vomit.
-
Exotic Island Love - FTG meets AnD in the Pacific Isle of Aloha
2007-10-28 5:22AM / 標準BLOG
Ahhh yes...Hawaii. Aloha Oye! The sheer thought of our nation's 50th state conjures up dreams of palm trees, warm, crystal blue waters, tan island girls in grass skirts and coconut brassiers, strapping island lads bursting out of their mesh loin cloths, and a whole bunch of other exotic island images that only seem to exist in Costco travel brochures. Justin, Dustin, & I left SF last Sunday to take part in the Hawaii International Film Festival and to take on Team Alive Not Dead in a drinking contest to end all drinking contests. The pictures below are just a few snapshots of our trip to Hawaii. Please take not of the myriad of handsome young asian chaps. And though I am smiling in quite a few of the pics, please do not be misled by my grins of aloha. HIFF had me on such a crazy speaking schedule that I did not even have time to touch the island waters. How dorky is that? The film festival might as well have been in Iowa. OK, enough spirit dark barf. Please enjoy! Mahalo my fellow fellows.
Though I did not even get to touch the waters of Hawaii, I did manage to take a photo in the men's restroom at Louis Vuitton. It was nice. The toilet seat even had an LV on it. I now have an LV imprint on my ass.
Me, Andrew, Conroy, Daniel, Patrick, & Dustin. None of us are wearing underwear...a true sign of island life and aloha
Patrick & Stephen chartered a catamaran for a fine day of aquatic exploration and sea creature watching. I was unable to attend because of my 101 speaking engagements scheduled by HIFF.
Better Luck being Lost on 21 Jumpstreet Aloha
Dustin & I speaking at McKinley High. We both feel like a floral Mr. T
-
San Francisco MADNESS! - Genetic Grapes of Awe! Grassroots Day 25ish
2007-10-21 7:51AM / 標準BLOG
Justin Lin wants to show you the largest, crispiest grape in the universe. Please, take a bite...
Well, the FINISHING THE GAME grassroots tour continues on. From D.C. to NYC to SD...we are now in SF and we are prepping ourselves for our SF/BERKLEY opening of FTG on Oct 19th. Today Justin, Sung, Dustin and I spent the entire day doing TV and press interviews. How a Taiwanese, Korean, Vietnamese, & Chinese guy tried valiantly for 8 hours to communicate to native, "Asian Language Speaking Only" newspaper reporters on the deeper meaning of Bruce Lee and his philosophies was beyond me. Thank God Sung has the God-Given talent of mime...a secret that very few know about, but a talent that proved effective in our communcation pinch.
This is where Sung unveiled to the world his great mime powers. Through bodily expression and physical gesticulations, we were able to communicate with the foreign press corp. Please note the huge grape in Dustin's hand
But the big find of the day was the basket of rather larger than average grapes in the interview room. Now I am a huge grape lover so seeing a vine of grapes really isn't a novel site. However, the site of these grapes really set a new standard. They were like oblong, baby green apples. They were huge! About 3 inches in length and about 1 1/2 inches wide. How about dem apples! But as impressive as they were visually, the flavor and texture of these grapes were even more impressive. These grapes were just bad ass. Crispy, super sweet, and gigantic. My only concern is that these grapes were genetically altered...perhaps injected with some sort of herbal steroid to increase it's ingesting performance. Oh well, I suppose we will never know. All I can say is that Justin, Dustin, Sung, and I spent the entire press day eating these delightful fruits while watching Sung popping and locking the life of Bruce Lee to reporters. Can't wait till we open FTG in SF and Berkeley!
There is an internet rumor that I have only 2 shirts in my entire wardrobe. This picture proves that I have 3. That would be the amazing Viva in between the Vietnamese and Chinese dudes.
