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• I'm a writer!

  2007-09-29 3:30AM / 標準BLOG

  Check this out guys! I wrote an article for eHow.com and it's on the front page!  I'm FlufferNutter, and I wrote "How to Find Online Shopping Deals" hehe. Okay, fine, so my friend works for eHow and I probably wouldn't have gotten on the homepage without her help. Still, just amuse me as I bask in my 3 days of glory. Also check out my friend's article, "How to Pull an All-Nighter" (on the homepage today), and my other friend's article "How to Change Water in a Fish Tank" (on the homepage tomorrow). We're famous! =)

  
  

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• N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk

  2007-08-07 2:43PM / 標準BLOG

  So I was going to write about this over a week ago, but never got around to it. I've been doing this sorta "internship" on the side where I'm going to learn how to write scrīpt coverages and for now, they're just sending me scrīpts and having me write notes on them. I had already put that assignment off for a week too, so I wanted to finish that first and foremost. I spent the last few hours before I went to sleep trying to perfect it as if I were a procrastinating college student pulling a paper out of my ass at the last minute. I seriously thought it sucked but I didn't want to put it off any longer to prevent looking like I wasn't interested in learning. So I proofread it over and over again and finally sent it in. Well, this morning, sitting in my inbox, was the creative executive's response to my notes and surprisingly, he loved it! Here's a little snippet of the e-mail:
  
  Awesome.  Enjoyed reading your notes.  Don't worry about organization too much yet.  I was a lot harsher on the scrīpt than you were, but thats o.k.  More readers have agreed with you and that is why it was one of the finalist scrīpts.
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  Hope that this was helpful, and I look forward to sending more scrīpts your way to read and write notes for.
  
  I was SO happy, I was in such a good mood after I read that. I guess maybe this entertainment "career" WILL go somewhere after all. =)
  
  Speaking of which, I saw Tony Parker and Eva Longoria today! I was only able to catch a glimpse of them. Too bad, because I wanted to see how pretty Eva is in person. However, I DID see how sparkly her ring is hahaha. It totally caught all the light, I was almost stopped like a deer in headlights. I told the bf about how I saw them and he's like, "Would you have recognized Tony Parker if Eva Longoria weren't with him?" And I said, "Hmm...I think so, I mean he's tall, so he'd stand out." To which he replied, "He's not THAT tall, is he?" Geez, I'm sorrrr-ry, we're not all vertically blessed like you are. Well, Tony Parker is actually the same height as he is (6'3") and it's funny because when I saw him, I thought to myself...he's not even that tall! I must be used to the height. I actually thought he was more along the lines of 5'11".
  
  That also reminds me, I heard on the radio today that they're thinking of putting "shorty" in the dictionary. Actually, to be precise, I think they want to put "shawty" in the dictionary. Umm...I don't know if it's true, but I sure hope they meant Urban Dictionary and not Webster's.
  
  Anyway, I digress...I know, more than once. As I was saying...so once, when I went clubbing, I passed by this tiny little theater (Ivar Theater) that was presenting a show called N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk and of course, I was intrigued by the title. I'm always interested in ethnic/cultural, not-so-mainstream type shows (like The Wiz -- actually, maybe that is considered mainstream because the original play was on Broadway and the film adaptation featured many famous people...hmm, whatever) and this sounded like one. Also, my friend told me that she had seen it before when it first originated at UCLA (the performers are all UCLA alums, I believe) and thought it was hilarious.
  
  Quoted from the website:
  Blending theater, hip-hop, stand-up comedy, slam poetry, and true-life stories with their own original style, three tour-de-force performers take on racial slurs, stereotypes, and the concept of race itself in this 95-minute stage production.
  
  So I decided to drag the bf to go see it with me, since I figured, who else would enjoy racist jokes more so than he would? Well, at first I had asked my brother when he was in town, but he thought that --and I quote-- "It looks dumb." As a result, I wasn't sure if the bf would have the same lack of enthusiasm, but he knew better than to turn me down. When we came out of the theater, he remarked that it was one of the funniest things he had seen in a while. I could tell because at some points I thought he was crying from laughing so hard, especially at the part when they talked about Asians/Chinese people (I can't remember which) having flat faces and wide noses...yes, that is because it refers to me. The performers were somehow able to use the humor in stereotypes and racism to defy judgments and assumptions commonly made against different minorities. Bottom line is, it was funny and they ended it with a good message. If you get a chance check it out, I highly recommend it. It's left LA already but I think it's touring around other parts of the US.
  
  
  

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• Stevie Wonder!

  2007-08-03 4:23PM / 標準BLOG

  I got to listen to Stevie Wonder live today (well, today being Thursday afternoon since it appears that the blogs post with HK time)! He came by our company for a press conference announcing his tour this year and performed a few songs in the courtyard behind the building for us. Sadly, I didn't have a camera with me, so no pics (I should really start bringing my camera to work). However, he is AMAZING (as if you didn't know). At first I wasn't that excited for him because let's face it, he is before my time. I mean, I didn't start listening to music until I was in 5th or 6th grade and even so, I didn't listen to too much. Mostly mainstream because I just listened to the radio. I wish I was more into music but I'm just not. I like music and I appreciate it, but I'm not that knowledgeable about the history of artists and genres and I don't get all into the underground or indie stuff. I'm not that musically open-minded either. I basically like anything mainstream with a good beat or pleasant vocals.
  
  But as I stood there in the sweltering heat with the rest of my more musically inclined co-workers, I realized that Stevie Wonder sang a lot of classics that I hear all the time...in movies, commercials, heck, even reality shows (i.e. Don't Forget the Lyrics). His songs are so upbeat and happy and soothing, I couldn't help but enjoy myself and sway along to the beat, even though I felt like I was melting in my head-to-toe black work clothes (Unfortunately, I didn't know Stevie Wonder was performing until I got to work; I didn't even put sunblock on my face!). That, and the fact that he has a beautiful voice and is wonderful on the piano made me appreciate his music much more. I actually think John Legend sounds a bit like Stevie Wonder, so naturally, Stevie Wonder is a "Wonder"-ful artist in my book (I'm sure everyone else already knew this, ha!).
  
  So this got me thinking...music a couple decades ago had substance. Singers had melodious voices and they didn't have to be hot, sexy, or a good dancer in order to earn skyrocketing album sales. Their songs/lyrics actually made sense! At least most of the time, I think. None of this "A Bay Bay"/"Crank Dat Soulja Boy" nonsense. If Stevie Wonder is one of many who exemplify classic musical artists from our parents' generation, who would be the ones to step up to this honorable status in this day and age? Britney Spears? Justin Timberlake? Or worse yet, *gasp* Paris Hilton?? Highly unlikely, I hope. And would bubblegum pop and rap music become "classic tunes" for generations to come? Kind of weird to envision that for the future. Just not comparable to the likes of Prince, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Beatles, Bee Gees, U2, The Police and...I dunno what else, I'm not much of an '80s girl. My point is, seems like music is more superficial now. The real good stuff, isn't necessarily mainstream and is not all that popular in that chart-topping kind of way. I just think it's unfortunate that it has to be that way.
  
  

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