AROUND THE HORN: The Re-Watch Edition

  • April 17, 2012 7:32 pm

My wife would say… “How many times can you rewatch that movie?” I guess I’m like a little kid who wants to reread an old bedtime story. Mine would be The Shawshank Redemption. It’s cathartic to my soul. Next would be Die Hard. Just for the sheer amount of one liners that is sooooo fun to listen and say… almost like a sing a long… but now it’s a swear a long. What’s your rewatchable movie?

DHH: For me, it’s The Godfather. I’m thinking about Part I, though Part II would qualify as well. (I didn’t even hate Part III, though I don’t have a strong impulse to watch it again.) Epic storytelling, family drama, unbeatable acting, social and historical commentary, all in a pulp fiction wrapper — what’s not to like? And since I’m a theatre person, I feel compelled to add my rewatchable musical as well: that would be Gypsy. Every time that show is revived, I rush to see the new production, which always leaves me an emotional mess. Even this strip tease, featuring Laura Benati as “Louise” from the 2008 Broadway production starring Patti LuPone, gets me all choked up.  Read more...

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Car Tal…I mean “Car Discussion 3″ w/Sung Kang aka Han from “Fast & Furious”

  • February 2, 2012 8:20 am

What’s up good people of the World?  Happy we can share with you all the 3rd installment of Car Tal…I mean Car Discussion (plus the revamp of Car Talk Car Discussion Episode 2 with my good friend Tyrese). We got some flack from Car Talk so we had to change the title from Car Talk to Car Discussion.  The Car Talk from NPR sent lawyers after us saying Car Talk is the title of their show and legally we can’t call our show Car Talk, because Car Talk has been around longer than our Car Talk.  So we needed to change our Car Talk to another name that doesn’t sound like their show Car Talk.  So we decided to change our show from Car Talk to Car Discussion.  Hopefully now Car Talk will not be upset at our Car Talk, I mean Car Discussion.  It’s all very confusing so hopefully Car Talk 3, I mean Car Discussion will clarify everything.

Car Talk Discussion 2 (w/Special Guest Tyrese):

Car Talk Discussion 3:

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YOMYOMF Podcast: On the Offensive – The Itch Edition

  • January 10, 2012 3:00 pm

If you’ve been following YOMYOMF over the holidays, you may have read about some of our members’ moment in the spotlight of the fantasy sports universe via an ESPN/Grantland Bill Simmons column. Well, if you’re interested in following our soap opera of a fantasy league (declared by Simmons as “the greatest fantasy league EVER” – his words, not mine), we’ve got a bit of a follow-up.

Several of our basketball-crazed Offenders and extended members of the Family gathered together last week to present the second official podcast of the YOMYOMF network, which we’ve come to name “On the Offensive,” with this version aptly being the sports edition, or what we like to call, “The Itch.”  Read more...

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Around the Horn: Teachers You Respect

  • December 12, 2011 10:47 pm

IN THE DAY:

I was never studious in my youth.

I never knew how to motivate myself to do my homework.

I hated to be in school.

But I do know this… in my senior year, on the brink of not graduating my advanced English class, which I was mistakenly placed in… my teacher got me through my final paper and passed me with a ”B”.

Only in my fleeting moment of hope with “Mrs. Wong”, that I find that teachers do make a difference in ones life… especially me.

PRESENT DAY:

My wife is a teacher and I respect her profession dearly.  She works hard after school to correct homework and makes lesson plans for the next day.  She’s been teaching Biology for over a decade and receives an o.k. salary.  Read more...

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The Truth About Asians: The Aging Edition

  • September 27, 2011 5:58 pm

Just recently I’ve been looking through old family photos and it’s SHOCKING to see my aunties back in the 70s looking… O.K. I’ll say it “HOT”.  Now, stop what you’re thinking and lets not go there… I’m just saying back then they were like any other gals in their teens and early 20s… they were fashionable and pretty.  A week ago I had a family reunion and now my aunts are looking more like aunties.  They are wonderful people that now look like they play mahjong and cook amazing food in the kitchen, like a sitcom, my mind dissolves into what is now to what is then.

Thank you Sheri and Justin for sharing

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Knock it off!

  • August 4, 2011 10:27 pm

I looooove jokes… even Chinese jokes (yes, I’m Chinese).  Russell Peter’s Chinese store compromise.  Anjelah Johnson’s Vietnamese nails salon.  But recently, Conan O’Brian’s recent monologue was awesome… and here it is… and remember to laugh!

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Memories of Comic-Con

  • July 26, 2011 1:47 am

I have gone to the San Diego Comic-Con for the past 18 years and I loved every moment of it, except for the crowds!  I am a true comic book nerd and have been collecting comics and graphic novels since I was 9 years old.  You can try and do the math to see how old I am.

It’s still crazy here at the con and the con-goers are just as crazy and as my fellow offender Jerome has covered the part about cosplay just recently, you’ve seen how committed these con-goers are about being very involved in this world.  Maybe one day I’ll do the same.  Read more...

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Everyone Prematurely Ejaculates

  • May 31, 2011 12:01 am

Priligy, the new premature ejaculation pill, was released earlier this month in Singapore and has completely sold out. Perhaps not surprising when you consider that premature ejaculation has become the most common male sex health problem globally and one in three men in Singapore is said to suffer from it.

Now, I just have one thing to say on this subject: Why do people automatically think premature ejaculation is a bad thing?

‘Cause ladies, if you’re with a man and he shoots his load prematurely, it means that you are so incredibly sexy and beautiful that he just can’t help but explode. How is that bad? You should feel flattered that he jizzes faster than Carl Lewis ran the 100m. So what if it means you’ll be left “unsatisfied?” Let’s be honest, even if your man goes the distance, it’s highly unlikely you’ll be satisfied anyway. You’re just going to pull out that Hello Kitty vibrator from under your bed the moment he goes to the bathroom or falls asleep and finish “properly.”  Read more...

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How Fast is “Fast”?

  • April 24, 2011 11:57 pm

Working in the film business is a privilege.  When you desire to use your creative talents to make a movie and you want to get through those security gates to do it… it’s TOUGH no matter how much talent you got.  I was fortunate for sure (another story).  My latest privileged project I got to work on was FAST FIVE (coming this weekend on the 29th… see it!  Plug!)

Talk about fast… I started this movie almost exactly a year ago… did you hear me… ONE YEAR AGO!  From preproduction to placing the subtitles.  ”Fast and Furious” took a year and a half… I guess that was a luxury.

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If I had all the money in the world, I’d remake STAR TREK with TOSHIRO MIFUNE

  • January 15, 2011 1:24 am

After the original Star Trek TV series went off the air in 1969, the show went into syndicated reruns and became the type of hit it never was during its initial run. So Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the franchise, was keen on reviving Star Trek in some form and eventually did so with 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture directed by Robert Wise, best known for helming The Sound of Music.

But during the mid-‘70s, other ideas for reviving Star Trek were thrown around including a proposed second TV series as well as alternate film pitches. And if The Right Stuff director Philip Kaufman had been allowed to make his Star Trek movie, it would have starred legendary Japanese badass Toshiro Mifune (Rashomon) as the film’s Klingon nemesis.

Kaufman confirmed in a recent interview that he was indeed working on a Star Trek script (that never got made) and here’s what he said it would have been about:

My version was really built around Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Toshiro Mifune as his Klingon nemesis… My idea was to make it less “cult-ish”, and more of an adult movie, dealing with sexuality and wonders rather than oddness; a big science fiction movie, filled with all kinds of questions, particularly about the nature of Spock’s [duality]-exploring his humanity and what humanness was. To have Spock and Mifune’s character tripping out in outer space. I’m sure the fans would have been upset, but I felt it could really open up a new type of science fiction.  Read more...

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Humanity is not lost

  • October 20, 2010 2:41 pm

Remember this test… If you found a bag of money, what would you do?  a)  Keep it,  b) Turn it into lost and found,  c)  Leave it at the same place found.

Well, I had the privilege to give someone that opportunity.  I lost my wallet this Saturday in a mall… I noticed it gone twenty minutes ago and rushed back to the mall… what da ya know… GONE!  Gone baby gone!

I canceled all my cards, but I have to deal with the DMV, insurance, medical and all that crap.  Crap, crap, crap!  Read more...

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Snacks Asian Style

  • September 23, 2010 12:00 am

What do you consider a snack?

Fruits?  Chips?  Candy bar?

How about mustard covered peas?  Spicy ginger?  Dried clams?

I was recently back to Hawai’i for my grandmother’s funeral (another story) and needed to bring back some goods for my friends, you know… macadamia nuts, guava cookies and stuff.  But when I was a kid that stuff kinda sucked.

My favorites…

Haw flakes – Fruit of the Chinese hawthorne

Li Hing Mui – Salted dried plum

Arare – Rice crackers with soy sauce (da best)

So weird that these snacks are normal for me and I would eat them in public.  So the next time you see someone (like me) on the streets eating dried clams… don’t be grossed out… ask to try one and see!  Read more...

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