Video here. To be honest, I expected a white man singing this song similar to One Republic and Coldplay. I know I should not have been surprised when I saw a southeast Asian man singing in that style. I couldn’t help it though. He looked like he could…
Many people yesterday wore purple in honor of Spirit Day, in order to raise awareness for the recent teen LGBT suicides. There have been at least nine suicides in the last few weeks, as a result of anti-gay bullying. Various other projects have been started as well, including…
It’s been raining. You might rush out of your apartment, forgetting that key object that’ll keep you dry: an umbrella. But if you’re like me, you don’t even own one. So what happens if you forget to bring it? It’s already too late to go back up to…
U.S. and DREAM Act— Which egg are you?
I was browsing the LA Times’s A&E blog Culture Monster when I saw an article about CalArts (the California Institute of the Arts) recently opening a new building called Wild Beast. The name comes from a Morton Feldman quote: “I am interested in how the wild beast lives in…
I’d heard about Secret Identities–the Asian American superhero anthology–a few times before, but I never got around to reading it until news came out that a second volume is slated for release in 2012 (the details are here). I ordered it on Amazon, read it, and loved it. It’s…