NEW Music Video – Take You Home!

So excited my new music video is here!!!

Click Photo to Link to Video! (wordpress won't let me embed)

Featuring Miss CKC aka Carolyn Castiglia! Directed by Ballard Boyd! Music produced by soce, the elemental wizard! With Gary Mahmoud and David Cope.

Thank you to all the amazing cast and crew – special thanks to The Diamond for a great location and Blood is the New Black for an amazing t-shirt! Styled by Johnny Vendiola.

Stay tuned – the music video will be premiering on Comedy Central soon! In the meantime, you can download “Take You Home” and “Date an Asian” on itunes and Amazon!

Sulu DC is THIS Sat, July 17!!!! Get tickets, my DC Peeps!

It’s the hottest concert of the summer, and it’s happening this weekend in DC!!! See you there, DC fans! I’m hosting this awesome show:

Buy your advance tickets here:
http://www.ticketalternative.com/Events/11528.aspx
http://www.ustreetmusichall.com/

Also, there are group rates! If you buy 5 tickets online, you get 1 free ticket. Just email the organizers directly at suludc@gmail.com, show/send the receipt and they’ll add your free ticket to the comp list. All 5 tickets must be bought ONLINE and by 1 person. Individual purchases cannot be combined with others.

Date an Asian EP Now Availabe on itunes and Amazon!!!

The Date an Asian EP is now available on itunes and Amazon!

Featuring new remixes, karaoke version and new hit single, Take You Home!

Date an Asian EP:

1.  Date an Asian [Explicit]
featuring soce, the elemental wizard

2.  Date an Asian [Clean]
featuring soce, the elemental wizard

3.  Date an Asian [Karaoke]
featuring soce, the elemental wizard

4.  Date an Asian [Hip Hop Remix]
featuring soce, the elemental wizard

5.  Take You Home
featuring Miss CKC

Produced by soce, the elemental wizard
Mastered at Olive Juice Studios

Buy it today!!!

NEW music video, “Take You Home”, coming out soon!

20% off Kollaboration Tickets!

Get your Kollaboration NY tickets before they sell out!  As a finalist, my peeps can get 20% off the ticket price for the event at http://kollabny.eventbrite.com.  Discount Code:  KNY5_2010. And don’t forget to put my name as the referral!

Kollaboration NY
Sat, June 26 at 7pm
Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th Street
$25 tix ($20 with discount code KNY5_2010)

Special guests NINJASONIK and Kevin Shea!

This year’s finalists/performers are:

• ALFA (Guitar)
• BRIAN HONG (Guitar)
• CATE SONG (Piano)
• EUGENIA LEIGH (Spoken Word)
• JEN KWOK (Ukulele/Comedy)
• MEGHNA PRASAD (Guitar)
• PAPERDOLL (Band)
• PART-TIME MODELS (Dance)
• RHYTHMOLOGY (Dance) //
• SHENG WANG (Comedy)

Date an Asian is now on Atom.com!

Hey guys, check it: DAA is back on Atom.com and competing in their Tournament.

Click to watch the heck out of it (stupid WordPress does not allow embedding):
Date An Asian

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OK, I Like the New Doctor Who

FINE! FINE! I like it, ok?!

We’re 3, 4 episodes into the new season of Doctor Who in the US, and it’s really grown on me!   Kooky Matt Smith (The Doctor) and cute/hot Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) are two of the most watchable people I’ve ever had the pleasure of traipsing through time with – and they really have great chemistry!

I’m not digging the new opening credits as much (or the new logo), but these two combined make up for David Tennant leaving.  Plus, there hasn’t been a dud of a story yet – London traveling through space on the back of a Star Whale, fighting Daleks w/ Churchill, vampire/fish aliens in 16th century Venice and Weeping Angels in space!!!!  I can’t wait to see what’s next – more snogging, I hope!

TV Shows I Miss

Ok, it’s no secret I love my TV shows. Here are the ones I miss the most – each in their own way:

Ugly Betty:  The Show  I’ll Miss Forever

I miss this show with all my might. We can be glad it left after a good short run, but that means it not being anywhere but in the past. *sigh*

Yes, it was sagging in the ratings and relegated to the Friday night Arctic ice floe time slot, but it was still effing good!!! Full disclosure: I cried during the second-to-last episode when Hilda got married and Justin came out. (Like a baby.) A month after it’s left the airwaves, I am still missing UB: Missing the fiercest bitch on TV in years (Vanessa Williams), missing the dramedy mixed with high fashion, and missing all the brightbright personalities. Plus, once a week, this show helped me say “hi” and gently stroke the ugly duckling complex that has followed me all through life. I related to this schizz.

And it was the wellspring of one of my favorite characters in TV history: MarkandAmanda. No, not Mamanda or Ark – MarkandAmanda. Together forever – but always individuals. If anyone should deserve a spinoff, it’s these two! It’d be like “Joey” + “Will and Grace”.   C’mon, ABC!!!!  And I’m happy to say that Ugly Betty was one of the few shows that I actually enjoyed doing background on – freezing to death on a rooftop wearing D&G for 12 hours is probably the closest I’ll ever understand what it’s like to have hate sex.

Mad Men/Caprica:  The Shows I’ll Miss…Until They Come Back!

Is there anything worse than your favorite shows being on weird mid-season schedules/hiatus?!

OK, there are worse things.  But I sure do miss these ladies…. Va. VA….

Gossip Girl:  The Show I Miss Even Though It’s Still On TV Because It Is Totally Unwatchable

This show was dead to me as soon as I heard “college”.  And then it became a zombie when I heard “threesome”.  And then it became dead zombie when I heard “Will Baldwin”.

Glee:  The Show I Just Completely Missed the Boat On!

WTF is the appeal of this show?  OK, I know what ALL the appeal is.   Great music, great stories, great performances!  I should LOVE this show:  I’m a music nut, was an outcast in school, and am a huge Ryan Murphy fan (I even worked with him on a movie recently).  I think all the actors are PHENOMENAL, from the kooky-adorable Jayma Mays to the hysterical Jane Lynch to the Broadway hottie Matthew Morrison!  I even DVRed the pilot when it premiered with American Idol a year ago to fast track this show into my veins!  SO WHY CAN’T I LIKE IT?!  Trust me, I’ve tried.   Alas, it’s like my dad and the Internet.  I want to get it, but I just can’t. I am the only person I know who doesn’t like this show, which is a sad and lonely feeling.

Star Trek:  The Next Generation:  The Show I Miss But Don’t Have To!

I loved this show growing up, and now, thanks to both Sci-Fi and BBC America (huh?!) I can still miss it while watching it.  Love that creepy Riker smile!

Look, we even had the same photo taken in the mid-90s!!!:

Look at us!  Virtually twins posing in front of “Blue Dappled Acid Wash Background #2″!  And I still bask in the knowledge that my childhood best friend’s mom’s ex-husband’s cousin is Brent Spiner (and fewer than six degrees – hot damn!).

Sex and the City:  The Show I Wish I Could Miss But Can’t Because It Won’t Fucking Stop With the Movies!!!!

STOP IT!!!!  Just STOP IT!  I have ex-boyfriends that stay outta my life better than you…ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Was Mr. Miyagi the Ultimate Enabler?!

My friend and fellow comedian, Leslie Goshko, recently posted a facebook  link to this blog post:  “How ‘The Karate Kid’ Ruined The Modern World” by the excellent David Wong (who is apparently a white dude named Jason).

Yes, his theory is that this movie might have caused all that ails us:

Wax on, wax off is our lead poisoning?

I don’t know that this 80s flick totally fucked up a generation (ok, maybe it did), but I do think it exemplifies the “You can do it!” attitude that has hit a high and manifested itself in today’s entertainment industry, where any schmo can “I think I can” his/her way to fame on YouTube and reality shows.

Andy Warhol was a cultural Nostradamus.  Fame can be achieved more easily than in the past.  Even hits can be achieved more easily (hello, parodies!).

EVERYONE can fucking do it.  EVERYONE is special.  Yes, we get it.   Only we’re not buying the purple dinosaur definition of “special”.  We don’t want to be snowflakes.  We expect to be stars.  And that expectation is damning, because snowflakes form relatively quick compared to the billions of years it takes for a star to take shape.

David Wong is totally right about the “Effort Shock” that people experience as they set towards a goal.  You usually don’t know how much work goes into something until you’ve worked until you think you can’t anymore – and then realize that you are only 25% of the way there.  When the work ends up being much harder and much more than initially bargained for, we freak out by blaming the system, hating ourselves or becoming delusional about our own abilities.

That’s why we love watching shows like “Dancing with the Stars”.  These people have no talent or skill in a certain area (especially Kate Goslin), and then show off a network-worthy performance – one that comes together after hours/days of hard work.  And yet all the sweat, injury and frustration is edited into a 2-minute montage -  shorter than the length of the final result.   Just like our boy Ralph Macchio.

And just like Jaden Smith this summer (with Jackie Chan as Pied Piper):

We can do it!  Until we realize we  can’t.  Except for a rare few who can.  Not everyone can get over Effort Shock, which makes it special – possibly even more special than the initial goal in mind.

The Tree! The Tree! That Tree!

This will change your life.  I watched this on my TV (not a tiny YouTube player or cell phone) and it.  Was.  Amazing.  Snoop Dogg and Kid Cudi singing “That Tree”!  Some music videos just look better on a big screen.

Yo Gabba Gabba for adults (/potheads)!

YouTube Videos That Have REALLY Rocked My World Recently.

So being in a foreign country with somewhat/sometime Internet access on a netbook has allowed me to truly appreciate the power of having YouTube/music/media/video extravaganzas at my fingertips.

Here are the videos that have just rocked my GD world in the last week or so I’ve been back:

5.  Taiwanese kid BELTING Whitney/Dolly’s “I Will Always Love You.”  With the chubs and bowl cut like WHOAH, Lin Yu is the next Susan Boyle:

4.  Solange Knowles covers hipster band Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness is the Move” and makes it 20x better (I loved the SONG, but could never watch the original video for it’s beyond necessary awkwardness – although I loved the llamas).  Solange’s version is HAAAAWT!!!  Dig the classic sample in the back too:

3.  Das Racist’s “Rainbow in the Dark” combines all my favorite things:  Rainbows (refracted light), Rainbow (the store), Indian guys, a shower and TIGHTass rhymes (talkin’ Camembert!).  Plus, I think it was filmed around the corner from my house.  Uh, can Das Racist pleeeease be my fake Internet boyfriend?

2.  Patrick Jean’s “Pixels”.  Um…just watch it.

1.  tUnE-yArDs’ “Real Live Flesh”.  This is the “acoustic” version.  This woman is AMAZING (and plays the uke!).   Plus, there are a lot of random foot fetish shots throughout all her videos…hmmmm. I want to fall in love with her and have an Internet group marriage with her and Das Racist.  If you want to know what talent is, just watch this chick in action.  Fuck it, I’m already in love:

There they are – the coolest vids I discovered this week!  Enjoy!