Please Come to Jalopy on Feb 6!

Hey lovers and fighters and Saturday-nighters!

So the comedy loves of my lives, Tinkerbel Tompsin and Juliet Jeske, are teaming up with me on this great show in Brooklyn nextnext Saturday, February 6 at 9pm:

Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9pm
Jen Kwok, Tinkerbel Tompsin and Juliet Jeske
Jalopy
315 Columbia Street
Red Hook, BrooklynF train to Carroll St (more detailed directions)
*SUBWAY NOTE: the G Train normally goes there, but it is not running at ALL on weekends in Feb. There is a free shuttle bus thing-y, though*
$10

As some of you may know, Jalopy is really quite possibly my favorite music venue in New York – and definitely in Brooklyn (I could never do Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola like that!).

What I’m saying is that the venue is fucking awesome and worth the trip (it’s a music school with ukuleles hanging on the wall, to boot!), but these are also two of my very best performer friends that were with me from the very beginning of my creative journey – when I surgically remove myself from life as an accountant at Ernst & Young and decided to give improv a try at UCB.

It will be an evening of beautiful (funny) songs, hilarious stories, sick shit and a little bit of sex (we can’t help it)! Between the three of us, we ladies play five different instruments, have at least 3 yards of leg and boast maybe 42 broken relationships. It will be awesome!!!

I’ll be doing a full length set with my band, The Ridiculously Good Lookings, comprised of: Marco Buccelli (drums), Matt Buttermann (guitar) and Charles HehasalastnamebutIcantthinkofitrightnow (bass). Tinkerbel Tompsin opens with her truly luscious/sultry/offbeat Southern Gothic cabaret and Juliet Jeske hosts between sets with drunken musings of a sober woman who is so good at performing that being a clown is her day job.

CONCLUSION: COME HAVE FUN WITH JEN KWOK, TINKERBEL TOMPSIN AND JULIET JESKE ON FEB 6 at JALOPY IN RED HOOK, BROOKLYN.

Thanks in advance for coming!!!

PS You can get amaaaaazing Mexican food beforehand at the brick-and-mortar outpost of the FUCKING DELICIOUS Calexico – only a few blocks away!!!!!

New Music Video – DATE AN ASIAN

My new music video, Date an Asian, is a hot (and hilarious) R&B joint about dating Asian men.

Here it is:

After fun ass day of shooting and a star studded live premiere at Sulu Series, this video is ready for all the world to see!!!

We hope that you enjoy it, and please please please help promote it!!!

HELP PROMOTE DATE AN ASIAN:
1. Email this vid to all your peeps, groups and listservs:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9vYZmoqmg
2. Post the video link to facebook, Twitter, MySpace, tumblr, blogs, etc!
3. Embed the video wherever you can!
4. “Favorite”, share, leave comments, “thumb up” on YouTube!
5. Stream the video on a laptop strapped to your chest!

Asian men are finally gettin’ their due, so please spread the love!!!

http://www.dateanasian.net (designed by the lovely Donna Kwok).

Thank you to everyone who helped make this video happen!

<3
Jen

DATE AN ASIAN PREMIERE AUGUST 16 AT BOWERY POETRY CLUB!!!

Date an Asian will be rockin’ the Sulu Series with live performances from several of the Asian hotties featured in the video, culminating in the premiere of the music video on a rather large screen!

DATE AN ASIAN PREMIERE!!!
Sun, Aug 16 at 8pm
Sulu Series
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker)
$8/$5 w/ student ID
http://myspace.com/suluser ies

Live premiere of the “Date an Asian” music video by Jen Kwok, featuring Soce The Elemental Wizard and directed by Ballard Boyd.

Featuring stand-up performances from: Narinder Singh, Eugene Chang, Tommy Hudson and Phil Nee. Featuring improv from Keith Huang, Jamaal Sedayao, Binu Paulose, Joel Arandia and Roy Koshy. Plus dance crew Part-Time Models!

Sulu Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! It’s tha la bomba.

Yo, Jen and Soce be spittin’ mad…stuff…about doin’ Asian guys…which is not weird at all…or at least it won’t be, after this video comes out!!!!

Part-Time Models are fan-fricking-tastic!

This is Fred Chao. Do you know him? No? Well, you’ll want to now….

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Also, for those of you who are interested (AND SINGLE!!!), Soce and I are performing Date an Asian live at Comix next Thursday night at a HAWT Asian dating/comedy show:

Single Asians, come meet your match!!! Or just get hammered and laugh your ass off.

K-DATE COMIX
Thurs, Aug 20 at 9:30pm
Comix
353 W 14th St (at 9th Ave)
$15 online, $20 at the door
www.comixny.com

The one and only matchmaking comedy show! Comics perform, then pair up members of the audience! Hosted by funny and fabulously talented comedian Helen Hong! The hit show regularly sells out the 120+ seat Comix main stage, and was just featured in The New York Times.

Photos by Keith Huang
Sulu Flyer by DJ Boo

“Date an Asian” Video Shoot This Past Weekend!

The music video for my song, “Date an Asian”, was shot this weekend, July 11 in Greenpoint, BK!

Myself, Ballard Boyd (Director) and Soce The Elemental Wizard (Song Producer/Rapper)

It took place at Coco66 with a cast and crew of 40+ people!

Coco66 was invaded by a bunch of Asian dudes!!!

This was my first time producing a project on this scale, and it far exceeded all my expectations!  Lights!  Breakdancers from Part-Time Models!  Lip syncing to a 2x Chipmunks recording!!!

Soce with the Part-Time Models!

Me & my girls!!!

Thank you to everyone who made it happen!  The video will be coming out very soon, with a screening/premiere/party at Sulu Series.

Special thanks to Jason Li for these photos.

Papacitos in Brooklyntown!

After Googling up and down to find a new place for lunch here in Greenpoint, BK, Tom and I just surrendered to walking up Manhattan Avenue. Walking along the street and looking at menus worked really well when I lived in Hell’s Kitchen and the street was Ninth Avenue, but this was a little less promising. While at home, we’d already ruled out Brooklyn Label, Coco68, Five Leaves, Lokal and River Barrel for selling over-priced yet totally unimpressive “new American” menus (although Lokal claims to be Mediterranean, but I don’t know what a turkey burger is doing on the menu).

But yeah, the prices were annoying.  Isn’t that why we moved out of Manhattan?! So we could have more normal-priced food?!?!

And the odd thing about this area of Brooklyn is that it’s NOT Williamsburg-trendy. However, the prices of some of the more hipster-y restaurants are higher than better restaurants in the East Village! Location is bi and it will screw you both ways.

Anyhoo, there are tons of VERY reasonable places, but we ruled out any Polish restaurants because Tom just came back from spending Christmas/New Year with his relatives in Germany, where all day-everyday it was potatoes and pork. We also nixed the sushi place that has been advertising free hot sake for its “Grand Opening” since we were apartment hunting in September.

We finally made it north of Greenpoint Avenue and started wandering towards an outpost of Pio Pio when we saw Papacitos with its crazy Ed Hardy-looking awning across the street.  We decided to go in after we saw the REASONABLE and pretty creative menu (compared to turkey burgers – seriously, Lokal?)!

It was a small place but adorably decorated with a pop pseudo-Mexican aesthetic (like Ugly Betty + El Centro).  We were greeted with these signs, letting us know that Happy Hour was every weekday from 11am-4pm:

A total of 25 hours of happiness are possible per week!

Tom and I ordered chicken pozole – one of my favorite dishes because of rockin’ HOMINY!!!  We also both got a trio of tacos:  lime pork, carne asada and tilapia.  Apparently we were crazy gluttons who ordered waaay more than people normally do (people usually EITHER do pozole or tacos).  But it was all excellent, so WHATEVER!!!  It definitely rivaled Tehuitzingo Deli in flavor, which I didn’t think was possible in New York.  The carne asada was really the best I ever had, but the fish taco was just alright to this born-and-raised Californian.

Everyone in the restaurant seemed to know each other, since this is probably the cheapest hipster-friendly restaurant in Greenpoint.  I mean, how could you beat a three dollar meal (assuming you went in and had two tacos for lunch everyday) and the soundtrack of XM Radio’s self-proclaimed “indie” channel?   And literally EVERYONE seemed to know the waiter, who was nice (but a little weird, if you ask me).  And in all, it was nice to have some yummy Mexican food in the neighborhood that wasn’t Chi-Mex or Tex-Mex. In our area of town, I still love The Creek in LIC more for atmosphere and draft beers and all that, but Papacitos is definitely on the list.  Can’t wait to go back for burritos – “The Portland” breakfast burrito in particular, which has freaking tater tots in it!  YEAAAH!!!