khingz county
http://www.shotgunreviews.com/2009/08/28/khingz-adjacent-to-the-khingz/
check it check it check it out.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
bookend
this is my offering to counter the notion that i seem a bit disenchanted with “this place”, because it couldn’t be further from the truth (despite the fact that i am genuinely disgruntled with the state of asian eats here). i prefer, instead, to look at it like a bookend to how i felt when i got here. the same frustrations (and a few new ones) are there, but i am every bit as enchanted by its beauty as i ever was. unlike my usual blaze-through a city, i’ve stayed for three years, grown exponentially, am more sure than i ever was about my career goals and realities, and am closing it out on a very high note. i will be back.
humbled
“condescend”, unlike “text” or “favorite” IS actually a verb.
my apologies to andrew moodie, for cringing every time i heard the line “don’t condescend to me” in his play that i saw twenty times in twenty three nights during my stint as a theatre usher a few years back.
that said, it still sounds terrible, but there i go, getting all self-righteous again (sigh).
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
the actual dic(k)tionary
oneiric-of or relating to dreams: dreamy
Sunday, March 15, 2009
mic (crenshaw) check 1, 2, 1, 2
http://www.shotgunreviews.com/2009/03/14/mic-crenshaw-check-1-2-1-2/
Sunday, March 1, 2009
vomit and vibe magazine
a project is borned. so, frustrated with being frustrated, i decided to launch something that incorporates all of the things that make me happy: hip_hop, reading, public transit, and global domination. the result? www.metrotextual.wordpress.com
ta-daaaaaa!
i set a few of these babies free last night during the nuit blanche, and the success story of the evening went like this.
i got on a train with puke on it, kind of crowded, very smelly, everyone trying to avoid the puke (kinda had an almost lap dance from a skinny white dood at some point, guess he didn’t see me or mistook me for santa claus). unfortunately, it seems that this exposure of bodily fluid begets other base responses, so people start spitting in the car, and one person even lights up a cigarette immediately after exiting the doors.
the car empties, i leave my seat (stealthily leaving Pound #38 on the chair, directly in front of the puke) and observe as a young homie overlooks the sense-ations of upchuck because his curiousity about the blue and pink fiddy is stronger. he actually crosses the car, sits down, and flips through the magazine, carefully reading all the notes that i’ve written on the cover, as well as my card catalogue on the inside cover.
i can hardly contain my joy.
literacy in motion, literally and literally.
(i also dropped the hip_hop issue of waxpoetics in a crowded car at sherbrooke metro and the 14th anniversary edition of vibe on the green line in front of some goths)
Monday, February 23, 2009
clean slate
sumthin’ new
my lil’ secret
quitting is liberating
dreams to action
let’s move
Friday, February 6, 2009
electric circus
http://www.shotgunreviews.com/2009/01/31/common-vs-kanye-will-the-real-electric-circus-please-stand-up/
Sunday, February 1, 2009
i say “global domination”, they say “global domin-ASIAN”
whatever. i’m just glad we’re on the same team. besides, i barely remember my own tags anyway, not that i don’t think everything/one i write about is capable to/should dominate, but changing now would just look like biting (though it would be meant as hommage) and add another tricky internet detail to remember.
i am not sure how i came upon these lovelies, but i’m glad i did and that i subscribed, because it’s like a tiny kick in the nuts every morning, you know, the kind that makes you spit up your roiboos because you were foolish enough to attempt to drink and read (poor macbook).
here’s the latest: http://disgrasian.blogspot.com/
ps. why are asian girls so HOT in la? is it because that’s where the gold really was, and everyone else that got lost along the way and “invited” to build the railroads and such along the rest of the west coast just had to give up a little bit? (sigh).
addendum-happy day of action
i’m so pleased to be part of the organization that is spearheading this.
for related and different (but equally awesome) details and proof, join the movement at:
http://www.kickaction.ca/taxonomy/term/195
