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I had just turned 14. I’m not sure if this was taped in August or September, but I think this was the first day of musical theater class where they asked us to perform our audition song again.
I ran out of breath at the end because my heart was pumping so hard from nervousness. I got much better during these years. I will later upload a performance at the end of junior year of high school. You’ll see much improvement.
Back to homework I go!
It’s weird. I’m 26 and once again I’m back in school after taking a break during the Summer and Fall of 2007 to begin production on the ./shutdown web series. Now, I am enrolled in yet another mass media class (my 3rd now) at Penn State and I will be taking my third (and final!) Spanish class at a local community college. Just got confirmation from Penn that it will transfer. w00t!
It’ll be another couple of years before I graduate, I think. I am only taking two classes per semester, but I am really worried about whether I will be able to pull it off. Right now with just one online class at Penn and a full time job I’m only having to stay up about an hour later. However, starting next week I will be going to my Spanish class two evenings a week. In February, David and I will start writing season 2 of the show and then in March we’ll be starting production again.
I am dreading March and April the most. I honestly don’t know if I will be able to handle two full time jobs plus school part-time. I consider the show a full time job since production time means editing every night and shooting almost every weekend. Yet, at the same time I am very frustrated that I can’t handle school full time anymore. I am really in a rush now that I have decided I want to go to graduate school.
Ah well. Take it one day at a time, as they say.
I met Lala at CES last year when I directed a special for Tiki Bar TV in addition to live episodes with other podcasters like Geek Entertainment TV, JETSET and Pure Pwnage. I hope she is doing well. I saw ads for some show on CBC that she is hosting so it seems she’s doing well. Yay for Lala. She’s a sweetheart.
Watch the Tiki Bar Live @ CES special I directed in January 2007.
Second year in a row. Had so much fun with Flounder, Zog and J9. However, this will probably be our last year going to a Brotherhood New Year’s party. They don’t play enough good 80s music. I didn’t hear a single Madonna or Michael Jackson song. It’s like they purposefully were playing the B-sides to a bunch of New Wave bands or something. I only have 5 hours to compact an entire decade into an enjoyable dancing experience. Come on, people!
Nothing says “success” like a random ass forum thread with a giant picture of you embedded and quoted over and over again.
Would You Tap That? (Possibly NSFW)
Apparently Jonathan London (whom I’ve worked with at CES and Comic-Con) told Ben Cote at Stage6, who then forwarded it to me. O_o
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Co means “aunt” in Vietnamese, although technically I think she’s my second cousin? In Vietnamese culture, you don’t really think of relations in those terms. It’s more a ranking by seniority. Because she is in the same generation as my mom she is “Co” which means “Aunt younger than my mom.” I could go in more detail, but I won’t.
She texted me these awesome pictures. I had to screen grab them off the computer, but they are awesome nonetheless. From left: Isabella is the one on the left and Xander’s on the right in the picture where they are both celebrating the New Year together! They were born a couple of months premature. Hopefully in a few weeks, they will get to go home. ^_^
Here are a couple of pics we took before the Fetish Ball in Hollywood (December 28, 2007). No cameras were allowed inside the event (where I had mentioned I saw a fetish model slapped with a fish by Midori). Flounder didn’t like the pictures of him, but you can see him pre-leathered out in the video below. “Good times” as people like to say… Ugh… I hate that phrase.
Me and Ben Paddon, writer of Jump Leads.
Tricking Ben Paddon. He thinks I’m taking a picture.
I’m buying Rock Band.
