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Friday, May 18, 2007

New blog

hey - it's in the prelim phases, but i'm starting to blog about events over at http://alivenotdead.com/23480.

Alivenotdead is a website put together by some of my friends in HK dedicated to Asian American artists. I've got a bunch of performances and things coming up so check over there for updates!


Wednesday, November 22, 2006

the nature of love

someone, a good friend of mine, once told me he loved me for my faults.  that my strengths were good but that he loved my faults.  i am lucky to have people in the world who despite, or even because of my flaws, can see me.

happy thanksgiving. 


Wednesday, November 08, 2006

election day

omg... the democrats swept the house.  omg ... nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house. omg i worked for the speaker of the house.

craziness.

jane kim is now on the school board.
phil ting is the assessor.
john chiang is the controller.

there is hope.

for years now, i've walked through life without much hope - no hope in politics, no hope in people.  i honestly didn't think the democrats were going to take either house.  i thought it was a lost cause - another ruse to get my hopes up and dash them again. granted, i missed out on the polls due to my absence from this country, but still - i've learned to take any hope for the democrats with a grain of salt.

(not unlike how i've learned to take any hope for the california golden bears football with a grain of salt - but they may even have a chance at the rose bowl)

and so now, i have to take a good, hard look at my outlook.  have i become such a pessimist that i don't know how to handle victory when it's apparent? or can i try to re-kindle some of that hope i had in my youth, which coincidentally overlapped with the eight clinton years, to make myself actually invest again?

hope cuts both ways. it gives life (at least for me) but it crashes so unforgivingly.


Wednesday, August 16, 2006

shoot

scratch that -  a bunch of shootings the other night...


Tuesday, August 15, 2006

in the city in which i love you

just looked up a case with a corporate name with the word "bituminous" and it made me think of this (per li-young lee):

And when, in the city in which I love you,

even my most excellent song goes unanswered,

and I mount the scabbed streets,

the long shouts of avenues,

and tunnel sunken night in search of you...

 

That I negotiate fog, bituminous

rain running like teeth into the beggar's tin,

or two men jackaling a third in some alley

weirdly lit by a couch on fire, that I

drag my extinction in search of you...

 

Past the guarded schoolyards, the boarded-up churches, swastikaed

synagogues, defended houses of worship, past

newspapered windows of tenements, among the violated,

the prosecuted citizenry, throughout this

storied, buttressed, scavanged, policed

city I call home, in which I am a guest...



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