I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Not to make any of you midwesters and eastcoasters jealous, but It was a warm one here in Southern California. What strange weather to have on the eve of winter…So there’s two big things happening this week, one is the new Jump short film- TUXEDO MAN. This is the fifth installment of six.
And two, I will be appearing at Bloomingdale’s this Saturday, December 6th, from 2-4pm to help promote the JUMP line. So if you happen to be in the Southern California area this Saturday come out and hang with me. And there’s a special promotion, if you buy a shoe, you’ll get a free limited edition gift. What is the gift? You’ll have to come to find out!
We are living in some of the most dynamic times in American history. 2008 will go down as a busy one. We have witnessed the First Black President, oil barrel go from 150 to 50 in 6 months, and now the first Asian American Baseball manager ever! Don Wakamatsu is the first Asian-American manager in major league history. He was the former Oakland bench coach and was introduced Wednesday as the Seattle Mariners’ new skipper. They say Baseball is one of America’s greatest pastimes and I’m just glad to be able to see these great strides in this country!
For any of you guys that have some time tonight, Far East Movement is having a free, live, online concert where they’ll be performing their brand new album. Just go to FM.TV at 9pm (Pacific) to watch the concert. For those of you that don’t know who they are, they’re an Asian American hip hop group based out of LA.
On another note, heres the fourth episode of the Jump Campaign.
Wow. Its nice to see an honest movie like this. Where has Jean Claude Van Damme been? Remember Blood Sport? Remember Double Impact? or how about Time cop? This movie reveals an innocence about a simple man that has truly reaped the benefits and the disadvantages of being an international action superhero. Van Damme plays Van Damme in his native country of Belgium in his declining years of a bmovie action hero. In a time when indie movies are very few and far apart, its inspiring to see a movie with such original perspectives find its way in our theaters. I know this movie may not be playing in a lot of cities, but if you’ve watched more than three Van Damme movies, this one is a must.
Have you ever eaten something that is delicious but impossible to describe? Well, Corner Place in Ktown is famous for this special cold noodle soup dish. The cold noodle soup dish is, well, according to my tastebuds indescribable. It is called dong chimi kook soo in Korean. It’s cold, it’s white, it’s a bit tangy, and it’s delicious. You have to try it and then you’ll understand. The cold noodles complement the Korean bbq perfectly. Meat and cold noodles. Whoever knew…
The LA Auto Show starts tomorrow through Thanksgiving weekend. From looking at the previews, there’s nothing jaw-dropping that makes me want to stop everything and go see the show. I guess it goes with the harsh economy, and the struggle the automakers are going through at the moment. Despite all this, here’s the most interesting/cool cars that I could find searching through all the previews.
The first one is actually the Honda Insight. Looks to me like Honda is jumping on the Prius bandwagon as well. The second one is actually a Natural Gas - Hybrid Camry. Natural gas vehicles have been around for so long, yet they’ve always been geared more towards government fleets and such. It’ll be interesting to see if Toyota actually makes these vehicles more available to people like Joe the Plumber. Then we might even see some natural gas kits to install in our houses. I could definitely go without the 4$ a gallon trips to Chevron.
Then there’s the Z and the Cayman. They’re still cool cars, but they just look a bit too similar to the old models. The rest of them are various sports cars which are either making their day-view, or still in the concept phase. Of course I’d still drive all of them, but they just don’t have that “it-factor” that makes me want to buy them.
Here’s some cool images that aren’t photoshopped at all. There’s more at here, but these were my favorite. The first image is from Germany. Apparently this guy breeds these giant cuddly bunnies for food. That’s a lot of rabbit meat if you ask me. The second one was taken in France. These guys covered up a construction site by laying a giant tarp over it with a melting building image on it. Very creative in my opinion. Could you imagine if all the construction sites had these crazy images. It’d definitely add more character to and some edge to our cities. I’ll leave the last two images for you guys to decipher. Just know that there are real images.
Heres a crazy article I read about the new race to make a space elevator. I guess the technology isn’t there yet, but scientists are predicting it to be available in the near future. The idea revolves around deploying a satellite in space, which will be anchored to the earth by some sort of super cables. Once that is in place, the elevator portion of it will travel up and down along that cable. It would be pretty crazy if they can actually pull this one off. It reminds me of the what the aliens had when they invaded us in Independence Day.
This last week has been a pretty crazy down here in Southern California. I just wanted to pay tribute for to all the firemen that have been and are still working tirelessly fighting these wildfires. Everyone’s been reporting how perfect the weather was for brewing these wildfires, and how difficult its been to contain them. Luckily, they’re reporting that the Santa Ana winds seemed to have slowed down today, and are helping the firefighters to gain more control of them. As much as we all hate to admit it, these wildfires are always going to be part of life in California. With that said, I know we are all thankful for the firefighters and all their hard-working efforts in battling these wildfires. My prayers go out to all the people that have been affected by these disasters. Heres some images of what they’ve been up against:
Some of you may have already seen this clip of me at my restaurant talking with Sara Sohn on a project of hers. Elena Stevenson also had an interview with me, Chow Talk, featuring this Sara Sohn clip as well. I just wanted to share these posts with those who haven’t seen them yet. I will also be showing you how to make some other dishes at Saketini in the near future!
P.S. If you guys are wondering, the sauces are in the works.
