another doozy

ahhhh i must say, the timing of this entry is good. We are at the end of our little xanga revival experiment, I am suddenly reminded of the reasons why I even wrote on xanga to begin with - to share with you (my hundreds and hundreds of fans, eh more like 7 this week) bits and pieces of my thoughts and experiences. This one I am about to share happened about 1 hour ago at lunch.

So I am getting lunch at Real Time Sports Bar and Grill in Itasca with my folks. They wanted to go to this other Chinese place not too far, and when we got there, there was a sign that said, "closed for vacation until July 14th". My parents were a little bummed out because they always prefer Chinese food over anything else. On a side note, I will say however my parents are quite open minded compared to most Asians when it comes to cuisine. They regularly will eat French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, etc....anyways so we ended up at Real Time sports. My dad is looking at the menu, the server comes over to take our orders down, and this is what my dad says:

Mr Wu: yeah what is this sandwich, how you say this? P-O Boy? What does that mean?

Me: uhhh that's actually Po' Boy sandwich

Server: yeah thats Po Boy sandwich

Mr Wu: what does that mean? why it called po boy?

Server: thats just what it's called, i dont know

Me: ill explain later.

I later explained to him that it was either a cajun accent thingy or an ebonics accent thingy. and they were like AHHHH.

dream becomes reality

please dont stop the music...

so a lot of talk about music these days, especially with the passing of M-Jax, considered by many to be the top pop-star of all freaking time. For some reason, I dont think I am as sad as the majority of the people out there. I am saddened by the death of anyone, dont get me wrong, and I would never dare to disrespect or downplay a tragic moment such as this. I do realize the man made so many hit songs, influenced so many artists, etc...but so quick is everyone to just forget some of the sick things he has done - such as have little boys sleep over at his house. I heard he had a triple lock for his bedroom in his house.  I know nobody is perfect, but i would say people who are guilty of murder, rape, beating his wife, or child molestation...those are the kind of flaws that I would think are on a slightly different level compared to someone who's main flaw is being overweight, sucks at sports, or is even an asshole, or has a bad temper. 

anyways enough MJ talk, but I still want to talk about music. Pitchfork and Lolla are both fast approaching. So many bands I would love to see at both music festivals. Pitchfork is more of the Indie label festival - you will definitely see more doods wearing skinny / lowrider jeans than chicks wearing skinny jeans at a ginseng party - while Lolla is more of the goliaths of rock/alternative rock. But I was very impressed by Lolla's collection of Indie bands this year. They got all the studs from the last 2 or Pitchforks- basically bands that have really launched their careers. I mean shiiiet, if I am sitting here talking about a certain band, they are way past their underground/indie stages.

so some of the new bands I have gotten into over the past 1-2 years. Vampire Weekend, The National, Cut Copy, Spoon, The Shins, The Decemberists, MGMT, Phoenix, Asobi Sesku. 

The only show ive seen recently is The Hold Steady at Taste of Randolph. Saw Asobi play at Empty Bottle like 4 months ago, very small but cool show. Missed out on Cut Copy as it was sold out, and also missed out on Metric who was in town recently.

after singing erasure over the weekend, i say i say i say has gone into my car's cd rotation. hahaha.

day 2....

the saga continues...wu tang, wu tang...(guess which wu-tang song, and which wu-tang member is next to flow?)

so yeah, yesterday's attempt at this xanga comeback was quite feeble on my part - for that I apologize. Everyone made some good points yesterday on the rise and fall of xanga. A friend of mine even wrote a Facebook note yesterday on the rise and fall of xanga after I updated my status saying that we were going to revive xanga for the week.  i think to summarize the main reasons why xanga is dead 1. we are all getting old 2. our jobs require more responsibility than ever before - people actually do real work now, and have less time to chat, waste on the internet, etc....  3. newer innovations like facebook, twitter, etc...  

friendster and myspace came and went like a rain storm. facebook is like the ice age cometh that has and will probably last a long time. what will supercede facebook? im sure something eventually will come along. there has to be, think about it. our parents are fugging on facebook now. well not mine, but a lot of parents are. it's quite disturbing actually, because now once again, one must be careful what they post, photos they add, etc....you never know who is watching. i have coworkers on my facebook friend list too. i think something will come along - that will be the revolution, something underground, something more hip or cool that obvioulsy the younger kids will migrate to first. im sure it's already out there. but since we are older, we will know about it, in probably 1-2 years. kinda like hot clubs - once asians start going, it's the beginning of the end for that club.

HOMECOMING!

welcome back to xanga djgranite1! my my it's been a damza long time since we've written on xanga. for me it's been since Mar 2008. it's felt longer than that though. who's brilliant idea was this again?  there once was a time where we were all able to write an entry daily for about 2 years straight, and then for the next year or 2, we were all able to write a 1-2 times per week. so after a full year of not writing, you would think i would have a ton of interesting stuff to say huh?

not really.

maybe tomorrow.