Daily Archives: August 25, 2009

The Guild Season 3 Trailer

Last week The Guild released their music video “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?” that spread like fire on the internet. That was just a teaser to Season 3 of The Guild. Check out the teaser below. If you missed Season 1 and 2, you can get caught up with the recaps in under 5 minutes.

Keep you eyes on these people in The Guild: Sandeep Parikh who plays Zaboo the Warlock, Amy Okuda who plays Tinkerballa the Ranger, and Fernando Chien who plays Wade (the love interest). Glad to see that there’s diversity in the world of The Guild.

The Guild Season 3 Trailer

The Guild Season 1 recap (under 5 minutes)

The Guild Season 2 recap (under 5 minutes)

How Bruce Lee Changed the World DVD

If you missed How Bruce Lee Changed the World on the History Channel, you can now get it on DVD. Find out who Bruce Lee was.

Here’s a synopsis of the special:

With his laser-quick hands and feet, steely body, and vast knowledge of Chinese martial arts, Bruce Lee was a one-of-a-kind powerhouse, taking on and taking out the bad guys with gusto. His astonishing skills brought him fame and movie roles, but who knew the real man behind the flying arms and legs?

Now, HISTORY tells you the whole story, from his birth in San Francisco Chinatown to his mysterious death some say the result of a curse at age 32, just three weeks before the opening of his only U.S. film, Enter the Dragon. Along the way, Lee introduced ancient martial arts to the modern world, securing a permanent place in our popular culture.

With seldom-seen interviews and rare home movies, hear from those he influenced from Jackie Chan to John Woo, Brett Ratner, LL Cool J, and Stan Lee as we explore HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD.

Get the DVD here. Also be sure to check out the new Bruce Lee website.

How Bruce Lee Changed the World

How Bruce Lee Changed the World – Action Movies Clip

How Bruce Lee Changed the World – Music Clip

How Bruce Lee Changed the World – Attitudes in China Clip

Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack by Karen O

Singer Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs did the soundtrack for the movie “Where the Wild Things Are”. To compose the music, the part Korean O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, the artists include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children’s choir. The first single to drop off the soundtrack is “All is Love”. You can pick up the “Where the Wild Things Are” soundtrack at Karen O. And The Kids or Amazon.

Here’s the song “All is Love”:


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Where the Wild Things ARe Soundtrack

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer

MORE ABOUT KAREN O:

Known for groundbreaking fashion and a captivating stage presence and voice, Karen O has fronted the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since 2000. The New York Times called the band’s 2003 Grammy-nominated album Fever To Tell (Interscope/Fiction) the best album of the year and SPIN magazine called their latest full-length album, It’s Blitz! (DGC/Interscope), the alternative pop album of the decade.

There She Goes by Decipher

Decipher released a new song and a new website. “There She Goes” is the lead single from his upcoming album “The Effect”. If you like “There She Goes”, you can download for free here. See some of his other collabos including One of the Best and All About Money. Also check out his new site here.

Recently, there’s been some great music being put out at the end of summer by Asian American artists including 2 is Better, Summertime, HI-808, Keep Pushin’, Wake Up, and Mama Filipina.

There She Goes by Decipher

Vote for afterschoolspecial at the San Diego Music Awards

Vote for afterschoolspecial in the Best Hip Hop category at the San Diego Music Awards. Just go here and pick afterschoolspecial for question #9. Balloting ends at Midnight on August 31, 2009.

Vote for afterschoolspecial at the San Diego Music Awards

afterschoolspecial gives a shoutout to channelAPA with Dan aka Dan rockin’ the My Ninja T-shirt

Breaking the Bow

Are you a writer? Have you ever wanted to be a playwright? Well, here’s your chance to get discovered.

Pacific Asian American Women Writers West (PAAWWW) and Mavericks of Asian Pacific Islander Descent (MAPID) and Ken Choy present “BREAKING THE BOW” : The 1st Annual Independent Asian Pacific Islander Performing Artists and Writers Festival running October 22-25, 2009 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse at 1130 Lincoln Blvd; Santa Monica, CA 90403.

As part of the festival, the “Ten-Minute Asian Pacific Islander Play Contest” will be held with an eventual performance of the winning plays on opening night of the festival, October 22, 2009 at 8PM. Interested playwrights should submit their stapled, ten minute plays along with $8 entrance fee by September 25, 2009. Get more details here.

The winning plays will be read on stage by actors on opening night. Winning playwrights will also have their library of work along with short synopses
of each prominently displayed during the festival. In keeping with the festival’s goals, the ten-minute play contest focuses on the promotion of undiscovered, unattached, and unknown talent however any and all US residents are eligible to enter.

Breaking the Bow