Daily Archives: February 27, 2012

Missing Piece music video by David Choi

Missing Piece music video by David Choi

Singer David Choi released the official music video for his song Missing Piece off his Forever and Ever album. In the video, actress Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Home is Where the Hans Are) assembles a puzzle with none other than David Choi. After completing the puzzle, the wind blows and breaks the puzzle apart with the “puzzle” Ellen Wong and David Choi pieces separated from each other. Real life Ellen Choi comes back to put the puzzle together aagain. However, she can locate the piece that completes the puzzle. Inside the puzzle, Ellen Wong and David Choi can’t get together without the missing piece. Unable to locate the piece, real life Ellen Wong begins to draw in the missing piece. With the drawing complete, “puzzle” Ellen Wong and David Choi are able to connect in the drawing world. The video was directed by Ross Ching (Valentine by Kina Grannis, The Camel Song by Clara C, Without You, and Offbeat by Clara C.). You can download the single on Missing Piece - Forever and Ever or amazon.

Listen to more David Choi : By My Side, Better You, Won’t Even Start, and That Girl.

Missing Piece music video by David Choi

Behind the scenes of Missing Piece music video by David Choi

Lyrics to Missing Piece by David Choi

I feel like a boat without a sailor
I go where the wind blows
Just moving around like a lonesome stranger
I got no home

In search of a treasure
Some place I don’t know
It feels like forever
I’m making my way
Through the hills and deserts
I thirst for hope

I don’t know
What I’m looking for
But I’ll know
When I find it

There is a missing beat
Inside of me
The rhythm of my heart
Hits unevenly
There’s a missing piece
Inside of me

Trying to figure it out
But it amounts to nothing
I want to realize
But nothing I find
Ever feels like the real thing
Can you empathize?

I don’t know
What I’m looking for
But I’ll know
When I find it

Chorus

I’m lost inside
A cold bitter world
I can’t understand the need
It’s makes it so hard to breathe

Chorus

Pray for Japan Trailer

Pray for Japan Trailer

On March 11, 2011, Japan’s Tohoku coastal region was destroyed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami that followed. PRAY FOR JAPAN takes place in the devastated region of Ishinomaki, Miyagi – the largest coastal city in Tohoku with a population of over 160,000 people. Filmmaker Stu Levy – an American living in Japan – filmed the tsunami aftermath during his trips to Tohoku as a volunteer and over a period of 6 weeks, captured over 50 hours of footage.

PRAY FOR JAPAN focuses on four key perspectives of the tragedy – School, Shelter, Family, and Volunteers. With each perspective we meet victims who faced significant obstacles and fought to overcome them. Through these four vantage points, the audience is able to understand the vast ramifications of this large-scale natural disaster – and the battle these real-life heroes fought on behalf of their loved ones and their hometown.

PRAY FOR JAPAN features an original theme song written and performed by Okuda Tamio, one of the most popular rock musicians in Japan, as well as poetry written by Fukushima poet Ryoichi Wago and read by famed actress Kyoka Suzuki. The opening animation sequence is directed by Hiroshi Nagahama and produced by prolific Japanese animation powerhouse, Studio DEEN. Post-production services were provided by Q-Tec in Tokyo, Japan.

On March 14, 2012, the film will open in the following markets through AMC Theatres: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Orange County (LA), Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Toronto, and Montreal. Hollywood Theatres will also show the film in Maui, Hawaii. All profits from these screenings will be donated to Japan-based charity Japan Emergency NGO (JEN), who provides assistance to victims of natural disasters, wars, and internal conflicts.

Pray for Japan Trailer

Goodbye to You, Pikachu by blinktwice4y

Goodbye to You, Pikachu by blinktwice4y

To write a good song, you need to be inspired. Singer blinktwice4y (aka Sam Hart) did just that. He had a dream about a musical based on the episode of Pokemon where Ash considers making Pikachu evolve into Raichu using the thunderstone. When he awoke, he wrote the song “Goodbye to You, Pikachu.” If inspired enough, you might see Sam writing a whole Pokémon Musical. The songwriter also has the beginnings of a Super Mario Bros. themed alum with Mushroom Kingdom Gurls and Mario Kart Love Song. Look for more from SAm Hart soon.

Goodbye to You, Pikachu by blinktwice4y

Lyrics to Goodbye to You, Pikachu by Sam Hart

[verse]
nurse joy has put you on the mend
I’m glad to see you well my friend
the battle was fought hard
but the gym leader held the cards

it wasn’t your fault it was mine
I’ve held you back for such a long long time
but now I know
it’s time I let you grow

[chorus]
Pikachu it’s time to say goodbye
to the childlike expression in your shiny eyes
and say hello to the power down below
goodbye to you
hello Raichu

[verse]
this thunderstone will make us strong
we’ll beat the leader and the others
before long we’ll catch ’em all
and hold the world in our pokeball

I know there’s more to evolution
than changing your name
and the friendship that’s between us
will never be the same
the sacrifice of a pokemon trainer’s life

[chorus] x 2

Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012

Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012

Ever since January 2012, when Janet Liang released her personal plea to find a perfect match, channelAPA.com has been inundated with requests to help and comments of support. Many have shown support in the Asian American community. She updates her supporters since her last video post. She been in the hospital for almost 40 days with some intense chemotherapy treatment. The treatment didn’t put her cancer into remission and her leukemia still lingers in her body. Soon, she’ll need to go through several more rounds of chemo with different drugs. The positive side: there’s still time to help her with the bone marrow donor drives with the June 2012 as the target date to find her perfect match.

Here’s how you can help:

Join a marrow registry in the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or other countries.
Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012 (YouTube)

Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012

Waking Up by Daphne Loves Derby

Waking Up by Daphne Loves Derby

Looks like Daphne Loves Derby might be staging a comeback. Recently, they released the single “Mare Infinitas“. Now the group released the song “Waking Up,” which the group has performed at live performance. The studio version of the track is online. If you miss Daphne Loves Derby, you may be hearing more from them soon.

Waking Up by Daphne Loves Derby

Lyrics to Waking Up by Daphne Loves Derby

Trying hard to keep my calm
but I’ve tossed and turned my life away
since the holidays
On the moon I saw your face
burn through the dark and cold
and all the empty space
Crash out on the dark side
Yeah, that’s where we will stay

Far away from where we’ve been
I don’t know why I left the place
Where I was your everything
Thought that I could run away from yesterdays
but you still haunt me

Love, I swear I felt you whispering
I tried to keep my calm
but I just drank and walked my night away
in places you would stay

Far away from where we’ve been
I don’t know why I left the place
Where I was your everything
Thought that I could run away from yesterdays
but you still haunt me

Wake up, I see you
Don’t know why
but I still feel you

A Movie Night With James Kyson Lee in San Francisco

A Movie Night With James Kyson Lee in San Francisco

If you’re in San Francisco, joint actor James Kyson for a specail night of short films. This one-time only special event features a two day mini-film festival in San Francisco, hosted by James Kyson, star of NBC’s hit show, Heroes. Get a special sneak preview of his new film, “At Dawn They Sleep” and several short films in conjunction with the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival 2012.

Short films to be screened include:

Mina T. Son (Making Noise in Silence)
Edmund Yeo (Last Fragments of Winter)
Michael Kang (Happy Song)
John Rasposas (Truth)
DB Cheng (My Name is Seven)
Henry J. Kim (At Dawn They Sleep)

The event goes down on Saturday, March 3 2012 at
SENS RESTAURANT
4 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94102

$10 Student (with student ID)
$15 General Admission to one screening
$20 Includes after party admission for one night
$25 VIP (includes special seating, admission, after party entry)

A Movie Night With James Kyson Lee in San Francisco