Monthly Archives: April 2012

Everything In The World album by Wanting

Drenched by Wanting

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Wanting Qu (曲婉婷) released first full-length studio album “Everything In The World” featuring her single Drenched. Two years ago, she returned to her native China for a show. Her mother, who was among the screaming fans in the sold-out audience that evening, was about to see her only child perform live for the first time. No one has motivated Wanting more than her mother—a woman she rebelled against, yet was determined to please. The singer made good on that goal. Her music has sound-tracked the upcoming Chinese film “Love in the Buff”, appeared on a Mercedes Benz sampler, and amassed combined views of millions on Chinese YouTube.

These days, Mom boasts about how her only child could sing the theme to Undercover Cop, a Chinese TV drama, before she could even speak. This, despite the fact that for years, she tried to divert her daughter’s musical ambitions to a more stable path. “When I was 4, one of her friends asked me what I wanted to be,” Wanting recalls. “I said, ‘a famous singer.’ And my mom’s like, ‘No, no, no—didn’t you say you wanted to be a doctor?”

Wanting’s passion for music took flight when she left the industrial city of Harbin, China, at age 16 for boarding school in Canada. “Mom sent me because she knew I could handle it,” she says proudly. “I was a tomboy, not a typical Chinese girl.” She went on to begrudgingly get a degree in business management. “I finished that for mom,” Wanting says. “She was supporting me. I would have felt wrong studying something different.”

It wasn’t long before she realized her true passion and dream was to become an influential recording artist. Wanting, who played piano as a child, bought a keyboard to pick up where she left off. “It cost two courses of tuition,” she says. “I didn’t go to school for six months.” While visiting China in 2004, she brought back a guitar, taught herself to play it, and penned her first song, “To Markus,” a tortured lullaby about an ex. When she graduated from college, she told her mom that she needed to be a musician.

Despite being penned in English or Chinese, Wanting’s piano-swept music has won a following because her compositions—pop musings that plumb emotion—resonate universally. On her album, the first single “Life Is Like a Song” is a reflection on life’s ebbs and flows, the cascading song “Drenched,” about surrendering oneself to love. Meanwhile, “You Exist in My Song,” sung in Mandarin, is about old friends alive in one’s thoughts.

You can get the album on Everything in the World - Wanting or amazon.

Drenched by Wanting (lyrics video)

House of Flying Laptops : Intel Ultrabook commercial

House of Flying Laptops : Intel Ultrabook commercial

Intel has started to air a new commercial playing off the House of Flying Dagger. Ancient days meet modern days in “House of Flying Laptops” In an ancient Chinese temple, two female martial artists face off in a battle for the lone power outlet. Who will win the battle of the plug? Action packed wire fu in this ad with the fight flying up the staircase.

House of Flying Laptops : Intel Ultrabook commercial

Hang Loose Trailer with KevJumba x Dante Basco

Hang Loose Trailer with KevJumba x Dante Basco
YouTuber KevJumba (aka Kevin Wu) and actor Dante Basco star in the indie film “Hang Loose”. In his feature film debut, Kevin Wu plays a newly single high school grad. He flies out to Hawaii to attend his older sister’s wedding. While there, he meets his future brother-in-law, the suave Dante and his groomsmen. Kevin joins Dante’s bachelor party for a night of revelry on the islands with leads to craziness that rivals “The Hangover” x “Harold and Kumar” films. The night is only starting when they hit the bar, jump off cliffs, get hogtied, meet beautiful women, and more.

Look for the film to hit a festival near you. KevJumba is currently touring the film on college campuses with an official debut in Los Angeles at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Watch the trailer to the music of So What? by Far East Movement. KevJumba also has a few other projects in the works including Waking Summer and Rock Jocks.

Hang Loose official Trailer with KevJumba x Dante Basco

Hang Loose Trailer with KevJumba x Dante Basco

Behind the scenes of Hang Loose with KevJumba x Dante Basco

Dear Jordan by J.Moy

Dear Jordan by J.Moy

Rapper J. Moy released a sad song about the loss of his child. On April 22, 2011, his first born Jordan Moy passed away. This is dedicated to him. It’s a sad but touching song.

Listen to more J. Moy: On My Way Remix, My Time is Now, and Celebration.

Dear Jordan by J.Moy (contains explicit lyrics)

Lyrics to Dear Jordan by J.Moy

April 22nd, 2011
I had to see my baby boy soar into heaven
Theres nothing harder for a father to bury his own
I always thought you’d be the prince that would carry my throne
Now i’m here alone, lifting them bottles up
So bottoms up to my sorrows of tomorrow
Trying to drown the pain away
I’d be lying if I said I was the same today
I even swore that I would change my ways
Had to be a better man, but the man upstairs
I guess he had a better plan for you
So Dear Jordan, I’m still here recording
I do this for you, not the fame and the fortune
When I look back on life I would trade it all
My money, my jewels, my cars
My house, my clothes, my jobs
Now you’re my angel, my heart, my star
All I want in this world now is my baby back
Losing you made me act like a maniac
When they said you were gone, I couldn’t take it in
Even held a grudge against God, hope we can make ammends
But, I still shed tears every night
So when I’m there, you can show me what Heavens like, Right
Me and ya momma still miss ya
Before we sleep every night we kiss ya baby pictures
Damn, If I could change back the hands of time
For you to have a heartbeat, I would hand you mines
I know life is hard to understand at times
And I’m still tryna figure shit out..thinking
Just sittin by the window that I’m looking through
I see a little me everytime I look at you
Yeah your face was just like daddy
I bet you would’ve grew up to be just like daddy
It hurts deep down to hold you in my arms
One minute you there, one minute you gone
Its crazy, how my baby could pass away in a split second
Felt the devil was tryna teach me a sick lesson
And I still kept the crib that you never slept in
If i got rid of that, then whats really left
You still my number 1 just to say the least
Daddy loves your Jordan, Rest In Peace…..

Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 7

Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 7

After Tim and Pedro drink too much tequila (and the worm), the guys get wasted. When they wake up, they must deal with the “Attack of the Masked Bandito” and have to track down their missing couch. How will Rick deal with the loss of the couch?

Previous episodes:
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 1
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 2
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 3
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 4
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 5
Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 6

Powerhouse Season 2 Episode 7 (contains explicit language)