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Posted: May 2nd, 2005 under everything else.


So Eddie’s been sleeping in the living room for the past week cause he’s got a mold problem in his bedroom. What he originally thought was the flu was actually a case of mold poisoning.
 
At one point, Tim, who has had experience in these matters, went into Eddie’s bedroom and gave a clinical assessment of “Holy shit!”
 
One of my highlights of last week was watching Eddie’s face as he read a website describing the effects of mold poisoning. The funniest was when he found out that in extreme cases, the shit basically causes mental retardation and death. It’s funny because it’s not happening to me.
 
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Eddie and I visited Vivian on Saturday. She cooked us lunch. After lunch we heard an ice cream truck and we nearly busted down Vivian’s door trying to get out into the street.
 
Each ice cream bar cost $1. I got one. Eddie got one. So did Vivian.
 
Turns out I was out of cash so I asked Eddie to spot me. Eddie checks his wallet. He’s out of cash. Vivian hangs her head in shame and decides that she doesn’t really want ice cream anymore. Eddie asks the ice cream man if he takes ATM cards. I run back to my car and grab about $3 in parking change and buy us all ice cream. Once we stopped being embarrassed about the whole thing, the ice cream was quite good.


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Comment from brother
Time: May 4, 2005, 5:37 am

I upgraded my mac to Tiger. Now my iBlog is hosed. It’ll take a few days to fix, but it pretty much means that I’m going to lose all my comments again.

Comment from freddie
Time: May 10, 2005, 1:06 am

hmm. mine works.

Comment from Ashley
Time: May 10, 2005, 9:33 pm

haha.. I came across your blog during a freak computer freeze in which I clicked my mouse alot…and landed on your blog.. lol.. excuse me for reading into your personal life, but you’re quite the entertainer.

Comment from brother
Time: May 10, 2005, 10:54 pm

No problem, Ashley. It’s a blog. It’s public domain. Truly personal stuff - like the names, ages, and weights of my illegitimate children - all that goes into my private journal. Glad you entertained. =)

Comment from Ashley
Time: May 11, 2005, 10:42 am

Hi Dave,

It’s Mike.

Comment from Ashley
Time: May 13, 2005, 7:15 am

Dave, I have to ask, how is it being korean, well.. asian, and pursuing acting. Has hollywood let up at all? I was reading an article where cbs has not a single asian actor or actress in any of their sitcoms. It’s definitely not a rain on your parade. I’m fond of people like you. I’ve never really had Korean pride or anything remotely fob, but I support you. lol.

Also, I met john cho at the key arts awards last week. Fantastic guy. Are you friends with him as well?

Comment from brother
Time: May 13, 2005, 10:38 pm

hoboy…

I could spend days talking about this. But the truth of the matter is, I haven’t been in the game for that long. I’ve been acting for about 10 years, but I’ve only really been making a go at the business for the last 3-4 years. I just got a manager last year, and I just got into the Union this year. By all accounts, I’m a newbie.

But how is it being Korean/Asian and pursuing acting? From what I’ve seen and what little I’ve experienced, it’s just like being an actor of any ethnicity. It’s hard. The business is hard.

How much more difficult is it being Asian? I just saw a research paper last night citing Asian populations for certain locations, and their actual representation on TV shows based in those same locales (I’m sure I don’t need to let you know what the results were…) “Bringing Down the House” a story about Asian MIT students figuring out a system to beat Vegas odds, is being film by Brett Ratner with an all-white cast.

Being an Asian actor is a fight, but is it *that* much harder? The actors that I see complaining the most about racism in Hollywood, are the ones that I find to be the least talented. I know of a good handful of Asian actors that are making comfortable livings right now. These same actors are also really fucking *good*.

It’s *acting*. I don’t help design better farming methods with my performances. I don’t help cure cancer with my performances. If the world was destroyed and civilization had to rebuild itself, actors would be the least useful people around. My costar in “Proof” said to me, “David, acting is a noble profession. Don’t feel bad about what you do.” I told, Eddie -my roommate, and one of the successful handful of actors I talked about before - about this and he said, “Acting is the *noblest* profession.”

I don’t personally agree with that. But it *is* important. Influence used to be commanded by physical strength and military might. Now it’s commanded by information and culture. Storytellers (like actors) are the ones that present a people in a certain light good or bad.

Asians are not hugely respected in all western societies, American and otherwise. This is not to say the Asians are not *liked* by western societies, but I will stand by my theory that they are not truly *respected*. This will change over time. It will change gradually because of Asian and Asian American money. It will change because of the rise in influence of Asian superpower countries (ie China.) And it will change because of a gradual increase of Asian faces in the mass media. In that aspect, acting is very relevant, necessary, and noble.

I like what I do. I have a theater company that I run with my best friends in the world, and we put out shows that I am tremendously proud of. This provides me with nearly all of my artistic satisfaction.

In the meantime, I will spend the next few years seeing if I can make a living and support a family by doing this in Hollywood. I don’t want o

Comment from brother
Time: May 13, 2005, 10:40 pm

okay (continued…)
(ahem)

In the meantime, I will spend the next few years seeing if I can make a living and support a family by doing this in Hollywood. I don’t want ot be famous (other people do, and I have nothing against that.) I just want to make a living. If it becomes apparent at some point that that’s not going to happen. I’ll quit and do something else. And if that happens, there’ll be 10 other people picking up where I leave off. Hopefully some of those 10 people will *good* and have the right motivations for doing what they do.

whew!

I met John Cho *really* briefly. Nice guy. Kinda quiet. Withdrawn, almost. I like his work. Don’t know him that well, tho.

Well…I’m going to have to rebuild my entire blog to fix some screw ups in the software, which means that I’ll be updating again soon, but it also means that I’m going to lose all of the “comments” again. (sigh)

Comment from Ashley
Time: May 17, 2005, 7:29 pm

That is fantastic… I’m glad that the actng profession hasn’t sucked you out of reality. Thanks for taking your time to express your views on all this. I’m taking an acting class for fun, and I’ve just been blown away by how intelligent actors are… the complexity of acting is unbelievable! It’s definitely enjoyable, but more intense than I’ve ever thought it would be. I don’t really have plans to pursue acting… I’m just curious as to what the process is and the ‘world’ that actors are able to drop themselves into and almost instantaneously jump out of as well.

What is your theatre company? I live in LA and would love to check it out sometime… for productions and whatnot.

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