Some memorable moments...

Pandemic SOCIAL DISTANCING 2021:

• SAN DIEGO Beach Bungalow - Feb (visit Moe)
• Walk w. Andrea
• ✔ Long Beach Flea w. Hollis
• ✔ BIG BEAR snow cabin trip w. Hollis (sledding, phase 10, hikes, uk drag race, hot tub)
• ✔ Nicky Woo visit campfire
• Pending:
  • book deal w/ Chronicle
  • Rumi bbq (dog siblings and birth mom)
  • India volunteer trip - postponed
  • Kindred Spirit Sanctuary - farm volunteering - postponed

Pandemic SOCIAL DISTANCING 2020:

• ✔ 2020 FAMILY GAME CHALLENGE: monopoly (j), rummikub (h)(l), phase 10 (h, l, l, h), ...

2020:

• The Painter and the Thief ~
• Yellow Rose ~ ★★★★☆ (w. hollis)
• In and Of Itself ~ ★★★★☆ (hulu)
• Euphoria: Jules ~ ★★★★☆ (hbo)
• Euphoria: Rue ~ ★★★★★ (hbo)
• Tiger Woods ~ ★★★★☆ (hbo doc series)
• Night Stalker ~ ★★★★☆ (netflix doc series)
• Collective (doc on corruption) ~ ★★★★☆
• I Hate You Suzie ~ ★★★★☆ (hbo series)
• Small Axe: Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red White Blue, Education, Alex W ~ ★★★★★
• The Ripper ~ ★★★★☆ (hbo doc series)

• Stranger Things Drive-Thru Experience (Dec 2020)
• RuPaul Drive N' Drag Show (July 2020)
• Russell Brand : Recovery Live (June 2020) - cancelled - pandemic
• Sweet Land Opera: (Feb 2020)
• Isabella Rossellini‘s Link Link Circus (Feb 2020)
• Ali Wong (Feb 2020)
• Jo Koy (Feb 2020)
• Trevor Noah (Dec 2019)
• Jerry Saltz: on art (Nov 2019)
• Hannah Gadsby (July 2019)
• Russell Brand and David Lynch in Conversation: Transcendental Meditation (June 2019)
• Jordan Downs Illumination, Watts Projects Community Theater (May 2019)
• Dear Evan Hansen NY (Apr 2019 w.H/J)
• The Wolves (March 2019 H&J)
• For The Love Of... (March 2019)
• Aziz Ansari (Feb 2019)
• Wicked (Dec 2018 w.Hollis)
• Neal Brennan (Nov 2018)

Reading more journalism than books for a while now...

• Acid For The Children: A Memoir by Flea
• Mutations, Sam Mcpheeters (lead singer Born Against)
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir, Viv Albertine
• Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls (Nina's book)
• On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
• Less, Andrew Greer
• Black Card (Chris's book)
• H is for Hawk
• Stay Sexy Don't Get Murdered (Georgia's book)
• Dirty John & Dr. Death (audio)
• This One Summer (gn)
• Spinning (gn)
• Ink in Water (gn)

• racist fascist president
• january wildfires (killing billions of species, including my favorite koala bears)
• hollis meds reaction
• pandemic hits (as usual, human proximity to animals)
  • an odd toilet paper shortage for no reason
  • friend hospitalized and at risk for 17 days
• rising anti-science sentiment
• continued racist murders by law enforcement
• police brutality/violence against peaceful protesters
• mass unemployment
• confirmed alien visit
• mass shootings and continued gun violence

2021:

• New Order -- OCT
• Flaming Lips — AUG

2020:

• Wild Nothing + Beach Fossils -- CANCELLED
• Billie Eilish (hollis) -- CANCELLED
• The Rapture -- CANCELLED
• Cruel World Festival
  • Blondie, Violent Femmes, Echo & The Bunnymen, Devo, The Psychedelic Furs, Gary Numan, Berlin, Bauhaus, She Wants Revenge, The Church, Public Image Ltd., English Beat, Cold Cave, Black Marble, Marc Almond, TR/ST, Blaqk Audio, The KVB, Christian Death, Drab Majesty, Soft Kill, Sextile, Gene Loves Jezebel -- CANCELLED
• Black Marble -- CANCELLED
• ✔ Blackwater Holylight -- MARCH
• ✔ Undercover Dream Lovers -- FEB

I’m sometimes asked why I identify as Korean American. There’s a lot of mixed race people in the world and it may puzzle some as to why we choose our minority heritage. I think the answer lies with our personal experience. Whether we choose it or not, we will have a minority experience and it will frame the entirety of our life.

• I watched as my mom struggled to learn English from a book till late into the night, listening and practicing pronunciation with recordings to try to remove her accent that often caused her to be treated differently. One day she told me I just can’t do anymore. This is as far as I can go.
• I inherited violence that originated from the poverty caused by the Japanese occupation of Korea for decades and the Korean War.