Selected moments to remember...

2020:

• India - volunteer trip?
• Nicky Woo visit - Nov?
• Magda, neighborly hang?
• Johnny, Palm Springs?

CV Pandemic Moments:

• Sequoia National Park cabin - Aug
• ✔ Hollis Bday night w/Tiease, James, Luna, Renold
• ✔ Balboa Island trip w/hollis
  • ✔ Newport to Balboa Bike Ride
  • ✔ Jet Ski
  • ✔ Spotting: dolphins, sea lions, minke whales
  • ✔ Crystal Cove tidepools + State Park
  • ✔ Little Corona Beach + Tide pools
• ✔ RuPaul's Drive'N Drag Show - met Eureka from We're Here

2020:

• Immigration Nation ~ ★★★★☆ (doc series)
• Sam Jay: 3am in the morning ~ ★★★★☆
• Downtown 81 ~ ★★★★☆ (doc)
• Tell Me Who I Am ~ ★★★★☆ (doc)
• Mucho Mucho Amor (Life of Walter Mercado) ~ ★★★★☆ (netflix doc)
• I'll Be Gone In The Dark ~ ★★★★★ (hbo doc)
• Jewel’s Catch One ~ ★★★★★ (doc)
• Midnight Gospel, Episode 8, "Mouse of Silver" ~ ★★★★★ (animation)
• DesoLAtion Center ~ ★★★★★ (doc)
• Good Trouble: John Lewis ~ ★★★★★ (doc)
• Raising Victor Vargas ~ ★★★★★
• The Confession Killer ~ ★★★★☆ (...

2021:

• New Order -- OCT
• Flaming Lips — JAN

2020:

• Wild Nothing + Beach Fossils -- DEC
• Billie Eilish (hollis) -- postponed
• The Rapture -- postponed
• 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
• Black Marble -- postponed
• ✔ Blackwater Holylight -- MARCH
• ✔ Undercover Dream Lovers -- FEB

• 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)
• Cirque Du Soleil, Beatles LOVE (Nov 2018 - Vegas w. Hollis)

• 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)
• My Friend Dahmer (gn)
• The Sellout
• Modern Romance: An Investigation

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.

HELP:

• Donate blood
• ✔ Donate groceries to a food bank
• ✔ Donate to Unicef, Oxfam, Mercy Corps
• ✔ Volunteer to grocery shop and deliver for elderly, friend's families
• Volunteer with Meals on Wheels (can't do)
• ✔ Donate money to feed nurses & doctors
• ✔ Hospital supplies donation (Huntington Hospital, Pasadena)
• ✔ Provide care package to neighbors

ISOLATION IDEAS:

• Drive In Movie
• Set phone dates with old and new friends
• Play board games
  • My Favs: pictionary, scrabble, listography, taboo, rummikub, phase 10, boggle, settlers of catan, code names, monopoly, sca...