Charity Gig

This coming Saturday a handful of foreign bands will unite to play some Stones songs and raise money to help a group of orphans get bikes. The 경생원 orphanage is out in Gangdong (my old stomping grounds) and mainly houses older kids who are no longer candidates for adoption. Currently, 57 kids call it home.
I’ll [...]

Better better better ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I haven’t hung out with Hero in about a month due to our busy schedules, but a funny thing happened when I logged onto myspace today. Under my Friend Subscriptions it read
“The video korean baby singing hey jude was added to Tom’s profile.”
Some random goth girl named ‘tinkerbelldies’ snatched the vid from youtube and uploaded [...]

Korean Movie Review – The Hypnotized (2004), Scarlet Letter, and a question about sex in Korean cinema

Plot:
A psychiatrist fails to help a mental patient during her stay in hospital. The doctor becomes obsessed with his former patient, seeks her on the outside and uses hypnosis to fulfill his sexual desires.
The trailer:

Thoughts:
This movie is a glorified Skinemax flick featuring the star-studded debut of Kim Hye-soo’s heaving breasts. [...]

Professors is smart!

Fun fact: Student tuition pays for University office parties like this one, and the one I’ll be frequenting today. Tuition will be rising 9% at my university next semester, which means bigger better parties!
One of my coworkers is quitting to go take care of her baby boy, so we’re having a send-off lunch at a [...]

T-SHIRTS and Businesses

Some fun pics collected over the last month.

I tried to take a picture of just the shirt, but she felt insulted, so I’ll leave it unedited to respect her wishes.

Punk Baby! This was in Saipan.

Hard to read I know… it says “GENTLE: The Season In Which We Can Feel The Translucent Taste”
…with your fanny-pack

more babies

THE [...]

All the livelong Dae

Yesterday I gave a presentation about the college to a couple of visiting professors from Thailand, followed by a tour and a fancy lunch of modernized Korean palace food.
One of the professors skipped out early to meet with his family but the other one eager to chat. I learned that in Thailand it’s incredibly difficult [...]