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Friday Fuckery: The Greatest Cat GIF of All Time

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on April 20, 2013 by aznheartthrob

The Best Bars in America (according to the word of AzN)

Posted in Best of, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2013 by aznheartthrob

Cause I’ve always wanted to make this list and folks always be asking me for recommendations when they’re “forced” to visit any of these cities. Why even bother going to some of these cities? Because when I travel through Asia, I’m one of many. I’m Thai in Thailand, Vietnamese in Vietnam and for damn sure I’m Korean in Korea. But when you’re in most of middle America, you stick out like a bright yellow jaundiced thumb. So in no particular order other than me just trying to remember these drunken nights:

Buckhorn Exchange

Buckhorn Exchange, Denver CO: The oldest restaurant in Denver is over 200 years old and has a bar upstairs with Macallan 16 for $12. There’s taxidermy everything on the walls, even a zebra, which would only be possible if Teddy Roosevelt himself shot and killed it in Africa and brought it back (which he did).

Wood Tavern

Wood Tavern, Miami FL: By the time I got to the Wynwood District, apparently a one block version of Silverlake in the heart of Miami, I was sick of beach deco and sugary tropical drinks. After a dinner at the Shepard Fairey designed restaurant across the street (not as bad as it sounds), we walk into this bar and all we see is cheap beer, a taco stand inside a car and a trivia night going on in the auditorium in the back. Loved it so much we went back the next night and the whole block is practically closed down for the weekly biker meet up. In any other hipster bar in the country I would mean bicycle. But these are Harleys and it was a sight to behold.

Murray Bar, Livingston MT: As seen on No Reservations, the chef next door makes a mean steak and even invited us to some hot springs up the road the next day. That’s how nice they are in Montana. I’ll also never forgot the woman who left the bar for a minute and used her wallet and her flip phone to save her seat and drink. Where the hell am I?

Nye’s Polonaise

Nye’s Polonaise and Polka Bar, Minneapolis MN: One side of the bar has a lady on a piano who plays along with your karaoke stylings. The other side is an award-winning polka band. You can go back and forth and did I mention you can order piroshkies here?

Taos Mesa Brewing

Taos Mesa Brewery, Taos NM: Steel corrugated tilt-up brewing company with live music and great beer in the MIDDLE OF NO WHERE New Mexico. Drive a few miles down and look straight down the Rio Grande. Get scared and go get drunk.

Kennedy School

McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland OR: Portland is the greatest drinking town in America. I said it. These McMenamin guys convert anything and everything to a bar: hospital, hotel, and in this case, an elementary school. The classrooms are now hotel rooms, the boiler room is a restaurant, the school auditorium is a music venue and everyone wants to go to detention (its a bar, duh).

Robert’s Western World

Robert’s Western World, Nashville TN: I don’t like country music, but give me beer, bourbon and BBQ and I will line dance all night at this honky tonk just down the street from the Grand Ole Opry.

Riverhorse Inn, Milwaukee WI: So this one time I went here cause a random electro DJ crew was playing and next thing I know I was buying a round for the bar (its Milwaukee prices folks) and convinced some couple to drive me back to my hotel. So yea, this place is awesome.

Whiskey River

Whiskey River

The Whisky River, Charlotte NC: Dale Earnhardt Jr’s bar in downtown Charlotte is huge and has a mechanical bull. Went with a group of folks from NYC and we saw two girls ride it the same time and all we could talk about was how ironic this bar would be if it was in Brooklyn.

Angel’s Share

Angel’s Share, New York NY: Like everyone else, I like this bar cause no one knows its there. Which is a lie, cause now everyone knows its there.

Big

Big, San Francisco CA: Just like Angel’s Share, its hard to find. No menus, the bartenders have a conversation with you and find out your favorite ingrediants and liquor and make something according to your táste notés. They don’t even have a WEBSITE folks!

Zig Zag Cafe, Seattle WA: Best Fernet cocktails ever. Will make you zig zag back and forth on the way home, especially up those stairs.

Bar None, Vancouver BC: Some white girl with a tattoo arm sleeve stepped up to ME at this bar and it was fantastic. The bar itself? OK.

Maker’s Mark Distillery, Loretto KY: I can drink Maker’s Mark for free and all I have to do is drive an hour outside of Louisville to do it? Done. Bonus points: only place in the world to buy the moonshine version of Maker’s.

Marvin

Marvin, Washington DC: If the Thievery Corporation opened up a restaurant/bar and named it after their favorite singer it would be this. Cause they did. Did I mentioned how great laid back and awesome the music is? I wonder why.

Jacoby’s German Biergarten, Detroit MI: Within stumbling distance of the Renaissance Hotel across the river from Canada. The bar tender played hyphy all night for us when he found out we were from SF and Oakland and then he convinced us to go to a secret bar in a warehouse 5 miles from downtown where they only served beers and balloons of nitrous. Did I mentioned how fucked up Detroit is these days? Or how awesome Detroit techno is? Cause all the above is interrelated.

New JINBO Music Video

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on January 18, 2013 by aznheartthrob

Real smooth R&B/hip hop track by Korean based rapper JINBO. Real real smoove.

Michelle Ang Comes to the States

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on October 8, 2012 by aznheartthrob

So this new MTV show might be a new My So-Called Life for the Mark Zuckerberg Generation, but heydidyouseethechinesegirl in this trailer?

Cause I did. And now that I know she’s a Chinese-Malaysian-Kiwi living in NYC, I’m watching Flight of the Conchords reruns to work on my accent… just in case I run into her while camped out in front of MTV Studios.

And has anyone checked out her New Zealand film My Wedding And Other Secrets? I plan to in case its a Chinese version of “Boy“, the best film of 2010.

But probs not.

Kickstart the Eastern Addition!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2012 by aznheartthrob

The masterminds behind Poleng Lounge, The Summit SF, SOM, and the WoW Truck bring you a pop-up series that will feature unheralded chefs cooking some amazing Asian dishes in the Western Addition at Vinyl Cafe. That was a long-winded way to just say check out the Eastern Addition, if only for the witty name (get it? Eastern tastes in the Western Addition?).

Kickstart the campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/easternaddition/the-eastern-addition

Total Recall’s 3-Boobed Woman is…

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on August 2, 2012 by aznheartthrob

Kaitlyn Leeb. And yes, she is half Chinese, half Irish and from Canada. No, pervert, all three boobs are not real. And no, I do not think this was a wise career move. Why? Do you remember the name of the original three-boobed woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall? Right, me neither.

Standby for Total Recall midnight showing live tweets in-line at the Daly City Century 20 tonight. 

The New Chad Hugo

Posted in Awesomeness, Uncategorized with tags , , on July 17, 2012 by aznheartthrob

I never ever ever thought I would like another producer the way I like Chad Hugo. I mean, I wanted I grew up wanting to BE this guy.

He basically created the soundtrack of my youth (along with Pharrell) the day they produced Rump Shaker (and on). And I had no idea until now that another producer would ever come close. But that day is now and that producer is Malay. AKA James Ho. Who you say? Well, the guy’s been pretty secretive, but he’s the only producer that Frank Ocean really works with full time. So he was all over the Nostalgia Lite/Ultra, mixtape. And he’s ALL OVER the best R&B album of the DECADE: Channel Orange. My friends are all so f’n sick of me singing the praises of this album but hot damn is this Malay/Frank Ocean/Pharrell track HOT:

Pharrell + Another Asian Producer = Gold

So what else has Malay done? I have no idea, he’s so damn secretive. I found an Okayplayer interview here that makes no sense. And he’s on a top 5 list of producers to watch out for here. But other than that, I just know he’s in this photo:

Second from the right next to FO. Or third from the left if you’re more of a John Legend kinda person.

But other than that, I have no idea. He DID produce the (second) to last great John Legend song

So I’m gonna need more info on this guy. Hopefully his stock blows up after this album gets the respect it deserves.

Bruce Lee Tribute Day at AT&T Park

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on July 5, 2012 by aznheartthrob

Why a September 4th Bruce Lee Tribute Day in the San Francisco Giants AT&T ballpark rather than the Mariner’s Safeco Field? Cause he was born in SF YO! How can you NOT want to go to this game and cop this and also see his wife throw the first pitch?

Wait, its $200 for a ticket to get the bobblehead? Maybe I’ll just go to Star Wars tribute night instead… Shit that’s $200 also? I’ll just watch from home…

Dear Olivia Munn

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on July 4, 2012 by aznheartthrob

Dear Olivia Munn,

This is your last chance. Yes, you are very very pretty. And I’m a big fan of how you were able to manipulate maneuver your way into every fanboy’s heart by way of Maxim Magazine covers and pretty much everything (Olivia Munn eats a hot dog). I mean everything (Olivia Munn does the Truffle Shuffle). And everything (Olivia Munn jumps into a pie in a French maid outfit) you’ve done on G4′s Attack of the Show. But everyone you’ve worked for at G4 hasn’t been your biggest fan (I heard they had a huge party when you left, inside information) and I think people have been realizing you’re not the best actress in the world. BCB recently got an advance copy of Jay Chandrasekhar’s latest film, The Babymakers, and a full review of that might be coming in the future. But the short one would be: “Olivia Munn’s decent acting, coupled with the guy that made Parks and Recs so much better when he left the show (and by the way he doesn’t know what a City Planner does even though he played one on tv) makes The Babymaker’s the second worst Broken Lizard affiliated movie out there as long as they still claim Club Dread as their own”.

Moving on, this letter to Olivia Munn is simple. This is your LAST chance. The great thing about being on an Aaron Sorkin show is you really only need to know how to read. And you know what the best actors on Aaron Sorkin shows know how to do? They know how to read FAST. See: Rob Lowe’s Sam Seaborn, West Wing. See: Matthew Perry as Matt Albie in 60 Studio on the Sunset Strip. See: every scene in Moneyball and The Social Network. So please Olivia, I’m rooting for you. Don’t mess this one up. I forgave you for leaking your n00d photos to Chris Pine cause he’s a fellow Cal grad class of 2002 (GO BEARS!). But I will not forgive you for messing up Newsroom and your career. Good luck.

 

 

Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on June 9, 2012 by aznheartthrob

Scene of the Crime, Detroit. Vacant since the murder.

Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now

A nationwide Google Hangout* townhall with leading civil rights leaders from around the country

Saturday, June 23, 2012
2 pm EST/11 am PST/8 am HST

featuring Congressmember Judy Chu (CA-32), CAIR-SF Executive Director Zahra Billoo

OCA Executive Director Tom Hayashi, Asian American Justice Center Executive Director Mee Moua and more

Guest Moderator Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man

VC30, presented by APAs for Progress:

In 1982, Vincent Chin was the victim of a hate crime murder in Detroit (check out a previous BCB post for more info on a documentary about this story). Thirty years later, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to face discrimination and bullying. In fact, more than half of Asian Americans report being bullied in the high school class room, the highest of any racial group. In light of recent tragedies like the suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen and the continuing effects of 9/11, what can Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders do to stand up against racism and discrimination?

Please join APAs for Progress for a one-hour panel discussion with leading voices from the nonprofit, legal and judicial communities to address these timely issues. Viewing parties have been organized in more than 20 cities and individuals can tweet in questions at #VC30. To host a party, all you need is an internet connection, a screen and comfortable seating. Contact APAs for Progress to see how you can be involved.

Viewing parties and cities include: Albany • Atlanta • Austin • Binghamton, NY • Boston • Chicago • Cleveland • Corvallis, OR • Denver • Detroit • Grand Rapids, MI • Hartford, CT • Houston • Ithaca •  Los Angeles • Lowell, MA • Minneapolis • Morgantown, WV • New York • Philadelphia • Phoenix • Raleigh • Sacramento • San Francisco • Seattle • Washington D.C. • Wichita, and more. To join a viewing party, go here.

And get your special limited edition 30th anniversary V. Chin t-shirts available for a limited time, from Blacklava here.

* For more information on Google Hangout, please check out these links:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1261833
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2561374 (hangouts on Air Manual)

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