May 05, 2003

//@//in_case_you_forgot...
//f.eel.ing//something in between good and bad, with guilt sprinkled in the center
//song_of_the_moment//so impossible by dashboard confessional

//i'm_not_a((good))_person_any.more
i don't know...

the date on friday was really good, i mean, it was fun--even if the beach plans got a little soggy...but--yeah...i mean, friday was good. sara enjoyed it, and so did i.

but, i just don't know.

i don't think that i think the same things that i used to about relationships. i'm definitely approaching them differently...and to be completely honest, i'm not looking to dive into any relationships at the moment...

and so, that leaves me at this point: i feel like the typical-guy ass-hole that women always complain about.

quite frankly, i don't know what to do about it.

whatever...i had my fun then, and this is where i am now.

//more_about((better luck tomorrow))
from what i've heard, the audience group has been changing within the past weeks: it has changed from the primarily asian-american audience, to people of all races seeing the movie...which i think is great.

unfortunately, i don't think that some people can really get the magnitude of how important this movie is to the asian community.

one of my white friends thinks that things are really just fine and dandy with the asian-american community in the entertainment industry...which is very far from the case...he thinks that things are just rolling along and that there isn't a problem...which is not true...but, it is easy to say when most of the movies out there have scripts written where white characters can portray themselves however they want.

the thing about blt is that it was a script that was not about being asian, and bitching about being asian--it was a movie where asian-americans were free to be portrayed however they wanted to be portrayed. the fact is, the movie would have been just as gripping if it had been cast with white leads, african-american leads, latino-american leads, middle-eastern-american leads, whatever. the movie wasn't about being asian...the hype surrounding it was...

but, i don't think that people are getting it...which is kind of disturbing.

yeah...things are getting better...but there is still a problem when it comes to people of color being portrayed in the entertainment industry.

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