Another week goes by...

Back home, doing my usual chilling... got some more letters in the mail today, you know... the thin kind. I guess I should be thankful some companies are even bothering to send me a letter at all to reject me. Most places these days, it's postcards or no response at all.

Oh well.

In other news, at least there's justice elsewhere in the world. The Houston Rockets beat the LA Lakers in a nail-biting game tonight. Go Yao and Steve Franchise, I mean, Francis... I bet Shaq and Kobe was feeling silly.

In other Chinese news, Asian America's current freestyle hip-hop hero, Jin tha Emcee was in town today to do a show. Check this doooooope freestyle he did on the radio to beat of "In Da Club", a sick Dre beat that had the misfortune of 50 cent rhyming on it - it's gravy, tho... Jin redeemed it totally. Dre should be making beats for Jin, not 50 cent! Shoot, the only reason 50 cent probably got hooked up is because he rolls with Eminem...

Anyways, I got a lot more respect for Jin as both an artist and a person - not only was his freestyle blistering, a kid who goes to my church got to meet Jin, get a picture with him and get his autograph. The show tonight was for 21+, so the kid (his name is Jeff), wasn't able to go and it would have been totally out of the way for Jin to just meet him, but he still did it - because Jeff is such a big fan. Bear in mind, Jin has NEVER met Jeff before in person, only chatted with him on IM and over e-mail. Jin could have just have easily ignored him, but he didn't. Pretty cool thing for him to do - it's always great to hear about artists recognizing their fans.

I just hope when Jin drops his album, the quality will be on par with his freestyles... perhaps with him, Yao Ming, and Ichiro, it'll be the dawn of a golden age for Asian America.

Maybe even non-Asian Americans will *GASP*... recognize Asian Americans as NORMAL people?

I suppose we can always hope.
posted by G at 2:08 AM   |

in?scrip?tion (n-skrip-shun)n.
1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
4. The usually informal dedication of an artistic work.
5. Jeremiah 31:33