There are parts of San Francisco where the travel guides and city councils do NOT want to speak of and try to hide away from the rest of San Francisco’s tourist-y appeal.
Such places like Hunter’s Point, or Sunnydale are neighborhoods where the housing projects are basically placed at.
One such neighborhood that had always gained much attention to people who live in San Francisco and some who visit would be the Tenderloin district or the TL for short. When Conan O’Brien did his show in San Francisco for a week, the Orpheum Theater where his show was set at was considered part of the TL.
The TL is known for it’s gang banging, drug dealing, prostituting, homeless filling, violent trendsetting locals. Recently, a guy named Adam decided to create a website devoted to the streets of the Tenderloin by aiming his webcams directly on the streets below his home. So far, it has gather much attention from SF citizens and people outside of the city. If you want to check out what the mean streets of San Francisco looks like, what the TL looks like, check out www.adamsblock.com.
Edit/ Well, apparently some asshats out there decided to go out on the streets where the webcam was aiming and put up a banner linking to child porn or something. The guy, Adam, was harassed at work and basically fucked around with for letting that banner get away on his cam. Poor guy. People sending him death threats and all.
Being an Oriental myself, I have been in the vicinity of many other Asian folks and I feel as if I have the eligibility to say which race is ruder than another and list them accordingly to how I had previous interactions with them.
The list goes as followed:
1. Chineses
2. Korean
3. Vietnamese and other Southerns Asians (Non-Chinese, Japanese, Koreans)
4. Taiwanese
5. Pacific Islanders (Filipino, Samoan, etc.)
6. Indians
7. Japanese
What do you get when you take one part animated film, one part sci-fi 1950’s nostalgia, aliens and a 50-foot tall woman? You get Dreamworks’ new film Monsters Vs Aliens.
The Earth is being overtaken by aliens and it’s up to an unlikely band of heroes to take them down. Those heroes, the planets monsters.
So being in Japan, I was watching Japanese television heavily. So coming back to the States made me sort of miss it. I searched around the internet and found a program that lets you watch live streaming Japanese programs over the internet albeit with bad quality.
A program called “KeyHoleTV” let’s you watch Japanese TV shows that are currently running over in Japan. Though it only shows the main Japanese channels such as TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, NTV, TBS, and Fuji TV but that’s pretty much all you need to watch if you’re interested in all the popular J-dramas and anime shows. It’s pretty cool since you’re watching what people over there are currently watching with the commercials and all. Check it out, KeyHoleTV…and if you’re from Japan, sorry I have nothing for you.
So I should of told you folks that I’m back from Japan even though I don’t think I updated you folks that I was going to Japan in the first place. So yes, I am back from Japan safely, don’t worry about me.
I’ll post some pictures sooner or later, maybe even an audio from abroad and some videos of me winning shit at a UFO catcher arcade. Yeah. Enough.
It’s like 3AM so I may rewrite this late, it looks terrible…or maybe not.
Throughout the years I’ve gone through many of Ben Stiller’s comedy flicks. Some were good, others were a bit of a drag. I personally liked the film Mystery Men, it puts a new twist on superhero characters. I also liked Zoolander because as stupid as that movie was it was funny. Although with those funny stuff comes the bad movies like Envy, Along Came Polly, The Heartbreak Kid, or Duplex. Stiller may have his hit or misses but his current film, Tropic Thunder was quite a blast to watch.
Quite literally a celebritude (my word for a multitude of celebrity cameos) fanfare. First thing that you’ll notice about this film is how vast of the celebrity cameo it has, not only by it’s main stars (Stiller, Black and Downey Jr.) but other celebrities such as **SPOILERS**
Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Tyra Bank, Christine Taylor, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lance Bass and the ever crazy Tom Cruise (in an incredible role, I might say).
**SPOILERS END**
About the story, yes there is a story in this Ben Stiller film. Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr play three high profiled prima donna movie stars who are cast in roles to play American soldiers in a Vietnam war film, but as luck has it the film is threatened to be shutdown because of it’s high cost. So what do they do? They send actors into a dangerously warring territory to survive for their life…and film it at the same time.
What I liked about this film is how Stiller likes to over exaggerate things like what he did with supermodels in Zoolander but instead he creates these over the top movie actors and expands that though by putting them in a real life dangerous situation. Almost all of the characters in the movie are over the top. Stiller plays Tugg Speedman, an action-packed superstar who’s films have lately been bombs at the box office. Speedman is probably the most intensely ignorant and idiotic character in the movie caring only for his superstar status and trying to jump start his dwindling career back to stardom. Jack Black plays the character of the Eddie Murphy type of guy who’s always doing family friendly dumb comedies but with a history of hidden heroin abuse. And then you also have, probably a fan favorite, Robert Downey Jr as the Australian method actor who stays in character even after the film stops rolling. In the film he is portraying the role of a 1960’s blaxpoitation African-American male with the jive talking and the deep, gruffy voice and he keeps playing that character throughout the film. It might seemed a bit racist to have Downey in blackface, but truthfully, he’s probably the most sincere and favorable character in the movie while both Stiller and Black’s characters are both kind of mumbling idiots.
It’s good to see actors making fun of, well, actors. It’s good to see a movie that’s not afraid to make fun of a lot of things, this film makes fun of a lot of things: the overweight, black people, war, heroin, and at one point poking fun of the mentally retarded by having Stiller portray a retarded boy in a fake movie. That caused an uproar to the point where there were protesters picketing the film because of the heavy use of making fun of the mentally retarded. These folks need to chill out, the film wasn’t targeting the mentally retarded, it was targeting Hollywood in general and it’s cliches and industry stupidity in cashing out.
But whatever to them, this is a good throw away movie and it’s a funny catch. Being that it’s rated-R it’s not made to be watch by everyone. Come on, rated-R movies are here to offend, go back and watch your G-rated shit if you want safety. If you want to have some shits and giggles, check the film out, it’s a good laugh.
