It seems like part of Min’s education in America is to be….engulfed in urban hip hop culture. Any hint of her being Korean seems to be only in her accent and what’s on her ID. However, she seems to be having fun…..even though it’s kind of awkward how the people around her are getting her to mimic them.

 I’ve really grown to like this director.
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“At one point, Lin was also slated to direct a remake of Park Chan-Wook’s Korean action-thriller Old Boy, so we wondered whether that might be something that will still happen. “That was a situation where the studio had purchased a property and I love the original movie,” he said. “Everybody has their opinions on remakes and if the goal was to basically make a Xerox copy, then I wouldn’t want to make that. It’s a tough movie to remake. It’s a big challenge. In the last year, if anything, I’ve been protecting it a little bit, because if it’s not the right situation, then I’m probably not the right guy for it. I think it’s one of those things that came and as a young filmmaker, I just want to try things whether I succeed or fail. That one, because it’s at a big studio, and I think for all the pieces to fall right and to be able to make the film correctly, I don’t know if I’m even the right guy to do that. These are things that I’ve learned, especially with other films, sometimes you go and make it just to make it and have fun with it. That was one where I was very protective and if one element wasn’t correct—that’s where I’m standing. If it’s not totally there, it’s not worth it. I personally haven’t been able to find the right fit nor the right rhythm, so we’ll see. I honestly will probably move on from that.”

Justin Lin on Fast & Furious 4, Old Boyhttp://www.comingsoon.net

They seem to be incorporating jump rope dance into her choreography.

Watch it when it comes out and support it because if you don’t, the terrorists will win.

Jak Malowane

strikes again. Just look at them shine…..

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He’s a smart ass sarcastic son-of-a-bitch…but I respect him. He travels the world and immerses himself with other cultures, eating anything out of respect to the people who feed him. Whether it be scrambled eggs cooked in sand, rocket fuel moonshine, or a bull’s penis, he’s game.

“”Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone … Bad food is fake food … food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that’s too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy – it’s bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation….as much as it is also about freshness.” - AB

Career:

“Bourdain gained popularity from his New York Times bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, released in 2000. Kitchen Confidential describes the darker side of the culinary world, and serves as a memoir of Bourdain’s life as well. He is also author of the culinary mysteries Gone Bamboo and A Bone in the Throat, the popular history Typhoid Mary (An Urban Historical), and the cookbook, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook. In addition there is A Cook’s Tour, which was made in conjunction with a TV series of the same name on the Food Network. In July 2005, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations premiered on the Travel Channel.

Among his many epicurean exploits, Bourdain is famous for consuming sheep testicles in Morocco, ant eggs in Puebla, Mexico, a raw seal eyeball as part of a traditional Inuit seal hunt, and a whole cobra — beating heart, blood, bile, and meat — in Vietnam. According to Bourdain, the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten is a Chicken McNugget, though he did declare the warthog rectum he ate in Namibia “the worst meal of [his] life”. The FOX Network produced a short-lived sitcom adaptation of Kitchen Confidential, which aired in the fall of 2005. The character “Jack Bourdain” was based loosely on the biography and persona of Anthony Bourdain.

Bourdain is an unrepentant smoker and drinker, and a former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In Kitchen Confidential he writes: “We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in [refrigerator] at every opportunity to ‘conceptualize.’ Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Pot, quaaludes, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, Seconal, Tuinal, speed, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we’d send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get.”^[7] In a nod to Bourdain’s two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, renowned chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu including a mid-meal “coffee and cigarettes” dish of foie gras with tobacco-infused custard.^[8] Because of his liberal use of light profanity and sexual references in No Reservations, the network has prepended viewer discretion advisories to each segment. [wikipedia]“

Eating balut.

In Korea:

Kollaboration 8!

Over $3,000 in Total Cash Prizes!

Grand Prize - $2,000

2nd Place - $500

3rd Place - $200

Freestyle Dance $100 in cash and prizes.

Freestyle Singing $100 in cash and prizes.

Raffle Prizes - Over $100 in raffle prizes

Same should be said for people with fake tattoos. It may be painless and it won’t be permanent…but that’s what it is, fake and it cheapens the artform. It simply says poser. Rain needs to stay in Korea and Asia.

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A real tattoo: Shoko Tendo

In 1987, a 12-year-old Oka was featured on the cover of Time Magazine titled “Those Asian-American Whiz Kids”. Though he was not featured in the article itself, he was acquainted with the photographer who conducted the shoot.[2] He has an IQ of 180.[3] Ten years later, he graduated from Brown University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics…

….Oka is fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish. His hobbies include kendo[9] where he carries the rank of shodan,[10] playing video games, watching and writing romantic comedies, playing the piano, and singing. He avidly collects manga. He attended elementary school at Mirman School and graduated high school from Harvard-Westlake School in 1992. He has stated in an interview on G4tv that he has played World of Warcraft extensively and was an officer of a guild in the past on the Spinebreaker realm.

Heroes Star Masi Oka – Crushing on Kristen Bell?

Could there be romance brewing on the Heroes set?

If Ellen DeGeneres has her way, there would be.

During an interview on Friday, the talk show host gently grilled Heroes star Masi Oka, 32, about his Emmy date – and new costar – Kristen Bell.

“Is there a little something going on?” DeGeneres inquired about their relationship.

Answered a coy Oka: “Kristin is an absolutely amazing individual both on and off screen. We’re great friends. Everyone has a crush on her.”

But DeGeneres pressed on, ribbing the actor and asking, “So you do have a crush on her?”

“Everyone does,” Oka replied, laughing when DeGeneres would not drop it. “Is she a good kisser or not?” she asked.

As audience members cracked up, Oka ventured: “I’m sure she is.”

Not content to simply (and jokingly) pry into Oka’s private life, the talk show host went one step further: She played matchmaker, revealing that Oka would be the first bachelor in her “Men of Heroes” dating series.

“Ladies, if you’re looking for someone to finally explain what a five-tupple is while cuddling in front of a warm with a glass of Rose, then Masi Oka is your man,” DeGeneres said in her mock dating ad. She continued: “Masi is a Capricorn who enjoys doing karaoke, playing Tetris and being nominated for best supporting actor. Not only can this hero bend the space-time continuum and empty the cache on your Web browser, he can also do a mean human beat box.”

A good sport, Oka replied the best way he could: He beatboxed on the spot.

While the segment may have been all in good fun, Oka is single – and looking. “I’m looking for love myself and I haven’t had much luck there,” he told PEOPLE recently. “I’m single and available.”

And though love may not be blooming between Oka and his costars – yet – he does broach the subject with fellow Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere occasionally.

“She’s the one that gives advice,” he said of his 18-year-old costar.”Hayden always takes care of all of us.”

Credit: People