Monday, April 30, 2007

The Freaks come out at night…April 30, 2007 - Current Mood - winky

In the past couple weeks I found myself at Emily’s art opening at Transmissions Gallery, where the pieces were dark, whimsical, and charming, and the band, Continental, was skillfully jamming away. That night I wore my red leather Thriller jacket and hoochie red leather pumps with 90’s bling buckles, so my attention span was not happening cause my Michael Jackson dance moves in inappropriate places were,..,..Went to the Mallard for a sec after, then ended up at the LW for last call….Liz and I decided to get lunch at the flea market Sunday, which for me consisted of a pork tamale, a lengua taco, and two scoops of Mexican ice cream in a waffle cone. Ran walked Denise’s two very hyper, Beagles, and got a house tour, and finally got to bear witness to the Robles’ “million dollar” bathroom. Ended up at the Hush Hush the other night night with Dee, Sara, Jason, Ida, and Kelly, which was kinda like bizarro night there. First, I walked in on a group of unfriendly fortysomethings doing coke in the bathroom cause they didn’t bother to lock the door. Then these same people were celebrating a birthday with full on, bare buttocks on the bar, birthday spankings...it was a bit of a disturbing sight - total birth control!!

On my mind this week:

1. Coincidences are weird and sorta funny....and so many lately that it’s kinda spooky...

2. There was no Michelle and Liz booties at this month’s Bootybassment, so come May there will be some double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple trouble on the Knockout’s dancefloor that’s for sure!!!

3. For someone who is quite cryptic, I take what people say very literally because I am extremely gullible.

4. Despite yesterday’s snack with Dee and Joey, I’m still having my Wienerschnitzel attack!!

5. I forgot Beyonce had a last name...Dee thought this was funny...

6. Theresa and Liz, you ladies are throwing off my schedule!! See what happens when
I miss you guys!!

7. Opening sequence to The Hunger

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Hats are so hot right now...

8....umm I actually own a couple versions of this outfit....

I found it, and it’s more fabulous than I had even imagined! Thanks Joey!! ;)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Real trannies don’t have hips…April 17, 2007 - Current mood: Content

The past couple weeks of extreme socializing have left me exhausted, but very happy and strangely somehow healthy. Started with Moua’s birthday party, then 111 Minna after where this random guy decided to sit next to me, and what happened next still has me feeling a bit traumatized. (Keep in mind here I was wearing a very fitted vintage sixties cocktail dress, in silk crepe, a kind of fabric that clings to the hips, and the same amount of make-up I always wear.) So he kept asking me how old I was, which I told him, then he kept telling me I looked 22, said I had a nice face, then asked me if I was a girl…and THEN proceeded to buy me a drink that I didn’t ask for, that was 50% correct in body because he didn’t let me finish my sentence. And then kept saying over and over that we should go to Vessel…then this guy got freaked out by Ryan, thought he was my boyfriend, saying he gave him the evil eye….This is when Liz and I kindly made our escape to the dancefloor thanks to Dylan the DJ who saved us with New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, which was actually quite representative of that very awkward and ill-fated moment. Later in the week there were drinks at the LW with Theresa, Ryan P., Jenny, Jeff, Dee, Melinda, Amy….Then Gia and Gemma’s bounce house Tinkerbell birthday party across the street at Dean and Rene’s … Actually had to do the party in 2 shifts with a nap in between. On Easter, decorated Easter eggs with the fam, enjoying Easter brunch, and Easter dinner and ate, and ate and ate. After Easter more amazing meals followed, and included a wonderful dinner of Chinese Oxtail soup and Toro (fatty tuna) and Korean BBQ in West O with the fam, Thai Osha with Mei, and Ruby Skye for a media work related event (Harrah’s/ Harvey’s Lake Tahoe) and enjoyed a nice mini cabaret show and buzz that I took with me later to an art show in Jack London.

On my mind this week:

1. I have yet to go there, but Vessel does not look fun. Not my idea of a hyphy time. For work however, David and I are considering maybe planning a corporate event there.
2. People slang all sorts of stuff at the Laney college flea market, but last Sunday was the first time we were approached with Chiuauas….so painfully cute, and a painful $250 a pop…er a pup! Have you ever met my friend corny Collins…..
3. Bootybassment is sooooo on on Saturday!!! Yess!!! I’m so EXCITED I already know what pants I’m gonna wear!!!!
4. The best part of the week though was when M.I.S.S. Liz informed me of a write up my Sunday M.I.S.S. Crew Beauty blog posting received on the Around the Way Girls blog, which is awesome and informative in the ways of fashion and pop culture. Really feels good to know people enjoy and appreciate what I do. Thanks so much Radio Rose!! 
http://aroundthewaygirls.blogspot.com/2007/04/vapor-rub-for-your-feet.html

5. The flea market was crazy yesterday. Something funny I overheard was:
I had said outloud to my sister, “It smells like pot right here.” Passing right next to us was a middle aged couple. The wife said, “It smells like a skunk.” The husband replied, “That’s not a skunk, that’s grass.” Guess you had to be there.

6. Jungle juice and the bounce house are a very fun, yet tiring combination, and is best when you live across the street.

7. I LOVE this video cause it’s so cute, and Peaches is so much fun, and our Joey is in it too…And JD from Le Tigre, now she is a fo’REAL tranny.



8.



Funny how things don’t change much….There will always be Bunny Bixlers and Muriel Peuses, but there is only one Auntie Mame….a favorite of the all the Kwans.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Slapsticky hair........Thursday, April 05, 2007 - Current mood: I love oven baked turkey sandwiches

The past couple weeks have been pretty silly, but ever so much fun…Started with the Chow Nasty show at Thee Parkside, which I was really excited about cause I had vowed to get my dance on once again…great until I pulled a muscle in my tender loving buttocks while trying to do a fancy dance move. Then pulled a muscle in my neck while blowdrying my hair earlier that night, so I was very sore for a few days after to say the least. Then Pho, dim sum and flea market with the fam, and Mexican dinner with Denise and Mei, and drinks with Hansel. Shared a very disturbing, yet mindblowing, thrifting high moment with Liz at Buffalo (Zodiac taupe suede/leather knee high boots in perfect condition, vintage Betsey Johnson velvet corset dress with red tartan plaid ballerina skirt with black netted petticoat, and some insane red pumps) and then at Thrifttown (let's just say my 80's shoe collection has grown extensively with the help of ELB). Then the M.I.S.S. Crew ladies (Liz, Gabriella, Reina, Pauline, Alice) and Ryan and Ali, under Gabriella's supervision, pitched in to make an amazing dinner of homemade chicken soup, garlic knots, meatball appetizers, and a very refreshing mint salad, (the recipes for these will be up on misscrew.com soon), while we participated in Craft Corner (can't reveal what the project was cause it's not up on the website yet, but was way cool and involved potatoes and kept us busy till 4:30am that morning.)

After a drunk patron spilled his beer on me, enjoyed a scrumptious lunch at Swan Oyster Depot with my cousin, and ate $63 worth of assorted oysters on the half shell, fresh clam chowder, shrimp salad, crab salad, and smoked salmon, everything being absolutely delicious. Went to the Alameda Point Antique fair, bought an assortment of 80's wide band belts and a kettle corn/caramel kettle corn combo, which I highly recommend, and got yelled at and ditched by my sister cause I had lost an earring of hers for a couple hours, which I later miraculously found thanks to desperate prayer.


On my mind this week:


1. I have a horrible aversion to overly manicured facial hair, except for maybe this guy's…


2. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm totally lying cause I'm fascinated by:

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3. FOR THE BARGAIN HUNTERS: Bargain Bank on Polk has the perfect snack size packets of assorted organic dried fruit, 2 for $1.

4. I love running into my friends on the street late at night while I'm slightly loaded as they do their manly jobs.

5. These almost got me into some serious trouble…
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6. the voice of angels…my absolute favorite DCD song, plus I like Lisa Gerrard's hair here.
Dead Can Dance - Sanvean


7.

lots and lots of all sorts of peachy hair here…….Love it!!!...the best dancey slapstick I've seen in a long time!!

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thank your lucky stars...
Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 9:20 PM

Spring training...Saturday, March 24, 2007 - Current mood: i need breakfast right about now

March has been great fun!! Started with a wonderful German inspired dinner party at Sophie's with the main course being a very tender and delicious pot roast stewed in orange slices and Frangelico soaked currants. God, so good!!! Then did lady date night at Stacy's with the girls and Ryan, enjoying Jessica's Chicken Adobo, Ryan's fancy pants thin mint/homemade kaluha/coffee bean sundae, some good ass trashy reality TV shows, and then impromptu dance party…Shari Vari and JT…sooooo good! Drinks for Jenny's b-day at the LW, Cristallette fashion show at Lulu's where Liz and I ended up buying matching crazy awesome 90's Ujena dresses, brunch buffet with the fam., health food shopping and sushi with the Dee and Evelyn, Laney flea with Liz and Dee. Completed my first Beauty Tip blog posting for Misscrew.com and Liz and I snuck out to Laszlo's earlier this week to see Ryan and Justin DJ.


On my mind this week:

1. Yayyyyyyyyy for nice weather!! I think I can retire the flannel now….
2. Neiman.
3. Neon is the new black.
4. For sure Foreign Cinema needs to kick Laszlo's down with some fancy bar snacks.
5. Did you know baby coconuts reduce blood pressure?
6.

I promise I will participate in the dance line next time!!

7. If I see you drop your gun on Bart, I'm just gonna pretend like I didn't see.

8.I realized today that I'm kind of old fashioned.

9. Just some oldies……but goodies…….



10.

(Original version no longer available - so had to upload the instrumental version)
Can you tell? I have dance fever again!!!

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Yeeeeee for Dance fever!!! And yeeeeyeee for all the liz/michelle action as or late! more,more!! Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 9:08 AM

If old fashioned means not telling someone when they dropped their gun on BART, well... I think you're awesome. dance dance dance!
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 10:10 AM

ahem. frangelico currants were in the hazelnut risotto dessert! the pot roast merely involved raisins.Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 6:16 PM

My gosh, that's right! And I had asked you too, now I remember...and that dessert, should have been called Hazlenut Risotto Heaven! So good!!
Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 6:21 PM

Have you seen my rabbit? - Wednesday, March 07, 2007- Current mood: sensitive teeth

Before going back to work…President's day consisted of an all day tour of SF for Ingrid visiting from Portland. Started with an amazing Pacific Heights breakfast of yoghurt pancakes, omelets, bacon (the bestest!!) and mimosas and bloody Marys, compliments of our fabulous chef, Adrian. Shopping followed in the Fillmore and in Union Square, topped off with Kitty's that evening as well. Then started my new job, which I really like so far. It's so nice to be back and working in the city again, and especially nice to not have to pay out of pocket for health insurance anymore….The weekend had included Anne's and Eric's big hotel crashing birthday bash, which was wildly entertaining to say the least, and really a lot of fun! Watched Hollywoodland with the fam, which was slow and depressing, but was quite interesting, especially since Time Warner is now my employer. The incestuous relationships and power struggles between the actors, studios, agents, etc. within the television/film industry, and in old Hollywood in particular, are absolutely twisted and insane to me…all politics…and grotesquely fascinating…anyhow the White Elephant sale was a spectacular time with the Dee and Amy, saw Ryan's head race through the accessories section, greeting Liz freshly off her NY plane, with a pink velvet turban. Found a lot of rad day glow pieces, and more accessories than I needed to buy, but the best part was the delicious chile and cheese tamale during our snack break, and fresh squeezed Myers lemons lemonade too! Oh gosh, then saturday was crazy fun! Went to the Royal Oak, an engagement party, then over to The 500 Club (where Sophie accidentally cozied up to a Jesse lookalike), and then Zeitgeist ($2 homefries are so great at 1am) with Jesse, Sophie, Dan, Matt, and Alan. Dee and I went to the Oakland carnival beside the freeway yesterday. …I munched on a hand dipped corn dog and nachos while she shot photos….Does it get any more fun than this?!! Well, I have a little feeling that summer glee will come prematurely this year with the early arrival of daylight savings…


On my mind this week:


1. It seems that working fulltime always increases my appetite.

2. Cement

3. Help!! I'm addicted to soup!! Hot n'sour, noodle, menudo, wonton, shark fin, bird nest, tomato, turkey, clam chowder, porridge…

4. Vicks Vapo-Rub is my new best friend.

5.

This is so funny…well they do call it the happiest place on earth!!

6.

Psychedelic man!! Love it!!

Sweet battery acid...Sunday, February 18, 2007 - Current mood: well fed

The past couple weeks have been full of feeding frenzy fun. Started with Liz and I having our Swedish pancake breakfast date at Marty's, then went to a tasting with Isis and Chad at Dragon Rouge, a new Vietnamese fusion restaurant in town, where they had the most delicious spring rolls made with traditional spring roll ingredients, but also included: sliced boiled egg – gave it a creaminess, combined with what seemed like another small fried roll that gave it a very nice savory and crispy texture. Then dinner and drinks at the Tiki Bar with Denise, Aaron, Mei, Steve, and the Dee….and that Tiki bar makes some really strong drinks….half a tropical drink later, I was feeling a bit woozy, and later ended up on water at the LW. I can't remember what the concoction was called, but we all know it now as, "Sweet Battery Acid".

Got manis and pedis with Denise and then raided Tapioca Express twice this week for boba and fried goodness. Watched Darkbeat, one of the SF Film festival's movies with Jesses and Sophie. Was about the history of electro music focusing on the Detroit scene. Very educational, but not the most thrilling movie. Also went to a store opening on Leavenworth and Sutter that sells cute and quirky men's and women's clothing and accessories, including Jesse's severed plastic animal head necklaces, which are way too cool for school. Hit up and insanely packed LW last night for Sara's visit and Melinda's birthday, and got a job with one of Time Warners advertising agencies, so I've been enjoying myself lately…and definitely enjoyed tonight's family birthday and Chinese New Year dinner of prime rib and Chinese/Japanese foods...And of course, Gung Hay Fat Choy everybody!!!!

On my mind this week:

1. I watched Pan's Labyrinth with my mom. It made me nervous and there were some moments where I forgot to breath. It's a good mother/daughter bonding movie.

2. Mends.

3. I forgot all about this Kurosawa movie, Dreams, used to watch this with my mom too.



4. Interesting how Divine Intervention always strikes up conversations with me on public transportation.

5. The Youtube's copyright claims really bother me.

6. I looked at some of the fall collections for New York Fashion Week, and sadly, wasn't really all that impressed. None of the collections were very strong, most felt sloppy, and a bit redundant. Would have liked to have seen the Heatherette show though, lucky Ryan!!

7. When you are a chipper morning person at Trader Joe's at 10:00am and some Chinese ladies look familiar, don't assume they are distant relatives, and ask them if they are your aunties when they really work at the lamp store around the corner from your house.

8. Lucky to see Afrika Bambaataa at Club Six a few years back, and there is no party or energy comparable to how it is like when he is DJing…For reals!!




9. I LOVE THIS!!! He is so fucking awesome live…and it's amazing when Carlos Santana just happens to pop up on stage with him…Shelia E too reprazentin the East Bay!!
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As we were headed out the door last night for top dogs, Nate said, "I bet there's an awesome spread at the Kwan house tonight."
I'll have to tell him it was confirmed.
;-)

PS- Divine Intervention on public transit? Classic.
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 12:29 AM

I love your #7. I can just see you doing that too. Thanks for the intro to the wonderful world of Tapioca Express! Yum! I'm so jealous that you go to have Swedish pancakes. We'll have to go together one day for breakfast because Aaron refuses to pay $10 for an omelete! Happy Chinese New Year and long live the Sweet Battery Acid!!!
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 10:24 AM


Hey, that's how we met! You asked me if I was one of your aunties and the truth was we had a class together. The weird part was you asked me that while we were still in class. Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 6:19 PM

That ain't Lake Minnetonka…Monday, February 05, 2007 - Current mood: i like purple

Amazing how time does fly when you're having fun. Started with going to Milk to check out Oxy Cottontail with the ladies, Liz, Gabriella, Reina, Pauline, and with Errico, Ryan, and Justin….Was a good time of course, and a good set by Vin Sol. Did some thrifting, and alterations, and good granddaughter deeds for my elderly and terminally ill grandparents, and for random strangers at Longs. Had movie day with Tee and Janey in Fremont, watched an uncomfortably slow, Taiwanese film called Three Times, which was about three different love stories, somewhat tied together, in three different time periods, incorporating the same actors. It was okay, liked the soundtrack, seemed a bit culturally awkward to me….Then drinks at Casanova with Hansel, drinks at the LW with Dee, Joey, Anna, and Gerald. Briefly partook in DW's welcome home committee, got a sneak peek of some muscles, and the latest Undrcrwn designs, and let me just say, flaccid Otter Pops and vodka is not so bad….Some pretty good potential job stuff in the works….Shopping party at Liz's, resulted in hot pink leg warmers, some incredibly beautiful vintage Charles Jourdan russet colored tie front ankle boots with matching shearling trim, and two black sporty jackets, and a pixie (which Dee kidnapped from Liz's toy collection and has named Wilfred). J

On my mind this week:

1. The club, flaming hot cheetos, and my Cape Cod drinks are not a good late night combination.
2. I will only refer to Janey as Neve, as is Neve Campbell, from now on.
3. Mentholated.
4. Theresa, you are a brilliant illustrator….yes still anal retentive and perfectionist in execution, but absolutely, positively, and wonderfully on the money.
5. WTF!!! It's been impossible for me to find a Chinese egg custard the past few times!!

6. This is why trailers and the Youtube work for people with ADD like myself.



7. My favorite Beatles song of all time done just right. My god, Prince is the man…



Speaking of Prince…
Prince vs. Charlie Murphy

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WOW!! That is so sweet of you! I know when it's a compliment coming from you that it's fo reals. I'll take you to find some egg custards. And Vietnamese sandwiches. And spicy cold noodles. And drinking within walking distance to a Neiman's. And dancing to follow of course. Love ya girl! =o)
Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007 at 6:54 PM

apparently I need to come here more often! Lady you one sexy muthafucka!
Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 at 5:28 PM