Straight Outta China™ ✯ Emcee Hao

Epic Candy Burger!!!

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:46:15 -0400

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Karma really is a bitch

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:30:37 -0400

Subtitle of the Year, LoveHKFilm Awards 2010.

He is amigo to all living things

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:01:18 -0400

Andy Lau Nominated for Most Awesome, 16th Annual LoveHKFilm Award

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:52:35 -0400

LoveHKFilm is a site I read regularly. It provides great reviews on Asian movies. Every year, site owner Kozo and his panel of movie critics come up with their own awards to honor Hong Kong movies for the particular year. In my opinion, LoveHKFilm Award is the most honest, and this year’s is no different. Nominated for Most Awesome are the following:

Candy Hau Woon-Ling (Bad Blood)
Little Huang the ghost-seeing dog (The Child’s Eye)
Wu Jing (City Under Siege)
Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame)
Teddy Robin Kwan (Gallants)

Hell yeah, Andy Lau rocked in Detective Dee. I’d recommend that movie to anyone. Head on over to LoveHKFilm to find out nominations for other categories.

Keizoku 2 Spec is an amazing series

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:11:37 -0400

Are you a fan of Ikebukuro West Gate Park or the Trick series? This one will be a treat for you.

Most awesome YouTube collaboration ever!

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:12:24 -0500

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Epic Meal Time x Freddie Wang

How to get more Facebook fans? Holy Kaw has the answer.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:31:54 -0500

A few months I ran a Facebook promotion where people who “liked” the Enchantment Facebook fan page could get a free copy of my first book, The Macintosh Way. Around the same time, I also offered an excerpt of Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour body and Take Control of iPad Basics by Tonya Engst.

Around the first week of January I emailed 140,000 of my closest friends to tell them about the offer. This graph shows the effect of this promotion: in a few days, the fan count increased by 50%. Admittedly, it was a small base of 8,000 people, but still—4,000 new fans is 4,000 new fans. The point is that using the “reveal” technique to attract more fans by giving them something special for liking a fan page and an email blast does work.

Something to think about if you’re trying to increase fans for your Facebook site. By the way, the offer for The Macintosh Way and the Tim Ferriss excerpt is still running here. And you can view your Facebook fan page trend by using the Wildfire social-media monitoring site like I did.

More Facebook tips and tricks..

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Captain America fuck yeah!

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:24:22 -0500

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awesome

Beautiful Nebula

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:07:27 -0500

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Thousands of New Stars Emerge in Glowing Nebula. via WIred Science

Detroit, you fail

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:39:03 -0500

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A Robocop statue? That’s all kinds of awesome. Why shoot it down? Morons.

This is why I love Next Media. Obama raps!

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:25:46 -0500

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Music video for Wynners new single

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:58:49 -0500

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These old rockers are pretty funny.

Back to the Future set photos

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:19:19 -0500

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1955 Town Theater. View more from the source.

Another music video for David Lynch's "I Know"

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:42:10 -0500

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This one is awesome, and NSFW.

The Black Legend - Epic Dessert Time

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:43:43 -0500

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Nothing hotter than girls eating tons of calories.

Back To The Future Part 1 & 2 Scene Comparison

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:59:07 -0500

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Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

Bruce Willis looks like shit

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:21:25 -0500

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And many others look like shit as well.

Review: Kitano's Outrage

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:18:21 -0500

Outrageously Repetitive
As always, this contains spoilers, read at your own risk.

New flick from Kitano, hell yeah! There’s a lot to love in Outrage. First, Kitano is back at making yakuza films. How long has it been, you ask? 10 years! Last time Kitano made a yakuza film was back in 2000 when he released Aniki (brother). Why is this important? Well, what Kitano is to the Japanese cinema is like Martin Scorsese to the American cinema. He’s most badass at making yakuza (Japanese equivalent of gangster) films. The only difference is, Kitano stars in all his films, because he’s so fucking badass himself.

Second thing to love in Outrage: the cast. Starring along side Kitano we see actors like Shiina Kippei, Miura Tomokazu, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kunimura Jun, Sugimoto Tetta, and Ishibashi Renji. All veteran badasses, except for Kohinata, he’s mostly been in comedic roles, and he’s in Outrage for a little bit of comic relief.

Third thing to love is the violence. Man, there are scenes in this film that made me cringe and look away from the screen. If you are going to learn anything out of this film, it would be the variety of methods the yakuza can use to fucking kill you.

With that said, you could tell I was fucking psyched to watch Outrage. So how was the end product? Well, not so good I’m afraid. My first complain: not enough Kitano!!! I’m not talking about style, the film is very much Kitano-ish. I’m talking about Kitano’s role. It just wasn’t big enough. I like Kitano as a director but I love him as the actor. He has his own unique acting style and is always a joy to watch, whether he’s playing a maniac teacher (Battle Royale) or a quiet blind swordsman (Zatoichi) or a filmmaker parody of himself (Glory to the Filmmaker). I expected him to be the big boss and kicking everybody’s ass in Outrage, but he only did a little bit of ass kicking and was killed off in the most un-epic way possible. His character was so one dimensional and had zero development. The same can be said about every character in this film though. I guess it was hard to develop the characters with such a huge cast.

With characters having no depths, naturally there’s not much for the actors to work with. So the performance was very average. I expected highly for this group. It was a shame for this cast not to shine in a film like this. There was a bright spot though. Shiina Kippei’s role wasn’t big, but he made the most out of it. He was intimidating, scary, and funny at times. His character had different layers and I wish he was in it more.

The biggest downfall of Outrage though, was the paper thin story. It went like this: talk about killing, kill, talk about killing some more, kill again, repeat till all major characters die off, end. After the first hour, the film became so repetitive it was frustrating. It didn’t even build up to an epic end fight. Everybody just died, no one put up a fight. And the ending? So predictable even my mom saw it coming and she wasn’t paying much attention throughout the film.

Overall, Outrage was a huge disappointment. Even though there was some action, but it wasn’t enough to make the film badass. The cast’s mediocre performance and the lack of character developments also hurt this film a lot. Well, I guess great filmmakers have their off days once in a while.

Here’s a trailer for Outrage

A lot of yelling in there, typical yakuza.

David Lynch - I Know

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:30:28 -0500

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Yes, THE David Lynch, director of Mullholland Drive. He has an album coming out, it’s gonna be sick. This is one song off the album. My buddies in Hong Kong produced this video. David Lynch is putting on a contest to let fans make music videos for his songs.

Love or hate him, Kanye's new stuff is solid!

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:33:41 -0500

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