#buzzlightyearsu

This is so cool

I believe the story telling structure was used as a way to hint that there will be two more films made that also tell stories, since I heard the filmmakers wanted to make this a series.

Was tagged by vynndawg and I tag fantasyfaire, neektay uhfriendlyblackhottie and buzzlightyearsu

1. Summer dresses (cute outfits in general)

2. my mom's cooking 

3. Socializing with friendly people in respectful environments

4. Settlers of Catan

5. Dogs (especially Ramu)

6. Baked goods

7. Learning

8. Meeting new people and listening to their stories

9. My roommates

10. Really getting into a book

11. Empowering/providing resources for others

12. Painting 

13. Feeling loved

14. Comedy that isn't offensive (and it's so funny that you can't stop laughing)

In 1973, three young Asian American musicians and activists--Chris Iijima, William "Charlie" Chin, and Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto--banded together to record A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, a 12-track LP that has earned the title of the first "Asian American" album. I won't go into details, because I tend to talk about it endlessly, but do listen to the album if you get the chance: it's a masterful interpolation of Asian American activism four decades ago. Yep, APA music was "born" in egalitarian community organizing. Gotta love it. Nine years later, Chin and Iijima rejoined forces to put their second album on wax. Fitting for its time, Back to Back resonates with a Movement in decrescendo--more about survival than struggle, less about the world in revolt than the people on the day-to-day grind. Questions of capitalism and communism aside, the twelve songs tackle issues indicative of the changing landscape of social change: alienation, gentrification, environmental justice. As Vincent Chin--who was murdered that same year--demonstrated, the very stigma of Asian Americans as unwanted, inimical "foreigners" was a massive problem unto itself in 1982. (Source: http://heiroku.blogspot.com/2010/02/charlie-chin-x-chris-iijima-back-to.html)

watch this. youtube.com/watch?v…