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THIS 👏 BITCH 👏

Picture it, Los Angeles, 2006. I had just moved here literally the day before. I saw a listing in probably backstage or something about a model open call, so I go. It’s at the Crowne Plaza in West LA, where parking was like $50 a day or something, so I park at this lot across the street, thinking,… Read more

She needs a hit. Otherwise, she’s just pop star with a fanbase who will buy her output in ever decreasing numbers. Read more

This was played over and over at my grandma’s funeral (because she was from Florida, I guess). It was terrible and makes much more sense in a birthday setting, or any other setting that doesn’t include a corpse. Read more

Did it give you vibes? Were they “island vibes,” maybe, even? Read more

I am a woman and assigned and edited this and planned in advance to run it on Wednesday Read more

I didn’t mean to call you out! I was just expressing my general dismay with people. Asian men who aren’t interested in fucking me, for example.
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We were told that a German distributor really loved the movie, but that he couldn’t buy it because German men don’t think Asian men are sexy. Read more

I definitely want to see this film. Honestly, I think there are lots of strides to make in how Asian men are depicted sexually in western films. They are either serious & asexual or harboring a pathological perversion. Either way - they are unapproachable archetypes and not people. Read more

Aw, cheers to that! Really, I appreciate that a lot. I’ve followed your writing since your Project Runway recap days, and I still do. “Pessimistic” wasn’t exactly a criticism, but there’s a lot of nostalgia for me that’s associated with fourfour. It’s unreasonable to expect our favorite writers (or any creative…

You surely aren’t. Fourfour was the best. Read more

This is business.

Latin Freestyle was hugely popular with the Asian-American population of the SF Bay Area during the 80's. Read more

I used to think the lyrics of Noel’s, “Silent Morning” was:
Cause I am horny.. I wake up and you’re not by my side.

Also another one of my faves:

I’m a musician in Las Vegas, and cover bands are where the money’s at. So my homegirl tried putting together a “Freestyle Cover Band”. I’m reaLLy glad it didn’t work out. I can’t stand freestyle music lol, but somehow I know all the words to all the songs. Read more

YAAAAAAASS

Freestyle was the shit when I lived in Miami in the 80's. Trinere and Expose were just two favorites. I have a Freestyle channel on pandora. Read more

Rich, the very thought of this post gets me aroused. In fact, I can even feel my heart beat right through my blouse. I live in the Midwest, but grew up in Queens in the late 80s and 90s - people here look at me like I'm absolutely BONKERS when I try to explain this genre. Rather than explain, I just want to teleport… Read more

and this can’t be missed

I’ll be the first person to admit, I’m as dumb as they get. How did Kraftwerk relate to Latin freestyle? When I think of them, I think early, experimental German techno/electronica. Were they simply an early influence? Read more

Thank you for this. I’ll be going thru this entire list over the next few days. Thanks to youtube, I’ve discovered so much amazing 80's pop/R&B/dance. My fav. has to be Hooked on You, which is just the catchiest thing I’ve ever heard.