ughdavid's Xanga

Friday, June 15, 2007

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:03:27 GMT

damn i realized xanga is an awesome time killer at work, second or third to espn.com and chatting. too bad no one does it anymore really.. i remember even last summer i used to be able to kill at least a full hour at work reading and commenting on xangas but now i only got like 10 new blog entries to read a day..

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:29:41 GMT

so yesterday at °³² harlem.. i met so many different people from all walks from my life... seriously the most unexpected random encounters.

however, the highlight of my night was when they they was playing RUSH from ¸®½Ö's first album. songs a classic. and also was first time i ever heard a korean song at a korean club.. it was also pretty sad that it was the only korean hip hop song played last night. anyways watever, enjoy the song.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 06:56:14 GMT

sometimes you have moments when you remember blurry nights from the past in great detail. and you just remember that they were so blurry.

some thoughts

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:10:05 GMT

i think pretty much im getting old.. not necessarily more mature, cus im still a kid at heart, but old. cause xanga and myspace and facebook and crap doesnt interest me anymore. instead at work im going through multiple blog sites about korean politics (seriously i cant believe it myself, what a fag i am?)

well while taking a part of and commenting in this web community about politics, i came to realize how rare of a breed i am. i would say korean-american is rare in the first place, since there are so many more Americans and Koreans than Korean-Americans. but even among korean-americans i think i am different, and i've only met a handful of people that are similar to me. i have a vast interest in korea, and everything about it, whether its politics or culture. im sure quite a few korean americans might be able to relate to me in some sense, but so far i havent run into anyone that spends their free time reading weblogs and personal opinions about korean media and politics.

which brings me to my next point, korean hip hop. i have a shitload of fuckin amazing korean hip hop songs, that im sure most of you guys never heard in your life. if you know me well enough you know i love music and my taste in music is the shit. but the thing is, no one appreciates korean hip hop. in america, the only big names in korean hip hop are the likes of drunken tiger and some gay shit like 1tym and stuff, which is just sad. the few pioneers of korean hip hop made korean hip hop's image in america into shit by acting stupid and sucking in music. in korea, the hip hop fanbase is so small, and whether it's because of the lack of promotion or lack of interest from the general public, it just doesn't take off. i feel bad for some of these good artists, cause some of them have some raw talent.

so basically ive come to the conclusion that only those few ppl that are similar to me can appreciate korean hip hop, and really in my lifetime, ive come across maybe five people total that are like me. i kno there are probably some more out there, but no one really talks about these things yano?

ask me to send you some of my fav korean hip hop songs. you know i'll be more than happy to share my favorite music.

tell me you how you like the music, be honest. if you like it, it will make my day 1000 times.

this song is called mirror, by yang dong gun.

some heartwarming pictures from germany/korea

i aint no »¡°»ÀÌ but ÅëÀÏ supported by some random german dude

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Wed, 24 May 2006 07:18:08 GMT

my phone # in korea is 010-7797-9689

back home

Mon, 15 May 2006 17:37:31 GMT

time for an original joke again.

What did the bouncer tell the grandma?

No in. (³ëÀÎ)

thought of this one on my way up to stony this weekend to cheer (chill).

one thing i've become disappointed in recently is the fickle nature of new york sports fans. ive been a knicks/mets/jets fan forever. and i will always be until i die. i mean the knicks situation is very understandable ever since isaiah totally butchered the team up, but that doesn't mean im gonna abandon the team i've followed game by game since first grade. i was pretty disappointed when i came home and found my brother a newfound nets fan, and hes not the only one who's converted to a nets fan. you guys are all fags.

another thing that pisses me off are all the "closet" yankee fans. you either never followed baseball, or followed baseball but never cheered for the yankees while living in new york, and now all of a sudden you profess yourself as a yankees fan since everyone already is a yankees fan and the yanks have done so well over the past decade (pete an). this is lame.

i wont even bother talking about the giants cause if you like the giants that only means you like a giant cock in your ass.

anyways, i'm about ten months late on this one, but i played live 'o6 for the first time a few days ago, and i've already quit the game because im so pro at it.

here are my opinions about the game (not that it really matters cause o7 will probably come out in two or three months)

1. superstars are too dominant. playing on all-star mode, which im guessing most ppl play on, if you use lebron or kobe its retarded. plus kobe is 80 in threes so he rapes shit up so easily its retarded. my brother hit his first 10 shots with kobe including 5 threes when every shot was contested. plus if you are at the top of the key and do a L1-button freestyle u press 2 buttons to go half way across the court and score with you doing nothing.

2. alley-oops are retarded. its so easy to score off alley-oops especially if u have a good passing point guard and a superstar center (nash-any forward/center on suns, wade-shaq, tinsley-o'neal, etc). i score all my points in like 2 seconds by inbounding the ball at the halfcourt mark and alley-ooping.

3. pass intercepting/stealing is improved. you can finally steal inbounds passes, and if you block the passing lane you get a steal (live finally caught up with the 2k series on this one).

thats about it my life is boring as of now

end of the year update

Wed, 10 May 2006 06:51:49 GMT

Hi guys. so yeah. i'll be in korea this summer from may 23rd to august 7th (you better hit me up if you're gonna be there). can't believe i wasted three years of my college life doing like nothing... damn. what a moron i am. going home this friday, may 12th. see you guys soon.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:30:47 GMT

dudleys back homie you know what im about
they call me firestone cus my rhymes will tire you out

what do you call a perverted chicken from thailand?

hentai

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:26:24 GMT

http://spotproxy.com/

u guys gotta check these guys out~ band name is PROXY

upcoming band thats gaining mad hype, and their music is really good.. they already got a pretty big following.. easily one of the best rock bands out right now.. good music and lyrics.. lead singer is korean-american..

all you music lovers gotta go peep it.. free downloads on their site too.

let me know how u guys like the music and maybe i'll send you more songs

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:11:04 GMT

just something ive been thinking about

whats the deal with sampling music, especially in hip hop? theres so much hate for people that do it, and this i don't understand. i remember growing up, people used to hate on puff daddy all the time saying all he does is samples beats, etc. but thats what made him a star, and everyone liked him.. then theres kanye west, who i don't really like, but i do acknowledge the fact that he's a genius. i would say most ppl do like kanye west and at the very least respect him as a musician.

then there's jay-z who cameron made all these diss tracks hating on how jay uses other people's lines. jay samples many peoples lines, but not really the music. so how different is this from everyone else that samples other musicians' beats? i would say 75% of the popular songs now are sampled beats, whether you are aware of it or not. even the essense of oldschool hiphop is sampled music, its sampled from oldies and jazz songs. mc hammer sampled superfreak, vanilla ice -hes an idiot and wouldnt admit it, but- sampled under pressure, etc. hip hop was founded on sampling music, taking bass riffs and using it as the melody. many of the songs you think are classic hiphop tracks are actually not original beats, but sampled. using other people's well known lines and making it his own i think is fine and there shouldn't even be any controversy over it. it's not like hes taking these secret lines from people that no one knows about, anyone with a good ear and knowledge of hiphop knows exactly who and what jay is referring to. in the same way when beats are sampled its not some kind of super underground song no one knows about, but anyone with a good ear and knowledge of music knows exactly who and what song the sample is from.

another thing is people that hate on korean hip hop. if sampling in american hip hop is acceptable then why the heck is korean hip hop hated on? i remember when drunken tiger sampled sting's shape of my heart, everyone hated on it, even though they loved the song before they knew that it was a sampled beat. on the contrary, people loved nas - the message, which sampled the same sting song.. wtf? hip hop is hip hop, doesnt matter what country its made in, as long as the foundation is there. step down haters.