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Sunny

i only date nerds, jews, or old professor-men

About Me

Yeah, my old profile made me sound like a pretentious asshole, but that was the most truthful way to go about it.The basics: love me, love postcolonial/transnational -or postmodern- feminist/cultural theory. Or poetry. But if you're not down with any of those, sorry, I'm probably not down with you.Also, I'm an unapologetic myspace-and-google stalker. It's a condition. Really.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

unproblematic people. i'm a hater (and what?) also, if i don't know you in real life, chance are i won't friend you. sorry. i've had it with creepy myspace asian fetishists.

Music:

Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, Louis XIV, French Kicks, The Bravery, The Libertines, Andrea Bocelli, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Immortal Technique, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Blackalicious, Cage, Aesop Rock, 22-20s, Beatles, Blur, Brazilian Girls, Death Cab for Cutie, Elefant, Eminem, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, M83, MIA, Outkast, Placebo, Nirvana, Goo Goo Dolls, Sublime, The Auteurs, The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Postal Service, Third Eye Blind (first two albums strictly), The Wallflowers, Wilco

Movies:

Requiem for a Dream, Farewell My Concubine, Raise the Red Lantern, 10 Things I Hate About You, Battle Royale, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Hero, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Igby Goes Down, Rushmore, City of God, Titus, Wet Hot American Summer, In the Mood For Love, Chungking Express, Sin City, Infernal Affairs, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Last Year in Marienbad

Books:

Lolita, Winesburg Ohio, The Book of Disquiet, House of Leaves, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf, East of Eden, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Secret History, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Life is Elsewhere, Love in the Time of Cholera, Interpreter of Maladies

My Blog

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I know that I said I'd probably not write til Friday, but whatever, here I am, sitting in my apartment like a bum, typing away. I figured that this week would be extremely chill given that cyclone Shi...
Posted by Sunny on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:02:00 PST

a quick pictoral ode to miss shirley lin...

who rocked my Beijing nights all night (into the wee and then sometimes blatant hours of the morning) every night for that beautiful week or so she was here. The following are some of the photographic...
Posted by Sunny on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:23:00 PST

blarg, me brain cells!

The last week has been pretty crazy...Shirley and I have gone out every night (doing it the expat Beijing way -haha GROSS-). I think the highlights would be Wednesday night, which was bar trivia at Lu...
Posted by Sunny on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:44:00 PST

thursday, friday, saturday: out like the good old days, with sketchiness included

Thursday:The night started with wandering around the Renda campus with Jack, Joe, and Dave (who are all studying Chinese at Chinghwa this summer), trying to find that one campus convenience store that...
Posted by Sunny on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:27:00 PST

can it really be....????

Is it really so....? Are those......Sunny's rugby social compatriots past and present, weeping in solidarity for the study abroad students, expats, and locals of the Sanlitun district (most likely in ...
Posted by Sunny on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:18:00 PST

day 5: last day of wuyishan, lots of Chinese art

The last day of Wuyishan was set aside for the artists to do their work. Since the whole trip and everything involved in it was paid for by some people (I'm shady on who exactly), the artists "repaid"...
Posted by Sunny on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:11:00 PST

day 4: ...

Not going to lie or try to color this is any kind of better light:  today I decided to not go anywhere and instead rest, watch TV (yeah NBA Eastern Conference Championship Game 3*), and read some...
Posted by Sunny on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:16:00 PST

just my fucking luck!

All I wanted was to sit down in the main Renmin University courtyard, mind my own business, people watch, listen to my iPod, and enjoy the lovely summer evening.Instead, I get picked up by some young ...
Posted by Sunny on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:37:00 PST

day 3: massive overload of text and photos

Day 3 begins with us climbing a part of Wuyishan (and, once again, I am too ignorant/unskilled in Chinese to know what it is called). Two local government officials accompany us on our trek, one of th...
Posted by Sunny on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:46:00 PST

visit to the chinese countryside

So on Friday, yi lao lao, yi lao ye, and Chen Hao (my second cousin) decide to take me to their xiangxia jia, which roughly translates to countryside home. Now I've been to the Chinese countryside, an...
Posted by Sunny on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:11:00 PST