Part II of the interview.  You can find Part I here.

[…and made us realize we can’t and shouldn’t hide the fact we’re Asian] I really respect that.  What has the reception been like within the hip hop entertainment community?

SURPRISE. hahah. We’ve had other artists and djs from radio stations say “I’ve been hearing your songs on the radio and always thought yall might be latino or white maybe… but when i looked yall up on the internet and saw FAR EAST MOVEMENT and yall were Asian i was really surprised.” To us, thats a compliment. it means they felt we sounded authentic to how they hear hip hop music. Hopefully the next time they hear or see an Asian artist it wont be as much of a shock.

[…we’re striving to be an Asian American Brand] How has the support been like from the Asian American community so far, how are you trying to reach out or accomplish this?

The support has been amazing. Just within the growing Asian American entertainment community we’ve been lucky enough meet and become family with some of the most amazing people breaking down doors like Justin Lin, Suchin Pak, Sung Kang, Jin, Brian Tee, Roger Fan, Se7en, DJ Shine (Drunken Tiger), DJ Eman (Power106) and countless other musicians, djs, comedians, actors, directors, journalists, tv personalities, dancers, promoters and executives who have all helped us to the path that we’re on today. And our fans, friends and family are the inspiration and support who have driven us to never give up when doors don’t seem to open as fast as we’d like them to. Our first event ever was MOVEMENTALITY, the charity show we talked about earlier. We pride ourselves in doing as many charity shows, high school, college and community shows as we can, especially with the youth, so that we may reach out to the next generation and give back the love the community has shown us. We’ve started working with an assistant superintendant named Diann from a high school district in Sacramento to reach out to students and inspire them in the arts. Definitely be on the look out for FM working much more closely with schools in the near future.

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After dating for what must have seemed like a million years, Tony Leung and Carina Lau
are finally getting married this year. Both have repeatedly admitted to
the possibility of a marriage when asked by the paparazzi at several
public events this year. Rumor has it that these two love birds will
officially announce their engagement at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in May. Why Cannes!? Why not at the recently held Hong Kong Film Awards?
After all, won’t they find a broader audience at the latter event to
congratulate them on their engagement, since they are more well known
in Hong Kong than France? 

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Hong Kong, once known as the Hollywood of Asia, is apparently running out of talented singers or actors. Prudence Law and Shirley Kwan,
two Cantopop divas that were popular in the late 80s and early 90s,
held a comeback concert separately in HK this month and they were a
hit. Sammi Cheng,
another Cantopop diva who went into hiatus in the last few years, also
had her comeback concert recently (including one in Atlantic City for
the Chinese gamblers and fans living in the U.S. Eastern seaboard).
Their fans, mostly gay men and housewives, have all responded
enthusiastically to these concerts.

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Because of his notorious sex photo scandal, Edison held a press
conference and announced to the world (or at least to the people who
cared) that he was retiring from the entertainment industry for good.
Yet he can be seen everywhere these days. Edison can be seen in a
recently released music video with Hong Kong actress/singer Josie Ho
(daughter of the Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho). He can also be seen
on some billboard in Chengdu, China touting its mass transportation
system. He is also about to start shooting a romantic comedy financed
by an American Independent movie studio with famous Taiwanese actress
Shu Qi. 

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The retired Pop Diva was recently spotted at a Buddhist temple on E Mei Mountain in China

*That’s Faye Wong on the Far Left*

I love Faye Wong,
so it’s certainly befitting to have my first Asian celebrity blog
dedicated to this retired Asian pop diva. Faye, a devoted Buddhist, was
recently spotted at a famous Buddhist temple on E Mei Mountain in China
with some of her friends who are also performing/recording artists in
China.  Faye looks gorgeous despite having no make up on (and
skinny too!). Fans clamored to have their pictures taken with her. How
I wish I was there too! I’d ask her “Darn gurl, how did you stay so
skinny!?”. I once flew all the way to Hong Kong just to see her in
concert. It was a good call since that was her last concert in HK
before she went into retirement. Many fans have asked her to come out
of retirement to release an album or two. Yes Faye, the current Hong
Kong/Taiwan pop tarts out there are nothing compared to you. You can
even do a few Buddhist chants for all we care. We just want to hear
your melodic voice. Desperate times call for desperate measures—I am
heading to the closest Buddist temple in Chinatown to pray for Faye to
end her retirement early.

I saw this recently, the recent new comedy ‘Hot Rod’ starring a whole bunch of semi-big names from Superbad / SNL / Arrested Development.

In this movie they have this random kid who is their friend/acquaintance named Richardson, played by Chester Tam who is hilarious and basically just does random dances and pelvic thrusts at random times. He also has this t-shirt with the words ‘sexy, charming, boring, awesome’ and a checkmark next to all but boring.

If you like Family Guy type comedy, this is a movie with similar humor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5q5Ps7vPxM

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Last week I had a phone and email interview with the members of the Far East Movement (FM), whose songs have gotten radio play on the West Coast, and in movies like ‘Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift’, and ‘Finishing the Game’.  They have a great sound and are starting to get some mainstream attention from TV channels like MTV.  Below is Part I of our interview.

Here is link to their Myspace where you can check out some of their songs.

Here is a link to their own website.

If you want to purchase their first album ‘Folk Music’, you can find it here.

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What is so key is that he took a stand and said it wasn’t funny, which is different from so many Uncle Tom Asians who will do the opposite.  I am tired of hearing Asian Americans defending ‘21’, Abercrombie t-shirts, ‘ching chong’, and loads of other stuff just because they want to fit in or be a model minority.

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/901817,CST-SPT-gordo18.article

Kosuke Fukudome didn’t have to wait long for the ugly American part of his welcome to Wrigleyville.

A Fukudome T-shirt with a racist image is the hottest-selling item at a souvenir stand that sells unlicensed Cubs-related merchandise across Addison Street from the ballpark, according to Mark Kolbusz, who’s in his fourth season operating the stand.

On the front of the shirt is the traditional Cubs cartoon bear face but with slanted eyes and wearing oversized Harry Caray-style glasses. It’s accompanied by the words ‘’Horry Kow,’’ scrawled in cartoonish ‘’Japanese’’ script. Fukudome’s name and number are on the back.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn’t enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question. Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li’s favorite video game, “Bejeweled,” so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.

Li reached the needed score — and said yes.

The word of the romantic feat last December filtered out after Peng, a financial software programmer, posted details on his blog. The reprogramming was a tricky task and took him a month.

“I thought it was pretty cool, in a nerdy way,” Peng told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

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Taiwanese action star Collin Chou, best known in the U.S. for playing Seraph in “Matrix Revolutions” and “Matrix “Reloaded,” revealed to MTV News that he has signed on to a top-secret project the trippy filmmakers hope to begin after “Speed Racer.”

The high-kicking Chou will soon be seen opposite Jackie Chan and Jet Li, appearing as the villainous Jade War Lord in April 18’s damn fine kung fu flick “The Forbidden Kingdom.” Following that film’s release, Chou will continue talking with the Wachowskis as they develop their unnamed script with him in mind.