by Danny Kim
Let’s rewind to junior year of high school. At the time, I was smack in the middle of my music obsession phase, where I was staying up til 4am+ arranging or writing music. My parents were generally supportive of my interest in music, which made sense given my dad’s time in his high school glee club and my mom’s […]
It’s been an incredibly stressful few months, in the best way possible. The wave of responses to my PhD applications began in January, and it has been… unexpectedly overwhelmingly positive. Really, after a crushing round of failures last year – applying for the completely different field of marketing had been a terrible idea – I wasn’t expecting […]
“Adriana, if you stay here though and this becomes your present, then pretty soon you’ll start imagining another time was really your… You know, was really the golden time. Yeah, that’s what the present is. It’s a little unsatisfying because life’s a little unsatisfying.” – Gil, Midnight in Paris – I left the east coast […]
I recently saw Interstellar for the second time, this time in 70mm IMAX at the Smithsonian Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center’s Airbus IMAX Theatre, and, just, there’s, agh – there’s no real words for this movie. It’s a fantastic movie that really kicks the brain into deep thought, and it’s utterly loaded with deep existential-philosophical subtext. Now that I’ve seen […]
A couple of months ago, I had three of my grad school friends over. We shot the shit, as is to be expected from friends catching up. Jobs, new business endeavors, new romances, old romances, et cet. Side to early 20s people: late 20s/early 30s people will drink you under the proverbial table. Between three of us who were […]
Let me preface this entire post by saying I love movies and other forms of creative expression – why would I have gone to film school otherwise? – and I’m a huge proponent of freedom of expression and out-of-the-box storylines that get us to think differently about the world. In addition, I, as anyone in their right mind […]
Continuing on the reading boat, I wanted to put out there a list of books I highly recommend – some taken from the list I use with my tutees, but mostly not – in case anyone out there is looking for some cool books to check out or get someone as a last minute holiday […]
It’s an oft-repeated saying we hear from an early age: “Reading is important.” But few stop to ask why. Why is reading important? People seem to think that the only significant reason reading is important is because it helps you learn and gives you new knowledge. It’s a forgivable conclusion: the more you read, the more […]
The word “manifesto” gets such a bad rap, probably because the only people the media show writing manifestos are crazy killers and the granddaddy manifesto of them all is Mr. Marx’s Communist Manifesto. So I thought I’d try my hand at writing a positive manifesto, a manifesto for Good. A list of beliefs that I will […]
This piece is a follow-up to the 5/12/14 post, Forrest, Film, Full Circle – This is My USC Story. Check it out if you haven’t yet to get the full context. — So I get a text in the middle of the afternoon yesterday from my dad. It’s an MMS with a picture attached and the text, […]