Leland's A-Pop Blog

There’s an off-hand reference to Frank Chin in Kip Fulbeck’s Paper Bullets that sent me down a YouTube hole searching Fulbeck, as well as Chin.  I feel you can gain insight from hearing an author’s actual voice and gain a better sense… Continue Reading →

I just bought my tickets to see Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle on the big screen later this month.  A movie theater here in town has been screening one Miyazaki movie a month and I’ve been lucky enough to see all of them. … Continue Reading →

WARNING: Graphic Violence Takashi Miike’s 100th film was recently released here in the United States.  As he’s the focus of my final paper, I’m really looking forward to finally getting to see this.  Looks a little less ridiculous than some… Continue Reading →

One of my favorite characters on HBO’s Silicon Valley is Jin Yang played by Jimmy O. Yang.  Here’s one of his stand-up sets from when he appeared on Arsenio a few years ago.  He talks about being an Asian man at the beach,… Continue Reading →

I was lucky enough to see Spirited Away on the big screen today.  The movie is a modern classic and I find something new in the movie every time I watch it.  The movie looks incredibly on the big screen.

Margaret Cho recently sat down with Norm Macdonald and talked about her early days in comedy.  It’s an interesting and weird interview.

There’s an infamous character in the much loved John Hughes classic, Sixteen Candles.  Gede Watanabe’s, Long Duk Dong.  A buffoonish, sex-crazed, Asian stereotype who only serves as a punchline.  A gong often goes off whenever he’s on screen.  Very subtle. “I… Continue Reading →

We all remember when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway got the wrong envelope at the Academy Awards.  The whole cast of La La Land standing proudle on stage only to have the award taken away and given to the cast and… Continue Reading →

I was in 4th grade when the original Pokémon games and anime series came out.  It was pretty much the greatest thing my friends and I had ever seen.  There was something so cool about being able to pick between… Continue Reading →