The social media landscape is complicated, right? And what better way to make it even more so by posting your thoughts in 3 different places?

Starting today, I will officially migrate my personal/random thoughts to my new Tumblr blog. This is because I can link it to Twitter more easily from Tumblr, streamlining the process.

The wordpress blog, which I do love, will remain a place for detailed/through aka longer random thoughts on media/entertainment with more TV/movie recaps/projects.  I will link to new wordpress blogs from Tumblr.

The end result (I hope) is more frequent blogging (via Tumblr) and a place where I can air focused (HAH!) thoughts on tv/movies.

Still with me? Awesome. Here’s the link:

http://michelleow.tumblr.com

It’s Friday. The office has been a little wacky this week. No wonder conversations like these abound:

Liza: Monica says you can put Mylanta on your sunburn, let it dry, and then your sunburn gets better and you get brown.
Me: Really? Huh.
Liza: Also she suggested putting lemon on Kameron’s sty.
Me: WHAT?! But that’s an acid.
Liza: But it didn’t help.
Me: In a group of fairly well-educated adults, nobody thought this was a BAD IDEA?!
Liza: I think it spread more afterwards.

Shu: You know, of the concerts I went to at AX, the moi dix mois concert was the more interesting:

Me: Is that a woman? A man? Is this goth rock?
Shu: That is a man. He is never out of cross-dress though. It’s like visual kei, but yeah it’s like goth metal.
Me: I mean, it’s interesting -
Shu: -The music is so bad. I hate that music.
Me: -but the music is AWFUL. It’s an assault on my ears I do not appreciate.

After  a 3-day weekend in Yosemite, it feels a little weird to be back in civilization again, to be able to Tweet and blog and have reception again. That being said and despite all of the fun of camping, never have I enjoyed a shower as much as I have after this trip. 

Here’s one of my fave pics so far – we hiked up to Nevada Falls (feat. in the picture) and this was the view on our hike down (More to follow on Flickr):

Writing on a grassy lawn: 

Hiking in Andrew Molera State Park:

The only thing to make it even better? Beach bonfires and BBQ. Oh how so very lucky and fortunate we all are to live where we do and do what we do. Hope all had a great 4th. 

Me: How different would our lives be if we’d gone to a traditional university? 
Shu: Traditional university? Oxford? 
Me: With football and frats, you know. 
Shu: Yeah, neither do I. 

Yet another classic example of why I find Shu’s company hilarious. Oh, Shu. Oxford?

And people wonder why I would give a limb to work for Pixar:

(reblogged from Matt)

On Saturday, I was enjoying a leisurely walk back to my car from a leisurely brunch in SF and having a leisurely conversation on the phone. Little did I know this simple phone conversation would set off a series of events leading to my new status as an Urban Dictionary trailblazer:

Jin: Wait, what did you say?
Me: Skanky.
Jin: Oh, I thought you said shanky.
Me: Oh no, skanky. But you know…shanky could be a cool new word!
Jin: What’s shanky?
Me: It combines shady and skanky together – thus, shanky!

And THEN I realized you could add words on Urban Dictionary. It’s like the clouds parted, the sun shone, the angels came out to sing “Hallelujah”.

So I present to you, my first 2 Urban Dict. entries: shankytown and shanky (entry no. 5). I’m a little sad I wasn’t the first to add ’shanky’ but you guys, this is just the beginning.

So here’s the thing about Asian pop. I don’t follow it as regularly as Matt or Toro but damn, do I love it and need it every now and then like a recover addict crawling on all knees for that one drag. (I do not include awesome Asian rock bands like Asian Kung-Fu Generation as part of this Asian pop genre).

And this is why: Despite the diversity of music genres I listen to, they tend not to be ridiculous – a little emotive sometimes, a little angsty occasionally. But no genre can fulfill the part of me that derives pure joy from seeing the absolutely ridiuclous better than the Asian pop scene.

Can something like THIS, which looks like a technicolor explosion of C4 levels, exist stateside?