Hey everyone,

So I googled my name like the loser I am on a Saturday night at home with no plans, and this article on me came up. I did this interview last year at UCLA and got all hyper intellectual and it took them four months to figure what the hell I was talking about to put this article up finally. Flo Ip did a pretty good job of translating my post-modern post-feminist mess of an interview.

I was taped and everything. It was actually supposed to be a real player video where you could watch me and my cute hair sitting on a couch talking about high school. I think I just talked their ears off so much they figured best just to do the interview in print. That or I did a shabby ass make-up job and they were like, "Hell no, we can't make people watch this girl! She's janky!"

By the way, I am really sick of the "Sheryl" in my name and will just be going by "Kristina Wong" for the time being. I know. So plain. So Jane. And that's the way I like it. Plus, there's some other actor chick running around with my name and I need to use my name to fight her off (lame Los Angeles living stuff). Doesn't she know that I own our name at SAG? Give it up already!

Man, I am going to take these freaking headshots off my site. I look so dumb in them. I don't even look like this no more. I don't think I ever looked like this. Those cats at UCLA found these pics and put them on the article. Blech. I didn't know how to take blemishes out in photoshop, so i just did the "smear" technique instead. How many unairbrushed zits can you spot in the following? I count at least five.

 

Anyway, say goodbye to these pics!

Hey, this sucks, but I've had nightmares every night for the past few weeks. What the hell? And they are all about lame things, like having nowhere to live, or being followed by someone with my name, or like about trying to find my grandmother a commercial agent. This is so dumb. I don't want to have nightmares anymore. But I know why I am having them, because I have so many things on my mind. I need yoga.

Last night I dreamt about Simon on American Idol screaming racist things to William Hung's face.

I had that nightmare because I saw the William Hung DVD last night with Charles. The CD/DVD is $9.99 at Tower-- priced to sell. I don't know what to think of it. Charles was lightly applauding and saying, "Now that guy is genuine. He's a good guy." And I agree he is a good guy. And the documentary does a pretty good job of not outwardly bashing him. But it does have it's moments. Like there are a couple of scenes where you can see people are kinda mocking him. In one scene he is signing autographs and this one guy (who looks Pilipino) is kind of smiling and putting his arm around in a way that kinda says, "Look, I'm with the big dork!" And this other scene he's at this place where you can trade Pokeman cards with like middle school kids (mostly Asian) and Will announces, "Who wants to hear me sing?" And it's this mixed reaction. You can see a bunch of kids cover their ears and scream "NOOOO!" and he sings it anyway, but only a few people are paying attention. Then there's this really disheartening one minute track of his Beavis-like laugh cut together. Then another shot of him looking a girl, and it's slowed down to kinda of play up that moment of when a guy sees a girl and is lovestruck. There's this guy who isn't Asian who says he's known William for 3.5 years and says that he hears that some Asians think William is making them look bad and he says those Asians are just "haters."

The doc looks really slapped together with the MTV touch. Pretty much, take the money and run kinda thing-- the stuff the really talented filmmaker in your high school film class might put together.

And in a lot of scenes, there are interviews with pretty cool looking Asian people who adore him, shots of other Asians hugging him, and in one interview towards the end, an Asian woman says how she didn't think it was necessary for Simon to go off so long on him, which is kind of nice. It was nice to see Asian people next to Will, so it's not just Will and a bunch of white fans. You do kinda see that Will is a one of a kind geek.

It was fun to watch the Will Hung phenomenom unfold. I laughed at him jerking around the recording booth singing. But it's such a gray thing for me to dissect. On a race basis. Is he making Asians look bad? My vote is no. I do thing that there is a sad irony that he's probably getting more attention than any other Asian American right now in pop media. It's sad that Harlemm Lee couldn't get his album out, but Will Hung could.

And it's because he's a geek, but he's kind of like the icon of geekiness more than just an Asian guy. Though the guy is so unbelievably nerdy. I do remember growing up with Asian guys like that, but the thing is William Hung is 21 and the nerdy Asian guys I grew up with were like 10 years old at the time of said geekiness, and since they'be become Asian hipsters. It's almost unbelievable that William Hung's nerdiness has not yet been socialized away by mass media.

 

 

Ok, back to being a loser and looking myself up in Google. Good night!

 

Love,

Kristina

 

ps check out www.whitneymcnally.com!

 

This email scared me when I saw it! I thought it was really from him!

 

From: Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:06:54 -0400

To: Subject: hey mama!

check out my link and put it on yours. i'm up for trading....let's do it!

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love, whitey! (ooops...i meant whitney!)