i had to kill you / i'm really sorry / i had to do it


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shows   ·   Dec 30, 2018 – Dec 31, 2018

for me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. i see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. the journey doesn’t end.


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this is how we become ourselves, someone else, something greater.

books   ·   Dec 28, 2018 – Dec 29, 2018

the runaways are back


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shows   ·   Dec 23, 2018 – Mar 14, 2021


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we're in kentucky this time around.

shows   ·   Dec 22, 2018 – Mar 14, 2019


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the neighborhood of little italy, a lot of pizza, and two insufferable main characters who end up together. plus, they reunite in the airport.

films   ·   Dec 21, 2018


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abrasive and athletic, ice skating

films   ·   Dec 19, 2018


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medical drama has never looked so good or compelling.

shows   ·   Nov 21, 2018 – Nov 24, 2018


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there's something heavenly about this show.

shows   ·   Oct 4, 2018 – Dec 13, 2018

what about us taking an adventure east? / like queens?


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to be honest, i've never thought i'd see a movie like this. watching this movie made me realize how long i've been waiting for a film like this, how i never imagined it would come and now here it is. This movie feels like a triumphant rebirth gilded in Singaporean gold. It sounds like the fulfillment of a great promise that Hollywood has forsaken so many times before. If we strip away the crazy and the rich, we have people. They fall in love and meet the parents and make stupid choices and pick themselves back up from rock bottom. This is a story you could have told a million times over with a different cast of different names and races, but this is a story we got to keep for ourselves and share with the rest of the world. There is something so heartbreakingly poignant about that.

films   ·   Aug 24, 2018


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the met ball, a priceless diamond necklace, and the pure thrill of it

films   ·   Aug 24, 2018

life doesn't have to be so planned. just roll with it and let it happen.


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to all the films i've ever loved. never has a film resonated so deeply with me. i've been listening to "i like me better" by lauv for two months now in anticipation, and movie is perfect beat-for-beat. to all the boys i've loved before is something i wished i saw while at fifteen and sixteen and i’m so happy it exists now, even beyond those high school years. to all the boys i've loved before is sweet and saccharine, yet filled with so much incredible heart. it is pastel colors and cursive letters, a love letter to a young girl at sixteen. she bakes cookies and reads novels and watches sixteen candles, in love with love and aching for something real. easily, this film has jumped up to be among my favorites. it is a scrapbook rendering of jenny han's beautiful book series and has redefined what a romantic comedy looks like with an asian american teenager at the reins. we deserve adaptations for the rest of the trilogy, full of cute ya romance and quirky inner monologue and lovely cinematography. and never have i seen so so so much of myself in a film.

films   ·   Aug 17, 2018


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the nostalgia of the life you thought you could have had and the one you wish you had instead.

books   ·   Aug 2, 2018 – Aug 9, 2018


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a snapshot of life for the small screen, the traditions and in-jokes and cultural quirks. what it meant to be asian american two decades ago and what it means today.

shows   ·   july 2018 – aug 2018


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we loop throught the cycle of suburbia and anger and decay at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty. and we find people burning so vividly.

films   ·   Jul 29, 2018


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is this what life will be like? years from now?

shows   ·   july 2018


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an absolutely unexpected and thrilling adventure. afternoons crowded around the screen, full of drama and emotion and beautiful soaring goals. when i think of what i'll remember most of this summer, it will be the magnetic pull of two countries fighting on a grassy pitch for glory and sport. the fast pace, the oncoming rush of it, the back and forth play that unites and celebrates above all.

shows   ·   june 2018 – july 15, 2018

do you think people have noticed that i'm around? / i notice when you're not. does that count?


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added to the to-read list in 2015.

books   ·   Jul 7, 2018

here i go again


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an absolute summer delight, full of sparkling songs, beachy glows, and a jukebox greek chorus

films   ·   Jun 23, 2018


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the romantic comedy is back in 2018 in full force in an unlikely bond forged in a set-it-up office environment.

films   ·   Jun 23, 2018

to all the boys i've loved before / p.s. i still love you / always and forever, lara jean


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reread: the sort of saccharine sweetness that tugs at your heartstrings

books   ·   Jun 21, 2018 – Jun 23, 2018

crazy rich asians / china rich girlfriend / rich people problems


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lavish and luxurious, but oh so important for us

books   ·   Jun 14, 2018 – Jun 16, 2018


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your senses all at once, the sweeping rush of it.

shows   ·   may 2018 – june 2018


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a 21st century texting romance

books   ·   Jun 13, 2018

the greatest good you'll ever get.


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took me long enough to watch this delightful film about a superheroic family.

films   ·   Jun 10, 2018

the thousand dollar tan-line / mr. kiss and tell


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it's like our favorite spunky blonde detective never left the small screen.

books   ·   Jun 4, 2021 – Jun 7, 2021

hollywood glamour with so little substance


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shows   ·   Jun 1, 2018


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flavorful, colorful, and a culinary delight. turned the cuban sandwich into a cinematic masterclass in gastronomy.

films   ·   May 30, 2018


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come for the generous, flavorful shots of food, don't stay for the mess of an egomaniacal redemption story and supporting characters who deserve more.

films   ·   May 30, 2018

SOUR: they eviscrated lemons, leaving the caressing sting of food that's alive / SALT: the food always requesting more, but the tipping point fatal / SWEET: once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us / BITTER: once, when we were wild, it told us about poison


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sweetbitter or bittersweet? a broken, frenzied look into a year of wanting more without knowing what to want.

shows   ·   May 29, 2018

tell me, what were you the god of again?


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a comedic powerhouse full of fury and flame; absolutely electric.

films   ·   May 25, 2018


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to think this got canceled by fox. let's pause and let me tell you about how much i love this show because i completely underestimated this sticom; it's effortlessly funny and relatable, with a thriving pulse on contemporary culture.

shows   ·   may 2018


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it's like camping in the middle of the sierras, but reading about it instead.

books   ·   May 19, 2018


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ethereal and cerulean in the arms of the ocean.

films   ·   May 13, 2018


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pure retail, pale blue, and insanely quotable

shows   ·   jan 2018 – may 2018

we were wild and flourescent / come home to my heart


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it's a sort of homecoming, an untold gothic fairytale full of bleeding lights and sharp teeth, once at five, then at twelve, and again at nineteen.

audio   ·   jan 2018 – march 2018


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language distorts our reality, and yet we still cling so closely to it.

films   ·   Mar 11, 2018


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spring break | on the bus ride home. the importance of stories where you feel seen, even when you feel uprooted and lost; just remember, displacement only cares about where you began and where you end.

books   ·   Mar 9, 2018


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if you weren't rooting for tessa virtue + scott moir to bring home the ice dancing gold, i don't even know what to say to you. feat roxanne (moulin rouge) & stay (rihanna)

shows   ·   Feb 19, 2018 – Feb 20, 2018


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some good old fashioned watching-other-talented-people-cook-and-wishing-you-could-too in colorado.

shows   ·   dec 2017 – march 2018


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a classic trope that will never get old. perhaps my all-time romcom favorite.

books   ·   Jan 18, 2018


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this broke my heart in the best way possible.

films   ·   Jan 16, 2018


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apparently throwing americans into the mix just ruins things. as always.

films   ·   Jan 10, 2018


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one day, when i finally learn how to drive, i'll remember how it felt: the familiar roads careening out of sight in my rearview mirror, the worn leather plush of the driver's seat and sideglances at the empty passenger's seat, the landmarks and roundabouts and the mountains of words between them; i'm going somewhere, i'll think, and then i'll wonder why i ever wanted that in the first place.

films   ·   Jan 9, 2018


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runaways and the josh schwartz/stephanie savage quest to reclaim their teen soap crown (spoiler: no tiara for them)

shows   ·   dec 2017 – jan 2018