Weblog
Monday, October 01, 2007
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Facebook
yeah....skrew xanga....
Facebook me.
Search for "Elliot Taesoon Kahng"
Lot easier.
Lot simpler.
And I still post random entries there.
I did myspace...
still do once in awhile...
but that thing got too commercialized and now I get so muchhh spam from it.
Especially porn ads.
Monday, July 09, 2007
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No new pictures nor stories lately..
so I'll post a video.
I don't think I've posted this yet........I think?
Just a video of me interviewing foreigners in Korea,
asking them what's their reason for learning Korean.
2 of the girls are from the kbs tv show "mee-nyu-deul-ae soo-da"
I wanna adopt a white baby girl and teach her Korean.
WHEN I COME OF THAT AGE of course.
In this video, there was this white girl around 7 or 8?
She spoke good Korean with a perfect accent. It was incredibly adorable!
How funny would it be if I taught Korean Language to my adopted white daughter...and No English? White kids wouldn't be able to conversate with her. And when she goes into highschool, she'll have a FOB accent when speaking English. Instead of English Class, she'd be attending ESL Class. When Korean kids would talk to her for the first time, they would think she was mocking their accent...but no, it's just that she sucks at speaking English.
She would also train in dance and classical singing & modern singing from birth, so when she turns 16 she can be the first White Singer in Korea.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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I'm Back!!
NEW
As you noticed, I rarely do xanga anymore. It just takes too dang long to update. So lately I've been doing Facebook Noting.
So everyone...
save me on facebook. Search "Elliot Taesoon Kahng."
Or save me on cyworld for quicker updated pictures. cyworld.com/taesoon84
Or myspace. myspace.com/taesoon
IF YOU HAVE SKYPE, save me!! Taesoon84
RANTS The same photographer who took my studio photos, wants female models to shoot for his portfolio. Send url of a photo you'd like to show him to me. He will be the one selecting who he wants. So don't get pissed at me if he rejects you!
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Compensation: CD of Full Resolution Pictures
Requirement:
5'2 or taller
asian
attractive
NOT stiff
Creative and Expressive
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So in Time Magazine, most influential people of the World in the entertainment was Stephen Colbert as 2nd and Rain as 1st.
So JOKINGLY Stephen Colbert "battles" rain, by making his own parody "korean" music video.
Of course Stephen Colbert is making fun of Rain, but he makes fun of everyone that is important. Being made fun of on his show is like a sign of flattery. If you're talked about on his show, that just means how big you are. And for him to talk about Rain, a Korean Singer, it's extremely big...it just shows how many people in this world know about him other than Koreans. If he made fun of Rain racially, that'd be a different story. But he didn't.
Anyways, I'm saying this because...
the people in Korea are furious. They need to chill. I guess they don't understand american humor. They were commenting on the video that Stephen Colbert should die and other horrible stuff. Stephen said nothing bad about Rain.
These Korean Netizens (internet people) should really watch their mouth. Didn't they learn their lesson when Unee committed suicide because of them keep talking trash about her online???
OH! There's also ANOTHER video of Stephen Colbert interviewing the founder of Rolling Stone. He says to him, "help me crush Rain!" hahahaha.
[rain parody w/ stephen colbert]
http://www.jibjab.com/view/151755#login_popup
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My new music obsession is Younha. I'm her new fan.
Younha, Korean Singer born at Seoul Korea, in 1988. She enjoyed Japanese Dramas so she taught herself Japanese. She auditioned for several Korean Labels, but didn't hear back from any of them. At age 16, she auditioned for a Japanese Record Label and made it as a singer in Japan. Some of her Japanese songs are ending theme songs to the anime Bleech.
Later on got signed to a Korean Record Label, Stam Entertainment. Now she's hitting it big in Korea at the age of 19! ?~ So young...or am I just getting too old........ -_-;
Anyways, I really like her music. It's pop-rock. Voice is strong, nice, & clean. Dresses to her style, instead of revealing clothes. Simple but fashionable. Face looks very innocent and humble.
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[Interview with English Sub. "her first kiss tasted like hangover soup. hahaha"]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p58GOGPOB4U
[Younha's Korean Music Videos]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aafZlUHHPlw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K_X2BG3bASQ
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my friend told me today Michael Buble gonna have a concert in Chicago!!!
I don't normally listen to american (well he's from canada...i guess i meant english) music...but Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, & Dean Martin is an acception. I wanna go to this concert sooo badly!!!
For the people who don't know Michael Buble...he's like the new generation of Frank Sinatra. Unfortunately the tickets are extremely expensive.
It goes from $194-$388 for seats. x_x;;
*sigh* Going there w/ a gf would be awesome. Now all I need is tickets and a girl.
music video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQM1Qs857xc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_1SY39Yz4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USU72iTPsxo
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So what have I been doing this summer?
Going to auditions, filming, doing photoshoot, and finding a part-time job.
I'm going to be in an indie featured film soon. I got casted not too long ago. Featured film means a film longer than an hour. I don't have many lines, BUT I play a major role. HAHA. Just my character is the type who doesn't really talk. It's a horror film. I can't wait. The director said it'll be playing at film festivals after we're done with it. The film is called Freight.
As you can see the pictures below, I did an action indie film as well. It's an 80's gangster film. When I get a hold of the film, I'll upload it. It's only a short indie. So 6 min. long. Summary is...mob boss smuggles guns in a factory. The cop who's partner was killed by that mob boss raids the place...and kills everyone.
The part-time job place I found was a waitering job. Hasn't opened yet. It's on North Ave. of Chicago. It's a korean-american restaurant called Sura. "Kings Meal."
Korea Festival meetings has started not too long ago...so going to those meetings as well.
Busy Busy Busy.
I extremely miss Korea. I have dreams every night, being back in Shinchon. No joke. If I had money...I'd go for vacation this winter. Hopefully I can save that much.Since I got back from my long stay in Korea for school...I've been only talking to my parents in Korean. The only other times I use my Korean is cyworld or MSN chatting....
I feel my Korean is getting worse and worse and worse...
Can't talk to my friends in korean either, because the ones I normally hang out with are filipino, chinese, or taiwanese..the few koreans I do hang out with can't speak a lick of korean..so that doesn't help. Or there are those other korean-americans (rarely see though), you've been talking to in english your whole life, so when you do speak korean to each other...it's awkward. Especially when you have to start calling them by nuna or hyung, even if they're only a yr older than you. When before speaking only english to them..age didn't make a difference, you two were equal.
So my new hobby is cooking. I dunno...it's just so much more fun if you make it yourself. Especially desserts. I've made creme brule, hodduk, cake, crapes, and other stuff. I'm trying to learn how to make Korean Food now. This sounds soooo gay, but I want a gf...just so I can cook for her. SERIOUSLY. NOT because I wanna be romantic!! Just that, I spend the time to cook, and no ones there to taste my food except me. Sometimes my mom.
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I started making crapes, so I'm still a newb. Looks ugly. BUT it tastes very good. Inside the crape is vanilla icecream, exterior is Whip Cream and fruits. I made the whip cream myself. I used heavy cream, sugar, and rum. Yes rum. If you add a tiny bit, the whip cream tastes SOOO GOOOD.
Here's a picture of my mom with crapes I made for her.
And this is mine.
Independent Film
So I did an indie film during the summer. It's an 80's gangster movie. I asked, "why 80's?" And I got the reply that 80's films had the best gangsters and action movies. If you dunno how 80's people dress...THINK of the clothes worn in "Karate Kid" and "Back to the Future." hahaha.
Jon. Former-dead police partner.
Norman. The mob boss. Special Effects Artist bloodying him up.
The result. Norman's scar.
The white dude who buys smuggled guns from the Chinese Mob Boss.
Me. Special Effects Equipment workers hooking me up into a air tube that shoots blood when I get shot.
Make-up artist putting me in make-up.
Afterwards the special effects artist put me in make-up. I look like a happy beaten up gangster, dont I? hahaha.
Jessie getting set up for the stab scene. A vengeful cop stabs him on the head.
Jon, the dead partner and Shaun...the cop that seeks revenge.
Norman and his henchman.
Pam. The assistant sliced on the throat.
Stunt practicing before shooting.
Mob boss about to kill Jon.
NOT DEAD YET...just unconscious. I get shot on the lower abdomin. Hit the floor HARD. My face is bloody from hitting head first. I wake up, crawl for the gun. RIGHT WHEN I REACH IT...my head gets blown.
Watch your back!
Photoshoot : BC photography
Photography Brian Choi.


"The Promise" : BC photography
Photography Brian Choi.
It's no film. It was just photos violet & I took indivisually and some together. Violet wanted to bring a bottle & gun for her punk look. There was no intentsion of a story line. Coincidentally the pictures puzzled into one though. So I added some diologue. hahaha!!
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On a cloudy day Taesoon goes up to the lighthouse because he recieved a messege from Mimi, someone who he THOUGHT has passed away years ago.
Before he takes that last step up the lighthouse, he has a flashback.
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[Flashback: Busan, Korea. Mimi & Taesoon were the best of friends in highschool. They always had each others backs, especially in fights...which was everyday. They were obviously #1 students in school, in fighting of course. Their dream was very simple. Their family was poor, they weren't the smartest...so the only thing they dreamed of being was becoming #1 gangster.]
Taesoon: "Mimi......"
Mimi: "I'm glad you remember me, heh. Long Time."
Taesoon: "wha...what are you doing??"
Mimi: "You broke your promise..."
Taesoon: "HUH?? WHAT PROMISE????"
Mimi: "YOU BROKE YOUR F**KING PROMISE!!"
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[Flashback: Taesoon & Mimi bruised, bloody, & beaten...laying in an alley.
Taesoon: "hahaha...sh*t. That hurt. You okay?"
Mimi: "heheh, yeah. One day...we'll be up there. Everyone will fear us. We'll have money, power, and..."
Taesoon: "..each other. As long as we stick together, we'll be untouchable. I will always protect you and you will do the same. We'll become mob bosses. You'll be the first female mob boss in Korea, ya know? HAHAHA.
Violet: "heh..*barely lifting up her tired arm, she punches Taesoon on the shoulder* ......you promise?"
Taesoon: "huh? promise what?"
Violet: "Ya know. Always protecting each other. Being their for each other. Becoming mob bosses."
Taesoon lifts his fist up in the air, grins as blood drips out of the side of his mouth, "I promise"]
Mimi: "YOU SAID YOU'LL ALWAYS PROTECT ME! YOU SAID YOU'LL ALWAYS BE THERE, YOU SAID YOU'LL... *tears of anger role down her eye* why...WHYYY DID YOU HAVE TO BECOME A F**KING COP????"
Taesoon: "I...I'm...sorry. After your death, my life became dark. My dream disappeared. The Mafia...what I dreamed of being...what I loved so much, became something I loathed. THEY WERE THE ONES THAT KILLED YOU!! ...or at least I thought. I sawww them stab you! I went to you! You were dead! Once the cops came, I took off and never found or heard of you again...I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD."
Mimi: "Well...here I am now."
Taesoon: "....how...."
Mimi: "After getting stabbed from the mafia, the boss took pity on me. He took me, reincarnated me. I was reborn. I grew strong..."
Taesoon: "Please stop...get out."
Mimi: "NO. I'm so close! Close to being up on top."
Taesoon: "PLEASE!!"
Mimi: "I said NOO!!"
Taesoon quickly hits her arm away and swiftly grabs the gun.
Mimi then grabs a broken bottle that was on the floor.
As she's about to slash Taesoon with the bottle, Taesoon lifts the gun to her face.
Taesoon: "I'm sorry...I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."
Mimi: "HAHAHA....you think I'm here to kill you because you couldn't protect me?? I DON'T NEED YOU! I can protect myself!"
Taesoon: "then.....wh..."
Mimi: "Why? Because...my boss said so. Simple as that. If I wanna get up there, I must fulfill whatever my boss asks."
Taesoon: "Chae Ja..."
Mimi: "That's right! Chae Jaewon...is my boss. It seems that you've been giving him some trouble. How unfortunate. Actually, one of the men below me was suppose to off you...but I insisted on taking the job. I wanted to prove to him, I AM STRONG, I AM READY. And honestly, hah..I wanted to see you one last time...
As the first drop of rain hit Mimi's forehead, she charged Taesoon with the broken bottle. He shoots and Mimi falls to the floor. He falls to his knees and cries. It seemed that the more his heart throbbed with pain, the harder it rained.
His heart dropped so far deep that as he walked away, his face became emotionless.
Wishing, Praying, Hoping if there was a way of saving her. Wishing so hard to go back in time...go back to highschool, go back to protecting his sister, Mimi.
Monday, April 09, 2007
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HI! I'M BACK FROM KOREA!!
I'm really busy though...
Help me out by spreadings news and buying tickets!!
It'll be a great show. Also we have an awesome venue across from Old Orchard Mall. Performing Arts Center in Skokie.
[OH also My bad spamming on yalls entry about this. I'm just doing my job promoting, and online promoting is the most cheapest and effective]
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Chicago Kollaboration | April 14, Saturday.
North Shore Center for Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Blvd. Skokie, IL
http://www.chikollaboration.orgAsian American talent show.
freestyle dance and sipher battle open to anyone in the audience.Guest Performers : Phil Good Band | Dorian Minor | Elliot Chang | Danny Cho | Quartermile
Guest Judges :
Ellee Pai Hong (NBC News Anchor)
Elliot Chang (Comedy Central Comedian)
Danny Cho (MAD TV)
Miss Chicago 2006
Roy KimCompetition :
1. Vocals
a. Jenna Lee
b. Grace Park
c. Jae Ryeong Choi
2. Dance
a. Non Stop Dance Prod.
b. Redefinition
c. Funktion
d. Prevail
3. Singer/Songwriter (original piece)
a. Michael Yee and Sarah Lee
b. Okami - Joshua Lee
Tickets from Elliot is $15 (Call or txt 847-650-8540)
Tickets for $18 at Bakersville in Niles (golf & milwaukee)
Door Price $22.What is Kollaboration?
Kollaboration on News!!
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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I hate Korean Birthday. It makes you feel older...
In America I would be 23 yrs old...
but in Korea I'd be 25 yrs old....
Something to do with lunar and like if a new year passes you're an extra yr older plus your birthday if your january, which gives you 2 years...it's confusing as hell. I don't even understand it. Highschool students call me "ahjusshi" already. Which means "old man" in Korean. -. .-;
Every Step I take, Every Breath I make...
I'm one step closer to death.

