Came, Sawtelle, Conquered

I try to keep my trips to Sawtelle brief because I always end up folding T-shirts or buying things at the GR shops. But today I hung out for a while because Terence Yin was in town and wanted to check out the scene. He acts, sings, emcees, models, and does other stuff in Hong Kong, but these days he's concentrating on the Alivenotdead site. We talked about that, hung out, and also had lunch at gr/eats.


After lunch, I had to rush over to GR2 to be interviewed by the Reelz Channel website. With the Speed Racer flick coming out this weekend as well as star-filled Hollywood adaptations of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Robotech, and Dragonball in the works, they wanted to put together a segment on manga and anime in the movies. I probably talked for 5 or 10 minutes and they started packing up. Fast! The crew gave me a thumbs-up, but you can be the judge. I'll put up a link when it goes live.


Afterwards I met up with Terence again. He's known for being a bad guy in the movies, but he's actually a softie who's into indie comics. He bought a bunch of stuff I recommended, including books by Gilbert Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, and Jeffrey Brown, as well as some T-shirts. Along the way, he might have picked up some digits, too. Effortless. The guy can't help it.


With my dad's birthday and Mother's Day coming up, I did some shopping, too. Need ideas for the latter? How about this or this? (I also bought some genmai cha from Safe & Save to go with the latter.)