Great big thanks to everyone who attended the “Bam Bam and Celeste” screening last night, and if you missed it, there are two more LA screenings on Saturday and Sunday. It was a wonderful audience, filled with lots of people who worked on the film and many friends and family, and the film plays well, which should be enough to get distribution, but if you aren’t a straight white man – you know.
Yesterday I did a giant round of radio interviews, and some of these people are not sure what to make of me. One guy was keen to talk about race…he said, “Asian girls are hot!!” I said, “That is nice. So that is the only contribution we make to society?” “Yeah! They are hot!!” Wow. We have been the leaders in science and medicine, made great strides in art and culture. We invented pasta.
But all that he can come up with is that we are hot. I am not denying that we are hot. It is just that – well, that is very sad.