Grassroots Day 3 - It's Hot as Hells Kitchen in NYC!

Sung and I are dripping wet in this picture.  Not the day to wear wool blend Autumn in New York is supposed to be nice, cool, fall affair.  Unfortunately for Sung, Julie, Justin, and myself, we are experiencing the preliminary indicators of global warming in Manhattan.  It's HOT here in Hells Kitchen!

Sung and I had to get up early because we had some phone interviews with newspapers and web magazine outfits.  After we were done, Sung and I decided to run the entire rim of Central Park.  Normally, this would not be too much of a problem given that Sung and I run quite regularly.  However, it was 90+ degrees and super humid so the loop around the park felt more like a prison death march.  At least both of us got a tan.

We then met up with Justin for our 2 speaking sessions at the NY Film Academy and the Korea Society.  Justin had just come from a Chinese TV interview where the make-up artists on set insisted that he had to wear lipstick.  Sung and I arrived at Union Square dripping wet...no one told us that NYC was going to be soooo hot so we only brought long pants & long sleeve shirts.  The sweat stick of boxers on a man's leg is enjoyable for only so long.  I wonder if the NY Film Academy audience thought it was strange that both Sung and I looked like well-dressed wet cats.  We had an amazing Q&A session with about 300 film students.  What was really cool was that many of the foreign students were big fans of BETTER LUCK TOMORROW.  You gotta love bootleg DVDs.  Mejor Luck Manana baby!

We then went to the Korea Society on the East Side.  I got to hand it to the society of Koreans, they definitely got some serious cash flow.  Their building was rather pimp.  Josh, Julie, Justin, Sung, and I played our documentary and then spoke with 120ish members of the Society de Koreans for about 1 1/2 hours.  We ended the session by giving away a bunch of FINISHING THE GAME T Shirts.  As parting gifts, the Korea Society gave us T Shirts of Bruce Lee.  Kinda strange to get what you just gave.

After that we cabbed it to Chinatown for some late night eats.  Why Justin ordered the stomach & liver dish I will never know.  It looked and tasted like coagulated vomit.  But hey, the noodles rocked!  We then went back to our lair in Hells Kitchen to do some work and prep for our next day.  Before we knew it, it was 4am.  As I am writing this, I realize we have to get up in 4 hours to catch an early train to Washington DC.  Yeah boy...  -Roger

Kind of ironic that this NYC police officer pulled us over to tell Sung that he loved "The Fast & The Furious 3"