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I am Shawn Liu. I weigh about 145 pounds.
I co-founded Harvest. I update this blog sometimes.
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  There was a profile on Spike Lee in the last issue of New Yorker.  The writer John Colapinto managed to said so much and so little.  Many words were spent on Spike Lee the controversial film director who is obsessed with race.  I was more interested in reading about Spike Lee the prolific film director and artist, the natural self-promoter and the pop-icon (Mars Blackmon).
  
  Some interesting things mentioned in the article - Lee’s collaboration with composer and jazz musician, Terence Blanchard, who composed for all but two of Spike Lee’s movies (and wrote the beautiful score for Malcolm X); Lee wakes up at 5 every morning; he attended NYU’s film school and was in the same year as Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch (!), and Joel Coen graduated just one year before him; there is a line of Air Jordans sneakers in tribute to Spike Lee, called Spiz’ike.
  
  I’ve never realized this before: I’ve seen more movies by Spike Lee than any other director, with the exception of Scorsese and Woody Allen (strange that all three are New Yorkers, prolific, and ‘icons’ in pop culture).  My list: Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, Clockers, He Got Game, Summer of Sam, The Original Kings of Comedy, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, She Hate Me, and Inside Man.  I intend to watch: She’s Gotta Have It, Crooklyn, 4 Little Girls, When the Levees Broke, and his forthcoming Miracle at St. Anna.

  23 Sep 2008