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god’s candy

let’s all just be thankful for a minute

out of mind, in of sight

sometimes i like to go a little nuts.

bonkers you might say.

it’s the best.  i mean come on.  there’s nothing like embracing the madness.  it’s fun magnifying those insanity pepper type thoughts that sometimes swim around up there.  why the eff not?

i spent much of my youth having to restrain myself in this regard.  my parents used to call me “wild.”  i think i sometimes scared them a bit.  they told me that girls didn’t act so wild and crazy like i did.  i realize there were a lot of factors that influenced their belief of my wildness, including, but not limited to:  my parents being first generation immigrants from taiwan; growing up with an older brother; moving and changing schools A LOT; and we musn’t forget – our best friend – SUGAR (a.k.a. “pure evil”).  i will touch on this sugar thing again in another post i think, but right now i will just leave it at pure evil.

now, you might be imagining me tearing through life like a little asian chucky or something.  but it wasn’t so much like that.  i loved being girly and graceful too.  i fell in love with the image of ballerinas before i can even remember.  the lessons started at age 3.  i loved it so much.  i was good.  i learned fast.  my teachers noticed.  my little 3 year old ego was pumped to be leader of the goslings in our Mother Goose recital.

i could be light.

i could be gentle.

i could be poised.

but most importantly, i could walk like a cat because cat paws are like ballet feet.

meow.

see, a part of me will always see some weird benefit like that.  cuz ballet brings us THAT much closer to becoming pure feline.

obviously.

what was my point?  oh right.  well, i think i might be going through a weird spell.  no wait.  it’s not a spell, more like a surge, or a spark.  or an electrical anomaly.  not sure.  regardless, it’s happening and i refuse to fight it.  how all of this energy will present itself, i don’t know, but some of it is bubbling over into silly videos with mah gurl TAY TAY.  we’ll see what else spews out too.  BEWARE!

so come on!  pop a pepper or two, and get weird with me.  or you can just watch me and tay being weird in our second PATTAY video (here’s the first one).

chickens.

PATTAY: thoughts on life

if you thought we were weird before…

love friends

watch me answer some questions about friendship for the italians for their website called LOVEFRIENDS.  visit them at http://lvfrnds.com/ to watch more videos.  in italian.  mee-ow.  Ciao ciao ciao ciao…

Patty Yu from Love Friends on Vimeo.

Da Reel

I love performance reels.  You get to go total Frankenstein action on your footage.  In mine you’ll see clips from PASSENGERS, which I am excited to announce will be premiering in Australian theaters in May!  The music portion of the video is a self produced pet project with over 70,000 hits on youtube.  I’m waiting on footage from a Sci Fi Channel film i shot in December, but it ain’t ready yet!  Until then, enjoy this sucker.

Trailer for Passengers – my first feature

Sup ya’ll.  Here is the very riveting trailer for the indie film PASSENGERS directed by Michael Bond.  I had the great pleasure of working on this film with Cameron Daddo, Angie Milliken, and Bruce Davison — all very sweet and incredibly talented.  The film has been selected for the very prestigious Mill Valley Film Festival in October.  Woot!

A Cutebutdeadly Fun Taiwan Co-Host…or maybe just Cutebutwacky?

Yesterday I was on AlivenotDead.com and saw that Rottendoubt had posted something about how Discovery’s Fun Taiwan was on the search for a new Co-Host.

WELL.  normally i wouldn’t be the type to shoot a video about myself talking about myself.  never.  who does that?  Ok, that’s a lie, but normally i at least wouldn’t think of making this type of video.  i can’t stop imagining all the lonelies out there sending in tapes for The Real World.  But i thought — damn — a hosting gig on a travel show (in TAIWAN!) could be exactly what I need to reconnect with my homeland!  so i decided to see what would happen if i grabbed the Flip camera and set myself loose in the courtyard unsupervised.

Needless to say, I uncontrollably got wacky on that shizz.  Who knows if Discovery folks will get my sense of humor, but I hope at least you do!  Please watch it and please rate if you like it!  If you don’t like it, let’s pretend it never happened.  shhhhhh…

You may visit the YouTube channel of all the entries to watch all the other contestants.  if you can find my video please vote!

p.s. this video is substituting my photo for today.  HA!

The Making of BaO (part I of many)

i’m starting to see straight again, so i’ve begun to go through some of the behind the scenes footage i took along the way.  there’s a lot of it, so i have some work ahead of me, but i’m going to try to post a new one every few days so keep checking back!  there were actually so many moments that didn’t even get captured, but watching what i do have is so wild.

it kinda reminds me of summer camp, when they post up photographs on the last day and you think about the good times you just had and feel so goddamn sentimental and shizz. love it.

in this clip, watch as t-minus helps me record and i learn how to act like a better singer.  check back fo moar!

Want Some Buns To Go?

You can now download the song BaO Eat You Up for FREE!!!

This is so fun you guys….i am just all smiles the last four days.  Over 9000 hits in four days???  Considering i started with about 12 youtube subscribers, that is freakin RAD!!!  Soooo happy!  You guys are all the bomb and thank you so much for all the comments and messages!  Let’s go to Din Tai Fung!!!

summer of bun update

you might be asking, when the hell is patty going to finish her goddamn video?????