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Jacobkosh
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_c9jHAjqY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-s5vE-q0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0fEJt54vxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjd7PFf_TFw
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Also, I bought Blood Meridian as an audiobook.
Brain asplode.
A Better Tomorrow II was the first HK film I ever saw, at a festival the arthouse theater near me was having. I was 16, had just gotten my driver's license, and went with this gorgeous girl who had come to my high school after spending years in a boarding school abroad. For one awesome night I felt like an international sophisticate.
The girl turned out to be sort of a weirdo flake, the car got wrecked by my stepbrother, the theater closed, but the movie is still one of my favorites.
Ah, nostalgia.
I always liked this movie.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I feel like in these two paragraphs I just read every coming of age novel ever written.
watch this all the way through:
A fair assumption.
I don't even mean it in a mean way; it just captures the arc of life so succinctly.
i don't think I've seen any hong kong style action movies (bullet time and doves etc) but I suspect I'd fucking love them
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Heh. It's something that struck me for the first time as I was typing it out - the only thing of that night that I have left is the movie.
That girl was something else. I can name at least eight different dudes, most of them my friends, who were in love with her at one time or another during the single year she was in our school. She was never in love with anyone, but she enjoyed the attention. I think after five years in Rome she probably thought we were all tremendously provincial. I could be mad at her but in fairness I got to grab her ass a few times and it is still one of the prize all-time asses of my experience.
I miss the car. It was a minivan, one of the old Dodge Caravan four-cylinders, and it got amazing gas mileage. You could just drive and drive on a single handful of pocket change and having that many seats was a Godsend for a sixteen-year-old dude who had a bunch of friends to pick up.
Jesus, someone get John Hughes in here
Hong Kong cinema is one of the great wide-scale examples of people making art from less than ideal circumstances. Many (if not most) HK movies were, for years and years, basically ways for gangsters to launder money. There are lots of accounts of guys like Jackie Chan being threatened and harassed by gangsters or being told to make a movie in some ridiculously short amount of time, like five weeks, because someone had a hot couple million that needed unloading right then.
It was a pretty brief flowering though, unfortunately. In the 60s and 70s HK basically exported schlocky kung-fu movies. It wasn't till maybe the early 80s and the rise of dudes like Wong Kar-Wai and Wong Jin that it kind of fully developed and got more legitimacy as a scene, and then it started to get really big in the early 90s. And then the handover happened and the talent all fled. It's a shame.
it i was an impecunious writer who didnt have to pay accomodation, extra work would be a seriously easy way of making ze moneys
hanging out at pinewood would be so rad
so much awesome shit has come from there
this is what happens when you stop the british running something
it goes downhill
parallels can be drawn
the last governor of hong kong, chris patten, is my twin bros godfather lol
stempede
ya i have a fraternal twin bro
http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/sections/br/br_gallery.htm
no good shots of the CS80, though
These next two weeks are gonna be rough
You know what they say, Abdhus!
Because i don't... Sorry.
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I look forward to it but not all the updating and downloading ill have to do to be able to play it. Ill have to wait until maybe next month at the earliest for me. Stupid Bandwidth caps.