Further snerking moments from last night
Feb. 12th, 2005 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynThe trip from my office to Penn Station involves passing through the Mall of Manhattan, a smallish (by Manhattan office building standards, anyway) place plunked down between 34th and 33rd street. One gets out of the B, D, F, or V train and goes upstairs into the ground level of the Mall, then up an escalator and through their first floor, then up a second escalator and out the doors onto 33rd street- it's warmer than going outside. The first floor contains a number of kiosks in addition to its usual shops, and some of those kiosks vary by season.
Last night I found out that one of the kiosks had apparently only been there for the Hogswatch season, because it had finally been replaced. The new kiosk sold martial-arts movies. Mostly old stuff, like Gordon Liu movies and Shaw Brothers stuff, but as I circled around it I found that they got a bit closer to the present day. I got myself some cash (the movies were 1 for $20, two for $30, three for $40) and came back.
The woman who had told me about the price smiled at me and asked me if I had ever seen any Jet Li movies.
Those of you who have seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure may now insert the look and the smile Beethoven gave the guy at the music store when the music store guy asked if Beethoven were a musician.
I start tapping the various movies in front of me as I spot them. "Own that, own that, rented that, own that, rented that one-"
"How about Fong Sai-Yuk?"
"Yeah, I owned both of those but I sent them to a guy in Iraq. Own that one, rented that one- oh, I don't recognise this- no, wait, I do, Claws of Steel is the alternative name for Deadly China Hero, so yeah, I saw that- bought that off Amazon, own that..."
I wound up buying both Hard Boiled and The Killer because I briefly couldn't remember which of those two Chow Yun-Fat movies ended with the twenty minute fight sequence in the hospital. I remembered shortly thereafter, but eh, who cares? It's Chow. Chow's da Man. It makes me happy.
For the record, the Jet Li movies that I was pointing out were:
"Own that"- Fong Sai-Yuk I and II, Once Upon a Time in China, Once Upon A Time in China and America, Fist of Legend, New Legend of Shaolin, The Master, Swordsman II. Also My Father Is A Hero and Dr. Wai and the Scripture with No Words, but she didn't have them for sale. Several of the movies in this category got shipped to Iraq last year 'cos I didn't like 'em as much as I thought once I'd bought 'em and a soldier over there was asking for martial arts flicks for his unit.
"Rented that"- Hitman, High Risk, Bodyguard from Beijing, The Tai-Chi Master, Black Mask.
The vast majority of my movies involve Chinese guys kicking each other in the head.
Last night I found out that one of the kiosks had apparently only been there for the Hogswatch season, because it had finally been replaced. The new kiosk sold martial-arts movies. Mostly old stuff, like Gordon Liu movies and Shaw Brothers stuff, but as I circled around it I found that they got a bit closer to the present day. I got myself some cash (the movies were 1 for $20, two for $30, three for $40) and came back.
The woman who had told me about the price smiled at me and asked me if I had ever seen any Jet Li movies.
Those of you who have seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure may now insert the look and the smile Beethoven gave the guy at the music store when the music store guy asked if Beethoven were a musician.
I start tapping the various movies in front of me as I spot them. "Own that, own that, rented that, own that, rented that one-"
"How about Fong Sai-Yuk?"
"Yeah, I owned both of those but I sent them to a guy in Iraq. Own that one, rented that one- oh, I don't recognise this- no, wait, I do, Claws of Steel is the alternative name for Deadly China Hero, so yeah, I saw that- bought that off Amazon, own that..."
I wound up buying both Hard Boiled and The Killer because I briefly couldn't remember which of those two Chow Yun-Fat movies ended with the twenty minute fight sequence in the hospital. I remembered shortly thereafter, but eh, who cares? It's Chow. Chow's da Man. It makes me happy.
For the record, the Jet Li movies that I was pointing out were:
"Own that"- Fong Sai-Yuk I and II, Once Upon a Time in China, Once Upon A Time in China and America, Fist of Legend, New Legend of Shaolin, The Master, Swordsman II. Also My Father Is A Hero and Dr. Wai and the Scripture with No Words, but she didn't have them for sale. Several of the movies in this category got shipped to Iraq last year 'cos I didn't like 'em as much as I thought once I'd bought 'em and a soldier over there was asking for martial arts flicks for his unit.
"Rented that"- Hitman, High Risk, Bodyguard from Beijing, The Tai-Chi Master, Black Mask.
The vast majority of my movies involve Chinese guys kicking each other in the head.
