This Week At IDC — June 10, 2001

It's Martial Arts Week at IDC! In honour of this event, I'm asking everyone to reach out and karate chop someone this week. It's far less painful than throwing a shuriken (that's a ninja star for the uninitiated) at someone.

Song of the Week: There's really only one choice for martial arts week. That is of course "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas, who did it long before Tom Jones, and did a much better job of it, which is unfortunate because Tom Jones is cool on a level few people ever attain. If you aren't familiar with this song you should be ashamed of yourself. If you have any honour go and download it right now. If you have lots of honour, go and buy an album that features it, because very honourable people might have issues with downloading copywrited materials.

Links of the Week: I'm not sure what to call this, but it's a very cool hand-to-hand combat Shockwave sequence. You'll probably want to have the latest version Shockwave plugin for it to work well. View it here.

Quote of the Week: "The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real." — Li Mu Bai from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

DVD of the Week: It's amazing that a movie without English dialogue has grossed almost 130 million in the US alone. When this movie was made for only 15 million that makes this all the more impressive. And it doesn't hurt that the movie in question is spectacular. I am of course speaking of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The arrival of this movie on DVD is the whole reason I'm doing a martial arts week. Well, that and I like doing theme weeks. Do I need to say more about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Probably not, but I will anyway. The vistas are breathtaking, the acting superb, and the action is everything one comes to expect from Asian films — it destroys anything Hollywood has to offer.