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. |