It's WED! WHAT DID YOU BUY?

[Eric P]

I bought tickets to this.  $12 for all three films

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/washingtondc/s2008/china/kungfu.html

Kung-fu Cinema: Masters of Shaolin
Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 1 p.m. order tickets | ticket info
Movie poster: 36th Chamber of Shaolin
A movie poster for The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
(c) Licensed by Celestial Pictures Limited. All Rights Reserved

To celebrate the opening of the new National Geographic Museum
exhibition Shaolin: Temple of Zen—Photographs by Justin Guariglia,
enjoy an afternoon with three kung-fu movie classics, all set in
China's legendary Shaolin Temple! Produced by the legendary Shaw
Brothers Studios, which set the standard for martial-arts films and
influenced later filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, and
Ang Lee, these films offer superbly choreographed action, plus
insights into Chinese history, religious thought, and culture. The
films will be introduced by Dr. Craig D. Reid, an expert in the genre
who became one of the first non-Asian actors/stuntmen in Chinese
kung-fu movies, subsequently learning fight choreography from the
legendary Jackie Chan, and working as a fight choreographer for
American production companies.

We'll be screening the following films:

1:30 p.m. Shaolin Temple (1976, 126 min.) Considered to be director
Chang Cheh's masterpiece, the film chronicles the fall of the Shaolin
Temple, and features an impressive roster of the Shaw Brothers'
legendary kung-fu stars.

http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=687


4 p.m. Executioners from Shaolin (1977, 100 min.) This early work by
the great martial arts film director Liu Chia Liang picks up the story
where Shaolin Temple leaves off, with a father-and-son team of master
fighters seeking vengeance for the destruction of the Temple.

http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=290



6 p.m. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, 119 min.) Hoping to seek
revenge against the oppressive Manchus, a young man enters the Shaolin
temple to master its unique fighting techniques. According to the New
York Times, this film is "widely considered to be the greatest kung-fu
flick of all time."

http://kungfucinema.com/?p=782



The National Geographic Museum exhibition Shaolin: Temple of
Zen—Photographs by Justin Guariglia opens Wednesday, June 11

[Mupepe]

fucking strawberries

[patrickula]

That sounds like a fun Saturday.  I've already got plans unfortunately, but maybe if plans fall through...
SUPERLATE EDIT: Plans fell through lol, I'm goin' to the first movie with my girl 

Last night I splurged on a bunch of Nick and Dent comic books from TFAW, which are 50% off.  Got a few Hellboy volumes, the first book of the newish Conan series which looked pretty cool to me, and Frank Miller/Geoff Darrow's Big Guy and Hard Boiled.  50 bucks for six books in all, not too bad    Should be good fun to read this stuff

Stawberries

[Eric P]

the new conan series is really good.

but since i've been on a quest to read all the conan publications, including the marvel comics, the savage sword and the DH stuff, i think i've read the frost giant's daughter like 6 times

[patrickula]

I haven't read any of it Hopefully this is a good place to start.

[Rman]

Sounds fun, Eric.

[Eric P]

I haven't read any of it Hopefully this is a good place to start.

i think it is

[Tauntaun]

It's 10:15 in NY so nothing yet. 

[tiesto]

Well, I picked it up last night but didn't see a WDYB thread for yesterday...

[MrAngryFace]

WHERE AM MGS4 GUYZ?!

[Mupepe]

13 more hours MAF and i'll laugh in your face in my skintight suit and i'll copy your texture

[MrAngryFace]

mgs sux lolz

[Mupepe]

it's almost like I'm wearing nothing at all... NOTHING AT ALL

[Mr. Gundam]

I had to buy a new battery for my car. There goes another $85...

13 more hours MAF and i'll laugh in your face in my skintight suit and i'll copy your texture

[CajoleJuice]

MGS4 lol

I bought Titan Quest + Immortal Throne yesterday.

[Mupepe]

I had to buy a new battery for my car. There goes another $85...

13 more hours MAF and i'll laugh in your face in my skintight suit and i'll copy your texture

WHY ARE YOU PUNCHING ME?

[Fragamemnon]

har har MGS4.

not buying anything today. Just want to go home and get some sleep, was up waaay too late last night playing Mass Effect PC.

[Brehvolution]

har har MGS4.

not buying anything today. Just want to go home and get some sleep, was up waaay too late last night playing Mass Effect PC.

How is it? How do you think it would run on my AMD X2 3800, 7800GTX, 2 GB ram compared to your specs?

[lordmaji]

Just a few munchies... But! I'm off to see Iron Maiden!

[Ganhyun]

Eh, bought an Ipod. Finally jumped in and got one. (And went off the deep end too probably with the 160GB version)

[Mr. Gundam]

I had to buy a new battery for my car. There goes another $85...

13 more hours MAF and i'll laugh in your face in my skintight suit and i'll copy your texture

WHY ARE YOU PUNCHING ME?

Solidarity punches! We need a fistpump emoticon.

[MrAngryFace]

35 dollars? Yes please.

Getting Z Gundam Collection II on Friday.

[Eric P]

i bought chinese food too.

i will tip the delivery driver $5 because gas is nuts

[ferrarimanf355]

I took my notebook into Geek Squad to get it fixed. I'm typing this on my PS3 again.

And I paid off my MGS4 LE preorder. 

And a $15 iTunes card to download some Bjork and Soundgarden. 

[APF]

[Oblivion]

quit buying stuff, fegs

[Eric P]

quit buying stuff, fegs

THE ECONOMY WON'T FIX ITSELF

[APF]

But the President told me to and he hates fegs like me.

[Mupepe]

I had to buy a new battery for my car. There goes another $85...

13 more hours MAF and i'll laugh in your face in my skintight suit and i'll copy your texture

WHY ARE YOU PUNCHING ME?

Solidarity punches! We need a fistpump emoticon.

oh.  hell yeah!  MAF is just crying.

[huckleberry]

Gotta post it, even though I bought it last Friday:




Gonna use it for my daily commute (4 miles).  I fucking love it...even though I look like an ape on a tricycle on the thing.

[AdmiralViscen]

Nothing

However, my gf bought us a couples massage for 90 minutes, Blue Dragon and Total Recall BRD came in the mail, and my car is ready for pickup at the exhaust shop.

 

[Don Flamenco]

Metra tickets (and MGS4LE in 20 minutes.)

This for lunch:
--Watercress soup, spring roll, panang

filing stuff.  i was in ur appellate clerk's office, filin' ur motions to reverse judgment.

[Mr. Gundam]

Yoko Kanno -- Macross Frontier OST

[Robo]

I don't have the attention span for marathons, but I'm gonna catch at least one of those kung-fu flicks.  Executioners from Shaolin doesn't ring any bells, so that might be the one I go with, but I do REALLY love The 36th Chamber and it would be nice to see on the big screen.  I'll figure it out tomorrow morning.

[Scurvy Stan]

I didn't buy anything today. Fuck!