Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 The Pitch: It's like Requiem for a Heavyweight meets Sherlock Jr! The supergirlfriend and I went to the video store after eating dinner. The idea was to get something for us to watch--something light and frothy since my mood was so gloomy and quietly despairing I made Stephen Morrissey look like a giggly twelve-year old. We couldn't really find anything, although not for lack of trying, and I asked the guy behind the counter (since this was a reasonably ritzy video store with special sections for directors and like that) if there was a Jackie Chan section. There was, he said, and he led me to it.About a week ago, I was in a small video store right around the corner from where I used to live on 25th avenue--and that place had a ton of old movies, the types that were still in their super-large video boxes from the 80's, I guess so that people might mistake them for a Gideon's bible and pick them up. And that place, with all its must and mildew, reminded of Video Star, the place in the Silver Lake i rented my first Jackie Chan film. It also had little sections set off by director, and it had those super-big video boxes, where the tape itself was packed in molded plastic, making the damn thing seem more like a scary candy old ladies would offer you than an actual movie. Anyway, there, like here, had a very small Jackie Chan section. But here, unlike there, had a bunch of Jackie's american product, and redubbed rereleases. Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2, Shanghai Noon--all on video and DVD. But after that, it was basically Legend of Drunken Master, maybe one other on DVD, and then a bunch of dubbed stuff on VHS. Not one Tai Seng video on them, and it made me sad. It's something I should go into some other time, when the super-girlfriend isn't in the next room, eating dessert alone. But it was odd, and sad, and not quite right. posted by Jeff Lester | 9:21 PM | |
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