Hong Kong? Phooey!!
Howdy bloggers, Worcesterites and Pulse readers!! I am alive, well, and in a Malaysian Starbucks, my new on-line home for the next three weeks. I am currently in a city called Shah Alam, a very Muslim city about 30 minutes SW of KL(Kuala Lumpur). As I write it is just after 6:30 PM Monday, 6 :30 AM Monday morning for those of you on the East Coast.
This is the first update I have been able to post, as my computer has finally agreed to co-operate with my wishes.
I left Boston Wednesday morning at 7:45 AM and arrived in Kowloon, Hong Kong late Thursday night @ Midnight Hong Kong time(noon, EST). So basically, I spent about 30 hours(including lay-overs) traveling from Boston to LA, LA to Taipei, Taipei to Hong Kong. Surprisingly, the flights were not too bad, mainly because of the personal TV sets in the seat in front of me. I was able to select from 20+ movies, 10+ games, and 50+ other short TV programs, including "you know who" Cartoons- And, no, I did not watch, mostly out of fear my cast-mates would catch and thus ridicule me.
Along with four other cast members, I came to Hong Kong for a costume fitting, where I found out I am playing a slew of characters, including the main character's grandpa, a certain pirate, and other random fish. I am also sharing the puppeteer duties for some other characters, including theyallow guy's pet snail. This excites me to great lengths. Some of the voice-overs are TBD, but I am hoping to do one(or maybe two)of them. As long as the best sounding actors are chosen, I'm a happy man.
Hong Kong(Actually, Kowloon) was great. Kowloon is a major city across the bay from the island of Hong Kong. Hong Kong itself is sort of like New York, New York, a city and a state. I was reminded of a cross between Seoul and the movie "Blade Runner". One of the cooler things about being there was the fact that our costume fittings were a ways outside the city, so we got to see a bit of the impoverished outskirts of Kowloon. We could see a slew of high rise tenement houses, most of which were shabby buildings flying the local colors (i.e. underpants set out to dry) .
Well, I'm gonna call it a blog, but I will post again in the next few hours, as I have been getting grief about the absence of new posts. (Be careful what you wish for....)
Until next time, I wish you visions of a wet, breathless Harrison Ford witnessing Rutger Hauer's final moments in one of the best death scenes in all of filmdom.
All the best,
Steve Gags
This is the first update I have been able to post, as my computer has finally agreed to co-operate with my wishes.
I left Boston Wednesday morning at 7:45 AM and arrived in Kowloon, Hong Kong late Thursday night @ Midnight Hong Kong time(noon, EST). So basically, I spent about 30 hours(including lay-overs) traveling from Boston to LA, LA to Taipei, Taipei to Hong Kong. Surprisingly, the flights were not too bad, mainly because of the personal TV sets in the seat in front of me. I was able to select from 20+ movies, 10+ games, and 50+ other short TV programs, including "you know who" Cartoons- And, no, I did not watch, mostly out of fear my cast-mates would catch and thus ridicule me.
Along with four other cast members, I came to Hong Kong for a costume fitting, where I found out I am playing a slew of characters, including the main character's grandpa, a certain pirate, and other random fish. I am also sharing the puppeteer duties for some other characters, including theyallow guy's pet snail. This excites me to great lengths. Some of the voice-overs are TBD, but I am hoping to do one(or maybe two)of them. As long as the best sounding actors are chosen, I'm a happy man.
Hong Kong(Actually, Kowloon) was great. Kowloon is a major city across the bay from the island of Hong Kong. Hong Kong itself is sort of like New York, New York, a city and a state. I was reminded of a cross between Seoul and the movie "Blade Runner". One of the cooler things about being there was the fact that our costume fittings were a ways outside the city, so we got to see a bit of the impoverished outskirts of Kowloon. We could see a slew of high rise tenement houses, most of which were shabby buildings flying the local colors (i.e. underpants set out to dry) .
Well, I'm gonna call it a blog, but I will post again in the next few hours, as I have been getting grief about the absence of new posts. (Be careful what you wish for....)
Until next time, I wish you visions of a wet, breathless Harrison Ford witnessing Rutger Hauer's final moments in one of the best death scenes in all of filmdom.
All the best,
Steve Gags
posted by Gags at 9:03 PM
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umm. so I removed my comment because I spelt everything wrong. What I meant to say was, who is Rutger Hauerorwhatever his/her name was? I am too young for your references. :(
Rutger Hauer is a German actor who achieved cinematic success in the late '70's-80's. His role in the movie Blade Runner is, arguably, his most famous and, in my opinion, his best work. He was also the hitchhiker in the original movie version of ""The Hitcher", which was remade and released in early 2007. I deem him to be a fine actor who's career could use a shot in the arm a-la David Carradine(Bill in "Kill Bill") and John Travolta("Pulp Fiction"). Look him up on imdb and you night just recognize him.
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