I went to see the original movie something like a dozen times in its first theatrical run; I took the bus up to the UA 150 theater on the north end of downtown Seattle so often I'm surprised I wasn't on a first name basis with the ticket clerks. That movie plus the original Kung Fu TV series -- Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine stoned out of his gourd, wandering the American West and nonviolently kicking the bejesus out of a dozen cowboy-hatted heavies without working up a sweat -- those were the inspirations that really got me started chasing esoteric spiritual traditions. I wanted to be something halfway between this...
...and this.
Of such adolescent ambitions are destinies shaped...
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Date: 2022-07-19 02:22 am (UTC)I went to see the original movie something like a dozen times in its first theatrical run; I took the bus up to the UA 150 theater on the north end of downtown Seattle so often I'm surprised I wasn't on a first name basis with the ticket clerks. That movie plus the original Kung Fu TV series -- Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine stoned out of his gourd, wandering the American West and nonviolently kicking the bejesus out of a dozen cowboy-hatted heavies without working up a sweat -- those were the inspirations that really got me started chasing esoteric spiritual traditions. I wanted to be something halfway between this...
...and this.
Of such adolescent ambitions are destinies shaped...