drunken master

and the theme song from the movie with clips video

well when The Pietasters Drunken Master song came on this morning I wondered if they had a music vid to go with... but then all I found was clips from THE best jackie chan film. I've seen it a few times and man - it is just one of those you can watch over and over again. And the song, ya know well, I just dig it. at one point in my youth i listened to every bit of blues and reggae I could get my hands on... mostly blues but toss in a Nathan Williams and the Zydeco Cha Chas and some Bunny Wailer and the other stuff played on the college stations and the blues hour on the rock station and i've got this deep resonance with the blues and reggae beat. Maybe that's why I dig rock bands with horn sections. Yeah while all the other edgy kids were listening to punk-hardcore stuff, or the top 40 new wave stuff - i was digging the blues. Couple that with being a violin playing tall pasty pale freak with pectus excavatum and no wonder my confidence is so fragile or non-existent. Sokay - i got out of HS with a great education and a solid foundation to deal with college and i did eventually make it to the adult side of things not in the worst shape. I can deal with the baggage a bit. Funny, all tipped off by some 2002 release from a ska reggae band on Pandora, but bolstered by my reading a bit from a google search this week: "It's a problem that affects a child's health, energy and confidence." Reading that I am thankful that it didn't affect my health or energy (I can't help but note that my lung capacity would be a bit larger without it), but holy shit, having it said like that. Yeah. It really affected my confidence. Only recently have I come to terms with it. 35+ years to not erase the damage, but to just accept it and not be worried about it. Years of torture and finger pointing and staring at pools in the summer. it wasn't just that i was so skinny that I sunk in the pool that i didn't like swimming.

Got a bit deep and too personal there. But it was bound to come out. maybe i should go shadow some dude trying to do a "workout" on the bike path in his aero bars on a hot afternoon with tons of people on the path to build my confidence level. Yeah. That's the ticket.

Drunken Master...

Dont be a bull in a china shop
Pick up my foot and then the next one drop
Drunken style is his martial arts
You cant push him around like some old hand cart
I sleep on nails and we eat broken glass
I am no fool, I keep my mind intact
Stumble down the street people passin' remarks
Cause when me walk, me walk and me talk

I am a drunken master

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