RIP David Carradine

[KC Elbows]

Hey KC maybe I'll hit you up next I'm in KC

Go for it. We can brainstorm stuff to say about lkfmdc when he's dead.

[lkfmdc]

Go for it. We can brainstorm stuff to say about lkfmdc when he's dead.

New york, NY - today, infamous internet grumpy guy and pain in the butt LKFMDC was found dead in a low grade, pay by the hour flea bag on the lower east side. He was naked from the ankles up, tied up in dirty shoe laces, and covered in motor oil. Witnesses say in prior hours several young Asian hookers had visited the room and loud screams of "yes, I'll stack the ha gow tins now" were heard coming from the room. Authorities state that Ha Gow are "little delicious shrimp balls" but could not explain the exact meaning of the reference

In what is believed to be a suicide note, put up on youtube in the early hours of the morning, LKFMDC explained that since KwaiChang was found dead with a beer bottle rammed up his rear end life had simply lost it's meaning. He no longer had a wannabe loser to harass on internet forums. He also said someone named "Gene Ching" was no longer returning his calls?"

[KC Elbows]

He was naked from the ankles up...

Ahh yeah, that’s right baby
Girl, tonight we're gonna make love
You know how I know baby?
Cuz its Wednesday, and Wednesday night is the night that we make love.
Tuesday night is the night that we go and visit your mother, but
Wednesday night is the night that we make love.
Cuz everything is just right, conditions are perfect.
There's nothing good on TV, conditions are perfect.
You lean in close and say something sexy like " I might go to bed I've
got work in the morning." I know what you're trying to say baby.
You're tryin to say "Ooh yeah, it's business time, it's business time."

Chorus

It’s business, it's business time!
J:That’s what your trying to say, your trying to say lets get down to business
its business time.
Its business its business time

Thats what you're tryin to say, you're tryin to say lets get down to
business it's business time!

Ooh, Next thing you know were in the bathroom brushing our teeth.
That's all part of it. That's foreplay.
Then you go sort out the recycling, that's not part of it but it's still
very important.
Then we're in the bedroom. You're wearing that ugly old baggy
t-shirt from that team building exercise you did for your old work,
and it's never looked better on you.
Mmmhh, team building exercise '99. Oh you don't know
what you're doing to me. I remove my jeans but trip over them
cuz i've still got my shoes on, but then I turn it into a sexy dance.
Next thing you know I'm down to just my socks and you know
when I'm down to just my socks what time it is. It's time for
business. It's business time.

Chorus
Its business, its business time
You know when I’m down to just my socks its time for business,
that’s why they call them business socks


You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business
that's why they call it business socks

Chorus

Ooh, makin love, makin love for two, makin love for two minutes.
When its with me you only need two minutes, cuz I’m so intense
Two minutes in heaven is better then one minute in heaven
You say sumthing like “Is that it?”
I know what your trying to say, your trying to say “Ahh ya that’s it”
Then you tell me you want some more
Well im not surprised, But im quite sleepy.

Chorus
Its business, its business time
Business hours are over, baby
Its business, its business time.

[KC Elbows]

I'm willing to bet David Carradine would have liked Flight of the Conchords' "business time". He liked guitar.

[KC Elbows]

* The Guardian, Friday 5 June 2009


A member of a distinguished Hollywood family, the actor David Carradine, who has been found dead at the age of 72, was never exactly a star, but had a sporadically interesting film and television career.

The first, and biggest, of his career peaks came with the television series Kung Fu (1972-75), a huge cult hit, mixing western action with eastern philosophy - a long and abiding interest for the actor - in a way that was novel at the time. His character, Kwai Chang Caine, was a Shaolin monk wandering the American west. It was a sad irony that Carradine was to die in the Buddhist centre of Bangkok, Thailand, in what is believed to be a suicide. Originally a TV movie, Kung Fu grew into a show that lasted for 46 episodes.

By the time the series began, Carradine was already 36. After leaving San Francisco State College, he had been a soldier, commercial artist and stage actor. He had appeared in Shakespearean rep and on Broadway, notably in Royal Hunt of the Sun (1965), as the Inca chief Atahualpa. From the early days, he played a variety of races, and his counter-cultural credentials were established with roles in Martin Scorsese's first film, Boxcar Bertha (1972), and (uncredited) in the director's celebrated Mean Streets (1973) as a memorable drunk in a ruckus in a bar.

A co-star in the former was Barbara Hershey, his partner in the Kung Fu days. This was a hippie affair - she changed her name to Barbara Seagull, and their child was named Free. They never married, but Carradine was to wed five times. There were two other children and four divorces before his final wife, Anne Bierman.

Though he was born John Arthur Carradine in Hollywood, the name David distinguished him from his actor father John Carradine, a grand old man of Hollywood who claimed to have appeared in more movies than any contemporary. David was his eldest son. When Walter Hill came to make The Long Riders, a 1980 film about the James and Younger gangs, he drew on four different acting families. David topped the bill as Cole Younger, alongside his half-brothers, Keith and Robert.

Carradine's career took in more than 200 film and TV credits. He started mainly in westerns, playing the title role in a series based on the hit film Shane in 1966. Other memorable movies included Robert Altman's radical reworking of The Long Goodbye (1973, again uncredited), and the lead in the exploitation film Death Race 2000 (1975), also starring Sylvester Stallone. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976), which also showcased his abilities as a singer, a talent shared with his brother Keith, who played a country singer in Nashville (1975).

David was in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg (1977), but his star waned after the 1970s, assisted by a gonzo reputation. In 1989 he served 48 hours in jail for drink-driving. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) gave him a rare interesting part, and he appeared in 12 episodes of the TV mini-series North and South (1985-86), which brought him another Golden Globe nomination. He was to revisit his Kung Fu character again from time to time, in Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) and the TV series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993-97). "Every day," he once said of the role, which won him several Emmys, "at least six people will come up to me and say 'Your show changed my life'."

The actor also turned his hand to directing, initially on the Kung Fu series and in three other feature films, You and Me (1975), Mata Hari (1978) and Americana (1983). But his career had been in the doldrums for some time when the celebrated occupation-reviver Quentin Tarantino cast him in the title role of Kill Bill, Vol 1 and 2 (2003-04), a demonic character that leaned heavily on a screen personality that was freewheeling, laconic, always tending towards the maverick outsider. Carradine said it was as close to him as any part he had played, and it provided him with another onscreen musical number, The Legend of Pai Mai. The director had thought of him for some time: "He wanted it to be a revelation to the world that he would show me like people don't know me," Carradine explained. Tarantino drew inspiration from Carradine's huge autobiography, Endless Highway (1995).

More recently, he was a kung-fu master in a Jonas Brothers video and played a 100-year-old Chinese gangster in the just released Crank: High Voltage. The role, like all of his memorable parts, fitted his personality as an Irish-American with a little Cherokee blood. "I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong," he said.

He is survived by Annie; two daughters, Calista and Kansas, by his first two wives; and Free, later known as Tom.

• David (John Arthur) Carradine, actor, born 8 December 1936; died 4 June 2009


http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/...avid-carradine

[kwaichang]

Lk I feeel sorry for you as you are so lame. Had you written that song yourself I might have been impressed but since you are a copy cat riding the wave of the MMA phenomenon until you are no more I have little pitty for you. But since I am more than that I will Pray for your warped soul and hope you quit trying to be the Bad dude you think you are and repent of your old ways. Heck someday you may be half way "good" for something if you start now. Your fear of death shines l;ike a beacon in the night,like some of us you are too chicken to admit it. Oh by the way thanks for the instuctional vids on the other post I will quit what I am doing now and sell everything just to train under you. Since your mentality is limited I will let you know that was sarcasm
Signed very truly yours, Kwai Chang

[kwaichang]

BTW Gene if you do a decent article about DC I will buy your mag and subscribe KC

[KC Elbows]

I am certain that, had someone told David Carradine that there was going to be a ruckus at his wake, he would've been happier than if there wasn't, as long as no one was seriously hurt.

[KC Elbows]

Lk I feeel sorry for you as you are so lame. Had you written that song yourself I might have been impressed but since you are a copy cat riding the wave of the MMA phenomenon until you are no more I have little pitty for you. But since I am more than that I will Pray for your warped soul and hope you quit trying to be the Bad dude you think you are and repent of your old ways. Heck someday you may be half way "good" for something if you start now. Your fear of death shines l;ike a beacon in the night,like some of us you are too chicken to admit it. Oh by the way thanks for the instuctional vids on the other post I will quit what I am doing now and sell everything just to train under you. Since your mentality is limited I will let you know that was sarcasm
Signed very truly yours, Kwai Chang

Dude, David Carradine was an actor. Are you 100% certain that he wouldn't have been cool with someone who just didn't like him, given that he spent his youth famous for his father, and his adulthood famous for his roles?


Stars often come to value people who don't see their fame, and Carradine was definitely his own kind of person.

[kwaichang]

KC Not liking someone is fine I know he is an actor but wise crack slander of the dead is a cheap shot only cowards perform. KC

[David Jamieson]

KC Not liking someone is fine I know he is an actor but wise crack slander of the dead is a cheap shot only cowards perform. KC

To be fair, i believe Dave bad mouthed him before he died too.

But i get your meaning.
Perhaps your sentimental bone is aching from the rain of dead kungfu people today?

Have a sit.

[The Willow Sword]

Laughing his a$$ off at all of this. Which is exactly what i am doing right now.

All you "purists" Need to take a chill pill,,,breathe and meditate, light patchouly incense or something and bang a gong and just STFU,,LOL!!!

Peace,TWS

[lkfmdc]

To be fair, i believe Dave bad mouthed him before he died too.

correctomundo

kwaichang is such a stereotypical wannabe it's amazing and darn right funny all at the same time

I bet he walks around the house in his kung fu uniform!

[kwaichang]

I saw Kung Fu when I was 11 years old after seeing I said I want to do that. And do and did. I enjoyed the philosophy and the character of KCC. I feel that people of today that teach MA could learn something from the Characters of the old Kung Fu TV show. It isnt all about fighting. But to admit that , I think some feel is a weakness. Training for sport is not the martial way skills in MA arent meant for that. Call me nieve if you want but that is how I feel.
Peace to all of you as I go and watch the pilot of Kung Fu and remember the old days. when MA werent measured by the amount of steroids or the octagon or MMA standards. Those who follow that path are lost in time. I feel for people like those who feel strength is found that way. All it takes is one punch to finish a mans whole way of thinking and being.
Do you hear your own heart beat do you hear the Grasshopper at your feet? I am sure some AH will comment on this post but I really dont care. Those that are that way have alot to learn. KC

[kwaichang]

Hey TWS glad to see you are around KC