too much AC aint a good thing (unless you're Jesse Spano)

I'm sitting at cafe habittu doing my usual reading, blogging, freelancing thing and I had to stop, pull out a hoodie from my bag and zip up. Why do I have a hoodie with me in August in HK?

Because Hong Kong air conditioning apparently have only two modes--off or full blast. I've been here over two years and I still can't get used to it. I guess being from Cali where the weather is always awesome done me in. Cause over there, there isn't this huge change in temperature from indoors to outdoors, as opposed to HK where the summers are hot and humid and the only way the HK people know to deal with it is to blast air condition on full right down your neck.

I hate this crap. With all that pretentous eco-friendly PC thing going on lately, why aren't more people doing something about this? I know the BBC wrote something on this a while back but isn't the fact that most people have to keep a sweater regularly in the office a telltale sign? Just turn the fucking thing up 1 degree or 2, no one will notice except the fat folks, and this is HK where local guys weight like 130 pounds so there aren't too many of them here. (This is how you tell if someone is a local or an expat/ABC. If they over 155 pounds, they from the states LOL)

So yeah a few random notes:

1: I'm reading the Sunday Morning Post Review section right now (Ah Gil is on the cover) and they have a section called Rewind where they review old stuff. And as far as I can tell, the stuff they choose to rewind is COMPLETELY RANDOM AS HELL. There is no relevance, like say "we're reviewing this movie from 1985 because the lead actor just passed away" or "we're reviewing this 1999 movie in honor of the 10th anniversary". It's just random "here's this DVD from 1997". Anyway, don't mistake this for a knock, I think this is AWESOME.... well for the writers and editors. I always joked with HKHonestly that if I ever get my own mag 'm just gonna have a random ass "I'm reviewing this random movie for no reason, just cause I want to" section cause that's fun. And that's what the Rewind section is. It's the ultimate sign of editorial control. A former colleague, Peter Guy, who was the editor in chief of Escape Magazine, did the same thing--he'd just spend half a page writing this random ass DVD he picked up outta the blue. As Jack Black once said in School of Rock, it's got no rhyme or reason. Just cause the PGuy wanted to.

So yeah, last week, outta the blue, they reviewed DO THE RIGHT THING, which is a movie I've written on several times the last year because I've been searching high and low for it in HK. Okay I guess if I really wanted it I could order it off Amazon or get it whenever I'm in the states, but no I want to get it in HK. And I have yet to find it. I know this kills Spike inside, man. According to him, "nobody watches motherfucking Driving Miss Daisy no mo'" and it still haunts him to this day that Driving Miss Daisy  won best picture over DTRT.

I gotta admit, Do The Right Thing has stood the test of time, while Driving Miss Daisy will only be remembered now for being sweded by Mos Def and JB. Public Enemy recently played at Fuji Rock, and I remember telling a friend "man they aint been relevant since the first five minutes of Do The Right Thing" and that's about right. Rosie Perez+Public Enemy. Spike knew how to open a film.

I wonder what haunts Spike more, Daisy's Oscar triumph over DTRT or Reggie Miller dropping 25 in the 4th quarter on the Knicks in 95. BOOYAH.

2: The other day I was walking in Wanchai and I sported this dude sporting a bright yellow shirt with the sentence "Last week fucked around and got a triple double". I was like "whoa, an Ice Cube verse". I was wondering why the shirt was in Laker colors.... then I see this Nike ad today.

Oh yeah....

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAV1R3MQeYE

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKeWrdPsYAc DO THE RIGHT THING TRAILER. De Niro and Pacino are in it.