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RIP Grasshopper...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_thailand_david_carradine

Yep! I guess he's "Bound For Glory" now, huh John?!

RIP David.

Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Caine: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?

Thats a bummer. I enjoyed the Kung Fu series as a youngster and really enjoyed his characters in the Tarantino films as well as the odd ball film here and there.

He was awesome. Kill Bill was one of my favorite movies ever.

RIP Mr. Carradine, you'll be missed.

Hmmmm... he was found with a curtain cord wrapped around his neck and "other parts of his body."

Auto erotic exfixiation? Maybe. He was also doin Wild West Tech on the History channel. I loved Kung Fu as a kid.

Was on Radio 4 news over here yesterday, said he was found in the wardrobe with a cord around his neck and 'other body parts', didn't mention him hanging himself!

Another part of my character has gone. In 1973 I first saw Bruce Lee in a magazine I can even remember being on a train heading to Torquay with a large group of fellow Boy Scouts. The magazine showed all these spectacular kicks and punches.

I decided that immediately on my return home I would become a Kung Fu master. At that time in Scotland Kung Fu masters were as rare as rocking horse poo. So I started with the Kobe Osaka karate school in Glasgow.

My room became a shrine to Bruce Lee posters of him and of my favourite bikes lined my walls. The magazines were full at the time of a new TV series which Lee had written but had been deemed to "Oriental" to play the lead role. This was to me sacriledge I never really took to Carradine because of this. I would like to think he was suitably embarrased at the way Lee was treated. The closest I remember seeng carradine and Lee was double feature film one showing Lee in Enter the Dragon and Carradine in Death race 2000. The less said about that film the better.

I sat every saturday evening glued to the TV watching the moves and later trying to re create them in my room. I was still hoping to become that "Master"

Time passed and I stuck with Karate changing schools a few times picking up on other styles shotokan, Kyoshinkia and other Arts a bit of Tae Kwon do some Ju Jitsu, Aikido. Eventaully Jeet Kun Do the style developed by Bruce Lee. I stuck at hat for a couple years on top of my Karate and realised that the guys teaching me were not good enough and although they had propbably read the books and tried to take the basic principles of Jeet Kun Do they did not fully understand the idea of adaptability behind the style.

I returned to trying out various martial arts Lau Gar Kung Fu, Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Savate and Kali. This has continued for the past 30 years I dont train nearly as much as I used to but I still have a barrel load of tricks up my sleeve.

So to the guy who brought Kung Fu to the masses via the medium of television, all I can say is I hope that whatever demons drove him to take his own life may he find peace elsewhere.

Quote:

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Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Caine: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?

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Caine: Leave me alone, Master. I am choking the chicken.

I guess rather than the usual celebrity "coming out of the closet" Dave opted for the "going into the closet".

A shame really because now my enduring memory of the guy will be "Hung Fu".

I TOLD YOU. (Well, I implied through sarcasm. Dog, subtle as ever, had to go and actually say/type it.)

"BANGKOK, June 5 -- Thai police officers investigating the death of David Carradine, the American actor who made his name in the "Kung Fu" television series in the 1970s, say he most likely died of asphyxiation, possibly when an autoerotic sex game went wrong."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060500909.html

Never been there, but I thought that part of Thailand was noted for professionals that could take care of that for you without going solo into the closet...

Bangckock (implied spelling error) is known as a sexualist nirvana.......

Hollywierd types being bored with normal experimentation....well... who knows what went on in that closet.

snatch the pebble from my hand grasshopper

More like, "Snatch the roofee from my hand, Grasshopper..."

Gives a whole new meaning to his role in the movie Bound For Glory.

LOL......we are an irreverent bunch are we not?

Choke the chicken, Grasshopper...NOT choke the Grasshopper...Chicken...Duh