Jacob ([info]come_on_lemon) wrote,
@ 2009-04-09 00:58:00
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Don't wanna hear about kings and queens
It's been a busy couple of weeks. Last week, Eleni let me tag along for a dinner at her parent's house. Her mom is a master chef. We had spaghetti. Then, Emerald City ComicCon was this past weekend. People came to our home. People like: J-Fish, Ben, Erik, Becky and Vasilis. It was a damn good time. The beginning of the week was really sunny. I spent it in the park with Stacy and Chad. That was equally damn good. The next day I went to the park for a few minutes and watched Corey and Larry capoeira fight:

Windows Movie Maker is fun and ridiculous.

I don't think all my synapses are firing this week, but it's okay. Good damn. Yerba Mate.

Now I'm eating a delicious soup made by Lindsay Lam.

A lot of stuff I sketched recently:











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[info]mercuryglass
2009-04-09 12:22 pm UTC (link)
i liked your video! corey is not very good at capoiera though. and i am going to say that because i took a capoiera class from some angolan dudes once. (that is where capoiera comes from.) one of the drills involved ducking as someone did a high kick to your face. THAT WAS ON MY FIRST AND ONLY DAY.

oh also i have heard that gingko bilboa is good for improving brain function & memory, but i have not tried it. maybe you should ask a naturopath. there's a naturopath at country doctor. you don't have to have insurance or anything to talk to him. the end!

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[info]reyyy
2009-04-09 07:16 pm UTC (link)
UH.

I took LONG FIST (an original form of the "box step", the main step involved with capoeira) while I was in Shaolin Kung-Fu, which, btw, ALL martial arts stemmed from Shaolin!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... YEAH. I know most the moves involved with the BOX STEP. "Long Fist" (aka: capoeira) is but ONE aspect of the all-encompassing martial art, KUNG-FU, SOOOO I'm gonna have to play seniority over YOUH, Lindsay Elle Lamb.

But I won't claim to be really good at it or anything, coz I'm an awkward white guy who spends 95% of his life at a desk drawing comix. And I was in Kung-Fu like over 10 years ago so yeah.

But I'll challenge you.

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[info]mercuryglass
2009-04-10 12:40 am UTC (link)
hey dude!

i have never taken any kind of martial arts class for longer than a day. i don't even watch wire-fu movies (except for shaolin soccer). so you can have the martial arts trophy!

also, when my capoeira classmates invited me to do the dancy-bit in the circle at the end of class, i said hell no, so you also get points for playing with the dancing thing at all.

but how could a chinese martial art move be the source of an angolan/brazilian capoeira step? capoiera originated in angola and moved to brazil in the 1600s with the africans who were captured in the slave trade. and i am under the impression that that widespread chinese immigration didn't get going until the 1800s.

of course, the two cultures could have influenced each other later, and i doubt there's a lot of documentation regarding brazilian capoeira since white people were the ones who had the power to document all that stuff and part of the point of capoeira was disguising the movements at a dance to confuse whitey. so who knows! who knows.

what i am trying to say is.........

HISTORY BATTLE!!!!!!!!

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[info]mercuryglass
2009-04-10 12:42 am UTC (link)
p.s. i liked the video and thought everyone in it was very charming.

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