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Joseph Kuby

Howdie!

About Me

I'm a nice, caring, open-minded and easy-going guy who wants to make films in the Hong Kong film industry. I do Kung Fu - Chinese martial arts. The style of Kung Fu I do is called Lau Gar Kung Fu .You can learn more about me here: My LIM profile , my Club 18-30 World profile , my Mingle Ville profile , my Face Party profile and my Profile Heaven profile .The following two sites are ones that I hang around on, I'll be writing some reviews for them in the nearby future so keep an eye out for them: City On Fire and Dragon's Den UK . In the meantime, reviews of mine can be found here (you have to be a member to click onto a reviewer's name and find their reviews in this particular site, once you've registered & logged in just type Raw Deal and click on my name).If you want to see some really cool awesome fight scenes from Hong Kong movies (to understand at least what partially grabs my interest about them), then visit the following sites: Shaw Scope , Stunt People and Shaolin Chamber (review section).If you wanna find reviews of the films featured in my favourite movies section, go here (this is also where you can find the latest news concerning action movies, or ones either HK related or martial arts related): Kung Fu Cinema .If you want to buy really rare action movies courtesy of the Orient, then try your luck here and here .If you want to see the latest news concerning Hong Kong films in general then visit these sites: Hong Kong Entertainment News In Review and Monkey Peaches . Finally, here is what I consider to be perfect learning material in regards to biographical information concerning the films and the people who make them: Hong Kong Cinema - View From The Brooklyn Bridge , Hong Kong Cinemagic , Hong Kong Film Net and Beijing Video .

My Interests

I enjoy acting, martial arts (Kung Fu - Chinese martial arts), psychology, philosophy, films, filmmaking, TV, computer games (like Mega Man X and Earthworm Jim ), reading, writing, billiards (pool/snooker), exercising, basketball, football, rock music (punk, metal + indie) and a little bit of classical music.

I'd like to meet:

The following people of whom I've known from primary and secondary school: Siobhan Curran (a childhood friend of whom was also my playmate, she was my best friend as well), Pauline Rogan (another friend who is not only the most nicest girl I've ever met but the most nicest girl period), Danielle Gerrard Wood (ditto), Ciara Eliasz (likewise) and Patrick Vickers (one of my best friends who moved to Ireland). I'd also like to meet Alaric off MTV's Made, Stef from said show, Ellie from Channel 4's Rock School, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Wong Jing - The Hong Kong Hugh Hefner - my favourite director of whom I would like to work with! A biography of the cinematic genius written by an acquaintance of mine and another biography, except this time co-written by the 2 of us . Then there's also the winning combination of cuteness and sexiness that is Rachael Leigh Cook ! But most of all, I want to meet my radcore (radical & hardcore) American friend Ashley (who's so wonderfully adorable and whimsically amiable).

Music:

V an Ha len , R at t , Armored Saint , Solitary Harmony , Lunachicks , Rollins Band , Mot ley Crue , S teve Vai , Testament , David Lee Roth , Skid Row , Michael Angelo Batio , Sepultura , Blink 182 , Green Day , Exodus , Def Leppard , Rox ette , Sanctuary , Transvision Vamp , Whi te snake , Distillers , Yngwie Malmsteen , Garbage , Overkill , War rant , Von Bondies , Deftones , Nickelback , Faith No More , Atreyu , Inxs , The Used , J ug , Joe Satriani , Pretty Girls Make Graves , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Nothing Gained , No Doubt , Twisted Sister , Me ga deth , The Cure , RHCP , Funeral For A Friend , Savatage , Franz Ferdinand , Bloodhound Gang , The Offspring , Anthrax , Auf Der Maur , Foo Fighters , Annihilator , The Killers , REM , Metallica , Alanis Morissette , Keane , Pantera , Sum 41 , INXS , New Found Glory , Dream Theater , 36 Crazy Fists , Black Flag , Jimmy Eat World , Kasa bian , Pois on , System Of A Down , Linkin Park , In cu bus , Backstreet Girls , Lost Prophets , Marilyn Manson , Razorlight , Oasis , Hundred Reasons , Slip knot , Ko rn , Futureheads , Alkaline Trio , Ram ones , Nirvana , The Hives , Manowar , The Police , Flotsam & Jetsam , Kaiser Chiefs , Papa Roach , Evanescence , The Who , A C / D C , Nuclear Assault , Aero smith , Faster Pussycat , Guns N' Roses , The Mad Capsule Markets , Mo by , Dark Angel , Snow Patrol , Bloc Party , Slayer , Coldplay , Bad Brains , The White Stripes , Billy Idol , Arctic Monkeys , Ardkore , U 2 and W.A.S.P.

Movies:

Bruce Lee's action films (some might find this rather incessant or incumbent of me to say but the majority of Bruce Lee's film career wasn't all martial arts or action), The Blues Brothers , The Thing , All Ma trix es , Star Wars series , Kevin Smith movies , Quen tin Taran tino movies , Arnold Schwarze negger movies (e.g. Com man do , Raw Deal , etc.), John Woo mo vi es (e.g. A Better Tomorrow , A Better Tomorrow 2 , The Killer , Hard Boiled , Hard Target , etc.), Bruce ploi ta tion mov ies , Dri ve , The Victim (Jonathan Ross thinks it's the best old-school Kung Fu film ever made), The Last Blood , The Trans po rt er , In The Line of Duty 4 , Tiger Cage 2 , Drunken Master 2 , Fist Of Leg end , Kiss Of The Dra gon , High Risk , Tai Chi Master , Ci ty Hunter , Holy Weapon , Kung Fu Cult Master (it's basically the superior Chinese equivalent to Lord Of The Rings - it's not derivative of the latter as the story originated from another series of novels altogether), Fu ture Co ps , Ong - Bak , Tom Yum Goong , Right ing Wrongs , Ang el , License To Steal , Whe els On Me als , My Heart Is That Eternal Rose , Dragons For ever , Dragon Fr om Russia , My Young Aunt ie , Pedi cab Dri iver , Eastern Condors , Killer's Romance (the only Hong Kong film to be filmed entirely on location in the UK), I ron Mon key , War ri or s Two , The Odd Coup le (scroll down on the last link to see clips from the film), The Pr od i gal Son , Po lice St ory , Ar mo ur Of G od , Sixty Million Dollar Man , Skinny Tiger Fatty Dragon , Pantyhose Hero , Invin cible Shao lin , Two Champions Of Shaolin , Crippled Avengers , Masked Avengers , Magnificent Ruffians , The Sword Stained With Royal Blood , Heroes of the East (a.k.a. Shaolin vs. Ninja), Lion vs. Lion (a.k.a Roar of the Lion), Five Element Ninjas (a.k.a. Chinese Super Ninjas), The Super Inframan (a.k.a. Chinese Power Rangers) and Un lea sh ed (a.k.a. Danny The Dog).

Television:

The Simpsons , Frasier , Futurama , Family Guy , Dragon Ball Z , Earthworm Jim (the guy who does the voice for Homer Simpson does the same for Jim of which you can see by checking out the episodes by viewing the Jim link in the interests section), South Park and Long Way Round .

Books:

The Simpsons & Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer , Usagi Yojimbo series , Van Halen 101: Foreword by Brian May of Queen , Crazy from the Heat , The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band , Hong Kong Action Cinema , Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions , At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World , Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment , The Hong Kong Filmography: 1977 - 1997 , John Woo: The Films , John Woo: Interviews , Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body and Arnold Schwarzenegger: The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding .

Heroes:

Jackie Ch an , Sam mo Hung , Je t Li , Bruce Lee and Yukari Oshima .

My Blog

Self-penned Songs

Basically, here are all my songs shown to you from first to last (or most current).I wrote these songs after reading a Madonna biography (written by Andrew Morton). The songs are presented in the orde...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:08:00 PST

Ratt / Motley Crue / Whitesnake

In the upcoming days or so, I'll be posting music videos and links to (purchase) albums of my top 6 favourite bands (Ratt, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Poison, Warrant and Van Halen).This blog is dedicate...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:50:00 PST

Megadeth

Dave Mustaine, the lead singer of Megadeth, is responsible for Metallica's early success as Met's first three albums have Dave's artistic fingerprints on them (even if credit is lacking somewhat). He ...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:54:00 PST

City On Fire film reviews - Heroic Bloodshed

2/13/07:Bullet In The HeadReturn To A Better Tomorrow2/18/07:Hard BoiledThe Killer2/27/07:A Better TomorrowA Better Tomorrow IIA Better Tomorrow III3/11/07:Flaming Brothers4/4/07:Rich and FamousTragic...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:03:00 PST

Martial Arts VS. Guns / Sammo Hung & Star Wars

For those who disbelieve the notion that a martial artist can take on someone armed with a gun, read on... My friend Alexander told me the following true story: "The day of the bombing on Lebanon fr...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:09:00 PST

Warrant / Poison / Van Halen

This is a continuation of the Ratt / Motley Crue / Whitesnake blog in that my three other favourite bands get to have their moment to shine in my "spotlight" as it were.Besides information that could ...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:37:00 PST

City On Fire film reviews - Bruceploitation

I accidentally deleted the previous posts (whilst trying to respond to the first comment I made - I must have quickly mistook remove for reply/respond), so here are all my movie reviews thus far.... ...
Posted by Joseph Kuby on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:02:00 PST