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April 26, 2005
The Shaolin Wolf
This is a really good read: Rza, "special water," Sifu Shi Yan Ming, and a big ol' party.
One night not long ago, about two hundred people left their shoes outside the door of the U.S.A. Shaolin Temple, on lower Broadway, and shuffled inside to await the arrival of Sifu Shi Yan Ming, a thirty-fourth-generation Shaolin fighting monk, whose forty-first birthday they intended to celebrate by drinking vast quantities of beer—or “special water,” as Yan Ming likes to say.
The celebrants spanned an easy range of age, race, profession, and style: deli clerk, baby, Wesley Snipes, sociology professor, Masta Killa. The RZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan, who spent much of his childhood skipping school to watch kung-fu movies in Times Square, was there, wearing a Staten Island baseball jacket and cap. In a room where hair was fairly unpopular, you could spot Jim Jarmusch’s tall, fluffy white head.
Drunk Monk [The New Yorker]
The Master [ShaolinWolf.com]
The Wu-Tang Manual [Amazon] P swears this is genius
Posted by Nash at April 26, 2005 10:15 PM