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Hello everyone.

I've been away. Now I am back. I didn't go anywhere in particular. I moved house, around the corner so now me and my offspring are in a great big house instead of a one bedroom flat. I have a brothel four doors down. It's pink n pretty. I went on a holiday over Christmas. Lay on the beach a lot. Got very severly sunburnt on the first day and now, three months on, am still not even-of-skin-tone. I got a new job and left it two weeks later. My firstborn started school. I am dressing her as Monkey Magic for Harmony Day next week. At her request. Her school has asked kids to come in their national costume. My parents were born in China, her dad was born in England. Monkey Magic was filmed in China, dubbed in England. So not really Chinese, not really British, just like my daughter. So, have been working on costume...need to find crappy old weight lifter's belt to gold-stud asap. She wanted to shave her hair and grown sideburns. I said no. Umm...my old 65 XP Fairmont just got a respray and all the rusty bits taken care of, finally. I started Italian lessons last month. Scusi, mi porta ancora mezza minerale, per cortesia? I'm going to see cutcopy tomorrow night. Very excited. I think that's all my news now.

Hello again, nice to be back. Hi Ron.

t x

Monkey was filmed in Japan with an entirely Japanese cast!

Tinny wrote: Hello everyone.

I've been away. Now I am back. I didn't go anywhere in particular. I moved house, around the corner so now me and my offspring are in a great big house instead of a one bedroom flat. I have a brothel four doors down. It's pink n pretty. I went on a holiday over Christmas. Lay on the beach a lot. Got very severly sunburnt on the first day and now, three months on, am still not even-of-skin-tone. I got a new job and left it two weeks later. My firstborn started school. I am dressing her as Monkey Magic for Harmony Day next week. At her request. Her school has asked kids to come in their national costume. My parents were born in China, her dad was born in England. Monkey Magic was filmed in China, dubbed in England. So not really Chinese, not really British, just like my daughter. So, have been working on costume...need to find crappy old weight lifter's belt to gold-stud asap. She wanted to shave her hair and grown sideburns. I said no. Umm...my old 65 XP Fairmont just got a respray and all the rusty bits taken care of, finally. I started Italian lessons last month. Scusi, mi porta ancora mezza minerale, per cortesia? I'm going to see cutcopy tomorrow night. Very excited. I think that's all my news now.

Hello again, nice to be back. Hi Ron.

t x

howdy Tinny. long time no hear.

GlasVegas wrote: Monkey was filmed in Japan with an entirely Japanese cast!

actually Tinny is right. I just read that because they are making a new monkey film.

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: Monkey was filmed in Japan with an entirely Japanese cast!

actually Tinny is right. I just read that because they are making a new monkey film.

Think they're both half-right.

Filmed in China with a Japanese cast.

:\pimp3:

Ronald Kirsch wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: Monkey was filmed in Japan with an entirely Japanese cast!

actually Tinny is right. I just read that because they are making a new monkey film.

You read wrong then. The opening scenes were filmed on location but the rest was filmed around Hakone, Mt Fuji and Tokyo's Chinatown. I know my Monkey!

http://www.monkeyheaven.com/trivia.html

faq from the monkey heavan fan site:

Why did Monkey, a Japanese tv show, film its exteriors in China and not Japan? Because the story is set in China. The Monkey TV show is based on a very old Chinese story called "Hsi Yu Chi" (in English "Journey To The West") which is set in China, and tells the story of a Buddhist pilgrim travelling from China to India. None of the story was set in Japan. So to be truly authentic, it made sense that none of the exterior scenes in the show should be filmed in Japan. To

Ronald Kirsch wrote: faq from the monkey heavan fan site:

Why did Monkey, a Japanese tv show, film its exteriors in China and not Japan? Because the story is set in China. The Monkey TV show is based on a very old Chinese story called "Hsi Yu Chi" (in English "Journey To The West") which is set in China, and tells the story of a Buddhist pilgrim travelling from China to India. None of the story was set in Japan. So to be truly authentic, it made sense that none of the exterior scenes in the show should be filmed in Japan. To

Give it up Ron. Google it and you'll see I'm right. I will not be out-Monkeyed.

Also, from moneyheaven...

Here's some information received from a Japanese Monkey fan called Vega: "I hear, as a matter of fact, it was filmed almost completely in Japan. Tripitaka and 3 funny guys walked at the skirts of Mt.Fuji, not at the Silk Road. Chinese scenery was composed. In the 1st series, the cast went on location abroad in only one episode, "The Beginning of Wisdom". It was filmed at an open set in Hong Kong. In other episodes the cast acted in a studio set, or went on location to a chinese structure in Tokyo or wild land at the skirts of Mt.Fuji in Sizuoka. But the staff went to China to film Chinese scenery of the opening and the ending credits. Even the crew's location, it was a topic in Japan in those days. Japan was in Silk Road boom at that time.

In the 2nd series, the cast went to China, the Great Wall of China, etc., to film the opening scenes.

I heard these in MASAAKI SAKAI's interview, etc."

"I hear many location scenes were shot at Yushima-Seidou (Yushima temple of Confucius) in Ochanomizu in the middle of Tokyo. Of course it still exists.

Masaaki Sakai said in a TV show he made a guest appearance that he and Toshiyuki Nishida and Shiro Kishibe often went for lunch together to an eating house near location place with those costumes. They sometimes said hello to a car that passed by them; the driver was very surprised (^^)."

I'll be damned if anyone 'outmonkeys' me

not that it really matters that much where it was filmed. it was hugely popular here in the early 80s.

Barney Army wrote: I'll be damned if anyone 'outmonkeys' me

i also have a couple of pics of that particular spot. the last time i was there was in early jan 2003.

Barney Army wrote: I'll be damned if anyone 'outmonkeys' me

yeh, looks a nice view

but those FUCKIN flies.

Tinny wrote: Hello everyone.

I've been away. Now I am back. I didn't go anywhere in particular. I moved house, around the corner so now me and my offspring are in a great big house instead of a one bedroom flat. I have a brothel four doors down. It's pink n pretty. I went on a holiday over Christmas. Lay on the beach a lot. Got very severly sunburnt on the first day and now, three months on, am still not even-of-skin-tone. I got a new job and left it two weeks later. My firstborn started school. I am dressing her as Monkey Magic for Harmony Day next week. At her request. Her school has asked kids to come in their national costume. My parents were born in China, her dad was born in England. Monkey Magic was filmed in China, dubbed in England. So not really Chinese, not really British, just like my daughter. So, have been working on costume...need to find crappy old weight lifter's belt to gold-stud asap. She wanted to shave her hair and grown sideburns. I said no. Umm...my old 65 XP Fairmont just got a respray and all the rusty bits taken care of, finally. I started Italian lessons last month. Scusi, mi porta ancora mezza minerale, per cortesia? I'm going to see cutcopy tomorrow night. Very excited. I think that's all my news now.

Hello again, nice to be back. Hi Ron.

t x

Totally noticed. I nominated you for hottest NOOLer in the "Hottest NOOLer" contest ages ago, but you weren't around to bask in the adulation.

Not around myself much these days, what with being out of town and all.

Anyway, welcome back.

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman of the open road.

what's Harmony Day? Is it somekind of weed fest?

d13 wrote: what's Harmony Day? Is it somekind of weed fest?

harmony day is the day when we in oz celebrate out ethnic diversity. apparently there is a coloured ribbon as well. personally i'm not really in favour of "forcing" tolerance on people. it often has the opposite effect.

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote:

Tinny wrote: Hello everyone.

I've been away. Now I am back. I didn't go anywhere in particular. I moved house, around the corner so now me and my offspring are in a great big house instead of a one bedroom flat. I have a brothel four doors down. It's pink n pretty. I went on a holiday over Christmas. Lay on the beach a lot. Got very severly sunburnt on the first day and now, three months on, am still not even-of-skin-tone. I got a new job and left it two weeks later. My firstborn started school. I am dressing her as Monkey Magic for Harmony Day next week. At her request. Her school has asked kids to come in their national costume. My parents were born in China, her dad was born in England. Monkey Magic was filmed in China, dubbed in England. So not really Chinese, not really British, just like my daughter. So, have been working on costume...need to find crappy old weight lifter's belt to gold-stud asap. She wanted to shave her hair and grown sideburns. I said no. Umm...my old 65 XP Fairmont just got a respray and all the rusty bits taken care of, finally. I started Italian lessons last month. Scusi, mi porta ancora mezza minerale, per cortesia? I'm going to see cutcopy tomorrow night. Very excited. I think that's all my news now.

Hello again, nice to be back. Hi Ron.

t x

Totally noticed. I nominated you for hottest NOOLer in the "Hottest NOOLer" contest ages ago, but you weren't around to bask in the adulation.

Not around myself much these days, what with being out of town and all.

Anyway, welcome back.

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman of the open road.

welcome back comrade.

Ciao, Ronno! Not really back yet, just chillin' (and I do mean chillin') in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Ciao, Ronno! Not really back yet, just chillin' (and I do mean chillin') in Saratoga Springs, New York.

so you got a laptop yet, or are you using someone else's computer?

Defo someone else's. :D

I may have a paying gig soon, though, and if I do, I'll be stopping off at the campus computer store moments before I graduate to pick up my student discount laptop.

Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Defo someone else's. :D

I may have a paying gig soon, though, and if I do, I'll be stopping off at the campus computer store moments before I graduate to pick up my student discount laptop.

good, then you'll be here 24/7.

You know me well, Ronno. :)

Well, getting late, and mustn't wake the baby (my nephew) before he wakes me, so g'night Ronno.

ok cya tomorrow then comrade.

Barney Army wrote: I'll be damned if anyone 'outmonkeys' me

i respectfully point you fellers to one of my previous log in names here....