Laurie Anderson

[Drunk Monk]

I already am. She's been working on collating a book on Tai Chi that Lou was developing. She's got a crew around her. She was part of the same Tai Chi circles as Lou. Lou's master, Master Ren, is an old friend. He and I shared a room in TexASS once - that was a horribly drunken night with him and some Shaolin Monks. There was even a full on fight in the hallway between some Shaolin reps - that was one of the craziest tournaments ever. I got in a drinking duel with Ren and Gao Xian (the bodyguard who keeps getting beat up in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, who was later involved in some sort of prostitution scandal with his school). Both Ren and Gao are big men, over 6 feet and thick, but that was back in my heavy RM daze and I could hold my own liquor-wise, much to everyone's amazement. Unfortunately, one woman - our driver - had a few too many and we had a crazy spin out on the road back to the hotel - one of those 'so this is how it ends' drunken moments for the drunk monk. 

But back to Laurie and Lou's Tai Chi book, I was interviewed for it and I'm the consultant outside their immediate school circle under Master Ren. We'll see how that all comes about. There's a lot of cooks with their fingers in the pot on this one, and I'm the lone outsider, outside Ren's students, but they're all good with me so I'm hopeful I'll get some decent credit for it.