Top photo taken a few months ago on Egan’s exhibit’s last night on Black Soup. Click photo for more.
We were all lounging under a makeshift tent in front of Mogwai one Friday night when Egan spotted Bodjie Pascua eating inside Black Soup. He was ecstatic. He wanted me to take a picture their picture. I told him that somebody told me he partly owns the place. Then, everyone began sharing childhood stories of how they would delay taking a bath just to hear what Kuya Bodjie had in store for the kids that day; or finish breakfast early; or treat the show’s theme song as an alarm clock - each account slightly differed from each person, depending on how early the school bus would arrive at their place. Someone even recalled having seen reruns on a Sunday morning right after the Chinese variety shows.
Me, being the occasional trivia geek, shared what I recently found out about every kid of my generation’s favorite TV show, its puppets, its side characters (and the lives they lead off cam)… oh, just click the link! I’m too sleepy to recall everything I said that night.
Then somebody told us about having seen him in an indie film recently. In the film he remembered seeing him stab a boy to death against a wall because he didn’t favor the poor teenager for his daughter. He claimed, even for just a few moments, that shattered his image of our favorite storyteller.
Of course, we all knew he was kidding… on the shattering image part. And Egan still had his photo taken with him.
Fast-forward: Top photo.
Suddenly, even for just a few minutes, everybody was a kid again.
Thoughts