Hello I Love You Lito

My love for Lito Lapid is well known among my friends (partly because of an incident involving Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and angry conjectures on who Legolas stole his moves from).

Alas, the heart’s memory can be short, and the longer our love-affair, the more we forget the little things that made us fall in love in the first place. Thankfully, this is where youtube comes in…

Seeing this was like falling in love all over again! Now that is what Lito Lapid is all about! It’s just… wow…Wow!! I don’t know where to start! I mean the song? The man cleavage (with shirt rivets to match)? The masked salakot? A musical segment that’s over 10 minutes long?? What.is.not.to.love?

I especially love how they got creative with use of clothing lines here…
There’s bolo + 100 meter clothing line = Pinoy Nunchucks (they’re like your usual Nunchucks only deadlier because they have razor sharp blades! … and easy to grip rubber handles) Also, one Bolo-On-A-String (BOAS) wasn’t enough! There had to be two (and they had to be holstered on Lito’s back, and form a kind of ghetto back fringe that fly all over the place when he moves). BOASes are one part nunchuck, one part whip, all angular momentum defying Filipino death machines.

Then there’s the clothing line as a part of a complex horse and tree pulley system. Never mind that it’s easier to just shoot Lito’s enemies from the ground. Never mind that hanging precariously from a tall tree actually makes him an easier target for his gun-toting enemies. Never mind that a clothing line that thin couldn’t possibly support his body weight. And never mind that what he’s doing would leave nasty rope burns. Anyway, his enemies, like his movie audience, are just going to stand still in wonderment while he machine guns the life out of each of them.

Ohh man… that’s too much love for one afternoon.. I have to lie down now… then go make my own Bolo on a string..