So I'm in Hong Kong today meeting with Jackie Chan at the tail end of a product development trip around China to visit our factories. It turns out that Jackie Chan is a big fan of the Sac having fallen asleep in a LoveSac a few months while filiming his new movie The Spy Next Door, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [RIGHT: SHAWNY D. & JACKIE CHAN & DAVE UNDERWOOD AT J.C. OFFICES IN HONG KONG]
We actually built a "LoveSac Store" for the set of the movie, where a scene was shot in a shopping mall. Jackie took a break in a LoveSac "BigOne," and the rest is history. Jackie went into our Albuquerque store at the Cottonwood Mall and bought a bunch of Sactionals and Sacs for his place in Beijing. Jackie's got a 13,000 square-foot apartment to fill, so Sactionals should be good for him.
Dave, my biz partner of 10 years and current Director of Product Development at LoveSac got to hang with Jackie for a while. We talked about LoveSac, and business....maybe I'll share more another time. I'd have to say, however, that the highlight of the meeting was Dave PUKING IN JACKIE CHAN'S BATHROOM -- TWICE! I guess his pork chop noodles + Mrs. Fields Cookies for lunch in the mall at Mong Kok didn't do him right. He was bent over so hard he busted out of his jeans. No joke.
While Dave was blowin' chunks in the bathroom, me and Jackie were makin' plans. I don't think Jackie knew, but his secretaries probably heard him. Don't know what to say, really. Davey--you usually handle your noodles so well! You know, I've been coming to China since I was 5 years old. 1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999...and 2 or 3 times a year ever since for LoveSac business. I learned fluent Mandarin while on a mission for 2 years in Taiwan, and then worked in Shanghai for one year as a Management Training Consultant in the year 2000 while Dave ran a very fledgling LoveSac back home in Utah. Sometimes I feel like I'm part Chinese, so I must say, it was pretty darn cool to meet Jackie who IS the biggest star in all of Asia (half the world), hands down. [ABOVE: ME with the pink fan, ON A PERFORMING TOUR AROUND ASIA, 1986].
So the craziness that is LoveSac goes on. What's next? Well, tomorrow, Dave and I take a train from Hong Kong to the border town of Shen Zhen, China. We're visiting more of our factories that make LoveSac stuff before we hop the long flight home to NYC. Then it is on to Las Vegas in the LoveSac Bus for the Bar & Nightclub show, and also to finish merchandising the Las Vegas (Henderson Galleria) LoveSac Store. Should be a good time.
DON'T FORGET TO SEND ME YOUR EFFING CUTE PICTURES OF PEOPLE OR PETS ON LOVESACS. (See my previous blog post). You can win some serious LoveSac shwag....FOR FREE!!! Even the runners-up get stuff. I've only received a few pics so far, so your chances are pretty darn good. Send them to [email protected]. We'll post em and vote on em next week.
Rockin' the Sac from the far east....
-- Shawny D.
Hi Shawn I'm Harry. Nice to meet you! Thank you for the T-shirt from Jackie Chan!! That was a really big surprise for me and it is awesome. I would like to meet you :)
Posted by: Harry Ng | March 28, 2009 at 08:52 PM
Shawn, you and my mom look SO little. It's awesome.
Posted by: Jess H | February 25, 2009 at 05:22 PM