The End

As you can see, June was a stellar month for posts.  So I'm going to call it and say that's it for now.  Thanks for reading!

Touchdown!

I ate so much crazy food this weekend. Ohhhhh blaaaahhh!!  But so goooood.  A very nice friend of my wife's came over on Sunday and made lamb burgers which were put in pita pockets with feta and sprouts.  Add some greek salad , pita, and eggplant hummus too. We also picked up an ice cream cake from Stone Cold Creamery.  It was like chocolate, coffee, and heathbar I think.  I ate a nice big piece right before watching True Blood. Wow that was some good ice cream cake. Makes the last one I had from Baskin Robbins seem like a piece of frozen bread soaked in milk.

I only worked out twice last week. Yikes! Talk about a rest week.  Course I wasn't resting, it was bathroom renov at the parentals house! It will be done tomorrow!

Here's a pic I took at a Logans Steak House a while back.  It reminded me of Federer getting hit on the head with a cue ball.  But whoever painted this girls breasts, art style or not... I mean wth!

Prometheawhathuh?

It seems the journey is not over! I can't stop visiting these forums.  I guess I'm looking for validation that other people were as disappointed as I am.  But a lot of it is people just calling each other stupid with little or no discussion.  It's somewhat fascinating to me to see how we inject so much of our selves into liking whatever, whether it's a movie or a political party. We forget how subjective our experiences are and how much we really just see what we want to see.

I busted out an afternoon run today and while I was not about to burst into flames hot, after an hour I was pretty damn hot.  Was a decent run though, felt good with solid effort.  Tomorrow will be ride and swim day.

Journey Complete

Friday night at about 10:20 or so PM, I sat with excitement as the 20th Century Fox banner rolled onto the huge Imax screen. My glasses and 3D glasses adjusted, Prometheus was beginning. The theater was packed and the sound system was cranked to the max.  It was a very exciting moment!

Alas Prometheus was not for me.  I've read countless reviews since watching it , so much so that I feel completely UN compelled to write my own review.  Basically, the music and script did not agree with me.  I'll be curious to see what my friends think of it when they see it. 

Two days to go

Game of Thrones is over. Sigh. Now I have to wait another year. Ahhhhhhh!!!

French Open is coming down to the finals.  I watched a great match the other day between Tsonga and Djokovic. The 4th set tiebreaker was just pure awesomeness. I was practically peeling my face off and hooting as loud as I could.  In the end Djokovic endured. Damn that guy is pure steel facing I think 5 match points.  He doesn't just play it safe in those points either. He's totally aggressive which just makes him a real ninja perhaps.

My friend texted me today and said , " you better run, it's national running day!"  I had planned on running. Really I did, but I had a choice. Run in the afternoon muggy heat, or eat pizza and drink beer. I chose p&b babee.

Did you see the Venus transit? Nope? Yah me neither.  You'd think I'd be gaga about that, but for some reason, it didn't interest me very much.  Venus is just too puny. I mean who really likes Venus.  Solar flares are wayyyy more fascinating.

Asa is taking swimming lessons.  I had to move her into level 2 rather than level 1 since it filled up. She's doing well, but poor girl is terrified to open her eyes underwater.  I don't know where she could of gotten that fear! ( cough , looks to sides).

I purchased my 3D Imax tickets for Prometheus earlier this week. 10PM Friday and I can finally finish this Prometheus journey.  I have somewhat shielded myself from all spoilers. I don't know the entire plot, but I have seen most of the big reveals already.  I just can't help not pressing the "spoiler reveal" buttons in forums.

I've also read several reviews and there are some pretty unhappy viewers out there. Rotten Tomatooz has Prometheus around 75% from 80 reviews. Which is pretty good actually. If it were 45%, that would be horrible.  Of course, I don't always agree with critics, so I'm still going into this with as open a mind as possible. I think I will either love it or hate it. I don't think I'll be lukewarm about it.

Interestingly, Safety Not Guaranteed is getting good press.  I definitely want to see this movie at some point. And if you haven't heard of The Loved Ones, then you should. An Australian horror flick that critics are loving.  I'll definitely have to catch that at some point too.

French Fires

The heat is owhn!  A couple of my last runs outside were mid day and wow that was tough.  It becomes a mental workout.  And I'm not sure if it's just me not being in FL for a while, but the nats seem much denser than I remember. Get the hell out of my eyes man!

My runs at Timberlake have been postponed due to wildfires on Eglin's reservation.  It was really bad a few days ago, with the town engulfed in smoke and ashes falling out of the sky.  My pool cleaning committee members were none to happy about that.

The French Open is owhn!!  It's shaping up to be a good tournament too.  Hopefully I wont lose too much sleep trying to catch stuff live.

A recent pic, car window reflection, bam instant layer!

Perplexity Brothel

The Prometheus spoiler train is out of control.  The film has already been screened by the French critics and comes out any hour in some parts of Europe. Got another week for us in the States.  I'm actually managing to stay away from the majority of the hardcore details.  I don't know how long that will last though.  I get the feeling that the movie is not going to be as good as I want it to be, but I still have hope.

Anyway, the ride is almost over. I've been absorbed on the internet daily with all things regarding this movie.  Some of the fan art on Prometheusnews.net is just insane and inspiring. Their photoshop skills are pretty good too.  They have a thread that's purely for making fun of stuff with photoshop, called a meme thread. From a fan perspective, it's hilarious.  And if that wasn't enough, one of the original painting artists, I believe from the first Alien movie is showing off all these amazing pics of the set and crew building stuff and having crazy times with porn actresses even (in a totally good way!) Yah I don't think I can expand on that though. But the backstory is very cool.


However, even if Prometheus is a huge turd bomb of a movie, I can say that it was totally worth the journey. I never would've read the two scripts from Jon Spaihts, Shadow 19 and Passengers. I read Passengers yesterday and WOW!  That was such an awesome story. I don't know how that is not a movie yet.  One of you who follows this blog needs to read it so I can talk to you about it.  If you need a copy, just email me.  It's just awesome.

And the title of this post is what was translated from a French review about Prometheus.  You have to admit, that's damn funny.