Fish Sticks and Green Jello

I jut got into two conversations about this in the last month. The most recent was last Friday. Ian and I agreed that Chris Cornell not only had it going on back in the Soundgarden days (who I saw live in like, 1992) he DEFINITELY has it going on now. Totally do-able in my book. He's up on my super hot older guys list in the second slot, okay maybe first at this point. Hubba hubba. The best part of the following video clip is you get double hotness. Chris Cornell AND Daniel Craig. Get ready to drool.



The song is pretty killer too.

Labels: entertainment, hotness, movies, music

So Hard to Hold was on tonight. That old Rick Springfield movie from the 80's. It's pretty painfully cheesy to watch now but I had every 80's album of his including that soundtrack which I played until the tape wore out. Some of those songs are still pretty good too! I thought about getting the CD again but it's out of print and like $54 bucks on ebay (for the CD not the cassette!). I actually think I may still have some cassettes stored away somewhere but I can't imagine that still being good/playable after all these years. I should dig them up and see what I have. I probably got rid of most of them.

Anyways I remember seeing Rick Springfield in People magazine not long ago and he looks really friggin' good for his age. Like 'amazing', 'i'd totally go out with him even though he's old'. Not that he wasn't already like SUPER HOT in the 80's. He's SUPER HOT in that movie too if you're into Rick Springfield. He still tours actually and he's back on General Hospital too. He's 57. That's almost as old as my Dad. Crazy. He was basically my age when he did that Hard to Hold. I was 13. I remember being a kid thinking that I'd never be able to talk in blocks of ten year periods like, "yeah ten years ago etc". Now I can in blocks of 20. :(

I found this quote by him actually while looking up stuff tonight:
“Maybe I should write a book about it, the way everybody focuses on it!” Springfield says of his appearance. “I've always eaten well and exercised and I love what I'm doing and that helps. I've gone through phases where I've been miserable and looked like crap and I'm a big believer that what's inside shows on the outside.”

Anyways check out Rick Springfield's website and photos and see for yourself.

Or you can watch this cool "Where are they now?" clip I found on You Tube.


If you're really bored check out this Concert Cliff Notes site. It's pretty entertaining and wow the detail. Rabid fans!


Actually now that I'm talking about cheesey 80's movie I remember my Aunt Brenda taking me to see American Anthem and getting the soundtrack for me. That movie had Mitch Gaylord the gymnast in it. It was super cool at the time but watching it now is just painful. I loved the 80's though!

Labels: entertainment, family, movies, music

So I said I would keep up on my blogging and I mean it! I thought I'd put an update here for everyone wondering if I'd dropped off again. Tonight is the company Xmas party which I can't go to. Why, because I've been out sick all week from work. I knew I would be out sick this week since I had scheduled to have something done and it required me to be home to recover. It's been a sore, painful week but I'm recovering. Hopefully Monday I won't be hobbling around too much at work. I have to fly out to Virginia on Wednesday as well so flying like this should be delightful. I should be considerably better by then I hope. I'll still be sore though, that's how planes are.

In preparation for the plane flight I picked up a medium sized expandable pillow from REI along with a lightweight travel blanket in 'tree frog' green and a black wheeled tote bag. I can't be carrying things across an airport so rolling whatever I need to take with me on the plane around will be a huge help.

I missed another Xmas party on Friday as well so I've only made it to one this year which was Shawn and Libby's. I'll be in Virginia for 9 days visting my family and continuing to use the time to recover and lay low. New Year's Eve will be low key for me this year for health reasons and the New Year will hopefully be a good one.

So in terms of an update... not to be too vague but the thing I mentioned in my last big blog post that I was working on for the last month fell through. Really disappointing to say the least and a huge time suck. I hope that the work I did on that wasn't all in vain. I felt like I put a lot into it and I hope that it somehow pays off for me in the future. I'm still depressed about it to say the least but it's for the best I'm sure. The physical thing I posted about... that's going on right now and I'm getting better, yay! Things at work have been hectic while I've been gone I heard and I feel badly that I'm not there working on things but I will be next week for part of it at least. The holidays are a tough time. The year is coming to an end and I feel a bit blue and worried about life and the future right now. I hope that this next year is better than the last. I say this every year and sometimes it is better but in different ways. Maybe I'm hoping that something really spectacular will happen. Who knows. I do plan on working hard, taking classes, working out and other things so we'll see how that all goes for me.

I was invited to do New Orleans in February again with the gang and Jeremy and I had said we'd go. I'm starting to think I may not though for financial reasons. It wouldn't require me missing any work really but I just don't feel like putting out that kind of money right now and I don't know if I'm up to doing New Orleans, eating, drinking and spending money so soon after xmas. Probably not. Maybe next trip. I used to dream about going to New Orleans all the time. Two trips later and I'm kind of blah on the whole thing. I'm just not in that frame of mind I guess.

Okay back to laying on the couch or propped up on pillows in bed reading a book.

Movies I watched this week while out sick:
* King Kong (the new one): Nicely done but just too long, I found myself skipping ahead in parts. Plus I hate it when King Kong dies and for some reason Naomi Watts annoyed me in this.
* Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest: Nice special effects, amusing and entertaining for dvd fare but it seemed long as well (maybe it was just me being sick this week who knows) and of course it just leads right into the third movie with no resolution, yay marketing.
* Poseidon: The original was way better. This was pretty lightweight Hollywood action fare. It was pretty cheesy in terms of realism and they changed the ending. All in all it wasn't as stressful or hectic as the first one at all. Blah.
* Freedomland: This was pretty lame too. It was on tv so I just tuned in. It was totally obvious how the story was going to pan out and I'm not sure I cared really.
* Syriana: I started watching this late but it was really good. It was also long and really complex. At times I wasn't exactly sure what was happening so I'd have to backtrack and re-watch some scenes but it was a good film. George Clooney was really good in it. The torture scenes were pretty scary.

Here's a photo of Jeremy and I from Shawn and Libby's xmas party.

Labels: friends, holidays, movies, travel

Here's something EVERYONE should know. Especially us west coasters that don't live in the snow.

1. You can survive for three hours without shelter.
2. You can survive for three days without water.
3. You can survive for three weeks without food.

I've heard all kinds of crazy numbers like, you can survive 3 weeks without water and 3 months without food etc. It's just not the case. The one that suprised me the most (and I've lived in the snow before albeit when I was younger) was number 1. I didn't know that 3 hours was the limit without shelter in bad weather. Heck I just watched that dog movie Eight Below about the dog sled team that got left in Antartica for 175+ days and lived. I know humans aren't huskies or anything but 3 hours is a very very short amount of time.

If James Kim would have stayed with the car and they'd all died because no one found them what would people think then? Or since he left the car and died of exposure and hypothermia then people think it was wrong because it was too cold out? After nine days I don't know if even I would have stayed with the car and I HATE being cold. After that long you have to think that no one is going to find you and it's a very real possibility. It happens. People die in remote locations in the winter and don't get found until spring. Would you sit there and wait and wait and wait until you and your family died?

3 hours is such a short amount of time. I can't imagine what that must have been like. I was just in their neighborhood Tuesday night in San Francisco before they had found him. I don't know these people but I couldn't stop thinking about them over the last week. Coming from someone who lost a parent at a young age I know how devestating this can be not only for the kids but for his wife too. I'm sorry for their loss.

Wilderness Survivial: The Rule of Threes

CNET TV Tribute to James Kim (he demo's the Zune and gives it a positive review!)

Outdoor Survival/Shelter (an in depth explanation of "the rule of threes")

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Since I brought up the movie Eight Below I thought I'd post a few interesting things about it. .

- This movie was based on a true story of a Japanese expedition that took place in 1958. The original movied based on that story was called Nankyoku Monogatari.
- Only two dogs survived in the true story. Brothers named Taro and Jiro. They were born in Antartica, children of the original dogs that had been left behind. It was a year before the expedition returned and happened to find them there.
- Jiro died in 1960 and Taro in 1970. Both were preserved. Jiro was displayed at The National Science Museum in Tokyo next to Hachiko the faithful dog. Taro was displayed at Hokkaido University.

I found some photos of them preserved. It appears there was an Antarctic exhibit that reunited Taro and Jiro.

Jiro on the far left and Hachiko the faithful dog in the middle.


Taro and Jiro.

Labels: curiosities, current events, death, movies, tips

So I was watching Superman, the original 1978 movie with Christopher Reeve yesterday. I'd forgotten how totally awesome it was. Love it! Christopher Reeve was a killer superman and you can't beat Marlon Brandon in a glowing white tinfoil outfit with a white hairpiece. Anyways there's this bit in the movie where Superman is flying across Metropolis stopping crime and he sees this little girl trying to get her cat out of the tree. So he swoops down and picks the cat out of the tree and hands it to the little girl, then flys off. The little girl runs inside and says, "Mommy mommy this man flew out of the sky and got my cat out of the tree" (or something like that)... and the girl's mother says, "Didn't I tell you not to tell lies!" Then you hear this loud SMACK!

Damn! That's what you got when you talked back in 1978!

Labels: movies