7/28/2013

Movies and music!

Here's another famous mustache.  This song always makes me think of Coke Zero commercials that came on before movies about ten years ago.  Said that drinking a soda with aspartame and acesulfame potassium can make fake people in commercials so happy.

I've finally watched the TEDx video by Dr. Terry Wahls and how she transformed herself from unable to walk to riding horses.  She didn't make the change with drugs.

One more TED talk.  It's only 9 minutes; he stutters but has a very interesting message.

Not Paleo at all - took a Power Run energy tab tonight, mostly to appease my coworker who is still coping with switching shift times.  He was not interested in taking one, thinking the 5 hours would keep him up too late.  My reservation revolved around the sugar and corn syrup, but seeing as it only contained 2g of sugar in the bitter tasting tablet I consented. 

Hypothesis = Tom Cruise movies entail Tom Cruise playing himself (arrogrant, cocky athletic man in charge).
  • 1996 Mission Impossible - Ethan Hunt ; twist = his boss is a bad guy
  • 2000 Mission Impossible II - Ethan Hunt again
  • 2001 Vanilla Sky - David Aames (billionaire, arrogant playboy); twist = he's dreaming
  • 2002 Minority Report - John Anderton (lead cop); twist = his boss is a bad guy and rigged the system
  • 2003 The Last Samurai - Nathan Algren (depressed former Army Capt); twist = former boss is a bad guy; swords are cool
  • 2004 Collateral - never saw it, but he's an old looking hitman
  • 2005 War of the Worlds - Ray Ferrier (alpha male troop leader)
  • 2006 MI:3 - no explanation needed
  • 2007 Lions for Lambs - Sen Jasper Irving
  • 2008 Tropic Thunder - Les Grossman (alpha record producer)
  • 2008 Valkyrie - Col Claus von stauffenberg (kills Nazis)
  • 2010 Knight and Day - Roy Miller (basically a happier Ethan Hunt)
  • 2011 MI Ghost Protocol - yeah, they keep making these movies
  • 2012 Jack Reacher - Jack Reacher (spy badass)
  • 2013 Oblivion - Jack Harper (not sure why they didn't change first names from last year, astronaut/point man with a gun); twist = aliens
...so maybe "Oblivion" isn't that bad when compared to previous chapters of Tom Cruise's life.

The generous, smiling foreigners (I guess I am a foreigner now...) ground my beans again; two pounds this time.  Thanks go out to the Rogers Family for their coffee donations (got 8 more pounds from them today).

Warmup: 6 chinups with a 22lb dumbbell between my feet
Workout: Bench press: 5-195, 5-205, 5-215, 5-225, 2-230 (got 5 with help)
Cooldown: Bench press 5-185, 5 dips w/ 27.5lb dumbbell and 3 chinups with same dumbbell

Fast breakfast dinner

4 eggs over medium, chicken and beef sausage

This must be a burial mound for a baby Jedi.
I need a new Tom Tom.  Round abound.



1 comment:

  1. Collateral = hitman who knows it all and fixes his hostage's life for him. File under 'the good bad guy' genre.

    So your theory only applies to TC movies after he became an A lister, right? Otherwise, -10 points for forgetting Top Gun and A Few Good Men..

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