Sunday, June 10, 2007

A few random thoughts to get things started



WANTED:
Dead or Alive

For unwarranted bottle licking, accessory to bottle licking,
conspiracy to lick bottles, promotion of unwarrented bottle licking, licking while having a blue tounge,
unlicensed blue tounge usage within city limits (multiple counts),
Excessive chest hair exposure, and looking too much alike.

Is that an abnormally large beer in Eric's hand, or was he just that small that many years ago? It's hard to tell because the frames on his glasses make his face look so much smaller as well. Alex looks normal size, but he is behind Eric, so he could actually be way bigger and much further back than it appears, holding the same size beer. Did you two go through a period where one grew quicker than the other? Actually, as a serious question, did you, or have you always been the same size (sans waistlines!)? On that note. I stuck to the push-up plan for all of like 3 days. I am going to start again, maybe right now. OK, just did 15. wow, that was amazingly hard considering I'm not even 28 yet. Megan and I have been playing Racquette Ball lately, and swimming. I'm trying to work some Tennis in there too, we'll see, but we're trying to get into shape, at least get active together.


Anyways, Kudos Eric for setting up the blog. And as for your affinity for Google, have you seen this picture? I laugh every time I see it. I don't know where I saw it first, but that's just plain funny.
Another thing that I have been meaning to ask you, Eric, is, since I know you're a Tool fan, now that you live in LA, what do you think of the song, "ænema?" If you're not familar with which song I speak of, here are the lyrics:
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
*Chorus*
*Bulls*** three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless f***ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any f***ing time.
Any f***ing day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.*
Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

*Chorus*
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this
Silly s***, stupid s***...
One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.
Learn to swim.
F*** L Ron Hubbard and
F*** all his clones.
F*** all those gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.
Learn to swim.
F*** retro anything.
F*** your tattoos.
F*** all you junkies and
F*** your short memory.
Learn to swim.
F*** smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
F*** these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.
Learn to swim.
Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.
I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

9 comments:

Sara said...

wow

Eric said...

Okay, I thouhgt I was familiar with aenema, but being a die-hard Tool fan, I never listened to the words, just the sounds.

**Yes, you can do that!**

I now have even more respect for Tool because sometimes, LA needs to hear that stuff.

The greatest part of LA is that not everyone is F***ed up.

Just MOST of us!

And BTW, I was rolling on the freakin floor about that beer bottle / glasses rant you pitched there, Matt! You are hilarious!

Eric said...

41 pushups today, straight thru, no breaks.

Arms were a bit googly afterwards!

Sara said...

I got 12 done before the dog came up and stuck his nose in my butt, and the 8 year old (YES 8!!) came up with a question, and then I fell on my hurt foot, maybe next time I need to do them in the closet with the 3 doors leading in shut and locked, that would give me a few minutes before they find me...

Sara said...

I like this one better :) :)

Long December... Counting Crows


A long December and there's reason to believe
maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving
Now the days go by so fast
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would
The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
to see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California...I think you should
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
and talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

Eric said...

Sara,
The Dr. Alex plan is to add one more each day to make sure you always know you can do it.

And get something else for the dog to do!

Do you do knee pushups or full-blown GI Jane style?

Eric

Sara said...

Do I seem like I would do knee push ups? Puleez!

Alex Wade said...

95 pushups today.

I've noticed that the arms are less googly if I have long gaps between the sets, but the googly-armedness throughout the day is really cool cuz it reminds me I'm a worker-outer.

So I tried not have as big a gap between sets today. Ouch.

25+25+25+20.

I did 40 the other day at one crack, then added the other 40+ in two sets. That's hard, doing 40 at a crack. Fortunately, with my lazy-ass dog, the probability of him walking up to me during my workout is very low. Gibson laughs when I do push-ups, so I try not to do them in front of him. It's very demeaning to have a 9 month old crack off a set of 50 and say, "In your face, old man!"

So tomorrow is 96, I'm already dreading it (which is a strange feeling - it's kind of rewarding to know I'm pushing myself). At 100 I'll stop adding pushups and add situps, one per day, until I'm doing 100 + 100. I'm dreading the first sit-up already. Fortunately I don't have to sit all the way up, just until my belly touches my legs or the floor starts to creak scarily. I haven't figured out how to keep track of the two numbers independently when all the blood is flowing to my pecs and my brain is starving. ("No freakin' way I'm starting over!")

When I'm doing 100 + 100 I'll probably go on the road doing demonstrations, feats of strength, you know? WWE Raw kind of stuff. Cage fights. Grudge matches. Bruce Lee tributes. That kind of stuff.

Eric said...

I think we need to start a "PushUp" thread on it's own...