Forbidden Zone

Watched this cult movie yesterday--overwhelming.

I enjoyed Marie Pascale-Elfman's facial expressions as Frenchy as she hams it up! ^_^

KYDS Songs

Essex, UK-based Gorillaz' Tomorrow Comes Today from their 2000 album Tomorrow Comes Today on the Parlophone label. Video.

Los Angeles-based Silversun Pickups' Well Thought Out Twinkles from their 2006 album Carnavas on the Dangerbirds Records label. Video. I heard this yesterday and today when I heard it again I didn't enjoy it quite as much, but I enjoy the guitar-work at the ending!

I heard this one on Soma FM's Indie pop rocks! :

Athens, GA-natives Elf Power's O What A Beautiful Dream from their 1998 album A Dream In Sound on the Arena Rock Recording Co. label.

Austin, TX-natives ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's The Best from their 2004 album Worlds Apart on the Interscope Records label. Kind of loses me after the intro but I like the driving guitars!

Liverpool, UK-based Clinic's Harmony, from their 2002 album Walking With Thee on the Domino Records label. Mix of meloncholy and sort of dark.

Radio Songs

Heard today on Soundscapes:

Boston-native Suzanne Ciani's The Velocity of Love from her 1985 album The Velocity of Love on the RCA label. Audio (accompanies video)

Swansea, Wales-native Karl Jenkins' Adiemus from his 1995 album Adiemus on the Jenkins Ratledge label. Audio (accompanying video)

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-21

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-21
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2))
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 21:15-22:10
Terrain: intervals

Comments: Treadmill exercise at the California Family Fitness gym at I-80 and Madison. Felt hungry!
Exercise Time: 55 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (running): 7.74 km (4.81 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 725.13 km (461.62 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 78.4 kg (172.87 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: none
Foods eaten today:

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-19

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-19
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2))
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 19:00-21:00
Terrain: flat

Comments: During Dawn's class I headed over to the California Family Fitness gym at I-80 and Madison for the first time. I watched Code Lyoko (#68) and Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl. The treadmill I used seemed to have problems maintaining a smooth transition or even a current speed. I like the other gym better.
Exercise Time: 120 minutes

Goal Time: none
Distance (running): 16.09 km (10.0 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 717.39 km (456.81 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 78.4 kg (172.87 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: None
Foods eaten today:

Wedding Congrats

To my cousin Lynsi who married in Wisconsin today. Congratulations!

Rolling Rolling Rolling

I rolled down a grass hill today for the first time since...well.... My stomach felt queasy for about 30 minutes after but I loved it. Itchy.

During a search for someone rolling down a hill I encountered the Gloucestershire Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. Video. Intense.

Weird Al In Concert: Stockton

Dawn and I traveled to the San Joaquin County Fair on Friday to see Weird Al. Sat down in great seats (free admission after paying Fair entrance price of $8) around 5:45 with umbrella for shade, plenty of water, funnel cake, lemonade, and Clif bars. The place filled up completely by showtime.

Sequence:

1. Intro--Fun Zone (song)
2. Live action video sequence on tri-screen
3. Polkarama! from Straight Outta Lynwood (bubbles screensaver video on tri-screen, black shirt and pants with red tie)
4. Canadian Idiot from Straight Outta Lynwood (maple leaf screensaver video and nuclear explosion on tri-screen at end of song; exploding streamers into crowd timed with bomb)
5. Drum solo--drummer hits drum once
6. Close But No Cigar from Straight Outta Lynwood (loses red tie, wears hat, plays vibraslap)
7. Why Does This Always Happen To Me? from Poodle Hat (loses hat; gets drink and reads paper during bridge)
8. Jessica Simpson interview from Weird Al TV on tri-screen
9. It's All About The Pentiums from Running With Scissors (outfit from video; band members have white shirts and black ties; sparkly screensaver video on tri-screen)
10. Mariah Carey interview from Weird Al TV; Celine Dion interview from Weird Al TV; Crimes of Carelessness retro movie short on tri-screen
11. You're Pitiful exclusive online single (Al starts with black coat and pants and rips off sequence of clothing: removing black coat reveals gold sequin shirt; removing gold sequin shirt reveals white tee with red accordion; removing accordion tee reveals yellow Atlantic Records Sucks tee; removing Atlantic Records Sucks tee reveals white Spongebob Squarepants tee; removing black pants reveals pink tutu over white boxers with red hearts)
12. Madonna interview from Weird Al TV; Weird Al TV sketch of Al throwing fruit off of high building
13. Wanna B Ur Lovr from Poodle Hat (red suit with black and white tie; Al went into the crowd and up and down the aisles)
14. Eminem interview from Weird Al TV
15. Begins song medley:
1. Couch Potato from Poodle Hat (red hoodie and blue coat with blue shorts)
2. Do I Creep You Out? from Straight Outta Lynwood (loses blue coat and red hoodie, revealing red shirt)
3. I'm In Love With The Skipper exclusive live medley song (puts on white hat with red shirt; Gilligan video on tri-screen)
4. Headline News from Permanent Record: Al In The Box (loses red shirt and hat revealing ?)
5. Confessions Part III from Straight Outta Lynwood
6. A Complicated Story from Poodle Hat
7. eBay from Poodle Hat
8. Bedrock Anthem from Alapalooza (Flintstones video on tri-screen)
9. Ode To A Superhero from Poodle Hat (plays accordion and harmonica)
10. Pretty Fly For A Rabbi from Running With Scissors
11. Trapped In The Drive-Thru from Straight Outta Lynwood (song video animation on tri-screen; Weird Al interrupts and says No need to play this song; radio radio)
12. Radio, Radio a "rescue" song that seems to be a rip off of Elvis Costello's SNL performance. Forum discussion.
13. Gump from Bad Hair Day (Forrest Gump on tri-screen)
14. Eat It from In 3-D (puts on red jacket)
16. Sexiest video sequence from Weird Al TV; Keith Richards interview from Weird Al TV; Gandhi II from UHF--on tri-screen
17. I'll Sue Ya from Straight Outta Lynwood (dreads, camo jacket with red star on arm; green smoke screensaver on tri-screen; song ends with explosion of money confetti (Yanko Dollars) over the crowd)
18. Paul McCartney interview from Weird Al TV; King of the Hill cartoon bit featuring Al reference; Snoop Dog interview from Weird Al TV; Leslie Nielsen bit featuring Al from The Naked Gun
19. The Saga Begins from Running With Scissors (robes outfit from video)
20. Yoda from Dare To Be Stupid (ragtime piano intro; bubble screensaver video on tri-screen; removes brown robe; Yoda Chant half-way through, then finishes)
21. Cher interview from Weird Al TV; Barber video from Weird Al TV; Justin Timberlake interview from Weird Al TV
22. Weasel Stomping Day video on tri-screen from Straight Outta Lynwood
23. Smells Like Nirvana from Off The Deep End (Kurt Kobain wig, black short-sleeved tee with yellow stripes over white long-sleeved tee; song video playing on tri-screen; two cheerleaders in black outfits with red poms upstage; gargles water and throws rest of water in cup on front rows)
24. Michael Stipe interview from Weird Al TV; cartoon; Avril Lavigne interview from Weird Al TV
25. Amish Paradise from Bad Hair Day (song video costumes; video on tri-screen)
26. Kevin Federline interview from Weird Al TV
27. White & Nerdy from Straight Outta Lynwood (enters on Segway, black hoodie with "White & Nerdy" in red letters, silver sparkly chain)
28. Weird AL changes his look segment from Weird Al TV--plays Unplugged
29. Fat from Even Worse (black fat suit with red belts, grommets, silver chains; says Hoe! and stage manager comes out with hoe, wearing skirt and platinum wig--lifts up skirt as exits stage)
30. Encore: We All Have Cell Phones, So C'Mon Let's Get Real exclusive live single from Weird Al TV Michael Stipe interview
31. Albuquerque from Running With Scissors (red, yellow, and blue pattern shirt, black pants; words of final bits on tri-screen; explosions of small confetti squares over the crowd at the end)

Show lasted from 8:32-10:47 (scheduled start was 8PM but technical problems with projectors delayed the start)

Great show.

Songs by album:

Straight Outta Lynwood: 9
Poodle Hat: 6
Running With Scissors: 4
Dare To Be Stupid: 1
Alapalooza: 1
Bad Hair Day: 2
In 3-D: 1
Off The Deep End: 1
Unreleased songs: 6
Total songs: 31

Al didn't come out for autographs after the show, though a crowd of about thirty or more waited for about 15 minutes. The bassist came out and broke the news.

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-14

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-14
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2))
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 10:15-11:00
Terrain: flat

Comments: Standard 45-minute maintenance run at California Family Fitness.
Exercise Time: 45 minutes

Goal Time: none
Distance (running): 6.03 km (3.75 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 701.30 km (446.81 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 77.0 kg (169.79 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: None
Foods eaten today:

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-12

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-12
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2))
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 06:19-11:02
Terrain: mostly flat

Comments: Started early, but the heat still caught up with me today. For some reason my legs itched like crazy for the first three miles--something with the heat and the cold and not running for several days, I think. The blackberries have budded, soon they will ripen. I didn't see any Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillars today. At mile two, I passed two female wild turkeys and 11 baby wild turkies. Near mile three, I passed 11 female wild turkies. On the other side of the pathway I saw another female wild turkey and a coyote walking parallel to one another. They went up to the top of the placer bank and stood there. I saw another coyote trotting down the horse path near mile eleven. I clicked with my tongue and it cocked it's ears toward me and looked at me as I passed. As I returned I realized how important proper respiration is.
Exercise Time: 4:43 minutes

Goal Time: none
Distance (running): 32.19 km (20 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 695.27 km (443.06 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 77.0 kg (169.79 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: pain in left knee, sore muscles, fatigued
Foods eaten today:

KYDS Radio Song

Heard this song on KYDS 91.5 tonight:

Seattle-based Minus the Bear's The Pig War from their 2005 album Menos el Oso on the Suicide Squeeze label. Video.

Private Data

Yesterday I received a piece of postal mail stating a major international corporation I worked for almost a decade ago lost backup tapes containing private data about me, including my social security number. That ups the number of companies I've worked for that have lost my data to two. x_x

KYDS Radio Song

Heard this song on KYDS 91.5 tonight:

Los Angeles-based Moving Units' Scars from their 2004 album Dangerous Dreams on the Palm Records label. Video.

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-07

Running Journal, Thursday, 2007-06-07
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2)) 23.082
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 22:15-23:00
Terrain: intervals

Comments: Felt tired tonight exercising with intervals on the bike. My joints felt sore, so I exercised lightly. I watched a History channel show Modern Marvels about metallurgy--they covered iron, steel, aluminum, and titanium, plus a new liquidmetal (a glass metal, really) that they can mold like plastic. They also covered a nickel-titanium alloy that remembers it's shape.
Exercise Time: 45 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (cycling): n/a
Total Running Distance For Year: 663.18 km (423.06 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 79.0 kg (174.19 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: back of right knee sore, upper and lower right leg stiff
Foods eaten today: low-fat cinnamon and raisin granola cereal with soy milk, crumpet with strawberry jam, Tofurky sweet italian sausage sandwiches, blackberry smoothie, jasmine rice with thai peanut sauce, sugar snap peas

Running Journal, Wednesday, 2007-06-07

Running Journal, Wednesday, 2007-06-07
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2)) 22.907
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 22:03-23:43
Terrain: intervals

Comments: I exercised at the California Family Fitness gym in Orangevale this evening on the Matrix treadmill. I chose a 6.5% grade for the five toughest intervals and ran through them at 5.0 mph.
Exercise Time: 40 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (running): 5.83 km (3.62 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 663.18 km (423.06 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 78.4 kg (172.87 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: back of left knee sore, upper and lower left leg stiff
Foods eaten today: scrambled cheesy eggs, orange juice, cottage cheese, jasmine rice, homemade mac & cheese, seasoned fried potatoes, Gookinaid

Bud's Fish, Tackle, and Guns

I discovered Bud's Sporting Goods and Fountain (10043 Donner Pass Road--that is, on the main drag) in Truckee, CA a number of years ago--I love the fountain drinks, especially the pineapple shake. On the other side of the store they sell fishing tackle and guns! I take people there on trips to Lake Tahoe or Reno. In 2004 I struck up a conversation with the current owner, and he told me that he played guitar like Chet Atkins and that he had won a number of awards in his youth.

Dawn and I stopped by there on Tuesday around 16:00 but the owner had closed up shop for the day. No hours posted. A small sign above the store on the boardwalk reads, Bud's Fish, Tackle, and Guns.

A quick web search revealed the history:

Bud's Sporting Goods is an old-fashioned soda fountain and sporting goods store owned by Bud Owens until his death. He operated the store for over 40 years. For many years it was owned by Don and Pat Callahan. Previously the location was an ice cream, candy and variety store owned by Joe and Hazel Lewis, which also served as the town's bus depot. Before that it was a saloon.

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-05

Running Journal, Tuesday, 2007-06-05
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2)) 22.849
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 22:22-23:07
Terrain: intervals

Comments: We exercised late at California Family Fitness in Orangevale this evening. I'm enjoying how interval training gets my heart rate up and lets me relax a bit before challenging me again. I exercised on the cycles on Hill Plus level 10 for 45 minutes, choosing to watch the re-run of the CNN-sponsored Republican Debate in New Hampshire. My average heart rate was 99 bpm. I used the foot straps.
Exercise Time: 45 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (cycling): 19.29 km (11.99 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 657.35 km (419.44 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 78.2 kg (172.43 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: left lower-back stiff
Foods eaten today: maple sugar frosted mini-wheat cereal with soy milk, peanut butter sandwich, rice crackers, veggie panini sandwich, chocolate, Tofurky Italian sausage

Running Journal, Monday, 2007-06-04

Running Journal, Monday, 2007-06-04
Resting heart rate: n/a
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2))
Weather: n/a
Temp: n/a
Time: 21:15-22:10
Terrain: intervals

Comments: Exercised at the California Family Fitness Gym in Orangevale this evening. I haven't set my next exercise goal yet. I started at a setting of 10 (out of 15) for intervals at a speed of 5.5 mph on the treadmills on the south side, with a stiff wind coming from a barn fan. Half-way through the workout, I reduced the speed to 5.0 mph. A few minutes later, I gave up on an elevation of 10 and reduced it to 6.5. I found the interval training challenging--the hot tub felt sooooo nice. On television I watched soccer highlights, then switched to the end of The Italian Job.
Exercise Time: 55 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (running): 7.74 km (4.81 mi)
Total Running Distance For Year: 657.35 km (419.44 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 78.4 kg (172.87 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: none
Foods eaten today: homemade stuffing, Tofurky Italian sausage, Hershey's chocolate Nugget, Trader Joe's Mexican Quiche, Bing Cherries, peanut butter sandwich, soy milk, Gookinaid

Running Journal, Friday, 2007-06-01

Running Journal, Friday, 2007-06-01
Resting heart rate: 92 bpm (60-second test, mid-afternoon after exercise)
Body Mass Index (BMI): (kilograms/(meters^2)) 22.615
Weather: sunny, 47% humidity, 3 m/s wind
Temp: 28.33 C (83.0 F)
Time: 12:29-13:19
Terrain: flat

Comments: Really high heart rate after finishing--something I'll keep an eye on. We started from the Sunrise Bar parking lot today, watched the Canadian Geese and Mallard Ducks swimming next to Jim's Bridge. One of the geese had wrapped red string around it's feathers. I watched the trees as we ran, noting the Interior Live Oaks and the Valley Oaks (no Blue Oaks), an Acorn Woodpecker, and a Red-Tailed Hawk. We found a baby sunflower plant next to the side of the road near the 19.5 mile mark. We noticed many people putting rafts into the river at Sunrise Bar when we returned. A new sign marks the fire road north of Jim's Bridge--Sac-B, 5. Noticed construction at mile 18--digging a ditch for something, it appears. We ran by a few white trumpet flowers (not sure what the appropriate name is).
Exercise Time: 50 minutes

Goal Time: n/a
Distance (running): 5.03 km (3.12 mi), http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1008824
Total Running Distance For Year: 649.61 km (414.63 mi)
Weight (after exercise): 77.4 kg (170.67 lbs), 16% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: none
Foods eaten today: honey oats and almond cereal with soy milk, banana, Gookinaid