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Saturday Feb 27, 2010 #
Orienteering race 1:14:00 [4] *** 5.8 km (12:46 / km) +70m 12:02 / km
Green course in Xenia set by Stryder. Very fun and pretty tough---the snow varied from "blown clear" to "over-knee-high drifts", and this was the first time I've ever used the map (to attempt) to miss the worse drifts. The snow was most often a hard crust that broke when weight was applied, and it was just grueling to slog through.
High School kid beat me by about 24 minutes...
Couples Retreat (1): I heard bad things, but I really enjoyed this. Unlike a lot of movies where the raunch takes over and diminishes the female roles, this seemed balanced to me, and that made it seem really sweet in the end. It does go pretty far, but just never quite over the top---I was dying during the yoga scene. Fun and funny.
District 9 (1): When I heard this was by Peter Jackson (of LOTR fame), I assumed this would be some huge blockbuster with mega mega high-budget special effects. The effects are good, but this seems much more like a middle-budget indie movie than some big studio project. I enjoyed the story, and what really makes this a (1) for me is that it's not preachy. It just lays out the story (more so than the fake documentary that it is), and let's you decide what the moral of the story is---I'm not sure I can say exactly, but the movie leaves it open to interpretation, and I like that.
High School kid beat me by about 24 minutes...
Couples Retreat (1): I heard bad things, but I really enjoyed this. Unlike a lot of movies where the raunch takes over and diminishes the female roles, this seemed balanced to me, and that made it seem really sweet in the end. It does go pretty far, but just never quite over the top---I was dying during the yoga scene. Fun and funny.
District 9 (1): When I heard this was by Peter Jackson (of LOTR fame), I assumed this would be some huge blockbuster with mega mega high-budget special effects. The effects are good, but this seems much more like a middle-budget indie movie than some big studio project. I enjoyed the story, and what really makes this a (1) for me is that it's not preachy. It just lays out the story (more so than the fake documentary that it is), and let's you decide what the moral of the story is---I'm not sure I can say exactly, but the movie leaves it open to interpretation, and I like that.
C • D9 2
Monday Feb 22, 2010 #
9 PM
Cycling (recumbent trainer) 26:00 [3]
ahr:146
Watching the news and the Olympics at the gym.
AMT or Elliptical Trainer 12:00 [3]
ahr:148
Watching the news.
Maria Full of Grace (1). In Spanish. A little gritty, but no real graphic scenes. I really enjoyed it. It's actually a tiny bit of a "feel good" movie.
Love in the Time of Cholera (1). In English. I've never read the book, but I own it. I'm gonna have to dig it out and read it now.
When the Levees Broke (1). Documentary. Very good. It's "A Requiem in 4 Acts", each about an hour (or a little more). I learned a lot I didn't hear about when it actually happened, and since. What I liked most about this was the pacing---the film spends just the right amount of time on certain things and then moves on---It never seems to drag---It kept my interest and my empathy. It made me mad, too. I decided to watch it because of the Port-au-Prince earthquake. I was thinking, "What other disaster is even close to this?", and I thought of New Orleans. It was spooky to me that I was watching the film's reporting of the first Mardi Gras after Katrina (2006) on Fat Tuesday 2010. Make sure you watch the DVD "Act V" and the music video. Without the first four acts it won't make a lot of sense, but revisiting the people for what are essentially outtakes of the main documentary is like icing on the cake---It makes the experience a lot more human, and it both softens the hit and makes it seem more tragic. I've only been to New Orleans once, for one day that involved spending half the time on Bourbon Street, which is a way to say it wasn't much of a visit. I had always felt that I would get back one day to experience the things I missed, but now I'm not so sure. I feel like I've lost something important to me.
Maria Full of Grace (1). In Spanish. A little gritty, but no real graphic scenes. I really enjoyed it. It's actually a tiny bit of a "feel good" movie.
Love in the Time of Cholera (1). In English. I've never read the book, but I own it. I'm gonna have to dig it out and read it now.
When the Levees Broke (1). Documentary. Very good. It's "A Requiem in 4 Acts", each about an hour (or a little more). I learned a lot I didn't hear about when it actually happened, and since. What I liked most about this was the pacing---the film spends just the right amount of time on certain things and then moves on---It never seems to drag---It kept my interest and my empathy. It made me mad, too. I decided to watch it because of the Port-au-Prince earthquake. I was thinking, "What other disaster is even close to this?", and I thought of New Orleans. It was spooky to me that I was watching the film's reporting of the first Mardi Gras after Katrina (2006) on Fat Tuesday 2010. Make sure you watch the DVD "Act V" and the music video. Without the first four acts it won't make a lot of sense, but revisiting the people for what are essentially outtakes of the main documentary is like icing on the cake---It makes the experience a lot more human, and it both softens the hit and makes it seem more tragic. I've only been to New Orleans once, for one day that involved spending half the time on Bourbon Street, which is a way to say it wasn't much of a visit. I had always felt that I would get back one day to experience the things I missed, but now I'm not so sure. I feel like I've lost something important to me.