Last night I went to the super yuppie gym because I couldn't wake up to get to my normal semi-yup gym. Attendance seemed low as I would expect from a friday night, strong sleek physiques, professionals keeping tip top, exercise bike people, and the unshaven, unstreamlined but with new tennie shoes me. I rifled through my chest/tris/legs workout along with a little arms and back so I guess I got the most of my one hour visit. Some good work coming from our small group, not much talking just work. Many multicolored sports drinks downed by the guy who spent the hour punishing his shoulders. One girl wanted to do pull ups but couldn't reach the bars, she kept jumping and jumping. I saw here while I was doing straight bar curls and wanted to help but she got frustrated and walked away..oh well, I'm sure she'll get it next time. Perfect autumn weather, stopped at Starbucks on the walk back for a big coffee and a looksee at the Times.

The music of Beethovens 7th from last weeks movie Zardoz will not leave me alone. I think I would like to see Boorman's Excalibur sometime soon, if I remember Orff's Carmina Burana is used to great effect. That movie has incredible armour designs, especially the Grecian style gold suit worn by Modred. Staff clowning around with yesterdays Vampire gummi fangs..everybody thinks their a funny Nosferatu..."halloween novelties" aren't as popular the second day..candy corn all gone.

Mid afternoon indigestion makes me sneak out to get Pepto-Bismol at the local drug store, so I ask the staff, does anyone want anything? We would like some gum and candy please(usually its Whoppers from Burger King, but suddenly they become 1st graders and want gum and candy)..gum and candy eh?..well what type of gum and candy?(knowing what picky bastards they are)..oh we don't know..just get whatever..no, tell me what you want..we want Wrigleys doublemint or spearmint..and the candy..mmm..whatever...how about some candy corn I suggest...mmm...ok.. they say. Off I go to the RX, along the way the blind rocking guy with boom box is belting the most powerful Star Spangled Banner I have ever heard, Its sounds better than most renditions you hear but occasionally there is weird tonality. Grabed two big bottles of the Pepto knockoff (it was $2.00 cheaper) and the gum for the team. This drug store is as big as an airplane hanger, three weeks before Halloween and not one big bag of candy corn in the whole place..amazing. Next stop speciality candy shop on way back, hardly any corn left, decide to balance out bag with "Halloween Novelties" and gummi vampire fangs. On arrival staff is pleased with their confectionary gifts and convince me to go home early..I agree being I don't feel much better..home I go to guzzle much pink liquid and rest. I think I feel a cold coming on..darn.

Last week the award winning Blast!The Show performance group set up shop for almost a week in our fair city. I thought about going but I'd been there and done that all before and I didn't feel it was worth the $50.00 ticket. The pampered pets from Star of Indiana can't cut it with the big boys at DCISummer Music Gamesso they run off with Canadian Brass for a few years doing some type of midget drum corp crap, then take it to NYC and expect the world to love them, which I guess they did. I snickerd when the review in the Times wondered what the big deal was about, but it didn't matter, everyone acted like they invented the whole genre all by themselves. Whatever.. on any given cool summer evening at a DCI regional any one of the heavies would make Blast look like the South Park VFW drum and baton drill team. I can't believe I'm even writing about this since I've been out of that loop for a real long time.. I think I'm just bitter that Star of Indiana thinks that their crap is better than everyone elses..grrr..more stupid venting on things I don't care about anymore later.

The weekend in a nutshell...Friday I was invited to a group movie night. The selection was Zardoz John Boorman's 1973 scifi vision I swear any movie Sean Connery is in just plan kicks ass, I'm never disappointed. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that this movie existed but never saw it..wow.. just amazing..one of the best intros I've seen in any movie period..very strange, worth watching again, very surreal..recommended. Saturday night I walked over to the campus area to check out Civil War reinactors who were camped out at a local museum. I ran into two customers from work whom I know quite well who were with the 26th Virginia Infantry company F. Who would of thought, rebels bivouacked this far north. It was pretty cold and I asked them if they needed something from the 21st century, but they said that they were ok. Somehow I believed them, they looked warmer than me in their grey heavy wool overcoats with campfires blazing not far away. The Union boys and girls were set up some thirty feet away from them in similar comfort. I said goodbye to search out a hot cup of coffee from somewhere other than Unimart. As I walked away I passed a group of skateboard kidzs that seem bemused that their play area was occupied by 19th century pretend warriors, they didn't seem really angry just confused, I was somewhat amused by them then horrified as I see Nardo the giant towering over the bus stop. Nardo has been a denizen of these parts for quite sometime and I'm still in awe. He must be over 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds..really scary, I can't really give more discription than that, maybe someother time. All of the coffee haunts seem to have closed eariler than I think they should, so I shuffle back home to get some sleep. Sunday night our game huddle decides on Samurai: the game of politics and warfare in feudal Japan 12-17th century. This blast from the past, Avalon Hill 1980, is a multiplayer simulation of the period as players vie for conrol of the japanese court and the ancient capital of Kyoto. My best laid plans were constantly thwarted by the multiple "Cherry Blossom Festival" random events that seemed to crop up over and over again. How can you lay a successful siege only to be called by the Emperor to attend a glorified flower show? Nonetheless Shogun Chris crushed us all with his gameplay and samurai movie dialogue. Not a bad weekend I guess, on to sleep and tomorrow.