Seven out of Thirteen

All of the Sudden Death quotes were cleared out on Monday, and you guys nailed four of the single quotes. The triple quote will go on to live again, briefly, hopefully, as next week's Sudden Death quote.

I thinking there are some kick-worthy movies there in the single quotes that more than a few of you have seen (and, I hate to say it, but about half of the unguessed ones are also quite common!)

Thanks for playing!


Sudden Death Quotes
1. "Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever." -- The Mission, guessed by wintersweet

~~ De Niro didn't voice the quote, but he was in the movie.
~~ "They say it was the will of God that they came out of the jungle and built the mission. They don't understand why God has changed his mind."

2. "I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?" "I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!" -- Blue Thunder, guessed by corwinok

~~ The actor also said, in an entirely different movie, "You're going to need a bigger boat."
~~ "I found out what JAFO is. 'Just Another Fucking Observer', huh?"

3. "Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die!" -- Yellowbeard, guessed by aequituslevitas

~~ The character was never more dangerous than when they were dead.
~~ A: "Look, if you cut my head off it'll start to putrify!"
B: "Do what?"
A: "Putrify, go rotten!"
B: "Yeah, it would ooze a lot, heads do. But I could live with that."

Single Quotes:
8. "From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself." -- Young Frankenstein, guessed by tewok, nea852, blackbyrd2, aequituslevitas

9. "Oh, my baby! Are you all right? Are you emotionally tramautized?" -- Spirited Away, guessed by dreamingcrow

11. "Remember, if you experience any unpleasantness, please let me know. I would hate to miss it." -- Muppets from Space, guessed by nea852

12. "Every decision you've made has only brought us from bad to worse" -- Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl, guessed by nin_man

You Want To Fight, Well Fight Me!

Hmmm... that works better when you can actually see the pseudo-dubbed mouth movements from the faux-original language going on underneath. And, as I am somewhat attempting to post relevant(ish) icons for my posts, I realize I don't have one that represents martial arts and workouts and so forth - seeing as the penguin is the peak of the evolution of the fighting machine, I suppose it's the most fitting...

Anywho, my new schedule gives me some more time at home. While I enjoyed the commute time for a few years as a time to listen to music, it's a lot more productive to spend that hour working out instead of sitting there thinking about other things. So Friday, Justin and I started the workout again. He needs time put towards gym, and we both need the physical benefits.

Although we started with some simple stretches and real basics, we touched on Shiatsu practitioner warm ups, Qi Gong, Yoga, Pilates, back exercises given me years ago by a physical therapist, and the core of the whole thing, the 5BX (5 Basic Exercises) from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Although I had written out some of the steady progress the 5BX plan gives, I'm thinking about restructuring. I had changed it to make it more flexible, but what I find is I push progress on things I'm good at - and don't need so much - and relax too much where I probably need more work. The 5BX plan has a number of charts, each divided into an even larger number of levels (12, I think?). Chart to chart, the exercises morph into harder variants. For example, on the first chart, you might lift your head, see your ankles, and be done with it; on the last chart, you fold yourself in half, feet and hands in the air. The last chart has levels only a professional athlete is supposed to be able to achieve. Another good example is the push-ups: you start off lifting just your upper body - down to the waist - off the ground; on the final chart, you're in a more traditional hands-and-toes push-up position and you push off with your hands, knit a tuque, clap out the entire Canadian anthem using hands and chest, and then put your hands back down before your nose touches the ground.

I've dressed it up a lot with some of the aforementioned stuff - going far beyond the five exercises. The Qi Gong comes in to play as a pure segment on some days; other days we do a Jeet Kune Do practice session, with and without targets. Maybe, someday, we'll get the heavy bag in on it, too.

Anyway, with that in mind, I decided to have some fun and seek out some drunken fist kung fu:

( Cut for kung-fu fighting... =) )

Pouring Rain & Cat Eating Thunder Monsters

Not only that, but I figure we now have beachfront property, so I suppose global warming happened.

For some odd reason, despite being many bazillions of miles¹ from the nearest ocean, it smells like we should be hearing the surf. A salty sea breeze is knocking down our trees, or something like that.

Rachel asked if the ozone had a big ol' hole in it (because for a minute I thought it almost smelled ozone-y), and thus a new song was born - There's a Hole in the Ozone the Sky is Leaking Out - which I will honor with a post of its very own.

It's probably not worthy of such a treatment, but hey, why not?


~ ~ ~

¹: More accurately, 100 or so, but that puts us in Perth Amboy, NJ and I'm not sure that quite counts.

There's a Hole in the Ozone the Sky is Leaking Out

There's a hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's radiation, there's radiation
There's ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's a fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a fish, there's a fish
There's a fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's chlorofluorocarbons, there's chlorofluorocarbons
There's chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's an industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's an industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's an industry, there's an industry
There's an industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a synonym, there's a synonym
There's unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

There's a herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the
ozone leaking out the sky
There's a herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the
ozone leaking out the sky
There's a herd, there's a herd
There's a herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through the hole in the
ozone leaking out the sky.

There's a public led unwittingly by the herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through
the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a public led unwittingly by the herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through
the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
There's a poor fool, there's a poor fool
There's a public led unwittingly by the herd of politicians supporting the unscrupulous businessmen behind the industrial complex releasing the chlorofluorocarbons increasing the speed of the fish getting a tan from the ultraviolet radiation coming in through
the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

And we're all going to die from the chlorofluorocarbons opening up the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
And we're all going to die from the chlorofluorocarbons opening up the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky
We're gonna die, we're gonna die
And we're all going to die from the chlorofluorocarbons opening up the hole in the ozone leaking out the sky.

By Everett Ambrose Warren - feel free to pass it on!

I have seen 56 of these 168 movies

( Meme, via a bunch o' folks )

Me no watch new movies me guesses.

Further Along the Path

Today we continued along on the theme of the earlier post, regarding kung fu.

We recovered some of the books from the, erm, library staging area, including one on iai do. I've been wanting to get back into practice since we moved up here almost five years ago, but health issues and time constraints prevented that. The speed Sensei demonstrates (YouTube) in his second draw is the goal.

A couple of the Shioda (YouTube) aikido books (Total Aikido: The Master Course & Dynamic Aikido) - an art that really takes two to practice, and Justin should be able to do so with me. Aikido is fairly high on the list for arts I'd like to study in the traditional manner, although thus far it hasn't worked out for me to be able to do so. I love the circular style, as well as the way you use your attacker's force against them.

We also found one of the Jeet Kune Do books - and a really good Tommy Carruthers video (YouTube) demonstrating some of the more practical and powerful aspects to Bruce Lee's Way of the Intercepting Fist. When I trained on this back in MA, we worked on a lot of drills similar to those shown: it was always stressed that 1) we trained in street clothes; 2) we trained in common situations, such as sitting on chairs; and 3) simple, straightforward speed and power - no really showy kicks or other nonsense. Of course, we had fun with the esoteric stuff, but we didn't use it in earnest because the other could counter the high kicks or fancy spins, and all the cool looking stances really just prevent you from moving out of them or allow you to be pushed off balance far too easily.

In that spirit, we attempted to watch Longstreet: The Way of the Intercepting Fist (YouTube) - the entire pilot is in 17 separate videos, and the wait and disconnect between the different scenes drove Justin nuts. No worries, I have it on an old VHS tape, along with a couple of Bruce Lee flicks and a Green Hornet episode or two. Unfortunately, the VCR is uncooperative, so that didn't pan out. Cool thing about Longstreet is that it's the closest thing Bruce has to an instructional video - the lines he gives regarding training and fighting are straight out of his own book, Tao of Jeet Kune Do.

We were able do the first section of 18 Buddha Hands Qigong during our warm up. Unlike some of the more full-routine, flowing forms of Qigong, 18 Buddha Hands is composed of 18 sections, with one to three exercises in each section and a standing pose between sections. Each exercise is repeated 8 times, so, while they each have a flow to them, it is repeated, and fairly compartmentalized. We taught Rachel how to do the first section. Further work will be difficult - I didn't find the book in my searching today, and the video will be subject to the cantankerous VCR.

We worked a bit on Justin's Hung Gar Kung Fu dvd - going through their warm up (partially; the deep stretches will need to be worked up to), the breathing exercises, some stances, a basic block, and a couple punches. We stopped the video to work with the arm shield and strengthen our punches. It took a few tries to get the feel of the standing stance, and it was pretty funny - once you hit it right, you felt glued to the floor. While this is one of the things Bruce Lee railed against with his theory on footwork, it demonstrated that this was exactly the right style to mine for Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender show. Sifu Rafael has one of the better demonstrations of Hung Gar I was able to find on YouTube.

This evening Rachel and I watched the Jet Li film Hero, just to wrap up the day.

And I just realized what time it is - or was, as I'll be changing the clocks - so I'm heading to bed. =)