I know Kung Fu.

Well, ok, bit of an exagerration, but I'm getting there!

Last night, after the two hours of Aikido class at school. I stayed for the two hour Kung Fu / Tai Chi Club. Whoa, are my muscles killing me this morning. My butt, my legs-- I woke and immediately went inot a bath for a half hour. Then I just lay on the couch for a half hour, trying to get my body functioning again.

The Kung Fu instructor, Proffessor Wang, actually said "No pain, no gain." It's like, scary but fun.

Kung Fu is very different from Aikido. In the beginning of high school I took Aikido for about a year and a half. I just started it again two weeks ago, every Friday, as an actual class at my college. Aikido requires so much mental discipline; it's all about skill and remaining centered and using the other person's energy against them. It's very dangerous, but not very aerobic. Kung Fu, from what I saw and tried for two hours last night, is like a "Very Aerboic Aikido. With Punching." It's also all about balance. Which I have none of beyond the normal walking.

Anyway, with the combination of those two, my muscles are killing me. And in an hour and 15 minutes I have to go to work, and stand on my feet for 5 1/2 hours. Lucky me.

I'm going to be so fit by the end of this quarter. Seriously. I have to walk all around campus every day. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I get 30-40 minutes of walking in because I have to park far away from the senators office when I go to my internship downtown, and it's a 15 minute walk. On Saturdays and Sundays I'm spending at least 10-12 hours on my feet total, serving ice cream and really usings my wrists to mix it. Then on Fridays I'm doing what amounts to 4 hours of martial arts training. On top of that, I'm going to have to start doing katas at least two of nights of Monday through Thursday. I'm going to have toe practice the Kung Fu movements if I'm ever going to be balanced. And it's not good to have heavy exercise for 3 days and only very mild exercise of four days. Damn, this will be exhausting.

Revenge Film Weekend

This will be the weekend of revenge films, I've decided.

Today after my shift at Coldstone ended I walked an impressive 18 feet (give or take) to the line to buy movie tickets. I paid a murderously (I should sick El Mariachi on their tyrranical oppressive asses) high price for a single ticket, bought popcorn and a hot dog, and sat back to watch Once Upon A Time In Mexico.

I loved this movie. I want to see another Agent Sands movie.

I can't help it. I would have liked the movie anyway (despite it being more serious and less cartoony than Desperado), but instead of paying proper dues to Antonio Banderas, I spent move of my time snickering at Johnny Depp's character. And he was a character, too. God, his lame outfits (I loved how the black outfit, despite being tacky, sort of became like an armor, or a uniform for his character). And the blood. I could spend a whole nother movie only to watch Johnny Depp go around with dramatic blood staining his awesome cheekbones.

I can see why critics complained about the plot. There were too many characters, and it took too long to explain the plot (when it could have been given to us in a shorter amount of time.) However, the cinematography was beautifully stylized, the fights were great, the Banderas was cool, the Salma was unbelievably pretty, and the Depp was... so far from being cool that he was, inversely, too cool.

( spoilery thoughts )

Overall score? Thumbs up. But some of you might hate it. You'll probably either like it for what it is, or hate. I liked.

One last thought: Bull-fighting? I'm so with Sands and the bull on that one. I will never go to one of those shows of my own free will.

Today it was the Mexian style Spagetti-Western revenge film.

Tomorrow, after work: it will be the Samurai-style revenge film, Kill Bill.

rewatching a spot of Angel 5.2, and caught something I'd missed.

"Hell of a story. The vampire Slayer that both men loved, and both men lost.
Oh, I could seel that to any studio! I see Depp, and Bloom. But then again I see them a lot. Gotta get out more."

::cackle:: Was it just me, or did Lorne turn into an internet PotC fangirl for a minute there? Completely missed that the first time around. The AtS up'n'ups must be reading your journal, circe_tigana.

EDIT: Ok, so I'll admit, ::shiver:: the words "the man who once loved Buffy" still give me a complete high. A completely snide and vindictive high.