Passive Depressive #22
January 10, 2007
Fourth rate cage fighter
January 10, 2007
Oh my children’s, I’m giddy like a meth’ up school girl today.
In the past few weeks I’ve ramped up my slacker dabbling with MMA [1], to full blown training so I can become a fourth rate, very part time, pro fighter; before this having turned 30 thing really takes hold. As result a 3-4 hour casual getting down fighter styles commitment, has become a 10-12 hour intensive “break the old man down” styles commitment. The skin has been scoured from my knuckles, the cartilage from my joints, and any semblance of badassedness has humbled down and pummelled out by the actual pros I train with. I have been involved with martial arts/athletics for most of my life, but this is the first time I’ve really had the competitive focus to make it a lifestyle.
Pan’s Labyrinth trailer
January 10, 2007
Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Blade 2), I’m really looking forward to when this starts playing locally. A lot of film critics consider this the best movie of 2006 (It was released on Dec 29th, although not in Ottawa).
“Pan’s Labyrinth” is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother’s new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco’s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
