Finnegan's Wake

Lusst said:
I saw the movie Beowulf and Grendel and I have to say that it was pretty sweet. It didn't have Grendel's mom in it though (or did it?!)...all I remember was some Banshee-looking troll came into town and fucked up a lot of people.
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Thanks for the spoilers alert. I havent even heard of "eaters of the dead." Thats a beowulf movie? watch it or no?
 
oh ok. so should i watch the 13th warrior? any good?
 
I liked it a lot. You'll need a wee bit of suspension of disbelief here and there, but if watching a band of badasses go joyfully to their deaths sounds like fun to you, then I recommend it. :)
 
Stonebreaker said:
I liked it a lot. You'll need a wee bit of suspension of disbelief here and there, but if watching a band of badasses go joyfully to their deaths sounds like fun to you, then I recommend it. :)
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Da. That movie rocked.
 
13th warrior is a descent movie, but if you know your vikings it will piss you of because of some obvious errors. One of the most silly is the whole "give an arab an sword and he makes a knife" scene since the vikings hardly run around with hulking unvieldly zweihanders as potrayed there, but rather manouverable fairly short one handers instead in reality.. bah...
 
krellik said:
13th warrior is a descent movie, but if you know your vikings it will piss you of because of some obvious errors. One of the most silly is the whole "give an arab an sword and he makes a knife" scene since the vikings hardly run around with hulking unvieldly zweihanders as potrayed there, but rather manouverable fairly short one handers instead in reality.. bah...
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When I first watched it, I went Conquistador armor!?! What the fuck?!? Not to mention that the Vikings also had tiny little horses compared to the famed Arabians. Oh, and the lack of Neandertals in Denmark.
I put this movie in the same category as "300."
 
Hopefully the neandertalls are suposed to be finnish people or something... (..just fucking with the finns.. its ok they call us Swedes gay)
 
GPP
100 rope turns on jump rope warmup

Circuit (10 minutes, no rest) x 5:
Burpees x 30 seconds
Jumping Jacks x 30 seconds
High Knee dumbell raises: 30 seconds
Shadow Boxing: 30 seconds

Core work:
Ab wheel rollouts;
from knees: 5, 2 sets
from feet to wall: 5, 1 set

V-ups:
15, 3 sets

Medicine Ball twists:
25 lb medicine ball x 10 each way, 3 sets
Superman Back exercise thng:
15, 3 sets
Knee to chin crunches:
lots, 3 sets

Impressions:
I did better than I thought I would on this. This is one of the GPP workouts from "Infinite Intensity." I feel okay afterward. 10 minutes wasn't horrendous, and I'm not nearly as wiped as after even half of Bas's All Around Workout. I know the worst is yet to come though...
 
My reading list is a mixture of military, law enforcement, gun books, and motivational books. I really need to start reading more classics. Any recommendations?
 
The two books I recommend to everyone that will listen are Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything (read it twice) and Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel

Here's my "Books to read" list. It needs to be updated, but you get the idea.
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Chuck Klosterman IV : A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahnuik
Nail & Other Short Stories - Laura Hird
Cal - Bernard Mac Laverty
The Room by Hubert Selby Jr
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - by stephen chbolsky
A History of Warfare -- John Keegan
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Behold the Protong! by Stanislav Szukaslsi
Love and Sleep and AEGYPT by John Crowley
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Squeak the Mouse by Massimo Mattioli
Nothing In This Book Is True ... by Bob Frissell
Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain
Diary Of A Genius by Salvador Dali
Archaic Revival by Terence McKenn
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
The Legacy of the Beast ...
The Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky
Four Treatises Of Theophratus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelus by Paracelus
The Origin Of Satan by Elaine Pagels
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Black Spring by Henry Miller
High Priest by Timothy Leary
Brave New World by ?
Man's Search for Meaning by?
Heart of Darkness
The Winds of War
The Cane Mutiny
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by
Book of Lies by A Crowley
Book of the Law by A Crowley
Death & The Penguin - Andrei Kurkov
Musashi- Eiji Yoshikawa
The Corporation - Joel
Little Book of Philosophy - Andre Comte
Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki
Bad Thoughts - Jamie Whyte
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Cat's Cradle by kurt Vaunaget
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Finnegan,
If this is taking up too much space in your log, let me know and I'll take it down.
 
No. That is a good list. I'll have to type mine up sometime.
 
watched 13th warrior last night. good and entertaining, but was tat supposed to be grendel's mother? Maybe this story is a prequel or something?
 
The book (and to some extent, the movie) was meant to be a story of real events that could have started the story that became the Beowulf saga. Instead of one inhuman monster, Grendel, you have a tribe of outsiders called the Wendol. Instead of Grendel's mother, you have the tribe matriarch. Instead of an actual dragon, you have a band of torch carrying cavalry snaking down the mountain.
 
ahhh....i get it. I was a bit disapointed when i saw that they were humans
 
Finnegan's Top Ten Must Read (in no particular order)
Fiction:
1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3. Queer/ Junky/ Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
6. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
7. Fight Club/ Choke/ Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik
8. Paradise Lost by John Milton
9. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Non Fiction:
1. Zero: Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife (and basically anything else by him)
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Civilizations
3. The Fierce People by Napoleon Chagnon
4. Pigs for the Ancestors
5. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
6. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
7. Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation
8. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
9. The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliade
10. Rites and Symbols of Initiation by Mircea Eliade
 
Im working through guns germs and steel at the mo
 
Gear recieved:
CoC #2.5
Beta Alanine, 500 grams

Got the CoC 2.5 much closer than I thought I would, about 1/2 inch to closed with right hand, 3/4th with left right out of the package. That felt good. I'll order the 3 to have on hand.
 
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