Don't you just love Thin Lizzy! I mean an Irish Hard rock band from the 70's with a black guy as lead singer? You can't make it up!
First of all, thanks for all the emails wondering when my blog would get updated. I really didn't think people were reading it, let alone checking it on a daily basis for updates! Thanks, but the hard part about a blog and doing it daily is writing about working out gets boring...really boring. I've got to change it up a bit, which is what I'm doing today.
Second of all, not to be racist, but I didn't know Ireland even had black people let alone when you look at the music landscape of the 70's, to have a minority as your lead singer was really revolutionary. Outside of the master himself, Jimmy Hendrix, and Parliament with George Clinton, rock music was dominated by white musicians and especially white lead singers.
Look at some of the top bands from the era and you have a predominantly pale skinned.
Aerosmith, AC/DC, Bad Company, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Guess Who, Jethro Tull, KISS, Moody Blues, etc. On top of that, you put a black lead singer out there who jams and sounds white is awesome. "Black" music during the 70's was going towards two and a half genres, Motown, Disco, and early forms of Rap/Hip Hop.
If I were to play you this and then this classic 99.9% of you would say the black lead singer was for KC and the Sunshine and not Thin Lizzy. Amazing! Not that blacks couldn't rock out, but taking all things into consideration about the era and landscape of the music industry and it's pretty amazing.
Another topic I'd like to talk about is the Discovery Channel. The Discovery Channel is the best television you can watch with HBO's original programing coming in a distant second now that The Wire is over. There are so many awesome, informative, educational shows on the Discovery Channel I can't stop complimenting it.
Deadliest Catch, Man Vs. Wild, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Survivorman, Planet Earth, The Alaska Experiment, etc. The list is endless and they're all awesome shows. So Dan and I had a brief discussion about two of my favorite shows, The Deadliest Catch and The Alaska Experiment. As cool as it would be to say you were a crap fisherman, we both admitted there's not a chance in the world we could be a greenhorn on the Cornelia Marie or Northwestern. 1) I get sea sick in the bath tub and couldn't handle 25 foot swells, and 2) Dan can't go more than 2 hours without a meal. The simple fact those guys will grind at times for 40 hours a shot is crazy. I don't care how much money you make in that short of time, we couldn't do it. Our hats go off to them.
For those of you who haven't stumbled upon The Alaska Experiment, the premise is they took 4 groups of people and stuck them in the middle of Alaska for the winter and said survive. They have medical specialists taking in their vitals and making sure they're not near death, but other than that, they are in 3 thin wood cabins and 1 canvas tent. They have to gather food for the winter, wood, water and while battling bears, wolves, and the elements. Roughing it at it's best and I would LOVE to be a part of it.
Many people would probably say I'd be the first one to be dead, which Dan leaned towards, but I really think I would do as good if not better than the schmucks they have up there. There's a couple that's been dating for a few months (he's a contractor and she's an adventure racer, whatever that is), a dad with his 2 lazy overweight daughters, a three-some of computer techies and a real estate person, and another group that I can't remember what they do. Basically normal everyday people with little camping skills.
Now I'm not saying I'm Grizzly Adams, but I really think I'd do well on the show and like roughing it for that long. This show sucked me in for 2 reasons. 1) to see how each group is approaching survival and what they're doing, and 2) I like to laugh at how dumb they are. Some of their decisions made by these people, only idiots would make. There's really too many to list, but I'm saying out of their top 50 dumbest things to do in that situation, 45 of them I wouldn't of considered.
Basically when it comes to survival and using common sense to stay alive, I feel I'm in the Top 1% in the nation (The new poll came out Sunday and I was still in the Top 15 in the country). I can suck it up with the best of them while keeping my wits. Example, you're in Alaska for the winter reliant on some peanut butter, potatoes, and a few other food to get you through the first few weeks and the dad and his lazy fat daughters are eating like it's the last supper. Ya-hello, don't assume you're going to catch salmon and shoot a moose every time you go hunting or fishing!!! Then there's the group who couldn't figure out how to can fish so they only had like 12 jars of salmon. They were also so genius instead of using polls and bait to fish, they thought it would be to use their hands. Then there was the 3-some party who to celebrate their shooting of a goat, which would give them enough meat for most of the winter, decided to hike 40 miles to another group to say "hi", grossly misjudging the amount of time it would take and they had a 8 day hike back to camp without any food!!! Honestly, nobody deserves to die, except child abusers and rapists, but some people beg for death with some of the decisions they make in life. Not just on the show, but in life in general. Like the guy dodging 6 lanes of freeway traffic today on The 60 in Mesa. Something fell out of his truck that he had to have and he was dodging 6 lanes of traffic going 75 mph like he was frogger. Or bomb squad guys, you're just asking for it.
Anyway, after my 2 day lifting layoff, my shoulder seems to be in good shape and I'm back to lifting starting on Tuesday. After a few straight days of stretching, kenpo, yoga, and cardio, I'm ready to get started again with the lifting and actually looking forward to it.
I've compromised the 90 days of P90X, but to a certain extent, it's hard to devote 7 days a week to this. My schedule just isn't conducive to it and I don't even do much. However, I was able to keep working out and I've lost a few more pounds. Last weigh in I was at 182, so 2 more pounds I've shed for a total of 14 in 2 and a half weeks. Not bad. The only thing that's weird is it's hard to see where I've lost it. I still have a little Buddha, but I guess so far I've just gotten lean and lost a lot of water weight, but 14 pounds of water weight isn't possible, so I must be losing somewhere.
Back at it tomorrow...
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