holy crap i'm tired. been up since 5:30 this morning to go to the gym, only to find out the gym is closed for labor day. fuck me. i am hoping to go tomorrow morning and throw weights around like i planned on doing today.
went to work, it was slow but we had a pretty kick ass time.
then this evening i went and saw premium rush, starring seven time Grammy award winner and human Muppet Joe Gordon Levitt, and co-starring a fixed gear bike.
i ride a fixed gear bike, no brakes and all that. i love it. it's fun, and i think it makes me a better cyclist. it definitely makes me stronger, no coasting, my legs have to constantly peddle, and so when i'm on my other bikes and my legs are tired, they are used to peddling and they keep on moving. riding a fixed gear isn't for everyone, but it's a hell of a lot of fun and it's different, you are way more aware of what is going on and what your bike is doing.
so, the movie is about a bike messenger who has to deliver an important letter for a chinese chick.
speaking of chinese chicks.....i think asian women are really pretty, and i wonder if, in asia, guys hanging out drinking and talking boast to their friends "dude, my girlfriend is asian, she is soooo hot! and she makes me asian food, it's so delicious and authentic!" i love asian food. in china do they call it chinese food, or just food?
i love Chinese food, especially fried rice, which is super easy to make and awesome. left over rice from the fridge works best. you just chop up some onioins, garlic, and and ginger, maybe a carrot if you have one, and fry it in a wok or pan with super high heat and a good bit of vegetable oil. then add rice and fry it up, then add a tablespoon of sugar and two table spoons of shao shing wine (get it at any asian grocery, or use sherry) and cook for 30 seconds, then add oyster sauce and mix it all up and BAM, you are done. add some soy sauce if you want, but not too much or it gets too salty. of course you can add mushrooms or diced meat or fish or whatever, as well as peas or broccoli etc. it's really free form and is fun.
if you think about it, it's amazing how much china has permeated american culture. there is the obvious, such as kung fu and kung fu movies, Bruce Lee, chinese food, feng shui, it's hip to be buddhist, it's super hip to want to free tibet from china by listening to the Beastie Boys and going to concerts and buying t shirts and bumper stickers, people have chinese symbols tattooed on them, and there is a slew of dumb ass "Confucius says" jokes (confucius say "man who constipated does not give a crap!" ). there is a lot more Chinese influence in the states i'm sure, all thanks to the chinese.
one thing i don't get is...where the hell do the chinese people come from? if adam and eve were the first people, and everyone came from them...how did we get chinese people? unless one of them were chinese....
thinking about it though, it's a good thing adam an eve fucked up and got kicked out of the garden of eden. ok, it was supposed to be paradise, but they didn't have snowboarding, they didn't have chinese food, they didn't have soooo many awesome wonderful things we take for granted every day. doesn't really sound like paradise to me. if they were in paradise, all blissed out, they wouldn't need to come up with things to entertain themselves and distract them from crappy boring lives, no need to escape, so no booze, no music, no artistic expression.
think about it....all really really great art; poetry, music, painting, all come from pain and a need to express inner angst and turmoil. they wouldn't have needed any of that in the garden of eden. so, no stories, no jokes, no books, no movies.
oh, yeah, so, the movie. it sucked.
i'm tired and going to sleep. three days, no alcohol. i'm killing it!
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