1st Session

So I did my first session of YRG this morning, the 50+ fat burner, and I'm going to do the twenty minute session tonight before bed.

I really like this workout. The Fat Burner session is around 40 minutes, I think, although it seemed alot longer. Just watching the dvd, you looked at it and thuoght, "Well, that's nothin'. Anybody can do that. I think I wasted my cash."

And then I went ahead did the workout.

Holy Crap, it was harder than it looked. Much harder. I was sweating like crazy and huffing and puffing, and I couldn't freaking breathe. I've been practicing my breathing all day to get the rhythm down, but I'm anticipating that this is going to be a process and I'm taking my time and really trying to learn how to breathe right.

30 Days of Night

So I watched this movie yesterday over at JB's on his big screen TV w/ surround sound.

partial spoiler alert

All I have to say is that 30 Days of Night is one of the best vampire movies ever made. No cheesy gay Euro-trash vamps in black leather and shades, stylin' in their Gothic mansions while wailing in angst about the torture of never again being human and seeing the sun rise and blah, blah, blah.

No, these vamps were just hungry, half-mad sadistic animals with enough humanity left for problem-solving and team tactics. Ben Foster did a great job of being his usual chameleon self, and I even liked Josh Hartnett; he did a good job in this flick. Mark Boone Junior of Batman Begins fame did great as the butt-kicking hermit plowman Beau.

The movie was pretty much classifiable as a splatter horror. Blood and gore was the goal, in all it's Technicolor glory, as are most vampire movies. While I usually prefer dread or terror to be the goal of a horror movie, I can appreciate a gore-fest provided it's done well.