"Your body is estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent water. Blood is mostly water, and your muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water. Your body needs water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to all your organs. Water also transports oxygen to your cells, removes waste, and protects your joints and organs.
A good estimate [for how much to drink] is to take your body weight in pounds and divide that number in half. That gives you the number of ounces of water per day that you need to drink. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink at least 80 ounces of water per day. If you exercise you should drink another eight ounce glass of water for every 20 minutes you are active."
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back, Stagekid
I'll be up and running with the blog again soon (I can't believe the longest I've gone without posting is a week: that's serious dedication, people); an excuse for my preoccupation will come later. A couple of things:
The presidential campaign has taken a turn for the pathetic: McCain's Paris Hilton ad took our country to an all-time low. What's worse is that they just responded to her recent Funny or Die "ad"; I'm not posting either here, so go to Google. The presidency is the most important position in the world and to swim in the gutter like this is beyond embarrassing.
High values, high standards: Obama must win. Period. (I'm politically scarred by what McCain did because I just spent 4 hours watching a documentary on Franklin Delano Roosevelt (incredible doc; incredible American hero: here). --- A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back, Stagekid
Coop's Take: 2001 was the year of the Pub for me as I aimlessly hopped around Europe, toasting a Guinness to circumstance: to a country-a-week epic journey; to an unexpected addiction to all things Spain; to this great gal I met in an elevator in Madrid (now my wife); to a new-found passion for theatre. After 9/11, I remember retreating to my Irish pub in the heart of Madrid: angry, confused, desperate to see my country--my family; I remember staying for hours, writing a screenplay on coasters and napkins, sipping my froth. Anyway...
The Economist has a nice ode to pubs...
"EVERY nation needs a national myth, and Britain might seem to need more than most. A modern myth has it as a country full of overworked wage-slaves. Newspapers write of a “long-hours culture”, and point out that the British working week is significantly longer than the European average. Yet walking through the afternoon streets of St James, on my way back from Friday lunch, it is hard to see much evidence of that. A legion of investment bankers and private-equity types crowd the streets, as indistinguishable from one to the next, in their open-necked shirts and luxuriantly coifed hair, as their predecessors were in their umbrellas and bowler hats. They are the overspill from London’s pubs, which have been..." (keep reading Pubs in Britain).
--- A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back, Stagekid
Coop's Take: For those interested in the human side of history, you'll love this documentary. There are two things that have stuck since watching: (1) I wish Neil Armstrong could have contributed to the narrative of the film; (2) what's happened to the great American ambition? We need to get back to that place where the world, once again, looks up to the values that our country represents: strength, bold hope, relentless courage.
Favorite Acting Scene: All things Michael Collins! Great narrative, by an easily-overlooked American hero.
Coop's Movie Rating: 9 Coop's Trailer Rating: 9 1/2
Trailer:
--- A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back, Stagekid
Anderson presents an interesting debate about acting styles: Brando's "method" vs. the "always plays himself" school. Bringing Downey Jr. (especially his performance in Two Girls and a Guy) into the discussion certainly brings credibility to the argument.
I've added Anderson to my list of tracked Tomatoe critics.
--- A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back, Stagekid
Coop's Take: Lars is a very well-casted film with Gosling, again, showing his gifted range. Some may be turned off by the unrealistic premise, but with a little suspension of dramatic disbelief and a focus on the acting (Mortimer and Schneider are great together), the film is worth the time.
Ryan Gosling continues to make great career choices. Using The Notebook's pop success to leverage his acting career, his last three films have certainly stretched his obvious talent: Half Nelson, Fracture, and Lars (there are few actors who can hold their own against the incomparable Anthony Hopkins, let alone upstage him on screen).
Favorite Acting Scene: Gosling, in the woods, singing to his "girlfriend."
Trivia:
shot in 31 days
In the scene where Lars is reading to Bianca, he is reading from Don Quixote (an ode to delusions)
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