The busier
I am the shorter the blog – so this one will be pretty short.
Track
It’s
Thanksgiving break so obviously it was a short week of practice. Basically we worked out Monday and Tuesday
then gave the team the rest of the week on their own to go home and enjoy the
holiday with their family and/or friends.
Coach
Rainbolt made a good point how this marked the first of six straight weeks that
are different. We’ve been in a routine
for most of the fall and now we have 1) Thanksgiving week 2) Intersquad week 3)
Finals week and then 4-5-6) Winter break.
It will take our athletes being disciplined and focused over that time
period to come back ready for a successful indoor season. So far we’ve had a good fall so we can’t
afford to lose ground in the coming weeks.
This is a
big week in our program. We have our
annual Intersquad Meet on Friday where our team is divided into Gold, White and
Black and compete for the traveling trophy along with a bunch of our alumni
(Gray). It’s a very fun and exciting way
to finish our fall semester and at the same time see how our team looks heading
into the break. The field events begin
at 10:30am and the running events begin at 1:00pm at the Heskett Center. If you can’t make it be sure to tune in
online for the livestream.
We also
have our annual team banquet after the meet on Friday night. It’s a great way to celebrate last year’s
seniors and to kick off the 2015 year.
After the banquet we get together with our alumni (old and new) to
socialize and mostly talk about Shocker Track & Field!
We hope
to see you at one of the above events on Friday!
Recruiting
We have
released our list of signees for the early signing period. HERE THEY ARE
Even
though the list is only five athletes we have definitely addressed some of our
needs. We were looking to improve in the
400/800 area for the women as well as finding a triple jumper on the men’s
side. We still have some key areas of
need that we are working on as the next signing period approaches in
April. And who knows, we may even add an
athlete or two in January that will be on our team immediately!
Recruiting
never stops.
“N” Movies
This is
the 14th of a 24 part series (are you bored yet?) where I list movies I own by
letter (I don’t have any movies that begin with Q, X or Z but I do have some
that start with numbers). I currently
own a small collection of 178 movies (and growing most weeks) on DVD.
Most of
the movies I own I had previously seen and enjoyed immensely. Some are movies that I had not seen but was
curious about. Some were gifts from
people with bad tastes in movies.
I own 6
(or 7 see below) “N” movies that are VERY different so here is the list from
best to worst …..
Movie Name (year made, length,
MPAA rating, IMDB rating, Worldwide box office)
Nebraska (2013, 115 min, R, 7.8, $17.6m) –
There are a few reasons I love this little independent movie. First of all it was made by Alexander Payne
(who also made Sideways which I love) and I generally like his movies a lot. Also it’s set in the Midwest so I feel like
I’ve driven through a lot of places that are portrayed in the movie. Finally, it was the last movie I ever saw
with my dad who passed away this year and the father/son road trip storyline is
one that we could definitely relate. On
top of that it’s just a really good movie.
It’s funny and interesting throughout, I say check it out if you haven’t
seen it!
No Country for Old Men (2007, 122 min, R, 8.2, $171m) –
This barely lost out to Nebraska and is really a great movie. Another great effort by the Coen Brothers
(Big Lebowski, True Grit) that is memorable for me because of how simple it
is. There is so much of the movie that
has no dialogue or music. It’s very
dramatic and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. Javier Bardem plays the role of bad guy as
good as could be, I would never want to see that guy at a hotel I was staying
in!
North Dallas Forty (1979, 119 min, R, 7.0, $26m) –
Nick Nolte stars in this movie based on a true story (sort of) about a professional
football team. It was based on a book by
a former Dallas Cowboys player who told the previously untold stories of the
darker side of pro football like drugs, steroids, parties, etc. Nolte does a great job playing a guy just
trying to hang onto the team and the scenes of him getting out of bed after a
game or sitting in an ice tub makes your bones and joints ache just watching.
Nail Gun Massacre (1985, 85 min, NR, 4.0, $??) – One
of the best BAD movies of all time! I
stumbled across this terrible low budget movie at when I was a kid and it left
an impression on me. It was so, so, so
bad that after a while I started laughing and before I knew it I was laughing
through most of the film. It wasn’t
supposed to be funny – it’s just that bad.
The plot doesn’t matter (a crazy killer terrorizing with a nail gun) and
the acting is atrocious (you can actually see people reading lines off paper) but
it does have a quality that makes it hard to not watch. Some people like to think Plan 9 from Outer
Space by Ed Wood is the worst movie ever and this is definitely in the same
category!
Necessary Roughness (1991, 108 min, PG-13, 6.0, $26m)
– It’s not a bad sports movie, it’s just a little on the light side (compared
to North Dallas Forty) for most people to remember. Scott Bakula (remember him from Quantum Leap)
plays an aging college quarterback who is brought in to help revive a
struggling football program (I guess they didn’t have the same rules we do
today about age limits). There’s a lot
of funny stuff in this movie and it’s all pretty innocent family fun. But you really can’t take a movie too serious
that has Sinbad and Kathy Ireland on the same team as the guy from Quantum
Leap.
Nymphomaniac (Volume I and II) (2013, 118/123 min, NR, 7.1/6.9,
$12.4m) – Ok, so obviously by the title you can probably gather what these
movies are about but they’re probably not what you might think they are. If you think you’re sitting down to watch
some kind of pornographic movie then you would be wrong – although there is a
lot of adult subject matter – I think the film maker was trying to make this
movie in a way that would drive away people looking for that. If you have an open mind and can watch these
two movies as more of a clinical case study then you will probably find them
interesting. If you can’t then I would
avoid them all together.
This is a
pretty good and diverse list this week!
Next week
I will
give a full report on how the Intersquad Meet goes as well as delving into my
collection of ”O” movies. There’s only
five of them and a couple start with the word Office and Old. You know them too – classics!
Until
then thank you for reading and Go Shocks!
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