Friday, July 21, 2006

Violent Femmes

Blister in the Sun is one of the all time greats on the Hi-Fi top 5 list of punk rock songs. This song brings me back to college days when it got a lot of play. Great, great song. I love the girls lip sync in the video... how her lips are not quite in sync with the music, but she is clearly a prototype violent femme.


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Floyd, Floyd, Floyd... I'm sorry I doubted your hurculean size heart when I doubted you would return to the top 5 after the stage 16 meltdown. Words don't describe the ride you put in on stage 17. Goose bumps. A ride we dream of executing in our own races let alone the tour when the yellow is on the line. That's not supposed to be possible. A true champine.

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Yesterday's workout: 10x15-25second sprinties with 10 min rest in between. Workouts like those are easy to get through mentally versus say 8x5min hill climb intervals of the other day. They make your muscles sore later though, in a "hey, I just spent 2 hours pumping iron" way. Loser.

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Holy shyte! Google doubled it's profits last quarter. Way above analyst expectations. I thought they were getting big enough that it would be harder for them to continue hitting it out of the park, but they did it again. Their CEO, Eric Schmidt, used to be CEO of the company I work for but he was ousted around 2000. Went to work for Google and 18 months later they IPO'd giving him 5Bil. Not bad for 18 months of work, ey? Talk about being at the right place at the right time. I think YouTube is the next big thing in high tech IPO market. They'll be uge.

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100 degree plus weather to continue in the hood for the next 6 days at least. Not good training weather, so the ride rats have been going out at o'dark thiry in the morning when it's say only in the 80's and feels down right chilly. I'll be launching for 4 hours on Sunday around 5:30 AM or so.

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Ok, time to fire up that Violent Femmes album and get some work done.

5 comments:

norcalcyclingnews.com said...

oop ... now i know what'll be ringin' through my noggin for the next 6 hours.

i don't mind.

Johnny GoFast said...

Let me go on,
Like Floyd Landis in the sun.
Let me go on,
Big Floyd you know you're the one.

Steve Griffiths said...

I've been diggin the album all morning now!

Johnny GoFast said...

Okay, the blister I got from being in the sun is healed. Can we moveon.org with a new post please?

Johnny GoFast said...

Post, POst, POSt, POST!!!!