Starting a strict Paleo diet....tomorrow!!!

So tomorrow I'm going to start Dr Terry Wahls Paleo Diet. I will post here daily what I'm eating and how I'm getting on with it.

I have said it before and I will say it again...if your reading this and your an MS sufferer...check out Dr Terry Wahls who has secondary progressive MS and is an inspiration to us all.

Here is a few decent books on the MS front for you to check out:

Minding My Mitochondria: How I Overcame Secondary Progressive MS And Got Out Of My Wheelchair by Dr Terry Wahls
The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles And Functional Medicine by Dr Terry Wahls
Managing Multiple Sclerosis Naturally by Judy Graham
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis by George Jelinek
Recovering From Multiple Sclerosis by George Jelinek & Karen Law

PJ Harvey: This Is Love - Song Meaning

Obviously a song about being in love and about the haze that it creates, stopping you thinking straight at times lol. And a song about being unfaithful, she feels guilty about it: "I can't believe that the axis turns on suffering, when you taste so good".

And it's a forbidden love but she wants it to be that way: "You're the only story thats never been told/ your my dirty little secret, wanna keep you so".

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STxXS5lLunE

Movie Review: The Five Year Engagement

The Five Year Engagement is an enjoyable rom-com that I have just finished watching. What happens to two people who are meant to be together after they have found each other? That's the searching, funny-sad question posed by this movie, a lively, original, and hilarious ramble of a Judd Apatow flick (love his movies). From the moment we meet them, there's no doubt that Tom, played by Jason Segel and Violet, played by Emily Blunt are very much in love. On top of that, they appreciate the good fortune that brought them together on a fateful New Year's Eve. They live in San Francisco, where he's a chef on the rise in a food-crazy town, and she's a psychologist dreaming of a job at Berkeley.

Well, that's one dream that isn't meant to happen. Shortly after the two get engaged, Berkeley turns her down, then an alternative offer arrives of a two-year research position at the University of Michigan. It's Violet's best shot at an academic career, so she feels she has to take it. And Tom, fully supports her and the plan. Except that when the couple move to Michigan, it turns out that his job opportunities are less than zero, the best he can come up with is making sandwiches in a Deli.

The Five-Year Engagement was directed by Nicholas Stoller, from a script he co-wrote with Segel, and like their earlier Apatow collaboration, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the movie has an unpredictable structure that works for it. It only pretends, in fact, to be about a couple who have to postpone their wedding plans, year after year. Yes, that's the basic outline, but Tom and Violet, despite their up-in-the-air circumstances, could easily tie the knot. The real issue is that marriage wouldn't begin to solve their problem — which is that Tom, his career currently dead, loses his purpose, his mojo, his joyful side. He keeps dreaming of the head chef job he could have had at Clam Bar, a San Francisco hot spot that gave the job to his buddy Alex. Tom starts to hang with a fellow faculty husband (Chris Parnell), who takes him on hunting trips, and in between shooting at deer, he grows a terrible beard and sinks into a depression. The more he sinks the funnier the movie gets. The comedy even turns violent, with gory incidents involving a crossbow and a lost toe.

Once you buy into its premise, the movie is an enjoyable bag of messy life circumstances. Tom and Violet drift, love, fight, disengage, do pillow-talk therapy, and that's all before Tom goes off the deep end. Meanwhile, the movie, like so many Apatow productions, finds  redemption in the spirit of the group — Tom's co-workers, and also Violet's amusing team psychology colleague's. The Five Year Engagement isn't a comedy about falling in love. It's a comedy about falling from love, and grasping your way back to a happily ever after.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRF_Bzuwtk

Ultra Nate: Free - One Of My Life Experience's

So before I share my embarrassing life experience, that I cringe unbelievably too when I hear this song...let me psyche myself up here...

So let me take you back to the summer of 98...it was a Saturday and there was a crowd of us guys out on a friends stag-do. So the day began in a bar at 11am where lots of alcohol was consumed prior to going on to the ten pin bowling.

It must have been 1pm and it is pretty safe to say...I was more than a tad drunk. So we bowled and drank, bowled and drank some more. From here we went on the longest pub crawl in my life that must have lasted 8 hours. Then off to an Indian Restaurant for, I'm sure, a slap-up meal but of course I can remember.

It must have been roughly midnight when we all went to the 'Mardi Gras' nightclub in Dundee. Everything was a blur, I do however remember that moment, that one moment that is making me shake right now lol...I remember dancing with this gorgeous girl, when during the song, she just stopped dancing...she pointed to the floor and said "what the fuck are those", I sobered up almost immediately, looked down and noticed I was wearing the horrible looking blue & red bowling shoes.

The girl done a quick disappearing act and so did I out the club. I walked miles home in the shoes kicking the tarmac in disgust. Thinking how many people must have seen me in these f'ing things....I never did return for my nice shoes, infact I have never been bowling since!!!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBkjgXHro

The Knack: My Sharona - Song Meaning

I first heard this song in the movie 'Reality Bites' and it's no doubt a very catchy song. But i never really listened to it properly before...actually more than a bit weird.

In terms of its lyrics, they seem to portray a guy who has extremely strange intentions with...i assume, a lady younger than himself: "Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"..obviously..his feelings have not been reciprocated by the lady...as such he is not sure where they stand: "Here's a trip to destiny to destiny, or is it just a game in my mind Sharona?". 

And what's with the line "Keeping it a mystery, it gets to me, running down the length of my thigh, Sharona....hmmmmm????

Despite the somewhat disturbing lyrical content, an awesome song!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng

Movie Review: ROBOCOP

Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP is capable of satisfying most audiences. For those interested in sci-fi films with substance, for those seeking laughter, the story is laced with dark humour and parody. And for those looking for a bloody revenge thriller, it doesn't get gorier or more violent. ROBOCOP is like a Michael Bay extravaganza with a brain to go along with the testosterone and adrenaline.

It's also the second VHS video I owned, after another classic that is The Lost Boys.

Robocop opens in a Detroit of the near future, where crime isn't just rampant, it's a way of life. Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is a new transfer to the police force, his partner, Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), admires his gumption but is dubious about his potential for success. He hasn't been on the job long when he comes face-to-face with Detroit's most dangerous psychopath: Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith). After humiliating and torturing Murphy, Boddicker leaves him for dead and his remains are claimed by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), the company that has bought out the police department. They decide to use Murphy's remains for a pilot cyborg policeman program. Thus ROBOCOP is born - half man, half machine, a modern day Dirty Harry with a bigger gun. Robocop is the brainchild of OCP executive Robert Morton (Miguel Ferrer) and his success angers his main in-house opponent, Dick Jones (Ronny Cox), who has his own rival program underway. Jones doesn't mind playing dirty and the success of the ROBOCOP program forces his hand.

Privatising the police force? Unthinkable? Perhaps 22 years ago, but not today. The privatisation of numerous public and/or government agencies has brought about financial windfalls for cash-strapped municipalities and, while nothing as large at the Detroit P.D. has yet been sold to a for-profit business, one senses it could only be a matter of time.

Verhoeven and screenwriters Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner gazed into their crystal balls and saw this. It should come as no surprise that there is a strong thread of social commentary running through ROBOCOP, Verhoeven did something similar (arguably less subtle lol) in Starship Troopers, another movie where the biting parody elements lifted it above the genre norm.

Verhoeven is known for his love of exploitation elements and, like Michael Bay, he is fond of on-screen mayhem. These elements are much in evidence during the course of ROBOCOP. Arguably the most disturbing sequence is the one in which Murphy meets a painful end. Nearly as violent and bloody is the climactic struggle between ROBOCOP and Boddicker. Both scenes were heavily cut for theatrical distribution so the movie could receive a rating. However, an uncut director's version is available on DVD & Blu ray, I watched it on Blu ray this morning and the transfer and sound were fantastic. These versions contain the film in its full gory glory (Interestingly, Verhoeven's original conception of the final battle was even more grotesque than the one he filmed.) There's also a little gratuitous nudity thrown in for no particular reason except that Verhoeven likes showing breasts. (This occurs early in the film during a locker room scene.)

One of the standout elements of ROBOCOP is the despicability of the villains. These aren't just bad guys, they are vile, and who deserve horrible, painful deaths. It takes a talented director to fashion characters that become targets of such extreme hatred. This is what Verhoeven wants; the more deeply viewers hate the bad guys, the more they will be involved in the outcome. It's nice for an audience to like the hero, but more important that they loathe the villains. In ROBOCOP, there's no shortage of detestable characters, but two stand out, namely, the sneaky Dick Jones and the vicious Boddicker. It's almost impossible not to cheer when their well-earned comeuppances arrive.

I see no need for the recent remake but that's Hollywood for you...seems to have run out of ideas!! Will I still watch it though? - yeah probably.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3W5HUz7vyY

One Republic: Counting Stars - Song Meaning

I think this song is about the lifestyle the songwriter is living. He's in a busy relationship where the both of them are so worried about money, paying the bills and stuff, that they forget to simply live life and appreciate the simple things it offers...

"Lately I been, I been losing sleep
Dreaming 'bout the things that we could be

Baby I been, I been prayin' hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars"

He talks about the conduct people, including him, are living these days, not what they wish they could do, but what they're made to do, what they're forced to do. And it's probably about unnecessary work, rules and manners imposed by society.

"And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told"

He wants to free himself from those fake rules which are made only to keep people under control, under the 'normal' way of living.

"I, feel something so right
But doing the wrong thing
I, feel something so wrong
But doing the right thing"

In the verse "Everything that kills me makes me feel alive" it can be anything. For example, drugs, gambling, love, etc.

"Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly". Here he talks about those things we are not supposed to do and because of that we are intrigued to do them. It's better because it's forbidden. 

"Take that money and watch it burn
Sink in the river the lessons are learned"

In this part he says that the money he was referring to earlier will disappear quickly, it won't last forever. And you will truly learn the lesson when you go through a tough situation.

Or...

It could be about a long distance relationship. When he says he's been loosing sleep thinking about the things they could be, it makes me think he's just tossing and turning in bed thinking about how much more amazing their relationship would be if they were actually together.

And he's been praying hard to see her. And no more counting dollars, as in he doesn't have enough money to go see her because he's been struggling with money problems, so he's counting stars?? Long shot right??!!

In these verses, I feel like he's contemplating the situation with himself. He sees the signs that one day he'll see her, but there's just so many things holding him back with money issues.mBut he's not giving up because basically what doesn't kill him makes him stronger, and he loves her too much to much to stop trying. And he finds himself trying to save up money to see her, when he should be worrying about his bills, which is why he feels "so right doing the wrong thing" or "so wrong doing the right thing" 

I could be completely wrong, but that's just how I interpret this song.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg