02 nov 2020 - Training session & my review of the movie "Aloft" (2014)

 02.11.2020

Well, today I had my new XLR cable delivered, as well as extra bass strings.

Decent recovery, about 78/100.

Had 100 something beans of coffee - plus three biscuits to even out negative effects of caffeine, such as craving more caffeine. Got "Wagon Wheels" yesterday, a nostalgic sweet.

Overhead press

Warmup

60*15

80*5

95 - 2 sets of 5

97,8*5

Shoulders were still quite whacked since saturday, but it was alright.

Deadlift

60*15

110*5

150*5

180*5

200*5 very soft touch & go - so much better than dumping the barbell

200*5 - 2 reps from the floor, 3 touch and go

200*5 - same

Then I ran out of time. I was taking rather long breaks, because I, once again, was supersetting my metal session with drumming. Warmups on the drum during press, setting up recording and playing during DLs.

I kept speeding up today, playing faster than 118. Decided to try only playing two bars - it helped. Now I have an insane mess of recordings to engineer - might not do it today, but perhaps tomorrow. 

Then I opened up a new file and just jammed on drums a tiny bit - kept battling the speedup, ended up with, well, something.

On saturday I watched the movie "Aloft" - I was just checking out cinematic portion of wikipedia and this movie caught my attention - especially the bad reviews. But it somehow looked appealing, so I decided to give it a shot. It's quite rare when a movie with such massive Hollywood stars doesn't get any viewership.

Well, some spoilers and rude misenterpretation ahead - I projected the themes of the movie on myself.

Here are some key points (btw, I have to note that I watched the movie at 150% speed).

The death of the bird - I knew that it was an exchange of one life for another right away, that's why she "healed" the child. Same happened again - her own child died when she tried healing another child. But, of course, we don't get to know what happened next.

A lot of points to reflect on - a lot of us experienced tragedies and hardships in life, this movie portrays them well.

The male lead - here's where I'm projecting on myself - the birds represent the flesh, the carnal side of human nature, and when the birds leave/die - that's the main character embracing his humanity, rather than carnality. That's how he makes peace in the end.

Well, that was a messy review. Perhaps I should have written it earlier, when I figured out some symbolic points.

Now I'm gonna go and jam over my random drum recordings. Let's see what happens.