kind of magical

The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, by Vishnudevananda. This book was recommended by the philosophy teacher at Providence; I believe he said to snap up a copy if you ever saw it. And man did I get an old school copy, this is straight up 1960s all the way. Which, interestingly, isn't to say it's like the drug-addled or blissed out or third-hand stuff that does come out of that era. Ok, so maybe the sections on the asanas and pranayama are, but the philosophy is pretty straight-up classical stuff. Now, does that mean it's drawing from Patanjali's Sutras, which are the authority on defining yoga? Not quite, but I consider this author's sources in the Vedantic texts to be right up around there, at least in terms of these philisophic concepts, which the eminently practical Sutras don't often stray. A little tease at the interesting things might be the idea of different degrees of consciousness, which we often hear extended to 'intelligent animals' such as dogs or dolphins; in this model, interestingly, that gets extended in a fairly logical manner all the way through plants and rocks. Crazy stuff, but, not actually all that crazy, it's very logically self-consistent and self-aware.

Golden Army trailer - nice.

The Heartbreak Kid, with Ben Stiller and Michelle Monaghan. Yeah, it was funny at points. But in general...the overall, pervading (yet subtle) negativity turned me off a lot. I mean, it went all the way through the very end, and just teased at bright rays, only to laughingly quash them. It kind of reminds me of Sideways, in some ways, such as a main character whom I dislike so much it kind of kills the movie for me.

funny sentence (about a Swiss martial art):
"Traditionally, Schwingen is a male sport. Women have only been schwinging for few years, the Frauenschwingverband, women's Schwing association, has been founded in 1992."