Paolo Mottadelli (MOZ)

ASTONISHING. I was incredibly impressed by the second fragment of Grindhouse: Planet Terror. It is that kind of movie that you can leave the cinema before it ends, or you can be captured for its insanity and non-sense violence and irony. You need a genius (and Robert Rodriguez who wrote and directed the movie, is, indeed) if you pretend any possibility to make the second thing happen, with such an extremely Splatter movie

You can definitely see that Rodriguez had a lot of fun directing it! He must be ‘orgasmically’ pleased to being able to put on a film EVERY scene and EVERY shot he directed.

What about the characters created by RR.. ?!? Cherry (Rose McGowan), the gogo dancer who loses her left leg, J.T. (Jeff Fahey) the fool BBQ owner, Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis) with his unutterable secrets, and at least other 5 incredible ones.

This could be the most important difference between Planet Terror and Death Proof. In the first movie, Tarantino had a great satisfaction of the exterior appearence, in the second one is Rodriguez’s insanity that dominates everything.

just to taste:

Lt. Muldoon: Where are my men?
Abby: [ throws a bag to Lt. Muldoon] I put several right here.
Lt. Muldoon: What the fuck is this?
Abby: Their balls, sweetheart.

I really suggest to watch it, but don’t be disapponted if the former thing happens

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THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.

The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.

This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.

The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.

Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.

In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else.

If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.

Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

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Yesterday evening 3 brave guys did the 100 minutes Decathlon in Besana… I suppose that nobody who was not there can imagine how weather conditions were

I’m waiting for the event photos, and it will be evident, I’ll post about it; anyway, it was raining a lot, and less that 10 degrees, certainly not a good day for a decathlon.

Despite that, Lukas, Matteo and Paolo pushed all their best energies; they absolutely had no fear ;-), great job guys!

Results: note that they had some points penalty because they exceeded the 100 minutes for some seconds

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With this post I would like to thank Francis Mayet, who offered me some pictures about Talence Decastar competition. Here you can find 2, but, as he told me, a lot more is coming… just need to resize them and select the best ones

So thank you very much Francis for the passion that you put in our Combined Events world, and, sure… your photos are really cool!

Here you can find Francis’ photos of Decastar , and here his Decaboura Project Website.

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As I was injured, in the second day I could only compete in throws events. Here are two pictures about them (by the way.. it was my discus PB.. 45.15 )

These pics were taken from Talence Decastar Official Site

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My first time in Talence Decastar was not a lucky experience, indeed! Unfortunately I got injured during my second attempt in the long jump event, when I pushed on the board much more than my foot could tolerate, hurting my left heel.

I immediately felt some pain, but not so much, because my foot was warm.. The problem revealed after the Shot Put event, when, warming up for the High jump, I could not even lean my heel on the floor.

I tried to resist, in order to finish the first day and waiting for the next morning, so I cleared 1.74, 1.77 and 1.80 at the first attempt (it never happens :-), mumble mumble…) and stopped that event. Later I run the 400 and hoped…

… not well enough! Yesterday morning my heel conditions were even worse (as I expected, I admit) and I could not run 110 hurdles, neither do Pole Vault. The good thing is that I set my PB in Discus: 45.15 and did a good Javelin: 57.74.

The crowd was terrific here in Talence, and that is the reason why I would have loved to finish 1500 meters, together with such strong guys. So I started and struggled for 1000 meters, using 1 leg and a half, before not being able to go on :-).

It was a pity not to be able to set a decathlon PB here in such an amazing challenge but I am very happy to have been here. Hey: this meeting is really fantastic, the atmosphere is magic and French People are so fired for combined events!

The Decathlon was won by Andrej Kravchenko with 8553 points and the Heptathlon by Lyudmila Blonska with 6437 points. More to come about results….

I really hope to have my second chance, in no more that one year, to tell ‘merci beaucoup’ to French People with a great rocky decathlon!

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Here is a picture about Talence Decastar Meeting presentation

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Today we (me and Lukas) arricev in Talance. It has been a good journey… we experienced a flight on a very little palne… not suitable for poles transport, sure!

And, I have to say, not suitable for my back problems! It was too small for a standard tall man, and even worse for a 1.95m guy… with some problems at his back

Anyway, we arrived in the meeting Hotel, and met some of the athletes taking part of the competition, in particular: Rudy BOURGUIGNON, Pelle RIETVELD, David GERVASI, Andrej KRAUCHANKA, Roman SEBRLE and Maurice SMITH.

Tomorrow we will have a work out in tghe morning and the official presentation in the afternoon. Well, I hope that this presentation will not be so long as expected…. 3 hours from 5pm to 8pm, the day before the race!

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Tomorrow I’ll leave to Talence. OK, everything is ready. During the last 5 days my back had some problems, and it is not OK yet, but I hope it will be in 3 days.

I will be a fast competition, I suppose, because we will be 12 athletes. The best thing is that there are several world class guys, and I’ll try to be pushed by being on the same track!

No, I’m not doing any prediction, nor saying which kind of result I would like. We will see after each event what’s going on

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Here is the 100 minutes Decathlon Official Flyer.

I’m sorry for the low image quality

You can download the much better PDF version

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