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“Roads?  Where we’re going, we don’t NEED roads!”

April 23, 2010

Let’s face it; exercise for its own sake is boring.  Especially “cardio”, whose purpose is to get my flabby modern heart to hit a specific stride for a predetermined number of minutes.  And it has to be something I can do every day regardless of the weather. 

That’s the reason for my fabulous “Cardio-Theater Emporium”, which consists of a treadmill, a little folding DVD player, and a pair of headphones.  Movies make the time fly by, and give me a reason to exercise again the next day.  Lately I’ve been working through a box set of Batman; the Animated Series, a Bender-Head set of Futurama, and for a change of pace, one of my favorite movies from the ‘80’s:

One theme of the movie is Marty’s struggle to avoid this fate:

The actual song begins at 1:58.  And if you don’t know who Tom Lehrer is, here’s an introduction.  History simply does not provide enough examples of the “Harvard mathematician + musical satire” genre.  What’s amazing is that, while “not inhibited by good taste” he was still successful in the 1950’s and ‘60’s.  Get thee to YouTube!

And yes, my copy of Back To The Future is part of a box set with all three movies.  Awesome!

And just because I’ve always liked Huey Lewis & The News…

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