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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Stoopid Yet Talented?


I first heard of that group yesterday . The guy next to me the bar said he had just erroneously referred to them as *Somewhat Stupid* in a text message to his teenage daughter and was summarily ridiculed.

He said they were a *white reggae* band. I didn't hear anything that I would say fits in that category. But they don't sound bad, at all.

Of course a band with that moniker would have over a minute of black nothing on its YouTube video.

And I'm just going to guess that's a Kfell kinda group...

7 comments:

  1. Hey C-Nut,

    Love the Blog! I have been reading for a couple of years now, and your content keeps getting better. Totally unrelated to slightly stoopid, but I was wondering if you could post about what yoga DVDs and youtube clips you use in your practice.

    Namaste,
    Jamie

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  2. Jamie,

    Glad you are content with my content!

    I could easily throw out 10-15 posts a day if it was a remunerable endeavor. So I feel like my content is only a fraction of what I could out-put.

    Doing yoga everyday can make you bored with the instructors. I started using the free programs on Comcast OnDemand. The only names I can remember from when I started are Maura Barclay, Elise Gulan, Sara Ivanhoe and perhaps Shiva Rea. I think technically it was *Exercise TV*.

    But again, I easily got bored so I rotated often; did parts of workouts; and tried to sneak in my own routines between diapers, homeschooling, occasional trading, etc.

    Moving to NY I was happy to realize that Verizon Fios had Veria and Fit TV channels which both featured a ton of workouts: aerobics, pilates, yoga, All-Star Workouts, .... I setup the DVR to tape a bunch of these shows but it wasn't even necessary because there was usually something on on one of the channels that I could do. Also MSG (channel) has a regular yoga show that's not too bad either.

    This past fall I bought P90x (used) and for a while took to those workouts. They have a decent yoga disk that my wife and I have both done more than a few times. "Namaste Yoga" (Fit TV?) is one that I also use to do a lot - although it's a little on the light side.

    On YouTube there's *dashama*. For DVDs (and books) there's Rodney Yee.

    But lately (past two months) I haven't been doing much yoga at all - no less following any instructor.

    I'm experimenting with stretching my body, legs, and back naturally throughout the day (and while I sleep!). That *8 Steps To A Health Back* which I blogged on is a game-changer. Definitely revisit my post. While I've been pumping Tim Ferriss' book a lot....personally 8 Steps To A Healthy Back has done a whole lot more. And since I've fixed my back (a lot?) I've noticed that when doing yoga stretches with a straight/long back I get a whole lot more out of them. I sort of hit a wall with yoga - a point of diminishing returns and that was probably because my slightly swayed pelvis was holding me back.

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  3. west coast tom.2/25/2011 9:34 PM

    slightly stoopid was huge in la a couple of years ago.

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  4. Yeah....so was Todd Marinovich!

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  5. Thank you for the suggestions, I look forward to trying them out. I too suffer from a bad back, and started doing the P90X yoga work out and felt immediate relief. I started looking into yoga classes but where i live in Northern New Jersey they are at least 18$ for an hour of instruction!

    Thanks for the advice

    -jamie

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  6. That sounds cheap.

    My wife goes to $25 an hour yoga classes!

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