Well, I\u2019ve never been a fan of blogs. Reading or writing. Reading blogs seems more like living life vicariously through others, and I\u2019d rather live things myself. And because of that, I tend to think that others probably wouldn\u2019t care much to hear what I have to say, for the same reasons.<\/p>\n
But today has been one of those days where, perhaps, I need to write a blog to hear about my own life. Who knows?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve just watched one of the most horrifying movies I\u2019ve ever seen: Touching the Void<\/a>. It\u2019s a documentary of two friends who climb together, only to try to climb something that no one has ever finished, but has been tried, so they think it\u2019s worth the challenge.<\/p>\n It reminds me of other movies I find equally horrifying\/fascinating. Yesterday, while transcoding old VHS tapes to mpg, I stumbled across something I recorded years ago from the TV about 4 Olympic-caliber kayakers who attempted to descend a section of the Tsang Po River that had never been run before, and chronicles what was, in effect, their failure. (The second attempt is documented<\/a> as well).<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s The Same River Twice<\/a> (2003) and a very similar movie Same River Twice<\/a> (1996) which the author of one insists that while he\u2019d heard of the other one, he\u2019d never seen it. The first (fiction) chronicles a group of friends who return to a river they used to guide on in their youth, and how they come to terms with events from their past. The second is a documentary about the lives of a group of friends who take a month-long trip down the Colorado. I had Touching the Void <\/a>recommended to my during my Swift Water kayaking class, along with Into the Wild<\/a> and Into Thin Air<\/a>. Touching the Void<\/a> was just the first one to show up from Netflix.<\/p>\n And now, while writing this and finding the links, I\u2019ve added Deep Water<\/a> to my queue.<\/p>\n It clearly says something that all of these movies touch me deeply.<\/p>\n (this was posted years ago, but doesn’t appear in the blog now – no idea why. Rick Sept., 2022)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I\u2019ve never been a fan of blogs. Reading or writing. Reading blogs seems more like living life vicariously through others, and I\u2019d rather live things myself. And because of that, I tend to think that others probably wouldn\u2019t care much to hear what I have to say, for the same reasons. But today has … Continue reading “Things to Say”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinister.net\/netpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOpen Water<\/a> would be another of those stories, the story of two divers who are with a diving group, and then get left behind by accident.<\/p>\n