Garurasana is known as the eagle pose, and works to loosen all the major joints of the body.

Eagle pose is begun by standing straight, feet planted firm. Swing arms overhead and bring them down quickly, crossing right under left to bring them to prayer in front of the face. Then shifting weight to the left leg, one sits, bringing the right leg high over the left, twisting the leg.  It’s a relaxing and strong pose once you get into it. 

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I saw the worst movie today, I had to screen it for film.com, and it made me too sad to want to write anything.  Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga says that he believes 90% of women are born good and 10% are born bad, and that 90% of men are born bad, and only 10% are born good.  I’m starting to agree with him.

In other news, I found a Blur tape at Amoeba tonight, and heard Alex James say: “I’ve got long legs and a good hair cut, I don’t think you can underestimate the importance of those things.”

I was lent some jewellery to wear to a party. There was a bracelet that looked really good on the cat. I went to get everyone to show them how bling the old barnyard mouser was looking and he wandered off. My wife has been looking for him for three hours now. I thought they were crystals. They were diamonds, apparently. Well, wherever he is, he looks good. I hope. – Alex James

This, this is Alex James.  (I think I should probably just change the name of this blog to FLANNERY O’CONNOR LOVES ALEX JAMES since that’s pretty much a dream scenario in my book, and, as you the dear reader can second, is all I talk about.) He is sort-of but mostly used-to-be the bassist for Blur, and my adoration for him is well documented on this site. (He’s actually the second rock star I remember being attracted to, as a young girl. I saw the video for Buddy Holly and thought Rivers Cuomo was cute, and then the Coffee and TV video and liked the silly way in which Alex moved his head in time to the music.)  Once Ryan S. brought his book (signed!) all the way from England through Tunisia in a plastic bag, and it finally made it’s way to me. So I read it, and got even more entrenched. He makes cheese! He has four kids with ridiculous names (Geronimo, Artemis, Gallileo and a girl named Sable.) and seems perfectly happy. I mean, he’s smug but I love it.

In fact, I think he might very well be the perfect looking person. (In the Country House music video, he sits in a bathtub and reads Balzac and gets poured a cup of tea and makes the craziest face.)  One time he said that babies were like farts and old slippers, your own are all right, but other people’s are the worst.

So, you can imagine my surprise when I wandered into Star Trek  a while ago and saw this visage:

Alex Jamesian in nature!  His name is Karl Urban, he’s 37, and was also Eomer in Lord of the Rings, but I don’t remember him looking particularly A.J. in those days.

And we have our face off, two weirdos:

(Just a note in his defense, there’s someone walking directly behind him, he doesn’t just have a weird mullet/ponytail.)

Hahaha. He looks like Hugh Jackman sort of in that picture.

Joey asked me who I would interview if I could interview anyone, and it would certainly be Mr. James.