Music Monday: Iron Man Edition

Video embedding seems to be behaving weirdly on my system (possibly because of new internet security filtering they've installed at work), so I'm just going to link to two versions of Black Sabbath performing "Iron Man" at this year's download festival.

This one doesn't have video (just a still photo), but the sound quality is remarkably good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ivni4m-Gg (And at 7:09, it segues into "Fairies Wear Boots", which is another fave of mine.)

This one has video, and listenable sound: http://youtu.be/1MdnL4l4BOs

I get chills hearing the crowd chant the opening guitar riff.

Ozzy's starting to look a bit like an old dude who's wandered on stage in his pajamas, but his voice is sounding pretty good. And Tony Iommi...this guy is in the middle of chemotherapy for lymphoma, and he still rocks harder than most of us ever will.

New trainer

Me: Basically, I want what every woman wants: I want to be able to do chin-ups and bench press my husband. (Beat) That is what every woman wants, right?

Personal trainer: (Laughs) Absolutely.

Had my first session with a new personal trainer today. He seems like a good fit personality-wise, being of the quietly encouraging type rather than the drill-sergeant type. (I'm not sure how many shouty personal trainers really exist outside of The Biggest Loser.) He's got a bit of a thing for flexibility and stability work, but he seems open to working with me on pure strength training or whatever else I want to do. (And honestly, a bit of flexibility and stability work is probably just what I need.) We'll see how it goes - he didn't really push me all that hard in our first workout, but he was trying to get a feel for what I was capable of.

Me, mid-workout: I'm tougher than I look.
PT: Yes. You are!

(If I'm being totally honest, part of me was just a tiny bit disappointed at how readily he assented to that statement. Part of me would like to look just a little bit tough.)