smellvoid: favorite fake band name

I watch a lot of documentaries. They are about pet cemeteries, old men, crazy men, crazy old men, etc. The one I watched last night was most definitely about crazy young men. It's called Smell the Void--I mean Touching the Void [warning: spoilers ahead]. It retells and recreates the adventures of two strapping young lads from England who attempt to climb a mountain in Peru along the most difficult face, taking a route no one had ever successfully climbed before.

They do quite well until they get to the top and try to go down again. They run into some sheer faces that they hadn't expected and one of the guys, Joe, falls and breaks his leg. Never mind the fact that he's just broken his leg while 21,000 feet above ground and still has to get down the side of an icy mountain--he has broken his leg in such a way that his tibia has been shoved up, around his knee, and into his thigh.

The remainder of the movie tells the amazing tale of how he got down the mountain, even after his partner had to leave him for dead and cut the rope that bound them together. That part's the focus of the movie and all, but TIBIA SHOVED INTO THIGH.

I mean, if that guy hadn't been an athlete and had lots of endorphines running around his body anyway, how could he have moved without vomiting?

On a lighter note, we also watched the Animation Show that Mike Judge put together. Some of the shorts were funny, cool, gorgeous to look at, and one was completely boring. I highly recommend the one with the cherry tree growing out of the guy's head and both of the ones set to opera (madame butterfly's an opera, right?). Dolly sex! Also, the one with the balloons was sick and wrong and funny as hell. Definitely a must see for other animation geeks.