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new blog

2010-10-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

this blog died a long time ago. i promise to start blogging more, but over here instead danernielson.tumblr.com

i hope you subscribe. good things will happen.

trip to fenix

2010-04-14T15:03:00.000-07:00

trip to Phoenix from Jurrus on Vimeo.

row

2010-04-13T13:05:00.000-07:00

Spencer Rowan is a huge suns fan and he wants everyone to know it. Instead of going inside the arena to watch the game Spencer chose to wait outside to show all of Phoenix his dedication to the team.

Spencer on TV from Jurrus on Vimeo.

nba champions

2010-04-01T13:55:00.000-07:00

this blog used to consist of a lot of posts with sports references. now it consists of nothing. so i decided it was time for the first sports post of 2010. the nba playoffs. espn.com put a playoff predictor on their website. it took me seriously over 100 times but, we did it! the phoenix suns, 2010 NBA champions!

for those who have google reader, i apologize for the fake out earlier

2010-03-15T11:57:00.000-07:00

The other day I was drinking some water in the kitchen and stared out the window to see a bunny rabbit in the backyard. My roommate spencer had said that he had been seeing a baby cat around our house but he was wrong. His statement brought no emotion to me since cats just dont do it for me. Luckily for me and everyone living around 900e and 700n, the baby cat, kitten, etc. turned out to be a dark haired bunny rabbit with one ear that sticks straight up and the other falls down the side of his face.

I wanted a dog during my whole career as a young boy. I always had a problem sleeping the night before Christmas. Too much excitement for sleep. I used to just stare at my ceiling which hung a poster of charles barkley. For most of my formative years I shared a bunk bed. I slept on the top while my brother willis occupied the bottom of the bunk bed. It was great waking up every morning and 3 feet from your face having charles barkley dunking the sun into a hoop. On that particular Christmas I got out of bed and walked up and down the upstairs hallway of my house. During my walk I heard a sound that seemed to be an animal scratching at a cage coming from downstairs where the Christmas tree was. I was getting a dog. No doubt about it. A few hours later when the rest of my family woke up and my parents allowed us to open presents I ran to the tree looking for the cage. In the corner of the room there was something box shaped covered by a sheet. I ran over and ripped off the sheet to find a white and grey rabbit in a cage. I wasn't even mad. A dog was expected, the rabbit was a surprise. Shooter, the name of my rabbit, turned out to be a great pet for the next few years until he escaped and I never saw him again. When I wrote that last line I realized the word escaped made it sound like Shooter didnt enjoy his stay at the Nielson residence. Just for the record, that rabbit was fed very well and treated very kindly.

So when I saw this rabbit in our backyard I got a little excited and yelled to inform the others in the house. I had some carrots and Brian Boyer, roommate/renowned sports commentator, spared some lettuce to feed the beast. When we went out to give it to him he ran off and we figured that was the end of it. Just in case we left the food and went on with life. The next day the rabbit was back, chomping on the food we had set out. Turns out he lives in the barn in our backyard. So introducing Boys Ranch's newest resident, Otis.

We are all pretty excited about the addition and hope he sticks around through Spring and Summer. Here is Mikey when we broke the news that a rabbit lives in the barn

so happy. and why wouldn't he be? a bunny rabbit lives in his barn.

Jacknife (ft.SP)

2010-01-14T09:37:00.001-08:00

Jacknife (ft. SP) from Jurrus on Vimeo.

2010-01-08T16:19:00.001-08:00

k@nt! 2010 from k@nt! on Vimeo.

Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School | Video on TED.com

2010-01-08T11:44:00.000-08:00

Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School | Video on TED.com

onceuponaschool.org

2010-01-08T10:55:00.000-08:00

i dont know if this will keep up, maybe...

2009-08-28T10:50:00.000-07:00

yesterday driving down the street i realized that summer was over. the streets are more crowded. more people are crossing the streets without looking. i dont really want to start school. i have spent more time on the internet this summer than i think i have my whole life due to work. at times i have said that i was bored. i apologize. i had a teacher that would always say if you are bored, you are boring. so ive been trying to live by that and so i will never say im bored again. if you hear me say im bored i give you permission to hit me anywhere except for my nose or mouth, or right side of the head. to avoid boredom at work the last few weeks i have restarted my attempt at capturing carmen san diego and i still believe it to be impossible, i have beaten oregon trail, i made a flip book, i cleaned shelves that didnt really need cleaning, i have played uno, i have posted on this blog almost as many times as i did in 2008, etc. the internet is pretty cool. here are some websites i have recently found or remembered about.

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ paint stuff
http://www.maxwangerblog.com/ max, bud, good things happen when you comment on my blog, here's your shout out.
http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/nintendo-games.php recommended games-where in time is carmen san diego, tecmo bowl, micromachines racing, jaws
http://www.youtube.com/ just found this. you can watch videos and stuff. i recommend it.
http://birchhouse.wordpress.com/ one of them got their wisdom teeth out today and im on the sidebar of her blog. cool blog so you should go to it and subscribe to it.
http://rorrimkcalb.com/ i wish more bands did this, it would be fun for everyone.

other news, the house on the corner of 900 e and 700 n has a drumset. as a thank you to jared i will do something sorisoclothing has never done, promote a concert. shark speed, velour, sept. 5th.

if your good at photography, dont judge me aight?

2009-08-25T14:16:00.000-07:00

pictures relating to the last post. there would be more, but i hate scanners and they hate me.

tyler requested a picture of him shirtless be put up. tyler gets what tyler wants.

i want to go swim.

2009-08-25T08:39:00.001-07:00

first let me get the business portion of this post out of the way. first order of business, the music has been taken off this blog. lately ive realized that i (like a lot of you) am not a fan of the music on blogs thing. also, there have been about three songs that i originally liked but now cant stand because it reminds me of my blog. we at sorisoclothing have been wanting to do this for a while now but have not had the energy to make an attempt at doing so until this morning when i heard welcome back kotter and realized if i hear that song one more time im going to, i sat looking at the computer screen for two minutes trying to think of something to say here and nothing came so basically i was just sick of the song and so lets move on. last order of business, i looked at my profile and there for some reason has been over 600 views of that thing. i know only about 6 people look at this blog so who is it that is so interested in seeing what books im interested in? now for the good stuff, the hot and heavy stuff, the juice. (note from editor: there are no pictures so far. all pictures were taken with a normal 35mm film camera and the film is being developed, the pictures will be scanned and the first installment of danenielsonphotography.blogspot.com which isnt a real website but a subwebsite on sorisoclothign.blogspot.com (did that make sense?) I went to LA for the first time this last weekend. it was weird that it was my first time because i live farely close and have been around LA many times. everytime i go to a city i leave witht he knowledge of whether i liked the city or not. New York, i loved it would like to live there for a time. Washington D.C., loved it, would also enjoy living there for a time. San Diego, love downtown, think i could establish residence there, Phoenix, love it, could also establish residence there and be happy. Albuquerque, i dont want to go back. Canada side of Niagara Falls, besides the water fall part, could do without going back. Reno, i am starting to ease up on the place but still left not wanting to return. anyways, i have always had a bad feeling about LA. i dont know why. well i do know why and those reasons were solidified during my visit. LA pros and cons list. Cons: Lakers and Dodgers fans all over, traffic, parking, how long it takes to get from point A to point B,there are so many radio stations you cant find a station for ipod car adapters to work. Pros: the houses, best place ive ever been to people watch, the planetarium, how random places turn cool once you hear they were in movies (such as the planetarium where the last fight scene of The Rocketeer was filmed), they have a radio station that just plays old regular nintendo songs, the old trees, roscoes chicken and waffles. okay there are more but i got to move on because i have a feeling that this is going to be long, but while at roscoes chicken and waffles we ran into the cast of some zach and cody show on disney and i swear, no one really believes me, one of the guys from the movie hairspray was sitting at the table next to us, ive only seen the movie once and it was more than a year ago, but i am 95 percent sure. okay, enough about LA, i hate and i love it i guess. the day before jonnys wedding we went to his bachelor party which brian boyer put together so of course it was surfing. it felt very californian so we made a goal to listen to jack johnson and the beach boys the whole way to the beach that we were meeting at. it was all really fun stuff. speaking of music, the trip made me wonder if people from california still like tu pac's "california love". just wondering. we held the first session of boogie nights. eric "prime minister of the boogie" presided and tidal wave 20,000,000 taught us all a lesson or two on ripping waves. i think it was the highlight of the trip. theres something about being in the ocean at midnight, everything is funnier. in closing, sorry this is so long.

not even so cal can stop this...

2009-08-20T11:48:00.000-07:00

so soriso clothing is on the road to promote its new line and things are going good. the only bad thing that has happened so far is the stop we made in st. george to go to the johnson farm to see the dinosaur tracks. it cost six bucks to get in so we decided against it. the decision has been on my mind ever since. what if the dinosaur tracks were so cool that i would be willing to pay 10 dollars? this morning i had to find out. so i went to the website. my mind is at ease. i feel we made the right decision. i have a new favorite book. my journal from the years 1990-1995. ive also decided that everything was cooler in 1985, and not because its the year i was born. suddenly i dont feel like writing about it so it will be in a future post

youtube posts

2009-08-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

so awhile back i started getting lazy and started only posting youtube videos. i thought i could get away with it but i realized it was pretty weak. anyways i posted the trailer to where the wild thing are which comes out in the next few months. here is the new trailer. if anyone has a gift card to a movie theater and wants to take me to it, im in.
i just realized that i forgot how to post youtube videos on blogs, forgiveness. you'll have to click on this link

heres another spike jonze movie that he made that looks fun. is fun. skip to around the 45 second mark. click here

2009-08-18T09:19:00.000-07:00

today was the first time ive ever been almost hit by a car on my bike. the worst part was the awkwardness after the car had slammed on its brakes and i jumped off my bike. we just looked at each other with no expression and then went our ways. we both ran solid yellow if not red lights so i dont know whose fault it would have been. anyways, this day seems to be starting off just great

first impressions

2009-08-17T12:06:00.000-07:00

ive been thinking a lot about first impressions lately and how lately i have not been doing too well with them. this isnt a good thing. i feel that usually im pretty quick on my feet but lately i have been quite horrible in this aspect of life. there have been many instances during this summer that i have met people and said things that leave me thinking "what was that?" "why did you ask that?" "you just sounded like the biggest tool dane". im reminded of an experience that happened a couple years ago when then elder uchdorf came and spoke to our stake at byu. we met in the auditorium of the jsb. afterwards i was talking to a group of friends and didnt notice that elder uchdorf was standing right behind me. when it came to our attention we went to shake his hand. i was the closest so of course had to start the line of handshakes. i quickly thought about what to say. i shook his hand and out came the words "whats up". whats up? really? to make it worse i dont think i put much emphasis on the s in whats so it probably came out "what up". i still cant believe that of all the things to say i chose "what up". so i apologize to anyone that ive made a bad first impression on especially you president uchdorf. moving on, mikey got a new harmonica tuned in g, expect great things. we are going to jonny's wedding this weekend, expect great things, eric cottrell and brian boyer graduated, expect great things.

deepthoughts and the moon

2009-08-13T09:24:00.000-07:00

(editors note: this post was actually started almost a year ago, in no way have i been working on it for a year, it only took about 5 minutes total, but it was lost, now found, and updated with recent occurrences. enjoy.)

The first blog that i ever followed was deepthoughtsandlove written mainly by eric cottrell (sodapop) with a few posts by others such as raw-b and spiz kid. to this day it is the blog that i like to see get updated the most. so here are my top 5 deepthoughtsandlove moments (not in any kind of order):

1. the post about fat albert click here

2. the weird bird click here

3. the mvp post for its 133 comments click here

4. Team USA post click here

5. i cant really decide on a fifth one. too many options. shaqnosis. rawb's facebook post, boyer with his shirt off, birthday shout outs, the list goes on.

i know people dont like clicking on links sometimes and yes, cottrell can be somewhat of a novelist at times, but if you got nothing else to do, the blog will keep you quite entertained.

on another note. we went to see the "meteor shower". it was cold so we stayed in the car. i tried to see through my windshield. i kept thinking that i was seeing something but then realized it was a reflection of the person in the passenger seat's slurpee cup hitting the windshield. the moon was very bright. since this post has been focused mainly on eric and his work, i might as well mention that he drew this picture

the moon was really bugging me the other night but i thought of this picture and imagined if the picture was really how it worked. i laughed in my head.

complicated

2009-08-11T13:38:00.000-07:00

i have been thinking about decisions lately and how im not good at making them. maybe its that i dont like to make them because the chance that it could be wrong. yesterday a friend jokingly told me he would take me to taco bell and i could spend up to 4 dollars. i laughed. i was once given 8 dollars to spend at taco bell. it was a high school volleyball tournament in california and the school was paying so of course i had to use all of it. i have never had a harder time spending money. today i want to travel. i blame this guy. a friend showed me his photo blog, site or whatever it is awhile back, but i rediscovered it today while looking for a lupe fiasco song. today is turning out okay. i think some thank yous are in order. thank you mwe for calling to our attention the meteor shower that will occur tonight between midnight and 5am. ill be there. i have to admit. i didnt read the whole article, but i got the main idea. i did however find it amusing to read the reader comments. bill wright wrote "If you position yourself where the Moon is behind a tree, hill, etc., you may be pleasantly surprised by the display.-- Bill" thanks bill. thank you eric for the title of a screenplay and for making sure yomansports gets the advertising that it deserves. thank you head janitor man. you can make or break my day. today i walked into the building in which we both work and walked past your office, where as usual you were sitting in the dark with your laptop lighting your face. you were listening to complicated by avril lavigne. thats the second time ive caught you listening to that song. i like it. the whole situation. i knew it was going to be a good day. on a closing note, brian boyer is taking the OAT as we speak. we all wish him luck

no title today

2009-08-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

i dont really know what this post is about hence the no title for a title. this last weekend we went to las vegas for the hyer-boyer wedding. i enjoyed myself. i learned that sharks are mean. im one of those people who could probably watch sharks on tv for hours. i dont know why. they scare me much so. the ocean is a weird place. at the wedding i was told that i should be a writer. (pause for a shout out to brady and nicole petersen who read my blog but continue to deny me access to their blog) to be honest, ive always wanted to be able to write. songs, books, movies, it must be a good feeling to have some one read something that you write and enjoy it, but over the years ive realized two things, i dont have any ideas on stuff to write about and i cant write very well, two obstacles that are not ideal for a writer to have. writing does feel good though. even if its not true. its a good way of getting things out. over the weekend i was bored so i decided to write two pages of whatever came to my head. i didnt stop until two pages were complete. i talked about sharks, how nickelodeon isnt what it used to be, and created a character named mason brass. his life was a lot like mine but worse. my friend asked me what i was writing and i told him that it was kind of a journal entry. he said maybe it was my life just a little more honest. maybe. but too deep for me to think about. this is getting too deep for this blog to handle. everyone take a break, watch this and come back. last night i was trying to sleep and for some reason i really wanted to play f-zero on super nintendo. i dont know why. i have never enjoyed that game before.

see it come along

2009-08-03T09:27:00.000-07:00

it has been brought to my attention that a lot of my posts lately have included michael william ellis shout outs. its not a bad thing but i do feel its not fair to the others that deserve shout outs. so here is one last shout out for a little while to mwe. to the guy that has taught me every iron and wine and bon iver song that i know on the guitar and encourages me to sing the wrong lyrics. to the guy that found a job for me as a computer game tester but you had to have "experience" and i dont think playing oregon trail in elementary school was the experience they were looking for, and i have lost my skill in that game as this shows. anyways, i know all of you are dying to know what i have been listening to today. this, this, this, and this. the combination of these songs has put me in a very weird mood. a few weeks ago i found this. this seems like a very handy thing to know. i have realized in practice that you need to be wearing a bigger shirt for this to work. yesterday i my head got caught and it kind of hurt my neck. fun. eric needs to post something. who's with me?

too much

2009-07-31T13:09:00.000-07:00

i would like to apologize. i realize my readers arent used to this many posts on sorisoclothing.blogspot.com. its thrown me off too. there are 10 employees in the tec lab right now and according to my stat sheet 2 people have been in in the last hour and a half, none of which needed help. so why not post? as most are aware who know him, MWE has been out of commission because of this. mikey belongs on a bike. a bike ride isnt a bike ride without mikey. today we are going on a bike ride. after a long search we finally found the only bike in provo with hitch to pull a wagon and a person willing to make the 14 mile jouney to the lake while towing mikey. her name is ashton and rides a schwinn. mikey prefers miyata but the wagon was such a perfect fit he couldnt turn it down.

no go san francisco

2009-07-31T09:40:00.000-07:00

well, this is embarrassing. put the trip to san francisco back on the list. thank you everyone for taking your lives seriously and work seriously. thank you brittany for trying. august. it will happen. positives that came from not going: got to see sonic youth, um, so far thats it. today i did find a song that was popular in brazil that i have been looking for for a while now. i finally found it on youtube. the reason i liked this song was i felt it was very uncharacteristic of the typical popular music that i would hear in the streets of brazil. i think i heard usher "yeah" song everyday for 2 years. i watched this whole thing. staring at the sound meters going up and down. it put me in a weird mood. very thought provoking. i almost watched it 2 times in a row, but after a minute into the second time i realized i would never make it. well heres the song. enjoy.

mailbag

2009-07-30T09:03:00.000-07:00

I leave today for san francisco. when i think of san francisco several thoughts come to my mind. one of which is the golden gate bridge. ive recently realized that my vision of the golden gate bridge has been tarnished by this (at the 42 second mark to be exact). most of you have probably seen this but now whenever i think of the golden gate bridge i think of a shark jumping up and biting it, i have only seen that trailer like twice but maybe its the fact that it looks so real. moving on. today is sorisoclothing's, soon to be renamed, first mailbag.
these are some emails ive have gotten in the last 24 hours

first email
"You have an important new message in your BYU Financial Center regarding your Financial Aid. You can navigate to the Financial Center as follows - BYU Home Page > RouteY > School > My Financial Center. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL MESSAGE. If you have questions or concerns, please send a message through your "Message Center" in "My Financial Center"."
-myfinancialcenter

me: thank you for the email, you guys always keep the anticipation up. instead of telling me the message you send me a message telling me to go somewhere else to get the message. those 10 seconds in between switching pages kills me everytime

next

"so kelli brown sent me this. I guess that movie that dane has been working on is actually a video of pictures of him in 10 years on a lovely vacation with the girl of his dreams. its special and i thought youd like to check it out. I didnt know you loved puma so much dane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ChADh1zt5I"
-mikey ellis

me: mikey, thank you. timing perfect, execution perfect. i love puma.

next

"Hello, Thanks for the interest. I am in the process of making a batch which will go out to people in the order they made contact. I will email for address and supply paypal when yours are done. (Looking at about 1-2 weeks at the moment.)
Cost is £30 GBP per set. Shipping to EU is around £1.50. US is around £2.50.
I'll be in touch soon.
Thanks again."
-JOL

me: thanks! team restlfull is super excited about this and we look forward to doing business with you. but please forward all emails to our manager/team member ERC. ps. i dont do euros.

in closing i would like to thank amazon, allposters.com, apple, university communications, and facebook for keeping my inbox full and making me feel like i have something important to read for a split second, i can always count on one of you guys to come through with an email or two

1 post ago

2009-07-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

one post ago i made a list of things that i have said that i am going to do and people have started to call me out on for not doing. Im going to San Francisco this weekend. thats one off the list. feels good. only a few more to go. in other news this blog could be going through a major change. i do not like the direction this blog has taken, too political, too personal, and not enough comments. comments are my favorite part about blogs so instead of having a blog i figure why not just comment on other peoples blogs, its funner (not a word but should be) and i dont have to think as much or do as much. maybe this blog will remain, but the thing that bugs me the most is the title of this blog. i hate the phrase soriso clothing. it reads failure to me. so if this blog is to continue i will need to change the name. sorry, i know. in unrelated news, carmen san diego cannot be found. i have tried, honestly. i have captured criminal after criminal but she never is the person i catch. im starting to think she doesnt even exist. at first i struggled, but then i realized the game is a lot easier now that the internet is available. regardless, even with the internet, carmen cannot be found. in more unrelated news, stay away from the gravitron ride at any carnival (its fun at the time but not worth it after), and the game where you throw pingpong balls into glasses is impossible, and a fish might seem like a cool prize but you'll regret it as soon as you win it. now i would like to talk about twitter, i still dont get it. i have it, tried it, posted something once or twice, lost a bet that i could get steve nash to follow me, and have found out that shawn marion likes to party with mark cuban. so i guess it has changed my life. ive wasted enough time today to avoid studying, thats all

tayhookid vs. car

2009-07-20T09:38:00.000-07:00

this last weekend i went to mexico with Kaiizen (yes thats a plug in, paid by click, not really) mexico was great but thats not what this post is about. on the way home as soon as we crossed the border and had reception i texted a friend to see if she wanted to go on a bike ride that night since i figured after 16 hours in a car thats what i would want to do. in reply i got a text message saying "you heard about mikey breaking his collarbone right?" no i hadnt. Mikey Ellis ran into a car when the car made a uturn causing him to use his collarbone to put a big dent in the car. im actually surprised that his collar bone broke because the first thing i ever heard about mikey ellis was that he has very strong collar bones. i asked mikey for a quote and all i got was spanish swear words. he did say it looked a lot like this
get better soon mike. if anyone would like to send comments or flowers or jokes or whatever please do so at tayhookid.blogspot.com

my thoughts on this blog tonight

2009-07-19T22:05:00.000-07:00

this blog kind of sucks.

2009-06-22T10:34:00.000-07:00

last night i couldnt sleep because it was too warm in my room. i decided to listen to my ipod for a little bit to see if that would bring me sleep. after listening to Mr. Bojangles by Neil Diamond twice, Glycerine by Bush once, and December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons half way through i decided to take my pillow and sheet to the living room to see if that would work. Lucky for me my friend Mikey doesnt like sleep either and he was there playing NBA Live 07. Watching him play made me very tired and around the time that his game was going into overtime and he seemed upset that he had to play another 5 minutes of overtime i was asleep. i woke up twice and he was still playing which led me to believe that i hadnt been asleep long since overtime was only five minutes but this morning i was told he played another 3 games after that. AND WON ALL THREE!!!!! The 2007 Chicago Bulls are now 13-2 in their 82 game marathon of a season and are making an early run for the post season. Mikey had this to say: "wizards, raptors, and kings aint got nothin on me. I gave them the illusion they might win by allowing it to go into OT, but as soon as ben wallace secured the tip, i blew that game wide open." cocky or confident? we'll see as the season unravels. over the past years i have said that i am going to do a few things and have not yet accomplished them. i would now like to make a list of the things that i can remember. if there is anything that i am forgetting please remind me because i intend to complete everything on the list.
run a 1/2 marathon
start a clothing company
go to san francisco
do a triathlon
hike the y
watch all of season one of welcome back kotter
I think that about covers it. maybe there are more. but my mission now is to complete everything on the list and i will keep you, my small audience, posted.
on a side note i would like to mention the links to the songs that were mentioned in this post. first off thank you to youtube, you guys keep amazing me. i would like to make it clear the man singing mr. bojangles is not neil diamond but he brings as much passion to the song that neil would. the bush video would probably be my first mtv moment that i can remember and i believe i saw it the day after in 1996 at morgan taylors house, im sure kfc or dominos with orange juice was involved. the last video surprised me. i had no idea the drummer sang that song. it has turned my world upside down.

memorial day

2009-06-10T10:45:00.000-07:00

a couple of weeks ago was memorial day. i met my family up at brianhead to celebrate the occasion. on sunday we drove to monroe utah where we decorated my grandparents graves and had a picnic at a local park. i consider myself to be somewhat athletic. i mean, i couldnt make any sports team at byu but i can throw a ball and stuff like that. for some reason my athletic abilities really struggled at that picnic. first, me and my brother-in-law decided to play catch with a baseball. i probably over threw him six times. sorry scott. then we played catch with a football and i over threw it and hit the top of the medal covering which was a good thing because if it hadnt it probably would have pegged devin in the head. sorry devin. then we were playing catch with a baseball again and i threw it and almost hit my nephew dax in the head. given that wasnt all my fault, the person who was supposed to catch it lost the ball in the sun and got out of the way. the ball bounced right over dax's head. i yelled watch out dax, fully expecting the one year old to react. he didnt and never even realized he was almost hit. sorry dax. then my dad found a frisbee and threw it to me. i threw it back as hard as i could and the stupid thing curved on me and landed on top of the metal covering, i dont think anyone really wanted to play frisbee but still, i can do better than that. after that i retired to sitting in the grass.

oceanside

2009-06-09T11:49:00.000-07:00

i dont really feel like writing anything right now but i feel like posting since its been a while. i figure two random pictures would be a great post.

WHERE YOU AT?

2009-04-08T11:50:00.001-07:00

to start off this post, i think an apology is in order. I would like to apologize to the few people that read this blog. Who knows, maybe you dont check it anymore, maybe you have given up on me. if so, i would have stopped checking this blog a long time ago. It gets old checking blogs that never post or that post youtube videos because they are too lazy to write something (note my last 3 posts) and want to make it look like they update their blog (to my credit i had just learned how to put youtube videos on and i thought they are cool videos). Life is pretty good. A lot has happened since i last posted. school is over. spring has come. I've learned a lot about myself. Im more afraid of failure than i thought. I take the LSAT on june 8th. I cant wait for it to be over not because i am sick of studying but for the fact that i am sick of this worried, anxiety feeling i have all the time. Every morning i wake up with a kind of worried feeling. even when im not thinking about it, its like my body knows that the test is coming up. Anyways getting away from my emotional well being, I finally have a bike to ride. it is a different feeling riding a bike that you have fixed up and put together yourself. a feeling that at any moment (especially the moments that you are going fast) the thing is going to fall apart. but i love my bike and would like to give a shout out to mr. cobbs for giving me the bike in his garage, who knows maybe he reads this. probably not. nonetheless thank you. Im at work right now. most of the other people are in the back corner of the computer lab playing Call of Duty. I usually dont go over there and play but last week i decided to give it a shot. Now, ive never been very good at these kinds of games. whether it was 007 for n64 or Halo for xbox i usually am the person to die the most and get the least amount of kills. 007 was the worst because not only would i lose most the time but at the the end of the game when it would give everyone awards, it was not uncommon to see the words "most cowardly", "most harmless", or some other award that made me feel even more defeated flash onto my part of the screen. I guess the question could be asked "Why do you play those games then?" (i just want to throw out this disclaimer that i dont play these games a lot, hardly ever, but it was more frequent in high school because thats just what we did when we went to peoples houses - i feel better about continuing now) The reason why i would play is because every once in a while i would do something great. I usually target the best player and go after him. I do this for two reasons. first, if i end up dyeing its no big deal i'm supposed to lose. the second is that if i end up beating the best player than it gives me the right to talk trash for those few seconds until that person comes back to life and brutally seeks revenge on me, usually getting another 10 kills at my expense before the end of the game. for example: in high school, my friend david strobehn was the self proclaimed king of halo and rightfully so. i mean he was amazing at that game. he could destroy kids that played in actual halo tournaments. anyways whenever we played, my whole existence for being in the game was to sneak up behind david's guy on the screen and hit him in the back of the head with the butt of my gun resulting in his instant death. Then for the next 10 seconds (that was the usual amount of time it took for his guy to come back alive, find me, and get his revenge on my guy) i would laugh hysterically and usually yell taunting comments such as "WHERE YOU AT STROBEHN? WHERE YOU AT?" those moments would make the whole 2 hours of constant losing all worth it. Back to present day. about a week ago i decided that i would go play with some of the people i work with. nothing was going on and i felt that i could at least play and not embarrass myself. i figured i would only play for a little bit because after more than 10 minutes of playing those kinds of games i get a headache. I sat down and started to play and within the first 5 seconds i realized i didnt know what i was doing. so i followed my instincts and looked at the radar on the top of my screen, found a little dot on the radar and walked towards it. i finally found someone. for some reason they didnt shoot at me but i figured they just didnt see me because i was so sneaky. i snuck up to the guy real close and started shooting. Then i heard "what the heck man?" (just a note: the people i work with take this game very seriously) It then came to my attention that i had shot someone on my own team. My bad. i then decided to retire from the afternoon Call of Duty games at work. I just realized that they played that game on the office when jim moved branches a couple of seasons ago. i guess you could say that my experience was a lot like jims. if you dont know what im talking about ignore that last office reference it was just a sudden realization that i decided to add in this post. I have no idea where this story is going at this point. so im going to end it.

2009-04-07T09:57:00.000-07:00

2009-04-07T09:56:00.000-07:00

cease to impress

2009-01-20T21:09:00.000-08:00

the sundance film festival started last week and runs through the end of this week. Its cool i guess but to go to a movie costs like 20 bucks plus you dont know if the movie is good or not. some movies that come out of sundance are amazing and their are some that don't make it out that leave you wondering if the people who made it were serious. a few days ago i was looking through a few descriptions of movies and found this one about a movie called Dead Snow. it reads: "A group of teenagers had all they needed for a successful ski vacation; cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains had other plans." (thank you LA times for this thrilling description) I would add a picture from the movie that was above this description but when i first started this blog i promised myself no pictures of nazi-zombies, especially ones that haunt mountains, and im sticking to my promise. i dare you to find a better description for a movie. if you do please share. Some movies have gotten pretty ridiculous. Have you seen the trailer to this My Bloody Valentine movie? i forgot to add that it is in 3D. i have a theory. any movie that comes out in 3D is making up for something. Im sure if the technology was around there would have been a lot of movies coming out in 3D. The Return of the Mummy 3D!(or any brendan fraser movie) Brendan Fraser is officially the first all 3D actor. i hope brendan doesnt read this. Homeward Bound 2 3D!!!! one time i went home with my brother and sister in law and sat in the back of the car with my nephews and niece. We had to choose a movie to watch. I wanted toy story but got out voted 3-1 losing to Air Buddies. horrible horrible horrible. the dogs talk. but i could see how if it was in 3D it would be an instant classic. the list of movies go on. so thank you 3D technology for giving bad movies something to fall back on. this is a long post. thank you to eric for bringing brendan fraser up while i was writing this and for making this picture of brendan become 3D and morgan for listing bad movies on facebook chat. hes still going as i am closing this. thats enough morgan.

2008-11-19T11:05:00.000-08:00

i cant think of a title so....

2008-10-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

today i heard that amare stoudemire got poked pretty bad in the eye. i hate that. dont worry he will be fine. the bigger issue is that boris diaw poked him in the eye. for the last couple of months i have said that the suns need to trade diaw and kerr just wouldnt listen. diaw is notorious for poking people. usually its in the side or stomach after telling a joke that no one gets and he resorts to the poking technique to get a reaction, but he must have gotten a little carried away and got amare right in the eye. good might come of this. it is rumored that stoudemire might need to wear goggles for the rest of his career. imagine amare stoudemire with goggles and a frow, slashing down the middle of the court, getting a sweet pass from nash and then just dunking on tim duncan. he might as well wear short shorts, go completely retro. i guarantee he would be everyones favorite player if he isnt already. here are some pictures of the worlds favorite basketabll players, amazingley, they all wear goggles.

the legend.

the stallion.

the trash talker. (telling coach how it is)

bird man. ( i would also like to wish larry a happy birthday)

i cant think of anything else. i was hesitant to put bird man. these glasses are sweet and i think stoudemire should borrow them from ben.

note to readers: i hate to proofread. blogging should be fun and proofreading is no fun. so there might be errors in my writing but please look past them and open your heart to the message conveyed.

thank you, thank you, yeah i had a good time

2008-08-05T20:18:00.001-07:00

We went to California this last weekend. It almost didn’t happen because several people almost bailed but everyone actually came through this week and we were able to go unlike the lake powell trip that never happened last week. I don’t think there is anything more peaceful than the ocean. We went during “Shark Week” on discovery channel and for some reason I like to think about “what ifs” when im in the ocean. If a shark attacked me I would straight punch that fish in the face, for reals. Actually I really think I would die of a hard attack (while rereading this post I realized I put “hard attack” instead of heart attack, I like hard attack better so im leavin it. my blog, my rules.) if a shark attacked me. Most interesting fact learned during shark week: sharks are more likely to attack some one in a red or yellow swimsuit and less likely to attack a black swimsuit. Remember that. Anyways, we got to Oceanside on Thursday night and stayed until Sunday. I brought a camera but didn’t take it out once. In closing, I would like to give several thank yous to some of those involved in the trip. Thank you ernie for sleeping the days away and then not sleeping at night. Thank you morgan for putting tanning oil on your body that hasn’t seen the sun all summer and then falling asleep on the beach, also for falling asleep with headphones on so there would be tan lines where the cords were. Thank you zach for dragging around 200 pounds worth of seaweed in the ocean, trying to put it on top of other people then just putting it on yourself. Thank you chandler for beating me at cards, again thank you morgan for the horrible job of shuffling. Thank you brady and nicole (yeah im giving you a shout out, I know brady reads this) for coming down for the day to hang out. Thank you gaslight district in san diego for not having parking for under 20 bucks, if it wasn’t for you we would have spent another 20 bucks on tickets to the padres and giants game, two teams that we cant name a single player who plays for them. And thank you sal masekela for always giving us some one to make fun of while watching the x games.

No Cutting Ronny

2008-07-28T16:14:00.000-07:00

Last Friday we went to the Team USA vs Team Canada game at the Thomas and Mack Center. At first the game was pretty boring. Most UNLV basketball games have more highlights than the first half had. The second half was a lot better and Team USA looked more like the Harlem Globetrotters which was what everyone was hoping for. the game wasnt even close and Team USA won by almost 60 points.

Before the game Ronny Turiaf totally cut us in line to get tickets. Then he let Derrick Fisher back cut. Not cool guys. Most people that were there were Lakers fans (for some reason most people from vegas are) so they didnt care. We didnt really care either, the guy is in the nba, he can do whatever he wants at stuff like this

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were at the game. also the guy in the white shirt sitting next to bill gates is Ludacris.

even though the way we play basketball is very similar, our shoes arent.

Family Reunion

2008-07-24T18:52:00.000-07:00

every year on the fourth of july we have a family reunion up at brianhead, ut. every year we also go down to parawan and watch the towns fourth of july parade. i dont feel like writing a lot so here are some pictures

ty is sick of waiting for the parade, as was i.

after the parade everyone goes over to the park and they have kind of a town fair. they have races for the little kids. this is me coaching riley. she lost this race to her older cousin but it was an older division, she dominated the kids her age. everyone one of my nephews and nieces came in first in their age divisions, they had good coaches

by far the creepiest part of the parade

the camera loves morgan

2008-05-30T11:51:00.000-07:00

morgan taylor is one crazy fan as you can tell from this picture. he claps like no other. its no wonder why espn found him in the crowd and had to put him on the air.

The bike i want

2008-05-16T16:06:00.000-07:00

crossfire- the ultimate challenge

2008-04-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

The other day while walking through DI we came across an old crossfire game. my initial reaction was to buy it. then i remembered that crossfire is one of those games that seems like the greatest game ever when your not playing it but once you play it you remember that it isnt that fun. it is proven that 99% of all crossfire boards have one gun that works good and another gun that always gets jammed and doesnt work. I remember the bb's would always get lost. the commercials for the game were intense. kids coming into an arena of screaming fans riding a hover board, playing with lightning in the background and the loser spins away. the commercial refers to it as the ultimate challenge. life would be awesome if the ultimate challenge was a game of crossfire. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50)
the person who owned the crossfire board always won because they knew which side worked and which side didnt. people say that home court advantage is most important in the nba, but in crossfire its more important. anyways we didnt buy the crossfire board, it didnt have any bb's.

learn to paint

2008-04-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

the man in this picture is bob ross. his show used to always be on pbs but has slowly been taken off the air. last week his show was on and i watched him take a plain white canvas and within an hour paint an entire mountain range with a river and birds and everything you would think a mountain range would have. time flew by. me and my roommate debated over who is a better artist, van gough or ross. we couldnt decide because their styles are so different. van gough had a colorful impressionist style while ross is more of a boom! in your face, i'll paint whatever i want to kind of style. ross is definitley more of a people person although we dont really know because van gough never had a television show. during the show, bob talks to his paintings. when he was painting the river he said, "make it a happy river, there, a happy river, oh what a happy river". what makes a river happy? nintendo was going to make a bob ross painting game for the wii but decided to cancel the project. thats too bad. i would much rather paint on the wii then in real life. in real life you get paint everywhere and you cant erase your mistakes. i bet i am a lot better artist on video games then in real life.

ugliest or greatest?

2008-04-12T12:08:00.000-07:00

the other day i read a post about shaq and his shoes on another blog (deepthoughtsandlove.blogspot.com). it made me realize that what some people consider to be ugly shoes, are the coolest shoes ever to other people. i remember back in the day, people would always talk about how ugly tennis players shoes were. i personally liked them because they were different and had tennis balls as pumps, but would never have been caught wearing them. now, looking at those old tennis shoes, people would pay a lot of money for them. nike has come out with new shoes designed after the old style of tennis shoes. i got these pictures from a website that counted down the ugliest tennis shoes ever.

these are my favorites

these are cool also

These shoes arent tennis shoes. they are kobe's shoes from about 3 years ago. if basketball were ever played on the moon, these are the shoes the players would have to wear. i heard they were designed after a car (audi). these make me not want to buy that car. maybe kobe can pull them off but no one else can.

I just realized kobes shoes have gotten a lot better since he moved from adidas to nike. maybe its not his fault for some of those moon shoe designs. here's one of kobe's last shoes with adidas

ridiculous.

2008-04-03T14:41:00.001-07:00

this picture brings back a lot of memories. i ran into bishop nolte today and he asked when we were going to softball. i said "whenever". i rememebr the first game i put myself in right field figuring it was the best place for me to not have the ball hit to me (im a hitter, not a fielder). the first batter up hit the ball over my head and after that i spent the rest of the season as the catcher. one saturday afternoon after playing we decided to go to chuckarama. i still dont understand why we did that. edgar had me pull over when we were on university ave. after leaving the restaurant because he had to throw up. thank you edgar for speaking up and not throwing up in my car. i cant think of anything else, but im sure there's a lot more stuff that happened.

throwback

2008-03-31T12:16:00.000-07:00

so i have decided that the phoenix suns should switch back to their old uniforms, the ones they wore in the 80's. i have been looking all over ebay trying to buy these shorts and can't find them.

2008-03-30T12:20:00.001-07:00

so we went to the festival of colors thing again this year. i think they used a different kind of chalk because this year it seemed a lot harder to breath. it wasnt as fun as last year because i knew what was going to happen and what it was going to be like but it was still fun. then we made a huge mistake and went to the chinese buffet on university avenue by lons cookin shack. the best part about it was my fortune cookie. it didnt make any sense but it made me feel good and i think that is what a good fortune cookie is supposed to do.

team creed vs. team nickelback

2008-03-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

so, our intramural team lost. we played with a lot of heart at the end and could have come back if we only had a little more time. we definitely had more style than the other team and could have took them if it turned into a fight but they did shoot better than us during the game. their name was team creed, adding a low blow to the defeat. i wander if the band creed can actually play basketball? what band would win in a basketball game, creed or nickelback? im not familiar enough with the two bands but i could imagine it would a good matchup.

2008-03-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

lately, detlef shrempf has been brought up in several of my conversations. this was the happiest moment of his career

blog title

2008-03-06T14:10:00.000-08:00

i need a title for my blog. give your suggestions

2008-03-05T23:05:00.000-08:00

so, im a big fan of the phoenix suns. i know no one reads this but maybe one day someone will stumble onto this page and it will turn them into a believer also. the suns will make the playoffs. they will win their first round match up. they will win their second round match up. third round? i make no guarentees but if they do win in the third round of the playoffs (western conference finals) i would bet money, since im a betting man, that the suns will be our 2008 nba champions. it would be a sweet day seeing nash win a championship. when i was 12 i wrote steve nash a letter and he wrote me back and sent me an autogrphed basketball card. yeah, he was a rookie and no one knew who he was back then but regardless, he was my favorite player. i havent lost faith in the suns. they havent been playing very well as of late but things will pick up. my geuss is they go on a five game win streak starting next week.