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

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?

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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?