Kind of a chaotic sort of life, eh?

Hello all.

And by all, I more or less mean Marley since she is the only person who follows my blog three weeks later...

But whatever. This thing sort of counts as a journal for me and it is decently fun to write. Especially since Marley is reading. Rock on girl.

In other news:

I came home last weekend to deliver a talk and I completely butchered it. I have given good talks before, but this wasn't one of them. I learned three lessons from this public humiliation.

1. A good hook = an attentive audience
2. Think of a specific message for a specific audience
3. Be prepared for the screaming babies

Number three was especially bizarre. After going to the singles ward most of the time for the last couple months I am used to dead, complete, borderline ridiculous silence. The ward I was at was tiny, but every family had to have at least 24.3 babies. I don't know what the bishop has been teaching, but they be spawning like rabbits over there, and it totally threw off my groove.

Anyways...

It was a good excuse to get home and visit friends and family. Watched 6th sense with Tyler and Spencer friday night. Turns out it isn't as good when you know the (spoiler alert) twist ending. Really hoping Goldpiece can find a way to come to BYU instead of Snow.

btw, have you ever thought about what Snow really refers too? It's in southern Utah which means it is doubtful that the name alludes to the weather. It could be named after a certain president of the church, but based on the schools reputation I think it makes more sense to have been named after the kind of "snow" that gets passed around at their parties.

No offense to any Snow grads.

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Ok, maybe a little. Still love you. Unless I don't. Live in fear people.

Anyways, it was really fun to see the guys, and it was also fun to chill with Juchau. Gladiator is always a great show.

In other news I talked in my sleep a couple nights ago!

Josh: makbngisohjfdsj...
Parker: What, Josh?
Josh: Oh he just...
Parker: What, Josh?
Josh: Sucks.
Parker: Who does?
Josh: He sucks at cooking.

Parker starts busting up making me snap to my senses. I realize my own insanity, look at the clock to discover it's 3:30 am and out of my mouth comes-

Josh: What the hell is happening?!

In my defense I had been asleep not 3 seconds before that and I wake up to a conversation about some dude's sucky cooking with my roomie busting up. I still have no idea what the dream was. I laughed so hard.

Also, visited my cousin and her baby. Decided I want one.

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Ok, not showing any prospective girlfriends this blog. Least not til I'm back from the mission.

Criticism

The sound track for Batman sounds incredible. Hans Zimmer is one of my all time favorites hands down, and this track lives up to my high expectations. I may or may not have listened to it three times yesterday. Ok, I didn't. It was four times.

Needless to say I am pumped out of my mind for that film. Used my Classical Traditions class time to read through every review I could get my hands on. Figuratively speaking. Sounds even more epic than I was expecting. Batman Begins was centered around a post 9/11 theme of fear. The Dark Knight was about Anarchy, courtesy of the Joker. In this film, Bane and his army will unleash both on Gotham City. EPIC!!!

Rediscovered my love of Muse courtesy of one of my roommates, who was listening to Black Holes and Revelations last week. One of my new favorite songs is Exo-politics.

Also saw V for Vendetta last week. This movie made my top ten of all time. The dialogue is nothing short of brilliant. The protagonist, "V," is a lovable, ingenious terrorist. The movie is loaded with fantastic quotes, most coming from V. The political messages are also very compelling. One of my favorite lines from the movie is on my quotes page (which is always going to be a work in progress). "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." Nailed it, V. Highly recommended despite the R rating, which was for language (4 f-words, but otherwise mild) and a bit of borderline pg-13 violence. The best part of the film is that it leaves it up to the viewer to decide their own stance on terrorism. Is it a wholly evil abomination? Or is it a tool that you or I would use, should circumstances demand such extremes?

Do work people.