Video Games Live

I am going to see Video Games Live tonight with the Utah Symphony. I invited my dad to go. I am really excited and hope there are no stupid people there. Anyway, I'll have something to write about after tonight...

Concert

So tonight I took the night off from work to go with my wife down to Provo. We asked someone in our ward to watch Silas and Gid. Almost a year ago, Nona did a trade with a local musician. She wanted to be able to use his music on her site, in exchange she would give him a free portrait session. Well, he ended up using those pictures for his latest album. Tonight was the CD release party, and he gave us free tickets and a free copy of the CD. The musician is Benton Paul. If you haven't heard of him, I would suggest you look him up. He is on myspace, facebook, and has his own site as well.

I had a lot of fun. The music was really great. Yesterday, Benton's manager asked Nona if she would take some photos of the concert. She was a bit apprehensive at first, but had a good time with it in the end. Also, looking at the images so far, I think she did a really good job.


The opening act was John Allred. I was impressed and ended up buying his CD after the show.

So now I have even more good music to listen to. The past week has been really good for my ears.

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I think I have a lot of pent up creativity inside, because my mind is going crazy thinking of things to write about. It really feels good to try to put my thoughts down and organize them in some manner.

Maybe it will help with some of my other frustrations, particularly not saying what I mean to say...

The image is of Stansbury Island on the Salt Lake.

Foundation

As anyone that knows me can tell you, I love to read. I have boxes of books that I currently don't have a place for, but can't bare to get rid of them.

Growing up in my parents house was like living in a library. My dad even has a journal specifically for checking books and movies out so he knows where things are at all times. He seems to always have something lent out to some person or another. When I was little, my mom owned a book store. I am pretty sure that is how they were able to gain such a good supply of books, but they already had the desire to read and their library continues to grow without them owning a bookstore.

So I grew up enjoying books. I ended up reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy as that is what my dad had around that wasn't non fiction or LDS related. Most of it I wasn't able to read until I was older. The funner, less investing storylines were mostly what I read as a teen, though not always.

Shortly after I came home from my mission I began reading as much as I could. I think I read around 25 books during my first 2 or 3 months home. During that time I finally decided to read all the books in Isaac Asimov's Robots and Foundation series. I truely enjoyed the whole story line.

Several weeks ago I was sitting in my Statistics class thinking about how most of the stuff that is taught in classes like that, are things thta were discovered and solved centries earlier. It seems like there isn't much of that going on today. If there is, the common person doesn't know about it. We are oblivious. This led me to think about what happens when things are just being taught and nothing is is being solved, new issues being ignored.

After a minute of thinking on this, I realized that my thought came from my reading of the Foundation books. This is a cause for all that happens in these books. This got me wanting to read again.

So i am now reading one of the Foundation books. foundation's Fear was not written by Isaac Asimov. After he passed away, his estate let three prominant science fiction authors try to finish the story that Asimoc had created. They did a great job, but I am not sure how true they were to Asimov. I enjoy reading the story, but will have to wait on any judgment. I may never because I enjoy the overall story so much.