Late To The Party...

I wrote this back around Christmas but didn't know if I should post it on my blog. After getting Kevin's approval I decided to post it. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I am in no wise mocking this song and its significance. I have always thought it would be funny if the boy realized that his lamb could talk. Therefore, in order to not joke too much with this wonderful Christmas song I will change a lot of the lyrics.

Holy Crap My Lamb Talks! Lyrics by Chris Neff to the tune of Do You Hear What I Hear?

Said the night wind to the little lamb:
Do you see what I see?
Way out by the hill, little lamb--
Do you see what I see?


A bar, a bar--
Serving drinks all night--
Where the men are in a big fight,
Where the men all fight with their might!


Said the little lamb to the little boy
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing thru the sky, little boy
Do you hear what I hear?


A voice, a voice!
Blowing through the tree--
Was it a boy from over the sea?
It wasn't you and clearly not me!


Said the little boy to the mighty king
Do you know what I know?
In your palace warm, mighty king
Do you know what I know?


My lamb, my lamb--
Just spoke in the cold!
Let us bring him cheese and mold!
Tis the weirdest thing ever told!


Said the king to the people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!
Seriously, people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!


A lamb, a lamb!
Talking in the night!
Tis the strangest thing heard tonight!
Might as well claim that pigs took flight!

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Literal Version:

Said the night wind to the little lamb:
...
…

...

...
...*wissssshhhhhhhh*...
...
...


Said the little lamb to the little boy
Baa-baa-baa!!!
Meeeeehhhh...
Baa!


Meeeeh! Meeeeh!
...
Baaaa! BAAAA!!
Baaaaah-ram-euy!


Said the little boy to the mighty king
It was nice of your guards to let me into your throne room.
In your palace warm, mighty king
So I was wondering if you could lower my taxes?


I mean, I'm just a shepherd.
I basically work for free.
Well if you don't lower my taxes I'll start eating your sheep!



Said the king to the people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!
Pray for peace, people ev'rywhere
Listen to what I say!


A boy, a boy,
A young shepherd boy,
Is asking that I lower his taxes when he's not even taxed!
Can someone please offer him a real job?

Work Typos Part 2...

supporta: (1) bad Italian for support; (2) the act of supposing that you are supporting an option, person, or idea.

clikc: the sound digital cameras make since they don't have an exact click-button that goes up and down.

regardsm: the act of regarding regards

What I Wish People Would Understand...

I have come to a new understanding recently with Nicole and I decided it's something other people might want/need to hear. I've grown up with a lot of mixed media ranging from music to TV shows and movies to video games. Let me just quote some of the words of my professor, Arlen Card, who taught my Digital Audio Essentials Class at UVU. Even though he was referring to music I think it applies to more than that.

"You should just learn to like a little bit of everything. It will just make your world that much richer and larger."

We're so eager to limit ourselves sometimes. We instantly close our minds to anything that seems strange to us. We'll write off something just because we're not familiar with it. That makes our world smaller people. Much too small. There are so many good stories out there and sometimes the best or most interesting stories are only found in particular mediums because there weren't any other options that could properly tell the story.

Maybe you don't like Japanese cartoons but I promise you that I've been through emotional and intellectual roller coaster rides by watching some of the shows I've seen. Maybe you think video games are dumb, too complicated, or a waste of time but in truth, if you really examine it, video games can be the ultimate medium to entertainment* because instead of just watching and/or listening you are involved. Whether it's just you or a character you control there is something incredible waiting for the player if they will just keep going! (just please don't waste your life away playing a game that has no story to tell)

Just open your minds people and explore a world just waiting to be touched! Granted, that doesn't mean you should go watch objectionable movies, play bad video games, or listen to awful music.

*Note: Skylee brought up a good point and she's right (though I didn't understand what she meant at first). She said that plays/musicals were the ultimate medium. I agree if you are in the play/musical and you are performing and playing an active role on the stage. It doesn't get more involved than that! No video game can or ever will truly replicate that kind of an experience. Thanks Skylee!

Traits, Talents, and Characteristics...

I was talking about this the other day with Nicole, Mom and Dad and they helped me recognize that I had something worth blogging about. We were talking about the differences between Kevin and I and I've always explained that we're different for the following reason:

When Kevin and I were in the womb (being twins and such) a trait would drop down and Kevin and I would have to fight for it. Sometimes we'd tear the trait into equal parts or sometimes one would get the majority and the other got what was left. Example: One of the biggest differences between Kevin and I is how much patience we have for things. I probably took about 75% and Kevin was left with 25%. But Kevin got bigger portions of singing talent, drawing skills, and good looks. He'll argue with a couple of those but hey, I think it's true.

Yup, Kevin rocks.

Work Typos...

I type a lot of the same words over and over again at work. Here are some common typos that make me crazy and their being-made-up-by-me-on-the-spot definitions:

Mondary - The worst day of the year.

trasnferred - Transcending the term "nerfed"; to make a stronger character/item suddenly weaker than ever thought possible.

complaince - often misunderstood for a toddler saying "come play in"; to be utterly wasted and end up sitting on garbage because off constant complaining.

acconut - a rare nut to which every person and animal is allergic.

resplying - (1) trying to combine respond and reply into one word; (2) resplying occurs when one jumps out of a flying plane in order to respond to someone's message.

Stay tuned... there might be more to come!

An Interesting Observation...

So I've been going to UVU for a while now and I've noticed something very odd about the institute. First of all there are a lot of people who are absurdly good at Ping Pong. Second of all the kids who play the most are ridiculously rip. Seriously, why bother being all muscley if they're playing sports that don't require big muscles? Weird.

Some of those same guys play Pool too. If I had big muscles, I'd play football or wrestle. You know... put them to use.

Double-U Or Double-V?...

Do you write double-u's or double-v's?

uu

vv

I am definitely a double-v kind of guy when it comes to writing.

Now I Know My ABC's...

Eh. Bee. See. Dee. Ee. Eff. Gee. Eche. Eye. Jay. Kay. El. Em. En. Oh. Pee. Cue. Are. Es. Tee. You. Vee. Double-You. Ex. Why. Zee.

And thus we see that “e” is the most common letter in the alphabet.

May I Have A Word With You Time?...

For the love of Pete, Time, when I'm in a big hurry in the morning you don't have to try to keep up with me!

Thank you.

Another Curse...

Every time I eat at Subway and get a foot long the first half always tastes better than the second.

Shirt Tags...

Who thought that putting rough, hard, irritating tags on the back of shirts was a good idea?

I will so bop them on the head.

Maybe.

Or I'll just keep cutting off those kind of tags and not worry about it.

Chess The Musical...

I'm about 90% convinced that Chess the Musical was written by way of a dare. I honestly don't believe anyone likes chess so much that they would write a whole musical about it.

At least it has some cool songs, right? Right!

This Morning While Eating Breakfast...

I was eating some Raisin Bran Crunch this morning and in my head I was playing out an absolutely lame commercial where some guy was talking about how much better Raisin Bran Crunch was compared to regular Raisin Bran.

I'll let you know right now-- that commercial would be super lame.

Dreams...

So, sometimes I have pretty unique dreams and I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever had a dream:

• that you aren't even in, nor do you know anyone else
• that is essentially a movie (including an opening credits sequence) and you're just watching it
• where your subconscious instantly comes up with an entire book, movie or song that you have seen/heard before that doesn't really exist
• that has made you feel actual pain (I got shot with an arrow in a Hunger Games dream)
• where you are watching yourself (as in, you are not seeing what's going on from your own eyes).

Just curious.

Dan is Right!..

For those who read the post about "Power Up the Power Bots" I have news for you! My brother Dan made the comment that he thought it was "Power Up the Power Block" and so I looked that up on youtube and lo and behold I found this:

So I guess in the end, I was just remembering it wrong (yet better than I thought-- the melody in my head is spot on!) and at the same time dreading the fact that I still have parts of the opening to Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys memorized even though I never watched a single episode of that show in its entirety.

The Word of The Day...

The word of the day is always...

 

BAOU ZAKERUGA!!

A Best Moment of My Life...

So, this morning I had the theme song to SuperHuman Samurai Syber-Squad stuck in my head (insomuch that I looked up the intro on youtube [and I was very surprised to see that Tim Curry was the voice of Kilokahn]) and it reminded me of an event that happened back in 3rd grade that I'll never forget.

I was small and scrawny back in the day and I liked to play sports but I wasn't particularly good at any of them (meaning that I wasn't a first pick when picking teams) and the new sport that was introduced to us in 3rd grade known as Kickball was no exception. There was this one kid who was pretty popular named Colton who was always one of the team captains and so there was a time when I brought my SuperHuman Samurai Syber-Squad toys to school and he was also a huge fan so he asked to borrow them and I told him I would let him if he let me be on his team in Kickball. He said he would... and didn't.

I was obviously furious and upset. We had played this sport more than a dozen times so far so I knew his team's starting lineup preferences and where they like to kick the ball. First up was Colton, and he always kicked the ball between 1st and 2nd base. I caught it immediately and he was out and my team was pretty happy that one of the best players the other team had was already out. Next up was Jaymin and he always kicked it between 2nd and 3rd base so I changed positions and sure enough I caught it. He was also out just like that and there were some impressed fellows on my team. I can't remember who was third but I knew where he was going to kick it: a fast ball at an almost 15 degree angle towards second base. I was in the right spot, and I almost didn't catch it-- it was going so fast it hit me in the face but I caught it as it was about to hit the ground and he was out. Three outs in a row and an enormous cheer from my team.

We switched up and my team was going wild and for that day I might as well have been a celebrity-- they wanted me to go first. Colton was pitching the ball and I slammed that thing above and past every head out there and ran all the way to home base. Three outs in a row and a homerun to boot? Yup. That was a good day. I can't remember if Colton apologized but frankly I don't care because I wouldn't trade that moment for being on his crummy team anyway. The other funny thing about all this is that I can't remember the rest of that game-- only the first five minutes of awesome.

Where I Feel Empathy...

When I see something painful I feel a major surge of discomfort in my lower back.

Especially when I see little kids running across the street barefoot on a hot summer day.

Powerbots...

Every once in a while I get this little ditty stuck in my head that goes like this...

"Power up the Powerbots! Roh roh- roh roh!"

The truth is there is no such thing as Powerbots and they certainly didn't have their own late 80's early 90's cartoon on TV. And then I realized the tune to this little ditty actually came from Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys; a show I never watched but had seen the first couple of seconds to several times.

The Ongoing Yet Solved Dilemma...

I really like my hair when it's longer. The curls look really nice and I love feeling the wind blowing through my hair. But when it gets too long I can only style it in the one way that I like which is straightforward and curly-- poofy even. Should I keep growing it for another week or two? Some people tell me they really like it when my hair is long.

But I also look pretty good with short hair. Though all I ever do is the missionary part and then gently pull a towel over the top to give it an interesting crisscross texture.  Other people tell me that they really like my hair when it's shorter. It grows back fast enough so I guess it's not too bad.

Then again if I'm going to be in the General Conference Priesthood Choir I need to get a hair cut. So I guess it was time to get a haircut anyway.