Weekend Trip to Brianhead

Avenge Me Boys!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooy0GFMYafY#watch-main-area




I feel it my duty to "avenge" Patrick Swayze. After his passing I was driving down the road and the radio announcer said the man who stared in the great chick-flicks of all time had died. So maybe Dirty Dancing and Ghost are packed full of estrogen infused plots (we all do things we are not proud of), but neither of these movies hold a candle to his greatest work Red Dawn. If you have not seen it, please for the love of all things holy stop reading this blog and go rent it. This movie is every 14 year old boys dream come true; so much so that when my wife asked me about why I was getting another gun my only answer was, "what happens if the Cubans and Russians invade eastern Colorado." Not only does this movie pull at my adolescent hart strings, but while I played in Cinnamon Brown and the Eskimos we kept a copy of the movie in the band equipment at all times and as a band watched it evey night before we went into the studio to record. So Patrick thanks for your contribution to humanity! Wolverines!!!!!!!!!

P-Funk And The Comming of Age

This a ruff post for me because I hate to mock what I love, but here I go. So there I was super excited about getting down to some supergroovealisticprostafunkstakation hot buttered funk produced by George Clinton and the P-Funk, and ended up with the realization that these boys are doing it now for crack money. I am fairly certain that the Mothership has left these guys here, due to their current lack of intergalactic funksmanship. OK so it was not all bad, but very reminiscent of the blue jelly bean that you think is going to be blue berry goodness and ends up being the kiss of death black liquorish one (a candy made during the great depression in order to make everyone realize they were suffering together.) So after about 40 mins we decided to pack it in. While walking out I had to ask myself the question,"would the 18 year old version of me be super disappointed I was leaving, or impressed that the 33 year old version of myself was at a P-Funk show?"

The 4th, Duck Creek, and Downhill

The drop I did not do
Sienna getting down to the Monkey band

Pup and I going up the lift

Sienna saying her goodbyes

Big Hike

Duck Creek

The Ladies

The family spent the weekend of the 4th up in Duck Creek, UT. Big thanks to Pup and Nicole for letting us come up and spend the weekend at the Cabin. We did some great hikes and saw some wildlife. It was great to get out of the heat and spend some time in the mountains. Pup and I took the lifts at Brian Head and did some serious down hill. The pucker factor was really high but I only went down once. I did tell Pup I had my camera and would be willing to take any pictures of him launching off any of the ramps or riding the planks but he declined (weak).

Wilco

The new Wilco album came out today and it is worth every red cent it may cost to buy!!!!!! They are one of the few bands out there that I pretty much make a paper chain and tear off one link a day until their new records come out. This one self titled "Wilco" does not disappoint. They are so good at keeping their music fresh and interesting. Happened to see them in concert about a week ago and it was nothing short of amazing. If you have not had the chance to enjoy Wilco, I highly recommend it. Here is a link to their site http://www.wilcoweb.com/index.php they usally have live concerts posted under the roadcase section.

Iowa and the big 15 year

The Motherland Welcomes Back its Prodigal Son
Dig The Green

GHS Class on 94

Always Good to Blame Your Work On Someone Else

Sometime around 3 AM

Altogether Way to Much Fun

This past weekend I did a marathon trip to the Motherland of Iowa for my 15 year reunion and had an amazing and Juvenal good time. When you graduate with around 50 kids and being that there was only about a 10 person personel change from K-12 you have some serious roots with all those folks. It was great to see everyone and see how good everyone is doing. That is with exection to our buddy who decided to go boating. We thought we would say we missed him in our own special way. As the sun came up on Jason's porch on Sunday morning it was time to say goodby. Great times, and sorry to all of you I was not able to see (my next trip will be longer then a day and a half). So much has changed and so much has stayed the same....... I think I still fit somwhere in the mix.

Married, have a child, and now I've seen the Allman Brothers Band (it's offically ok for me to die)

For the big 33 bday the lady friend got us tickets to go see hands down the best touring rock and roll band out there the Allman Brothers Band. I have loved them for the first time I heard "Whipping Post" at Jim's house when we were in 8th grade. This was their last big tour and it was a check on my things to do before I die list. Great show, and by the way Greg Allman is way to cool to have ever hooked up with Cher.