New Jesse drawing

This is called a Reductive drawing. We covered the paper in charcoal and then erased out the parts of the statue that were lit.

Per Jason's Request

This would actually fit a CD if it was a real CD player...

Any other requests from anyone??

Per Bryan's Request :)

Spooky!

I love Halloween and I am so excited for Halloween, even though Justin and I won't really be celebrating it. I got into the Halloween spirit by decorating. Take a look:



This is a Christmas tree that got overtaken by Halloween spiders.


This is Justin's broken bike that got infested with big spiders.



These are the pumpkins that have been sitting right inside our door for about a week. Maybe we'll carve them today.

Check out our bat and ghost-infested trees. Ahh! (It's scarier at night)

I named him Todd.

This is all about guitar hero.....really!

So what has Justin been doing while Jesse builds an entire civilization with legos? He has been playing the new guitar hero game. I actually am not allowed to rent games until they have been out for two weeks, but i found a coupon, which means i found a loop hole. So i used this coupon to rent it on sunday on my regular account that i had before i started working at hollywood. I was so very excited to see that the guitar hero game works with my rock band equipment. It makes me very happy. I have enjoyed playing the game quite a bit but i do have some issues with it. First and foremost, the music on the game isn't loud enough. I have our playstation hooked up to our surround sound. When i play rock band, i can't turn it up louder than 30 or the neighbors be complainin'. One time i did turn it up to 20 and it blew my face off....it was the most awesome thing ever. But the sound on guitar hero i have to turn up to 20 and i can still barely hear it when i am playing. It drives me freaking nuts. I have even turned the volume up in the options all they way......and nothing. Whatever. The other issue i have with it, is that it is WAY easier than rock band. Even though i am a wicked awesome expert drummer on rock band, i hadn't heard of most of these songs and i thought it would be best to start on hard. Guitar hero's hard is the equivalent of rock band's medium. I am just coasting through all of the songs, it feels way too simple. So i thought, "is it possible that i am just this awesome and it really is harder than i am making it look?" The answer to this is yes and no. I walked into game crazy today (for those that aren't familiar with hollywood video they have a seperate store inside of hollywood video that is called game crazy, they do the games...it really is just what it sounds like) because they were playing the new guitar hero. Yes, these guys make like three hundred dollars a day. They go hours and hours without a customer and they just get to play video games all day....it's pretty sweet. Anyway, i have a good report with a couple of the guys that work there, and one of them is exactly like you nic! It's crazy. Same voice, same laugh, same sense of humor, it's insane. So i was talking to him and i asked him if he thought it was easier than rock band. He concurred. He said there was only one song on guitar hero that he couldn't play and there were about fifteen on rock band that he couldn't play. I can't believe i am talking on this long about guitar hero....oh well. I am a dork, i know this. So basically i just wish it was a little harder because i am awesome. Oh yeah, and i did play some songs on expert today and the jump between hard and expert is pretty flippin' extreme. It's equal to playing rock band and going from medium to expert. I don't think Guitar hero's hard really prepares you for expert at all. One thing i do like though is that you can make more mistakes in guitar hero and still pass the song. On expert in rock band if you miss like five notes you get booed off stage. It's pretty intense. That's my guitar hero story. It is still tons of crazy fun though. I just rented the are you smarter than a fifth grader game too, and apparently i am not.....four times. I will be tomorrow though. Give me video game glory or give me death.

I forgot one

It's an aerial view of a soccer field

Don't Judge

I thought I should do something useful today, but I played with legos instead


A truck


A couch with some throw pillows

A fridge, including fridge magnets

A desk (with an operational drawer), computer, keyboard, and telephone

(p.s. if anyone has any suggestions for what I should make next, please leave comments)

What did Jesse do today?

Did I cure any diseases? Did I solve any world wide problems like famine? Did I even do my homework? Uh, no, I just played with legos.

A flower box

A lamp

A shopping cart

A tv

New drawing

Okay so here is my next featured drawing. The

assignment was to draw three pairs of shoes in a pile, and one had to have laces.

The good news is BYU is going to demolish every team the rest of the way......with the exception of utah. At first this season, i honestly wasn't so sure we could beat utah. Now i think our chances are actually a lot better. Why you ask? Remember that arrogance i felt BYU was playing with that i mentioned about early september. They acted like they didn't have to play to win these games and that they were just going to because they were the better team. Well, that caught up to them last thursday, and now we have angry cougars on the prowl looking for revenge, and it is going to get taken out on everybody. But now i think, rather i know that they know they are beatable. I believe it's woken them up and there will be a little more work put in. Go cougars.

Today was day number ten on the quest to beat fallout boy......no such luck. I was also in a very bad mood so i went to Hollywood and rented a game where i just get to run around and shoot the crap out of people, and arrest people, and deal drugs. This is just what i needed. I am not much of a "gamer" when it comes to anything other than sports games or rock band, but this was thoroughly entertaining. We had a midnight release on monday for a game called Fable 2 for the x-box 360. You should have seen all the dorks that showed up. It was a genuine geek fest. Yet, i found myself kinda wishing that i was a gamer geek like the rest of the losers that were standing in front of me. Sometimes sitting around playing these fantasy games with swords and whatnot for hours on end and peeing in your empty soda bottles because you can't leave the room because you have to see what orkachai your friends avatar is going to have to battle next. I am a little jealous of their lack of ambition.

I really like getting free movies from work. It makes me happy.

I can't wait for thanksgiving. It's a real holiday unlike this christopher colombus "hey i am a raper, murderer, and pillager of all you innocent people," crap.....i just love turkey stuffed inside my rolls.

Boo!!!

Our blog looks like Halloween!

Don't call me Keith Moon.....yet

Oh rock band. How thou puzzles me? How i curse thee! Today is day number nine on the stupid fall out boy song on expert. I have come to believe this song is impossible. I don't mean impossible for me, i mean impossible for everybody. I am not going to lie, i am pretty dang good at playing my fake drums, and i rock the crap out of expert.....however i cannot get to the final set list or two because of this blasted song. Stupid fast, unorganized, melodically empty punk music. I have played and rocked all the other songs so i have to pass this stupid one. I have passed every song on expert the very first time i played it, except for two. One took a couple tries and the other one took me a day. I am too good for fall out boy. Maybe that's my problem. I now begin day 9!!!!!!

I am Batman

THE DARK KNIGHT IS ON DVD DEC. 9TH!!!!! ONLY 53 DAYS AWAY!!!!!!!

Mark it on your calendars

Since i have been so accurate in my predicting abilities lately, i have decided to try my hand at predicting the future. I am pretty sure this is all of what i see, here goes:

Oct. 19th 2008-byu falls drastically in rankings, #22 to be exact
Nov. 4th 2008-Barack Obama and Joe Biden are named the champions.....rather president and vice president. Definitely not that same thing.
Nov. 5th 2008-Obama and Biden pull of their faces (masks) to reveal they are really Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons
2009-Recession becomes real serious....and bush finally admits it
2010-Recession becomes depression
2010-I am out of a job, Hollywood video closed down. Now where will i get paid seven dollars an hour?!
2010-Millions of homes foreclosed
2010-Kang assassinated
2010-Wal Mart buys the White House, turns it into a Sam's club
January 4th 2011-TRL is un-cancelled to boost the morale of the country.
January 5th 2011-Sudden and coincidental spike in suicide rates. Highest in country's history.
January 6th 2011-TRL cancelled
2011-Witnessing the crumbled state of America, a terrorist attack is made again on u.s. soil. It may or may not involve dolphins.
2011-I rally the country together william wallace style and change truly begins.
2011-Me rallying the country together was just a delusion being suffered from malnutrition and starvation.
2011-I die from starvation. Haha, take that student loans!
2011-My wish to be stuffed and mounted and always by the side of Jesse to prevent her from ever remarrying, is challenged but upheld by the supreme court...which consists of a chihuahua and a hamster.
March 29th 2012-Rolling stones final final farewell tour
March 29th 2012-Breaking news: Nobody cares.....still
November 2012-Konos re-elected. It was a landslide, all eleven people voted for him.
2015-The U.S. economy really starts to turn around....finally
2017-Spam said to be most popular and favorite food of americans.
2021-The end of the world. Also known as something else to christians but it feels so wrong typing it, so i won't. This is where you learn the truth jews.....and everybody else. Not hating.

Here I am

I decided I should only write about what I know from now on. So, here I am. Although I've always loved Alfred Hitchcock and his movies, whenever I see another one, his genius surprises and greatly pleases me. So, last night Justin and I watched "Rope" and I would highly suggest it to everyone. Go get this movie and watch it. It's subtle and powerful and intriguing and it'll make you wonder at the fact that Hitchcock never won an Oscar for Directing. Oh, and the acting is superb.

Jesse

The "T" word and me, and some other stuff

So i was sitting in my criminal justice class last friday and professor said that he doesn't believe there should be any "radicals" because they all become terrorists. At first this got me to thinking, "what kind of a statement is that?" But then i got passed the idiocy of the comment and thought to myself, "am i an emotional terrorist?" Does my body harbor the Al-Queda of personalities? Everybody that knows me knows that my feelings, beliefs, behaviors, and opinions are very extreme and "radical." I tend to express my opinion very aggresively. Is this my personality airplane flying in to others twin towers, to beat them down so i can come out the victor? I do always think i am great and right, and everybody's elses opinions are those of infidels.....Do i have a terroristic personality? I think this might be true.

This post is going to be flagged by the CIA for sure, because i use the words Al-Queda, terrorist, infidel, and personality. Then they are going to be subscribers to our blog because it is awesome. CIA welcome, no FBI allowed.

I also have this burning desire to play the ukelele. I don't know if that's how it's spelled and i don't care to look it up so we will pretend that that's right. I am also not big on punctuation. Hate it. I really do though. It sounds so cool, and it's so little. You can rock a ukelele. Well you can't but i can, you stealer of my idea....well i can't actually either but i wish i could. Just listen to losing my religion, that song rocks the uke. And then there is the one song played by the one hawaiian guy. In that song it sounds beautiful. See, the ukelele is so diverse and awesome. Those two qualities definitely mean that it was made for me.

Question: Can BYU beat tcu? Fact: They will.......not. Can they? Yes. Will they? I really don't think so. I am a very rotund fan of the "Y" but it is official, i have lost faith. They have so many talented players on offense, why don't they play like they are good? I think TCU's defense is going to shut them down, and they are going to run all over us, like everybody else can. I also think poo-tah will beat us. I made that up just now. I love me. Honestly, they look like a better team right now. I don't know if we just think we are going to win all these games so we just aren't showing up to play or what, but that is not a good approach. We are not entitled to a bcs game, we have to earn it. Right now, i don't think we stand a chance against anybody above us, but i do think we could beat any team below us, with the exception of mizzou. Polls are poo too. Defense looks soft, offense looks absent. Not sure, but i think tcu is going to wake us up. Hopefully we still come out with a victory, but my prediction: 16-10 TCU.

Post script: CIA if you read this could you get Jack Bauer's autograph for me. That would be sweet.

Post Post script: My "good stuff" doesn't hurt anymore, so that's good.

New Polls?

I didn't do a good job at all with predicting this weeks games, so let's try my hand at the polls. My prediction for tomorrow:

1-Alabama
2-Texas
3-Penn St.
4-USC
5-Florida
6-Texas Tech
7-BYU
8-Oklahoma
9-Georgia
10-Ohio St.

I have changed this forty times because i really have no idea what is going to happen. This is my best guess though. However i am putting byu ahead of oklahoma and i am not so sure that is going to happen.

Jesse's Drawings

I decided to start sharing the drawings I'm most proud of from my Beginning Drawing class. This first one is an assignment where I had to draw at least 8 things that describe my personality.

(an easel, a volleyball, hiking boots, my camera, a stack of movies, my bass guitar, my i-pod, and a buddha statue that Justin and I got on our honeymoon)

Ignorance is bliss

Paint that smile back on my face, but not one like the jokers. I don't want to walk around looking creepy all day. But if anybody is looking to see anymore politics discussed on this page you will be looking for a long long time. There will be no more talk about politics on this page. I have banned it, just as i have banned it from my home. The news is no longer viewed here either. Hey has anybody tried to see what would happen to the morale of the country if we reported mainly good things?! Crazy thinking i know. No more in my life will i talk politics. Why? Because they are all liars, crooks, and you can never believe a thing that comes out of their mouths. I can't name one honest politician....i don't think he exists. People say that you can't ignore politics because they are in your everyday life and you need to know what's going on because it will always effect you. Watch me. I choose to be happy and unfortunately politics won't allow that.

Earth to experts, AUBURN IS TERRIBLE!!!

Since I did so well last week with predicting the polls i am going to give it a shot again. Unlike last week there weren't many upsets today but i think there will be one change that i don't like but it's gonna happen. This is my prediction of what tommorow's polls will look like:

1-Oklahoma (and rightfully so. They look like the best team in the country right now.)
2-Alabama (People think they should drop because they barely beat Kentucky...that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Remember how kentucky was undefeated....?)
3-Missouri (They are going to get the benefit of LSU's bye week. Out of sight out of mind..right?)
4-LSU (Yeah bye weeks USED to be good things)
5- Texas (Although i am still not impressed. I think the five teams behind them are all better.)
6- Penn St. (Great team, should be number five.)
7-Texas Tech (Not a fluke, should be ranked above Texas. I think they will beat them this year.)
8-USC (Yup. With the Y's very unflattering win over the pathetic aggies and the Trojans spanking of the ducks, they get the usc treatment here.)
9-BYU (I don't think they should drop in the polls but then again they need to play every game to prove they aren't overrated. I also wouldn't doubt if Florida is in this spot tomorrow.)
10-Florida (Yeah they get the SEC treatment and get to move up because Georgia didn't play. Those dang bye weeks again. Like i said, i won't be surprised if they are switched with byu tomorrow.

Really?!

Thirty four points??? Twenty seven offensively???? Really??? I don't know if it's just playing down to the competition but the fact that you can't punch the ball into the endzone that many times is pretty dang ridiculous. Max Hall, kiss your heisman hopes goodbye. And giving up fourteen points........i don't know....whatever. Maybe they just didn't play all that well because they knew they were going to kill them so they didn't play all that hard. Either way i wanted to see a spanking and i didn't get to. And that makes justin angry. Justin angry! Justin smash!!!!

September Tally

So the results are in and we watched 38 movies in the month of September. That is not counting tv series discs. If we count those we watched a total of 55 dvd's in the month of September. Truthfully, this is probably the month that we have watched the least amount of movies since i started working at Hollywood. I am pleased with us.