Flickr

I have been getting back into photography lately and so I've been updating my flickr page. I'm still working on adding more. If you want to check it out, there's a link on the sidebar. Oh, and I also wanted to say that none of my photos are cleaned up, edited, or photoshopped in any way. They are what they are.

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day Justin and I went to the Valentine's Day Gala at SUU. It was a great night. The school just barely emailed us the pictures from it. They took two, the first one Justin and I both had strange pained looks on our faces. The second one turned out better, but it's a very weird photo. It barely looks like we're in the picture. So the first one is the one they sent us and the second one is a cropped version so you can actually see us. Ain't we cute.

Note

I think I forgot to tell everyone that we made it so that when Justin or I post anything, it says who posted it at the bottom. Now you won't have to wonder who is posting what. See, down there it says this is Jesse posting this. Yea.

I was in the Right place at the Right time, too

Today I walked home from work because I wanted to take pictures for this project I'm working on. I was taking a picture of a pink flower in someone's yard...and I was in the right place at the right time to capture this:

It was the biggest and best butterfly I've ever seen in real life. I love summer!

Right Place At the Right Time

I know that title probably sounds like something awesome really happened, well it did, but for other people not so much. Anyway, it was awesome for me. I really love live music, there is almost nothing better in this entire world, and in the last week I was awesome enough to see the decemberists on Jay Leno and The National on Jimmy Fallon's retarded show. I just saw the decemberists about ten minutes ago and they proved once again that they are the most original and entertaining band on this planet. Their performance was absolutely electric. I could feel it through the tv. It was awesome. The National's performance was good but the vocals needed to be louder, I was a little disappointed with that. Now you are probably thinking, "Well seeing it on TV isn't exactly live music now is it?" Well, if you are thinking that I just crotch kicked you because it is live enough for me. Leaving here in the middle of crap nowhere that is as live as it gets. Anyway, with the decemberists Jesse and I were watching a show and then we turned it off and I was just changing through our entire channel listing (all four of them) and I was going passed Jay Leno but in the split second it was on that channel I thought I heard him say decemberists. So I watched the rest of the show and sure enough he did. And with The National, for whatever reason it was on Jimmy Fallon's show but I wasn't watching it because I was sitting at our desk listening to music with my big headphones on and in between two songs I heard him say The National. It was great. What a good week for me.

More Wonderful Music

So Jesse has been going through the stuff that we have in boxes these past couple of days and she discovered a car cd holder thingy that had some burned cd's in it. One of them contained a mix that I had made in 2005 and I was very curious as to what was on it. Well, there is some freaking good stuff on there, but this song I totally forgot about. This song is called Winning a Battle, Losing the War by Kings of Convenience. This is the only song of theirs that I like but I think this song is brilliant. It's so calm and relaxing and sad. But man o man is it good. So I went on to youtube, like I always do, to see if there was a video of it. Not only did I find a video but I found something cooler than a stupid music video. I found a live performance, and it is awesome. So enjoy this.

Take Movie Night

Tonight Justin and I had a "take" movie night which basically means we watched two movies with "take" in the title. It was a thing. First we watched "Taken" and then "Taking Lives." And, actually, it's funny because we didn't plan it at all, but the two movies ended up having similarities beyond the title in common. They both took place in French-speaking countries: "Taken" took place in France and "Taking Lives" took place in Canada, specifically Montreal. And both movies had references to the band U2. Weird. "Taken" stars Liam Neeson. It was highly recommended to us by many people. I enjoyed it, thought it was thoroughly entertaining. I am a huge fan of Liam Neeson. "Taking Lives" is one of our Paul Dano movies and I thought I would kind of review them as we watch them, as well as Dano's performance, just for fun.

Rated: R

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands

Notice that I didn't even list Paul Dano as one of the stars of this movie. The reason being that Paul Dano appears in, at the most, 5 minutes of the movie. Even so, I was completely impressed with his performance. Comparing his 3 performances I've seen, I almost can't believe it's the same actor. I've very excited to see more Dano movies, even if he is in only 5 minutes.