Frustrated

As I write now I'm homeless. Not homeless in the sense that I have no where to sleep or no food to eat but in the sense that everything I own is in my car and I don't know where I will be in a month other than supposedly Las Vegas. I'm supposed to be student teaching there. I have no details about my student teaching. I don't know who my cooperating teacher is. I don't know exactly what subject I will be teaching. I don't know if I'll be teaching Junior High or High School. I don't know my address. I don't know when I'll get the money to move to Las Vegas. So yeah, the only thing that's certain in my life right now is uncertainty.

More inspirational videos...

Here are some videos that in one way or another I find inspirational, motivational or just plain feel good. Some of these involve people with disablities, some don't, some videos show amazing talent. I hope these videos make you feel better and have great day!!

This little girl will blow you away.



This kid shows that obstacles are relative. He describes his disabilities as abilities.



Here is the same kid playing Georgia by Ray Charles on the Ellen Degeneres Show. His speech is very rehearsed but I dare you to listen to him and not feel inspired and want to try harder and be better.



I can only imagine the dedication it took to become this talented.



This video helps me realize that the human race is one big family. I understand that the world has some problems that are beyond fixing by one person. But I think this guy illustrates that national political boundries mean nothing when you're part of the human family.



I don't know if there is an overall moral message to this clip. However, I do feel that it highlights human performance. This kid didn't start off with that talent. He started with a small natural inclination and took it and ran with it. We all have natural inclinations towards something. Let's find our talents and make the best of them.



As you may or may not know I have joined the Army. I ship out to basic training in January, 2009. I didn't post this video to bring any recognition to myself, as I have yet to do anything. However, I post this video to say to all there is a human side to war. Regardless of shoulds and shouldn'ts, motives or political parties those serving in the United States Military are loved by someone. They are precious and most valuable to someone. And they felt it necessary to join the Service and fight for something they believed in. So, support them in their beliefs. Support them because they are precious to someone.

Christian The Lion

I originally saw this video from this Best of Youtube podcast that I subscribe to. I recomend you look it up and get it. It has a variety of youtube videos. It has funny, dumb, amazing, and inspiring videos. This vid falls in the inspiring category. It has great background music, Aerosmith-I Don't Want To Miss A Thing and shows a reunion of loved ones. Tell me if you like it!!

Hottest Babe I Can Sit On

Here are some pictures of my new girlfriend. Ok, it's not actually my girlfriend but this fine piece of machinery will surely help me get one!

What do you think? Do you like?

Only once today...

I got online only once today. And that's this time and it will the only time today. I waste way too much time on the internet. For some reason I convinced myself that life would fall apart if I didn't check my e-mail every couple of hours. But today proved that life goes on. That was just happy news that I had. Oh, and I cleaned the house today. I deep cleaned the in the kitched and the bathroom. I should have cleaned out the fridge because it needs it really bad but I'm happy with the kitchen and bathroom.

Chinese Democracy

So........I put my facebook status to Tyler Matlock thinks this will be a great summer for the release of Chinese Democracy. I got a message from a friend of mine back home asking why I thought this summer will Chinese Democracy will be released. I told her because of the Olympics and noted focus on China this summer. She said, "Oh." I then told her I'd been waiting on that album for years. She replied surprised, "Album??" I said, "Yeah, the new Guns n Roses CD that has been supposedly ready to come out for the last 10 years or so." She thought I was referring to actual democracy in the land of China. But that did get us on the topic of China and it's government.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has held total control of the Chinese government since 1949. Therefore the Chinese government is technically a Communist one. However, since "approximately 70% of China's growth came from the private sector. The private sector was dominated by about 200 large enterprises concentrated mostly in utilities, heavy industries, and energy resources" (Wikipedia, Peoples Republic of China; accessed June 21, 2008) it is obvious that Chinese Communism is not communism in it's most marxist terms. Meaning that there is private capitalism. And according to Karl Marx, capitalism brings about class disparity. Marx was not a communist but one of communism's goals is to make everything COMMON, hence the term communism. Even capitalists can agree that capitalism brings class disparity. So Chinese communism isn't a pure communism. So what? Well if they're not that, what are they? What would you call a country whose government tells you how many children to have, where to live, what internet site you can and cannot access? If you guessed dictatorship then you are correct. With China's adoption of capitalism we can see their move towards a dictatorship. Some of the world's most reknown dictators have been capitalists ie Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The question still remains though. So what? Well this is what. When people are making enough money, the GDP of China was 3.4 Trillion dollars which is 4th in the world(Wikipedia, Economy of the People's Republic of China; accessed June 21, 2008), they don't have to worry about what they are going to eat every day. When you don't have to worry about what you're going to eat or if there is going to be work the next day you have time to worry about other things. One of the positive results of Chinese Communism is that it has reduced the poverty rate from 50.1% in 1980 to 8% in 2001(Wikipedia, Peoples Republic of China; accessed June 21, 2008). With less 10 percent of the people in the country worried about work and survival the other 90% can start worrying about other things. I think that when the general Chinese population realizes that in every other world power people can access an unsensored Google or watch a privately ran TV station or realize the violation of human rights that their country has committed, they will see the light and get rid of their dictatorship.

This is a theory that I've had for quite some time. It's ideas are not original by any means. I got the basis of the theory from my World Civilizations professor. From there I have done some research of my own just to make sure the facts were straight.

And now......FUNNY CAT PICTURES!!!

You can't force inspiration...

I was just sitting at my computer thinking about how I need to go bed and I decided I wanted to write something inspiring, thought provoking, and important. And nothing was coming. Then it came. You can't force inspiration. It just has to come. But what's odd was that I forced it. Or did it just happen to come as I happened to be trying to force it? Weird, huh?

We filmed for "Golden Climax: A Summer With Golden Climax" today. It's a parody of summer sales companies. It's funny. We're going to enter it in the BYU-I Film Festival. From what I hear, that festival is pretty lame and we are a sure to get shown. I hope so anyway, it's hilarious.

Word of the day: Celtics: Plural of Celtic. Native to Boston, prone to beating Lakers in six games. Supposedly Irish but at present are all black except for Danny Ainge, the GM.