The Tree of Life - Formation Scene - Part 1/3

Every time I hear this song by Zbigniew Preisner, it brings tears to my eyes, which is fitting, because the song is called "Lacrimosa" which means tearful. I've listened to other recordings of it, and for some reason the one in this scene is a lot more powerful, perhaps because of the images and rumbling sounds.

Enter Into the Mystery (The Tree of Life)

The Tree of Life is an absolutely beautiful piece of art. The cinematography and score is amazing. This is definitely not meant for entertainment purposes as those who watch it--expecting it to be entertaining-- may find it to be very confusing and boring; it is a film for deep thinkers.

Planet in sweet spot of Goldilocks zone for life | ksl.com

Planet in sweet spot of Goldilocks zone for life | ksl.com

Plaid - Upgrade (Scintilli 2011)

An opportunity.

I decided to go with my dad to his chorale program at the temple square and hear them sing. I started reading '1984' while trying not to fall asleep to the softer songs. Afterwards, we walked around the square and looked at the lights. We stopped in Deseret Book, and someone suggested we check out the Gallery stroll in the JS Memorial Building, So we did. "Why not?" said my dad. When we got there, my dad noticed the same painting that was on his chorale program listing, and we started talking to the artist, Jay Bryant Ward. After my dad was talking to him for awhile, stopping to find something out of his bag, the artist, Jay, started staring at me. I'm guessing he saw something in me--probably thanks to the beard--and eventually, he asked me if I would be interested in being a model for one of his paintings. My dad as well. Of course, we said of course. So now, my dad and I have the opportunity to be in one of his paintings. Very cool. Below is his work.

A few dreams

I remembered a dream I had a while ago. I was visiting Nick and Erin Potter. They lived in a nice little home in a long grassy surrounding and a pebble road. I was having a very difficult time asking them if I could borrow their Katamari game. Then I woke up and realized that they are not in Utah, so it would definitely be difficult to borrow that from them.

A recent dream. I saw this short green snake and I wanted to catch it, but I didn't want it to bite me, so I urged it along until it hid underneath a toppled bowl. A part of the snake was sticking out a little bit, so I pushed the bowl down to pin it, pulled the tail out and held it, then inched the bowl towards its neck. Then I grabbed a hold of its neck and picked it up. It was very strong with a strong and large head, if I didn't have a firm grip on it, it would have managed to wiggle free and bite me. But I held it very tight, and I feared I was strangling it. I said to it something like, "don't worry, I'm not going to harm you, I want to put you in a better place," and I walked outside with it to a raised cement garden box with plenty of growth in it, and set the snake down on the cement ledge. I observed as it became a lizard and it saw a flying insect, its head followed it for a split second--a moth perhaps. As the moth passed, it walked up to a plant, and became the same color as the plant. A big bright yellow monarch butterfly flew near the plant, and the lizard turned into the exact same butterfly and flew away. I followed it and witnessed it turning into a frisbee(I'm not sure). The frisbee flew to a tree and then it turned into a cat, which jumped from the tree up to a bigger tree. As it was in between the trees, it turned into an owl and flew out of site. I was in awe. A friend of mine--I'm not sure which one--saw it as well, and he tried telling people, but no one would believe him. I told them in their disbelief that it was true because I saw it change into these things and I was very serious about it. After I said something, their disbelief seemed to falter a little from the expression they gave me. This new discovery of an amazing shape-shifting creature excited me, but of course, there was no proof, just a witness.

That was all.

Wind sickness strange dream

The wind woke me up early this morning. Crazy strong wind. I felt sick with a headache, stiff neck feeling, and strange throat. Sporadic sleep with strange dreams. The first dream, I was on this street in this neighborhood which was a lot more developed than it is now. I looked up and noticed some gulls flying low. One of them was carrying a bald eagle. I thought that was strange because of the gulls webbed feet. When I thought that, the gull dropped the eagle and the eagle smashed onto the asphalt and died, the gull that was carrying it spun out of control and smashed onto to asphalt as well. I was shocked at this occurrence. I walked over to examine the birds. This family came out of their house to go somewhere. A little girl came up and asked me what it was and I told her. She said "oh," and ran off. The last dream, my sister went overboard with my parents, and my parents left. As they were leaving, I started crying and repeating, "please, don't leave me here alone to deal with this...," that was the end of the dream sequence. The first dream, is America going to fall? The last dream is actually happening right now in reality, and it hasn't stopped.

Plaid - White's Dream

I'm really going to have to see this Tekkonkinkreet movie!

Limbo Soundtrack 23 - Up and Down

This is a very disturbing, eerie, and beautiful game.

Oval - Encore

dreams

Strange dreams have been had a few nights ago. Consisting of walking the street of some city, Salt Lake Seattle perhaps, wishing I had my skateboard. I went to my parked vehicle; something was wrong with it. My skateboard was inside; I grabbed it. Zooming down the sidewalk, feeling like it was scraping against the pavement. There was a house; a girl I knew lived there with a friend. I over heard a conversation about me, and it wasn’t good. They hated me. I felt betrayed and whatever other feelings that follow that, and walked slowly to the house, crouching and leaning at the side of it, feeling worthless while I listened to the conversation. Someone came out of the house and eventually, they noticed me. I tried to be invisible without a movement. They walked up to me, and it turned out to be a younger boy. I feared he would be afraid of this shady character lingering on their house and would start screaming, but he didn’t. Instead, he recognized me and accepted me. He told me everyone missed me and urged me to come in and see the family. The house turned out to be the dwellings of a different girl I once knew, whom I recently missed dearly. They were all glad to see me, and I them. Good times and feelings were had.
I was in a big warehouse store building. We really wanted some hot cocoa. I wanted a really good cup, so I searched for the good stuff. As it was being made and looking quite disgusting, I saw a banana, and I wanted to eat it. It was the most disgustingly fibrous and tasteless banana I’ve ever had. I didn’t want to eat it, but I did anyway.

Plaid: This City (HD)

So - b (Oval + Eriko Toyoda)

An Idea

As an experiment, why doesn't the government allow complete freedom for all people? Just to see what would happen. It would most likely be complete chaos, seeing how this world is filled with different types of people who are always in conflict. Without laws and guidelines, we'd most likely destroy ourselves. To every peaceful person who lives in harmony with everyone else and their surroundings, there will always be an opposite.

Thoreau it in your brain!

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man."

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices"

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

-Henry David Thoreau