2 years later...

Well, I guess there's one thing that you can say about me; I'm not much of a blogger. Personally, I find it time consuming and boring, and also because I feel like no one really cares about what I have to say, but thought I might give it another shot. It might feel different for me this time around, I guess we'll find out.

Seeing as my last post was about two years ago, I have found myself getting more depressed with where my personal goals haven't taken me. I have only myself to blame because I become too content with stability and really hate change and because I'm also a little lazy. I hope for things instead of actively pursuing them, because pursuing them means I have to make an effort to put myself in a situation that I'm afraid I'll become uncomfortable with or facing some kind of rejection. I feel like George McFly - "I just don't think that I can take that kind of rejection." I am trying to push through this though. Lately, I'd say that I've been doing pretty well. I enrolled in an acting course last fall and even did a play for a co-worker for his college theater class. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed that I put myself out there like that. I'm a very closed person and am slow to allow others to get to know me. I returned this spring to the acting course and have enjoyed it greatly. My wife keeps telling me that I don't give myself enough credit. She's probably more right than I'm willing to admit.

I can't make any promises on how often I'll be adding posts, but as I mentioned above, only time will really tell with this. However, I do feel that it may be good for me and may act as another method of putting myself out there and breaking out from my safe, stable little world that I create for myself.

Ummm.....

Well, I know it's been a while since my last post. I can't say that I've really been too busy, but you know, being married and having a ten month old who has discovered how to crawl faster then the Flash can take up a bit up of your time. :P

There's not really anything new happening on the home front, just sitting in my living room with the family and watching 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.' It makes me think of my own movies that I'm currently working on. It's been a while since I have really sat down and focused on them and I really need to. I'm pretty proud of the progress that I've made on one of them so far but I hate that damn writer's block! hehehe. One day I'll get it all figured out. It's all just a work in progress at the moment, but hey, I guess you have to begin somewhere, right?

Lately I've also been feeling very nostalgic. I can't really explain why, but it does have something do with Coheed and Cambria. Whenever I really get to thinking about their music or shows that I've been too, it makes me think of the good times that I've spent with friends attending those concerts or the times that I've met the members from the band. I was watching the Neverender documentary the other day and it made me think back to the time that I saw them at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas last summer. I went with a good group of friends and the day of the show we waited all day, literally, by the pool, watching them practice and get the stage set up for the show that night. We talked to Mic quite a bit that day and that was the fourth or fifth time that I had met him. He remembered us as 'The Cake Guys' (we gave Claudio a birthday cake a few months before when we saw their accoustic show in SLC while they were on tour with Linkin Park). He told us that he enjoyed the cake! lol. Chris talked to us for about an hour and half or so, he was cracking jokes and his girlfriend, Jo, was so impressed by the group of guys that were sitting poolside, all wearing black Coheed shirts in the sweltering Vegas heat, waiting all those hours for their favorite band to perform. We also met Wes, the keyboardist that travels with Coheed on tour, and I have to say he is an incredible guy. He just sat there and hung out with us for about 2 hours. Wes was telling us about how he got started playing with Coheed and how he really enjoys the group and how they brought him in and treated him like family pretty much right from the get go. He invited us to come back to the bus afterwards and said that he'll give us some of his own solo material and he'd see what he could do about us meeting Claudio (he was attending San Diego Comic Con that day, promoting Kill-Audio and Evil Ink). The show was intense, probably the most intense Coheed show that I've ever been too, and so far that's 10 and counting. It actually got so crazy that I had an asthma attack and had to see the on site paramedics and get hooked up to an oxygen tank. I missed most of the show and I really felt bummed out. I love seeing this band play. There is no one else like them, that can play with the passion, the intensity, and the skill that they have. Furthermore, they really do love their fans. I do wish that they were coming to Utah sometime this year. I know that they really aren't doing any headlining tours this year, and I know that they are kind of taking a break, by being openers for other bands or performing at a few major festivals, but damn! I don't have any money to travel to other states at the moment and I just hope that they will find a band that they can tour with who will roll through Utah.

Anyway, I guess I'm done with my rant. Until next time.....

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Well, here it is, two weeks into a new month and my first post for it. Nothing really exciting has happened to me since my last post. I'm another year older and still wishing that I was in the career that I want to be in. I have had some spare time to work on my scripts lately, and hopefully with some more motivation, and a lot of luck, I'll finish them this year, at least that's the plan. After that.... well, I'll just have to deal with it when I get there. I did win a PS3 on the 1st of April at a work raffle. I didn't think it was true, it being April Fool's and all and the fact that I never win anything. In one of my earlier posts I mention how much time I wasted sitting in front of the television, letting time just slip by when I could be doing something more constructive. Well, I've been put back on that boat again. Damn you, Sony!! And damn Rockstar too!! I have a love/hate relationship with GTA4. At least this time around I'm more aware of how I spend my time, but I still feel like I should have just sold the PS3 and done something better with the money. Oh well, I'm too attached to it now. I'll just write it off to me needing a new dvd player. That makes me feel less guilty about owning it. :P

On a different note, my wife and I did find a new apartment to move into. It's actually the same location we lived before, just a different apartment. I'm really looking forward to moving and having space again. We're both really starting to feel suffocated with where we're at. Jairus needs the room too. He's starting to crawl a little more and there really isn't anywhere for him to go with our current location. We start moving out this week and that's pretty much the only thing that I keep thinking about.

NEVERENDER!!

Well, I really don't know why it took me this long to get around to writing about Neverender, seeing as how tomorrow I will have had it for a week, the only thing I can say is that it's been a busy week. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I freaking love my Neverender boxed set. I'm in the book (I'M A CHILD OF THE FENCE!!! YAY FOR ME!!), I have the signed Certificate of Authenticity by Coheed and Cambria, # 2659, I love watching the dvds, and I listen to live cd's every day. Mic, Travis, Chris, and Claudio -- you are the greatest band to have ever graced God's green earth. You guys truly are amazing and I love how you care so much about your fans. I've met you all a few times, my friends and I kind of hung out with Wes, Mic and Chris (Chris's girlfriend took a picture with us) at the Hard Rock show last July in Vegas. Last year we gave Claudio a birthday cake and this year we gave him a Plo Koon mighty mugg (lol, I know, we're dorks), I've traveled to Nevada, California, and Arizona to see you in concert. I know that some may say that's not a big thing, I know that other fans have traveled father than I have, even outside the country, and trust me, if I could go to Puerto Rico, I would. I guess I'm just saying that you guys are always worth traveling to see and I have never been dissapointed. Anyway, aside from sounding completely obesses and stalkerish now, and I really doubt that any of you will ever read this, but I just wanted to say thank you for all that you do for your fans!!

Return of the Muggs

Well, I'm back and I'm starting to feel that this is developing into a blog mainly about Mighty Muggs...... oh well! So, anyway, yesterday we received our shipment of Marvel wave 6 (Cyclops, Phoenix, Logan, and Sabretooth), Anakin Skywalker, Human Torch and the exclusives of Shadow Stormtrooper, Admiral Ackbar, Thanos and Red Skull. When I checked the mail today I was happy to see that we had received Han Solo and Luke Skywalker (Bespin version). Now that we have received most of our orders (still waiting for Dr. Henry Jones to come from the land down under) our collection is nearing completion. We just need to get Yoda and Princess Leia to finish Star Wars, Venom, Thor, Peter Parker and Iron Man (movie version) and the Marvel line is done. Once those are taken care of, it's the pre-orders for waves 8 and 9 for Star Wars and then wave 2 for Transformers. Needless, to say, it's been fun Mugg 'hunting' the local stores and it's pretty cool to see how big our collection has grown in such a short time. Hopefully when we get out of the dungeon that we're living in, which should be soon, I'll be able to get a picture up of our mighty collection..... pun intended :)

On a different note I have been trying to work on my script lately and in doing so I find my mind wandering to a few dark corners here and there and coming up with ideas for something new. I have had a desire the last little while to develop a sci-fi/fantasy idea, something that will really let my imagination go wild, break some boundries that may have been set up. I've been feeling the push to just go crazy with something and I hope that I can get there as I love to be creative and create something new, something that no one else has thought of. It's kind of a nice escape from the grim 'day-to-day' that we live in. I found some inspiration today by browsing through Greg Simkins' paintings gallery. If you want to see more of what I'm talking about visit imscared.com and you'll see some incredible stuff. Greg has long been my favorite artist and one of the things that intrigues me the most about him is how his mind interprets things. His paintings are so full of some of the most outrageous things that a person could possibly imagine. I don't know how else to put it really, you should just look for yourself if you haven't already.

The Muggpire Strikes Back....

So, if you read my last post you will know that Mighty Muggs are pretty much an obsession that my wife and I are currently dealing with. Just an update for those of you who care.... Darth Vader and Boba Fett have now decided to grace us with their presence and have joined our collection.

After about 8 hours of searching and12 stores ranging from Target to Wal-Mart to Kmart to Toys R Us, we finally found them. What a great day! This puts our collection to a grand total of 73 (we ordered Anakin Skywalker, Human Torch, both versions of Captain America, and Marvel Wave 6 --Logan, Sabretooth, Cyclops, and Phoenix-- two days ago).

I also just realized something else... I must either be a huge nerd or I have nothing else to write about, so I chose to write about my ever expanding Mighty Muggs collection.

Well, maybe my next post will actually contain some information worthwhile.

It's a Mugg eat Mugg world out there....

First, let me just say that I know it's been a while, but when you're working two jobs, have a seven month old son, and only one computer which my wife uses for her work, it's a bit hard to post in a more timely manner. We shouldn't have anymore problems with the one computer thing anymore though, I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and so far I'm pretty impressed by the lil guy!

Anyway, moving on to the main point of this post. I know this may seem irrelevant to some of you, but for any of you that collect Mighty Muggs, those little bastards sure can be addicting. It's no joke either. My wife and I have been collecting them for probably close to a month and a half or two months and so far I'm pretty damn proud of our collection. I made a run to five stores today, three of which proved fruitful. We have now added Soundwave, Megatron, and Optimus Prime from Tranformers, Baroness from G.I. Joe, Jango Fett, Stormtrooper, and Mace Windu (we already had one, but the box was pretty battered) from Star Wars. This puts our collection at a grand total of 63!! Like I said, I'm pretty damn proud! Now, if we can just get our hands on the first version of Darth Vader, Yoda, General Grievous, Thor and the ever elusive Venom....

Until next time my friends.