The Latest in ADD

Hello my associates. Here are some pictures of Saturday morning's homecoming festivities. Enjoy. It's kind of like Where's Waldo. We shaved off over 5 minutes from last year's time. I attribute it to not having my lungs compressed by this year's gear.

piss

lame that wouldn't let me post a picture in the comment box, well here you go, scott larsen people

I Adopted a CAT! (and other updates)

Up until this past month I have hated cats. I thought they were meant only as a tool for old ladies to achieve a sense of love and fulfillment. Then when I moved this August into a neighborhood of Boise that is littered with unwanted felines, a stocky back cat made himself comfortable with the fact that we do not have screens on our windows, thus, anything that can fit through a 2'x2' hole in the wall can come and go as pleased.
This past week the cat, Jackson, came to the door with swollen leg and an inability to walk far without having to lay down. At this point I figured it was my duty as a democrat to get this animal taken care of.

It is important to pay attention to this next part if you are interested in getting your pet free health care.

I took Jackson to the vet, where they wanted to charge me a base fee of 69 bones to have him looked at. Now I don't have $69 to just be throwing around for any injured creature that lands on my door step, so I claimed Jackson as a stray with the condition that they would look at him and then release him to the humane society where he would have an unknown fate. Luckly I discovered I had a distant connection at the humane society here so I had her watch after Jackson (make sure he was not "put down"). A few days later I rolled in to the humane society to adopt Jackson after his wounds had been stitched up, neutered, and vaccinated. Now, however, I am a cat person for the next few years (how long do cats live anyway?)
Jackson (I know he's not a baby, but he's all that I've got):
Other than that, I was walking around campus the other day and there was a club fair going on where various clubs had tables out in an attempt to recruit members. I noticed that there was an empty table available so I went to the computer lab and printed off a bunch of flyers and made a poster, then when back to the table and set up the Beard of Ages Club. I feel like I was well received, generating more interest than any of the other clubs around me. A lot of people here seem to appreciate beards except for one guy from the German club who approached me and asked me what my club was going to do to give back to the school and was saying that he hated clubs like this that are just excuses to use the school's money to fund social events (note, this is not even an official club, obviously). I ended up getting a list of names/numbers/emails of people (male and female) who are interested in beards. I'm not sure what I want to do with this now...

Also, I have ventured back into the world of being in a relationship (no, not with a dude). It is going really well. Her name is Sarah. I think you all would like her a lot. No, I don't have plans to get married any time soon. Andy shall remain lit.

Iraq

Some pics of the desert! Enjoy!

Pics of Kyler

Hey bros! Thought I would post up some pics of my son since you most of you probably haven't seen him yet? The pics are from when I was on leave in August I got some more new pics Ill be puttin up soon. Hope to see you guys in the near future! Later!

oh sh@%

guys, i figured i would tell everyone at the same time so no one is left out. i'm having a baby i don't know how it haippened its physically impossible for me to have a child, i have been abstinent but it didnt' work, i'm to young for this. if any one knows any one that wants to buy a baby let me know, if not i'm giving it to matt.

Hey Andy

Boy, and anyone else still checking this blog multiple times a day for entertainment, yet never posting anything on it yourselves,

Here are a few gems I've found as of late:

Youtube:
#1 Winner Takes Steve - a Jared Hess short made while he was at BYU.
#2 Sigur Ros's music videos for "hoppipolla" and "glosoli"
#3 Choose your own adventure web cam adventure (something to that effect, you'll see about 15 related videos of this epic saga)

Website:

pandora.com-
you type in a band you like and it creates basically a radio station/play list that is full of music related to the style of the band you selected. Genious.

Music:

Vyvienne Long-

Chellist (sp?) for Damien Rice. Go to Damien Rice's myspace page and then click on the link to her page (otherwise her music won't load for some reason). Awesome. "They're Not Waving" is a masterpiece. John Hendricks and I are working on an all-percussion rendition of her rendition of "Come together." It's gonna be sweet.

Copeland-

I just bought a cd at circuit city of copeland's besides, previously unreleased tracks, and remixes. Pretty interesting. It's growing on me and has some definite gems.

The Sego Music and Art festival will be in Provo this weekend. You should come play.

Food-

Cosco 36 count dinner rolls, Pre-sliced pepper jack cheese, juicy roast beef. Mmmm.

In other news:

As I mentioned to you, we filmed a one-shot (one continuous shot, no breaks or post production) horror film sequence in a mansion near point of the mountain. We had a pretty awesome child actor, two adult actors who got really into their roles (the guy even inserted a curse word because he thought that's how he'd really react to the situation) and the back of my head wearing the clown mask I bought in Tiajuana made it's debut. Once we have an online version I'll let you know so you can check it out.

I also filmed the mass production of phonebooks in a HUGE factory in Springville for my documentary project. That was interesting and challenging.

We are now working on pitching ideas and script writing and it is amazing how some people in the major just aren't very creative when it comes to humorous stories or adaptations of stories. It's been fun to shock some of them with our carefully crafted Idahoan perspective.

I've been playing with John Hendricks, working on some of his wrap stuff. It sounds intense through the crate base amp (keyboard/drum combo). I also picked up where I left off with the harpist and that is looking better and better. We plan to play at some open mics in the next couple of weeks to get the word out and try to impress the venue owners into letting us open for somebody. I played two weeks ago and recieved lots of positive feedback. Things are looking good musically.

Andy, please follow the above outline and inform me of your "peak experiences" (coach neil and the loons?) Also any suggestions for band names or rap identities (ex. "Spinal Crackah")

Much love,
Dusty

Squirrel Relocator

Dear associates,

I recall hearing that some of you who live/lived in Pocatello have had some strange interactions with squirrels. I found this one entertaining.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1rdqjaiPk

or just search squirrel relocator.

Hey Gang!

Just thought I would check in! I am still in Iraq and if you want to shoot me an email my address is mathoffmanrules@hotmail.com. Ill be posting some pics up soon i hope and of course catching up with you guys! Later.

Rainbow Hawk