At the end of April I moved into the Lanai condo complex in Provo. It has been a nice place to live and I enjoy it very much. Although my bedroom is small, how it’s arranged is very similar to how my old bedroom was arranged (bed, window, doors) back at home. Whenever I awake from a night of sleep I am completely disoriented. I feel like I’m in my old bedroom lying on my old bed. It’s such a weird feeling when I realize that it’s been over 2 years since I’ve slept in that bed and I’m in Provo now. Even more interesting is that I’m always let down when I realize I’m not at my house. I just want to close my eyes, wait for 10 seconds, open them and be in my old room, living the way I used to.
Since I’ve lived in Provo I’ve never had this happen with all of the places that I’ve lived (4 now). And usually whenever I make a visit home to Kaysville, if I’m there for more than one night I get very homesick for Provo and all of my friends whom I love dearly. I don’t understand where this change of thought has come from. I’m the type of person who embraces change and new experiences.
About a year ago my parents moved into the new house that they built. It’s a very grand structure but lacks a bedroom for me because I’ve never lived there. I am definitely attached to the new house as my family lives there and we’ve had numerous spectacular occasions, but I don’t think anything will ever replace the comfort and feeling of being in my old room.
I took The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People course from UVSC last semester. It ended up being my hardest class but in return was also my most rewarding. For our end of semester project we had to present something to the class for 8-10 minutes. It could be about anything as long as it somehow related to something we learned. This is my project that I made—an 8 minute video of my band, The Market, talking about synergy while playing a show at Eastern Wyoming College in April.
April was the month of concerts and shows for me. Pretty much one a week for the month. April 4 was MAE and The Honorary Title at The Avalon in Salt Lake. The Market has played there twice now so it was especially exciting for me to see touring bands play on the same stage.
We showed up in the middle of Between the Trees. I had never heard of them but was very impressed; so much so that I bought their CD. Very good music. They remind me of Gratitude (now with new singer called Attention). After them was The Honorary Title of whom I’d seen before with Straylight Run a few years ago at Club Sound. Their set was incredible. They totally put off the mellow low-key vibe that makes you want to sit and enjoy rather than rock out vilolently. I bought their new CD as well.
Last was MAE. This was my 5th time seeing them live and it was nothing short of amazing. They played for over an hour non-stop of mainly their old stuff. A few months ago when I saw them with Motion City Soundtrack they played mostly their new stuff so it was a good change up for their set. Spencer and I moshed our way to the front and center of the floor once they started playing. The crowd was primarily high school kids so it wasn’t hard for us to push them aside and regulate.
At the end of MAE’s set Spencer jumped to the ground when a pick went flying down. He single handedly beat 5 kids away as he rolled on the concrete floor grabbing it. I noticed one sitting in a crack, so I bent over and picked (no pun intended) it up. As I stood up this guy was like, “Hey, I’ll give you $15 for that… that’s Zach’s pick. Come on dude…” I ignored him because I wanted to show Spencer that I got one too.
April 14 was Jimmy Eat World and Paramore at the McKay Events Center. I went with Brandon and met my friend Mashila there. I had VIP tickets thanks to Austin, so Shila and I were able to sit in the balcony and have free Costa Vida for dinner. We went back and forth from the balcony to the floor throughout the show.
Paramore played 2nd and it was my 2nd time seeing them; the last time was at Warped Tour ‘07. They were so awesome. They had so much energy and worked the crowd really well. It was a shorter set than I expected but still very enjoyable. Jimmy was so good; my 3rd time seeing them. The last time I saw them was at X96’s Big Ass Show in October at the Salt Palace. Jimmy’s set overlapped with The Market’s set so I only saw them for a few mintues until I had to play on the Live and Local Stage. For this show Jimmy played for over an hour and a half. My favorite songs were Hear You Me and Futures. They played songs from all of their CD’s which was even more enjoyable; it gave everyone the full Jimmy experience.
In my geography class a few years ago we learned how ancient civilizations began. Through studying the various times of history we learned what the essentials were for establishing a successful society that would withstand the outer forces who saw it fit to collapse the new empire. First and foremost a city needed to build an infrastructure. It needed to connect all of its many parts together with roads, clearing the way for transportation and movement. The roads connected each town together and allowed for the flow of information and the transferring of goods. Like the ancient civilizations, I believe this very concept of infrastructure and connecting information is just as important as before.
The internet is held together by search engines. These search engines catalog and connect all of the web’s content by making it easily and readily available to discover. Search engines find information with spiders that constantly crawl all of the links/references they find on the internet, looking for new content to populate their databases. The internet as we know it today is so successful because of how connected it is with search engines and their archived data.
When we want to find something we search. We are searching for content that has been input by someone or something prior to our search. The only way we can ensure that this will always work with the constantly changing technological world is if we as people continue to give the internet additional information that can be indexed by linking sites and referencing quotes and ideas.
This blog will serve as a few purposes for me. Mainly it will be to record my daily events and happenings, making it easy to share them with my friends and family what I’m doing. Another reason will be to share my interests, likes and dislikes, along with my opinion and viewpoint for whatever is on my mind. The other reason will be to connect the content of the internet together by composing my findings and solutions. By linking to my sources and citing my references to a problem solved, I can help build the ultimate infrastructure of knowledge.
