Surviving the Wasatch Savages: Establish your opions.

Live for yourself. Understand what you want. You can't satisfy your needs as a person without understanding what you want to begin with. Ultimately your decision is the one that counts. Understand that. What do you do when you want to buy a car? Typically, you test drive a few and pick the one you liked most. Well if you want to be religious, where's the harm in checking out what many different religions have to offer and then deciding which direction you'd like to take your spirituality in. There is no harm in that. So before you dedicate yourself to something, ask yourself. "Do I really want this?" or "Is this really for me?" I established my opinion about religion around 8th grade, and stopped going to church. I was happy, even happier than before actually. I knew church wasn't something for me so I didn't make any attempts to go. It's pretty easy to do. Step 1: Press snooze on Sunday morning. Step 2: Sleep in. Boom, roasted. My result from the all too nosy neighborhoodlems wasn't as pleasant as the few extra hours of sleep I got were. Sometimes opinions don't mix, and in this case it was like oil and water (shout out to BP). No, my dear neighbors, I didn't start selling drugs or binge drinking, although I was pretty impressed by your theories. I was just an 8th grader who realized religion wasn't something I wanted. The fact is sometimes opinions will clash, but at least in that case you know you have one. It doesn't matter who you are, if you aren't establishing your own opinions, you may as well not even have one. Understand what you want in your life. An opinion is a powerful thing. Have some conviction and be decisive. It will help you.

Today's Track: Nneka - Heartbeat

Can you feel?

POWER.

Surviving the Wasatch Savages: Introduction

Introduction

When placed in an environment of people who could very well be mistaken for robots built in the same factory, with the same parts, set to the same default factory settings, how does one adapt and essentially survive? This is my guide on how to survive the Wasatch Savages. Growing up in an area so strongly based upon religion has its benefits along with its drawbacks. It gives you a nice sense of group acceptance basically from the minute you've left the womb. However, it's hard to understand yourself as an individual while you're being lost in the ocean of expectations you've inherited from your peers and family members. Having such expectations placed in front of you can either make you buckle and become one of the robots, or how about we just call them drones? Deal. Or it could help you really understand who you are as an individual. It can make you just become regular, typical almost. It can also help you find what you really want for yourself. You're young, you're supposed to be selfish that way. So, growing up in an area influenced largely by religion has allowed me to really understand what and who I don't want in my life. When I started making decisions on my own I realized there's more to life than white button-ups and neck ties on Sunday mornings. So if you're going through what I went through, here are some things that I hope can help. Here's my guide to surviving the Wasatch Savages. Enjoy.

Faceinhole.com

GENIUS. Faceinhole.com allows you to put anyone's face on any picture and make it look legit.Here are a couple I've made.

Check out these lovely llamas....
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Myself, looking dapper as ever a few decades back.

If you end up doing one, feel free to post it on here. I'd love to see them. If I get enough I'll dedicate another post to Faceinhole.comDOOO IT.

Today's Track: Santogold - Starstruck

I know this is the second song by Santogold I've posted, but it's just too good not to post.
DIG IT.

Current Read. - TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY by Jay Asher

It's really well written by American, contemporary writer, Jay Asher. It's about a girl who kills herself and leaves a set of cassette tapes giving the reasons for why she did it. Sort of an audio suicide note, but with each side of each tape she gives a person who had a hand in her downward spiral which led to her eventual death. It's a good read, I recommend you swing by your friendly neighborhood Barnes & Noble and give it a go.

If you haven't read it, read it.
If you have read it, good, stay awesome.
If you don't read, seriously put down the remote because your Jersey Shore reruns aren't going anywhere and pick up a book.

Today's Track: The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt

Listen to this song all the way through, you'll probably have to listen to it again, and again.

For you who go to school.

This site, jackthreads.com, has some of the sickest stuff for dirt cheap. Definitely worth checking out. Better selection and better prices than anywhere around here. *Cough* *cough* Zumiez...

So go forth, get the latest gear like this cool kid did.

Things I don't enjoy...

I felt like I needed to make a list of the things don't enjoy as well, so here goes nothing..

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When ass holes leave their shopping carts in their parking space.

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Waking up to children crying in the morning.. Nothing grinds my gears more than hearing kids cry about things that don't matter. Especially in the mornings.

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Gingers.

^^^^^ Obviously up to something shady.

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Soulless llamas. 

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Living in desert that snows and next to a lake that smells like death.

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This picture kills me, so I had to post it at some point.

 Surely, they must respect your sport after seeing the athleticism displayed in this picture.

 

Before Optimus Prime was a Semi Truck..

This is a video-mapping show on the Astronomical Clock in Old Town Square in Prague that celebrates the 600th anniversary of the construction of the clock. It's good to know something is going on in Prague.

Twilight Concert Series.

Seriously, what could you possibly be doing on a Thursday night that is more important than going to see a free concert at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City? Here's more info if you make the right decision and choose to check it out. http://twilightconcertseries.com/
It's put on courtesy of the Salt Lake City Arts Council every year and they always have really great performers. So go enjoy a free concert tomorrow night. It's definitely a good way to spend a Thursday night.

Today's Track: Santogold Feat. Kid Cudi - Find A Way (Graeme & Switch)

A few things I enjoy.

 Mr. John R. Cash - Rest in Paradise.

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This picture.

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This.

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These gnarly bracelets.

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This valley.

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Lastly, this picture of these dogs in polos.

Whether you know it or not, you're on your computer too much. So why not visit this nifty blog in between stalking people on Facebook and "tweeting" your latest move? I'll be uploading some music, pictures, and pretty much anything else I think is interesting.

Now watch this, probably turn the audio off..

Today's Track: La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix)