Point of Origin

¡Hola! from Argentina

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:13:41 GMT

It's kind of crazy here. Joe and I went to a natural history museum today where all the displays must have been sitting there for at least thirty years. Some of the information cards were so faded and yellow that there was no way of guessing what was once written. The museum also had this thing for armadillos. Afterward, when we were waiting at the bus stop, we saw some older man get pulled off a bus and beat up by this group of guys. They left him alone once some women started yelling at them. It was crazy though. He must have said something to make them mad, but the guy just wandered off like it was something that happened to him all the time. Then there are these amazing moments when we go out to wander the streets of the little town we're staying in and the dogs and children are out playing in the street and the old men lean in their doorways to watch the day go by. I can't help but love it here.

Also, we're staying in the home of Ruth and Sergio. Sergio just yelled "GOOOOOOOAL" really loud, because his team scored.

Party at my place!

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:59:10 GMT

The craziest party is taking place at my new apartment this friday the 6th. Everyone is invited. Also I'm leaving for Argentine on the 14th and I won't be back until the 29th.

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:55:21 GMT

Apparently attempting to fix my toilet was the best idea I ever had. I ended up shattering the entire thing. The lady I rent from freaked out and gave me a thirty day eviction notice. That lead me to find a room with this cool guy I know from school. It's probably three times the size of my old place, I have my own room, the rent is $75 cheaper, I get to keep all my pets (I currently have six animals ranging from an 8 foot boa constrictor to a tarantula.), and it's in the heart of Pasadena, not half an hour away in Temple City. I'm excited.

Not Sleeping?

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:13:05 GMT

I've only had 30 minutes of sleep in the last 28 hours, and totally aced my english midterm this morning. Now I have to just stay awake until 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. I have a calculus test, and I haven't even opened the book yet for this chapter... I have a lot of studying to do.

Just a few more days...

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:18:56 GMT

blah blah blah... I'm so tired.
-THE END

I am now 20 years old

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:02:46 GMT

"We do not respect people's beliefs; we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons
are good enough, you will helplessly believe what I believe. That is what it
is to be a rational human being. Reasons are contagious."

"Faith is the license that religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail."

-- Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith

Chinatown is SWEET

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:58:26 GMT

Because I'm still waiting for my invitations to be made the info for Malignance (That's what I named my show) is it's open all next week M-F, noon-6pm and the reception is Wednesday, July 26, from 5-6pm. I'm still planning on sending invitation's, but they'll be late.

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:11:50 GMT

If anyone needs a place to stay, let me know. I need to find a roommate and it's only $275, so yeah. Also some kids were selling lemonade on the side of the road while I was riding my bike to school. I got some and it made me really happy.

I'm having a show

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:13:01 GMT

So I'm having a show in the PCC gallery the week of July 23-29. It's pretty sweet. We get a $400 budget, mostly for the postcard invitations and for catering the reception. If you want one of the postcards, even if you're not going, just give me your address and I'll send you one. It ends up I have to share the space with one other person, but it's still considered a solo show. Most of my stuff is sculpture anyway so I'm pretending her paintings aren't there.

Also, I am finding myself becoming "quietly infuriated" by uneducated people (not as much that they don't know facts, but that they can't think critically.) I'm waiting for the day I snap and kill one of them. Hopefully by then Anthony will have already done something about that issue. By the way, I spent last week with Anthony. In a period of about fifteen minutes or so he used the words remorse and manic. I proceeded to ask my mom how he was doing in school. He received perfect grades, the kid he tutored in reading was the most improved in the class, the other students actually fight about who is his best friend, and truthfully he does not care for a single one of them. He asked my mom if there would be anyone like him in Utah. The sad thing is there won't be.

Dave Thuleen's Reading List:

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:47:13 GMT

Everyone needs to check these books out, because its THULEEN'S reading list!

Here's that list:

FICTION:

Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The Lyre of Orpheus
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business

David Lodge - The Rummidge Trilogy: Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work
David Lodge - Paradise News
David Lodge - Thinks

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame

Frederick Forsythe - The Fist of God

Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears

Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

Robert Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky

Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear (but none of its sequels)

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine

William Saroyan - The Human Comedy

Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Robert Graves - Claudius the God

Graham Green - The Power and the Glory

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe mysteries

Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries

David Brin - The Postman

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead

Delacorta - Diva

Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49

Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon - Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones/Labyrinths (short story collections, with some overlap)

Peter DeVries - Consenting Adults, Or The Duchess Will Be Furious

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley (evil book, but well written)

George O'Toole - The Cosgrove Report

J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Walter M. Miller - A Canticle For Leibowitz

Diane Duane - Spock's World
Diane Duane - The Wounded Sky

Ursula Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (ISBN: 0671038907)

NON-FICTION:

Thomas Cahill - Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Thomas Cahill - How The Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond - Collapse

Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct

David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker

Matt Ridley - Genome

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins - The Ancestors' Tale

Daniel Dennett - Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Alan Watts - Behold the Spirit
Alan Watts - Beyond Theology
Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Phillip Knightley - The Master Spy

Jacques Barzun - The Culture We Deserve

Tony Rothman and Georger Sudarshan - Doubt and Certainty

Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach

Simon Singh - The Code Book

William Wright - Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality

Donald Palmer - Looking At Philosophy

Karen Armstrong - A History of God

Neil Postman - Conscientious Objections
Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death
Neil Postman - Teaching As A Conserving Activity

Steve Olson - Mapping Human History

Spencer Wells - The Journey of Man

Bernard Lewis - The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years

J. M. Roberts - The Penguin History of the World

Anthony Cave Brown - Treason in the Blood

Hal Higdon - Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century

Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter

Bruce Feiler - Learning to Bow

Isaac Asimov - The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar

Jay Winik - April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Steven Levy - Artificial Life

Oliver Sacks - Awakenings
Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist On Mars

Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes - Dark Sun (The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb)

Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa

James Gleick - Genius
James Gleick - Chaos

Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:16:29 GMT

So the guy that I'm going to start sharing my apartment with is coming by today to check things out for the first time. I only just realized how crazy I come off if all you look at is my apartment. I have a wax fetal pigs and chicken embryos made from cheese on my desk. There is an assortment of dead animals in my freezer. I found one of my snakes just hanging out in a bunch of towels(she had been missing for a couple days). One of my ice cream cartons has a face carved into the ice cream. And it seems each one of my sculpture projects that are scattered around have to do with death and decay or being restrained and entombed.

I decided i really like my apartment.

Thu, 11 May 2006 01:52:29 GMT

So my calc teacher admits that he wants to grade the students he likes easier than the other students, and he says that if your test is one of the last test he grades he'll probably grade yours harder just because he's tired. The thing is he doesn't do anything to try to keep the grading fair and he doesn't care for me, because I don't talk in class and I'm not asian. So I have to work harder for the grade I deserve... that sucks, because I'm already running myself into the ground. But what ever, I do what I want, cause I'm a whale biologist.

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:13:13 GMT

So I'm testing some stuff out for next semester's sculpture class. The theme I want to work with is abrupt sounds, smells, and/or movements. I totally took this chocolate stuff that the pastry student who lives in front of me gave me and put a fire cracker in it. I'm so inspired now I can't wait for class to start. It was like... is anything going to happen... then BAM! chocolate everywhere and it smells like fireworks! I can't wait till I'm seriously mangled by one of my projects. Then my body would become my art.

I just got this email

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:37:55 GMT

Hello dear friends,
I just wanted to share the exciting news with you all.....Dan received his mission call today.
He enters the Preston MTC on the 18th January 2005 and will be serving in the Edinburgh, Scotland mission.
He is so excited and we're thrilled too.
Tim Ng received his call today also and he's going to Hong Kong!!

love to you all
Deb and Family

This was from British Dan's parents. Translated it means he is going to spend the next two years preaching in Scotland. I feel sick inside.

I don't know who Tim is though.

P.S. Final Projects are killing me.

I totally spent my whole Saturday with Thuleen

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:53:32 GMT

We saw Capote, went to sushi, and I saw the inside of his house! He has thousands of CDs stacked everywhere. He is the coolest man in the world.

There were so many mushrooms and pills

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:29:47 GMT

I went to a sweet art exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA called, ECSTASY in and about altered states. It was so sweet.

P.S. I love the rain, but not on a bike

I got a job at PetCo

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:12:16 GMT

I'm going to have so many pets!

I don't believe that I'm almost 19

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:34:10 GMT

I found myself pretending I was a secret agent trapped behind enemy lines today. I ran through the forest behind my grandparents house making sound affects; fighting off the bad guys with my sweat rocket launcher (A stick). I swear I'm four years old.

Trapped in Utah

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:26:43 GMT

Just found out my ex-uncle, who is a geologist, is living in Ireland right now and is now married to a volcanologist. I think I'm going to have to re-adopt them as family and go see some volcanoes.

For the imaginative: You're laying there looking at the stars

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:58:00 GMT

Without closing your eyes you picture yourself there, just laying. Then you start to move backward. You see yourself growing smaller and smaller until you body is lost in the night and all you can see now are the lights that dot civilization.

You continue moving backward faster and faster. The earth begins to drift away. The moon passes and you can see the sun with the fringes of its light marking the beginning and end of each day. Faster and faster you go. The sun is now indistinguishable from the billions of other stars that fill the Milky Way.

Passing galaxy after galaxy traveling light years as if they were but a moment in time; your reaching the edges of space. Stellar nurseries are birthing stars all around you, but then you stop.

You have passed the expansion of space. You turn around and look into the darkness and wonder if there's anything beyond it. Thinking you might wait for space to catch up, it strikes you.

Your just laying there wondering whats holding you down.

The rulers of the road

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:09:37 GMT

To those that will drive through an intersection no matter how long the light has been yellow and finds going 90 on the freeway with heavy traffic an art, you are my friend. I will always welcome those who have learned to drive efficiently to cut in front of me, because I know it will never slow me down. But to those who are the cause of the constipation of our roads: I will drive up your back end if you get in front of me.

I see short people

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:51:43 GMT

There was a midget walking around on my street yesterday.

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:58:47 GMT

I think I have to apologize. I do not feel I have been fully living up to standards I profess to believe. I feel I have lied to those that I care about, I lied to myself, and I have finally made a decision that I can't be a contradiction. I either have to hold to my standards or release them, so I have made the decision that these are the ideals I choose to live by. I am sorry, because there was never a problem with the standards. I had the problem. I want my actions to reflect who I say I am.

I like the song, but the name escapes me

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:00:59 GMT

Remember,
The only thing we need sometimes
Are chilly nights and woman thighs,
Cause nothings like being held
Sometimes.

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:25:57 GMT

I am really going to FU high tomorrow. Unless, of course, I end up in the hospital again.