The funniest five minutes of my life, ever.

I have the craziest friends.

So, if you know me, you know that I'm on the school's Impact Team, which is a group of people that meet together for a class period to practice and process skits about drugs, dating violence, depression, suicide, and other high-profile topics that kids and teenagers need to know about. The mood in that class can get very tense sometimes, what with all the seriousness of the topics we talk about.

So inevitably we are always finding ourselves doing things that, well, make us laugh. And we have an awesome time in Impact Team. Some of the funniest people in our school are on this team, and anything - that's right, anything - can just randomly happen out of the blue. It's crazy sometimes. But in a good way. A very good way. :)

Today after we finished practicing our skits that we have to present to the junior high health class students next week, we decided to unravel in a nice game of "freeze." Now, for those of you who don't know.. Freeze is an improv-style game where you and another person have to think of a funny situation on the spot, and other members of the audience can yell out "FREEZE!" at any time and take one of the two peoples' places. Eventually, Archie and Morgan ended up on stage together. Those two, especially Morgan, are probably the funniest people on the team.

They proceeded to act out a scene somewhat parodying a scene in our skit on dating violence, when all of a sudden someone yelled out "freeze" right when they were in this pose. Now, we can end up freezing in some pretty, um.. interesting poses, but this one just takes the cake.


However, we decided to end up going on with the scene as-is because it was just too funny. But this is where it goes over the top: Right before Archie attempts to say his signature line "I'm feeling smothered!," our principal walks in the room to see what all the laughter is about. (Our class is just barely down the hall from his office.)

We couldn't control our laughter at all. The thought of Archie and Morgan displaying their usual antics in front of the principal was just priceless. The principal ended up walking out of the room wondering what the crap we were all on that day. :P Right as he left, the bell rang, and I ended up talking to the principal assuring him that we weren't quite as crazy as he thought. :D

Overall, you just had to be there and to be a part of the team in order to really get it. Anyway, that's my crazy story for the day. As far as the rest of life is concerned.. school is alright (except advisory sucks.. we read the most messed-up story ever in that class today.. but that's for another day, another post), work is stressful (especially now that I'm a shift leader).. I've spent the last few days watching the new U2 PopMart tour DVD and it is amazing. The season premiere of The Office is tonight.. so I guess you can say that life is pretty good.

Anyway, until next time, catch all you.. um, couple of readers later!

Incubus - Light Grenades

Alright, here goes nothing - my first CD review on Some Kind of Web Log. I recently got into Incubus after hearing "Dig" on the radio a lot, though I've known about them for a while. I gave in and bought Light Grenades, and it's a really good CD.

Incubus are known for their music that blends rock with elements of rap, funk, and sometimes progressive rock. Light Grenades is no different. It's very rockin', but that doesn't mean there's some of the slower, more accessible stuff too that they have been known for as well. My favorites are the aforementioned "Dig," a somewhat ambient, U2-ish ballad with some truly amazing and really deep lyrics (one of my favorite lines is "Remind me that we'll always have each other, when everything else is gone"), and "Anna Molly," my definite favorite song on the CD. "Anna Molly" is very fast paced with lots of crazy percussion (what I love to hear in music :D), and just the right amount of guitar. It spent #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for several weeks and it deserved every single week on there, in my opinion. If you don't want to pick up the CD, at least give "Anna Molly" a listen. You may just change your mind.

Other standout tracks to me include the song, "Light Grenades," which is two minutes of pure classic Incubus: fast paced and explosive, it's the song I've listened to most in iTunes from this CD. It's amazing. "Rogues" is another great track, with some awesome guitar and great lyrics. "Earth to Bella," which is featured on this CD twice in different incarnations labeled Part One and Part Two offer somewhat of a softer break from the otherwise very rock-based songs on this CD. These two songs are very melodic and have beautiful acoustic guitar that, in Part One, suddenly explodes with bombarding electric guitar riffs before again relaxing back into acoustic guitar. It's pretty cool the ideas that Incubus comes up with in their music.

Overall I'd recommend Light Grenades to anyone that likes alternative rock music and wants to expand their horizons somewhat. Great job, Incubus. More blog entries coming after the break.

Look! Braden updated his blog! *screams like a little girl*

Why, yes I did. And hey, it's about time for my long overdue, monthly (!) update. Yes, I'll try to update my blog more often. I'm going to start really focusing on making my blog your one stop shop for everything Kilroy-related.

Anyway, earlier last month I went down to Zion National Park for a priests' quorum camp. We did some really trippy hikes, like hiking the Narrows, which consisted of wading in a rocky river-bed half the time.. (yes, we hiked in a river.. don't ask my why anyone with any kind of sanity would ever want to do this). We also hiked Angels' Landing.

Oh yes. ANGELS. LANDING.


See the top of that mountain? Huh, you see it? Yes, we hiked a trail to the top of that mountain.. no seriously. To the top of that mountain. There's a trail that leads up there.. and several portions of the trail leave you without any sort of handrail with a 5,000 feet drop on either side of you. Yikes. There are handrails most of the time, but you don't have any sort of safety equipment on and you must brace yourself as you scale this ginormous mountain. But oh my gosh, the view and the satisfaction you get after you climb to the top is just surreal. The only thing that I can compare it to is drugs... and I've never done any sort of drug, ever (and never will) so I couldn't tell you. :P (Yeah, I act like it sometimes.)

Also, school has started.. though you all probably knew that. I'm a senior, which frickin' blows my mind. (Erin still refuses to believe that I'm a senior already.. neither do I, really.) This year, I'm taking english, yoga (heck yeah!), physics, Impact Team, foods, seminary, stats, and U.S. government. Oh, and lunch, too. Yay.

So what's coming up in the exciting future of SKoWL? Well.. I'm gonna start posting CD reviews for some of my favorite CD's as I buy them, since music is my main hobby.. I'll start out with Light Grenades by Incubus, my most recent CD purchase, and I'll review other CD's that I have loved in the past or new ones that I purchase. I might also start posting cool things I find on the Internet, since computers and the Internet are my passion. Woot! I'll of course keep you up to speed on my life and my adventures as a senior.. though I really doubt any of you care, really. (Hahah.. just kidding... maybe)