The Deathly Rest

Today, I became utterly exhausted and put all else aside (I have so many things to do, but I was about dead), and I took a nap– the first in weeks, if not months. I had expected to wake up refreshed and joyous (as today had ranked the number one joyous day, tied with only [...]

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Graduation: Spare Me

One of the most annoying questions anyone can ask me is, “Are you excited to graduate?”
The answer, of course, is a very large, loud, and somewhat annoyed, “NO!” Graduation is one of the most stuffed, plastic, ridiculous, time-wasting foolish traditions of our fathers that I’ve yet heard of. Hundreds upon hundreds of Americans (many of [...]

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Logic Versus Feelings

We are in a constant battle of what to listen to the most– logic? Or our feelings– emotions– intuition, even? I believe that a person needs to determine the situation using both logic and feelings, and then decide what to do based off of both of them. Sometimes the feelings may be stronger, sometimes the [...]

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Naturalist

Dating is such a strange and often terrifying science. The word itself speaks volumes of how strange and dark it can be– just say the world aloud to yourself three or four times. It’s a very sticky word, isn’t it? I think it ought to be changed back to “courting” or a new word that [...]

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Palm Revelations

The other day after Madrigals, several of the Madrigals gathered around Kelly D on the couches and the floorspace surrounding, and he was suddenly reading palms. Not wanting to miss out on this golden opportunity, I sat with my hand out, waiting for my turn after all the others. While waiting, I learned that he [...]

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Pure Imagination

I was sluffing (well, I asked permission, so I suppose it wasn’t really sluffing) Creative Writing this morning in favor of recording Belles Voix (I really hope my teacher doesn’t mind me skipping out on the next few periods– a treasurer’s got to do what a treasurer’s got to do). Belles Voix is singing Pure [...]

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Disparagement on Pornography

I recently viewed a movie (Sahara) that inspired (despired?) this post.
I vehemently hate anything to do with messing around with things of the sexual nature. If I hear a story about how two people shared an intimate relationship, I often am affected for hours afterwards. I feel absolutely horrible inside. These things are no light [...]

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How Do We Sound?

Below is a recording sample of the West Jordan High School 2008-2009 Madrigals– my Madrigals– using our new sound equipment that we got this year. This is a fully edited file with reverb and everything. The original reverb plugin that came with the Audacity latest beta version was crap, so I downloaded another called “Classic [...]

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Hope: To Sing in the Silos

In lieu of this previous post, I emailed the mayor of West Jordan to obtain permission. If nothing else, it will at least plant the idea to convert one of the silos into a singing space– it is going to be an arts center, after all. The letter below:
Hello,
My name is Jordan Spencer Cunningham. I’ve [...]

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A Chance to Sing in West Jordan’s Cathedral

I was just marveling at the immensity and beauty of cathedrals. I’ve been to several of the cathedrals in New York, and you wouldn’t believe how massive these are. We actually sang in the Riverside Church two years ago, and the experience was unforgettable. I was only in Take Ten, which is nothing experience-wise like [...]

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Seventy Five

I just finished this story in my Creative Writing class, and I’m rather proud of it. Therefore, I post it for the readers’ enjoyment. The assignment was to write a short story based off of a graph. It is below:
Seventy Five
Jordan Spencer Cunningham
He lifted up his eyes to look at the sun setting out across [...]

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I Despise Remotes

Whoever invented the remote control for commodities such as televisions, DVD players, VCRs, and sound systems should be hanged with the rope just loose enough so that he or she only almost suffocates over a pile of hot coals just a few degrees below the threshold of human stamina. This person has not only introduced [...]

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Today God Pointed Out a Good Scripture

I’m in the treehouse as I type. I was reading the scriptures out here just a few minutes ago in Mosiah. The wind began to blow, and the pages began to turn. It occurred to me that perhaps there was something for me to read, so I finished the current chapter and let the wind [...]

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Chronic Unhappiness

There’s a disease floating around our world these days, and it’s much more contagious and dangerous than the swine flu (don’t make me laugh—the swine flu is about as scary on a large scale as a paper cut). There are people in this world who are chronically unhappy, and they’re good at it. They don’t [...]

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Some Pieces I Wish

Below are several pieces of music that I wish we could have sung in Madrigals this year. The music we did sing is now my most favorite music in all musicdom, and these don’t compare quite as much in beauty and nowhere near as much in meaning. Even still, I wish we could have sung [...]

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Pride Cometh Before the Fall and the Informational Change

That’s actually not scripture (in the standard works, anyway), but makes sense to religious minds. The original scripture was Proverbs 16:18: “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Update: Two people replied to a post I made on the group, and they restored my faith in Internet humanity. They were very kind [...]

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Grand West Jordan Scenic Tour

Today, Julie and I went on a lovely scenic tour of West Jordan. I came home, talked to her from out of my window, and she mentioned that she’d like to go on a walk. In essence, I worked a bit, completed what needed to be done for the moment, snagged a camera, stuffed my [...]

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Posting in the Park– Now, This Is Psychin’

The past two and a half hours, Julie Dog and I have been on a scenic tour of West Jordan City. We took 22nd down to the Sugar Factory, explored the front area that one sees from the street, took the road down to the city administration complex, visited the West Jordan Justice Center, the [...]

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Poetry, Edibles, and Zymurgy

Today, I post three different projects that I’ve done in the past several weeks, all to do with writing.
A Collection of Poetic Writings is a… collection of poetic writings, an assignment for my Creative Writing class. I never was very adept at writing poetry when forced, and I don’t like writing it much in the [...]

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God Does Not Limit My Thinking; He is the Catalyst for It

I recently came across first a Fascistbook page and then a website known as “Think Atheist.” Looking over it, it seems to be a coalition of atheists (obviously), and one of their main points seems to be that “It’s okay to be atheist,” and “We are free-thinkers, free of religion, which binds us down.”
It is [...]

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The End

In only one month, one chapter of my life will close permanently, only able to be reopened by calling on the annals of time. My twelve years of public schooling (fifteen years counting kindergarten, preschool, and Joyschool) will end at last, and what will I have to show for it?
Only just this year have I [...]

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Spams

Today, I looked in my nearly overflowing spam folder on Gmail to gratefully find a joyous email I thought wasn’t coming (I was quite upset at Gmail for that and have henceforth given it a severe tongue lashing as well as the silent treatment), and I realized that my spammers are quite creative. Just take [...]

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