Google Chrome

I don't know how many of you have tried or downloaded the new Google Chrome. I have to say I am a huge advocate. I get sick of people singing the praises of Firefox, and Internet Explorer seems like a Dinosaur no matter what they do to keep an edge. Google chrome has a format that takes just a few minutes to get used to but it seperates your hardrive file flaps and your browser flaps seperate cause it puts your internet stuff at the top of your screen. It is wicked fast and saves all of your favorite pages in icons when you open it up. You start typing any page and within a key stroke or two it figures out where you wanna go, for example trevolution21.blogspot.com would be tr enter. I simply love it. Try it out. There are a few download issues and it is not yet synced with some websites, but even with these small set back its blows everything else away. Leave it to the geniuses as Google to create the ultimate web browser!

L'enfant

My wife and I had the recent pleasure of discovering the extensive and unmatched foreign film selection at our local Hastings. Where Redbox will destroy Hollywood and Blockbuster I believe that Hasting will be left standing. Its prices and selection are very competitive and it is always teaming with people from teenybopping high school students to some of the areas suprising intellectuals who also often frequent Starbucks. We watched L'enfant and really liked it. It has no music, a really basic cast and plot, but a very authentic feel to it. I think it won the Cannes Offical selection when it was first released. 

Grrreat Song: The Garden

Joshua James does it again. Check out the Garden on itunes or on his myspace page. It's a Euphoric adventure, an epic ballad. Two entusiastic thumbs up, we'll see you in Rexburg on November 15 Joshua.

The Maiden of Kuala Lumpur

I wrote the following a dream I had that referenced in a very tangible way a picture I took in 2006 in Malaysia.

The wandering soldiers, the elusive plight,
A beckoning cry rings out at night
A night that's soft, a calm before the storm
Faint vibrations fill the drones
In the pipers hands

On the mountain a maiden stands
Like a statue, pinned against a starless sky
Her heartless eyes watch as her heroes die
They come and weep only at her feet
Her lasting, supple youth mocks them

At her hands and under her eyes
I, too have sunk beneath the shores of time
Her listless beauty drew me onward
Across the raw earth refined
I coveted all that would be mine

Starving for the freedom she brings
Longing to begin the journey
That would shape the boy
Into her traveling warrior
Mercenary of her heart

So many times I've limboed in dreams
Leaving my footprints in the sands and snows
Stumbles of stocking feet over the trampled stocks
Torn down by those who look but are not
Like me

"What promise, what guarantee, 
Have you to offer me?" many time I plead.
"None Warrior Poet, none for thee
Your mark will remain on the land
And all will know you sought for me."

"Dark madam, Hear me now!
I wish I could turn away from thee
A hero to remain, with nothing to save,
Suspend my hope for better days
And in a dream I'll live happily."

Though as a dream she never leaves
But fills my veins with vanity
A carnal lust for beauty seen
And me myself be beautiful
To be seen of her and to be loved

And in my slumber a picture hung
It tortured the subconscious mind
I stood and stood and saw it there
My dreamer's clock measured no time
My still tongue uttered violent cadences

By my hand and to the floor was it flung
And ever so gently was it placed
Its mystery mystified and struck fear deep
Into my bones did it permeate
All awhile the maiden did I hate

Temple stairs in a far off land
Why was it you that raised me from my bed?
Is it you that I must climb
And never reach your vantage point
That would reveal the cityscape?

Tonight I'll lie, like nights before
I'll try to shrug and shun you
Yet still her eyes that draw me near
Will take and take and take
My dear, my love, be satisfied, I'll never cease to give