The Fam
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Last year Laura’s sister moved back east. They have a couple of little kids, and I noticed that the kids were always borrowing their dad’s laptop to watch movies and play games. We had an old computer we weren’t using. It was one of those blue Macs that came out in 1999, but it was running OS X Tiger and was still a great machine for kids.
I gave it to them, with keyboard and monitor, for free. They seemed excited, packed it in their car and drove off for their new home in Wisconsin or Minnesota or somewhere.
After a couple months, I realized they had never said anything about the computer. You know when you do something for someone else, all you’re ever looking for is any kind of comment, right? Not even a thank you, but something like, “Hey, the kids love the computer.” Nothing.
Eight months later we were at Laura’s parents’ house, playing hide and seek in the basement. I opened the door to this dark, unfinished utility room where the water heater and furnace are. And when I saw a blue Mac, keyboard and monitor on the dusty concrete floor, my first thought was, “I didn’t know Laura’s parents had an old computer.”
Then it hit me. Duh. Laura’s sister never even took the computer when they moved. They just dumped it in this dusty utility room and took off!
Last night they were in town visiting, sitting in our front room. We were talking about things and our dog Sophie came in and started going crazy, rubbing up on everyone, etc. Laura said, in jest, to her sister, “Do you guys want to take Sophie with you?”
It was all I could do to not blurt out, “No way. She’ll just end up in the utility room in your mother’s basement!”
1996: Lifeless
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
1996: Lifeless, Classic Skate, Sandy, Utah. Photos by Trent Nelson
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At Sunset
January 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Birds at sunset, North Salt Lake, Utah. Photo by Trent Nelson
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1996: Triphammer
January 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
1996: Triphammer, New Hope Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Photos by Trent Nelson
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GORGOROTH Frontman Calls For More Church Burnings; Police To Investigate
January 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Blabbermouth:
“Black metal was never meant to reach an audience,” Gaahl told The Observer. “It was purely for our own satisfaction. Something entirely self-centered. The shared goal was to become the true Satan; the elite human, basically. The elite are above rules. So people did what they wanted to do. And they had a common enemy which was, of course, Christianity, socialism and everything that democracy stands for, especially this idea that every man is alike and equal to his neighbour. That, of course, is a fake.”
Gaahl’s extremist outlook is undoubtedly influenced by his surroundings. He lives on a farm three hours outside of Bergen, isolated from the mass of humanity. “My family owns three mountains,” he said. ‘There’s not much else around there. Love of nature is a big part of black metal. It’s easy to feel isolated in nature. And solitude and distance from everyone else is very important to us.”
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