I love Music!!!

Check out this link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZssyK5exo&feature=related
Some of you guys probably don't like country, but I like everything. It doesn't matter what it is. It's by George Jones, but Josh Turner is singing it. "He stopped loving her today." Great Song! Great Artists! I would play in their band in a heartbeat.

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!!!

Here are some newer pictures that are absolutely amazing to me. I printed these 8 x 10 and added them to my portfolio. If ever you need a photographer, just let me know! To me it's not business, it's just pure fun.

Stout's Out

Back Roadn' OutLaws!

Definitely check the videos out. We saw some interesting things, including the amazing waterfall/wet weather spring below. It was great to hang out with Meams and have fun doing the simplest things. Sorry the images are kinda fuzzy, they were done with my phone.

Fun Song!

One of my all-time favorites! From the sound, you'll be able to tell that I have a very old piano. I wish I had equipment to record from my Kurzweil, the sound would be tons better. Oh, and the song has been altered a little bit, as well as all the other songs I play. When I do change a song, it's usually by instinct or a melody that has been stuck in my head. It's weird, me and music have some kind of connection.

Another One of My Wonderings!

Catching up! Wow! I hadn't blogged in a good while. Well, I came home early. A lot earlier than some of my friends did. I skipped Thursday and Friday last week and came home Wednesday. Really, I haven't done much. Friday, Mimi and I went four-wheeler riding back in the country. That was pretty fun! Hopefully, Tuesday will be another beautiful day to go riding again. It'd be nice to get on my brother's bike, but from experience it's pretty much too dangerous.

Below are a few words from one of the newer films that I have recently watched. If you get a chance you must see “Into the Wild.” It’s a longer movie, but it has some good “meat” to it. On my way home was actually the first time I had heard about the film, and before that I had even been thinking about doing something like him.

On those eight hour trips, your mind really gets to thinking, and substantially starts to wonder about things like: school, happiness, family, friends, purpose, … life.

I don’t want this to sound like I am copying him because that would just be absurd. I think that dropping everything like that wasn’t too smart. It was actually too rebellious for me, but one of the things that I have been hoping to do is to travel the World and see what people see, do what they do, and live like they live. Anyways, here’s the excerpt:

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climatic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

Alexander Supertramp
May 1992

One thing I really think he was trying to do was to grow spiritually, and possibly come back to society a new person, … something refreshed and free of “poison.” But in reality if he came back refreshed, “society” would still be there with the same ole’ people and the same ole’ “poison.” He pushed himself over the edge with his ideologies. He was “too far” into it. He was thinking too far into all that jazz. He realized that happiness was only real when shared. At that point he truly realized how unhappy he was. He had no one! This is a change of subject, but have you ever wondered about people, teens, and children that truly have no one? Or have you ever felt this slight unhappiness? Or have you ever wondered why people isolate themselves from society? Sometimes it’s not the person’s fault that falls into isolation. People push people into social isolation! Ok, enough of that rant. Anyways, he did have family that cared, but he pushed himself away from society. As said by his sister, “Christopher was writing his [own] story.” His own poison unfortunately lead him to death.

Two more quotes from the movie are below. These were quite amazing! Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to write a few chapters to my story, … my life.


“But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines on you.”

“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”

Oh yeah, I am pretty sure I am double-majoring now. I was just going for chemical engineering with a minor in mathematics, but now I have decided to study archaeology as well. My minor in math is pretty much complete. Actually with another chemistry class I would probably have my chemistry minor as well. There’s so much that I want to do and could do. I am totally interested in cell biology, hardcore chemistry, climatology, and, believe it or not, rocks. Oh, I also passed the hardest electricity and magnetism test that our physics teacher could make up. It was sad that everybody failed it, but it was great that I only missed one 3 point question. It was the easiest question. Really, I knew the answer to the question, but I marked the wrong choice.

Well, if you ever in Fayettown there’s only one place that you can find me and that’s on the third floor in the Mullin’s library at a table between the books on war and the books on food chemistry. Oh, and I had to post a picture of Multnomah Falls and some more pictures from this week. Hope you like them. This summer, I am definitely going out West again. It is a definite! But this time I am going out to Montana for vacation, and possibly to stay in Colorado for a while. Peace out! ps, these make excellent backgrounds. LiL Stout

Older, but Greater Song!

Check it out, you'll be able to recognize who it is.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Kd7IGPyeg

Ever Wonder?

Do you ever think about the craziest things? I sure do, ... especially in class. The other day I was trying to remember some voices of friends. This is crazy hard to do. I mean I could probably recognize them if I heard them, but I couldn't remember ANYBODY's. There are a few that I can remember, but those are like my friends from school now. After being locked up in an apartment for a while you start thinking why you lost that communication, and if they even think about you.

There's a communication disorder! After engaging for awhile, people unfortunately give up when there's no one there to listen.

It's not a hard problem to solve, ... it takes two!

Stout

A Night of FUN!

Well, ... here they are! This man is pretty much my new role model. A book can't be big enough to tell you about the experiences that this man has been through. This man is also very nice. Taking pictures is something I love to do. I definately wish I could do this all the time. I also wish I could do something like him. Lay down everything, and do something. Hope you like the pictures.

Snow, Snow, Snow!

Here are some pictures of the crazy amount of snow Fayetteville received. In some places up here, there was 12+ inches. This morning it sounded like Batesville was getting hit pretty hard, but I don't know. I know that my mom didn't make it like 1/8 of a mile down the road before she had a wreck. So, if the UA is getting out, then every school from here to Memphis, TN must be getting out. Crazy weather! Now, the sun is shining. Didn't even get done with the post. The first images are like thirty minutes after I came in from the snow. Hope you like them!

Practice Makes Perfect!

Many people say that "practice makes perfect," but what if there is a part of us that is imperfectible. There's a few things in my life that can never be perfected or fixed. What about yours? What if we could just take those in somewhere and actually get them fixed? Would you do it? I honestly don't think that I could. Those things that make me not perfect actually make me human. I don't think I would ever be "Jerm" if I didn't have those imperfections. Yeah, it would be really easy to just say that we don't have anything that needs a fixing, but in reality we all have some part of us that we don't like.

If we were perfect, then we wouldn't be able to relate to anybody else at all. I think that we were all made to have our imperfections so that we could really be something unique. Instead of them being called imperfections, we might need to call them something else. Something that doesn't seem so wrong. Maybe characteristics? I really do think that these characteristics are unique only to us individual persons so that we can reach out to somebody else that may have problems, instead of looking down on them in despair. So, be careful what your perfecting because it maybe some part of you that really doesn't need perfecting.