These Are A Few of My Favorite Things

I wonder how many people have ripped off the sound of music as a title when they make a list of stuff they like...
    Anyway, here is a list of some of my hobbies, and interests

#1. Airsofting

     Airsofting is basically like paintball, but instead of shooting paintballs, you shoot plastic BBs.  I like to say that paintballing and airsofting are totally different, but they really are prettymuch the same, I prefer airsoft because you have a wider variety of guns that actually look like real guns, and you and the area you are playing in are not covered in gross pink goo.  I know they say it washes out, but I think it leaves an odor for a while.  This is something that I do get pretty geeky over.  I am on a team (ARI) I have played on fields from Ogden to Spanish Fork, I have played with the US army who brought a real Humvee once that I got to ride in.  Some of my best experiences and closes friends have come out of this sport.

#2. Guns
   It seems every time people hear that I like to airsoft, they usually respond with, "Oh well I like to use real guns" I will answer, "Yeah I do too, but you can't go out with your friends and shoot each other with real guns can you?  Well you could, but you would probably go to prison shortly after."  I do love to shoot real guns, and I do it often.  There is just something special about wiggling your index finger here, and making something blow up 100 yards over there.  Since I am poor, I only have one gun, a Mosin Nagant.  Mine was made in 1938 with all the original (but refinished) parts, and it still works like it was new.

#3. Music (performing/listening)
    This list is not in order of most to least favorite.  If it was, this would be number one.  I play guitar, drums, and I sing.  Music has always been very important to me.  I have never taken any music lessons, except for voice about a year ago, but I practice all the time.  In addition, I listen to music all the time.  I am right now (All For Leyna by Billy Joel).  There is very little music I do not like.  I do get tired of screamo or heavy metal type music very quickly, but other than that, I listen to everything from rap to opera to country to pop to rock to alternative to choral/orchestral to oldies to dubstep to pretty much whatever you can think of.

• Favorite genre of music: indie-rock, stuff almost nobody has heard of before because I am such a hipster *push thick-rimmed glasses up and brush exotic tea leaves off of my Star Wars t-shirt*. 
• Favorite band: Weezer.  I honestly cannot give a clear reason why I love Weezer, they are the band that I go to when I don't know what I want to listen to.  They are a great summer band, and are easy to relate to.
• Favorite song:  This changes about weekly, but currently it is "I'm Gay" by Bowling For Soup.  Gay in the happy way, it is a song that shouldn't be taken seriously.  Most all of what BFS does is not meant to be taken seriously.

#4. Movies (watching and making them)
    I actually might have lied earlier, because movie making could give music a run for its money, but I have been involved in music longer, so it is still barely in first.  As I have said in an earlier blog, this is what I want to do for a living...making movies, not watching them, even thought that would be sweet!  Some of my favorite movies are Saving Private Ryan, Shindler's List, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, Star Wars (any really), LOTR, and any movie with Charlton Heston and Charlie Chaplin .

#5.  Skateboarding and Longboarding
    I just want to make it clear that I do skateboard and longboard.  I love them both, I like just cruisin and doing tricks on my skateboard (I can do an olie and a popshuvit!), and I love the speed and fluidity you can only get on a long board.

Here are the differences between the two:
Skateboarding:

  And longboarding: