Homeless Productions Makes its Debut - Click to See!

This video is a classic, a compilation of confusing clips that Jeff, Peter, Seth, some other friends and I filmed, edited, and produced; circa 1997. Actually, this is the only Homeless Productions video to be broadcast, anywhere, ever. It was on SHS News (a weekly production put on by the AV club at Skyline High). They were so impressed with our work that we were never asked to make another video for them again. I know that Chris Carlston (the AV club president and full ride video production scholarship recipient) was just threatened by the quality of our work.

!!!BE SURE TO PAUSE THE MUSIC AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE BEFORE YOU START THE VIDEO!!!

From Crush to Marriage

Alison and I started dating in the Fall of 2004. We took it slow by local standards, but I think we both knew pretty early on that we had something special going on. We were married on June 3rd, 2006 (coming up on 2 years!) It's been a great 3 1/2 years! Here are a few photos (this website didn't like our high-def HUGE photos, so I could only insert 5...


A downtown kiss:



Just Married--right out the temple!



Our camera man was TALL!



Pretty Alison ;-)



An engagement photo:


Hope to have some more photos sometime soon!

A Brief Glimpse of Heaven

Jeff and Seth may remember the test we took in high school that told us whether we were “left brained” (analytical), or “right brained” (creative). According to the test I (Tom) had virtually no left brain qualities. In 9th grade the career placement program told me that my 2 best career paths would be a lumberjack or a forest ranger. Somehow, I ended up in commercial mortgage banking… But, as you can see by my crooked bamboo plant, I still have an interest in the outdoors.



I also have a pretty nice view of Big Cottonwood Canyon from my desk.

I actually like my job though—so much for career placement tests! Although being a lumberjack sounds exciting…

This American Marriage

So I haven't yet posted any photos of us yet... that is soon to come. I'll be posting some photos of our wedding, our sugar gliders, and our life pretty soon here.

Anyway, over the last 3 years or so I've been listening to a radio program called "This American Life" - pretty much the coolest radio show ever made (check it out at http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx, you can listen to any past episode; let me know if you are interested and I'll direct you to some of my favorite episodes). If you ever have an hour to blow, or just want to have something interesting to listen to while cleaning, I for sure recommend it. But anyway, the host of that show is Ira Glass.

I was looking at Jeff and Heather's blog yesterday, and I decided to follow some of the links they had going to other people's blogs, thinking that I might recognize some of the people in the other blogs. I was surprised to find that Ashley Bullough is getting married on May 9th - congratulations to Ashley! However, I was even more surprised to find that she is secretly marrying Ira Glass, from This American Life! Although they claim his name is Cade (the name alone was an obvious alert to me, he should have chosen a more normal name like Chris or Ricky), he is obviously Ira Glass. I have posted Ira and "Cade"s photos on this blog.

Our Trip

So - we'll be off to Miami and the Keys this month. We are leaving on the 26th and coming back May 4th. You can all stop worrying about the sugar gliders - My mom Pam will be taking care of them. Anyway, we'll be spending the first part of our trip in the Keys, staying in Key west. We are actually going to be arriving on the day before they re-join the Union (they ritualistically break away from the US for a few days each year, declare war, then re-join and demand aid). So, pretty much the coolest building ever lies on the last key in the archipelago - it's called Fort Jefferson... it was a fort built on a super remote, super small island called "Dry Tortugas"--it's purpose was to fight pirates (I hope they don't try to fight me because I pirated the images used in this blog entry...) We have to take a 2 hr. boat ride, then we can snorkel, tour the building... stuff like that. Dr. Mudd (who was prosecuted as a conspirator to assassinate President Lincoln) spent some time there after it was converted into a prison... If I am sent to prison for disobeying copyright laws and posting these photos to our blog, then send me there please!! Anyway, we are both pretty excited.. I'll post the video when we are back.

Lucky..

This guy has 2 faces! I feel like a loser with only 1...

Our Blog

It has begun... and probably ended in a single entry. I hope to get some things posted shortly, all is well for us though. Stay tuned for more exciting posts.