Showing posts with label Salt Lake City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salt Lake City. Show all posts

Saturday, May 24, 2008

The CURE!




Last night Alison and I went to see The Cure at the E center - totally awesome. Our 2 year anniversary is on June 3rd, so this was part of the celebration.

The opening band was 65 Days of Static (http://www.65daysofstatic.com/wordpress/), who reminded me a lot of one of my favorite bands Mogwai (http://www.mogwai.co.uk/). Anyway, 65 Days was way cool, right up my alley. Alison and I both really liked them. They played from about 7:30 to 8:15 or so.

Finally, the lights dimmed, lazers fired off everywhere, mystical smoke spewed forth (probably caused by Wikka magic), and Robert Smith and his crew came out. I have to say, they were an interesting bunch; the bassist looked like a classic rocker (right), the lead guitarist wore platform high heels and skin tight shiny leather (left), the drummer's hair took up most of the stage, and Robert Smith wore classic punk garb and lots of eye liner (center).





The amazing thing was that they played for over 3 hours! They had 3 encores, and he only stopped because he lost his voice (I think they had planned one more song, but during the last song he wasn't really singing, more screaching).


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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!


Friday, April 11, 2008

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…