Hey Hey My My Rock And Roll Can Never Die

This show was on the November 1st in Reno. It was the best show i've ever been too. Death Cab for Cutie opened for Neil Young (don't ask me why) and that sucked because the other half of the tour Wilco opened for Neil. I felt bad for Death Cab. If I was them I would have felt really dumb being so not cool and opening for Neil Young... I don't even think anyone was really watching them, maybe a few teenage girls... Keep on Rockin' in the Free World was amazing, especially because it was during the elections, so all the hippies were going crazy. The best part about the hippies at the show was that they were like reliving the seventies for a few hours. I was trying to imagine my mom and dad there, but I couldn't. I especially was trying to imagine my dad or any other dad jamming as hard as Neil does.. Cortez the Killer was the best song he played. This is about the view I had too.. I was probably fifty feet away but from this same angle.. I wish the video didn't cut off though cause it got better and better as the song went on..


Unkown Legend was amazing too.. His wife is one of the back up vocalists. I think this song is about her (if not it seems like it is now the way they look at each other when they play it) His wife is really cool. His band is amazing. His amps and organ are even more amazing.

I love you now I know, it doesn't matter. I love you now I know, that's all that matters

Refereeing basketball games... One of my new Jobs

A few weeks ago I started refereeing basketball games. The age groups i ref are fifth graders to eighth graders. I played sports my whole life and still do occasionally, and I have umpired baseball games too, but this has been my first time refereeing basketball games, so I would like to write about a few things I find very interesting from my experience as a referee so far.

People are very, very stupid. Yes that is right.. I don't have a lot of faith in the emotional and mental maturity level of the average human being as it is and this is just confirming/strengthening my judgments of the average human... It is unbelievable how worked up the coaches and parents get over their 10 year old sons basketball game.. One of my favorite/not favorite things the coaches and parents yell is, "Traveling!!" as if I didn't see it. The reason it's so ridiculous is because these kids travel almost every time they get the ball, so as referee's we have to try to just call the very obvious ones.  Another common quote i'd like to talk about is, "Call it both ways ref!!". Last night a coach kept yelling that at me and I said to him during a time out, "Look, I don't know anyone on either team, nor do I care about anyone on either team, so do you really think I have a reason to throw the game? Do you really think I would randomly decide I want to just start calling fouls on one team and not the other?" 

Last night some kids grandpa came up to my cousin Garrett and I (who ref's with me sometimes) and said, "In basketball there is a rule called three seconds in the key, and you guys didn't call it once last game.? We wanted to tell the guy all the other rules their are in basketball that we didn't call last game... Why? Cause they didn't happen!

I am blown away by how many coaches there are that yell throughout the game what the call should be, even when we do call them they are one second ahead of us. Then the other coach yells, "Oh don't let him influence you to call that!" HAHA. it's just great.. One coach was yelling at us all game (and his voice was unusually loud) and his team ended up winning by a three pointer at the buzzer. He was so happy and he came up and told us a good job and said sorry I got a little worked up and was yelling at you guys so much.... I wanted to say, "Liar, you wouldn't have been sorry or thought we did a good job if that last shot didn't go in and you ended up losing." Because that's the truth. Why didn't the other coach come up and shake our hand and tell us sorry and that we did a good job? hhmmmm, probably cause his team lost. Which proves how emotionally worked up these people get..

It's really funny how the coaches will yell things like, "Hey he's reaching!!" or, "that's three seconds in the key!!" but then when his players do it he's quiet. I always want to call the foul he's complaining about on his team and then when he freaks out i'd say, "well coach what do you want me to do? you've been yelling at me to watch for three seconds in the key and so I did and your guy was in the key for three seconds." 

One of these days I want to coach basketball just so I can yell things like, "Hey, are you blind ref!!? My guy's been in the key for three seconds!" or, "Blow your whistle! my players are reaching in like crazy!!" The fact that coaches stay silent when their players are in the wrong, but yell and throw fits when the other team is in the wrong, only proves they don't actually care for the game to be called fair. 

P.S. I get paid $15 a game to do this in case you were wondering why I deal with all of this drama. And being the struggling college student that I am it's not a bad job on the side.

Over Analyzing, Or Under Analyzing?

I analyze things (mostly unimportant) more than most people think I should, they call it "over analyzing".  I've heard people say that I "over analyze" things too much quite a bit throughout my life, but I don't agree with the people who say that. What gives them the right or authority to set the standard or point at which a person officially "over analyzes" something? 

I've come up with an idea. I'm going to start giving all of the "over analyzer" accusers of the world a taste of their own medicine. I'm going to start getting frustrated, mad, bugged, and make fun at people for "under analyzing" things. I'll say things like, "That's it? Thats all you have to say about this? Geez, you under analyze things so bad. I might as well be having a conversation with my 12 year old nephew." Or, "Wow, you're so boring and annoying. You under analyze every little thing that gets brought up. I feel like I'm getting stupider every time we talk about things."

Don't Judge A Person For Judging A Book By It's Cover

....... If you think about it, it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a person to tell someone to not judge a book by it's cover. Here are the reasons why..

1.  It's a free country, so you can judge a book by it's cover if you feel like it.

2. In the Book of Mormon it says "it is given to all men that they may judge"

3. The person judging the book by it's cover may just be literally judging the actual cover.

4. The cover of a book will always give you some sort of idea what the book is about.

So remember to never judge a person (unless you feel like it) for judging a book by it's cover. But at the same time. Be careful you don't judge a person (unless you feel like it) for judging someone who's judging a book by it's cover.

My Soon To Be Quotes

First of all, if you are planning on stealing my Idea then I will take you to court and get lots of money from you.. Thank you for your honesty.

So, I have been keeping track of really common quotes or phrases (that have no known author or patent on them) over the past four years or so... And.... I'm going to figure out a way to patent them (the cheesier the better) so I can always claim them and even sue people if they don't give me proper credit when using my quotes.. Anyway, here are a few for example...

"It takes one to know one" - Jordan Goodrich

"If you mess with the bull you get the horn" - Jordan Goodrich

"I love you" - Jordan Goodrich

"Life's not about how many breaths you take. It's about the moments that take your breath away" - Jordan Goodrich

"I'm going to live forever. Or die trying" - Jordan Goodrich

"Live. Laugh. Love." - Jordan Goodrich

"Live every day like it's your last" - Jordan Goodrich

"Workin' hard or hardly workin" - Jordan Goodrich

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog" - Jordan Goodrich

"I'm pooped" -Jordan Goodrich

"A picture is worth a thousand words" -Jordan Goodrich

"Accidents will happen" -Jordan Goodrich

"I killed two birds with one stone" -Jordan Goodrich

"Keepin' up with the Jones" -Jordan Goodrich

Old, Old, Old.

I am obsessed with things that are old for some reason... People, pictures, music, clothes, furniture, books, stores, restaurants, movies, just about everything. Which leads me spending way more time then I have (i'm not only in debt financially but with time, sleep and other things. but i'll save that for another blog) in thrift stores and other old places.. I think my dream job would be to buy things at thrift stores and sell them on line. I saw the coolest old musket rifle today at the thrift store for fifteen bucks! And i swear it was probably in the civil war.. Also, a fishing basket, like the ones you see Brad Pitt and his brother and dad use on A River Runs Through it.  Often times throughout my life ive been asked this question about my purchases of "junk"... "what are you even gonna do with that?" and my answer is usually always the same.. "Probably nothing, but look how cool it is" If I could rob any store in the world it would be an antique store in Virginia. Any of them really. They are all amazing and worth tons more than banks or jewelry stores. The greatest thing about thrift stores and antique stores is that they don't usually understand how much the things in their stores are worth.

Anyway, I'm going to start posting the cool old treasures I find on my blog each week (that is if i remember to) ... Actually speaking of treasures, thats why thrift stores are so amazing, its like an adrenaline rush when you find something amazing that you know is rare and worth a lot of money. Especially when it's like two dollars.