Hey, it's good to be back home again
Hassel Smith, Untitled No. 5, 1961.
We've been home for a few days, and it feels good to be back.
We had a great trip going and coming back. The girls are so easy to travel with now. It sounds small, but I'm glad not to be constantly twisting backwards to help them with something or to feel the need to entertain them.
We listened to Story of the World for a while, the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack quite a bit, Paul Simon, and The Killers. The "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" refrain is now a family favorite (I'm sure that was the intent when it was written).
Thanks to Shea's blog, on the way there David and I discussed the best band names (talking heads, black flag, red hot chili peppers) and the worst (10,000 maniacs, lisa lisa and the cult jam, aztec camera). What's amazing is the number of bands that you can actually pull from memory. There's so much information stored that you rarely access.
On the way back, we came up with an idea for a movie - a film if you will. Although we probably only have enough solid material for a short, at the time it really felt like if we just had filmmaking skills, a budget, actors and the equipment, we had a mega hit (or, at least a cult classic) on our hands. Now that we've shaken off the dust of Nevada, it seems like maybe not so much. Still, I'm going to write it down.
Whenever we go to California, we always feel a little homesick and stupid for ever leaving. It feels like home there and it feels like we belong. But, when we come back to Idaho it feels good here and the feeling dissipates.
When we first moved to Idaho, I thought this is where everyone who went to BYU moved. This is what happened to everyone on campus. I thought going to BYU was like going to college in the 1950s. Living in Idaho is, too.
Here are things I've noticed about Idaho:
I can see why Idaho would be someone else's idea of purgatory or boresville. But, I'm honky, christian, conservative (although I prefer Independent over Republican) and I have kids. I don't need my neighbors to look and act just like me to be satisfied, but I do enjoy the family-friendly environment here. I know some people would say that Idaho is a neopuritanical society (as if that's a bad thing), but I like living in the '50s.
