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Viva

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:50:03 GMT

"A little less conversation..."

Hey hey.

Can you believe summer is almost over? Aka, it's over and I'm just realizing it. School starts up this Thursday for us. Looks like it's going to be a....(insert adjective here) semester. I'm not sure. I'm doing an internship at church (doing the website) and also taking Biblical Greek, which I have to not only pass, but excel in, so I can take advanced Greek next semester. It's either that or advanced Hebrew, and I don't think my grace D- would cut it. We'll see, I'm also taking the Gospel of Luke and a special youth ministry independent study. Which believe it or not, I'm doing both for fun!

I'm on my fourth year of a three year degree, so I'm pretty much done. We'll see if I kill myself midsemester by being lazy.

What did you do this weekend? Me, nothing much, drove around, walked around, went to Las Vegas. The usual. :) I got to see Blake, my friend Kara, took my wife and friend Krista along too. It was cool, I'd never been. Probably won't go again, honestly I kinda got a little bored towards the end. The group stayed for 2ish days and me and Val stayed another 2, for alone time, since we were celebrating her birthday. The biggest thing we did was eat at the uberexpensive Eiffel Tower Restaraunt, on top of the mock Eiffel Tower in the Paris hotel. I'd seen the real thing, and figured Val would enjoy it. We both did, except for the bill. Ouch. Let's just say I spent more on mashed potatos (a small side dish), than I did my meal the night before. I had steak, and potatos, and a duck appetizer, and dessert. Oh well, who needs rent? I'll post some pics of everything soon.

Random stuff: Val wants a cat, we got a Beta instead, we're going to Hawaii in October, I like that snakes on a plane song, Talledega Nights was awesome, I finished reading Blue Like Jazz (it wasn't about Jazz) they're making a new Fantastic Four movie called "Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer." and...that's all I got for now!

That's Super

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 04:59:38 GMT

"The melting pot of a super-future X-style..."

I've been pretty busy these late couple of weekends. Two weekends ago I went with my wife down to LA to see my buddy Blake. We got to do the cool tourist stuff, saw the walk of fame, the Chinese theatre, the Hollywood sign, the Santa Monica beach.

The coolest thing that happened was that we went to the CityWalk at Universal Studios, which is basically lots of restaurants, shops, fun stuff, etc. Anyway. While we were there we came across this open area which had a sign that said: "Current Filming for the Show 'Who Wants to be a Superhero?" So yeah, I got to see the finale episode that that tv show, AND will most likely BE IN the finale episode. :) The tv show is set to start this summer on the SciFi channel. It's a reality show where people compete as 'superheroes' where they complete various tasks. The winner gets their own comic book, action figures, and possible movie on ScrFi Channel. Check it out here: http://www.scifi.com/superhero/

So yeah, the coolest part was that STAN LEE made a guest appearance. So I got to see the creator of the X-Men (and Marvel Comics) in person. Blake and I were very nerdily excited. So my celebrity list is as so:

George Lucas
JK Simmons
lots of famous people in bands including
Switchfoot
MxPx
the singer of Metallica
Stan 'the Man' Lee

:)
The End

"Kicking and screaming like a child. I'm out of control and running wild." was MxPx's "Kicking and Screaming." Patty got it right!

Those were the days...

Wed, 24 May 2006 00:38:52 GMT

Remember when Xanga was cool. Check out my Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/threesevens

You can check out my site and watch me never post there too.

25/M/CA/Married

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:39:26 GMT

"Kicking and screaming like a child. I'm out of control and running wild."

Soo....

How are you? I'm good thanks. Things have been going pretty good. Remember when posting was cool? I do too. I think I've just gotten a little more busy. And married. Plus we got digital cable with like 500 channels, and school. So yeah, that's been me lately.

I just celebrated my 25th bithday last Friday, it was pretty cool, I went down south to Pismo Beach area, with my new wife and celebrated my bday. No presents from anyone other than my wife yet, so feel free to send them along :)

Me and Val will be celebrating 2 months of marriage on the 28th. It's weird that it went by so fast, but it really seems like we've been together for awhile. It's nice to see how God has used our patience to get married and guided in a smooth transition. It was very natural.

I've still got a year left of seminary, but really only about 6 classes, which is awesome, but kind of scary, because I will be 25, married, with a Masters Degree, and still no real ambition in life. I hate being an adult. Well except for the sex part. That's pretty awesome. So is the digital cable. And the 3 gaming systems. And the car. The wife is nice to have around to Ok, so I like being an adult, just hate responsibility. Like Will Ferrell said in Kicking and Screaming,

"Well, if it isn't Porkface Jones. I can eat a box of cookies tonight. Can you do that? No. Because you're nothin' but a fart-faced kid."

Ah, the fun of being an adult. And yes, as a friend of mine said. There is gaming after marriage.

"Watch the time go right out the window..." was Linkin Park's "In the End." Sara is correct!

Monday, March 06, 2006

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:48:20 GMT

Like Halo?

Like...Contra?

Well then...

www.halozero.new.fr

Johari Window

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:57:26 GMT

"Watch the time go right out the window..."

Wow, I've been gone awhile, they have titles now. Crazy.

So I'm in one of those "nothing is really happening so I don't want to post" modes. So because of that, you should do/take MY Johari Window thing. Come on, all the cool kids are doing it.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Larry+the+Barnes

That's all for now.

Plus check out the last post if you haven't seen all 5 million pictures from the wedding.

PS: Have you guys seen this? I'm excited.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/trailers-screenplay-E26602-10-2

"But I still haven't found what I'm looking for..." was U2's "But I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" AJ got it right. Sad no one else did, they're pretty self-explanitory lyrics.

Monday, February 06, 2006

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:35:36 GMT

So....I'm married.

...more to come.

www.benchrisman.com

Edit:

So our photographer got all of our pictures up for the wedding. Go to the website above, click on index, then 'online gallery' find Valerie and Larry and put in the password:

barnes012806

and look at all 500 pictures!

-In other news, we will be getting internet this Wednesday, so updates will hopefully happen a little more regularly.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:27:18 GMT

I wrote this as a love note to Val

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1329362959167995041

Actually I didn't write it.

And it's not a note.

But I did play it for her.

Aren't I romantic?

12 days, 14 hours, 32 minutes remaining...

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:37:24 GMT

"But I still haven't found what I'm looking for..."

So uh....hey.

I'm not dead. Just way busy. I'm actually in Carlsbad right now, hanging out with my family. I've spent a lot of my time cleaning my room and going through a lot of my stuff. My two biggest finds are:

Mike Tyson's Punch Out
and
My entire SNES system.

So basically today I've spent the day playing Street Fighter II and Killer Instinct. I also played a little Super Mario I on the Super Mario All Stars game. I beat it Oh yes, I still got it. I also found my NES controllers which I was looking for AND my power glove. Sadly I don't have all the pieces, so it's not quite functional. My hope is to find the rest of my NES games, especially Mario and my Zelda games. Maniac Mansion would be cool too.

Oh yeah, I saw Relient K and MxPx in concert, the big thing I wanted to say about that was that Relient K played the theme song from Full House, complete with harmony and the "ah ah ah ah" parts. It was cool, because no one besides the people at the San Francisco show will get to hear that!

Have you ever been happy to get a D-? On my final exam for Biblical Hebrew (you knew it was coming didn't you?) I got a 55.25 My professor emailed me and asked me to come in and we talked and quizzed me a bit and said I quote: "When you go home, you need to check your teeth." I was like what... then he said "because you just barely passed by the skin of them." Yeah, so I passed! Barely. Good thing I didn't brush that day.

Oh, and I found a little piece of heaven in the El Paso mall. It was a Chick-fil-A right next to a Sonic! Oh yes. That means a lot to me when the closest one of either of them to me at school is atleast 1 1/2 hours.

And that's my life for now.

35 more days untill I'm married! Holy crap.

"Da(ng) it feels good to be a gangsta..." was the edited version of the song of the same name by the Getto boys. Off of the Office Space soundtrack.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:34:39 GMT

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/

(insert hallelujah singing here)

One more week, after finals, I'll post more I promise.