So there's a delightful woman who's an alumni of my undergraduate school, Southern Virginia University, named Melissa Branin, who has entered a video contest on YouTube. The way she wins is if she gets enough views. Melissa is SO talented, and it's an awesome video! So take a second to click on the link and check it out! Here's Melissa singing Everybody by Ingrid Michaelson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjE4juv76k
Thanks! And feel free to pass the link on!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Music video mash up
I do intend to blog about more important things, like my dad and life, but for now and today I just want to share a few songs that I love with you. Also I love bacon and I wish I could wear short skirts bc I like my legs- but alas, they are immodest and so I can't...oh well.
My favorite line: the defeaning twang of the rich-white-kid blues
Pretty much anything by Aqualung:
Acoustic version is best:
I must have a remix or something, my version on my itunes is way better:
That's just a few for now. Enjoy.
My favorite line: the defeaning twang of the rich-white-kid blues
Pretty much anything by Aqualung:
Acoustic version is best:
I must have a remix or something, my version on my itunes is way better:
That's just a few for now. Enjoy.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Fairy Tale time. Hypochondriac's beware, annoyance can kill!
So I have to write a children's story by Tuesday. I had one all planned out and then I went on Amazon and discovered that my story wasn't very original after all and I've decided to just switch up an old classic. I googled "traditional fairy tales" and it led to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights_of_the_Fish). There are loads of interesting story synopses, but this one made me laugh based on the last line, so here it is:
An industrious but poor cobbler tried to fish until he was so hungry that he thought he would hang himself if he caught nothing. He caught a beautiful fish. It told him to cook it and then give two pieces to his wife, and bury two more in the garden. He did this. His wife gave birth to twin boys, and two plants sprang up, bearing shields, in the garden.
When the boys were grown, they decided to travel. At a crossroad, they parted ways. One found a city grieving, because every year a maiden had to be offered up to a dragon, and this year the lot had fallen on the princess. He went to see where the princess was, and then left her to fetch a mirror. He told her to cover it with her veil and hide behind it; when the dragon approached, she was to tear the veil off.
She did, and the dragon stared at his rival, identical to him. He threatened it until he finally smashed it to pieces, but as every fragment reflected him, he thought he too had been smashed. While it was still baffled, the knight killed it. The king married him to his daughter.
The princess showed him all over the castle, and he saw a castle of black marble, and was warned that whoever went to it never returned. He set out the next day. When he blew his horn and struck the gate, a hideous old woman finally opened the door. Echoes warned him off. He lifted his helmet, and the woman let him in because he was so handsome. She told him that he would marry her, and he refused. She showed him over the castle and killed him by dropping him through a trap door.
His brother came to the city, and was taken for him. He kept quiet, so he could help his brother, and told the princess that he had to go back to the castle. He demanded to know what happened to his brother, and the echoes told him. He stabbed the witch. She told him that she would not tell him because she was dying; then she told him how to save her life, with plants from the garden. Then she told him the way down, and he found the bodies of his brother and all her other victims, whom he restored with the same magic, and also a cave full of the maidens killed by the dragon, whom he also restored.
The witch was so annoyed that she died, and the castle fell down.
Love that last line, thank you wikipedia.
PS. Any story ideas, send them my way!
When the boys were grown, they decided to travel. At a crossroad, they parted ways. One found a city grieving, because every year a maiden had to be offered up to a dragon, and this year the lot had fallen on the princess. He went to see where the princess was, and then left her to fetch a mirror. He told her to cover it with her veil and hide behind it; when the dragon approached, she was to tear the veil off.
She did, and the dragon stared at his rival, identical to him. He threatened it until he finally smashed it to pieces, but as every fragment reflected him, he thought he too had been smashed. While it was still baffled, the knight killed it. The king married him to his daughter.
The princess showed him all over the castle, and he saw a castle of black marble, and was warned that whoever went to it never returned. He set out the next day. When he blew his horn and struck the gate, a hideous old woman finally opened the door. Echoes warned him off. He lifted his helmet, and the woman let him in because he was so handsome. She told him that he would marry her, and he refused. She showed him over the castle and killed him by dropping him through a trap door.
His brother came to the city, and was taken for him. He kept quiet, so he could help his brother, and told the princess that he had to go back to the castle. He demanded to know what happened to his brother, and the echoes told him. He stabbed the witch. She told him that she would not tell him because she was dying; then she told him how to save her life, with plants from the garden. Then she told him the way down, and he found the bodies of his brother and all her other victims, whom he restored with the same magic, and also a cave full of the maidens killed by the dragon, whom he also restored.
The witch was so annoyed that she died, and the castle fell down.
Love that last line, thank you wikipedia.
PS. Any story ideas, send them my way!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Life lessons from movie quotes
Lately I've been watching a lot of movies, and luckily I've picked up a few life lessons along the way.
Here's one from the little sister on 500 Days of Summer, "Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate."
Here's one from the little sister on 500 Days of Summer, "Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate."
I just love it; I guess I never thought of it before. I've always liked guys because they liked the same things (or I would start liking things because they liked them and then I'd say, "Hey we both like this! wow" NOT WOW.) Obviously I think it's important to have things in common, I mean you're going to spend quite a bit of time with your spouse over the eternities...but I'm not sure it matters as much as I thought. For example, my old bishop is a plain guy as far as I can tell. Casual, likes sports, whatever- just a guy. In contrast his wife is an artist who has a huge personality and dresses super funky (of course I’m basing this all off of shallow observations). It just seems to work for them, like they balance each other out or something. And their relationship got me thinking; I'm the crazy one, so I need someone who's just, a guy. Haha, I don't know, how would I? So yeah, I don't know, I'm not ruling out a crazy, but I've decided to not rule out a...piece of white bread...either. Who knows who my who will be, but I’m not ruling out any certain type or lack of type of who is all. I think what I might be saying is, opposites may attract.
And just for fun, the only episode of Star Trek I've ever seen- AND I LOVE IT! LOVE IT!
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