"I will break into your thoughts"

Cool first line to a song.
Let me start out with a song that has amazing vocals.
Flyleaf - I'm so sick (right click to listen)

Reasons? Listen to the freaking chorus. Can YOU hit that octave jump? Didn't think so. The lyrics are actually really insightful. To me, i think she's saying she's infected with selfishness and ignorance. She's amazing, and I've decided that she's so much better at singing than that Evanescence girl. And better looking. Plus she's cooler. And check this quote out!!!!

All five members of the band are of the Christian faith.^[7] This faith influences their music, but lead singer Lacey Mosley doesn't necessarily believe that makes Flyleaf a strictly Christian band. "We all share the same faith. And so when we deal with the whole 'Christian band thing,' we kind of think about something P.O.D. says, like, 'If you're a Christian, it affects everything in your life. So if you're a plumber, does that make you a Christian plumber?' " Mosley said. "I don't know the answer. We're a band, it's part of who we are, so it comes out in our music, and it's the fuel for what we do. And finding faith saved my life. So I'm not ashamed of it at all. And most of our album reflects that."^[8]

She actually was into drugs and considered committing suicide at one point. But then after going to church, she obviously changed. Anyway, cool success story! I didn't realize that they became famous through that Yahoo! competition either. AND how cool is it that she's married to the drummer?! Um, if I were going to be in a rock band, that's how I would do it too, because let's face it, that's hot. Side note: this song makes an appearance on Rock Band, the most rad video game out there. I can do this song on Medium Drums. What.

So recently, I've sort of created this group called the Finer Things Club. Hopefully, this Friday, we are going to go to pottery event on campus. Should be awesome, because, who doesn't love to get their hands in wet slippery clay? Brings everyone back to kindergarten, does it not?

In other news, I posted this picture of me on facebook that was taken over a year ago at my brother's wedding. I'm just now getting feedback on the incredibly short hair style I once had. Haha, how funny. I think I'm getting more compliments on it now then I did when I had the haircut. *shrug* C'est la vie.

Ps. I wish I could speak French (because it's beautiful). And Japanese (because it's cool). If there was one thing I wish I could do, it would be to speak multiple languages. Linguists blow my mind. I think it's one of those talents that my brain simply cannot wrap itself around. And therefore, one of my goals is to live outside the country until I can learn a different language. I'm graduating soon, so I'm sure that won't be a problem. And I've come to conclusion that living outside the country is the only way I'll learn, because school didn't work, haha.

Work was tough this week. I had a group of the nicest and meanest people. That's all I'll say about that.

So, for an anthropology project, we had to do 6 interviews and discuss different people's perspectives on beauty. It was actually quite amazing, as me and 6 people tried to establish what their thoughts on beauty were. And you have to admit, it isn't as easy it sounds! To articulate something so obscure, elusive and abstract as beauty is hard. I have to hand it to my participants for trying. I was so inspired by this topic, that I've decided to continue the discussion, and I'm going to post about it in my next post I think. I would put my paper up on here, but it turned out to be so shallow in comparison to my discussions that I know it just won't give all the insights justice. So you just have to hold out a little longer. (I want to read that book that is pictured. I wonder what it has to say.)

But here is a little taste for what's to come. I found this quote from President Hinckley and what he thinks about beauty. And if you care to comment, please do! I'd love to carry a running discussion.

"I believe in beauty.

The earth in its pristine beauty is an expression of the nature of its Creator. The language of the opening chapter of Genesis intrigues me. It states that “the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” (Gen. 1:2.) I suppose it presented anything but a picture of beauty.

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” (Gen. 1:3.) And so the creation continued until “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” (Gen. 1:31.)

I interpret this to mean that it was beautiful, for “out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight.” (Gen. 2:9.)

I believe in the beauty of nature—the flowers, the fruit, the sky, the peaks, and the plains from which they rise. I see and believe in the beauty of animals.

I see and admire beauty in people. I am not so concerned with the look that comes of lotions and creams, of pastes and packs as seen in slick-paper magazines and on television. I am not concerned whether the skin be fair or dark. I have seen beautiful people in all of the scores of nations through which I have walked. Little children are beautiful everywhere. And so are the aged, whose wrinkled hands and faces speak of struggle and survival.

I believe in the beauty of personal virtue. There is so much of ugliness in the world in which we live. It is expressed in coarse language, in sloppy dress and manners, in immoral behavior which mocks the beauty of virtue and always leaves a scar. Each of us can and must stand above this sordid and destructive evil, this ugly stain of immorality."

G'nite :)