Love Calculator

So this is, yet again, a silly post, but it's actually kinda interesting (to me, at least).
You see, at the beginning of the month, when I had my birthday party, my one friend (I'm not mentioning any names, but I'm she knows who she is) brought out her iPod and showed all of us this "love calculator" app she found (only she would look for strange stuff like that). Anyways, she entertained herself by testing her name with every member of OneDirection, and finally gave m an unwanted turn. So what did I do? I typed fictional character names, of course! And my other friend did the same, and we cracked up over the results. We were wondering though, how it worked, and I thought it had to do with how similar the two names were to each other.
Right now, you're probably wondering what the heck this is all leading up to. Last night, I was thinking about it, and I went to everybody's best friend, Google, to find out the answer. I found this link to Yahoo! Answers, and it actually explained it really well. To an extent, I was kinda right. It doesn't really have to do with how similar the names are, but rather what letters are in the names. I just thtought it was pretty cool, and the way they explained it was easy, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to share.
If, for whatever reason, you don't want to use the link, I've put my own explanation after the jump.

Flyleaf Benefit Concert

On Sunday (May 20), Flyleaf held a benefit concert somewhere in Texas. They did it to raise money for the family of their sound engineer, Rich Caldwell, who died in a car accident (full details can be found in this video announcement by the band). If I had enough money and a few friends I could drag with me, I seriously would've loved to go. Except 1) it was in Texas 2) it was on short notice 3) my family barely tolerated Skillet at WinterJam. But still, from what I've heard, the setlist for the show was awesome. Anyway, the reason for posting this is because they performed one of their new songs, "New Horizons" at the concert, and I found a video with some decent audio quality. So I thought I'd post it here, in case there's any Flyleaf fans who read this blog. Plus, I found another few songs with good quality, so I thought I'd put them here too. So please enjoy!
On a side note, Flyleaf announced that they're going to be giving "Broken Wings" an official release on their new album. Geez, I really can't wait for this to come out. Flyleaf always makes me wait too long for new music! Haha.
Again
Broken Wings
New Horizons [New song]

TasteKid

Hello everybody, I know this is random once again, but I was looking around the internet for some suggestions for something I'm writing (I needed some bands that sounded like Three Days Grace) and I came across this website called TasteKid. Basically, you type in your interests, and then the search engine thingy looks for suggestions for you. Anyway, I thought it was a cute little site, and it's actually a lot of fun to play around with.

http://www.tastekid.com/

Console to Closet

Okay, so I just thought about posting this now, but a few weeks ago there was an article on Zelda Universe about this website called Console to Closet. What it is is a website with outfits that someone has designed based off of various video games. For example, there's one for everyone's favorite antagonistic AI, GLaDOS, Assassin's Creed, the magical Princess Zelda, and even Amaterasu from the game Okami. So if this kind of thing interests you, it's really a great website to check out. There are so, so, so many different designs to look at, I can bet ten dollars there's something you'll like! So you can either click that link above, which will take you to the homepage, or you can go to the archive and see the entire list of outfits on the site! Have fun!

Art Lesson

Sorry, this was the student example in my art lesson today and I just about burst out laughing.

Please don't tell me this is supposed to be a drawing of a cell phone.
Someone needs to update their curriculum...

Double Post

Okay, yeah, I posted, what like three hours ago? No matter. I just thought of something I was meaning to put on my blog at some point in time (and I totally forgot until now), but if you have some free time at some point (as little as five minutes is okay), you should check out some more links. They go to two of my friend's deviantArt pages (art website, in case you didn't know). And since they're both really freaking great artists you should look at them. So do it. DO IT NOW!
SoxPaws - Awesome Sonic the Hedgehog art and some really great manga/anime in there too. (by the way, all the pics she does of Silver are cute! *fangirl scream* No really, I had them on my iPod wallpaper for like five months. They're that amazing.)
cavemankong - Honestly, he has everything and a pegasus up here. Some Kingdom Hearts stuff, Halo, Assassin's Creed, etc. (And that Zelda one is cool. So do yourself a favor and look at it!)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go hide in a closet for the rest of the day...

Random Disciple Concert Vids

Okay, I got a little bit bored, and I looked up some Disciple videos on Youtube. Originally, I was gonna just listen to the music, but I found some really sweet live vids that someone filmed with what I swear must be the greatest camera on the face of the earth. Anyways, I thought I'd post a few since Disciple's an awesome band and stuff.

"Invisible" (Disciple) - Yeah this performance isn't as... er, I dunno what the word is, but anyway, they were opening for the Newsboys (says the description) so that could be the reason. Anyways, this is probably my favorite Disciple song ever, so it was kinda cool to see them perfrom it live.
"The Ballad of St. Augustine" (Disciple) - On the other side, you've got this video, where they're opening for RED. See the difference? XD

Alright, so that's my nonsense post of the week. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with something more worthwhile to read one of these days, but until then... you've got thse awesome Disciple shows to check out!

New Skillet Podcast!

Yay! Skillet FINALLY posted their Winter Jam podcast!! You HAVE to check it out, RIGHT NOW! DO IT!

Winter Jam 2012 Skillet Podcast

Haha my favorite part is the Kari Jobe and Korey Cooper swap (personally though, Kari reminded me A LOT of Lacey Sturm from Flyleaf). Anyway, this is the best fifteen minutes of Skillet podcast you may EVER see.

On a side note, I got my TFK and Disciple stuff in the mail today. Doubley happy!

Stupid Annoying Flyleaf Fans

Disclaimer: I do not hate Flyleaf fans (if I did, that would be ironic, considering I am one). I'm just kinda in an annoyed mood with a few of them who... well, you'll see...

So since I'm too lazy to purchase music on iTunes, I like to listen to songs on Youtube. And sometimes, I get a little bored, and sometimes, I read comments on the video. There's nothing wrong with most of the comments. Some of them like to start arguments about religion though, which is a topic I'm not going to get myself into. (Flyleaf is definitely a Christian band, END OF DISCUSSION!) Sometimes, there's actually people trying to be helpful, and they post their thoughts about what the song means, either in general or what it means especially to them. There's nothing wrong with that either. It's just that some of the comments really, really bug me.

For example, a lot of the people trying to be helpful often say things like, "I think this is about Lacey's..." or "I think this is about this that happened in Lacey's life..." and so on and so forth. I mean, yeah, there are a lot of songs that have been inspired by her (she's the lead singer, by the way), like "Treasure" was about her engagement and "Beautiful Bride" had to do with something in her family, but not EVERY SONG is about her. I just wish these people would realize that this band isn't about Lacey, it's about James, Sameer, Jared, and Pat too. This isn't some pop culture band where everything revolves around the lead vocalist. I'm not saying that there aren't a number of songs based off of her experiences, but they way that some people put it, it seems like Lacey is the most important. But what if there wasn't a guitar? Or bass guitar? Or

drums? You see what I'm trying to point out here? Everyone in the band is important!

Okay, so I think that's it for my Flyleaf rant. Hopefully that made at least some kind of sense. If it didn't, then you just wasted a few minutes of your life. Sorry to make you suffer through that, but it had really been bothering me for a while now. Okay. Done ranting. Go back to reading now.

Birthday!!

Hehe yay today's my birthday! I'm 14 now!

Alright so time for the long birthday blog post... Oh this will be fun. Just try not to fall asleep, okay?

Okay, so Thursday night, I went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with my grandparents, and I made a HUGE mess with the cake. Friday night, I had my best friends at my house for a sleepover and I made a HUGE mess with the cake. It was like a serious deja vu. Moving right along, I had a BLAST with my friends Libby, Emily, and Nina. Nina's a bit... well, she's a bit crazy, but we lover her anyway. Even if she tortures us with One Direction (whom I call Misdirected) music. We went to this pottery painting place near my house first. I painted a cute unicorn, Libby pained a cat to look like her cat, Emily did a yin-yang symbol on a plate, and Nina painted something she had drawn earlier in the week on a tile. It was fun! So then we came back home and basically just hung out in my room until three in the morning. We were just absolutely crazy! Especially since I borrowed my Dad's minifridge and put a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew in it!
The next morning, it took EONS for Nina to get out of bed (I even dumped a bunch of Beanie Baby unicorns on her). But eventually, we all got downstairs for presents and breakfast. Of course, I went for the presents XD And they were all awesome! My younger brother gave me some "Bro Coupons", which are good for him doing anything for me. From my parents, I got a backpack (It has pretty stars on it!), Zelda t-shirt (YAY!!!), post-it notes, neon whiteboard markers, sharpies and pencil case that looks like a Converse sneaker (just amazing!). Nina bought me a really nice hat with butterflies on it (I love hats by the way. That one's number 16.), and some green, blue, and purple nail polish. My favorite colors! Libby gave me an AWESOME drawing (which is going right up in my bulletin board!), some new magnetic nail polish (can't wait to try it out!), and a gift card. Finally, from Emily I got the new, third and final Kane Chronicles book by Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow, (I wanna read it NOW!!) and some new earrings in my favorite color!
So that's my birthday! Thanks everyone for the presents and gift cards, and thanks Libby, Emily, and Nina for coming over! I had an AWESOME time with all of you!

By the way, if you would like to see some pics of my presents, just click the jump.