Music!

http://www.thesixtyone.com/

If you like to just put Pandora on in the background and go about your life, this site is a great alternative. You can search how underground or well known you want the bands to be, which is good for searching out new music. You can also just leave the homepage up and it randomly shuffles softer alternative songs and it gives you a little sentence overview of the artist.

Write a story about two people who are in love, but don't belong together.

This is no Romeo and Juliet tale. This is a story about two college students who had rarely faced adversity alone but together, it was seemingly atomic. 

Ashton is from a well to do, upper middle class family. She grew up in a loving family, huge house, and after graduating high school, she was to continue the family legacy of being a Hokie at Virginia Tech. 

Akram is from a similar socio-economic background. His parents did more of the struggling, coming from Egypt. He grew up in Arlington, with the expectations to do well. He is Muslim, but you would never tell by just talking to him. Akram was also VT bound, pursuing engineering. 

Ashton and Akram met through mutual friends one day at a party. Neither ever thought it would be more than one night of dancing. Well, one thing led to another and over the course of a year, they were inseparable and in love. Neither one of them made things official, not because of what their friends would think, but because of what their parents would say. 

Ashton's preppy Presbyterian upbringing and Akram's strict Muslim parents would never allow it, even though neither one of them practices their faith. In their own generation, no one could tell they didn't belong.

After a year of title struggles, neither one of them was willing to make that jump. Their love is still deep within one another but not able to express it is going to hinder these hearts forever. 

Pointless, But Funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVW2BpcMnbo&feature=

I was just searching random YouTube videos instead of doing homework and I came across this one. It is just really funny, like I cracked up for like 5 minutes. It may have something to do with me being easily amused, but it will make you smile.

Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8gCZ7zpsQ

At the 2009 VMA's, Kanye West jumped on stage and pretty much ruined Taylor's moment by saying that Beyonce deserved it more. It was not necessarily a "good" speech but it created a lot of controversy and gave Kanye a bad name. I personally liked this moment because it is obvious that Taylor's song "Mean" is about this incident. I love Taylor Swift and anything that makes her write more songs.