A few days ago, I was at Barnes and Nobles, perusing the teen section, when I came across Nightlight. It's a parody of Twilight! The cover is a pale hand holding up an apple core- it's fabulous. I've already finished it and I think everyone should go out and buy it right now... well finish reading my blog and then go buy it.
Okay, I'm done talking about Twilight related things now.
So, I am currently at my friend's house on her laptop and I'm supposed to be working on this project we have, but I got bored/sidetracked and started blogging. (My wonderful ADD has come into play once again.)
Anyway, I was looking up stuff for this project and I got distracted (shocker) by some pictures from A Very Potter Musical. If you don't know what that is then go throw yourself off a cliff.
Just kidding!
Well, it's this play that some kids at a college in Michigan wrote and performed on campus not last year, but maybe the year before that... I can't really remember. The sequel, which is actually called A Very Potter Sequel, was released on YouTube July 22nd. I have watched both of the musicals and I fell in love with the songs, script, and the cast. They are a surprisingly talented group of kids! The guy who plays Harry Potter, Darren Criss, wrote the songs with the help of another guy. He also plays the guitar, I think he can play the piano, and he has a phenomenal voice. I'm not exaggerating either, this guy has some seriously amazing vocal skills. Don't just take my word for it though- you should watch the musicals yourself!
I have all the songs from the first AVPM on my iTouch and I plan on getting the songs from AVPS very, very soon; possibly as soon as I get home...
Every song from the AVPM is incredibly catchy, but I especially like "Back to Hogwarts" and "Hey, Dragon". Awww, who am I kidding? I love them all!!!
Now the sequel isn't as good as the AVPM, but sequels never are. Except for the second Godfather, or at least my mother says so. I wouldn't know; I've never seen any of the Godfather movies. Anyway, there are still some really good songs in the sequel all the actors came back to do the show so you don't have to worry about another Dumbledore fiasco. (In case you're clueless, that was a reference to Michael Gambon becoming Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed away... I don't like Michael Gambon.) The opening song, which I believe is called "It's Not Over yet", and the one directly after, "You're Harry Freaking Potter", are fantastic and there are some other good ones throughout the show. My favorite is "You're Harry Freaking Potter", I literally started crying with joy the first time I heard it. (Go ahead and call me a freak, I'm used to it.)
So, yeah I think you all need to go and watch both AVPM and AVPS right away, but you might want to spread them out over a few days because each one has about thirteen scenes in the first act and thirteen scenes in the second act, and trust me they are far from short. Nonetheless, they are amazing and should be viewed ASAP.
I hope you enjoy the musicals and even if you don't it's still good that you at least watched them!
Well, that's all folks! (At least for now.)
Here's Act 1 Scene 1 of AVPM!
Oh and did I forget to mention that Darren Criss also happens to be really good looking? Well he is! According to my good friend he is my future husband number one, since he's the oldest of the three. Now you know a little more than you wanted to know about me... YAY! Alright this blog post is now over. I promise.
THE END.
30 July, 2010
29 July, 2010
Vampires Suck
This is how incredibly ADD I am...
I started writing my last entry with the intention of writing about why I hate the Twilight Saga, and I ended up talking about Harry Potter! My goodness; I apologize.
So, now I'm going to write about Twilight!
First off, I should probably preface this by saying that I have read the entire Twilight Saga. I read the first book when I was in sixth grade (I think...), and I was naive enough to actually like that worthless excuse for literature. I thought Edward was a "gentleman" and that it was "so romantic" that he would watch Bella sleep at night. Now I know better- he's just a perverted creeper. And what's up with Bella? I mean, COME ON, you find out that the guy you like has been creeping' on you at night and that he thinks your blood smells delicious, yet you STILL want to date him? She really needs psychiatric care.
Furthermore, why would you ever date someone who wanted to eat you? Wouldn't you rather find a guy you could go out to dinner with, rather than someone who just wants to have you for dinner? Bella must have a death wish. Just look at her in New Moon- jumping off of cliffs and riding way too fast on a motorcycle. Either that or she's a masochist.
You know, if Bella would just use her brain she wouldn't get into so much trouble. The first time she actually thinks is more than three-fourths of the way into Twilight, and she never uses her brain in the second or third books at all. Well, I can't really say that. To be honest, I haven't read the books in many years, so I don't really know, but I'm sure I'd remember something as significant as Bella proving that she has some sort of measurable IQ.
Another thing that really frustrates me about the series is that fact that Bella is completely pathetic. I find it incredibly insulting that Stephanie Meyer made the heroine of her series an extreme stereotype of woman-kind. In fact, I'm shocked that more girls aren't offended by this. Meyer is teaching young girls to be dependent on men, marry rich, and to throw away their entire lives just because they think some guy is "hot".
Breaking Dawn is an excellent example of what I'm trying to say. Bella marries the first guy she's ever been in a relationship with at the age of 18, and then she gets pregnant! I mean it's already bad enough, but then you add in the fact that her husband is a monster and you've got a seriously messed up plot line. You don't even have to go as far as the last book to see my point. Just look at the scene in Eclipse where Bella fails to seduce Edward. REALLY??? Bella is, what 17?, and she's trying to have sex with her vampire boyfriend!!! That goes against everything that girls SHOULD be taught; like waiting until MARRIAGE. And that's exactly the opposite of what Bella's trying to do. Bella Swan is a slut and is not fit to be seen as a good role model for girls.
There's a lot more I could rant about on this subject, but I feel as though you don't really want to read a novel length slander of Stephanie Meyer and her waste of precious resources that some people like to call a book series, so I will end it here (for now).
Oh, but before I end this, there's this guy on YouTube named Alex Day and he has this series of vlogs in which he reads chapters of Twilight aloud and talks about how stupid the writing is. They are simply wonderful and I really suggest that everyone watch them because they're monumentally humorous AND Alex Day just happens to be British and the room-mate of the one and only Charlie McDonnell, also known as charlieissocoollike! I'll attach a video below so that you may all view "Alex read Twilight". Enjoy.
"JK Rowling proved that Young Adult books could be more than 400 pages. Stephanie Meyer proved that some shouldn't be."
(Just a witty little quote that I thought went well with the theme of this post)
I started writing my last entry with the intention of writing about why I hate the Twilight Saga, and I ended up talking about Harry Potter! My goodness; I apologize.
So, now I'm going to write about Twilight!
First off, I should probably preface this by saying that I have read the entire Twilight Saga. I read the first book when I was in sixth grade (I think...), and I was naive enough to actually like that worthless excuse for literature. I thought Edward was a "gentleman" and that it was "so romantic" that he would watch Bella sleep at night. Now I know better- he's just a perverted creeper. And what's up with Bella? I mean, COME ON, you find out that the guy you like has been creeping' on you at night and that he thinks your blood smells delicious, yet you STILL want to date him? She really needs psychiatric care.
Furthermore, why would you ever date someone who wanted to eat you? Wouldn't you rather find a guy you could go out to dinner with, rather than someone who just wants to have you for dinner? Bella must have a death wish. Just look at her in New Moon- jumping off of cliffs and riding way too fast on a motorcycle. Either that or she's a masochist.
You know, if Bella would just use her brain she wouldn't get into so much trouble. The first time she actually thinks is more than three-fourths of the way into Twilight, and she never uses her brain in the second or third books at all. Well, I can't really say that. To be honest, I haven't read the books in many years, so I don't really know, but I'm sure I'd remember something as significant as Bella proving that she has some sort of measurable IQ.
Another thing that really frustrates me about the series is that fact that Bella is completely pathetic. I find it incredibly insulting that Stephanie Meyer made the heroine of her series an extreme stereotype of woman-kind. In fact, I'm shocked that more girls aren't offended by this. Meyer is teaching young girls to be dependent on men, marry rich, and to throw away their entire lives just because they think some guy is "hot".
Breaking Dawn is an excellent example of what I'm trying to say. Bella marries the first guy she's ever been in a relationship with at the age of 18, and then she gets pregnant! I mean it's already bad enough, but then you add in the fact that her husband is a monster and you've got a seriously messed up plot line. You don't even have to go as far as the last book to see my point. Just look at the scene in Eclipse where Bella fails to seduce Edward. REALLY??? Bella is, what 17?, and she's trying to have sex with her vampire boyfriend!!! That goes against everything that girls SHOULD be taught; like waiting until MARRIAGE. And that's exactly the opposite of what Bella's trying to do. Bella Swan is a slut and is not fit to be seen as a good role model for girls.
There's a lot more I could rant about on this subject, but I feel as though you don't really want to read a novel length slander of Stephanie Meyer and her waste of precious resources that some people like to call a book series, so I will end it here (for now).
Oh, but before I end this, there's this guy on YouTube named Alex Day and he has this series of vlogs in which he reads chapters of Twilight aloud and talks about how stupid the writing is. They are simply wonderful and I really suggest that everyone watch them because they're monumentally humorous AND Alex Day just happens to be British and the room-mate of the one and only Charlie McDonnell, also known as charlieissocoollike! I'll attach a video below so that you may all view "Alex read Twilight". Enjoy.
"JK Rowling proved that Young Adult books could be more than 400 pages. Stephanie Meyer proved that some shouldn't be."
(Just a witty little quote that I thought went well with the theme of this post)
26 July, 2010
Preaching to the Choir?
Today, I finished reading the fifth Harry Potter book for about the seventh or eighth time (I lost count years ago), and I was planning on beginning the sixth, but sadly I had to start my required summer reading for school.
But I digress; the point is that whenever I am not reading anything I start the Harry Potter series over again. I never get sick of reading it. It's a classic, or at least it will be in years to come. If you haven't read the HP series, I highly recommend it. Now if you're one of those people who haven’t read it because you've been told that it's "against the Bible" or something similar, then let me just tell you this: HARRY JAMES POTTER IS A JESUS FIGURE!
Yep, that's right. Harry Potter is not, in fact, some devil's advocate who uses his magic powers for the forces of evil! That would be Lord Voldem-, excuse me, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The whole point of the series is basically that You-Know-Who (The Devil) is trying to kill Harry (Jesus), but Harry (SPOILER ALERT) eventually defeats him because Harry has the ability to love.
In fact, a friend of mine was not allowed to read the series because her mother believed it to be un-Christian and what-not. Then, after my friend relentlessly begged her mother for permission to read Harry Potter, her mother finally agreed to read the books to her. At first, her mom intended to have discussions after each chapter with her on how it was unlike the Bible, but was surprised to find that there were many allusions and similarities to the Bible.
So, if the reason you have yet to fall in love with the "Golden Trio" (like I, and many others have already done) because of your religion. Then I would rethink your decision to ignore this wonderful piece of literature, 'cause you're missing out.
If you have already followed Ron, Hermione, and Harry on their magical journeys, then you'll have to forgive me for "preaching to the choir" today. I promise to refrain from doing so in future blogs.
But I digress; the point is that whenever I am not reading anything I start the Harry Potter series over again. I never get sick of reading it. It's a classic, or at least it will be in years to come. If you haven't read the HP series, I highly recommend it. Now if you're one of those people who haven’t read it because you've been told that it's "against the Bible" or something similar, then let me just tell you this: HARRY JAMES POTTER IS A JESUS FIGURE!
Yep, that's right. Harry Potter is not, in fact, some devil's advocate who uses his magic powers for the forces of evil! That would be Lord Voldem-, excuse me, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The whole point of the series is basically that You-Know-Who (The Devil) is trying to kill Harry (Jesus), but Harry (SPOILER ALERT) eventually defeats him because Harry has the ability to love.
In fact, a friend of mine was not allowed to read the series because her mother believed it to be un-Christian and what-not. Then, after my friend relentlessly begged her mother for permission to read Harry Potter, her mother finally agreed to read the books to her. At first, her mom intended to have discussions after each chapter with her on how it was unlike the Bible, but was surprised to find that there were many allusions and similarities to the Bible.
So, if the reason you have yet to fall in love with the "Golden Trio" (like I, and many others have already done) because of your religion. Then I would rethink your decision to ignore this wonderful piece of literature, 'cause you're missing out.
If you have already followed Ron, Hermione, and Harry on their magical journeys, then you'll have to forgive me for "preaching to the choir" today. I promise to refrain from doing so in future blogs.
22 July, 2010
All Things British
I am obsessed with all things British. "Why" you ask? Well, for one, the British accent is the most delicious, irresistible accent in existence (in my opinion anyway). Everything sounds better in a British accent. For example, I don't particularly like it when people curse, but it hardly bothers me when the person saying said curse word has a British accent.
Movies with British actors always seem to make it straight to my favorites list. The Harry Potter movies are a special case though. I really like the acting, it's amazing, but the fact remains that many details that I deemed important in the books were omitted from the screen versions... But I will save that rant for another blog because I feel like being more positive today.
I am planning on applying to Oxford for two main reasons- it's in England, and they filmed scenes from the Harry Potter movies. There are other reasons, of course, but those are the two things I find most appealing. Sadly, I highly doubt both my parents and the Oxford would want me to attend that school, but it'll be fun just to see if I can get in.
Someday I would really, really like to move to England. I have this whole thing planned where I will buy a flat in London, meet a nice British boy who I will eventually marry, then when I am about to have my first child we'll come back to the states for awhile so that she/he will be an American citizen. Then we'll go back to our flat once she/he is born and I will begin to speak only in a British accent around my child. My reasoning behind this is that it would make me incredibly happy if my child had a natural British accent and the only way for that to develop is if the only accent she/he really hears is British. And seeing as though I would be most involved in my child's life I need to fake one until they've developed their own.
Now please don't take that little "plan" too seriously because while I would love that to actually happen, I do realize that I will most likely not even move to England to begin with. It's mainly just a dream, a beautiful, wonderful dream. Oh well, at least I can always vacation there.
Well, I hope you enjoyed reading about my crazy obsession. I know my friends all enjoyed that "dream" of my future husband and child. Too bad I wasn't born in England... At least I'm part British! So long! Farewell!
Movies with British actors always seem to make it straight to my favorites list. The Harry Potter movies are a special case though. I really like the acting, it's amazing, but the fact remains that many details that I deemed important in the books were omitted from the screen versions... But I will save that rant for another blog because I feel like being more positive today.
I am planning on applying to Oxford for two main reasons- it's in England, and they filmed scenes from the Harry Potter movies. There are other reasons, of course, but those are the two things I find most appealing. Sadly, I highly doubt both my parents and the Oxford would want me to attend that school, but it'll be fun just to see if I can get in.
Someday I would really, really like to move to England. I have this whole thing planned where I will buy a flat in London, meet a nice British boy who I will eventually marry, then when I am about to have my first child we'll come back to the states for awhile so that she/he will be an American citizen. Then we'll go back to our flat once she/he is born and I will begin to speak only in a British accent around my child. My reasoning behind this is that it would make me incredibly happy if my child had a natural British accent and the only way for that to develop is if the only accent she/he really hears is British. And seeing as though I would be most involved in my child's life I need to fake one until they've developed their own.
Now please don't take that little "plan" too seriously because while I would love that to actually happen, I do realize that I will most likely not even move to England to begin with. It's mainly just a dream, a beautiful, wonderful dream. Oh well, at least I can always vacation there.
Well, I hope you enjoyed reading about my crazy obsession. I know my friends all enjoyed that "dream" of my future husband and child. Too bad I wasn't born in England... At least I'm part British! So long! Farewell!
04 July, 2010
The Problem with Radio
When I was younger I would listen to the radio practically non-stop. My favorite radio station was "Radio Disney" and my parents probably got sick of hearing "The Hamster Dance" and various other tunes blasting from my dated, purple radio. Now-a-day I hardly ever listen to the radio outside of the car when it can't be escaped. It's actually not that surprising that I don't listen to the radio anymore though. I mean between Youtube and my iTouch I have all my favorite songs whenever I want.
There is another reason why I try my best to avoid the radio though... And that would be because you only ever hear the same songs. For example, I was in the car with my siter the other day and we were listening to Kiss FM, which plays the popular songs of the moment, and I swear we must have heard the same three songs over, and over, and over. It was a never-ending cycle of "Break Your Heart", "California Girls", and "Your Love is My Drug"... Of course, there were a few other songs thrown into the mix, but the same setlist was repeated for the entire car ride. Now while most of those songs aren't really good, I don't mind some of them... Except for when I hear it no less than twenty times within an hour on the same radio station. That is just ridiculous; there are SO many other decent songs out, but yet stations these days don't seem to want to play them. I just don't get it... After hearing "California Girls" for that many times I didn't want to hear the song ever again.
So my problem with radio? Majority of the stations out there ruin songs that I once enjoyed listening to. This is why I will be making many CDs in the near future to play in the car as an alternative to the radio.
There is another reason why I try my best to avoid the radio though... And that would be because you only ever hear the same songs. For example, I was in the car with my siter the other day and we were listening to Kiss FM, which plays the popular songs of the moment, and I swear we must have heard the same three songs over, and over, and over. It was a never-ending cycle of "Break Your Heart", "California Girls", and "Your Love is My Drug"... Of course, there were a few other songs thrown into the mix, but the same setlist was repeated for the entire car ride. Now while most of those songs aren't really good, I don't mind some of them... Except for when I hear it no less than twenty times within an hour on the same radio station. That is just ridiculous; there are SO many other decent songs out, but yet stations these days don't seem to want to play them. I just don't get it... After hearing "California Girls" for that many times I didn't want to hear the song ever again.
So my problem with radio? Majority of the stations out there ruin songs that I once enjoyed listening to. This is why I will be making many CDs in the near future to play in the car as an alternative to the radio.
03 July, 2010
Introductions
Since this is my first stab at writing a blog I figured I would start off my introducing myself to whoever might read my blog.
Here are fifteen things you should know about me:
1. I am obsessed with Harry Potter and will probably talk about/reference the series often.
2. I like to rant. I'll try not to be long-winded when I do it, but I can't promise you that I won't.
3. I don't use curse words. It's just something I don't like to do because it sounds less intelligent and there are plenty of other words that I can use to express myself.
4. I am a procrastinator, meaning I'll probably be writing alot of blogs when I should be doing something else (like homework).
5. Correct spelling and grammar are extremely important to me and I tend to correct others when they make mistakes.
6. I am a perfectionist, but I am no where near being perfect.
7. I am in choir and will talk about it at some point in the blog. Probably more than once.
8. My favorite TV shows are "The Big Bang Theory", "The Office", and "Gilmore Girls".
9. I don't Vlog, but I think it would be fun.
10. I am a major fan of the Youtuber Charlie McDonnell.
11. I tend to be a freaky fangirl every once in a while. If it annoys you, too bad.
12. My iPod consists mainly of songs from Broadway Musicals and Disney.
13. I am a selective eater.
14. I hate to exercise and only do it occasionally.
15. It took me several hours to come up with a name for this blog, and I'm still not sure if I like it.
Well I hope that helped you understand me a little more and what sort of things you might be reading about in my blog. I'm going to try and blog at least once a day, but can't promise anything. My only goal, so far, for this blog is to at least have a few readers because it'd be really pathetic if I was just writing these with no one reading them. That would simply make this blog practically an online diary... Except that I won't be posting anything too personal because it is, afterall, the internet and open to anyone.
That's it for now!
Here are fifteen things you should know about me:
1. I am obsessed with Harry Potter and will probably talk about/reference the series often.
2. I like to rant. I'll try not to be long-winded when I do it, but I can't promise you that I won't.
3. I don't use curse words. It's just something I don't like to do because it sounds less intelligent and there are plenty of other words that I can use to express myself.
4. I am a procrastinator, meaning I'll probably be writing alot of blogs when I should be doing something else (like homework).
5. Correct spelling and grammar are extremely important to me and I tend to correct others when they make mistakes.
6. I am a perfectionist, but I am no where near being perfect.
7. I am in choir and will talk about it at some point in the blog. Probably more than once.
8. My favorite TV shows are "The Big Bang Theory", "The Office", and "Gilmore Girls".
9. I don't Vlog, but I think it would be fun.
10. I am a major fan of the Youtuber Charlie McDonnell.
11. I tend to be a freaky fangirl every once in a while. If it annoys you, too bad.
12. My iPod consists mainly of songs from Broadway Musicals and Disney.
13. I am a selective eater.
14. I hate to exercise and only do it occasionally.
15. It took me several hours to come up with a name for this blog, and I'm still not sure if I like it.
Well I hope that helped you understand me a little more and what sort of things you might be reading about in my blog. I'm going to try and blog at least once a day, but can't promise anything. My only goal, so far, for this blog is to at least have a few readers because it'd be really pathetic if I was just writing these with no one reading them. That would simply make this blog practically an online diary... Except that I won't be posting anything too personal because it is, afterall, the internet and open to anyone.
That's it for now!