So I have decided when I move out of the house eventually and into my own apartment I'm not gonna worry about cable for a while. I have a list of movies to long to copy here, and a handful of television series on DVD to get.
Angel
Firefly
Supernatural
True blood
Mad men
Vampire diaries
Alias
Oz
Once upon a time (all though this isn't on DVD yet)
So yeah, even though odds are I will get to a couple of these before I move out, cable will not be needed. For some time. I just need to make friends with the library.
~Peace out nerdyo
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Heroes and Cliches
I'm going to try to write a post about how I feel about "The Dark Knight Rises." It's going to be hard, because this movie really impacted me. Odds are I'm going to stray a bit, because this post is also about the "hero" cliche. First, a few disclaimers.
1. I am going to talk about movies very seriously, to the point where most normal people would say "Yeah, your a dumbass."
2. I have always loved and will always love the cliched, stereotypical hero, so that's part of what fueled the post.
3. I am a Marvel girl through and through, but My favorite Super Hero ever has always been Batman.
So, I'm going to start with the basic reasons I liked the movie so much. And seeing as the listsseem to be helping me organize my thoughts, we're just going to stick with the format.
1. Hans Zimmer's score I certainly think is worthy of, at the very least, and Oscar nomination, if not the award.
2. I think Michael Caine deserves a supporting actor nomination for Alfred, he kinda stole the show in every scene he was in. Tom Hardy was pretty intense as well, his eyes were all you needed to see to understand the malice in his character.
3. Christian Bale... Ok, I love this dude period because he's a great guy, but I sincerely think he might very well have been made for this role. He has done such wonderful justice to the characters Batman and Bruce Wayne over the past three films, and his coup de gras was this film. He just owned it.
Ok, no for the hard part. This is probably just going to sound like rambling nonsense, but I have to get it out of me. Oh, and major spoiler alerts, if you haven't seen the movie you may not want to read on.
I have a problem with movies. I watch them all the time, I can watch a movie once and be able to quote nearly the entire movie. Because of this, I gravitate toward movies that have memorable quotes. My favorite quote from this movie is "Anyone can be a hero, even the man who puts his coat around a little boy's shoulders and telling him everything is going to be alright." Part of the reason I have always loved Batman is this principle. Batman always made sure no one could tell who he was, so he could be anyone. Batman was a symbol, not a person, and I love that. I also really loved the prison sequence, although I saw the whole "need to fear death, don't use a rope" thing coming as soon as they flashed back to the kid. I still loved that the prisoners chant "rise" whenever someone climbs, and Bruce hearing his father was beautiful. "Why do we fall? So we can get back up." I live by this phrase. For real. I literally bawled my eyes out the last twenty minutes of the movie. One place I nearly squealed with Joy and sadness was when Kyle was telling Batman that he'd given Gotham everything, and he simply said "Not yet." It was then you knew he was going to die. Now granted, if you are paying attention to how the story arc was going in the other two movies, you kinda knew Batman was going to die, but it was still a very intense moment when he flew out over the water. Then the end with Alfred in Europe, "I would look at you, and you would look at me, and we wouldn't say anything, but I would know you were happy." I could barely stand it. I think part of the reason I loved this movie so much is Batman is just the ultimate hero for me. He takes the fall for Dent's murder, because he knows that Gotham needs someone to love (Dent) and someone to hate (him) to feel right. The Dark Knight never gets any credit for all the good he has done for the city, and that just tugs at my heartstrings. I love Batman, everything about him. Because he's so humble. I just... My eyes are tearing up just writing this.
Ok, that felt good. I'm done.
have a graphic, on me.
1. I am going to talk about movies very seriously, to the point where most normal people would say "Yeah, your a dumbass."
2. I have always loved and will always love the cliched, stereotypical hero, so that's part of what fueled the post.
3. I am a Marvel girl through and through, but My favorite Super Hero ever has always been Batman.
So, I'm going to start with the basic reasons I liked the movie so much. And seeing as the listsseem to be helping me organize my thoughts, we're just going to stick with the format.
1. Hans Zimmer's score I certainly think is worthy of, at the very least, and Oscar nomination, if not the award.
2. I think Michael Caine deserves a supporting actor nomination for Alfred, he kinda stole the show in every scene he was in. Tom Hardy was pretty intense as well, his eyes were all you needed to see to understand the malice in his character.
3. Christian Bale... Ok, I love this dude period because he's a great guy, but I sincerely think he might very well have been made for this role. He has done such wonderful justice to the characters Batman and Bruce Wayne over the past three films, and his coup de gras was this film. He just owned it.
Ok, no for the hard part. This is probably just going to sound like rambling nonsense, but I have to get it out of me. Oh, and major spoiler alerts, if you haven't seen the movie you may not want to read on.
I have a problem with movies. I watch them all the time, I can watch a movie once and be able to quote nearly the entire movie. Because of this, I gravitate toward movies that have memorable quotes. My favorite quote from this movie is "Anyone can be a hero, even the man who puts his coat around a little boy's shoulders and telling him everything is going to be alright." Part of the reason I have always loved Batman is this principle. Batman always made sure no one could tell who he was, so he could be anyone. Batman was a symbol, not a person, and I love that. I also really loved the prison sequence, although I saw the whole "need to fear death, don't use a rope" thing coming as soon as they flashed back to the kid. I still loved that the prisoners chant "rise" whenever someone climbs, and Bruce hearing his father was beautiful. "Why do we fall? So we can get back up." I live by this phrase. For real. I literally bawled my eyes out the last twenty minutes of the movie. One place I nearly squealed with Joy and sadness was when Kyle was telling Batman that he'd given Gotham everything, and he simply said "Not yet." It was then you knew he was going to die. Now granted, if you are paying attention to how the story arc was going in the other two movies, you kinda knew Batman was going to die, but it was still a very intense moment when he flew out over the water. Then the end with Alfred in Europe, "I would look at you, and you would look at me, and we wouldn't say anything, but I would know you were happy." I could barely stand it. I think part of the reason I loved this movie so much is Batman is just the ultimate hero for me. He takes the fall for Dent's murder, because he knows that Gotham needs someone to love (Dent) and someone to hate (him) to feel right. The Dark Knight never gets any credit for all the good he has done for the city, and that just tugs at my heartstrings. I love Batman, everything about him. Because he's so humble. I just... My eyes are tearing up just writing this.
Ok, that felt good. I'm done.
have a graphic, on me.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Random writing prompt: an auto-biography
Time for another random writing prompt!
" imagine you are writing an auto-biography, what would the title, and table of contents be?"
Then I realized, God was probably laughing at me.
Table of contents
1. My kind of town, Chicago is.
2. Time for a little bro.
3. Off to Wisconsin, or somewhere thereabouts
4. Friends,homeschoolers, Wisconsonians, lend me your ear.
5. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was highschool.
6. I start getting political, theatrical, historical
7. Then I realized, God was Probably laughing at me.
8. What next?
I suppose the name bears some explanation. When I was younger, I used to play pretend all the time. I mean all. the. time. I would be everything from a medieval knight to a teacher/ student at Hogwarts. I was an elf who had fallen in love with Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. I did all kinds of stuff. I even do a lot of fantasizing these days, just coming up with ideas in my head to put myself into stories I like. Every once in a while I wonder if something I'm doing is bad, or blasphemous. I wonder if God might not like what I'm thinking.
Then I realized, God was probably laughing at me.
" imagine you are writing an auto-biography, what would the title, and table of contents be?"
Then I realized, God was probably laughing at me.
Table of contents
1. My kind of town, Chicago is.
2. Time for a little bro.
3. Off to Wisconsin, or somewhere thereabouts
4. Friends,homeschoolers, Wisconsonians, lend me your ear.
5. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was highschool.
6. I start getting political, theatrical, historical
7. Then I realized, God was Probably laughing at me.
8. What next?
I suppose the name bears some explanation. When I was younger, I used to play pretend all the time. I mean all. the. time. I would be everything from a medieval knight to a teacher/ student at Hogwarts. I was an elf who had fallen in love with Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. I did all kinds of stuff. I even do a lot of fantasizing these days, just coming up with ideas in my head to put myself into stories I like. Every once in a while I wonder if something I'm doing is bad, or blasphemous. I wonder if God might not like what I'm thinking.
Then I realized, God was probably laughing at me.
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