11/11/11 or THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

11/11/11.

I can't tell you how many events there are on Facebook for today. At 11:11, I wished to be J.K. Rowling's new best friend. I plan on wishing for a Pottermore account later today (22:11, 11 hours after 11:11)

In the meantime, there is a certain DVD that has entered stores across the world today. And now my childhood is officially over. I siriusly cannot wait to get home and make my mother take me to Best Buy. Ant then watch it three times tonight....or maybe not, my parents might get mad. But they aren't allowed in on the first showing cuz I know I'm gonna start bawling my eyes out. THEY WERE JUST ALL SO CUTE!!!

In that light, I went and found a few pictures that made me feel better. Two are Foxtrot cartoons, the others are all fan art. Just because....

Until the very end,
Jenni

Elegie for James and Lily

So...if you haven't guessed already, this is my tribute to James and Lily Potter, who were killed 30 years ago today. (sniff) They were so cute together! (double sniff) I wrote a little scene today at school about them, and it's the hardest one I've written so far. (starts bawling) I have a love-hate relationship with that sheet of paper. I love it because it's really, really tragic (have I ever mentioned tat I love tradgedy?) but I hate it because I like these characters! I mean, I genuinley like them, and they feel more and more real the more I write about them. And I do feel responsible for their deaths, because I was the one who wrote Voldemort's dialouge. Well, actually, that was J.K. Rowling, and I borrowed it, but still. I wrote it down. (No copyright infringment intended!)

And that brings me to another thing that grinds my gears. On Facebook, there's an app called Pieces of Flair (If you haven't tried it, check it out) and it's basically these pictures on virtual buttons. And of course, they have Harry Potter ones. And I get SO ANNOYED when I go and try to find James and Lily flair, because it always shows these Lily and Severus flairs instead! Now, I've got nothing against Sev, but honestly! Just because Snape loves Lily doesn't mean Lily loves him back! She married JAMES, for christ's sake! Her son's name is Harry JAMES POTTER, not Harry Severus Snape! (And I'd feel bad for any kid who had to go around with the name Harry Severus Snape.) I can se friends, but I think Lily and James are SEVERLY underrepresented here. And some people would argue that Snape risked his life to save Lily's. Oh yeah? Well, James DIED for Lily, so that she could escape. And if you noticed, Lily didn't accept Voldemort's offer, who had been persuaded by Snape to spare Lily. See, that's the thing; I believe that all three of the Potters are far more noble and brave than Snape. Snape did what he did ONLY because of Lily, but the Potters died for what they believed in, and to help make the world a better place.
They could be considered experts on how to save the world. They did a pretty good job of it (especially Lily and Harry)

And here is my quote for the week. It is actually an excerpt from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, when Harry and Hermione are visiting Godric's Hollow.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off---"...
"Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!""Stand aside you silly girl … stand aside now."
"Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead ----- "
"Not Harry! Please … have mercy … have mercy… "
Lily Potter, James Potter, and Voldemort before the consequential destruction of their bodies.
October 31st, 1981.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

-Jenni

High School...it begins....

You know, I was really getting bored. So, one day, I decided to update this.
Because saying "It All Ends" on such and such a date is really depressing. (*coughthepeoplewhomadethelastHarryPottermoviepostercough*)

Speaking of Harry Potter, I would like to say that I'm hooked again. Yes. Again. I reread all of the books for the second time this year over the summer (not a very good thing to do with summer reading :/) but it was worth it. And now it's almost time for the final movie to come out on DVD... -.- I feel like my childhood is evaporating before my eyes. Ten years. That's how long it has been. Ten years since Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out, too. Deary me, I feel old.
I don't like it.

In other news, I (think) I am a Gryffindor. Pottermore opens tomorrow (EEK!!! SO EXCITED!!!) and I can't WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! I'm even getting up early. :)))))))))))))

Well, this summer I finished THE LORD OF THE RINGS (it was AMAZING) and I have to say, The Return of the King is by far the best part of the three. I didn't even mind the hobbits!
Eowyn and Faramir are so cute together. They're my LotR power couple.

Also over the summer- excuse me, over the month of August- I read A Wizard of Earthsea. Not enough to measure up to LotR or HP, but hey! It's only 200 pages, and it moves a lot faster than Emma. Which you will hear me rant about later. So if you need a book to read and you have about three days, look no further. The font's pretty big, too. Not to mention decent spaces in between chapters.

This brings me to a nonfiction book that I read, Eat, Pray, Love. Um, no comment. It was just weird. And I'm not completely sold on it, but it was good for nonfiction. I guess.

And now, for Emma. So we had to read a challenge book as the last part of our summer reading, and I chose this monstrosity by Jane Austen. What it really needs is not more refinement, not a movie, but a serial killer. Yes. A serial killer.
See, if there was actually an element of danger and tradgedy in the thing, it would be decent. And the serial killer could off the characters I don't like (in other words, most of them). Maybe they'd have something to talk about- I mean, honestly! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR BLOODY SISTER THAT HAS A BAROUCHE LANDAU, OR WHATEVER IT IS, MRS. ELTON!!!
Unfortunately, I can't slap the characters. I am siriusly disappointed.

 This school year, after the horror that is Emma (you'll be hearing more about how much I hate it as time goes on), I had the pleasure of reading "A Great and Terrible Beauty" and "Rebel Angels" by Libba Bray. Another wonderful series, I'd reccomend it to all of my friends. It was effortless to get into and is NOT your typical Victorian-era novel. Ms. Bray even pulls a good one on the "normal" books fo that time period.
I love the protagonist, Gemma. She's witty and doesn't really care about being a lady, and she is really loyal to her friends. Not to mention next-to-impossible to beat. And she's got that red-hair+strikingly-green-eyes combo that I love. *See the link farther down for more on my redhead-greeneyes obsession*

If you get the time, check out my very first Harry Potter fan fiction piece by clicking here. I have two Harry Potter power couples:
-Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks
-James Potter and Lily Evans
This story is about James and Lily, and of course Remus is in it too, but there's really nothing about him and Tonks.
MAKE SURE TO REVIEW!!!!!!

My quote for this week (which is long overdue):
"Harry, you are so loved. Mama loves you. Dada loves you. Harry, be safe. Be strong. Harry, be safe...be strong." - Lily Potter, talking to her son moments before her death, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011). What always gets me about this one is that she knows that James she knows that she's going to die, and that James is already dead, that Peter betrayed them, and that she is going to protect Harry no matter what, even more so now that James isn't there. And then Voldemort comes...and you know how it ends. And I'm crying the whole time, because, to be perfectly honest, they were so cute together. I hate myself for having to kill them in the end of my fanfic.

"'Will you stay with me?'
'Until the very end,'"
Harry and James Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (1st U.S. Hardcover Edition), The Forest Again.
It gets me every time *sniff* They shouldn't have died. DARN YOU, VOLDEMORT!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

Until the very end,
Jenni (G)

A Magnificently Sublime Blog Post...Hopefully!

Part One: Doctor Who, Season 5, Episode 4: The Time Of Angels
So... when was the last time you blinked? Turned off the lights? Looked away randomly? Well, there might just be a Weeping Angel hanging around somewhere. Which means you would probably be dead now. And never get to see the rest of this blog post!
Anyways...there are these monsters that we need to get rid of (surprise, surprise) that are called Weeping Angels. They're gorgeous stone statues that look like they're weeping because they cover their eyes from the sun. Well, gorgeous until they try to kill you. See, when you're not looking, the angels are moving. *BLINK* Now you have a really creepy face staring at you and two stone hands tightly around your neck, and you can't breathe, so you die. That's what Weeping Angels do. So Dr. Who and Co. are trying to destroy these monsters because they just crash-landed in a spaceship on this random planet. They have one guidebook, but it was written by a madman (therefore almost completly not understandable) and there are no pictures, so the Doctor doesn't know what exactly to look for. In the meantime, Annie (who's part of the 'and Co.') thinks she saw a glitch on a recording that they have of the angels, so she goes back into the trailer where the recording is playing and starts staring at the screen. Now, this is four seconds of recording. (:24-:28 ish) The kreepy thing is that the angel has turned its head in the image, from the original position since no one was watching it. Annie stares at it, blinks, and it is now facing her, still peacful, but definetly moving. She tries to turn of the TV, but that doesn't work, and in the seconds that she looked away, the angel's pleasant face is occupying the center of the television. So she's gettting really creeped out, and she tries to unplug the TV. The plug is stuck, so she slowly raises her head back up to the TV screen, where the angel's head hasn't moved, but now its razor-sharp teeth are bared and it looks like it's screaming. So now, our genius Annie tries to back up, screaming for the Doctor, and open the door. Which she can't. And now, the angel, while a hologram, is IN THE ROOM, and Annie isn't screaming her head off yet. What an odd little girl.
Click here to watch part one. (The TV screen part starts about 15 minutes in)

PART TWO:
A more appropriate title would be Part Three, because I FINALLY FINISHED THE TWO TOWERS!!!!! And now, I'm on The Return Of The King.
Oh my goodness, I'm almost done!!!!
The Two Towers had Shelob, which is the giant spider thing that attacks Frodo and whom Sam defeats. As it turns out, Shelob isn't much of a spider at all! Just a thing... a mythological creature, for sure. She is no decendant of Aragog, unless the relation is very far away...and she's kinda a brat. Like, beyond just poisoning Frodo. She hurt herself, too. And she cannot withstand the power of the ELVES!!!!!
I would write more, but I'm running out of time...

Which brings us to PART THREE, weekly quotes! *SPOILER ALERT*
This week's quote comes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One (2010)
"Of course sir, I'm an Elf!" -Dobby
And then, twenty minutes later, Dear Bella has to throw that stupid knife and kill him >:( If it wasn't for that, I think I'd like Bellatrix more. And maybe be more sad when she dies.

-Jenni

Poetry is EVERYWHERE! *gasp*

Thankfully, Blogger is back up and running (unlike earlier) so I can do my post for these two weeks.
Soo... this blog post is going to have a ton of links on it. I love links.
I found a poem that we listend to last year in PATH, One Boy Told Me by Naiomi Shihab Nye (the lady who wrote Habibi- her poems are much better than her novels) Click here to watch. My favourite quote is either "Just think! No one has ever seen inside this peanut before!" or "Grown-ups keep their legs on the ground when they swing...I hate that."
Then I went to Billy Collins, because, with a name like that, he has to be funny. His poem (The Lanyard) started out kinda boring, especially since he has such a monotonos voice, but then it became a good source of humor as the poem progressed. This quote, which is one of my favourites from the piece, was very amusing with the blah blah blah air that he was giving off. "Here are thousands of meals, she said, and here is clothing and a good education. And here is your lanyard, I replied, which I made with a little help from a counselor." Click here to watch. I remember when I went to Camp Geneva (from like kindergarten to sixth grade- the pre-Blue Lake era) the one skill every girl had to have is to know how to weave a lanyard, and you should have known at least one person who could start and finish a lanyard for you. I rarely finished mine because I got too bored weaving. Not going to be one of my career choices.
'On a more serious note, I found a poem that I didn't like as much but that was also a more serious poem. And, as I was looking through some of the poetry, I found that this is my favourite of the more serious poems. But I still like funny peoms more. And the most amusing line in this poem was "And although we have travelled far we must not forget that primal lesson on patience, courage, forbearance; on how to love squid despite squid..." Click here to watch Marilyn Chin's The Floral Apron.
In the animated department, I do think I prefer the nonanimated versions because you can see the poets expression and you aren't more focused on the pictures than the words. I was sad because none of the peoms mentioned above were in the animated archives, but I did find one I liked. It's called New York, by Valzhyna Mort, a native of Belarus. My favourite quote: "And things you won't tell to a priest, you reveal to a cab driver," I liked this poem because it encompases so much of what we know New York to be, the good and the bad. Click here to watch.

So, now for this week's quote...firstly, there was a small glitch in my quote from last week...I said the wrong Orlando Bloom movie. Will Turner actually says "No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it," in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (I wouldn't have realized if we hadn't watched it over the weekend) In the meantime, I had to come up with a really good one to beat out all those amazing ones above, so here it is, in honour of it being almost six years ince the movie was released (May 19, 2005).
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness!" -Obi-Wan Kenobi

And to accompany that line, click here to hear an awesome song from the soundtrack, whcich I am currently listening to like my life depends on it.

Try listening to the song while reading the line. And remember to listen to the WHOLE song, and may the Force be with you. Always.

-Jenni

April is Eaten By Jaws the First

Alas, as we hath walked through the valley of death, that we should be so unfortunate as to hath need to walk once more under the shadow of death...Goodbye, National Poetry Month. I will try not to forget you next year....
And until that happy day cometh, I propose that we all set aside our greif today...and CELEBRATE! :) It's May! Finally! Which means that there's only one onth left of school! (Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.) And i do intend on continuing to read poetry fro the rest of it...I don't know if any of you have ever found the "Shark Week" or "Alien" poems under Just For Fun on poets.org. Especially Shark Week...brings back memories of Jaws...*decapitated head pops out of hole in boat, hysterical screaming ensues* Maybe I'll actualy watch the whole thing next time... :/
I was looking at some of Christopher Rusk's other poems (he's the guy that wrote the poem about love and medicine) and he had two other poems on poets.org that I found, one of which I liked, the other of which was absolutely inappropriate. So he is no longer my favorite new poet.

On Lord of the Rings, our threesome finally got to Minas Morgul, and it actually sounds like a really cool place, not some weird green glowy thingy. And what I didn't get was that when all these troops were filing past our three "heroes", that it only took them what seemed like twenty minutes, tops, by the way J.R.R. Tolkien described it. And what's confusing me is that he said that there were also a lot of troops, so wouldn't it take a lot longer for all those troops to file past than twenty minutes? *sigh* Sometimes Mr. Tolkien can be so confusing.

This week's quotes come from two sources, since I couldn't decide which one to do....
"Music to drown by...now I know I'm in first class," -Tommy, from Titanic
"No cause is lost if there is yet one fool left to fight for it," - Will Turner II (Orlando Bloom), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2008ish)

-Jenni

The Clash of Poetry and Lord of the Rings

So...yes, it does sound interesting, doesn't it?
This week I wrote my pantoun, which I thought was somehow supposed to be an "obsession" of mine. So, being the overachiever that I am, I took it one step further: three obsessions (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter). Now, they can all be easily related, because that's what Wikipedia is for. So this is what I came up with- and this is the short version: The guy who plays Saruman in LOTR (Christopher Lee) also plays Count Dooku in Star Wars. And the guy who did the music for Star Wars, John Williams, also composed the music for the first Harry Potter movie, setting the stage with the internationally famous Hedwig's Theme. (Click here to listen to Harry Potter if you've been deaf for the last ten years) John Williams also did the equally famous Star Wars theme, as mentioned above, which makes him an overall famous guy. (Click here to listen to Star Wars if you haven't been well educated in late-70s early-80s really-late-90s or early-00s American culture as a child)

And then we come to Lord of the Rings, which has started to pick up once again (what is this, the fiftieth time or something?) So Faramir has come and gone-- well, technically, Frodo has come and gone. And Faramir is, as Wikipedia said, more like the opposite of his brother than the twin of his brother when it comes to the ring-- Faramir is the nerd, Boromir is the jock. And Gondor likes jocks more than nerds right now. So that explains well why Boromir was the prized son to Denathor.

The quote for this week comes with some help from a friend of mine. The quote comes from her favourite movie, Titanic.
Male Passenger: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
Jack: You want to walk a little faster through that valley there?

-Jenni

Poetry and Reading For This Week

Hello readers who are seeing my newly renovated blog. Notice the new gadgets :)

Poetry this week has been fun. Especialy today's poem from Poem-A-Day because it's about love and science. I thoght it had some really great comparisons.

 My love is as a fever, longing still
 by Christopher Bursk

It didn't take a Harvard Medical School degree
to detect you and I were not lovers destined to wed
but two viruses doing their best to infect each other,
two fevers that'd spread, different symptoms of the same
sickness. Past cure I am, now reason is past care.
Did I really wish to die? The doctor dismissed me
with the professional ease with which one might swat a fly,
as if for the fly's own good. So what
if you loved me more intimately than anyone ever would?
A cancer cell could say that of any body
it refused to let go. Once the heart was infected,
how could it be corrected? So what was I waiting for?
The truth is, the doctor smiled,
the microbe adores the flesh it's dating.

Not to mention the fact that I want to go to a college similar to Harvard..... I guess it wouldn't be as much fun if you didn't know what they were talking about with the science. But since I do, I really like it.

Now...this week's reading....Um, there's not much left to say, other than that of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit.

This week's quote is from Lord of the Rings, Part Two: The Two Towers (the movie)
Sam: What we needs is a few good taters,
Smeagol/Gollum: What's taters, precious, what's taters, eh?
Sam: PO-TA-TOES, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew....

Ah, classic.

-Jenni

Spring Break, Part Two

Part One: Trend Analysis Essay
It's coming along well (like all the other weeks) and I found some data (yay) but it's a chart, not a graph. Which is unfortunate. But I'd like to give CDC a BIG thank you because they gave me some really good information. And then I got my list of the top 50 most popular TV shows- three of which involve teenage mothers (Glee, Teen Mom, and the Secret Life of the American Teenager). 

Part Two: Poetry
I'm really excited for poetry because somehow (and this never fails) spring is always the busiest time of the year for me, academically. So, since poetry comes pretty easily to me, it'll be nice to have a little break. I found this really cool poem on poem-a-day that was about these tiny little details to remember someone by, from memories that you'd had together (the random yellow circles on the hotel carpet where you stayed once.)

Part Three: This Week's Reading
I have offically dropped Scarlett and re-started Lord of the Rings. And even though I'm in with the Hobbits, Gollum has decided to drop in, making a much better conflict. And soon, Faramir is going to enter the picture, which will be lots of fun with the conflict. >:) And then we end this book and go back to Rohan, and then to Gondor (to Minas Tirith, city of kings). And that means that characters return like: Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Eowyn, King Theoden, Eomer, and Legolas! ^^,

Part Four: Quotes :)
So, this week's quote comes from Star Wars (again ^^,), but this time it's Episode II: Attack of the Clones
"Why do I have the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" -Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor)
Hahahaha, so true, so true.

-Jenni ^^,

This Week's Reading and Trend Essay

I think I'll start with trend essay first. It's coming aong very well, and I'm still hoping to find some sort of chart or graph to use. I think I'll try some sort of government agency...they usually have things like that on every topic you could imagine. One of the reasons we have a government, so that kids looking for answers for their trend analysis essays can get them.

Next on the que is this week's reading. I am getting so sick of Scarlett I could scream. No, I don't care anymore, Ms. Ripley. You have failed to keep my attention by being boring and making Scarlett so un-Scarlettish that I have decided to stop reading. The novel will be returned to the library following the exodus of spring break.  That means that Lord of the Rings might be making a return...watch my Facebook for further updates.

And, after those two very short entries, comes our final segment, my personal favourite, this week's quotes.
"So this is how liberty dies... in thunderous applause."-Padme (Star Wars, Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith [bum bum bum])
*sigh* What a pity. She really would have been an interesting asset to the rebels in the later episodes.

-Jenni

This Week's Reading (March 15-22)

I'm doing this early because I will be in D.C. this weekend ^^, (so excited) and I'm not bringing my laptop, and although they probably have computers at the hotel, I don't think I'll have time.

For my trend, I think it's going to be OK if I can just find a few charts or graphs. Or data of some sort for deafness among teens. See, since I'm doing the effects of modern music on teen's everyday lives (language and hearing, mostly, maybe style or personality, morals) then I would love to compare with rates from a while ago, like maybe as far back as the Beatles (1960s).

So. This Week's Reading.
Before we get started, I'll give you a hint: title is a synonym for RED+ the letter "t" , sequel to Gone With The Wind, but by a different author. I like GWTW better. She's unscandalous, it's a fresh story, and all the boys are swooning over a shallow, stubborn, smart, and very spoiled sixteen-year-old named Scarlett. Hence the title of the book.
So, now Scarlett is strong and disgraced, plus kinda depressed from all the deaths, and I read up the book on Wiki and it turns out that the spunk and stamina that Scarlett needed to get through GWTW is necessary. Now that I think of it, Scarlett is a stupid book. She ditches Tara, which she would NEVER do, EVER, I mean, Tara is her home! I don't care if Suellen is now queen, she's Scarlett, and she can easily take over! She carried Tara through the aftermath of Sherman's March! She can take on her little sister! GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! And now she's apparently going to end up in Ireland (what the heck, right?) and meet her grandmother (who's like, 80 by now) and have another kid. ARGH! SHE IS SO ANNOYING NOW! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE BEFORE YOU WROTE A SEQUEL, MARGARET MITCHELL?? WHY???????
But I'll still read it.
I miss the old Tara. And the old Scarlett, spoiled and dependent.
Short post. Just for this week. Next week will be a LOT longer.

Quote:
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."- Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind (the movie, 1939- first movie to win Oscar for Best Picture)

-Jenni <3

Thsi Week's Nonexistent Reading

Soo....yeah. Not much reading this week...:/
But instead I've been writing. I love writing. Not crap writing, like "Write about a time when you were angry" or "Please write a 3-paragraph essay evaluating your performance at our concert" but real writing like "This story cannot be summed up in a 5-sentence-plot but still has a well defined conflict, although you don't know exactly what it is until the end."
For some reason, I have a new favourite number: 35. Why, I have NO IDEA. Probably some unknown connection in my subconcious mind....
So, in the beginning of NewNvl35 (which is all I've got so far), the first bit is entitled "The Best I Could Come Up With Was 'Sorry'" and is going to probably end up something like Inception + Th1rteen R3asons Why + The Host. So in the beginning, the narrator/main character, a 14-year-old boy named Jacob (Jake) likes a girl named Daphne DeRue, who starts out a lot like me. By the end of the first bit, she's committed suicide, mentally scarring Jake forever. Now Jake, being the science whiz that he is, has figured out that reincarnation is real. So he somehow sets up a device that will basically kill him, but it will be painless and it won't technically be killing himself. See, it's like a soul requesting a new body. (Example: Netflix. So say you want one movie really, really, really badly, but it's not in stock right now. So they give you your second choice, and when your first choice becomes availiable, then you are notified, you ship the econd-choice one back and recieve your first-choice DVD.) And since souls have lives too, and memories, and the older the soul, the smarter the being is. Where a soul has lived influences the attitude. (Example: a soul that has been a deer shot by a hunter in a past life and is now a congress(wo)man may fight to stop deer hunting.) You can also change gender, which Jake will do. His new name will be...coming soon! It's going to be rare, but pretty (like Juliet, but without the big meaning...I'm considering Verena, though. Even if it does sound like Verona.) And then in the next life, Jake is given a pet (dog, maybe?), which he thinks is Daphne in a different form. And, since he doesn't have to give up his memory until he wants to, he remembers about the soul-thing. After about six months with his new dog, which he still believes is Daphne, he decides to give up his memory, because he finds that he cannot have a true relationship with the Daphne-dog until he lets go, which will be the end of the story.
So basically the book is about someone trying to move on from a traumatic experience in their life. It sounds so much cooler with the long lists and bad grammar.
Yep. Randomness. Gotta love it.

Quotes this week: from NewNvl35
"...or perhaps you just can't comprehend my language, whoops, excuse me, I meant maybe you don't know the words I use a lot,"-Daphne talking to antagonist, first bit (I wish I had that kind of courage)

^^,
-Jenni

Back To The Tale Of Juliet And Her Romeo And Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas

First things first: Romeo and Juliet for an immature/Middle School audience (IM by Jenni's Film Association).
First, I would rename all of the characters after someone in the school (example using Foks High: Juliet=Bella, Edward=Romeo, Mike=Paris, etc.) as so to bring the play into more...modern terms. And the conflict with the parents and all is relevant, because tey're from rival gangas (like in West Side Story, also based off of R&J)Of course, we wouldn't be talking in Elizabethan english either. No one would have swords, and no one would be biting their thumbs (they'd have guns or knives and be flipping people off). And for communication purposes, Romeo and Juliet would have their handy-dandy cell phones. Also, there'd be a lot more explectives. And in the end, we use a drug overdose as the method for Romeo's suicide (making the school angry) and Juliet instantly cuts too deep (she began to become anorexic and started to cut herself when Romeo was expelled for a gang fight) (which could make the school expell me, perhaps). Kinda like Lia from Wintergirls.I suppose that my version for immature audiences would come off as a sort of comedy, mixed in with some serious high-school stereotypes.

Or we could do the Romeo and Juliet conspiracy plot. (See my blog post from two weeks ago) It could be called (drum roll please)

5,773 Degrees

"A red sun rises; blood has been spilled this night."

-Legolas (Orlando Bloom)

 (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002, directed/screemplay by Peter Jackson, based on the novel by JRR Tolkien)

Pyjamas. Pajamas. Tyre. Tire.
Weird. Weyrd.
But all the same, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas was AMAZING. The end was a bit predictable, and the likely hood of that happening is like, 1 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and that's what made the end so shocking and sad that I didn't cry.
So, the story revolves around an nine-year-old boy named Bruno, who is living very comfortably in Berlin with his mother, older sister Gretel (who is apparently a Hopeless Case), and father (who is a Nazi commandant), during WWII.  Bruno's grandparents also live two blocks away. The family is very wealthy and has a maid (Maria), a cook (who is called Cook), and a butler (Lars). One day, Bruno comes home to find Maria packing all his things. Mother tells him that they are moving. Upon arrival, Bruno is deeply annoyed. The new house has only three stories, including the basement (compared to a five-story home back in Berlin, if you count the room on top with the window and the basement) and there's no one around to play with other than Gretel, who is nearly thirteen. At the new house, which Gretel has told Bruno is called "Out-With" (yes, I know exactly what that sounds like, and it's increasingly obvious where- or what- Out-With is), the family acquires four new servants: a man, Pavel, to help the cook with miscellaneous tasks, and three new maids, who whisper quietly to themselves and don't talk to anyone else. The family has been told that they are to remain there "for the foreseeable future." From his window, Bruno can see a fence. A very tall fence, streching on for ever, with bales of barbed wire at the top. After about a month at Out-With, Bruno decides to go exploring, even though he has been told that the fence is Off-Limits-At-All-Times-With-No-Exceptions. He comes across a boy wearing striped pajamas, sitting on the other side of the fence, named Shmuel. The boys develop a forbidden friendship and the story becomes bone-chilling from there on.
I've found a clip for the last part of the movie for the book. This is by far the most unbelivable part of the book. If you haven't read the book, then I recommend you click here first and follow the videos to par two, part three, four, five six and so on. There are nine parts, but the credits start in part eight.
Warning: This content has been rated M (for mature audiences) by Jenni's Film Association (JFA) for something words cannot describe. Sadder than sad. More awful than anyone could ever imagine.
Click here to see the end (Part 8/9) of the movie. 


And the quote for the week comes from The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (the book, not the movie):
"Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go."

:'(

-Jenni

The Final Tale Of Juliet And Her Romeo

"Never was there a tale of more woe/than that of Juliet and her Romeo." -Prince Escalus
I disagree.
There's too much COMEDY. Not enough TRAGEDY. And it was to hard to understand to make it that tragic.
There is a tale of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo. And, strangely, this more woeful tale has a HUGE connection to that of Juliet and her Romeo. (I really like that part, I don't know why)

Yes, my friends.

TITANIC.

And the connection: JACK!!! :'(
It's quite simple, really. Jack is played by Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio (7) who also plays Romeo in the 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet alsongside Claire Danes.

But still, TITANIC is much more depressing than watching some guy kill himself over this one chick and then that one chick killing herself over that guy. Someone is seriously emotionally off-centered.
In TITANIC, you have to watch a jerk (who looks suspiciously like Paris from the 1968 version) try to kill most of the people, plus Jack and later Rose. Although there is some comedy, (I put the diamond in the coat...and I put the coat on her!) I think that being the survivor is far worse than being a victim. To have to go on (Jack! JACK! There's a boat, Jack! or just looking down over the rail -You're a good liar. -Almost as good as you.) is almost inconprehensible. If Juliet had started bawling, screaming, and throwing a fit (enter Elizabeth Turner from the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End after dear William is stabbed) i think Shakespeare could have created an even more emotional, moving scene. Or, if, when Romeo sees Juliet before he leaves for Mauntua, that they look at each other like Rose and Jack looked at each other while he was leaning over the rail of TITANIC and she was safely being lowered in a lifeboat. :'(
Yes, it could be worse.

And my quote for the week:

Gimli: I never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with an Elf.
Legolas: How about side-by-side with a friend?

:') *sniffsniff*

-Jenni <3

Romeo And Juliet Act Three Plus My Other Imaginary Books With Awesome Storylines In Which Revenge Is Very Common

Yes. Revenge...ah, the sweet taste of revenge...."Women do most delight in revenge." (Sir Thomas Browne) How true, how true...Romeo does too. I mean, Tybalt kills Mercrutio, Romeo kills Tybalt, and then The Prince banishes Romeo. How fun. And I don't like my character as much as I used to, same with Nurse (the backstabbing gossiper!)
Other than that, not much else happened to write about. Here's my Romeo and Juliet conspiracy theorem so far:
1. Before Mercrutio is killed, there is a wild outbreak of the Black Death, killing both of the Ladies.
2. Capulet and Montague, now having no one to tie them back, decide to fight each other and mortally wound each other in the process
3. We discover that Friar Lawrence, under orders from Romeo, had told Montague that someone Capulet had slipped Lady Mont. poison, killing her. We also discover that Juliet's Nurse, under orders from Juliet, had told Capulet that someone Montague had slipped Lady Capulet poison, killing her. (Both were preposterous, of course, but being the suspicious dingbats that they were, they believed the story and went to the duel)
4. Romeo and Juliet inherited all their parents wealth and titles, and, using the strength of their united houses, overthrew the  Prince and took Verona for their own.
5. And the rest of them lived happily ever after to the end of their days, save Tybalt and Paris, who also got in a fight (instigator=Romeo) and mortally wounded each other, similar to Montague and Capulet's situation.
THE END :)))))

This week's quote is from....(drum roll please)
LORD OF THE RINGS(The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001)!!!
(confetti cannons blow, wild screaming ensues)
Elrond: Ninde companions. So be it. You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring.
Pippin: Great! Where are we going?

-Jenni

Romeo And Juliet Act 2 Plus Anything Else I've Managed To Read Over The Course Of A Very Very Very Very Very Flighty Week

When I say flighty, I mean that I don't remember much of it; see, I stayed home from school on Monday because I was sick, managed to make it through Tuesday, on Wednesday I left after lunch because, well, I felt like crap. So then on Thursday, I still had my fever, so another day was happily spent on the home front. And then on Friday, I had to go back to school because my fever couldn't stay for another few hours. Oh well. At least it's the weekend now.

Sooooo...Lord of the Rings....Well, there's still not much to say. I got into Book IV, not that it's as throttling as the beginning of Book III was. Sigh...I think it's because the BLOODY HOBBITS just sit around and talk gibberish all day.
In other news, me, being the sick cookie that I was, decided instead to watch all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies instead of reading more of the book. Not as bad a choice as it sounds. End of story.

I found Romeo and Juliet quite entertaining this time. I mean, they've known each other for two days and they're already getting married! ^^, But then I thought about a quote from one of the Pirates movies, about how "Now is not the time for rash actions,"But other than that, I think I'll just show you a few of my most favourite quotes from the text:

Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

--

Romeo: A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, towards school with heavy hearts.

--

Mercrutio:...By Jesu, a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good whore!

--

Mercrutio: Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face of the two.

--

Juliet: How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?

^^,
And those are our quotes for the week people! Happy Valentine's Day...
Until next week,

--Jenni

Romeo And Juliet Meets The Two Towers Again

Well, all things said, they didn't meet for long. See, TTT has been temporarily sidelined. Sad, I know. But necessary for the time being. :'( It's almost worse than the first time I watched the end of Titanic and I realised that Jack was going to die about 45 minutes before he actually did. Star-cross'd lovers from District 12...*sigh*

Anyways, on to Romeo and Juliet. I think Sampson should stay a servant because he has prejudiced, sexist, and violent views on pretty much everything. If I could kill any character so far, it would be him.
Another really annoying thing: Shakespeare writes an entire sonnet just to say no, I haven't seen so-and-so. COME ON, PEOPLE!
On that note, I would like to ask why Juliet is already getting marriage proposals at age 12. 12. Yes, 12. I mean, I get that back then it was common for people to marry young, but still, 12! That's younger than I am, and there's certainly no way I'm ready to be married- and probably divorced  later on....Wait...is she 12, 13, or 14? They keep giving references to her being 12, then to her being 13!!! SO CONFUSING!!
Also, I found that one of the servants- Abram, I think- shares a line with Legolas from The Two Towers movie. It's only two words, but they are highly accusational. "You lie!" (Yes, I notice random little things like that ^^,)

Quotes this week, as many as I had, I have chosen one as ironic as possible. Although the character that says this quote is somewhere around 20, it's still rather ironic.
"I'm so ready to be married."- Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (which I watched today because I was at home with a fever)

-Jenni (who intends to be feeling much better tomorrow)

The Lord Of The Rings Part Two: The Two Towers meets Romeo and Juliet

Well, that said, I haven't really read that much this week, even though it was exam week...weird, I know. So, after getting through another chapter of TTT, I am deciding whether or not to skip Book IV and come back later. See, for some odd reason, instead of being lovable and funny, the hobbits are exceedingly dull. I spent an entire chapter listening to them drone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on... well, you get my point. But still, I don't know if I'll be able to get through an entire BOOK of nothing but blasted HOBBITS. I mean, there's Smeagol/Gollum, which may make for a bit of interesting reading, and apparenlty the order of events in the book is very different from the movie...well, I think I'll just wait and see.

For Romeo and Juliet, I think it might be nice to shake things up a bit. Maybe it will be annoying. I know not the effect that the story will have on my patience. Let us hope for the better.
And that proluge has some really, really, really long phrases.

This week's quotes are from a variety of sources. The first one is from The Return of the King, by Gimli (a good source of comic relief):
"Certainty of death? Small chance of success? What are we waiting for?!"
And then I laugh.
Later in the movie, we come across the diversion in question.
GIMLI: "I never thought I'd die fighting side-by-side with an elf,"
LEGOLAS: "How about side-by-side with a friend?"
And then I smile and start to get teary-eyed like I do when I hear this next quote in TITANIC, when Rose is on a lifeboat and looking up at Jack, who is leaning over the railing with an ADORABLE look on his face.
CAL: You're a good liar
JACK: Almost as good as you.
(CAL snorts)
JACK: There...There's no arrangement, is there...

And then I actually start crying if my parents aren't in the room.

-Jenni (who just realized that in her favourite movies her favourite male character dies/almost dies/is in a very life-threataning situation where he's most likely to die at least once)

This Week's Reading...Whoops, I Meant The Lord Of The Rings, Part Two: The Two Towers (Book III)

For those of you who haven't read The Lord Of The Rings, there are three parts: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Within those three parts are six books, plus an appendix following the sixth book within Part Three: The Return of the King. (Did you know that The Lord Of The Rings was originally written as one volume, but then split up for publishing reasons?)
I have to admit, this book is superior to Book II, mostly because there's less of the annoying hobbits and more EPIC BATTLE AWESOMENESS!!! Well, it wasn't as epic as I had hoped...Helm's Deep was kinda like Twilight- if you know what I mean....you expect so much, and so little of it gets answered. But I do feel really bad for comparing anything to do with Lord Of The Rings to Twilight, FYI. (LOTR>>>>>>>Twilight) So anyways, Treebeard and the Ents decide to go to war. That's where we left off.
Kay. So we go to Rohan, and there's apparently this really long ride via horses, and then we finally get to Edoras where un evil counsellor is misadvising Theoden, King. Eowyn talks in Shakespearian English like Aragorn.  If he didn't already have a girl, I think they'd be perfect for each other. (What a cheater. I can already see Arwen going all Warrior-Elf on them ^^,) But yeah. I see how Aragorn is TRYING to uphold his honour as Eowyn starts her evil plan with good-natured motives. TIt's all so different from the movie....*sigh* Which is a good thing, I suppose. Perhaps not. I cannot decide which one I like more.

This week's quotes are as follows:
"Ah, so that's the dark side of ambition...."
"I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption,"
Now, can anyone tell me where that quote is from??
It won't be too hard...I'll give you a hint:
It is from a movie that is directly related to LOTR, but is NOT LOTR itself.

Good luck!
-Jenni

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail: Part Two Plus The Lord Of The Rings: Part Two: The Two Towers And Other Reading That Does Not Exist At The Moment

I think my title for this post just beat The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds.

Anyways, I've finished The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail, and decided I didn't like it as much as I could have, partly because I was often very confused. I find it exceedingly difficult to attempt to picutre the text being played out on a stage. It just doesn't work! And if I don't piture it , I get confused. So, once again, my head hurts.
I think that I now really hate Waldo for "being a phony," in Holden's terms. I mean, people look up to you! You have a son who you ignore, and you seem to hate being home. I have to side with Henry on this one, Waldo. What an idiot.
I really think I like Edward. He's so much like his father, but learned enough from Henry that he isn't a phony, and still has a sense of innocence and truth about him. And then the authors had to go and ruin it by putting him in a war uniform and banging a drum.

The Two Towers is...well, it's certainly better than the first couple chapters of The Fellowship. Did you know that for about thirty pages, my favourite character is mentioned on at least every other page? I do have to say, Merry and Pippin were better when they had a maximum of three lines per chapter. I don't know why, but hobbits are becoming increasingly dull and irritating. Not quite to the levels of Boromir (who dies in Chapter One: The Departure Of Boromir- halelujah, no more worries about him), but that's not hard to beat.
I've also been looking ahead in the book, and I happened to come across Helm's Deep fighting sequences. FIrstly, I would like to say that playing an orc-slaying game using refined and proper speech is utterly hilarious. Secondly,  Gimli must cease shouting Khazad-ai-menu when attacking orcs, for it seems as if he believs that orcs are on the menu for his breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner. Finally, Eomer and Aragorn should stop playing World Cup with their swords. (For those of you who don't know what World Cup is, it'as a soccer game/drill where you divide into teams of two or three and choose a country name. There'as one/a few goalies at the nets, and the pint of hte game is to work together with your partner to score goals. You have to call out your country's name before you shoot or else it doesn't count. If you manage to score, then you advance to the next round. Last ones standing win.) So, Aragorn, Anduril is not an acceptable soccer ball, no matter how cool it is. The mastery of Elves cannot always overpower your occasional lameness, Chief of the Dunedain, Elfstone, Strider, Elessar, Son of Arathorn, heir of Elendil, King of Gondor, whatever you wish to call yourself.

This week's quote is from The Two Towers, which I actually found whilst I was indulging in a guilty pleasure of mine. "It is easier to say stop! than to actually do it." -Fangorn (better known as Treebeard, the Ent)

I will  now go and continue my indulgence in Lord Of The Rings or do my bio homework. I'm leaning towards The Two Towers.
-Jenni

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail, Part One And Other Reading

"The most famous act of civil disobedience in American history." I find this awfully confusing. Especially when the scenes are flashing back and forth between people and they're all doing different things at the same time...oh, I have an awful headache and my  head is starting to spin simply thinking about it.
I do have to say, though, I really do enjoy listening to the protagonist. He isn't simple minded, he thinks for himself, and encourages other people to stand up for themselves. The only thing that I really don't agree with is that he seems to be an anarchist. Henry does have some great views on the government, though. Especially when he uses the "official document" for his shoe sole. And I love ow he wishes to sign off from the government. I do think he is my favourite character.
There was a line from Ellen that made me think of a line from Titanic..."I'm not one of your birds, nor one of your fish, Mr. Thoreau." said Ellen. Miss Rose Dewitt-Bukater of Titanic fame said "I'm not a Foreman in one of your mills that you can command;" to her fiancee.

And now on to The Fellowship of the Ring. I find myself becoming slightly teary-eyed at the fact that it's nearly over; I have become rather attached to that lovely little thing. Now I'll have to borrow from the library. How unfortunate. But joy fills my heart once more to know that, not long after I leave fair Lothlorien, my least favourite character will be cast from the Company like a rotting apple core and sent down the Falls of Rauros. And once he is gone, then I must no longer worry about the boring and rather dull Shire until the end of the final installment, in which I will start bawling the last time my favourite character is mentioned.
On that note, I don't know what I'll do once I finish the trilogy. I can't go back and read There And Back Again, and be infested with more halflings; perhaps I will find the story about the Silmarillon and attempt to read more about Luthien the Fair. Perhaps.

And for this week's quote we turn to... that's right... LEGOLAS!! When entering in the woods of Lothlorien, we meet more elves (yay), who just so happen to speak the same language as Legolas, who also speaks much of the common tongue (aka English) and translates for the rest of the Company.
"Yes, they are Elves, and they say that you breathe so loud that they could shoot you in the dark."

:)

-Jenni

A Blog Post That May Bore Some Of You

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2011 brings tidings of less homework and more sleep!
I love LOTR. After nearly 200 pages and one week, I have finally reached the bit that I showed you last week. Page 328. "I go to find the sun!"
I still can't belive I survived the Council of Elrond. And I have some trouble with the names- it's like Mr. Tolkien expects me to know everything. I have figured out Imladris is Rivendell (yay) and I already knew that Orodurin is Mt. Doom (Mountain of Fire) and Barad-dur is Sauron's tower with his evil eye (pun intended). Other than that, though, I am nearly to the point of confusion.
I would like to know more about Gil-galad because he sounds similar to my favourite character. I still can't belive how haughty Boromir is, even though he has been honoured with the chance to go with Frodo. He is, by far, my least favourite character. I mean, I can't even laugh at him! He doesn't talk funny, he doesn't do stupid enough things, and he doesn't make jokes! GRRRR!!!!!!!!! And he succumbs to the Ring so easily, I was nearly disgusted. Faramir should be much better from his brother...just one more book....


For my quote this week, I decided to use a Gandalf quote. I can't recall if I've used it before or not, so I'm going to use it again.

"There are many powers in this world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not been measured. But my time is coming."

Yes, the time is coming. Until next week,
-Jenni