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
Friday, May 27, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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
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
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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
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
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