PUPPY!

My dad, mum and I were watching the dog show the other night and looking at all the breeds. My mum's kind of a big fan and can predict who's gonna win, she knows more about the scoring than I do; I just kind of watch for the dogs, though I like cats better.

Anyways, she said that if the prices are good we might get a dog when my grandmother goes to Greece (which is in April) and that way by the time she gets back we'll have trained it and she can't complain!

Whoopie!

Seriously, my grandmother hates animals and always complains about them, and has even given away some of my pets while I was at school. Admittedly, I wasn't very responsible as a child but I'm grown up now, and she still assumes I do nothing. So, a puppy....doesn't that sound great?

MOAR!

So on Boxing Day, I convinced my mother to take me down to John St. to the Chapters there, where I bought myself Doctor Who Season One. It was on sale and I had a hundred dollars in gift certificates for Chapters, so I picked it up.

Here's something you may not know, Doctor Who is ridiculously expensive. Still I bought it, even thought it cost $108.00 and I spent the last few days, soaking it in as I religiously watched it. I even watched most of the special features, and now, I think I'll watch it again. Maybe next week, though.

So while downtown I wanted to see if Angel Season 2 was still on sale for $19.99. It wasn't at Best Buy so we agreed to pop into the HMV down the street. It was there and on sale....

I could buy TWO SEASONS of Angel for $30.00 which is what I did, so now I have Angel Season 2 and Season 3 which I have been watching all day. Seriously, I didn't get out of bed except to eat breakfast and make the hellspawns lunch. Then I was right back up here, and enjoying every second of it.

Two days ago, we went to Scarborough Town Centre and I had Taco Bell and we stared at the puppies in the petshop. I was getting kind of annoyed with all the kids and the tiny cages they had them in. My mom bought some really cute things for work using her gift certificate, and I found this really cute pair of jeans (not skinny) and a pin-striped vest which makes me look really good.

Christmas!

So, how was Christmas for you guys?

Mine was good, typical holiday. We went to my nonna's on Christmas Eve where we ate seafood because in the Catholic tradition you're not supposed to eat meat on Christmas Eve. Seems like all the religious events are about suffering, even though it is a happy occasion what with the birth of Jesus Christ and all that. Still we feasted and my dad went to midnight mass and then when he came back we opened gifts.

I got lots of clothes, mostly shirts and some money, plus a Batman hoodie and a new cellphone from my parents and my brother. It's gorgeous! I can't stop playing with it. I'm afraid I have East York Cellphone Syndrome, or whatever it's called.

I also got an IPod port-thingy which means that I can connect my IPod and listen to my music externally. It's white and shiny! It also works really well, so that's all for me. What about you in the blogosphere?

PISCES POWAH!

So, it's Tuesday which means blog day. Yeah, I like to keep to a schedule but not a routine. I don't do well with routines. It's because I'm a pisces, it took me years to get into a habit of taking showers, brushing my teeth and taking my vitamins. So here's some little tidbits about Pisceans, in case any of you bloggers are interested, or if you have friends who are Pisceans.

Pisceans possess a gentle, patient, malleable nature. They have many generous qualities and are friendly, good natured, kind and compassionate, sensitive to the feelings of those around them, and respond with the utmost sympathy and tact to any suffering they encounter. They are deservedly popular with all kinds of people, partly because their easygoing, affectionate, submissive natures offer no threat or challenge to stronger and more exuberant characters. They accept the people around them and the circumstances in which they find themselves rather than trying to adapt them to suit themselves, and they patiently wait for problems to sort themselves out rather than take the initiative in solving them. They are more readily concerned with the problems of others than with their own.

I also have my moon sign in Libra which gives me my organizational skills. Among other things. My friend is also a water and air sign, like me. We get along really well, hardly ever argue or fight, unlike my other friend, who we always snipe at each other. I bolded my birthday and the people who also have the same day.

Anyways, here's some famous Pisces, and their birthdays. Enjoy.

Let me just say it is so cool that Michealangelo was a Piscean, and Elizabeth Taylor, Bernadette Peters and MR. ROGERS!

February 26, 1932 - Johnny Cash - Singer
February 27, 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor - Actress
February 28, 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomer
February 28, 1906 - Bugsy Siegal - Criminal
February 28, 1948 - Bernadette Peters - Comedian/Singer/Actress (ON BROADWAY!!)
March 2, 1904 - Dr. Suess - Children's Writer
March 2, 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi - Musician
March 3, 1903 - Alexander G. Bell - Inventor
March 3, 1911 - Jean Harlow - Actress
March 4, 1934 - Jane Goodall - Anthropologist
March 6, 1806 - Elizabeth B. Browning - Poet
March 8, 1922 - Cyd Charisse - Dancer
March 10, 1845 - Czar Alexander III - Royalty
March 12, 1936 - Liza Minnelli - Singer
March 14, 1933 - Michael Caine - Actor
March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein - Scientist
March 14, 1947 - Billy Crystal - Comedian
March 15, 1475 - Michaelangelo - Artist
March 17, 1919 - Nat King Cole - Singer
March 17, 1951 - Kurt Russell - Actor
March 17, 1964 - Rob Lowe - Actor
March 19, 1947 - Glenn Close - Actress
March 19, 1955 - Bruce Willis - Actor
March 20, 1928 - Fred Rogers - Kid Show
March 20, 1957 - Spike Lee - Director
March 20, 1958 - Holly Hunter - Actress

http://www.astrology-online.com/pisces.htm

Newspaper and the Teacher Talent Show

I'm really excited for the class newspaper, I keep telling everyone I know to attain a copy after the holidays! Everything is turning out so great, the adbuster-ads are really funny, and I've seen bits of the layout (sneakily watching over Kam's and Alex's shoulders) and I don't think I've been more excited! We only had a week and three days but it's really coming together! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on everything and to Ms.Cat, who trusted us to do our own thing and coming up with the project!

On an entirely unrelated note:

GAMBIT IS IN THE NEW X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE TRAILER! BECAUSE OF THIS I CAN NO LONGER WRITE IN ANYTHING BUT CAPS LOCK ON THIS BLOG!

HE IS AWESOME AND MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE X-MEN CHARACTER! PLEASE ENJOY SOME PICTURES FROM MARVEL.COM FOR THE NEW MOVIE COMING OUT MAY 1ST!

I Dunno

I don't know really to write about.

Christmas holidays are coming up, and it annoys me that I can't say 'Merry Christmas' because some people might find that offensive. I think those people need to get a life and stop whining about things. So, Winter Holidays are coming up, and that means no school for two weeks. And most of my teachers have decided on no homework, cause they don't want to mark it. So, it looks like it'll be an easy holiday.

Which is a good thing, even though as each Christmas goes by, I find myself more jealous of my cousins. It's not my fault, they really do get everything. They have three X-Boxes, an Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, digital cameras and the kitchen sink. Okay, I was kidding about the kitchen sink part.

So I find myself growing more and more bitter as the Christmases go by. Oh well, I'll just need to suck it up and show off my great acting skills for another year. Maybe I can convince someone to buy me Torchwood Season 1, or maybe Doctor Who Season 3.

Happy Holidays Everybody!

MC Mia on the Mike

So, not many of you probably know this but today (Friday December 12, 2008) I was the Master of Ceremonies for the Winter Haromonies Assembly. It was sort of a last minute thing and it was a lot more stressful than I had first anticipated. I had to run around to all my morning teachers and get there permission and move assignments and presentations around so that I could do it. It was worth it in the end.

I had a lot of fun even though I was really nervous. I expected to see the spotlight shining on me, and I would open my mouth and no sound would come out. But it didn't turn out like that at all. I even cracked a few jokes and the audience responded really well. I don't know if anyone can vouch for me though.

I was really nervous, I shook uncontrallably when the paper was in my hands but after a while, I guess I got used to it and my nervousness went down. It was still there but it was a lot more downplayed. I'm glad I got to do it (I almost refused.) It's something I'll remember, even if it was just a small assembly. It took a lot of courage to get up there because of my stage fright but I did it anyways and I didn't screw up too badly. (Missed a cue once, but that was fine.)

It'll be another high school memory to take with me.

My Meeting with the Doctor

Just something that popped into my head as I was walking home from school. Italics are a response to a question.

As I was walking home,
past the creepy-looking house on Sammon,
my music blasting in my ears-

No, it wasn't the Spice Girls.

Anyway, I looked up from scanning through my list,
I spied a blue telephone box,
but not just a telephone box,
a police telephone box.

Yes, there is such a thing, just not in Canada.

Being the curious kitten that I was,
I went up to the box and rapped on it,
Once,
Twice,
Thrice.
It opened and out came The Doctor.

What do you mean Dr. Who? THE DOCTOR, now stop interupting.

So he looked me up and down,
a grin on his face and hair spiked crazily.
"Would like to see the world?" He asked me.
I nodded and stepped into the Tardis.

The TIME-MACHINE HE TRAVELS IN! You are no longer allowed to talk.

"It's bigger on the inside," I said.
He grinned, "that's what they all say."
"So where are we going?"
"Oh, just a little galaxy-"

HEY! Where are you going? Stop! I command you to stop, or I'll send the Daleks after you! Stop laughing! I said, stop laughing!

Another Metaphor (I Find These Things Fun)

So here's another of those metaphor things, I think they're really fun.

Friendship is an ice cream sundae, it melts all over you if you wait too long.


Eh, that doesn't really make sense. Let's try that again...

Friendship is an ice cream sundae without all the components it's just plain ice cream.

Things You Can Buy on EBay

I really like this one site called Cracked! It's really mysoginistic, perverted and deals with mature subjects but it's also really funny and informative. Still based on the title of my post you can tell that some people have no lives. Cracked.com came up with a list of things that you'll be shocked you can buy on EBay, and it's scary. I'm kind of terrified to think that people out there would actually buy some of this stuff.

Like, you can sell used tissues that were touched by famous people and there's a huge market out there! There was a woman who was selling her old breast implants-before they were replaced by new ones, I know, creepy as heck. And really unhygenic, too. I don't know how much it went for but it's just too creepy to think about. Someone was selling a male chastity belt (made entirely out of plastic) Yeah, boys, just imagine wearing that.

Let's see, there's someone selling a Nickelback shot glass, Barack Obama Digital Political Pop Art, the world's largest Lite-Brite (which is a recreation of DaVinci's The Last Supper) there was a raccoon penis bone (the user has an entire collection of things made from the bone and accessories to go with it...yeah, I'm scared, too...) But the best would have to be invisibility, the actual power of invisibility is being sold on EBay, and they promise that it's not an illusion! Huh.

But that's still not the most insane thing I ever heard, there was a boom in IPod accessories, everyone knows the sensible ones, like the alarm clock, and the protective case but, I bet you didn't know that there was an IPod Breathalizer, or an Ipod Teeth-Whitener (apparently, sound waves help to whiten your teeth and strengthen your enamel.) There's an IPod Laser Light, that plugs into the headphone port, kind of useless when IPods light up anyways. There was even an IPod Shaver (for men and women!) But I think the most insane was the IPod toilet paper holder, with six waterproof speakers. Meditate on that a while and see what's wrong with that.

Still, I think the craziest thing, that had Animal Rights Activists up in arms, was the IPond. Yes, now you can have a little tiny beta fish instead of your IPod screen and listen to music while you stare at it. Yeah, I think I can see a few problems there. Still, it's nice to know that creativity has not completely dissapeared, if only it could be sensible again and used for actual function. Oh, and that the fish haven't been forgotten, remember, sea life needs protecting too!

http://www.cracked.com/article_16216_p2.html (IPod Accessories)

http://www.cracked.com/article_15836_12-most-awesomely-ridiculous-ebay-auctions.html

Metaphor

Alright, so this is mine:

Parents are like blankets, they scratch you when you move against them.


So, what do you think?? You like it??

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

So, just feel like writing about the presentation I have to do tommorrow for history, it involves choosing an art movement and then talking about the historical events and people that influenced them. My group did Expressionism, which is characterized by bright colours and shows the artist's view of something and their inner feelings rather than an exact copy of it. It's pretty interesting, I started researching Edvard Munch, who I'm sure everyone knows since he was the painter of "The Scream" which they enjoy spoofing. I think they did on the Simpsons.

Anyways, Munch (pronounced: munk) was kind of crazy, thanks to his childhood experiences. His mom and elder sister both died from consumption at a young age, and his father was a religious fanatic. So, Munch grew up with a very twisted view on the world and he chose to depict scenes of alienation, rejection and anxiety in his paintings. However, he was very grateful to his experiences, and even his anxiety attacks because he felt that without those harsh emotions his art would be empty and wouldn't be as good.

And I just wanted to put down two of his more "obscure" paintings and ask your opinions on them. Do you like them? What do you notice? How does it make you feel? Could you care less?

Bloggers: Send me a comment on what you think, and maybe we can get some discussion going.

Kung Fu Panda (And The Devil Incarnate)

I bought Kung Fu Panda last weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised. It was really funny, but I think I liked Horton Hears a Who! much better. I definitely liked the storyline, and all the animal characters named after kung fu moves (like Crane, Monkey and Mantis) plus the master is a turtle and that's just cool. Despite that, it's nice to see Disney becoming more cultura, and I kind of like the underdogs in stories, except for Paris but he's more of a twit, or a noob than an underdog. Okay, so that's isn't correct literary terms but he's entirely too pretentious and stupid for me to even fully appreciate his character.

So, Jack Black voices the main character, a panda named Po. And Angelina Jolie voices Tigress, Lucy Liu does Viper and Micheal Clarke Duncan voices the Rhino guard. And Angelina Jolie was a major reason why I didn't see this movie in the theatres, even though I wanted to because, well, I just can't stand her. I think she's fake, and the devil incarnate (hence, the title of this blog) and sure, some of my animosity for her could be from my mother (who really hates the woman's guts.) But still, she's not a saint, I don't care if she's an ambassador to the UN or how many kids she's adopted, the lady's a nut job and she's a really good actress (if she can make people believe that she's a good person.)

And that's my blog, oh, and supernatural's on tonight, though I think I may watch it from the sidelines while being on the computer, I can't take it after the travesty of last week.

TTFN.

It Gets a Little Harder Every Day

So, today, boys and girls, I will treat you to a poem inspired by the tragic tale of two famous lovers, Helen of Troy and Prince Paris.

Walking past the bedroom we had once shared,
knowing that he is in the other,
hearing him creep past my door,
it gets a little harder every day.

Seeing your father, so withered and worn,
your mother, stooped and low,
your siblings, so many empty places,
it gets a little harder every day.

Seeing the towers,
taking in the grey and empty streets,
moving past the white stone walls that once housed you,
it gets a little harder every day.

Knowing that I have nothing left of you,
no helmet, nor an image of your face,
your image fading from my mind,
it gets a little harder every day.

Knowing that you went before me,
knowing that I can't be with you,
no longer am I able to embrace you,
it gets a little harder every day.

The pain will never fade,
your brother's wife is proof of that,
it will never lessen,
until I behold you again.

Waiting for me on the shores,
hair still golden, smile still bright,
untouched in your youth,
be patient, love, it will be just a little longer.

Be patient, love, I am coming.

Archetype Assignment (Teachers are Getting Pretty Creative)

So, as you can tell from my blog title, we got a new assignment today in literature class. Basically, what you do is select a character from television or movies, and then you write a critique on it and make a poster using symbols that resemble that character's and archetypes traits. I was going to pick Sam Winchester from Supernatural, but Amie (my best friend) stole it from right under my nose, so I chose instead Dr. Walter Bishop from Fringe.

I have never seen Fringe but I have heard of it, and now I have an excuse to watch it! Which is the most amazing piece of homework I've ever gotten, so now I can watch Fringe on the computer and take notes and spend all my time on the internet reading character bios for him and it's considered 'working diligently.'

So, that's it.

Oh! If you would like to know what archetype Dr. Bishop is (played by John Noble. Other credits include 24, and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (DENETHOR!)) he is the mad scientist archetype. In fact, before the show, he was in a insane asylum for seventeen years, and was involved in many unethical experiments.

So, he's like Dr. Frankenstein or Dr. Evil, or Dr. Hamsterveil (from Lilo and Stitch: The Animated Series) Pretty cool, huh?

Hey, anyone notive how all these guys are doctors? Guess, Ms. C was right, doctors are evil.

Ja Ne!~

Back Story

Albert Edison Austin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but his family moved to Toronto when he was four. He was the eldest of two children and named for his father, Albert William Austin. His mother's name was Adele M. Austin and she used to be a theatre actress in Toronto where she met her husband. They then moved to Winnipeg to take care of his ailing father. Albert spent his early years in Winnipeg with his paternal grandparents. But the family moved back to Toronto shortly after the birth of their second son, William Roger Austin, and the death of Albert William Austin's father.

Albert Edison was born into a wealthy family, his father became the president of Dominion Bank when he was five. He lived in a illustrious manor nearby Casa Loma and his father was friends with the lord of the manor, Sir Henry Pelatt and his wife. Albert Edison watched with wonder as the castle-like manor was brought to life, much like the castles in his storybooks. Albert Edison was expected to follow his father and eventually run the Dominion Bank of Canada. However, it was one snowy day on his way home from school that he happened upon a street painter and that's where he fell in love with art.

Of course, his father thought that his newfound hobby was ridiculous and did not condone his son's choices. Albert Edison was a mediocre student in his high school career but continued his education at the University of Toronto. There he joined a fraternity and met his lifetime best friend, James Masters, who would later be known as 'Maniac Masters' a mulit-murderer who wa s executed thirty years later. Albert Edison enjoyed four years at university, away from his father's disaproving gaze and his family's expectations. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts and found himself unemployed.

Albert Edison enjoyed two comfortable years at home where he would paint and try to get others to critique and buy his paintings, trying to prove to his parents that he could make a sustainable income as a painter. However, he would be dissapointed with the reviews of his landscapes of Toronto. It was during one of his random hecklings of an art critic where Albert Edison quite literally, bumped into his future wife and love, Danielle Martel.

They married a year later in a rushed ceremony because Danielle was expecting the couple's child at Trinity Church. This proved to be last straw for Albert Edison's father, he officially cut his son off from the family money, leaving the new couple penniless. This put quite the strain on the marriage. Albert Edison was still painting and the family's savings were dwindling. Their son, William, died from the Spanish Influenza. It was around this time that Danielle began an affair with Albert Edison's neighbour and gangster, Salvatore Marielli. Danielle left Albert Edison and he sunk into depression, choosing to drown his sorrows in a whiskey bottle. After a failed suicide attempt, in which Albert Edison tried to jump off the Danforth Bridge but landed instead in the newly completed train tunnel; Albert Edison died three years later at the age of twenty-six of alcohol poisoning. However, Albert Edison finally got his wish, his work is out for display, as a warning to all potential artists of what not to do.

A Haiku About Writing a Haiku

Inspiration fails
me, obscuring my thought process,
ah, enlightenment.

So, here's a haiku about writing a haiku, or at least my experience today in class. It was frustrating, I wanted to say something but I didn't want to plainly state it, and then the words just sounded wrong. I mean, it should not be that hard to write a haiku about family, or in this case brothers. But I just couldn't explain the love and bond that they have. That silent way of communicating that only someone who knows you as well as you know yourself could ever understand.

Hmm, inspiration has struck. Let's see now...

Green eyes stare at brown
Silent communication
I know you too well.

Eh, I don't know if I like it. Anybody out there in cyberland want to help me?

*OLD* Trilogies

Can you put an entire story in one book? Would Harry Potter have been better if it was just one very large (and very heavy) book?

Doubtful, is my answer. I don't believe that the content of other books in a series can be summed up in one book. And yes, I suppose the writers can sometimes do it just so they can expand the series and make more money. But it's their living, this is how they support themselves and if you really don't like it then don't buy the other books. I mean, every book is -on its own- a story, with a climax, a beginning and an end. Then together the trilogy makes up one large book; a larger story with many stories in between.

In the first book of a trilogy you are introduced to the characters, their lifestyles, family, friends and the beginnings of their defining traits. Towards the end of the first book you start to see the growth of the character, their bravery and their ideals tested in a conflict. By the second book you're hooked, wanting to see more of the characters, how they react in conflicted situations and the climax of the trilogy, or the beginnings of it. The very last book picks up where the second one left off, usually in a giant war. This is generally the part where the character becomes very dark; they need to make hard decisions and those repercussions could cause even more turmoil. However by the end, our hero is usually a lot more mature, self-aware and understands the hardships; usually there is a death of a beloved character that resonates within the audience's being. By the end, everything is better-not the same as before- but the conflicts are resolved and the characters can move on.

However all this is just based on my previous experience in reading trilogies and does not pertain to all of them. Anything that deviates from this formula is definitely worth a read.

I blame my English Lit. teacher for this post. She started with her insistence that stories can be told in one book and I just had to prove her wrong. It's in my nature I guess.

Anyways, hey class, don't let my rant scare you too much.

*OLD* Dr.Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog and Other Related Things

Hello bloggers!

Since this is a writing class and an important part of writing is reading... (wait, what?)

Anyways, I decided to talk about the newest book I'm reading. It's called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" by: Austin Grossman. It's his debut novel and it really is something you should consider picking up. It was recommended to me by my best friend and I have yet to be disappointed.

The book is about a super-villain called Dr. Impossible and a newly formed hero named Fatale. Dr. Impossible's a genius in every sense of the word-he builds robots, wears a funny cape. He's been captured 12 times and escaped 12 times from a maximum security prison. Besides being a diabolical mastermind he's also got enhanced strength, senses and speed. He's only been in prison for two years when he escapes to bring about his newest world-domination plan.

Fatale on the other hand was just an ordinary girl in Brazil when she gets hit by a semi-truck (or something equally large) and her body is crushed. While in the hospital a goverment organization approaches her saying they can rebuild her body and give her enhancements. She agrees and they turn her into a cyborg. Fatale works for them for a bit when she gets invited to join The Champions (think the Justice League) as their newest member and that sort of starts her career as a superhero.

I'm still only on part one but I am falling in love with this book. It has everything I like, strong characters who are three-dimensional, superheros and dark storylines. It gives an insight into the villains, how they keep going despite being overthrown by the heroes and never winning. I like the way they show the super villains (defeated at times, solitary and not as 'bad' as we are lead to believe in most stories.) The heroes are actually shown pretty badly, not so you hate them but so they seem more human. Plus the character themselves can be seen in other superhero comics. There's a Batman-esque character called Blackwolf who had a thing with the team leader Damsel (she is anything but.) It really is like reading a comic book, only with a lot more prose.

This is a lot an Internet musical called 'Dr.Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog' which can find on YouTube and stars Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, an evil genius who strives to get into the Evil League of Evil. He's also Billy, in love with this girl named Penny, who he meets at the laundromat. It's a musical and the songs are so catchy, you'll be singing them for days. Anyways, Penny instead starts dating Dr. Horrible's nemesis, Captain Hammer, who is a superhero but he's really kind of a jerk.

There's also another book I'll recommend called 'Hero' by: Perry Moore. It follows Thom, who's dad used to be a hero and then he gets invited to join his father's old team. There he meets some new friends and makes enemies. It's really good and has many, many superhero references. So, if you like superheroes and comic books check all these things out and then tell me what you think about them.

*OLD* Sick in Bed

Urgh, I haven't felt this awful in a long time.

I didn't know what to talk about it on my blog and yesterday I couldn't even function properly, so I decided to start with that. Yes, I'm sick, I've got the mother of all head-colds (which is pretty much like the flu to me) My throat kills, I'm dizzy, I can't eat and I've got a slight fever, which means that I'm hot and cold at the same time. Woot, yay me.

I hate being sick, I hate missing school. I hate missing class and coming back the next day and feel totally lost as you rush to catch up. That's why if I'm sick for more than a day, I always get someone to get my homework. I know, everyone's staring at me like I'm insane. Why would you want to do homework when you're sick? The truth is, I hate feeling like I'm behind everyone else. I really value school and grades and when I miss a day, or two it makes me so frustrated that I'm in tears. I know, kind of pathetic.

When I'm sick it feels like the world is ending and all I want is to get better. Luckily, thanks to the laptop I can still do some of my work, and contact people so I can find out what I missed. Still, I really want to get better. Like now, please.

*OLD* The Case of the Haunted DVD Player (Who is in Leagues with the TV)

So, I swear my dvd player is haunted. It will just turn on randomly during the night (sometimes I fall asleep with it on, but sometimes I swear I turned it off.) And sometimes it doesn't turn off at all, it will just stay no matter how many times I press the off button. Sometimes it will also stay on even after I pull the plug out. It's seriously freaking me out. It's like someone's holding down the power button so that I can't turn it off. My TV will even do it, or there will be a DVD in and it'll just show this grey screen.

I cleaned my tv and dvd but it hasn't helped at all. Maybe I need to call in the Winchesters, I wonder if they do housecalls to Canada?


P.S. We're getting a new van soon, with a dvd player and Mp3 outlet. I'm very excited. Anyways, see y'all later.

*OLD* A New Faith

So, it's kind of insane but lately I've noticed a growing trend in tv shows, they seem to have religious themes or imagery. Like in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the first episode of the season was called 'Samson and Delilah' which is a story in the bible about this powerful warrior who had really long hair, but then his hair got cut and he lost his power. Besides that, most of the episode was set in a Catholic church.

Then in Supernatural, Dean gets brought back from the dead (and Hell) by an angel. An honest to God angel, the kind with wings, y'know God's messengers. So then the Angel (whose name is Castiel, and who burnt out a psychic's eyes but that's a story for another time) puts his hand on Dean's shoulder and says, "we have work for you to do." Umm, what? Since when does God come into play in a show about the supernatural? Okay, so that does actually kind of make sense, 'specially 'cause God himself can be considered supernatural, still it made me kind of take a step back. On the other hand, the angel was really cool and he kind of looked like the Tenth Doctor from Dr. Who.

However this is the icing on the cake, in the newest Heroes episode (which played yesterday at eight and nine; there were TWO episodes) Nathan says that he was saved by God. Well, he did come back from the dead after being shot three rimes in the chest. Still, to top it off Nathan went to the hospital's chapel and talked to a woman in Spanish and said that he had seen God.

This isn't a complaint, far from it, I like the idea of God introduced in all these supernatural shows but I'm just wondering what is going on? And because of this fascination, I kind of craving writing my own stories about angels. I think I have an idea like that someone in here *ruffles through brain* Oh well, I'll look for it later. Ja ne!

*OLD* Nothing to Talk About

There's really nothing to talk about. I just got through a whole bunch of assignments and I finally have some time to relax but it will short-lived. It's my prediction. It just amazes me how all everyone ever talks about is how hard university is. How it's hard to get in, how much homework you get, how you need to talk notes from the teacher's lecture, etc. It just gets ridiculous. Sometimes I think that they are over-exaggerating just to scare us into doing our homework and really trying. Plus, if university's impossible, how come high school is so easy compared to it? How do you make the transition between high school and university? How do people survive university and still manage to have a good time?

It's really getting to the point where I feel like giving up. I mean what's the point, my grades won't change from grade eleven. So even if I do really well in grade twelve, one class you get an okay mark in and that's it you're pretty much screwed. It's just too much.


Oh, please forgive my emotional whining. I was having a bad day.

*OLD* Buffy Musical and Joss Whedon

Now I'm not sure how many people know this but my favourite director is Joss Whedon. Generally noticed for his long-running series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What most people don't know is that he had a short-lived sci-fi show,Firefly, while he was writing, directing and producing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, which is a spin-off of Buffy. I couldn't believe it. He had all those ideas and they were really original; you never saw the same idea used on Angel, or Firefly as you did on Buffy. The characterization is excellent and the metamorphasis of the characters makes them feel so life-like, like they could really be out there. He's actually what started getting me into science-fiction shows and his writing gave me a deeper understanding in my characters and my own writing. If I could be as great as him one day, my life would be complete.

Anyways, besides this being an 'I love Joss Whedon' post, it's also a Buffy post. Joss Whedon had a dream, he always wanted to write a musical and so he turned an episode of Buffy into a musical. It was phenomenal; I was so enchanted by it that I bought the cd and listen to it all the time. It has something for everyone, from the campy-nonsensical stuff from past musicals, to the heavy guitar rifts of rock. The actors did an amazing job and the best part is the lyrics, they can be so profound and make you really feel for the characters and then be completely ridiculous, where he breaks down the third wall. He has amazing musicality, composing parts of the songs himself.

He also wrote an internet musical with his brothers starring Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day and Nathan Fillion. It's really great, check out my previous posts to find out more information. If you want to check it out, even if it's just a little clip go to YouTube and type in Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog. My favourite songs are "A Man's Gotta Do", "Freeze Ray" and "So They Say."

Rocky Horror Picture Show

So, last night on Halloween, my friends and I decided to go see Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Osbourne Theatre downtown. If you don't what Rocky Horror is I can't explain it, it's kinda stupid and makes no sense but it has become a cult classic. So, go look it up on google, or something.

Anyways, it's something I always wanted to do, mainly, because my dad's been telling me about my entire life. So, we went and it was really funny. You watch the movie where you can scream obscenities at the screen, and there's stuff you say and do in response to what goes on on the screen. For instance, the main characters go out into the rain, and they hold newspapers over their heads to protect them. So, the audience gets sprayed by water and everyone pulls out their newspapers. It's really funny!

And there's this other part, where this character on the screen says "great scott!" and everyone starts throwing toilet paper around the theatre. It's so ridiculous, and there's a live cast who will follow and improve on what happens on the screen.

So, that's what I did for Halloween. So, tell me, bloggers, what did you do?

Thursday Nights...

So, the most important thing about Thursdays is Supernatural. It started during the second season. I really didn't like Supernatural in the beginning, I thought it was way too scary. I wouldn't even be in the same room as someone who was watching it. But after catching an episode with my dad, while I was doing homework, I fell in love.

It was really all Sam's fault (he's the younger brother) He just looked so sad and helpless and it really pulled at my heartstrings. So, after the attraction to Sam. I only started watching the show for Dean (the older brother) who played in one of my favourite tv shows called Dark Angel. He played a genetically-enhanced soldier named Alec who is sarcastic and selfish, and really, really good-looking.

So, that's it. Tonight is a brand new episode of Supernartural which follows after Samhain. Basically, all the spirits they fought are being brought back on Samhain by the demons. The Winchester brothers and an angel named Castiel have to fight to put the spirits back where they belong. Maybe we'll finally get a brother confrontation about Sam's demonic powers and demon-flirting. Yeah, God hates Sam and wants Dean to kill his brother if he continues to use his demonic powers. Thing is, Sam agreed much too quickly, so I think, that he's still doing it, only he's being much more careful about it.

That would be a pretty cool twist.

Anyways, guys, have a happy thursday! And prepare for my costume tomorrow, it will be hilarious!

Halloween

So, tomorow's HALLOWEEN!

Woo!

It is my absolute favourite holiday. I love Halloween. I love dressing up as someone else and spend a lot of time planning my costume and making it. I usually make my costume; I find it gives it more personality than the store bought ones. Unfortunately, my family views Halloween as a satanic and anti-religious holiday and they don't celebrate it, other than handing out candy. However, when I get older. Halloween will be celebrated all through out the month of October, much like Christmas and I'll have a big Halloween party for my friends and their kids and my kids.

So, here's a little Halloween history for you bloggers:

All Saints' Day (All Hallows Day) became fixed on November 1 in 835, and All Souls' Day on November 2, circa 998. On All Souls' Eve, families stayed up late, and little "soul cakes" were eaten by everyone. At the stroke of midnight there was solemn silence among households, which had candles burning in every room to guide the souls back to visit their earthly homes, and a glass of wine on the table to refresh them. The tradition continued in areas of northern England as late as the 1930s, with children going from door-to-door "souling" (i.e., singing songs) for cakes or money. The English Reformation in the 16th century de-emphasised holidays like All Hallows Day or All Souls Day and their associated eve.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween)

Halloween is very popular in Ireland, where it originated, and is known in Irish as Oíche Shamhna (pron: ee-hah how-nah), literally "Samhain Night". Pre-Christian Celts had an autumn festival, Samhain (pronounced /ˈsˠaunʲ/from the Old Irish samain), "End of Summer", a pastoral and agricultural "fire festival" or feast, when the dead revisited the mortal world, and large communal bonfires would hence be lit to ward off evil spirits.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween)

I know about Samhain, thanks to my best friend who is Pagan. She celebrates it as both the commercial North-American version, and as a religious holiday.

Best of both worlds. TTFN.

What Makes Me Happy

Wow, I've really noticed a lot of emotional blog topic, also our journal this week was about being scared.

Huh. So, I guess I should tell you guys what makes me really happy, and besides the obvious ones (my family, my friends, etc.) it really has a lot to do with what I love. Well, as probably all of you know I am a big geek. I love sci-fi and fantasy television shows. So, whenever I'm really sad I just pop in my favourite tv show. Unlike my friends, one who listens to music when she's in a bad mood, and the other just writes on her own blog when she's in a bad mood. I prefer instead to lose myself in the struggles of my favourite characters.

So, I pop in Firefly, or Supernatural, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Dark Angel and I spend a goof few hours in my bedroom just watching. My parents will complain about me being alone and tell me to go downstairs but it's therapeutic for me. I need to do it. So, even if I have mountains full of homework, or chores to do, I push them aside for a few hours and just do what I love. I guess it makes me look bad, and probably lazy but it makes me happy, and that's all that matters.

Furious

Very few things tend to get under my skin and make my teeth clench as a way to restrain my sometimes offensive and explosive temper.

1. My cousins. They constantly yell/scream/hit each other which wakes me up, and when I wake up cranky, I'm cranky for the rest of the day. They also enjoy stealing the remote control out of my hands, hog the computer and have volume battles (that's where one turns up their music to an ear-shattering decibel and the other tries to out do them. Oh, what fun.) However, that's only a tiny smidgen of some of their efforts to make my life miserable.

2. When people insist that they are right when they are wrong. However, I am a hypocrite because I can sometimes be one of those people. I understand that everyone has their own opinion, and that it may be different from mine, but despite my knowing this. I enjoy living in my world where I am usually right, and anyone who tries to burst my happy little bubble will end up on my 'Things That Bother Me' List.

3. I hate when I can't make my own decisions, and when people assume I'll do something just because they say so. My mother is one of these people, she always volunteers me for things that I don't want to do. Then, when I complain she gets this annoyed look on her face like, it's my fault and I'm ungrateful. Well, I'm sorry that I don't want to work every single weekend from seven until midnight at a stupid theme park that is overpriced anyway! The boss is demeaning and I get yelled out by customers because she's too cheap to buy well-made products!

So, like I said, these are just some select few things that I find aggravating and can drive me to angry tears. Yes, the list is longer but I fear if I continue my blog will become R-Rated filled with cacophonic words starting with the letter F and so forth.

It's All Greek to Me!

My Studies in Literature teacher often speaks Greek. It's nothing really bad but it is hilarious, especially since most Greek insults/sayings when translated into English do not make ANY sense. Like, she keeps saying that she's going to "eat you" which is nothing really awful, just kind of funny. Or when you are angry at someone, you can say tha fas xilo which means "you are going to eat wood." Then there's fas petra which translated means, "go eat rocks" which is another way of saying "shut up" or "zip it." There's also a sound sut which is like "shh" only sounds much ruder then "shh."

See what I mean about the not making any sense?

But my favourite saying in Greek basically means, "go grab a pitcher of milk and sit on it."

Wow, those Greeks sure did some strange things.

Something Exciting

So, I came home from school to find a package waiting for me. My mom and I order books online from chapters and so I was really excited, hoping it would be what I ordered. It was. My two books, well one book and one manga. I ordered and received volume 7 of Ouran High School Host Club which is a Japanese graphic novel about this club called the Host Club at this very elite school.

A Host Club is a Japanese tradition where women, or men, can go to this establishment where they get paired up with a worker and they have a drink together. It's very refined and is supposed to mimic the salons and tea parties of the French. While some Host Clubs can be more adult, most of them are generally about interaction between individuals. It can be considered an archaic practice to our culture, but the Japanese consider it completely normal.

Anyways, so the manga is about the characters of the Host Club and the arrival of a scholarship student, Haruhi into their ranks. I enjoy it mostly because it parodies itself; the characters are humorous and the plot line is very simple. It's just something enjoyable that doesn't require a lot of thought or contemplation, but I still love it. The make parodies of the archetypes in Japanese manga, like the pretty boy, the girl pretending to be a boy, the twins, etc.

The second book I got is called "Torchwood: The Twilight Streets" which is actual a novelization of a British science-fiction television series based in Cardiff, Wales (famous for being the birthplace of Roald Dahl) about these individuals who fight against extraterrestrial terrorists. It's actually a spin-off of the Dr. Who series and the two shows will cross over at certain pivotal episodes. It's a really good series for anyone who likes science-fiction and will keep an open mind, as it can be considered very adult, which sexual content and language. I just got into it recently and had to buy one of the books, just to see more of my favourite characters and some more development, which they can't always show in the television show.

Culture in Everyday

Just something that I noticed today; typical with European families and reminiscent of the past there's a lot of evidence of my family's cultural background in my house. There's carpets everywhere that we pull out in the winter, which is mainly linked to Greek-Canadians. Like calling a car "carro" or the floor "flori" If you used these words in Greece, they'd look at you funny and probably shuffle away muttering about "stupid, exenos." Something I experienced firsthand when my cousins stayed with us this summer from Greece.

Anyways, I have actual Greek columns on which sit replicas of ancient Greek urns. Our teacups in the cupboard have depictions of Greek myths on them. We have a plate with Demeter on it, and another depicting a story from Ancient Greece, about two warriors and a woman. I don't know the actual story but it could be one of several. We have statues of the goddesses Aphrodite and Athene. A stone depiction of Herakles (Hercules) and let me point out that back then most of the statues were nude. A little difficult to explain to your non-Greek friends.

My family is Orthodox and extremely religious; mainly in part of my grandmother who lives with us. She makes sure to bless the house, keep candles lit and keep an icon in every single room. Like God is always watching you. It can be unnerving at times. Even the kitchen has a depiction of the Last Supper, probably to remind us while we're eating of what Jesus sacrificed. I think that's my favourite part about Greek culture, it's a synthesis between the old and the new. There's still paintings and statues erected of the Greek Gods today, and places in Greece that still worship them.

I thought it would be nice to talk a little bit about my home; give you a more personal look into my life. So, hope you liked it. h