The Haunting in Conneticut is so far the scariest movie I've seen all year! I saw it on its opening day and fell in love with it. Though I could do without the whole theater experience(crying babies, screaming girls, sticky floors, etc)
Thought I'd share this little clip. It fully explains my feelings of movie theaters : ) If you don't like it, don't watch it : )
The movie was absolutely breath taking! I sat with my mouth wide open through half of it. While my boyfriend burrowed into my sholuder, a sly smile spread across my face. Bodies fall out of the freaking wall! Go see it now! It is so worth five of your money and 2 hours out of your life!
Based on a true story, The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family's real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sing A Song About Coraline!
A little late, but I'm doing a few posts about movies I've seen recently. Starting with Coraline. I read the book by Neil Gaiman a few months ago after I heard about him through a writer I worked with named Chauncey.
Coraline is a wonderful movie in the true spirit of the dark and scary nature of Tim Burton. I don't suggest bringing small children to this movie, though it was innocently marked with a PG rating. The other world was frightening at times. The 3D was kind of ho-hum. It was more like being in the room with the characters than having things jump out at you.
11-year-old Coraline Jones moves into the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon with her busy parents, Mel and Charlie Jones. When Coraline does all her tasks her parents asked her to do, she goes to meet her neighbors, Mr. Bobinsky, and Miss Spink & Miss Forcible. After the ladies tell her about an old well not far from the house grounds, Coraline decides to find it by using a dousing rod. While searching, she meets an odd boy named Wybie Lovat, and it would appear that she and Wybie have a small "love/hate" relationship. Although Coraline found Wybie annoying, he showed her where the well was. After returning home, Coraline goes to sleep in her new bedroom. She then wakes up hearing a strange noise and sees a mouse in her bedroom. Thinking its one of Mr. Bobinsky's mice, she chases it to the parlor of her home and finds a small door. Curious to where it leads, Coraline goes through it, and finds she's in an alternate version of her house. She then meets inhabitants of the Other World, such as her Other Mother, Other Father, her Other neighbors, and even Other Wybie. She ends up loving the Other World, and visits every night. Her Other Mother says she can stay in the Other World forever if she is willing to sew buttons into her eyes. Coraline then refuses and goes to bed, thinking she'll wake up in her real bedroom. But when she wakes up, she's still in the Other World. She realizes the true dangers of the Other World, and discovers that her real parents were captured by the Other Mother, who is also referred to as "the Beldam". Now Coraline must count on her courage and a mysterious talking black cat to escape the Other Mother's tricks and traps, rescue her parents, and free the trapped trio of ghost children.
Coraline is a wonderful movie in the true spirit of the dark and scary nature of Tim Burton. I don't suggest bringing small children to this movie, though it was innocently marked with a PG rating. The other world was frightening at times. The 3D was kind of ho-hum. It was more like being in the room with the characters than having things jump out at you.
11-year-old Coraline Jones moves into the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon with her busy parents, Mel and Charlie Jones. When Coraline does all her tasks her parents asked her to do, she goes to meet her neighbors, Mr. Bobinsky, and Miss Spink & Miss Forcible. After the ladies tell her about an old well not far from the house grounds, Coraline decides to find it by using a dousing rod. While searching, she meets an odd boy named Wybie Lovat, and it would appear that she and Wybie have a small "love/hate" relationship. Although Coraline found Wybie annoying, he showed her where the well was. After returning home, Coraline goes to sleep in her new bedroom. She then wakes up hearing a strange noise and sees a mouse in her bedroom. Thinking its one of Mr. Bobinsky's mice, she chases it to the parlor of her home and finds a small door. Curious to where it leads, Coraline goes through it, and finds she's in an alternate version of her house. She then meets inhabitants of the Other World, such as her Other Mother, Other Father, her Other neighbors, and even Other Wybie. She ends up loving the Other World, and visits every night. Her Other Mother says she can stay in the Other World forever if she is willing to sew buttons into her eyes. Coraline then refuses and goes to bed, thinking she'll wake up in her real bedroom. But when she wakes up, she's still in the Other World. She realizes the true dangers of the Other World, and discovers that her real parents were captured by the Other Mother, who is also referred to as "the Beldam". Now Coraline must count on her courage and a mysterious talking black cat to escape the Other Mother's tricks and traps, rescue her parents, and free the trapped trio of ghost children.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Crocs
As a high school student, I attend a few dances with my handsome boyfriend. The day usually goes as such: For a day activity we lunch at a yummy vegan cafe, getting dressed to the nines, getting fawned over at my house, going to his house to be fawned over, go to the dance, dance, get pictures taken, get smoothies, dish about the fashions, and go home around 10:30. At the Christmas dance, a girl was wearing this elegant dress that looked like it cost more than my entire outfit. But she was wearing Mary Jane styled Crocs! The least she could do is wear flip flops.
I don't care how comfortable they may seem. They are ugly! You can find nice, comfortable, fashionable shoes pretty easily. It only takes a feew days to break in a nice pair of heels. Blisters are better than looking like a nurse.
Awwwww
I don't care how comfortable they may seem. They are ugly! You can find nice, comfortable, fashionable shoes pretty easily. It only takes a feew days to break in a nice pair of heels. Blisters are better than looking like a nurse.
Awwwww
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Green is the new black
Am I the only person who sees how hypocritical this whole "green" movement is? Several weeks ago in the Gateway's food court I saw a woman wearing a "Green is the new black" tshirt. She had one of those cloth tote bags all the stores are persuading you to use. Yet, she was wolfing down a McDonald's Big Mac and shoved a large thing of fries down her throat. Seriously? The meat industry is responsible for like 80% of the world's pollution! Plus, I don't think McDonald's uses real cuts of meat, just the left overs from other places. Not to mention that in a few years that lady's arteries will look like this:
Then, while at the store with my mother, I saw a woman unloading her herd of kids from her Escalade(sorry kids, since Mormons started using them to tote their kids around, you don't look like a bad ass, you look like a soccer mom). She was wearing a shirt with a peace sign on it and had an arm full of cloth totes. Environmentally conscious hippies do not drive Escalades : )
This picture is kind of sexist as well... What if Timmy wants to do ballet and Suzy wants to play soccer?
If you truely want to be "green", go vegan. It it is a form of non-violent protest and gets the point across that you will not stand for cruelty. This is where America gets their newest hot word: coexistance. Coexistance means getting along with all walks of life. Including animals and humans.
I'm done with my rantings for the day. Remember, don't give into trends and stay freaky : )
Then, while at the store with my mother, I saw a woman unloading her herd of kids from her Escalade(sorry kids, since Mormons started using them to tote their kids around, you don't look like a bad ass, you look like a soccer mom). She was wearing a shirt with a peace sign on it and had an arm full of cloth totes. Environmentally conscious hippies do not drive Escalades : )
This picture is kind of sexist as well... What if Timmy wants to do ballet and Suzy wants to play soccer?
If you truely want to be "green", go vegan. It it is a form of non-violent protest and gets the point across that you will not stand for cruelty. This is where America gets their newest hot word: coexistance. Coexistance means getting along with all walks of life. Including animals and humans.
I'm done with my rantings for the day. Remember, don't give into trends and stay freaky : )
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Not your Grandma's Peter and the Wolf
Again, my choir teacher was too busy to have us rehearse, so again, he put a movie on for us. It's a new version of Peter and the Wolf done in stop motion photography. The puppets are incredibly lifelike. It won an Oscar last year. Hundreds of years ago, a composer by the name of Prokofiev composed a work that was adapted into this new version of this story. The different characters are represented by different intruments. This short film was beautifully done.
Freaking amazing
Today in choir, our teacher was really busy so he just put a video on for us. It's a performance group called Blast!, they are like a marching band that dances with their instruments. It's like describing the taste of salt to a person born without tastebuds... difficult. So I'm pleased to present Blast!:
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