Oh before I go I should mention that it's thanks to Shabby Blogs that I have these snazzy new graphics! You should go check them out whenever you next feel the look of your blog needs updating!
And now back to my essays.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Prettyful!
Ok so I think I'm done with my meddling for now! I'm quite satisfied with the prettyness level of the blog so now have no excuse not to do my work... Oh well.
Oh before I go I should mention that it's thanks to Shabby Blogs that I have these snazzy new graphics! You should go check them out whenever you next feel the look of your blog needs updating!
And now back to my essays.
Oh before I go I should mention that it's thanks to Shabby Blogs that I have these snazzy new graphics! You should go check them out whenever you next feel the look of your blog needs updating!
And now back to my essays.
Layout...
If this looks like a bit of a shambles at the moment it's cause I'm currently in the middle of trying to make this blog look pretty! Please bare with me and my lack of HTML skills!
Oh Hollywood...
Why do you have to ruin things?... I understand that sometimes you have to make the stories more interesting for the movie watchers but seriously you do some ridiculous things sometimes.
I just found out that there's a new film of The Three Musketeers coming out. "Brilliant!" I thought. I'm really into my period dramas and swordplay and things like that so this should be right up my street.
For those of you that don't know The Three Musketeers is a book written by Alexandre Dumas. The story is set in the 17th century. Obviously it's about three musketeers (Athos, Porthos and Aramis) and a young man named d'Artagnan who wishes to join the musketeers. Let the sword fighting ensue! (There's a pretty good plot summary in this Wikipedia entry if you want a more in-depth view.)
Sounds good no? So from this little explanation what would you expect? Horses? Sword fights? Maybe some romance or love interest? And more sword fights? Yeahh that's what I thought. Have a look at the trailer for this new adaptation.
If you don't want to read my rambling thoughts about this trailer I suggest you stop reading now.
So I get all excited when I'm watching this but suddenly the first thing you see it someone who looks awfully ninja like with a weird mechanical weapon.... Ok I'm pretty sure we didn't have ninjas roaming about 17th century Britain but I'll let that one slide Hollywood. Now for some dramatic, atmospheric music and talking. Oooh pretty fireworks! Hmm that guy jumping off that building looks awfully like something out of Assassin's Creed... Not entirely sure even our most incognito of spies would have done that in the 17th Century... That's some pretty cool camera work there, hey wait, why is that woman on top of the building?... Woah woah woah did she just jump off???.... Or is she magically floating? And is that a woman wielding a sword?! She seems to be doing some sort of martial arts there too. I didn't know that our resident 17th Century ninjas also taught the royalty how to do that. Er... Why are there sails on that building? What the.... IS THAT AN AIRSHIP?! This is the 17th Century!!!! Airships weren't invented til the 18th Century. Ok Hollywood that is one step too far for my liking.
Granted I will probably still go and see this film, though after seeing this trailer it seems Hollywood is more focused on making a movie with loads of special effects rather than sticking to a historically accurate plot. They keep doing this in so many movies now, it's so disappointing that they seem to make movies revolving around how much action they can fit in, rather than having a good plot.
Hollywood, please stop ruining classic stories!
I just found out that there's a new film of The Three Musketeers coming out. "Brilliant!" I thought. I'm really into my period dramas and swordplay and things like that so this should be right up my street.
For those of you that don't know The Three Musketeers is a book written by Alexandre Dumas. The story is set in the 17th century. Obviously it's about three musketeers (Athos, Porthos and Aramis) and a young man named d'Artagnan who wishes to join the musketeers. Let the sword fighting ensue! (There's a pretty good plot summary in this Wikipedia entry if you want a more in-depth view.)
Sounds good no? So from this little explanation what would you expect? Horses? Sword fights? Maybe some romance or love interest? And more sword fights? Yeahh that's what I thought. Have a look at the trailer for this new adaptation.
If you don't want to read my rambling thoughts about this trailer I suggest you stop reading now.
So I get all excited when I'm watching this but suddenly the first thing you see it someone who looks awfully ninja like with a weird mechanical weapon.... Ok I'm pretty sure we didn't have ninjas roaming about 17th century Britain but I'll let that one slide Hollywood. Now for some dramatic, atmospheric music and talking. Oooh pretty fireworks! Hmm that guy jumping off that building looks awfully like something out of Assassin's Creed... Not entirely sure even our most incognito of spies would have done that in the 17th Century... That's some pretty cool camera work there, hey wait, why is that woman on top of the building?... Woah woah woah did she just jump off???.... Or is she magically floating? And is that a woman wielding a sword?! She seems to be doing some sort of martial arts there too. I didn't know that our resident 17th Century ninjas also taught the royalty how to do that. Er... Why are there sails on that building? What the.... IS THAT AN AIRSHIP?! This is the 17th Century!!!! Airships weren't invented til the 18th Century. Ok Hollywood that is one step too far for my liking.
Granted I will probably still go and see this film, though after seeing this trailer it seems Hollywood is more focused on making a movie with loads of special effects rather than sticking to a historically accurate plot. They keep doing this in so many movies now, it's so disappointing that they seem to make movies revolving around how much action they can fit in, rather than having a good plot.
Hollywood, please stop ruining classic stories!
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Just a quickie!
I have tons of work that I'm supposed to be doing right now but really wanted to share this song with you. I think it's the most beautiful cover of two gorgeous songs. Plus it's Glee so obviously I adore it!
I will hopefully be making some changes to the layout of this blog once all my assignments are out of the way (i.e. this weekend). It's totally not pretty enough for me right now.
Right back to my essay!
Toodle pip!
xxx
Right back to my essay!
Toodle pip!
xxx
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Friendship
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ~Henry Ford
For me that should probably say the silly side of me rather than the best in me... Oh well.. I love my friends and I wouldn't be who I am now without them. They're the people who I would drop everything for, I'd travel all night to get to them if they asked me to.
However there's always that one person you consider to be your best friend (and I'm not including boyfriends or girlfriends in this). That person for me is someone who I've known for almost 14 years now and her name is Amy. We've not always been as close as we are right now but she was always there to cheer me up, even if she didn't know that she was doing it. I will always be grateful for those school days when I'd be feeling down until I got into class and we'd write ridiculous notes about bent umbrellas and Spongehead und Senor Bose. There's also a famous incident involving some stairs and a plastic sword which I will never forget, not to mention the many highlighter fights!!
Reminiscing about good times with Amy would be nothing without mentioning our almost unhealthy obsession with Pokemon. I can still name all 150 original pokemon if you show me their picture. The newer generations just aren't as good though, they're slowly getting more and more cutesy. What happened to the epic pokemon like Ho oh, Lugia and Charizard?!
So why am I rambling about my best friend? Well I just found out that she's also writing a blog! Ok neither of our posts our going to win us Nobel Prizes or anything remotely prestigious but I hope we can give you some amusement. Amy is also an amazing artist so I'm sure she'll be uploading pretty pictures from time to time! You can check her blog out here Caterpillar is Very Hungry!
While I'm on the topic of talking about friends blogs you should check out ISLAND GIRL INSIGHTS. I also know the author of this blog from school, though I've never been as close to her as I'd hoped. She's a lovely girl and writes a very good blog!
I hope you check out both of these blogs and you all appreciate your friends. After all they're the ones who are going to be there when everything turns to shit and they'll say "Well at least we had some awesome times together!".
***EDIT*** Here's a freaky kawinky dink for you. My last 2 posts have been about people who inspire me yes? Well I just googled Gerard Way (because I'm just that cool) and he has the same birthday as Amy!!! Clearly it's a sign from the universe/fate/God/whatever you want to believe in.
For me that should probably say the silly side of me rather than the best in me... Oh well.. I love my friends and I wouldn't be who I am now without them. They're the people who I would drop everything for, I'd travel all night to get to them if they asked me to.
However there's always that one person you consider to be your best friend (and I'm not including boyfriends or girlfriends in this). That person for me is someone who I've known for almost 14 years now and her name is Amy. We've not always been as close as we are right now but she was always there to cheer me up, even if she didn't know that she was doing it. I will always be grateful for those school days when I'd be feeling down until I got into class and we'd write ridiculous notes about bent umbrellas and Spongehead und Senor Bose. There's also a famous incident involving some stairs and a plastic sword which I will never forget, not to mention the many highlighter fights!!
Reminiscing about good times with Amy would be nothing without mentioning our almost unhealthy obsession with Pokemon. I can still name all 150 original pokemon if you show me their picture. The newer generations just aren't as good though, they're slowly getting more and more cutesy. What happened to the epic pokemon like Ho oh, Lugia and Charizard?!
While I'm on the topic of talking about friends blogs you should check out ISLAND GIRL INSIGHTS. I also know the author of this blog from school, though I've never been as close to her as I'd hoped. She's a lovely girl and writes a very good blog!
I hope you check out both of these blogs and you all appreciate your friends. After all they're the ones who are going to be there when everything turns to shit and they'll say "Well at least we had some awesome times together!".
***EDIT*** Here's a freaky kawinky dink for you. My last 2 posts have been about people who inspire me yes? Well I just googled Gerard Way (because I'm just that cool) and he has the same birthday as Amy!!! Clearly it's a sign from the universe/fate/God/whatever you want to believe in.
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