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Dear Readers,

     I apologize for this blog being late. I have been dealing with other problems this past week Anyways, I have been an YouTube user and viewer going on four years now. And I couldn’t help noticing a few problems with it.

    For starters,I have grown tired of the in-fighting on the YouTube video comments pages. You see after watching an episode of Foamy the Squirrel about forums and how they have become so dumb down to where you can not even voice your own opinion, I have realized he is right. Just the other day, I decided to watched a video by Taylor Swift and all I saw were comments made by others to silence someone’s opinion. True, these people shouldn’t be watching the video if they hate it so much. Yet at the same time, they should be able to voice their opinion without the someone biting their head off. I feel people forget at times that the internet was also made to express your opinion and not a popularity contest for the next top celebrity.

   The next thing that bothers me is those schleps that try to correct you on your opinion and think they did you a real favor. This happened to me when I watched that new music video, “Co-dependent” on YouTube, I made a comment about how the song reminded me of “Independent” by Destiny’s child. Then, someone with their so-called, infinite wisdom had to correct me. I,mean, I can admit to being wrong. But, I do not think or feel I need the help of some know-it-all jerk who lives only to correct others on their knowledge of pop culture. And plus isn’t YouTube already trash? Who cares if you get something wrong? And if you are going to do any kind of correcting,then you are better off picking on the people who make comments with all the words misspelled.

Now for the final annoyances created by YouTube, the comments where someone decided to remark on how many people disliked the video. At times this kind of remark can be funny. But, sometimes it’s almost as lame as when someone says “your mom” when someone else has said something they did not like.

Well, I have to go now. I have to go and take care of some comment someone made about my comment on some else about Taylor Swift’s new music video.

Peace Out,

Cyndro

Radio Static

Dear Readers,

Do you remember along ago when I discussed to you the minor subtleties between Taylor Swift and Skye Sweetnam. Well, I planned to do the same thing with Jesse McCartney and Justin Bieber. But, I felt another wrong must be righted before I could even begin talking about these two pop-singers. Now, just for fun. I’m going to let you to guess what it is. Did you say radio broadcasting? Then you are correct, dear sir or madam. Ever since I learned of that this device ever existed, I have enjoyed listening to music of singers/songwriters like Barenaked Ladies,Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, and many others. I,mean, did I ever love dancing and singing along to music back then. Boy, one thing that everyone has to agree on about the nineties has to be the music. However, I have started to, like many others, notice the “More rock, less talk” motto being ignored by my favorite radio stations. It feels like I’m being constantly bombarded by either commercials or some idiotic joke made by a local early-morning DJ. I understand that the main point of these audio- peddle pushers is to make money and the radio-stations are dealing with the struggle between internet radio and keeping the attention of their fellow listeners. But, I personally feel the ads should be stripped off the airwaves and these Deejays should be fired without severance pay for their lame jokes and constant ramblings of stupidity. I could say the same about the vee-jays( music video jockeys usually found on VH1 and MTV doing the top twenty countdown), but that is an evil saved for another day. Another complaint that I have is the amount of music being played on the radio, I believe it has gone from being a whole hour of musical goodness to two songs per hour. And that is if you’re lucky. But most of the time, it’s like one song and it is by “America’s little sweetheart”, Taylor Swift. Please Folks, don’t get me wrong. I do think Taylor Swift is a great singer. But, it would be nice not to hear a song that was not a break-up or love song written by little miss American dream occasionally. At least there is one bright side to this radio static, around 7:00 pm central time our musical savior, John Tesh, is comes on. And music reigns supreme once again and commercials must take the back seat for the next five hours.

I also like how the John Tesh, the DJ, gives out important information rather than some idiotic joke an keeps the talk real brief so that way you can actually enjoy the music. I know there are some music stations that actually play music in the same manner. But, I can only stand to listen to just two songs and that is it. Anyways, I think I’m going to go and listen some Third Eye Blind for a while.

So, Cyndro saying peace-out and catch you later!

 

 

 

Taylor Swift vs. Skye Sweetnam

Dear Readers,

First of All, I want to tell you all Happy New Year’s and hopes for a reflective MLK Jr B-day. Birthday. Now with greetings aside, I wanted to talk about the musical annoyance that is “swiffering” the world by storm. Yep, you guessed it. It’s Taylor Swift. I really don’t know why I dislike her so much. Maybe it’s her songs. Then again, her music is not really that inane. I am an alterna-rock music listener and even I got say that she is not that bad of singer and some of her songs have a fair enough amount of true in them like Fifteen. But, it is annoying to hear the way she compares herself and her forbidden boyfriend to the Shakespearean tragedy play,Romeo and Juliet and Hester Prynne‘s Scarlet Letter in her lyrics to Love story. Don’t believe me, then watch the video. If you think it’s just lyrics. Then, no,it’s all the freshmen and sophomore kids in my school that go around singing it like it is the way of life that is most annoying. I,mean, I am huge fan about most of my bands like Onerepublic and Skye Sweetnam, of whom will be covered in this blog. But, the thought to make someone to fall in love with them is far from it. But, I hate that kind of mind-set of most teens that their love is like Romeo and Juliet. I’m think it is romantic and a true statement. But, after reading about it myself, I think I would rather opt out for Much ado about Nothing or Midsummer Night Dream. And same goes for the Scarlet Letter, I know I didn’t pay much attention to it in class. But, I do know it didn’t end well. I also find myself questioning her past hit song, “Mine”, which was about a relationship with a boy who made her into a rebel out of her. Oh yeah, two kids of college age getting married and living together is really rebellious. Personally when I think of rebellious, I think of Skye Sweetnam and her song, “Billy S”. Well, of those who have never even heard of Skye Sweetnam or her music. Skye Sweetnam has written and performed songs for shows like Disney Channel’s original series,the Buzz on Maggie, and Nickelodeon’s The Wayside. She grew up in Canada and starting writing music at sixteen. Pretty much the same time as Taylor Swift. But, I feel Skye is more expressive in her music than Taylor Swift is at times. Anyways, in Skye Sweetnam’s song ,“Billy S”,which stands for William Shakespeare, starts off with her not wanting to go to school on Monday and being unable to ride a bus there. So, Skye says to father, of whom she refers to as “daddy” like she is five or something, that she doesn’t want to go to school. But, I do like the part where she says the line “to skip or not to skip” was really good. I love the idea of her taking Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” soliloquy and making fun of it in this way. I,mean, if you like Taylor’s version better go ahead and do that. But, I think Skye has a better frame of mind when it comes to rebellion concepts.

Now, they are some songs where Taylor and Skye kind of go together. Those songs would be “You belong with me” by Taylor and “Tangled up in me” by Skye. They both happen to be kind of going

after a boy who they both like and waiting for him to notice. The difference is in Taylor’s “You belong with me”. It sounds like it’s a nicer version of Avril Lavinge‘s “Girlfriend”. She basically trying to break up this couple that is not working out very well. While in Skye’s “Tangled up in me”, She is trying to get this guy to notice her. But, overall they are both clichéd in attitude for the whole “looking something that was already there concept”. But, at least Skye didn’t try to steal this boy from another girl like Taylor did.

In short, it doesn’t really matter who is the better songwriter. I think both Skye and Taylor are equal and unique in style. So, if you like Taylor that’s just fine. And if you like Skye, then like Skye. As for me, I think I’m going to enjoy some P!nk or Skye Sweetnam and get over this review. Catch you in the next two weeks for my new blog.

Cynthia

 

Under her lunar-milk, ginger-haired, expression,

A secret message is hidden,

Like the darkness,

Hides a fly-by-night scheme,

With yet to be discovered, past-lived, memories,

Could be found in her dreams,

She creates lies to protect,

A family that is not what they seem,

Lost are her friends and dearest love,

To smolder and flames,

A father, once near,

Now is gone.

All that remains is her mom and her three siblings’ beloved,

And now sixteen and will forever be blighted,

As the girl that no one claims to know.

 

Afterlife?

     That Darn Cat, Afterlife, Speed Racer, and both of the Addams Family movies. Though vastly different, these movies have one thing or person in common. Yep, they all star Christina Ricci. She is my favorite actress because of her roles as Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values and Patty in That Darn Cat. She plays such severe, yet sassy characters as well as light-hearted characters like Penelope the pig-nosed girl in Penelope and Katrina Van Tassel in The Sleepy Hollow. Now, do they shock anyone any less or make her any less of an actress? No, she should open up her repertoire. But, it is kind of hard to watch her play these sweetheart roles any less? Heck Yes!!! As I promised, I sat through Afterlife and now I am going to write you about it. Basically, the story is about an elementary school teacher named Anna Taylor who has for some reason has become very distant in life. Probably, it could be her ice-her-veins mother or maybe she is dead. I, mean all be it if you awake up in a morgue and yet you can breathe. You can also see by her ability to move and talk that she must be dead. Well, it couldn’t be her looks those have be there since birth, people. They are not going away. Sorry about that Christina Ricci. Anyways, it starts when Ana Taylor and her boyfriend, Paul Coleman played by Justin Long, are together in bed and some reason Ana jumps out of bed and runs right into the shower. They have a discussion about him not being enough for each other and Ana says that she is fine. Later that day, Anna and Paul go out to dinner at a real posh restaurant. And before Paul could make a proposal, Anna takes off in her car and gets in a car crash. Then, she wakes up in a morgue staring up at the local morgue director who tells her that she is dead while he injects her with some kind of muscle relaxer. Well, I guess I will try to remember that the next time I need a shot when I’m dead. He keeps repeating over and over again “just because a person is born, they are alive.” Well, that isn’t the exact quote. But, this is a kid’s site as well and I got family members reading this as well. But, as the movie goes on, Paul starts to consider that Anna isn’t dead. This is well after she figures it out for herself and killed by the morgue director. Anyways, he goes off and rescues her from to only be killed by the Morgue Director. Yeah, I guess that was a real shocker. The monster gets away with it ending. Okay, it was good movie, even Pan’s Labyrinth worthy even. It was just this one time; I could not get Christina Ricci actually playing a victim’s part. Well, wait until next for my blog and Friday look at my fan-fiction just click here!

The Not so greatest show on Earth

World of Quest: The Best Worst Show on the W.B.

Do you like completely disgusting shows that involves comedic slapstick in a bizarre magical world? Well, do I have the perfect show for you? The Show goes by the name of World of Quest. It follows the adventures of spoiled, redheaded, boy, prince with the name of Nestor and his jerk of a bodyguard, Quest. The show starts out with Graer, a talking griffin and friend of Quest, and Prince Nestor escaping from an attack from the Katastrophe brothers, minions of Lord Spite. After that, Nestor and Graer go in search of Quest. They need his help to find various swords of power to save Nestor’s parents from Lord Spite and General Ogun. (Yeah, you can see where this is going.) But when they ask for it, Quest plaintively says no and just kicks or tosses Nestor in a lake of piranha-like creatures when asked multiple times by Nestor. (And trust me, this kid never gives up.) This constant fight continues until the kid finally tricks Quest into reading the “Allegiance” spell. This is when you will hear a loud, heavy; sound made it seem like Quest’s house had just passed some gas. Anyways, the spell forces Quest follow Nestor’s every single whim whether he wants to or not. But, Quest can resist the power for a short while until Nestor is kidnapped by the Katastrophe brothers and has to be saved. Though, Quest says that he will save Nestor, yet he will do his way. Anyways, Nestor’s bossiness and Quest’s jerkiness ensues throughout the first season where when Nestor starts to act too obnoxious he will be some way be knocked around by Quest. This behavior can be often followed by Nestor becoming even bossier with Quest in protest. I will recall reading of sites like T.V.com that said Quest was very harsh with Nestor. Other reviews were more positive about it and made it seem it was just some “tough love”. This can be true at times because you will see that by watching the show. Nestor and Quest do have their semi-sweet moments where they get along. One example of this off-beat friendliness can be seen at the end of “As the Super Worm turns”. After Nestor and Quest have escaped the den of the super worm, Quest actually says thanks and to reward Nestor. Quest tries to teach Nestor some sword-fighting moves. Another example could be found at the end of “Part 2 of The Fall Odyessia” where you can find Nestor cradled in Quest’s arm like a baby.

Personally, I love this show despite all the grossness and slapstick. I love the show because it’s a parody of all fantasy and Science Fiction. I see it as a show for us RPG players seriously. It’s also nice to see a show that is about sidekick empowerment and shows more believable heroes. But, what gets me is all the gross stuff that happens to Nestor. If you ever see the beginning part of show, you will see Quest dump a bucket of green slime on Nestor. And if you are really lucky, you just might get to see Prince Nestor vomit. Yeah, now you know why this show earns the title of “Worst Best show”. And if you do not believe me, watch it on Youtube.com or wait for the premiere on Nickelodeon in January.

Well, that’s all for this week. Please come back to read my blog when I review the Christina Ricci’s movie, Afterlife.

At first,you don’t succeed.

Well, it’s finally official. The season of fall has flown in and slapped our so-called, little, sleepy town right in the face. To be honest though, I love fall for the dewy, let’s go and get a cup of apple cider, sunshiny, days. I love riding to and from places and seeing the leaves. And of course like some people, I love that fall fever that comes with the anticipation of Halloween. So, it’s unfortunate that it must to come to a short end. It also has made me,like the other twelve months of this year, realize that I did not have the best year as I could have. So, I decided to make some early New Year’s resolutions The First thing I plan to have done before New Year’s Eve is have read the last Harry Potter Book. I like to read it before I see the movie. Second, I will try to avoid boredom by joining up with a group of some sort. I would be in complete rapture if it was poetry or even a movie club. Now, the third part is I want to write more letters and stay closer to my family. I also will try to blog more often. I really do enjoy it and it keeps active in the world. The fifth promise will be to make at least one podcasts and vid for my site for each month. Lastly and unfortunately, I must do what I can to get back to college. I wanted to start some math classes to help with my problems in math. In fact, I plan to start studying my Latin flashcards at 9pm.Well, Catch you next week!!!

Dark Poets of The World!!!

           During whole life, I have always loved dark poems and reciting them to my self. But, my favorite was Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. It was extremely It was a beautiful and kind of  Interesting of how Poe would have his character in his poem go from this sane and well minded person to a completely mad obessessed demon who only wanted to know who was “tapping at his chamber door”.  Anyways here it is and I hope you like it as much as I did. Happy Halloween and sorry about this blog being late.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

[First published in 1845]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door –
Only this, and nothing more.’
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore –
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore –
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door –
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; –
This it is, and nothing more,’
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you’ – here I opened wide the door; –
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!’
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!’
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore –
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; –
‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door –
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door –
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore –
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door –
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.’
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered –
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before –
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.’
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore –
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."’
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore –
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,’ I cried, `thy God hath lent thee – by these angels he has sent thee
Respite – respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil! –
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted –
On this home by horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore –
Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us – by that God we both adore –
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore –
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting –
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted – nevermore!

Last update: October 4, 2007 by H. Behme
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         FYI: I  got this poem from the internet site: http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html

Halloween Movies: From terrifying to mundane in ten years flat.

      Hey and Sorry about this blog being so late. Anyways, I look back at all the horror movies that have been made and I have noticed a bit of a trend. They have started to get less and less scarier.  To prove my point, I remember having a discussion with someone about this very subject and she agreed as well. Why has this happened? I figured it is my age or people have become more “sheltered” and desensitized. Sometimes, I think back to the day I saw Jurassic Park and afterwards saying that PG-13  movies were going to get worse. (In some ways,they have and other times not so much). Now, there are actual psychological horrors like I am Legend, Eagle Eye,and Invasion. They were scary for the following reasons:

1. They did hit issues that are common to  society like finding a cure for cancer and start realizing that we depend on technology too much
2. They avoided the regular clichés found in most horror movies like haunted houses and having the elimination of people in a group(even though I did kind of liked that part).
3. It had stronger characters that defeated the monsters like Eagle Eye and Invasion. They did their best to survive and got away from the creature or thing that tried to get them.

But, like most movie genres, there are always some movies that are horrible at being scary.

1. The Nightmare before Christmas: Scary to most people, this movie gets a 2 on the scariness rating for just being creepy to some point because it is a satire and some surprising images.
2. R.L. Stine’s The Haunting: Scary for one scene with a leech. For that it gets a 3 on the scariness rating.
3. Van Helsing: It had a few shocking images. It gets 4 on the scariness rating.
4. Brothers Grimm: I liked it for how it drew in all the stories written by the Grimm Brothers, But it still earns a 6.
5. Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet street: This particular movie was more bloody than scary. But, the acting,singing,and suspense was great. So, I have to give it an 8.
6. Nightmare on Elm street(the first): This movie just goes without saying and gets a 10.

Well, Until next week where I will be sharing some dark poetry. Good Night!!!

Dear Readers

Hello, this is the writer of Cyndra’s space. I wanted tell how I am very sorry about the management and quality of my current blog. I realize now that I have messed up and will do my best to correct the problems I have made. But, I also plan to write a new blog by the end of every week of this month. Here are some of the topics I will try to cover in my blog:

1. Horror Movies

2. Dark Poems

3. Freakish television shows like “The Twilight Zone” and “Ripley’s believe it or not”

4. Fall activities

5. Halloween comedies and how they got there

6. Halloween party music

Well, I can’t wait to get started. I will start hopefully on Tuesday the fifth of October.

Well, Have a great week and weekend.

Farewell,

Cyndra Giggians