Hey guys,
I've been thinking lately about New Year's resolutions.
Usually I have lots of problems keeping them... Average issues like procrastination, lack of being psyched, forgetfulness, that sort of thing. I mean, who really gets super excited about the usual boring New Year's resolution stuff like, say, cleaning out the garage or losing a few pounds? ...Yay?
Anyways, I'm thinking up a new one, namely a new blog to be updated daily because the subject will be something I am indeed, psyched about. ...Not that I'm not happy with this one, I just feel I need to research further into the new subject. I'll still keep up with the weekly update on this blog, I'll just write daily in my other one. Which means two posts a day sometimes. Maybe even three, should I ever get inspired again with my first blog.
What's the new subject, you may ask? Well I'd be surprised if you don't already have a general idea. It's pretty much going to be researching the Bible in a fun way. Thinking about how it relates to now. Everything from Genesis to Revelations will be explored and elaborated on and applied to the modern day. I'll add stuff like music and movies and books that relate to it, and I might just get a good friend of mine to help out. (Or at least I hope I can, he's at least as busy as me all the time, if not more so.) But yeah, I'm really psyched about this! I already tried something kinda like this with another friend of mine, and we had a good time, even though it was more like a study group rather than a blog post.
Anyways, if you like the sound of that, check out the new blog when it comes up. If it isn't interesting, you don't have to look if you don't want to, I'll still update this one regularly.
A song having to do with January 1st, New Year's, and a true want to change is "Dead Man (Carry Me)" by Jars of Clay. Just so you know, the link is to another fan video, so I can't promise that it'll be there forever. Sheesh, sometimes even the artist's video channels get messed up, like with Natasha Bedingfield's that I listed earlier. By the way, neither the video nor the song belong to me.
In the spirit of New Year's, though, what's your resolution? Post it in the comments box, please!
Catcha later!
-Kj
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Bloody Jack
Hey bloggers, blog-readers, and web-surfers,
This afternoon I finished a very interesting tale by the name of...
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
Anyways, it's all about this girl named Mary whose family died of the pox or the plague or some such awful disease, so she's living on the streets with her gang. We're in London in the late 1700's, and the life of a girl on the street isn't the best.
Among her friends is the leader of the gang, Charlie. He has dreams of going out to sea and seeing what there is to see. One day, after begging for pennies, Mary goes out looking for Charlie and finds him dead. She then resolves to carry out his dream of going out to sea. There's only one problem; she's a girl.
She took Charlie's clothes though, and she has yet to hit puberty, and she cut her hair, so she doesn't much look like a girl, but that doesn't change facts. She made her way down to the docks and got herself a spot as a Ship's Boy on the HMS Dolphin. The first few problems made their way quickly, among them being she soon gained a fancy for another of the Ship's Boys, a man named Sloat seems to know what she is, ...Or does he? And the men all share a bathroom and she can't be seen sitting down every time she has to use it.
Some other problems wait awhile to surface... Things like finally hitting puberty and growing in all the wrong places to look like a boy, her mates starting to distrust her, and finally telling Jaimy- excuse me, showing Jaimy she's a girl, only to have to hide his sudden interest in her from everyone else. ...It's kinda hard to kiss your new boyfriend unnoticed when you're on a ship with a huge crew and several good friends and no one can know you're a girl.
Overall, it was an excellent story. Jacky was very, very believable. So were the rest of the characters, actually, but since it's told from Jacky's point of view, you can see just how real she is. She's a real person, for a moment. She has real fears, real moments of bravery, real sneakiness, real soft-heartedness, and a real ability to cuss out her buds when they tease her. (Though she only describes how she swears at them, you hardly ever see it happen.) And throughout the book you can see not only how she grows by her own description, but how she matures by her language. Towards the beginning, she had a thick accent, not at all ladylike, while as you get closer to the end, little by little, her speech becomes more sophisticated. That's probably one of my favorite parts, actually being able to physically see the main character grow by her language changing.
I read a lot of books, and usually I can see right through them. The main character has no faults, or there are continuity gaps, or the use of language is way off, or something, but not this one. This one was superb, I'll not be forgetting it anytime soon.
I gotta rate it at least PG-13 though, not for younger readers. Older teens will probably enjoy it.
Til next time!
-Kj
This afternoon I finished a very interesting tale by the name of...
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
Anyways, it's all about this girl named Mary whose family died of the pox or the plague or some such awful disease, so she's living on the streets with her gang. We're in London in the late 1700's, and the life of a girl on the street isn't the best.
Among her friends is the leader of the gang, Charlie. He has dreams of going out to sea and seeing what there is to see. One day, after begging for pennies, Mary goes out looking for Charlie and finds him dead. She then resolves to carry out his dream of going out to sea. There's only one problem; she's a girl.
She took Charlie's clothes though, and she has yet to hit puberty, and she cut her hair, so she doesn't much look like a girl, but that doesn't change facts. She made her way down to the docks and got herself a spot as a Ship's Boy on the HMS Dolphin. The first few problems made their way quickly, among them being she soon gained a fancy for another of the Ship's Boys, a man named Sloat seems to know what she is, ...Or does he? And the men all share a bathroom and she can't be seen sitting down every time she has to use it.
Some other problems wait awhile to surface... Things like finally hitting puberty and growing in all the wrong places to look like a boy, her mates starting to distrust her, and finally telling Jaimy- excuse me, showing Jaimy she's a girl, only to have to hide his sudden interest in her from everyone else. ...It's kinda hard to kiss your new boyfriend unnoticed when you're on a ship with a huge crew and several good friends and no one can know you're a girl.
Overall, it was an excellent story. Jacky was very, very believable. So were the rest of the characters, actually, but since it's told from Jacky's point of view, you can see just how real she is. She's a real person, for a moment. She has real fears, real moments of bravery, real sneakiness, real soft-heartedness, and a real ability to cuss out her buds when they tease her. (Though she only describes how she swears at them, you hardly ever see it happen.) And throughout the book you can see not only how she grows by her own description, but how she matures by her language. Towards the beginning, she had a thick accent, not at all ladylike, while as you get closer to the end, little by little, her speech becomes more sophisticated. That's probably one of my favorite parts, actually being able to physically see the main character grow by her language changing.
I read a lot of books, and usually I can see right through them. The main character has no faults, or there are continuity gaps, or the use of language is way off, or something, but not this one. This one was superb, I'll not be forgetting it anytime soon.
I gotta rate it at least PG-13 though, not for younger readers. Older teens will probably enjoy it.
Til next time!
-Kj
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Esther
Hey guys,
Check out this song by Esterlyn.
"We All Need"
It's got some pretty interesting lyrics, so check it out.
Til later!
-Kj
Check out this song by Esterlyn.
"We All Need"
It's got some pretty interesting lyrics, so check it out.
"And we all need faith,
The faith to love all that You are.
We all need love,
When there's no hope beyond the door.
We all need hope
The hope to live for something more,
Oh..."
The faith to love all that You are.
We all need love,
When there's no hope beyond the door.
We all need hope
The hope to live for something more,
Oh..."
Til later!
-Kj
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The Changeling and NCIS: Los Angeles
Today I saw The Changeling.
Angelina Jolie starred in a true story set in the 20's and 30's about a woman who went to work and came back to find that her son had disappeared. She called the police to find that they wouldn't send anyone out until the next day. When a policeman does come, they begin the search. This is in March.
In August, she learns that her son is on a train, heading home. Naturally, she is ecstatic. When she gets there though, she finds that the boy getting off the train was not actually her son. She tries to tell the police chief multiple times that the boy is not her son, but every time, the chief tells her that he is, in fact, her boy, and she just needs to get used to the fact that even though the dental records aren't the same and his teacher doesn't recognize him, and he is three inches shorter than the boy that left, he is her son.
Angelina did a fantastic job, and it was believable from start to finish. She wasn't Angelina Jolie in this picture, she was Christine Collins. No thoughts of her previous films entered my head.
On the downside however, the movie is rated R for a reason, and children should definitely be in a different room, watching something more appropriate.
On another note, did you guys see the episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, where Abby came to LA? I'm not going to spoil it for you if you had it on TiVo or whatever, but it was insane! She did however, finally meet Eric!
Later!
-Kj
Angelina Jolie starred in a true story set in the 20's and 30's about a woman who went to work and came back to find that her son had disappeared. She called the police to find that they wouldn't send anyone out until the next day. When a policeman does come, they begin the search. This is in March.
In August, she learns that her son is on a train, heading home. Naturally, she is ecstatic. When she gets there though, she finds that the boy getting off the train was not actually her son. She tries to tell the police chief multiple times that the boy is not her son, but every time, the chief tells her that he is, in fact, her boy, and she just needs to get used to the fact that even though the dental records aren't the same and his teacher doesn't recognize him, and he is three inches shorter than the boy that left, he is her son.
Angelina did a fantastic job, and it was believable from start to finish. She wasn't Angelina Jolie in this picture, she was Christine Collins. No thoughts of her previous films entered my head.
On the downside however, the movie is rated R for a reason, and children should definitely be in a different room, watching something more appropriate.
On another note, did you guys see the episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, where Abby came to LA? I'm not going to spoil it for you if you had it on TiVo or whatever, but it was insane! She did however, finally meet Eric!
Later!
-Kj
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