Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Triple M Part 2

Hey, I was wondering a little earlier what movie I've seen recently when all I've really done in the past few weeks even remotely worth mentioning is reading. I'm at least 3/4 of the way through my first pile of books and I went and borrowed another one about half that size. If I take it a bit slower, it oughtta tide me over until September when I start reading homework books, but I probably won't take it slower.

But!

I promised you guys I'd say what I gotta say about the other 2/3 of Triple M (...Need the definition? Look back to my post on DareDevil and Elektra.), so here goes nothing!

X-Men (1) has a lot to do with Logan/Wolverine. He's got issues with his brain and when the X-Men come and save him and Rogue and bring them back to Professor X's school for gifted (mutant) children, he eventually asks Xavier what his past was like. Xavier can't help him much, but he can tell him some basics about what his very recent past was like. Throughout the story, the audience can see through memory snatches by Xavier and Jean, as well as dreams, a vague image of Logan's past... and it was not, by any stretch of the word, pretty.

Meanwhile, Magneto has built a machine designed to mutate everyone within the rays it puts out in hopes of turning regular people into mutants. He tries it out on a senator whom Mystique kidnapped to see that it works, but it takes a lot of energy out of Magneto to work it. The senator now has the structure of a jellyfish, and easily slid through his cell door down to the ocean. He survived the fall and made his way to Professor Xavier's school to see if they could help him. They can't. Magneto, oblivious to the senator's death, kidnaps Rogue to use her power of power borrowing to work his machine in order to mutate a lot more people. Important people. People the world can't afford to have dead.




*****SPOILER WARNING FOR X-MEN*****





Magneto is captured and put in a special prison cell with no metal within a certain radius (that is his power after all, magnetic fields that can move any kind of metal), and Xavier visits once in awhile to play chess. They are friends after all, dontcha know?

X-Men 2: X-Men United is the direct sequel to X-Men.

Magneto is still in his plastic prison and getting really tired of it. He is now receiving shots to make him obey the man questioning him about Xavier's school. Mystique finds out where he is and um... gives the guard that feeds him a shot of iron. Just enough to be of use while not being noticed by the metal detector.

In the meantime, the man who found out where Xavier's school is decided to pay them a visit. He mostly wants to get into Cerebrum, in order to copy the design and work his plan, but he also kidnaps any mutant children who don't vanish into thin air, walk through walls, or just use the secret tunnels to get out. Wolverine is, of course, awake, alive, and very angry. He takes down guard after guard until he gets to that guy (whose name escapes me). He is recognized, but he doesn't remember the man, so he tries to listen to him for a minute to see if any of his past will be unlocked. Unfortunately, the memories don't revive themselves in time and Bobby/Iceman puts up a wall of ice between Wolverine and the man so Wolverine can help him, Rogue, and the rest of the kids escape.

The man made it to Cerebrum.




*****SPOILER WARNING FOR X-MEN 2: X-MEN UNITED*****





X3: The Last Stand
is yet another direct sequel. It takes place... I think a year after Jean died, and Scott/Cyclops is still very depressed and not himself. Wolverine isn't exactly happy either, but he's moved on a little. One day, Scott goes for a ride on his motorcycle to the lake where Jean died. He hears her whispering and can't take it anymore. He pulls his sunglasses off and blasts the lake. Shortly thereafter, Jean comes up, but she isn't herself. She asks him to take his shades off again, she wants to see his eyes. He reminds her of his fear that he'll hurt her, as he can't control the blast. She assures him that she can handle it, it'll be fine. So he takes his glasses off, and she quickly tunes that power he was so scared of hurting her with down, down, down, until you can see his firey red eyes, and then... blue ones. Normal blue eyes. He doesn't come back to the school.

Later on, Wolverine and Storm head for the lake, (I don't remember, but I'm guessing) to find Scott and bring him back before he jumps off any bridges or anything. They arrive to a place that is covered in a thick fog. They go off in different directions and Wolverine notices a few things out of place before asking Storm to clear things up a bit. So she does, and they see a lot of stones, leaves, and other things you'd find near a lake floating up in the air. ...Another thing that is found is Scott's sunglasses. And Jean. A Jean who seems to be incredibly interested in Wolverine. Not the Jean he knew and chased after.

They bring her back to the school where they soon learn that her subconscious is waking up and taking over the Jean that they once knew. Xavier describes this other half of her personality as the Phoenix, which is actually pretty accurate considering the mythology behind the name. The Phoenix is a person who can't control emotion. She lives on anger, hatred, love, lust, and all other extreme emotions. Also, her ability to move stuff with her mind is heightened. No limits, everything can be moved with ease. So basically... You really don't wanna make her mad.

She leaves the school and is later met by Xavier and Magneto. In a moment of intense rage, she chooses to follow Magneto.

A cure for being a mutant has been found in a mutant. Mutations disappear when given a shot of certain chemicals found in the boy (I'm guessing here again, the needles didn't look like they were filled with his blood) or temporarily by going into the same room with him, so Magneto wants to get rid of the boy. There may even be some revenge in it for him, considering what happens to Mystique.



X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The title kinda says it all, it tells the background story behind Wolverine. His childhood, how he grew up, his brother, how they stuck together for several years (over a century), why that family relationship fell apart, how he got his adamantium claws and what he had in the first place, that sort of thing. His wife, his original life, his original name, everything. Everything that he forgot is told in that movie, from when he was a small boy up until the day he lost his memory. And with it, he forgot absolutely everything. His love, his brother, the experiments on him, everything.




***SPOILER WARNING FOR X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE***





If that movie wasn't already a prequel with three movies following it, the terrible cliffhanger it left would probably leave a lot of people throwing popcorn at the screen. As is, it was just really sad. To forget everything is bad enough. Terrible, but you can live with it. To be forgotten though... by your husband whom you truly loved, on your deathbed, no less, would be absolutely horrible. I hate the idea of being forgotten by someone so important. I can expect to be forgotten by random people I see on the street, or the clerk at a grocery store, but by a husband? ...That was probably the saddest part for me. The fact that he lost everything, and when asked, said he didn't recognize the woman lying on the floor mostly dead, she wasn't important to him. I know he has a perfectly good reason, but the idea of it still hurts.

It's getting late, so I guess I have to leave you on that rather depressing note.

Later!

-Kj

Monday, July 20, 2009

"Dragostea Din Tei"

August is coming up fast, and I've got a lot of country songs for you guys so far! There are happy ones, sad ones, revengeful ones, funny ones, and a bunch of others. I'm trying to get up to fifteen so I can post one every other day, but we'll see how it turns out.

As for now, however... Today's music post won't have lyrics for two reasons. Number one, I don't understand a single word they're saying, and number two, my computer is going really really slowly right now so I can't listen to it anyways.

(this is the official video)

(this is the misheard lyrics one)

The second clip is insanely random and for weeks afterwords, LC and I were quoting parts.

Example: "Dude, you gotta be kidding me." "Ragu sledding YAY!" "..."

Basically what they did is took a Romanian boyband style love song and wrote out what it sounds like instead of what it means. ...How do I know it's a love song? Google.

It's official name is "Dragostea Din Tei" and it's by O-Zone, which means O-Zone owns it! Not me, tis theirs.

Later Gaters!

-Kj

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Part 1 of triple M

Hey guys! Remember triple M?

*Shugs* I don't blame ya if you don't, I'm kinda off schedule about it. Stands for Marvel Movie Mania, which I went through a couple weeks ago. I saw DareDevil, Elektra, and X-Men 1-3. Also I was gonna add in X-Men Origins: Wolverine towards the end. As is, I'm gonna clump them into two categories; that which is X-Men, and that which is not X-Men.

Which brings me to DareDevil and Elektra.

DareDevil is a story about this kid named Matt Murdock who's living a sorta normal life; things aren't what you'd call good, but it could be worse in his not-so-good neighboorhood of Hell's Kitchen. Unfortunately life does get worse. One day he gets his report card and goes running over to the construction site where his dad works, only to find that he got fired awhile back. So he starts going again, presumably to return home, when he finds his dad is engaged in some... less than legal activities.

He drops his report card in shock and runs back to the construction site, his dad calling him the entire time. While running through the construction site, a barrel of biochemicals (or toxic waste, I can never keep those two straight. Either way, it's not good for you.) got poked and it went straight into his eyes.

Next scene we see him in the hospital where he's waking up from a coma and freaking out. Which is understandable, I mean, you'd probably be freaking too if earlier that day you could see and now you can't see anything but you can hear EVERYTHING. He forgives his dad and they both start learning how to better themselves.

More bad things happen... And probably because of them, Matt grew up from having a crappy childhood to being a lawyer for the innocent people of Hell's Kitchen by day and DareDevil, pursuer of justice, by night.

I'll leave you there... I don't think I gave too much away, I only told you guys the intro, after all, but still. Some people don't like being given even that much.

Oh, by the way, he meets this girl named Elektra Natchios, daughter of one of the wealthiest men around. She's got a secret life of her own...

Which brings us to Elektra.





*****SPOILER WARNING FOR THE END OF DAREDEVIL*****





Elektra is sort of a sequel DareDevil, telling about what happens after Elektra dies, but DareDevil himself isn't in this movie.

Elektra is resurrected by a man named Stick and she is trained in a special form of martial arts. Later on she gets kicked out and becomes an assassin. And a pretty good one in fact. The movie starts with her killing someone and making a sizable ransom for it. Her next job is on an island.

She moves into a house on the island and starts setting her things up. Right about here is when I figured she's probably OCD due to her impeccable neatness and the fact that there is absolutely nothing out of place. ...Not even her vegetables.

One day she hears that someone is in her house, and just as they're about to run out the front door she throws a knife, pinning the person's sleeve to the door. The girl who got caught is Abby, who is then requested to give back that which she stole. With no real way to explain why she was there, she gives Elektra her mother's necklace back.

A couple days later, Abby invites Elektra to her father's house for Christmas dinner. She goes, and shortly afterwards (a couple days, max), she gets the information on the people she's supposed to get rid of... Abby and her father. She'll be paid double for this job (due to two victims), so she grabs a bow and arrow and heads to the perfect place to make the shot.

So... Does she kill Abby and her father? The only people who were truly friendly to her after moving in? ...Minus the attempted theft, that is. Or does she decide she doesn't need this money and move on? I know this isn't the best cliffhanger I could've come up with for this movie, but I really need to not tell you too much.

Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Random thoughts? Tis what the comment box is for!! =)

Please, someone tell me if I'm giving too much away! I don't want to say much more than a synopsis of the first few minutes, so please tell me if I'm doing that or writing a novel based on a movie based on a comic book here.

Thanks!!

Til tomorrow,

-Kj

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Country Today... Or Not. How 'Bout "Dark Blue" Instead?

And the country music continues...

Twas the only thing on the radio today. I think I might end up having an entire week dedicated to country music. Maybe a month. Mom does love the stuff. I'm gonna have to start making a list of those songs, so I'll start August as Country Music Month. Which leaves me with today. What shall I write out for you? Well I did hear an interesting song by Jack's Mannequin the other day... It isn't country, but it isn't August yet, so oh well. "Dark Blue" belongs to me about as much as Mona Lisa. *hint* Mona Lisa is in the Louvre, not my room. Oh, and this is one posted by a fan, so if it ever disappears, let me know and I'll try and find another.


Again, the Mona Lisa isn't mine, "Dark Blue" isn't mine. I play music, but I didn't play that. I didn't write it, I'm not in a band (though one of my friends was considering it once lol), it's just not mine.

Anyway, let me know what you think. I know the lyrics are kinda... different, but it's got a great melody. ...And now it's firmly stuck in my head.

Comments? Suggestions? Ratings? Tis what the comment box is for! Reading the occasional comment really makes my day, so please lemme know what you think!

Til tomorrow!

-Kj

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sketches and Star Trek. ...Sorta.

Hmm... What to post, what to post...

I'm seriously inspiration-less... this hasn't happened in awhile. Let's see...

I've decided that I'm best at drawing animals and people due to my recent ability to sketch decent pictures of my cat Dixie and Alton Brown, while not doing so good at sketches of random objects, i.e., a telephone. ...If you don't know who Alton is by the way, watch Good Eats on The Food Network. Excellent TV host. Why'd I sketch *him* of all people, you ask? Well my fellow TV-watcher left the room with the show on pause and he had an interesting face on freeze-frame that I had to capture. Yeah, she was kinda peeved that she had to wait 20 minutes or so for the show to start back up since I wasn't yet finished... but it turned out pretty good and she got over it XD.

...I really need to draw people I actually know.

On another note, I feel I oughtta let you guys know that my review for Star Trek is probably way off considering I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the title. My grandma is, she loves sci-fi. I do too, I just don't know much about Star Trek. So I'm sorry, but my review is probably worthless due to my complete and utter lack of history with the series.

...Except when I was about 6 and watched it with grandma while she was crocheting...

But I can tell you that that movie was pretty darn cool. I'm guessing it's a good intro to the series (guessing being the operative word here). I learned a lot of stuff about it, like who Spock and Kirk are, where "Live long and prosper" came from, and where I had heard the phrase "Beam me up, Scottie!" several years ago. Also, I think I got a whole new appreciation for Marvin from Daddy Day Care.

Overall, twas a good movie that I'm gonna have to watch with my grandma when it comes out on DVD. I'll see what her opinion is and perhaps write a more informed and better review for you guys. As is, this one kinda stinks. I'd move on to something from Marvel... but I'm kinda outta time.

Til tomorrow!

-Kj

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Back!

Sorry, my time away was longer than I expected... Mostly because I bought a new sketchbook and have been attempting artwork for the past couple nights rather than blog. I'm gonna sketch again this evening, but I figured you should know that I'm still alive. As is LC. We survived the pillow-fight (twas not nearly as bad as last year's), and I'm pretty sure she made it home safe. Either that, or someone who sounds just like her hijacked her accounts. ...Kinda doubt it though.

Anywho! Let's see... Any good books get read? Um... Nope. Any good movies seen? ...Besides the ones on the previous list, nope. Any good artwork? Sortakindamaybe... but I'm not too comfortable with sharing that stuff yet. I may need a nudge in that general direction (lol I'll ask a couple friends of mine for one), but for the time being, I haven't created anything particularly worthy of the title of masterpiece. What about music? Ah-Ha!! Music I can do. I never run out of music to post! Here goes nothin!


I love that song. Usually country isn't really my thing, but some country songs -just based on their lyrics- make it on my song list. Anyways, need I say it? This song doesn't belong to me. Nor will it ever. Ask me in two years and my answer will still be the same. NOT MINE.

In other news, I recently borrowed The Phantom of the Opera from the library due to a sleepover-inspired karaeoke type thing that LC and I were doing... Well I donno if it's technically karaeoke considering there was no music in the background and my attempt at Gerard Butler's voice is a little... askew. But hey! She wanted to tape it and quite frankly, I can sorta pull off looking like a dude, and since I'd be wearing a mask I wouldn't have to worry about my face giving me away. Long story short, a near tragedy happened right as we were getting into costume, and we didn't tape it. Sorry to all of you who wanted to hear our wonderful attempts at opera. Maybe next time.

Where was I going with this... Oh, right! (Sorry, I'm a little scatterbrained right now. A mix of sugar and past 10 pm isn't good for me.) I'm gonna be putting together a triple post. Once I get done reading it (haven't yet started it, been trying to finish up my booklist from last time), I'll post what I thought about it, my opinions on the movie, and the song that LC and I were working on. ...Well technically not an audio clip, but lyrics as per usual.

I need to sleep now. Bye!

-Kj

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A Dose of Random

Hey guys!

Just so's you knows, LC and I (my bff, in case you aren't familiar with my other blog) are in the same room for the first time for a full year! ...She doesn't visit often lol. But yep, posts are probably gonna be pretty slow (if they come at all) for the next couple days due to me chillaxing with her. I'll have to catch up on the Marvel Movie Madness (triple M from here on out, I'm too lazy to write that out every time) sometime next week, but in the meantime... Enjoy this song. Tis LC's request... Um... Yeah. Still doesn't belong to me (or her) and... you get the picture.

Ernie and his rubber ducky

"Well here I am in my tubby again, and my tubby is all filled with water and nice fluffy suds, and I've got my soap and washcloth to wash myself, and I've got my knifty scrub brush to help me scrub my back, and I've got a big fluffy towel to dry myself when I'm done. But there's one other thing that makes tubby time the very best time of the whole day. And do you know what that is? It's a very special friend of mine, my very favorite little pal.

Oh, rubber ducky, you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Rubber ducky I'm awfully fond of you,
bo bo bode oh

Rubber ducky, joy of joys,
When I squeeze you, you make noise,
Rubber ducky you're my very best friend it's true.

Oh, every day when I
Make my way to the tubby,
I find a little fella
Who's cute and yella
And chubby...

Rubba dub dubby

Rubber ducky
You're so fine,
And I'm lucky
That you're mine,

Rubber ducky I'm awfully fond of you.

"Hey rubber ducky, would you like me to scrub your back with my knifty little scrub brush? You would? Ok, how's this? Hey you want me to scrub behind your ears? Oh, I see, you don't have any ears, do you? Oh, how bout your tummy, scrub his little ducky tummy! ~Oooh! He's ticklish!

Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby,
I find a little fella
Who's cute and yella
And chubby...

Rubba dub dubby

Rubber ducky, you're so fine,
And I'm lucky that you're mine.
Rubber ducky I'm awfully fond of
Rubber ducky im awfully fond...
Of you.


Ok, let it be known that I did NOT take a bath during this post, nor did I play with a ducky. Sadly my last one got eaten. ...Yes, rubber does occasionally get eaten here, don't ask who does it or why, 'cause all I know is it disappears then reappears and is all shredded. Poor ducky. Anywho! That's gonna havta do for a couple days.

...LC is practically begging to get tackled with a pillow, so later!

-Kj