Hey guys!
I've heard this song... a LOT lately. Mostly on the radio, and you can tell there are a few differences between the refined song they play on the radio and the unedited song he's playing here... but that's good. I'll give links to both for you to listen to. The first one is footage of him playing at a radio station, it's unedited, it's just him and his guitar, no drummer, no bass, just him. Second one is the one you'll probably hear on a CD.
Again, neither belong to me, but when I hear them, I get a shiver up my spine and I can't help but sing, and I love it. Otherwise I probably wouldn't be telling you about it.
"Alive Again" by Matt Maher
Unedited Footage
Fan video with music from the CD
Anyway, the second one is a fan video and sometimes they get deleted, so let me know if it disappears.
Lemme know what you think!!
Personally I love them both, I think I'll see if my guitar teacher can teach me this one.
Later!!
-Kj
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
NCIS
The season began again!! WOO! XD
***********MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!***********
ZIVA'S BACK!!!!
YAY!!
Dang that cliffhanger they left us with at the end of last season sucked! I mean, everything's going semi-ok, sure, Ziva's hanging out in Israel with her dad, so that's kinda sad for Tony... But next thing you know, she's strapped to a chair all beaten up and tortured and stuff! And this terrorist asks her to tell him everything she knows about NCIS.
End of season.
WHAT?!
I am so glad they got Ziva back!! Half of the summer I was convinced she's dead, and the other half I was convinced that she'd find her way out, I mean, she's *Ziva*. She has to! But she doesn't. Exactly how she makes it back, I'll leave for you to find out if you haven't already.
I postponed this post a day so the spoiler wouldn't be too hard on anybody who isn't in my time zone.
Anyways, if you've never heard of NCIS, now is an excellent time to look it up! I mean, they're starting a new season and everything's cool again.
NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Think CSI, but specializing in crimes relating to naval officers.
I'll list the characters by rank, and once I lose track of rank, they'll be in no particular order.
Leon is the director of NCIS. Kinda mysterious sometimes, I couldn't stand him at the beginning of the last season. -Or maybe the season before- Mostly because he split up the entire team for no apparent reason (he clarified later, after putting them back together, mostly redeeming himself.)
Next you've got Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He goes by Gibbs, though some people can get away with calling him Jethro. He's an ex-gunnery sergeant from the Navy and an insanely good sniper. He doesn't say much, but if he's got a gut instinct, 9 times out of 10, it's accurate and you better listen. He's the boss of the team we all know and love. He has to answer to Leon, but Leon takes Gibbs' opinions seriously.
After him, is Anthony DiNozzo, goes by Tony or DiNozzo. He's a major movie buff, and he knows the ins and outs of NCIS almost as well as Gibbs. Also he's a ladies man and appears to have a thing for Ziva. ...Even though that means breaking a rule or two since they work in the same office.
Next up is Timothy McGee, I'm putting him above Ziva because he's been there longer. Now McGee is the technical whiz, and when he and Abby team up, they can figure things out lickety split. He's basically the geek of the squad, and has been given a huge list of nicknames by Tony ranging from Probie to McGeek. And for a geek, by the way, he's pretty cool. Especially the way he handled himself in this most recent episode.
Up next is Abby Sciuto. Now Abby is not just your normal average forensic scientist. She's a genius forensic scientist while being "the happiest goth you'll ever meet." She tried not being goth once... didn't work out very well. She's incredibly affectionate, and loves her Caf-Pow! (Think... and this is my best guess here... Highly caffeinated cherry Icee.) Also she sleeps in a coffin.
I've forgotten Ducky's real name for the moment, but he's the man who finds out how the dead guy died. Basically his job involves poking around a body's insides to find out what exactly went wrong. Sometimes it's easy, like a bullet wound, but other times he has to find out what sort of deadly poison was going through the body's veins and whether or not he himself is gonna croak for breathing that air. Oh! He's Doctor Donald Mallard.
His assistant is James Palmer, who is a medical student I believe, and enjoys shoes.
And last but not least is Ziva David. Pronounced Zeevah Dah-veed. She is an officer originating from Israel and has made her way here. Highly trusted by Gibbs for killing her own half brother who was going to shoot him, she ranks up there with DiNozzo and McGee, she's just newer. She knows a variety of hand to hand fighting techniques, and can be fierce at times, but that's not the only thing about her. She's also clever, may have gotten over her anger towards DiNozzo (considering recent circumstances), and tries to use American phrases but keeps getting them mixed up.
Example:
Ziva: "Well, you know what they say, you cannot make an omelet without breaking a few legs."
Tony: "She's never making me breakfast."
McGee: "Uh, Ziva, it's 'without breaking a few eggs.'" Overall, she's a fun character too, and I am majorly happy that she's back!!
Those are the main characters, and I can't really tell you the plot, since it's a TV series and the plot usually changes a bit from season to season, and well, this season is just getting started!
Anyways, check it out, and enjoy!
Oh, and um... There are some scenes with Ducky that aren't exactly appropriate for kids... So I rate it PG-13, unless you make the kids cover their eyes for a couple minutes.
Later!!
-Kj
***********MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!***********
ZIVA'S BACK!!!!
YAY!!
Dang that cliffhanger they left us with at the end of last season sucked! I mean, everything's going semi-ok, sure, Ziva's hanging out in Israel with her dad, so that's kinda sad for Tony... But next thing you know, she's strapped to a chair all beaten up and tortured and stuff! And this terrorist asks her to tell him everything she knows about NCIS.
End of season.
WHAT?!
I am so glad they got Ziva back!! Half of the summer I was convinced she's dead, and the other half I was convinced that she'd find her way out, I mean, she's *Ziva*. She has to! But she doesn't. Exactly how she makes it back, I'll leave for you to find out if you haven't already.
I postponed this post a day so the spoiler wouldn't be too hard on anybody who isn't in my time zone.
Anyways, if you've never heard of NCIS, now is an excellent time to look it up! I mean, they're starting a new season and everything's cool again.
NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Think CSI, but specializing in crimes relating to naval officers.
I'll list the characters by rank, and once I lose track of rank, they'll be in no particular order.
Leon is the director of NCIS. Kinda mysterious sometimes, I couldn't stand him at the beginning of the last season. -Or maybe the season before- Mostly because he split up the entire team for no apparent reason (he clarified later, after putting them back together, mostly redeeming himself.)
Next you've got Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He goes by Gibbs, though some people can get away with calling him Jethro. He's an ex-gunnery sergeant from the Navy and an insanely good sniper. He doesn't say much, but if he's got a gut instinct, 9 times out of 10, it's accurate and you better listen. He's the boss of the team we all know and love. He has to answer to Leon, but Leon takes Gibbs' opinions seriously.
After him, is Anthony DiNozzo, goes by Tony or DiNozzo. He's a major movie buff, and he knows the ins and outs of NCIS almost as well as Gibbs. Also he's a ladies man and appears to have a thing for Ziva. ...Even though that means breaking a rule or two since they work in the same office.
Next up is Timothy McGee, I'm putting him above Ziva because he's been there longer. Now McGee is the technical whiz, and when he and Abby team up, they can figure things out lickety split. He's basically the geek of the squad, and has been given a huge list of nicknames by Tony ranging from Probie to McGeek. And for a geek, by the way, he's pretty cool. Especially the way he handled himself in this most recent episode.
Up next is Abby Sciuto. Now Abby is not just your normal average forensic scientist. She's a genius forensic scientist while being "the happiest goth you'll ever meet." She tried not being goth once... didn't work out very well. She's incredibly affectionate, and loves her Caf-Pow! (Think... and this is my best guess here... Highly caffeinated cherry Icee.) Also she sleeps in a coffin.
I've forgotten Ducky's real name for the moment, but he's the man who finds out how the dead guy died. Basically his job involves poking around a body's insides to find out what exactly went wrong. Sometimes it's easy, like a bullet wound, but other times he has to find out what sort of deadly poison was going through the body's veins and whether or not he himself is gonna croak for breathing that air. Oh! He's Doctor Donald Mallard.
His assistant is James Palmer, who is a medical student I believe, and enjoys shoes.
And last but not least is Ziva David. Pronounced Zeevah Dah-veed. She is an officer originating from Israel and has made her way here. Highly trusted by Gibbs for killing her own half brother who was going to shoot him, she ranks up there with DiNozzo and McGee, she's just newer. She knows a variety of hand to hand fighting techniques, and can be fierce at times, but that's not the only thing about her. She's also clever, may have gotten over her anger towards DiNozzo (considering recent circumstances), and tries to use American phrases but keeps getting them mixed up.
Example:
Ziva: "Well, you know what they say, you cannot make an omelet without breaking a few legs."
Tony: "She's never making me breakfast."
McGee: "Uh, Ziva, it's 'without breaking a few eggs.'" Overall, she's a fun character too, and I am majorly happy that she's back!!
Those are the main characters, and I can't really tell you the plot, since it's a TV series and the plot usually changes a bit from season to season, and well, this season is just getting started!
Anyways, check it out, and enjoy!
Oh, and um... There are some scenes with Ducky that aren't exactly appropriate for kids... So I rate it PG-13, unless you make the kids cover their eyes for a couple minutes.
Later!!
-Kj
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The African Queen
Let's see... Oh right! I said I'd tell you guys about The African Queen!
Ok, it's an older color movie made in the... 50's, I'd guess... Give or take a decade.
Set in World War I, you find yourself in a missionary's church in Africa. The missionary and his sister are playing hymns for the Africans to sing to when you hear a whistle blow and see the steam coming. Friend or foe is unknown just yet, but when a white fellow hops off the steamboat, and comes up to the church, you can tell he's a friend, just by the way he acts.
He tells the missionary and his sister about the war that's going on (they had no idea), and they invite him to tea where he can tell them more. He left soon thereafter.
Shortly after his departure, several soldiers marched into town where they burnt the tribe members' huts -and the church- to the ground and herd all the natives elsewhere. The missionary and his sister can do nothing but watch, powerless against the soldiers' guns.
The next scene, you can see that the missionary has become delirious and dies in his bed. The same day, the man from the steamboat comes by to check in on them and sees the wreckage. He buries the missionary and offers to take his sister down the river. She agrees and away they go.
Along the way they encounter crocodiles, more enemy soldiers, part malfunctions, a broken propeller, leaches, rapids, waterfalls, and the Nazi's own steam boat, complete with a gallows.
Now if you can look past the fact that it doesn't have the latest computer graphics, it doesn't have any hot guys or girls in it, and it doesn't have any rated R scenes, you'll find that it's a really good movie about survival, boating, and just how much you depend on the person you're with when you're out in the middle of nowhere. (Buddy System!)
Later!
-Kj
Ok, it's an older color movie made in the... 50's, I'd guess... Give or take a decade.
Set in World War I, you find yourself in a missionary's church in Africa. The missionary and his sister are playing hymns for the Africans to sing to when you hear a whistle blow and see the steam coming. Friend or foe is unknown just yet, but when a white fellow hops off the steamboat, and comes up to the church, you can tell he's a friend, just by the way he acts.
He tells the missionary and his sister about the war that's going on (they had no idea), and they invite him to tea where he can tell them more. He left soon thereafter.
Shortly after his departure, several soldiers marched into town where they burnt the tribe members' huts -and the church- to the ground and herd all the natives elsewhere. The missionary and his sister can do nothing but watch, powerless against the soldiers' guns.
The next scene, you can see that the missionary has become delirious and dies in his bed. The same day, the man from the steamboat comes by to check in on them and sees the wreckage. He buries the missionary and offers to take his sister down the river. She agrees and away they go.
Along the way they encounter crocodiles, more enemy soldiers, part malfunctions, a broken propeller, leaches, rapids, waterfalls, and the Nazi's own steam boat, complete with a gallows.
Now if you can look past the fact that it doesn't have the latest computer graphics, it doesn't have any hot guys or girls in it, and it doesn't have any rated R scenes, you'll find that it's a really good movie about survival, boating, and just how much you depend on the person you're with when you're out in the middle of nowhere. (Buddy System!)
Later!
-Kj
Monday, September 21, 2009
New Found Land
Hello to my lovely and most patient readers!
Thanks for sticking around with me while I made adjustments. I probably saved up several Word pages worth of space, just by switching most of the lyric posts with YouTube links.
Anyway, I promised I'd tell you about a few books, so here's New Found Land
New Found Land is a story of the Lewis and Clark expedition -otherwise known as the Corps of Discovery- told from many different viewpoints, and none of them have the same voice; a real triumph on the author's part. It is told in a variety of different methods, using poetry, prose, letters, and the occasional ordinary pageful of text that we're used to in our usual books.
Among the points of view are the obvious Captains Meriweather Lewis and William Clark, as well as Sacagawea, York (Clark's slave), two brothers; Reuben and Joseph, two half-Indians (no relation), Seaman (Lewis's dog), a teenager named George Shannon (who lied about his age), and a few others.
I especially enjoyed the entries by Reuben and Joseph, and Shannon. Reuben and Joseph because they were clumped together within the same entry most of the time (nearly everyone else got their own), and you could practically hear them fighting, arguing, and making up, just like I'm sure real brothers do (I don't have any brothers, but my sisters and I are the same way lol). And Shannon because he... Well, he talks a lot. Those three were really funny sometimes, and just had a way of lightening up an occasionally dense moment.
What I really like about this book is that all the characters are real. Not just real as in, they existed, but the author wrote out a story about our history, our heritage, something that most kids might cringe at, in an incredibly fascinating way. It's mostly historically accurate, but it's not told in the extra dense way the average history book is. The characters are alive. They're relatable. They do smart stuff and they do stupid stuff. They fall in love. They get annoyed. They threaten to kill anyone who steals their stuff again, even if it starts a full-out war with an Indian nation. They're real.
This story, New Found Land, I highly recommend to anyone who's ever taken an interest in Lewis and Clark, as well as anyone who hasn't, but simply enjoys a good, well-written book.
However, it is a little bit graphic at times, so I'd recommend it mostly to people over 12 or 13, depending on what they're used to.
Til tomorrow!
-Kj
Thanks for sticking around with me while I made adjustments. I probably saved up several Word pages worth of space, just by switching most of the lyric posts with YouTube links.
Anyway, I promised I'd tell you about a few books, so here's New Found Land
New Found Land is a story of the Lewis and Clark expedition -otherwise known as the Corps of Discovery- told from many different viewpoints, and none of them have the same voice; a real triumph on the author's part. It is told in a variety of different methods, using poetry, prose, letters, and the occasional ordinary pageful of text that we're used to in our usual books.
Among the points of view are the obvious Captains Meriweather Lewis and William Clark, as well as Sacagawea, York (Clark's slave), two brothers; Reuben and Joseph, two half-Indians (no relation), Seaman (Lewis's dog), a teenager named George Shannon (who lied about his age), and a few others.
I especially enjoyed the entries by Reuben and Joseph, and Shannon. Reuben and Joseph because they were clumped together within the same entry most of the time (nearly everyone else got their own), and you could practically hear them fighting, arguing, and making up, just like I'm sure real brothers do (I don't have any brothers, but my sisters and I are the same way lol). And Shannon because he... Well, he talks a lot. Those three were really funny sometimes, and just had a way of lightening up an occasionally dense moment.
What I really like about this book is that all the characters are real. Not just real as in, they existed, but the author wrote out a story about our history, our heritage, something that most kids might cringe at, in an incredibly fascinating way. It's mostly historically accurate, but it's not told in the extra dense way the average history book is. The characters are alive. They're relatable. They do smart stuff and they do stupid stuff. They fall in love. They get annoyed. They threaten to kill anyone who steals their stuff again, even if it starts a full-out war with an Indian nation. They're real.
This story, New Found Land, I highly recommend to anyone who's ever taken an interest in Lewis and Clark, as well as anyone who hasn't, but simply enjoys a good, well-written book.
However, it is a little bit graphic at times, so I'd recommend it mostly to people over 12 or 13, depending on what they're used to.
Til tomorrow!
-Kj
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Yet Another Update:
All Done!
I'll give you guys a real post sometime soon, just not tonight.
In the meantime though, whaddya think?
-Kj
I'll give you guys a real post sometime soon, just not tonight.
In the meantime though, whaddya think?
-Kj
Another Update:
Hey, still making some adjustments... Fixing links up and stuff.
Lemme know what you think once I'm done, but until then, there's probably not gonna be anything new. ...Which kinda sucks since I finished reading New Found Land, The Hunger Games, and Betsy and the Emperor, and saw The African Queen last night. Also I have a really good song comin' up soon.
Til Tomorrow!
-Kj
Lemme know what you think once I'm done, but until then, there's probably not gonna be anything new. ...Which kinda sucks since I finished reading New Found Land, The Hunger Games, and Betsy and the Emperor, and saw The African Queen last night. Also I have a really good song comin' up soon.
Til Tomorrow!
-Kj
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Update
Hey guys!
I decided to do go in a different direction with this blog... The full song lyrics are taking up way to much space, and if I want anyone new to it to check it out, who knows? Maybe their attention span is too short to look through all my posts! ...Well, I've got 50+, I don't blame them if they do.
Anywho, I'm gonna be making changes to most of my music posts to save space. Also I'll be adding the occasional little random thing that I find interesting... They probably won't have anything to do with my title, but I'm just trying to keep things interesting.
The changes might not be shown immediately, it could take a day or two; but it'll be ready before too long!
Well, I'm off to fix stuff!
Later Gators!
-Kj
I decided to do go in a different direction with this blog... The full song lyrics are taking up way to much space, and if I want anyone new to it to check it out, who knows? Maybe their attention span is too short to look through all my posts! ...Well, I've got 50+, I don't blame them if they do.
Anywho, I'm gonna be making changes to most of my music posts to save space. Also I'll be adding the occasional little random thing that I find interesting... They probably won't have anything to do with my title, but I'm just trying to keep things interesting.
The changes might not be shown immediately, it could take a day or two; but it'll be ready before too long!
Well, I'm off to fix stuff!
Later Gators!
-Kj
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