Pity The Backseat

Often, I'll read something that will amaze me. It could be a paragraph, a chapter or even just a sentence. Well, amaze might be a little off from what I'm trying to describe. More like it jumps out at me and i might think its clever or i might like the way its worded. In this case its a about a paragraph but the one sentence is what i love particularly, from my favourite book, The Outsiders. This is straight from the book.
"Listen, greasers, we got four more of us in the back seat...".
"Then pity the back seat" Two-Bit said to the sky.
"If you're looking for a fight..."
Two-Bit cocked an eyebrow, but it only made him look more cool. "You mean if I'm looking for a good jumping, you outnumber us, so you'll give it to us? Well..." He snatched up an empty bottle, busted off the end, and gave it to me, then reached in his back pocket and flipped out his
switchblade. "Try it, pal."
The line "pity the back seat" is what really jumped out at me. I'm not entirely sure why. I think its a bold line and shows that he's ready to fight.
All credit goes to S.E.Hinton for the writing.

Guy Friends Are Great

I'm a girl. And I dont really hang with alot of girls. Well, not anymore. From grade 1-4 I didnt have very many friends and then I went to a new school in grade 5 and made alot of friends. Two of them were girls and 3 of them were guys. After that year i guess we just got tired of each other because in 6th grade we separated. I went with my other girl friends and the guys went off with themselves. In 6th grade I had more friends but only 4 really close ones-girl friends. Then in 7th grade my friendship circle narrowed and I wasnt very social. I only really had  4 girl friends and we were all really close. But the thing with that (it was last year) was we were always bitching about each other. Talking behind each other's backs and ALWAYS getting into hissy fights over the smallest things! Granted it was usually one girl who started it all the time but still...it got really annoying. But when this year started, i had to face the whole "being in a class with no friends" factor, i had to become more social and make new friends. Which I did. I have to say,I have alot of friends. I talk to mostly everyone. But the main thing different this year from last year is my close friends. My best friend is a girl, Haley, which i think is only right. I mean, shes SO nice and we get each other and we're really close. We've been best friends for 3 years. Then I have this other girl friend I'm not exactly close to but she was one of my close friends from last year. But the remainder of my friends are guys! And at breaks and stuff I hang with Haley, Adam, Martin and JR. And what I've noticed is...I dont have friendship fights or hissy fits anymore because i hang with guys and honestly, guys dont really give a shit so it works out great anyhow! I mean, they dont take insults seriously, they are way more passive and they're just really nice. And its not like a dude is gonna bitch about you behind your back. Maybe if you really bother him but these guys are my friends. I also have other guy friends like Josh, Kyle and Connor. And mind you, I do have other girl friends i just dont hang out with them too much. Factor being = too much drama! I had enough of that last year. All in all, I'm glad guys dont gossip about you or get jealous cuz you have bigger boobs than them :)

The Outsiders

About a month ago, my friend gave me this book called The Outsiders. Plot? It's the 1960's. There are greasers and socs. In a small town in Tulsa, Ponyboy Curtis's gang is the greasers- his brothers Darry Curtis and Sodapop Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade, Steve Randle is Soda's best friend, Dally Winston is the tough guy and Two-Bit Matthews the wise crack. The gang is like a family and sticks together no matter what until one night when Ponyboy and Johnny meet these Soc girls at the movies, their boyfriends get mad and later that night confront them at the park. The one soc, Bob, tries to drown Pony in the fountain but Johnny stabs him and accidentally kills him. They turn to Dally for help and he tells them to hide up in an old church. After Pony and Johnny spend about 4 days there, Dally comes and takes them to Dairy Queen to eat something. They return to the church to get their stuff when Johnny decides to turn himself in but right before they leave, the old church catches on fire -one of their ciggs werent put out right- and there were a group of kids who had ran in there while they were gone. So Pony and Johnny run in there and try to save the kids, in the process, Johnny gets very badly burned and just as Ponyboy gets out, the church collapses on Johnny. They take him in to the hospital and he has sever burns. When Pony returns home that night, the socs and greasers had planned a rumble for the next day (a rumble is a fight). After alot of fighting the next night, and Steve's broken ribs, the greasers win the rumble. But soon later, Johnny's burns are so bad and his lungs have so much debris in them that he dies in the hospital. Everyone is devastated. Not long after that, Dally cant stand the pain of Johnny being gone and lets himself get shot and killed. Ponyboy's life is never the same after that. His school grades go down,he and his brothers fight alot and its like he lives in a small bubble, confined from the world around him. Until his language teacher makes him write about something significant and he writes down this story. The end. Its a very moving book. I almost cry everytime i read the part that Johnny is about to die and tells Ponyboy "stay golden, Ponyboy...stay golden". There's also a movie to it that i want to watch really badly. It was made in 1983 (the book was written in 1967). C.Thomas Howell plays Ponyboy Curtis,  Ralph Maccio plays Johnny Cade, Matt Dillon plays Dally Winston, Rob Lowe plays Sodapop Curtis, Patrick Swayze plays Darry Curtis, Emilio Estevez plays Two-Bit Matthews, and Tom Cruise plays Steve Randle. I love the outsiders. Pictures? I think so!

(left to right) top row: Darry, Dally, Sodapop

bottom row: Two-bit, Johnny, Ponyboy and Steve

Merry Christmas!!!!

Hey you guys! I know I said I wouldn't be on today but I got a iPod touch for Christmas which allows me to get just about anywhere online! So yeah. And since it's 1:26am it's officially Christmas day! So merry Christmas you guys or whosever reads my sorry excuses for blog posts XD And holy crap it just took me 10 min to write three sentences. Man this is slow.

Foreigner

This week, I've been listening to alot of Foreigner music. They're a pretty good band. It seems each week or so, I become obsessed with a different band. Last week it was David Bowie, the week before E.L.O, the week before Eric Clapton,the week before that Boston, the week before that  The Police and before that I cant remember xP But yeah, this week its Foreigner. My dad also really likes them. But you know who he likes alot? Grand Funk Railway. I like them too, i mean I think Some Kind Of Wonderful is probably the best song ever but thats really it from all of their songs that I like. I kinda like their song Bad Time but its not really high on my charts. Anyway, some Foreigner songs I'd suggest? Hot Blooded, Double Vision and of course my personal favourite: Juke Box Hero! Now most of you probably heard of this song cuz of Guitar Hero or Rockband (it really pisses me off that the only way people my age -13 to 16- know any good music is from a stupid video game). Yeah, thats right. Guitar Hero and Rockband are stupid. You think its hard to play Back In Black on expert? Try playing the real thing on a real guitar. You dont feel like much of a rock star now do you? Didnt think so. I'm sorry, its just that I'm a guitar player and this is just something I feel strongly about. People think just cuz they can press a couple of lousy multicoloured buttons, that they're guitar experts but it takes alot more work. Anyway,  I'm getting off track. So to close up, Today was my last day of school before my 2 week Christmas vacation which will be very nice. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I'm very excited cuz ever since i was born, Christmas Eve was when we opened everything and Christmas day was kind of a "spend time with family but also with your new gifts" day xD So at around 5 or 6 we're going to church service and then coming back and opening stuff up till 2:00. yeah, we always stay up late :P I'm not sure if i'll be on the computer tomorrow. Most likely not so MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! woot 2012!

Ah, December

Happy that today is the first day of December for more than one reason-its the month of Christmas. Half the month your not even at school. the first snow is always thrilling. I was getting sick of November.lol. And with the new month, i have lots planned. Tomorrow, I'm getting off school early to go to this thing downtown with my mom, aunt and cousin called Lowe's Christmas village or something like that. Its an old fashioned village type thing, its supposed to be very good. Then on Saturday, I'm going to the mall with a couple friends to do some Christmas shopping. so yes, much planned.

The Eagle Has Landed-my personal thoughts

So tonight, me and my dad finished watching a movie called The Eagle Has Landed. Its a war movie about a bunch of German soldiers who were orded to kill Winston Churchill from the "Führer" or Hitler (Führer roughly translated is 'leader' in German and thats what they often called Hitler). In the beginning, it starts out in Germany with a highly ranked German colonel (or at least i think he was a colonel) who got a letter from Hitler saying he wanted him to kill Winston Churchill. So the colonel ( i forget his name) meets with this Irish guy named Liam Devlin and he joins him on his mission. They then find this other German guy who used to be highly ranked and who has men, a bout and skills, who's name is Kurt Steiner. He also joins them. They set off on their trek to England where Churchill is planning to visit. When they get there, Devlin meets a girl, Molly Prior, and they fall madly in love (lol). About 3 quarters through the movie, the Americans catch wind of the Germans plan and thats when the battle starts. There's also a lady named Joanna Grey who deceived everyone and was really on the German's side the whole time even though she was British. So in the end, Steiner dies, the American General dies, the German colonel dies, Joanna dies, alot of the Germans die, alot of the Americans die and get this. The whole time, "Winston Churchill" was really some guy pretending to be him in case some thing like this had happened. And guess what. STEINER KILLS HIM! so yeah, this moved kinda pissed me off cuz I absolutely HATE movies where everyone dies. But lately, that happens in alot of the movies i watch. I mean, for example: Forest Gump, Inglorious Bastards, The Great Escape (well not really but alot of people do die), Water For Elephants and now this one. Good day to you, sir! ....lol....

Hugo Stiglitz DUN DUN!!!

I dont know why I haven't made a post about this before but on the weekend, me and my 23 year old cousin watched Inglorious Bastards! (yeah, the parents were not amused,lol). But anyway, I gotta say, one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I know not all of its funny but when your a racist like me, everything about Germans is funny. Tee hee. There's this one scene especially that me and my cousin like best. Its only about 15 seconds long, its the part where the Bastards caught some nazi's in the ditch and the guy who Brad Pitt plays (cant remember his name) says to the nazi (granted Brad Pitt's holding a gun to the nazi's head) "have you heard of Hugo Stiglitz?". The nazi says "everyone in the German army's heard of Hugo Stiglitz" and it shows Hugo and this guitar music goes off, it hilarious. If you wanna watch it, I've posted the scene here:

And speakin of germans, during History this afternoon (we had to get in our groups but we were done so i was just talkin to random people -and by random I mean Adam, Martin 'Martinie' lol, and afterwards, JR-) and I was bein all racist not really...well kinda...whatever and towards the end of the day, I was making a nazi joke to JR and he walked off and said "i kill nazis" (or something like that) and im like "well you do that, even though you are one" and then he agreed with me that he wanted to kill the Germans when he is a german! my god. And all day we were calling Martin, 'Martini" and then me "Linguini" and Adam "Adom" we were putting "olini" at the end of everything to make it italian!

Oh and by the way, if i offend your race in anything that I post,i am sorry. Its nothing person. And most of my references are from World War 2 anyway soooo....yah. happy hunting xD 

Ipod Is Busted.

Thats right. Life sucks. I never really realized how much I used my ipod until it died. I mean, it litterally died. It wont charge. It wont turn on. The battery is dead. So ever since Sunday (thats when it broke) I've been almost music deprived! I mean, I have beatles CD's and dont get me wrong, the beatles are great but sometimes I just want to listen to some Police records or some Fleetwood Mac. And one can only listen to A Hard Days Night so many times before going insane. Now, I thought I was doomed until Christmas (parents agreed to get me an Ipod touch.yay!) but last night, I burned my whole playlist of 150 songs (thats just my favourites. I have like 500 songs in total) onto CD. Granted, it took 2 hours and 7 CDs but at least I can listen to my music on my mom's walk man (a thing from the 90's. lol) So life is good again. For now. lol.

Remembrance Day

I would like to dedicate this post to all the soldiers who have died on war and continue to die for our country or which ever country you are from. A singer I know once said "It takes courage to fight your own war. It takes courage to fight someone else's war". As you might know, I am extremely interested in World War 2 and 1940's.  Some war movies that I'd recommend? Patton, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen and you might want to watch The Big Red One. Me and my dad couldnt get through it, it was too weird for us (cutting each other's ears off, men kissing men, guts being thrown at each other and what not). Also, if your interested in holocaust (which i am as well) you'd want to watch Schindler's List although, this summer i couldnt make it through it. It was to graphic and i just burst into tears cuz usually with torture movies like Schindler's List, you just tell yourself "its not real, its not real" but in this case-it was real. Also, The Story Of Anne Frank might be a good movie for you. It does have some scenes in the death camps but its not too graphic. Also, if anyone's noticed, today is the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the 2000's. And we stood for a moment of silence at 11:00. Well I did, anyway. Did you? I'd like to share a poem I wrote for Remembrance Day. Its called I Raise My Hat.
I raise my hat
to the men who died
I raise my hat
to the wives who cried
I raise my hat
to the wounded and the scarred
I raise my hat
to the strong at heart
I raise my hat
to the brave and the proud
I raise my hat
to the women who lost their men in the croud
I raise my hat
to the soldiers who never came home
I raise my hat
to the mothers worrying, all alone
I raise my hat to the dead, the brave, the live and the proud.
They lost their life for you.
Surely you can raise your hat for them.

------------- REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED-----------------

                                         

Halloween Is Coming

In a couple days (3 to be exact) it will be halloween. Which means two things. First and most obvious, the whole halloween thing. Getting dressed up, going trick or treating. But it also means Halloween dance at my school. Now i'm not one to swoon (well..actually...) but my friends are bugging me about taking someone with me to the dance. I dont know why. I've never been anyone's date to a dance and i dont plan to ask. I'm not that desperate. No offence if your a girl and you'd asked a guy to a dance. I just dont think i could see myself doing that. I mean if someone asked me, maybe i'd go (if the guy was decent and we were at least acquaintances) But anywho, even though most people would say i'm too old to be trick or treating, i say, screw them i'm going anyway. i'm being a world war 2 pilot. I'm going with my friends Haley, Rebecca and Kathryn. So thats it for now. By the way, if your looking for a nice easy listening song, try Love Comes To Everyone by George Harrison. I'm listening to it right now and its just a nice song to listen to.

Skinny Jeans

For my birthday, I got skinny jeans. And I dont just mean those kinda tight jeans, I'm talking SKIN TIGHT, FEEL THE HAIRS ON YOUR LEGS! I mean, yeah, they looked good but MY GOD, all through Geography it was 'oh dear God, get these things off of me!". I was counting the minutes on the clock till lunch cuz i didnt want to have to ask permission to the bathroom. So once 11:30 hit, i didnt even take my books, I ran out and into the bathroom and pulled those suckers off! Ah, relief. I sat there for like 10 minutes and then it was like 'damn, forgot my books'. So i pulled the pants of doom back on and went back to the classroom. "You forgot your books" the teacher says."Yes, I know" I say then get the heck out of there. So yeah, my first experience with skinny jeans = not a good one!

The Little French Man

so, lately I've been feeling kinda...down. I dont really know why. School stuff. But today, my buddies Adam and Josh really cheered me up. They probably dont know this and i'd be a wuss if i told them but it really...cheered me up. See, Adam sits beside me and Josh sits behind me so all through math class and pretty much the rest of the day (we have math for like 3 periods) we were cracking jokes and like laughing our butts off. I got all racist (not really) and was calling people irish or french or german or brittish, depending on their last name (im into that kind of stuff) and Josh's last name is a french name so I started calling him "little french man". For a while he didnt like it but after like 45 minutes of me and Adam teasing him and alot of side-splitting laughs, he didnt seem to mind. So, that kinda made my day. Laughing. Its true, laughter is the best medicine...or is it love? if it is love then...i'm probably not gonna have that medicine for a LONG TIME. as i walked home, me and my friend sang "Love Stinks". And its kinda true.

Chandler The Grasshopper!!

At breaks today, I kept trying to catch grasshoppers on the feild cuz there's tons hopping around. Every time I caught one, I'd name him Chandler but we'd say Chandlar with a brittish accent xD so me and my friends would run around saying "Chandlar! Chandlar! Come here!" as we tried to catch the grasshoppers. Yesterday I caught this HUGE one and it bit me...it was a little funny cuz I dropped it and yelling "AHH! CHANDLAR'S EVIL!!" lol xD

School Again...

Eh, school. The thing us kids dread. I mean, I thought this year was gonna suck cuz all my friends are in a totally different class than me and i got the same teacher as last year who i didn't enjoy too much (don't get me started) and as yesterday was the first day of school, it wasn't as horrible as I imagined and today was even better. I mean, the difference between last year and this year is I had all my girl friends in my class last year and this year i have all my guy friends. But still its not the same as having your best friends :((( but i should mention that at the end of the day, we have to put our chairs up on our desks-mine fell just as I was leaving and like three dudes went to go pick it up for me. :D yay!

Yesterday

...Yesterday was the scariest day of my life. Two words:  Break in....

Preview -This Cold And Wicked War-

I noticed lately, I haven't really been posting any interesting posts. Well,here's one I hope will entertain you. There's a book that I started writing in April and I only got to maybe 4 pages when I couldn't think of anything. This happens quite alot to me. The farthest along in one of my books that I've gone is in a book called Basket Boy. Chapter 8 or 9 I think. But back to this book I began to write in April. It takes place in the 1940's and is about a young woman (age 17) who's mother is shot by a German soldier and killed. It changes her life drastically and she (Alexandria) and her brother (Moe) decide to enlist for the war. Alexandria feels very strong about this-the main reason she wants to join up is to get back at the people who killed her mother. The problem is, she's a girl and only men where aloud to enlist so she poses as a boy, giving a fake name of Adam Wisser. Last night, I got this sudden flow of scenes in this book and I began to write them down. I got at least 6 or 7 pages down. Here's a preview of the scene where she goes to enlist.
At city hall, there were plenty of lads and young men in line. Also, standing around and discussing government. I felt a bit intimidated but I tried my hardest to remind myself who these people really thought I was. "You're a boy, you're a boy, you're a boy" I kept saying to myself over and over until the officer at the front desk called "Next!" and I realized there was no one in front of me. Trembling as I went, I walked up to the desk. "I'd like to enlist" I said in my best man-voice. The officer's shiny tag caught the light and its rays hit my eyes. It read the name "Officer Crane". Possibly a German? My fists clenched."Name?" Officer Crane asked. Oh no. I hadn't thought of a name. I suddenly couldn't feel my feet. Although before my brain could think, my mouth was already answering the question. "Adam Wisser" I answered. Adam?! Why did I choose something so close to my real name? At least I was smart enough not to say Alex.
What did you think? There's alot more to it, thats was only like half a page.so tell me what you thought :)

The Complete Series

I went to a used video store yesterday and they had season 1,2,3,7,8,9 & 10 of Friends and I bought them all! (Except 7 cuz I already had season 5,6 and 7) so now I have the whole series except season 4! I'm so happy!!! You can just guess what I'll be doing all day....watching Friends!!! :D

All Nighter

I pulled an all nighter last night! woo hoo!!! to pass the time,I: worked on my hatena series, wrote silly stories about the beatles, read, listened to music and finally, watched the sun rise. It was really cool. but now im kinda tired...well i havent slept in like 30 hours!

Everybody Loves Somebody

Everybody loves somebody sometimes
everybody falls in love somehow
something in your kiss
just told me my sometime is now.
Everybody finds somebody some place
there's no telling where love may appear
some thing in my heart
keeps saying that some place is here.
If I had it in my power,
I'd arrange for every boy to have your charm
then every minute, every hour
every girl would find what i found in your heart.
Everybody loves somebody sometime
and I'll know my dream was all with you.
You love make it well worth waiting
for someone like you.
If I had it in my power,
I would arrange for every boy to have your charm
then every minute, every hour
every girl would find what i found in your heart.
Everybody loves somebody sometime
and I'll know my dream was all with you.
You love made it well worth waiting
for someone like you