Don't call me Bones!

By far one of my favorite shows! I just finished re-watching the first season and it reminded me why I love this show so much. Smart, funny, witty (that is a bit redundant, but whatever) and David Boreanaz how could you go wrong? If you have never seen the show before you can either go on Wikipedia or listen to my very short and probably wrong run down.

Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who works for the Jeffersonian institute in Washington D.C. Special Agent Seeley Booth is an F.B.I homicide investigator who brings his cases to Brennan because she is the best in the country. Every week an F.B.I case comes to the Jeffersonian and Brennan, who Booth affectionately calls Bones, and her team figure out what happened. Sounds like every other crime show, but what makes Bones is the humor and the characters. You fall in love with Bones, Booth, Angela, Hodgins, and every one else that passes though the lab.

When I re-watched the first season I surprised about how much the focused on Booths military service, which has seemed to die out as the series grows longer. They do mention Booth being in the Rangers from time to time, but many of the cases in the first season bring up Booth's beliefs and ties to the military. Also the friction between Booth and Hodgins who is a conspiracy nut.

Another thing was all the relationship undertones the I forgot were in the beginning of the series. Of course there is the tie between Booth and Bones (If they don't get together at the end of the series I am going to be pissed!), but also Angela and Hodgins. I forgot that they started to mention that even in the very beginning because it becomes so much more evident in the following season.

I highly recommend this series to anyone. It has comedy, action, science, and just about everything else. Here is to hoping that the rest of the series is a good as the first season was.

Nosferatu

So this semester I am taking a course call Vampire: Blood and Empire. For the past two class periods we have been watching Nosferatu which was the very first movie on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Now there are no copies of the original film left because the producer didn't get the Rights from the estate to make the film and all the originals were burned. However bits and piece survived and were pieced together into the movie we saw. There are a bunch of other versions of the movie so if you try to look it up be advised that no two versions are the same. 

Now let me tell you that there is nothing more entertaining then watching a silent movie from 1922 with about 70 other kids. The first reason is because the whole time I was making my own dialogue to the movie which at times was highly inappropriate. The second reason is that we would all start laughing at the most dramatic parts of the movie. Overall it was fun, but not something that I would watch on my own free time. 

Things that bothered me about the movie were too many to name, but I'll name a few. First of all was the vampire, Count Orlock, himself. I think a five year old could knock him over the way he tootled around. Then his fangs were right next to each other, not his canines. Weird much? Then he had these hairy pointy ears. He kinda reminded me of a human furby hybrid. How anyone found him scary was beyond me.

Then there was the way he died. He is all nom noming on Ellen, sees that it is morning, gets up and walks into the sun. He just disappears after that, no staking or any of the fun stuff. Very disappointing if you ask me. No one gets, shoot, staked, or really hurt in anyway then dying from the plague. I mean the Band of Light from the book isn't even in the movie! So aggravating! I mean the character that is supposed to be Van Helsing is in maybe two scenes. Though since there wasn't any talking it isn't like he could have his long and pointless speeched, but still.

I know that the plague was a more real threat to the people at this time, but it still wasn't at all frightening. maybe this is just my 2010 brain messing up the movie, I'm not sure. Hopefully the next movie we watch will be a little better, but you never know some new movies are just as awful. They think that special effect, blood, and naked women can cover up for a stupid story line. We will see.

Happy Monday :)

And what better way to start your week then to have your bus lose power and walk a mile to get back to your dorm with a backpack so full you look like you are ready for a month long trek in the Amazon? I really can't think of one. Now I know that I get to ride the public transportation for free because I am a student in the city so I don't have the right to be as mad as the people who paid to ride, but it still sucked...A LOT. At least it wasn't raining at this point in time and my brother was with me or I would have been quite grumpy.

Our bus wasn't the only one having issues either, which made me wonder exactly what was wrong with the buses. As we walked to campus another bus was stopped and looked like it also had no power. Maybe it is a bus epidemic. All I know is that I am happy we got as far as we did. I walked about two miles to school everyday in high school so the walk this morning was nothing, but still a crappy start to your day.

Now for the real reason I am writing this post…I’m avoiding working on a paper. I mean why should I have to do this 'exploratory writing' when I will never have to use it in any of my other classes? My professor even helped me with ideas and talking it through, but I still have no idea what to write about. So I figured that my time would be better spent writing this blog entry, especially seeing that I have no followers at this point in time. This is totally a better use of my time J .

Alright, alright I am going back to work *sigh*

Jane Eyre - looks aren't everything

I had to read Jane Eyre for Women and Literature. Now this is the second time that I have read this novel and I have to say that it is much better the second time around. I don't think that ninth grade students can really understand and appreciate all that this novel has to offer other then the romance story.

Since most people have read or at least heard of the book before so I am not going to bore you with description of the plot and go right to my thoughts. I can not stand St. John Rivers. I think he is boring, obnoxious, and a prick. I am not against religion and I think that clergy should have a strong sense of duty, but to take a young girl (Jane is only nineteen) to India so she can die too young in life is just heartless. Not only that but to tell this same girl that you do not love her, but wish to marry her and think that this will be okay is just...naive. There is no faster way to a girls heart then tell her that you want her to come die with you in India because she is smart not because you love her. Maybe it is because he didn't speak with her unless he was teaching her, but it was obvious that he has no idea about what her personality is like. Though I have to admit (and agree with my professor) that he sounds hott with two t's.

*Jamie Bell is supposed to be playing St.John in a new movie coming out in 2011*

What got me even more upset than St. John is the fact that Jane was about to go with him! I knew how the book ends and I still was almost ripping my hair out during the scene where she almost said yes to his marriage proposal. She said that he suppressed her nature, character, and soul, but she thought that going to India because she couldn't be with Mr. Rochester that was cool. She already said marrying St. John would basically be killing herself before she even got to India and that she could not hold up to the climate well, I just didn't understand her logic. However maybe if I had born in the time and in her position it would make more sense, but as it is I can't get into the Victorian England mindset on this point. 

Second thought is that I always forget Mr. Rochester as well as Jane herself are supposed to be unattractive. Maybe because he is so interesting and entertaining or maybe because Jane loves him and it is her eyes we see him through, but I always see someone who is relatively attractive. I like him so much more the St. John because he cares about Jane's nature as well as her personality. Mr. Rochester could have had the beautiful Miss Blanch, but he chose someone who suited his mind. I also picture Mr. Rochester almost as attractive as St. John and even in the movie adaptions he isn't ugly or even unattractive. Now I know Hollywood has to make everyone pretty, but they could find someone who fits into the first picture that Bronte gave us.

This read through also showed me how much more the novel was then a romance. Bronte comments on the decline in literature (mostly poetry) in her time and many other wide reaching comments. Religion is also a giant part of this novel that I brushed off before as filler. I think I related a lot more to Jane this time because I feel like I am like her in a lot of ways. I am plain, smart but not extremely so, love to read and learn, and also very passionate when occasion calls for it. And damn it I am going to admit it I want the fairy tale romance with a personal Mr. Rochester! Jane follows her heart and her reason through out the novel and even though it causes her pain it also makes her happy in the end. Not only that she isn't pretty and she marries the ugly, blind, crippled man because she loves him and not the young, hot one because she thinks its her duty to God. YOU GO GIRL!

It's getting hot in here

So like any normal person I was going to sleep in on a Saturday morning, but a girl on the seventh floor of my dorm had other plans. Around 9:30 this siren whoop went off. I closed my eyes and hoped that it was just something outside my window or a mistake, but nope, it came again. Then this creepy ass male voice came over the loud speakers (which I didn't even know we had) and told us that there was an emergency and we all had to leave the building.

I thought it was a drill so I rolled out of bed, grabbed my key for the room and a hoddie before stuffing my feet into my shoes. I followed everyone else out, but we all stood right outside the building figuring they would let us back in. That's when I heard a group of girls talking about smoke coming out of the door across the hall. As they pushed us away from the building we got to see the other side of the building and sure enough smoke was pouring out of a window. As I listened to other girls talk the girl who lived in that room had left so she didn't even know what was happening. Of course a bunch of girls had their cell phones so the news travled fast.

We waited for at least fifteen minutes before any fire personal showed up and the first one to arive was a SUV. Finally three other trucks showed up, but if it was a stronger blaze (I still don't know what exactly happened) the whole building would have went up.

At this point I remembered where the sprinklers were in my room, right over my bed and right over my desk. On the top of my desk were all of my text books and my favorite series of books. By my bed was my laptop, phone, mp3 player, and sock monkey. I was going to be so pissed if they went off not to mention that I would screwed for the rest of the semester.

After waiting outside for about an hour and a half to two hours they finally started to let us back in, but only on one side of the building. They were checking everyone in and if you had a guest you had to sign them in. Now some girls were in the shower when it happened and obviously didn't have their key, but lived in the building. They made them wait till someone else went up and got their key! I thought it was all a bit ridculous. Nothing in my room was damaged, but the hall around the elevator was covered in water and one of my friend's books got ruined because they were by the window and the water ran down the wall.

So I survived the fire and we are talking about making shirts :) It also got me up and out of bed, but I am still not getting anything productive done. Oh, well I guess I can blame it on my near death experiance ;)

Dracula - sometimes the movies are better then the book

So I am taking a class this semester called Vampire: Blood and Empire. Naturally we are not just focusing on the new found obsession with vampires, but their historical context and the original stories. Of course Bram Stoker's Dracula was the first full length novel. I just finished it and here are some of my thoughts...

Now I really enjoyed the novel to begin with because I liked all the different points of view as well as the two different story lines converging into one. It was full of action and suspense all the way up until the scene we see Mina being forced to drink Dracula's blood. After that the book went down hill. Even the death of the Count, which was so anticlimactic that it made me want to cry, and Quincy Morris could help it. Not only that but by the end of the novel all of the most interesting characters had either been killed or turned so annoying that I couldn't bring myself to care what really happened.

I loved Mina Harker at the beginning of the novel, even though I thought she was a bit dead when she thought the marks on Lucy's neck were from a pin. I think you would notice if you rammed a pin threw someone’s skin no matter who worried you were about being discovered. By the end of the novel however she was whiny and I wanted her to become a vampire so she would at least be interesting again. The Mina portrayed in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman is so much better. Thank you creative license.

Dr. Van Helsing was annoying as all hell and I am very very VERY happy that in the movie Van Helsing he does not at all resemble Stoker's model. Though with Huge Jackman I really don't know how you can go wrong. *yum* Dr. Van Helsing in the book was sooooooo long winded and refused to tell anyone anything until something horrible happened. If he wouldn't have been so damn secretive maybe the book could have been 200 pages and not 300 hundred.

And then their is Quincy Morris who I didn't even know was a character in the Dracula book until I started to read it for myself. Let me just say that he is straight up shady. He is always disappearing and then reappearing with weak alibis and then he almost kills Jonathan shooting at a 'bat' at the window. Shady to say the least. Then he just kinda dies, no fan fair and not really a lot of drama or grief. He just dies.

I can not forget Renfield because he was the person I felt most sorry for and the saddest at his death. He was a lunatic who saw a way to get what he wanted, but at the last minute had a change of heart and died trying to protect Mina. Though I am not going to lie the whole spiders and flies was weird, but hey he was in a mental asylum.

Which leads me to my biggest problem with the novel. You know that Renfield loves Dracula and calls him master and you know that he needs to be invited into your home. So what do our brave heroes do? Leave the female home, alone and defenseless, and go out and about looking to Dracula which is only going to piss him off. Really this seemed like a good idea? I literally rolled my eyes at the book when this happened. And then it took them forever to figure out he was even feeding on Mina. Stupid males! Mina wasn't much better.

Overall I think that anyone interested in vampires or gothic novels should read this book because it is a good read. You do need to battle through some sections, but the staking of Lucy really is worth it. Also I had to read a lot of secondary literature about Dracula and now it's hard not to see everything as a sexual innuendo. Really you should read some of the stuff written about this book.

Also in the way of Dracula movies I recommend Dracula: Dead and Loving it if you are looking for a laugh. As a matter of fact I am going to go see if it is an instant watch :)



SHINee!!!!

Okay so I have a slight confession to make to you (though since no one reads this I guess I am making it to myself). My favorite band at this point in time doesn't speak English. In fact they are from South Korea...Seoul to be exact.

SHINee is a South Korean pop band that my friend at work back home turned me onto and I haven't been able to get enough. It is composed of 5 very attractive males :) I am going to list them by their stage names, but if you want the full run down they have a page on Wikipedia (just like almost everything else)

Onew is the leader of the group as well as the oldest though he is not the lead singer. I really like him just from what I have seen from the music videos, though I haven't watched their live action show. I'm not that much of a super fan ;)

Jonghyun is the main vocalist as well as my second favorite member of the group. In their newest music video for the song "hello" he is drop dead sexy. His voice is also absolutely amazing and even before I knew what they were saying I was moved by his voice.

Key is one of the rappers and a vocalist in the group. I know he has a huge fan group and I don't mean to dis them at all, but his parts seem a bit small in the songs. I'm not saying he isn't talented but they seem to have him do a lot of back up harmony. 

Minho is the main rapper in the group, but that is just my personal opinion. He was a model before he joined the group (wonder why?) and is also a permanent cast member on Dream Team Season 2. I haven't watched this, but I am definitely going to look into it so stay posted ;) I personally like him better with longer hair.

Taemin is the youngest of the group and my personal favorite :) He is the lead dancer of the group and has also done acting on the Korean show Taehee-Hyegyo-Jihyun. He is absolutely adorable and though his singing isn't as good as some of the other members he is a lot better then some American singers (I'm not going to name any names.....at this point in time)

I would also like to add that it took quite a but of will power not to put the picture I found of him shirtless in bed up, but I am going to be a good little girl. I also would like to add that I think he is his hottest in the music video for Lucifer *drools a bit on keyboard* I am also going to admit that though I am a fan I am not claiming to be an expert on them. I have not heard everything they have put out, though I really enjoyed all of the mini album Lucifer. I also am a giant fan of the song 'hello' which they just put the music video out for. (You can find their music videos on youtube ;)

One thing I would like to say though is that people who leave comments on youtube really bother me. You are entitled to your opinion so if you don't like SHINee (or any other band) that's fine, but why do you find it necessary to make down right rude and obscene comments about the band and their fans? Most of the comments are racist and only show how much of an ass the commenter is. So from this unimportant college student I have a request, keep it classy kids. If you don't like a group voice you comments respectfully or better yet keep them to yourself.

Or do what I did and start a blog ;)