The last episode of the 1st season of gravity falls aired, it wasn't what I thought it would be but it was still pretty good.
When Gideon hit the mystery shack in Dreamscapers I was expecting a big explosion of chaos and Stans secret to be revealed but instead we got Gideon trying to get his hands the 3 journals and failing miserably.
At the start of the episode poor Dipper, Mabel, Stan and Soos had to move in with Soos's nan because Gideon had taken over the Mystery shack so he could find Journal number 1 he then intended to turn the Shack into Gideon land, which makes me wonder why he hit the shack with a wrecking ball in the first place if he wanted to find the book?
Long story short (without completely ruining the episode.) when Stan, Soos, Dipper and Mabel try to get the shack back Gideon gets a hold of Dipper book Journal number 3 which Gideon realizes that Journal number 1 still alludes him and he attacks Dipper, Mabel and Soos with a Giant mecha Gideon robot, there was an awesome fight between Gideon and Dipper.
Though out the series Dipper has always been slightly insecure, insecure about his strength, insecure about his masculinity, insecure about Wendy and this episode Gideon raised the point that the only way Dipper can solve the problems in gravity falls is because of the Journal and that he can't solve problems with physical strength or even using his brain, so Dipper Proves Gideon wrong by beating him in a fight and long story short Dipper gets his journal back and Stan gets the Mystery Shack.
The end is the most interesting part of the episode, Stan borrows Journal number 3 from Dipper calming that the monsters could make good exhibits ideas for the shack but instead takes it to the room behind the vending machine and it is revealed that Stan had book number 1 the whole time.
I thought it was pretty obvious that Stan at least knew about the books because, one he always made a big effort to cover up the weird things going on like dismissing dipper's paranormal experiences, making fake exhibits when he had actual weird paranormal things in his house and not to mention the secret room behind the vending machine so it was pretty obvious he knew more than he was letting on.
Any way I can't wait for the new season and to find out what Stan needed the books for and what exactly is the thing in the room behind the vending machine.
Monday, 5 August 2013
Friday, 2 August 2013
Law an Order UK
I really like crime drama's on ITV like Scott and Bailey, Lewis, white chapel, Miss Marple ect, I like British crime Drama more than the US kind, I do like the CSI and murder she wrote ( I haven't seen the US Law and Order yet.)but american crime fiction is harder to relate to (the stories in CSI can be a bit wacky, like I remember one episode with a guy who was killed by being force fed board game pieces at a board game competition. I don't like the weird deaths it's like in Midsomer Murders when the murderer killed everyone with golf paraphernalia or when everyone was killed with cheese making items but it's just harder to understand with CSI because I'm not familiar with what the wacky murders are about.)
you don't really realise how different the UK and the USA are until you compare television the best types of programs for comparing are sitcoms and crime drama, american and British soaps are different things entirely and the UK isn't the best place for cartoons but sitoms and crime drama are things that are in abundance on both sides of the ocean.
A lot of British crime drama either centers on the posh rural villages like Midsomer Murders or they focus on city life like Scott and bailey.
Towns, city's and villages in the UK are very to the American counter parts, the suburbs for a city like New York generally have new nicely spaced apart houses and the area is peaceful whilst the suburbs of a city like London the houses are older, they sit closer together and the roads are busier.
you don't really realise how different the UK and the USA are until you compare television the best types of programs for comparing are sitcoms and crime drama, american and British soaps are different things entirely and the UK isn't the best place for cartoons but sitoms and crime drama are things that are in abundance on both sides of the ocean.
A lot of British crime drama either centers on the posh rural villages like Midsomer Murders or they focus on city life like Scott and bailey.
Towns, city's and villages in the UK are very to the American counter parts, the suburbs for a city like New York generally have new nicely spaced apart houses and the area is peaceful whilst the suburbs of a city like London the houses are older, they sit closer together and the roads are busier.
So if you were to have a crime drama set in suburban New York it would be completely different to a crime drama set in suburban London.
Back to the point of Law and Order, recently a new series of Law and Order UK has started, the first two episodes featured a train crash where multiple people died after a man failed to commit suicide, the UK version in set in London and the episodes are usually based on the american series taking themes and plot of episodes and adapting, the first of the two episodes was called tracks and it was based off the episode locomotive.
I don't know what happened in the episode Locomotive but I loved the episode tracks, Freema Agyeman (Martha from Doctor Who) left and was replaced with Georgia Taylor who has an interesting character on the law team.
In this series I really like the acting of Bradley Walsh (Ronnie Brooks) and Paul Nicholls (Sam casey), Bradley Walsh is great in this considering how he can't keep a straight face on game show "the chase" he's just so friendly it seems weird for him to be an officer, I love the on screen relationship of Walsh and Nicholls and I'm sad to hear that Sam is leaving, the fact he leaves after six episodes is suspicious after Matt (Ronnie's last partner) having died I don't know how would Ronnie react (or me for that matter) if Sam died too, but I would rather he died instead of him just quitting or something.
According to Bradley Walsh series eight will start filming in October.
Monday, 8 July 2013
Ultimate Spider-man: Ultimate Deadpool
I thought this was easily the best episode in a while, I even giggled out loud a few times which is an achievement because usually when I find something funny I smirk or even worse just blow more air out my nose but this episode actually made me laugh which is nice.
Of course Deadpool can't be too violent because of the children who watch Ultimate Sspider-man, I think that is the problem with Deadpool Because I would love for a Deadpool animated series but what could you do with it, Disney owns Marvel so the obvious option would be to air it on Disney XD with Spider-man and the Avengers but clearly you can't have strong langue, sexual references and gore but would you play down the violence and innuendo to the point where it isn't really Deadpool any more for the sake of toy sales.
(I think DC Nation had this problem on CartoonNetwork where The fanbase was mostly made up of teens who didn't want toys and they were less profitable than they had hoped, CartoonNetwork cut it's loses and cancelled Young Justice and Green Lantern)
Or would you make it darker and slightly more grown up for the sake of breaking him into the public eye to hopefully set him up for a movie franchise and hopefully make money that way.
Or do you just make some straight to DVD film/series and keep it fairly low budget.
Deadpool is a tough cookie when it comes to marketing, I'm glad they put him in an episode, he made a few cameos and I really didn't think it would come to more than that and I back their decision and the way he was represented even if he was tame in compassion to other incarnations.
Deadpool was voiced by Will Friedle who was Eric Mathews in Boy Meets World and Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible, Not everyone seemed to like him as Deadpool but I like Will Friedle (maybe I wouldn't have chosen him to voice Deadpool though).
Something that did annoy me however was that his origin story was changed, okay maybe a huge plot dump of an origin story would be boring and maybe it isn't the nicest origin story to be telling the kids but I don't think they needed to change completely, Ultimate Spider-man focuses on Nick Fury and S.H.E.I.L.D more so to involve the X-men and weapon X would could confuse the children and would take forever to explain.
It was cool to see howthe spider-man from the "Ultimate Spider-man" universe would react with Deadpool, because this spider-man breaks the fourth-wall like Deadpool in the comics and spider-man is pretty immature and this spider-man is pretty similar to Deadpool but at the same time they have very different views and opinions so that was fun to see play out.
I can't help get the feeling that marvel is trying harder to break Deadpool out of the comics recently with the Deadpool Video game, this episode of spider-man and he will also appear in the Lego marvel video game so hopefully everyone will be hearing a lot more about deadpool
Of course Deadpool can't be too violent because of the children who watch Ultimate Sspider-man, I think that is the problem with Deadpool Because I would love for a Deadpool animated series but what could you do with it, Disney owns Marvel so the obvious option would be to air it on Disney XD with Spider-man and the Avengers but clearly you can't have strong langue, sexual references and gore but would you play down the violence and innuendo to the point where it isn't really Deadpool any more for the sake of toy sales.
(I think DC Nation had this problem on CartoonNetwork where The fanbase was mostly made up of teens who didn't want toys and they were less profitable than they had hoped, CartoonNetwork cut it's loses and cancelled Young Justice and Green Lantern)
Or would you make it darker and slightly more grown up for the sake of breaking him into the public eye to hopefully set him up for a movie franchise and hopefully make money that way.
Or do you just make some straight to DVD film/series and keep it fairly low budget.
Deadpool is a tough cookie when it comes to marketing, I'm glad they put him in an episode, he made a few cameos and I really didn't think it would come to more than that and I back their decision and the way he was represented even if he was tame in compassion to other incarnations.
Deadpool was voiced by Will Friedle who was Eric Mathews in Boy Meets World and Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible, Not everyone seemed to like him as Deadpool but I like Will Friedle (maybe I wouldn't have chosen him to voice Deadpool though).
Something that did annoy me however was that his origin story was changed, okay maybe a huge plot dump of an origin story would be boring and maybe it isn't the nicest origin story to be telling the kids but I don't think they needed to change completely, Ultimate Spider-man focuses on Nick Fury and S.H.E.I.L.D more so to involve the X-men and weapon X would could confuse the children and would take forever to explain.
It was cool to see howthe spider-man from the "Ultimate Spider-man" universe would react with Deadpool, because this spider-man breaks the fourth-wall like Deadpool in the comics and spider-man is pretty immature and this spider-man is pretty similar to Deadpool but at the same time they have very different views and opinions so that was fun to see play out.
I can't help get the feeling that marvel is trying harder to break Deadpool out of the comics recently with the Deadpool Video game, this episode of spider-man and he will also appear in the Lego marvel video game so hopefully everyone will be hearing a lot more about deadpool
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Gravity falls episode 19 dreamscaperers; who is bill cipher
In episode 19 of gravity falls we finally get to meet the pyramid guy and his name is Bill.
Bill first appeared in the opening sequence briefly and people have made theories on what the image means.
Bill first appeared in the opening sequence briefly and people have made theories on what the image means.
The theory is that the pyramid watches all the people that are being represented by the symbols using the Illuminati symbols as a way of watching everyone and from episode 19 dreamscaperers that theory seems true as he refers to Dipper as pine tree, Mabel as shooting star and Sooz as question mark and he says he knows a lot about everyone.
Any way I should explain the episodes plot now.
Gideon wanting the deeds to the mystery shack summons the dream demon Bill Cipher (or the pyramid guy)
to go into Stan's mind to find the code to the safe which holds the deeds, Mr Pyramid is indiacted to have some sort of past with Stan and he agrees to help gideon, Dipper, Mabel and Sooz follow bill into Stan's mind and they try and save the shack. (and Stan's mind.)
Through out the episode Dipper is feeling down about Stan giving him all the jobs and picking on him the most and so he is feeling insecure about why Stan treats him like that and he uses this an opportunity to find out what Stan thinks of him while Mabel and Sooz try find the memory about the code to the safe.
I don't really want to give EVERYTHING away because I think watching it is much better and can't recommend this series enough, it's just so cleverly written and witty but this episode is a very revealing episode, not in the sense that it tells you the answers to all the riddles or explains a lot about Bill, Stan, the shack or the books but it does reveal the identity of the pyramid man, it is more of a preparation for the next episode that will probably explain a lot more.
Because the episode was basically the kids going through Stan's mind and because Stan is so secretive we got cool stuff like Sooz stumbling upon a memory of the Stan revealing the secret thing behind the vending machine but because it was Sooz he moved on before the secret was revealed and I'm guessing that secret will be revealed next episode, but we also got to see all kinds of things like childhood memories to his date with Lazy susan.
With out spoiling too much about what happened Gideon got the deeds to the shack any way and started destroying the it, the episode ended with a to be continued sign.
This must mean that Stan's secret room behind the vending machine will be revealed, right? it would be pretty obvious that there is a room under the shack when it has been flattened and they are left with a hole with a glowing green light radiating out of it.
Not only is the mystery shack being destroyed but now there is this evil dream demon on the lose, I wonder what will happen next?
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
FallOutBoy Young blood chronicles part 4: Alone Together.
This video really started to pull things together for me but at the same time created even more unanswered questions, the video contains mild violence so be warned.
the video starts in what looks like an old hospital and a woman is walking around with the suitcase with the handcuff still attached (possibly to show that it is the same suitcase that was cuffed to Patrick's wrist and removed in the pheonix video.)
The woman hands the case over to a woman in a car with the number plate "RATATAT" people on youtube speculate that it could be Courtney love because Ratatat is the single off the album and it features Courtney, it would make sense if it were Courtney but we don't really know the contents of the case so we don't really know what these people want from FallOutBoy so it could be anyone in that car to be honest, but I'm thinking it will be Courtney.
I saw an interesting thing on twitter where someone said they thought the Young Volcanoes video was about the dark side of celebrity lifestyle and Patrick Stump replied that was a good representation of what they meant, after seeing Alone Together I thought some more about what they talking about.
If young volcanoes was about the horrible side of the celebrity lifestyle what about the other 3 videos, the first video (in the timeline) The Phoenix had Patrick with the case cuffed to his wrist which subsequently was taken away by some women and a creepy boy who capture the rest of the band 1 by 1.
I didn't under stand what the creepy boy's purpose was but I think I understand now, I think the children in the videos are fans or thought to be fans, the band often relate to their fans as kids in interviews
(probably because their fans are often younger than them)which would explain why patrick smiled at the boy because he thought he was a fan, this could represent what happened when they released the previous album where the fans booed the band when they played new songs, I also think that the other artists featured in the video and the women are like their peers.
Any way I think the Phoenix video is about them being liked and wanted but to the point where it is disabling, (like how fans stalk their favorite bands and when the fan girls throw abuse at their celebrity crushes girlfriends just like they do with harry styles.)
Young volcanoes is the part where things get even worse, falling victim to drugs, alcoholism while it effects your work and personal lives, I think its one of those things you don't realize is bad until you come out the other end, I think that's what that video means, it's like the start of FalloutBoys downfall.
The events from "My songs know what you did in the dark" looks like it it takes place after "alone together" (unless they fit another video in between the van leaving with the band in the back and 2chainz setting it alight in the forest) and I think that video is like the break up/hiatus what ever it was, so "alone together" is just before that, it is the actual break up.
When we finally see the band members they are all tied up in separate rooms, Patrick is in the hospital's chapel tied to an electric chair, Joe was tied up on a small stage, Andy appears to be in a living room with a tv showing live footage of himself and Pete seems to be in a red carpet set up.
All the rooms can be seen as representations of the things that ruined them, however I think Patrick's room represents the effects of all the other rooms on the band than it is a room that represents something that broke them down, does that make sense?
Patrick is like the heart or mind of the band, while everyone else is being mentally tortured Patrick is being physically hurt and grows detached and crazy eyed by the end of the video.
In Joe's room where 3 little girls throw fruit at him and mock him represents the band being mocked by fans , like I said before , children seem to symbolize the fans, the band members often refer to fans as kids, besides children as usually thought to be unaware of the consequences to their actions so maybe they are saying that maybe the fans didn't know what their criticism was doing to them.
I'm not sure what Andys room represents but because it looks like a living room I guess it represents home life, his face on the tv could show how their privacy was invaded.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the women in Andys room, If it was meant to signify a relationship break down because surely the woman would be angry, she seems to be behaving slightly sexually but I doubt it is meant to be temptation because Andy doesn't seem interested at all.
She could be a stalker of some sort, she seems to enjoy his presence and the way she behaves with the tv screen could suggest she is watching him and that could relate to the whole invaded privacy thing, but I'm not too sure what she's meant to be.
Pete'r room seems to be temptation, I didn't really get it at first but after watching the video I noticed the woman (who untied and kissed Pete) had a hook for a hand and presumed that it must mean she is a hooker, It makes sense she pretty much walks up to him and snogs him, I know that Pete divorced Ashlee Simpson but the reasons aren't made clear (which is fair enough really, If it were me, I wouldn't want everyone knowing about something like that.) any way this sort of thing happens to celebrities, men and women throw them selves at celebrities and because they are celebrities people can make money by exposing it which is shown through the red carpet and the mannequins with cameras so I guess Petes room is about temptation and having your dirty laundry aired for all to see.
I promise now I'll get back to the actual story now.
after the hooker untied Pete he hits her takes her hook and stabs her killing her and he tries to escape he first finds a room with flammable liquids, band equipment and memorabilia (prepared for the events of "My songs know what you did in the dark") and then an alarm is sounded.
It is at this point where Pete is being chased through hospital corridors by women the conditions of the other 3 rooms gets worse and Patrick is no longer reacting to being tortured, I has got to the point where he no longer cares about what is happening, the bands temporary split was a result of them no longer enjoying being in a band which maybe Patrick being unresponsive is meant to be when they decided they were better off apart and there was nothing left to fight for.
Pete finds Big Sean also tied up in a room, he features on the "The mighty Fall" track on the album, Pete frees him using the hook hand as a blade to cut the straight jacket and they go their separate ways, Pete finds Patrick alone in his room (Patrick's eyes are glowing which is pretty creepy) and tried to free him too but Patrick fights him off, the women comes back and dart Pete knocking him out.
At the end of the video FallOutBoy are bundled into the back of a van and it drives away ( ready for "My songs know what you did in the dark" ) and Big Sean is seen hiding behind a tree looking on in horror as the van disappears.
The fact that Big Sean was also being held makes me wonder why he was there and what the women wanted from him , I know he features in a song so he would obviously feature in a video but how does he fit in with the story, does he know something about the suitcase? or does he have something else that they want?
And if it really is Courtney in the car what makes her possessedly the bad guy and what does she want from FallOutBoy, Big Sean and anyone else who later turns up and if it isn't Courtney who is that woman in the car and what does she want, I have more questions after watching the video than I did before.
I'm looking forward to the next video and seeing how other artist who feature on the album will be represented like Foxes, Elton John, Courtney Love and Big Sean.
(If you are still confused see what I thought of the first 3 videos here: http://shmelley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fall-out-boy-young-blood-chronicles.html)
the video starts in what looks like an old hospital and a woman is walking around with the suitcase with the handcuff still attached (possibly to show that it is the same suitcase that was cuffed to Patrick's wrist and removed in the pheonix video.)
The woman hands the case over to a woman in a car with the number plate "RATATAT" people on youtube speculate that it could be Courtney love because Ratatat is the single off the album and it features Courtney, it would make sense if it were Courtney but we don't really know the contents of the case so we don't really know what these people want from FallOutBoy so it could be anyone in that car to be honest, but I'm thinking it will be Courtney.
I saw an interesting thing on twitter where someone said they thought the Young Volcanoes video was about the dark side of celebrity lifestyle and Patrick Stump replied that was a good representation of what they meant, after seeing Alone Together I thought some more about what they talking about.
If young volcanoes was about the horrible side of the celebrity lifestyle what about the other 3 videos, the first video (in the timeline) The Phoenix had Patrick with the case cuffed to his wrist which subsequently was taken away by some women and a creepy boy who capture the rest of the band 1 by 1.
I didn't under stand what the creepy boy's purpose was but I think I understand now, I think the children in the videos are fans or thought to be fans, the band often relate to their fans as kids in interviews
(probably because their fans are often younger than them)which would explain why patrick smiled at the boy because he thought he was a fan, this could represent what happened when they released the previous album where the fans booed the band when they played new songs, I also think that the other artists featured in the video and the women are like their peers.
Any way I think the Phoenix video is about them being liked and wanted but to the point where it is disabling, (like how fans stalk their favorite bands and when the fan girls throw abuse at their celebrity crushes girlfriends just like they do with harry styles.)
Young volcanoes is the part where things get even worse, falling victim to drugs, alcoholism while it effects your work and personal lives, I think its one of those things you don't realize is bad until you come out the other end, I think that's what that video means, it's like the start of FalloutBoys downfall.
The events from "My songs know what you did in the dark" looks like it it takes place after "alone together" (unless they fit another video in between the van leaving with the band in the back and 2chainz setting it alight in the forest) and I think that video is like the break up/hiatus what ever it was, so "alone together" is just before that, it is the actual break up.
When we finally see the band members they are all tied up in separate rooms, Patrick is in the hospital's chapel tied to an electric chair, Joe was tied up on a small stage, Andy appears to be in a living room with a tv showing live footage of himself and Pete seems to be in a red carpet set up.
All the rooms can be seen as representations of the things that ruined them, however I think Patrick's room represents the effects of all the other rooms on the band than it is a room that represents something that broke them down, does that make sense?
Patrick is like the heart or mind of the band, while everyone else is being mentally tortured Patrick is being physically hurt and grows detached and crazy eyed by the end of the video.
In Joe's room where 3 little girls throw fruit at him and mock him represents the band being mocked by fans , like I said before , children seem to symbolize the fans, the band members often refer to fans as kids, besides children as usually thought to be unaware of the consequences to their actions so maybe they are saying that maybe the fans didn't know what their criticism was doing to them.
I'm not sure what Andys room represents but because it looks like a living room I guess it represents home life, his face on the tv could show how their privacy was invaded.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the women in Andys room, If it was meant to signify a relationship break down because surely the woman would be angry, she seems to be behaving slightly sexually but I doubt it is meant to be temptation because Andy doesn't seem interested at all.
She could be a stalker of some sort, she seems to enjoy his presence and the way she behaves with the tv screen could suggest she is watching him and that could relate to the whole invaded privacy thing, but I'm not too sure what she's meant to be.
Pete'r room seems to be temptation, I didn't really get it at first but after watching the video I noticed the woman (who untied and kissed Pete) had a hook for a hand and presumed that it must mean she is a hooker, It makes sense she pretty much walks up to him and snogs him, I know that Pete divorced Ashlee Simpson but the reasons aren't made clear (which is fair enough really, If it were me, I wouldn't want everyone knowing about something like that.) any way this sort of thing happens to celebrities, men and women throw them selves at celebrities and because they are celebrities people can make money by exposing it which is shown through the red carpet and the mannequins with cameras so I guess Petes room is about temptation and having your dirty laundry aired for all to see.
I promise now I'll get back to the actual story now.
after the hooker untied Pete he hits her takes her hook and stabs her killing her and he tries to escape he first finds a room with flammable liquids, band equipment and memorabilia (prepared for the events of "My songs know what you did in the dark") and then an alarm is sounded.
It is at this point where Pete is being chased through hospital corridors by women the conditions of the other 3 rooms gets worse and Patrick is no longer reacting to being tortured, I has got to the point where he no longer cares about what is happening, the bands temporary split was a result of them no longer enjoying being in a band which maybe Patrick being unresponsive is meant to be when they decided they were better off apart and there was nothing left to fight for.
Pete finds Big Sean also tied up in a room, he features on the "The mighty Fall" track on the album, Pete frees him using the hook hand as a blade to cut the straight jacket and they go their separate ways, Pete finds Patrick alone in his room (Patrick's eyes are glowing which is pretty creepy) and tried to free him too but Patrick fights him off, the women comes back and dart Pete knocking him out.
At the end of the video FallOutBoy are bundled into the back of a van and it drives away ( ready for "My songs know what you did in the dark" ) and Big Sean is seen hiding behind a tree looking on in horror as the van disappears.
The fact that Big Sean was also being held makes me wonder why he was there and what the women wanted from him , I know he features in a song so he would obviously feature in a video but how does he fit in with the story, does he know something about the suitcase? or does he have something else that they want?
And if it really is Courtney in the car what makes her possessedly the bad guy and what does she want from FallOutBoy, Big Sean and anyone else who later turns up and if it isn't Courtney who is that woman in the car and what does she want, I have more questions after watching the video than I did before.
I'm looking forward to the next video and seeing how other artist who feature on the album will be represented like Foxes, Elton John, Courtney Love and Big Sean.
(If you are still confused see what I thought of the first 3 videos here: http://shmelley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fall-out-boy-young-blood-chronicles.html)
Monday, 1 July 2013
My brother's Nerdaphernalia.
Nerdaphernalia is the word paraphernalia and nerd combined, nerd meaning geeky things like movies, video games, comic books ect. and Paraphernalia meaning belongings or Items associated with an activity so simply put this is a Blog post about the nerdy things that belong to my brother that I secretly wished they were mine.
I don't have too many nerdy things in my room other than actual video games and movies whilst my brother has all these cute little figures and what not and I decided I wanted to show everyone.
(I might make one of theses about the stuff in my bedroom too at some point.)
Star Wars Mighty Muggs.
I don't have too many nerdy things in my room other than actual video games and movies whilst my brother has all these cute little figures and what not and I decided I wanted to show everyone.
(I might make one of theses about the stuff in my bedroom too at some point.)
Star Wars Mighty Muggs.
I Just love these they are really cute, I think my brother a dad found these in Tesco years ago, they also brought a Luke skywalker Mighty Mugg but I haven't seen that one in a while, Darth Maul also came with the double ended light sabre but I think that also got lost, however Vader still has his helmet, cape and light sabre.
When my brother got these I had never seen them before but after a few years I found some Mighty Muggs in the local comic book shop and I also started seeing them on the internet but I still haven't come across any star wars ones (I'm sure I could find more on ebay if I really wanted to but the fact remains I haven't come across one unintentionally.)
Black spider-man (or is it technically venom?) Popobe Bear.
Like the Mighty Muggs Popobe bears are also made of vinyl and have different designs, My brother got this from Camden market when he went with my parents.
I had made plans with friends already so I couldn't go t Camdem and long story short I got locked out of the house and had to sit in my nan and granddads house alone. (My parents got me a CareBear Pobobe bear necklace for my troubles.)
I just like this because I think it's cute and cool , I do quite like super heroes and I also really love teddy bears.
Groudon and Kyorge figures.
This would be so much better if he had a Rayquaza figure too, my brother isn't very good at looking after his toys and poor Kyorge looks a little under the weather ("under the weather" get it?) My brother occasionally goes through periods of really like one thing and rotating through them (one minute he likes Pokemon, the next he likes Stars Wars then he will move on to something else) he seems to like something if it is currently relevant like if a new Mario game comes out he will be really into Mario until he either completes them game or something new comes out.
About the age of 9 when Pokemon platinum was out he really got into to Pokemon again but that time he really really got into it, he even had a Pokemon themed birthday party and all he wanted that year was Pokemon teddies and figures until he got bored of it again and I am pretty sure this is when he got Groudon and Koyorge.
I just like pokemon and for me the best generation so far was gen 3, I like all the gens but I think gen 3 put more on the table in the way or new feature's and better graphics (since first gen obviously. ) so I like these figures.
Deadpool and Wolverine Lego.
My brother has so many Lego sets but this is one of the coolest, Wolverine comes with the motor bike and Deadpool comes with the helicopter, I'm not much of a comic book person which is sad because I really like Deadpool and he isn't really represented out of the comics, I would love him to get a cartoon series or a film but that seems unlikely, even though the Deadpool script is supposedly being/has been written and Ryan Reynolds has been chosen to portray him the film still seems to be a long way off, I do hope they go ahead with it.
My brother isn't really a comic book person (he isn't much a of a book person in general) and I don't believe he has seen any X-men movies either but he is knows of them so I don't think he brought the set because he is a Deadpool and Wolverine fan but probably because he thought they were cool and I agree with him.
Lego Avengers
The avengers Lego is different to the Wolverine and Deadpool Lego because he has seen the Avengers, the Iron man films, the Thor film and the incredible hulk so he does know more about these heroes and I guess he must like the avengers, Lego Iron man, Lego captain america and Lego black widow would make this much better but its pretty cute as is.
I like Lego Hulk and Lego Loki the best and besides with the Lego marvel video game coming out I'm looking forawrd to seeing theses figures in the game and how they can be used.
Sock monkey
I know this in't very nerdy but it is adorable, very few things are better than a good sock monkey (am I right?).
My uncle gave this to my brother, when we went to visit my uncle my brother fell in love with the sock monkey and my uncle said that an ex girlfriend had made it for him but my brother was quite welcome to have it and it's sat on his self ever since.
I just think sock monkeys are cool, I would never know where to start if I were to make one my self and if I did work it out it would probably fall apart any way, I just think this is well made, It's kind of sad that a girl put a lot of effort and made this for my uncle and then they split but rest assured the monkey has a loving home.
P.s
The new FallOutBoy video comes out today so expect me to analyse that soon.
Monday, 17 June 2013
College is coming to an end; What will I do for the rest of my life.
My college course is coming to an end and I struggling to work out what I'm going to do with myself, for the past 2 years I've been studying media.
I had an idea of what I wanted to do before I started the course but now I'm not sure what I'm gonna be doing.
I decided against university because I feel university is only really worth while if you intend to be a doctor or a teacher or something that you need to prove you have intelligence but I don't intend to teach anyone anything because honestly I would make a terrible teacher, I'd rather not waste my money and time doing something if I don't necessarily need it. (If I do ever go to uni it would be because I absolutely need to because I'm stubborn and tight fisted.)
In my last year of school I had a few ideas of potential jobs I could see myself doing, my mum seriously thought I choose to work with animals and I do like animals and I love having pets but I couldn't do it as a job, I'd just kill them (accidentally obviously) but I myself never thought about doing that myself, I liked the idea of being a florist because I've always liked flowers too and I seriously considered this until I went to buy some flowers for my mum for mothers day.
The flowers were beautiful and everything but I couldn't help but notice the florists hands.
Her hands were in a horrible state, they were green and all cut up and the skin on her finger tips were thick and hard and it really put me off, I saw a brief glimpse of my future as a florist and it was glum, it's not like I even have nice hands any way so I'd have short thick green fingers I decided not to do that.
I then thought about I illustrating, that sounded fun although I wouldn't get paid an awful lot because I love drawing and it would be cool to make money and seeing my drawings being published then I a friend reminded me of the job I wanted to do when I was little which was animating.
You see I've been watching tv and playing video games pretty much since I was born (which is probably why I write this blog and is probably the reason why I do and like all the things I like and do.) when I was 3 or 4 I was so blown away by tv shows like pokemon and the countless amount of disney films I used to watch that I wanted to make cartoons for a job, (I also wanted to own a hotel or be a dog walker but I'll just forget about those job ideas.) I used to draw so much, I still do really but cartoons had encouraged me to draw and think up stories and things in the first place so it seemed like the perfect job for me.
So I went to college to become an animator but after 2 years of studying I don't know what to do any more, I think I to work in TV and film Pre-Production, the part before the it is filmed/animated where the script is written, Ideas are made and story boards and designs are drawn up because I obviously still watch too much tv, I still like drawing and I like thinking up stories.
I think I will look for pre-production tv and film related jobs and/or work experience using the grades I get from college and the ones I got from school, I also want to keep up this blog and try writing some of the stories I think up down some where (I might as well try any way) and I'll probably do this for a year and if I'm still jobless I will see what has stopped me from getting the jobs like I need to know a certain program or I need a certain qualification I will apply to university or do another college course.
I had an idea of what I wanted to do before I started the course but now I'm not sure what I'm gonna be doing.
I decided against university because I feel university is only really worth while if you intend to be a doctor or a teacher or something that you need to prove you have intelligence but I don't intend to teach anyone anything because honestly I would make a terrible teacher, I'd rather not waste my money and time doing something if I don't necessarily need it. (If I do ever go to uni it would be because I absolutely need to because I'm stubborn and tight fisted.)
In my last year of school I had a few ideas of potential jobs I could see myself doing, my mum seriously thought I choose to work with animals and I do like animals and I love having pets but I couldn't do it as a job, I'd just kill them (accidentally obviously) but I myself never thought about doing that myself, I liked the idea of being a florist because I've always liked flowers too and I seriously considered this until I went to buy some flowers for my mum for mothers day.
The flowers were beautiful and everything but I couldn't help but notice the florists hands.
Her hands were in a horrible state, they were green and all cut up and the skin on her finger tips were thick and hard and it really put me off, I saw a brief glimpse of my future as a florist and it was glum, it's not like I even have nice hands any way so I'd have short thick green fingers I decided not to do that.
I then thought about I illustrating, that sounded fun although I wouldn't get paid an awful lot because I love drawing and it would be cool to make money and seeing my drawings being published then I a friend reminded me of the job I wanted to do when I was little which was animating.
You see I've been watching tv and playing video games pretty much since I was born (which is probably why I write this blog and is probably the reason why I do and like all the things I like and do.) when I was 3 or 4 I was so blown away by tv shows like pokemon and the countless amount of disney films I used to watch that I wanted to make cartoons for a job, (I also wanted to own a hotel or be a dog walker but I'll just forget about those job ideas.) I used to draw so much, I still do really but cartoons had encouraged me to draw and think up stories and things in the first place so it seemed like the perfect job for me.
So I went to college to become an animator but after 2 years of studying I don't know what to do any more, I think I to work in TV and film Pre-Production, the part before the it is filmed/animated where the script is written, Ideas are made and story boards and designs are drawn up because I obviously still watch too much tv, I still like drawing and I like thinking up stories.
I think I will look for pre-production tv and film related jobs and/or work experience using the grades I get from college and the ones I got from school, I also want to keep up this blog and try writing some of the stories I think up down some where (I might as well try any way) and I'll probably do this for a year and if I'm still jobless I will see what has stopped me from getting the jobs like I need to know a certain program or I need a certain qualification I will apply to university or do another college course.
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The 3DS games that I'm looking forward to
I'm the owner of a 3DS and I'm not ashamed of it, Nintendo consoles are dubbed "babies consoles" but I stand by the fact that Nintendo has some great titles and I was the person who pre-ordered my 3DS for my 17th birthday (my birthday is in February and I waited a month to get my birthday present, sad I know ands the worst part was that I didn't get a 3D game I liked the look of for a good year after that but enough of that.)
Animal Crossing new leaf is coming out soon in the uk (really soon, so I apologise if the game comes out before I publish this post) I love animal crossing and I've probably been waiting for this since it was announced in 2010 but I can't remember so I'll just say I've been waiting for this for a few years now, the coolest part for me is:
1.you can swim, the water always looked so nice and it seemed weird that there was so much water and you couldn't swim, I don't suppose you get to swim an awful lot but it still sounds cool.
2. you can wear and change you're trousers, it may not seem like much but for people who have worn shorts and dresses all year round for years is a good improment, the DS game saw the addition of changing you're hair and the Wii version let you change you're socks and shoes so to beable to change you're bottom half is a logical progression.
3. It's animal crossing, there will be tons of cool and quirky things to discover, animal crossing is like cuter, kookier Sims, Sims tried to be cuter with my Sims but honestly it didn't compare to animal crossing.
but despite this I don't know if I'll go out and buy it straight away, I might wait for the reviews because I'm not sure about the "you are the mayor" thing, I preferred working my way up but I will buy it eventually, just maybe I'll buy it later when it's cheaper.
Professor Layton Azran legacies looks awesome, Professor Layton is one of those game series that is so addictive, it's more like a film than a game.
The stories are well written with great plot twists and the cut-scenes are beautiful and the puzzles are some times so hard I have to cheat, unfortunately because its more like a film its hard to put down and I end up finishing the story within a few days, but still worth it.
I always spoil the endings, it's like I have to know no matter what and my curiosity gets the better of me, I spoilt unwound future after I played Pandora's box and almost ruined the whole thing, I ruined the mask of miracles half way through and now I've just ruined Azran legacies too (why do I do this!?) I don't want to ruin any thing for everyone else but I learnt Emmy's secret and descole's identity and it ruined everything. (my advice, don't spoil the ending to a professor Layton game. ever)
Any way I will be buying next Professor Layton game and this one is meant to be last game with Hershel layton as the protagonist, I don't think this is the end of the Layton universe, I think the next games will be more focused on Luke but there was a game for IOS about Layton's son so maybe we will find out more about him (seeing as currently the Professor doesn't have a family so maybe after the events of the unwound future he can settle down? who knows but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Hershel Layton)
There is another game I'm looking forward to is Pokemon x and y, everyone seems to either hate it or love it, The new fairy type seems a little pointless to me but it's super effective against dragons so maybe its not all that bad.
(The pokemon I hate the most is Kingdra, it's dragon/water so ice isn't as effective so the only move you can use that deals damage is a dragon type move! But, kingdra is also dragon type so it can also hit your dragon type with super effective dragon moves and because its part water it can learn ice type moves!so unless you have a pokemon immune to everything that can use dragon type moves or alternatively a Kingdra you will lose- if you have a Kingdra too the two of you will be slugging it out to see who has the best Kingdra. Really anything that I can use to beat that pokemon will be cherished forever.)
The coolest thing about this game (other than riding around town on a Gogoat) is that the player character can be customized a little bit, as sad as that sounds it is a great relief to finally be able to make a character that actually resembles you (a little bit) I'm not even that racially diverse and there still hasn't been a character that looks like me because all the player characters have been dark haired whilst I'm blonde so imagine what must it must be like to African or Indian for example so the ability to change hair colour and skin tone of your player is a welcomed feature.
And lastly I'm waiting for the mew Smash Bros game, It will probably be much better on WiiU than it will on 3DS, but I'm still excited and if I were to get a WiiU this game would be on my wish list, the game comes in 2014 so maybe I will get a WiiU by then, who knows.
So far MegaMan, the Animal Crossing player character and the WiiFit instructor have all been revealed as fighters (although I secretly hope the WiiFit Instructor is a joke.)
Everyone is pretty hyped up about MegaMan and I know he has been on some people wish lists but the Animal Crossing fighter intrigues me the most, as a 12 year old I mused to joke/wish that there would be an animal crossing fighter and would laugh about how he could attack with his shovel and nets and what ever and thought it would be hilarious and would never happen and now that it has it makes me feel weird.
Is it weird that I'm more excited about the villager and the Wii fit trainer more than MegaMan (probably because MegaMan is an Obvious choice for a fighter and the other two are not.)
From watching the trailer the animal crossing boy is a fierce and merciless opponent, if it weren't for the fact he is so cute you would be terrified but I'm glad he made the cut and I wan't sure about the WiiFit Trainer but the trailer changed my mind, thinking about who would make a better fighter than a fitness instructor.
I hope that professor Layton at least gets a stage as I think it would be a good idea it could be like the warioware stage in brawl where you have to answer puzzles and not to mention the Layton universe would make a pretty stage, The professor would make a good fighter too, I also hope some of the new Pokemon could become fighters too like they did with Lucario in brawl, obvious choices there would be Zoroark or mewtwo and it's new forms but I still would like to see what they will do and who else has made it to the rooster.
Animal Crossing new leaf is coming out soon in the uk (really soon, so I apologise if the game comes out before I publish this post) I love animal crossing and I've probably been waiting for this since it was announced in 2010 but I can't remember so I'll just say I've been waiting for this for a few years now, the coolest part for me is:
1.you can swim, the water always looked so nice and it seemed weird that there was so much water and you couldn't swim, I don't suppose you get to swim an awful lot but it still sounds cool.
2. you can wear and change you're trousers, it may not seem like much but for people who have worn shorts and dresses all year round for years is a good improment, the DS game saw the addition of changing you're hair and the Wii version let you change you're socks and shoes so to beable to change you're bottom half is a logical progression.
3. It's animal crossing, there will be tons of cool and quirky things to discover, animal crossing is like cuter, kookier Sims, Sims tried to be cuter with my Sims but honestly it didn't compare to animal crossing.
but despite this I don't know if I'll go out and buy it straight away, I might wait for the reviews because I'm not sure about the "you are the mayor" thing, I preferred working my way up but I will buy it eventually, just maybe I'll buy it later when it's cheaper.
Professor Layton Azran legacies looks awesome, Professor Layton is one of those game series that is so addictive, it's more like a film than a game.
The stories are well written with great plot twists and the cut-scenes are beautiful and the puzzles are some times so hard I have to cheat, unfortunately because its more like a film its hard to put down and I end up finishing the story within a few days, but still worth it.
I always spoil the endings, it's like I have to know no matter what and my curiosity gets the better of me, I spoilt unwound future after I played Pandora's box and almost ruined the whole thing, I ruined the mask of miracles half way through and now I've just ruined Azran legacies too (why do I do this!?) I don't want to ruin any thing for everyone else but I learnt Emmy's secret and descole's identity and it ruined everything. (my advice, don't spoil the ending to a professor Layton game. ever)
Any way I will be buying next Professor Layton game and this one is meant to be last game with Hershel layton as the protagonist, I don't think this is the end of the Layton universe, I think the next games will be more focused on Luke but there was a game for IOS about Layton's son so maybe we will find out more about him (seeing as currently the Professor doesn't have a family so maybe after the events of the unwound future he can settle down? who knows but I'm sure we haven't seen the last of Hershel Layton)
There is another game I'm looking forward to is Pokemon x and y, everyone seems to either hate it or love it, The new fairy type seems a little pointless to me but it's super effective against dragons so maybe its not all that bad.
(The pokemon I hate the most is Kingdra, it's dragon/water so ice isn't as effective so the only move you can use that deals damage is a dragon type move! But, kingdra is also dragon type so it can also hit your dragon type with super effective dragon moves and because its part water it can learn ice type moves!so unless you have a pokemon immune to everything that can use dragon type moves or alternatively a Kingdra you will lose- if you have a Kingdra too the two of you will be slugging it out to see who has the best Kingdra. Really anything that I can use to beat that pokemon will be cherished forever.)
The coolest thing about this game (other than riding around town on a Gogoat) is that the player character can be customized a little bit, as sad as that sounds it is a great relief to finally be able to make a character that actually resembles you (a little bit) I'm not even that racially diverse and there still hasn't been a character that looks like me because all the player characters have been dark haired whilst I'm blonde so imagine what must it must be like to African or Indian for example so the ability to change hair colour and skin tone of your player is a welcomed feature.
And lastly I'm waiting for the mew Smash Bros game, It will probably be much better on WiiU than it will on 3DS, but I'm still excited and if I were to get a WiiU this game would be on my wish list, the game comes in 2014 so maybe I will get a WiiU by then, who knows.
So far MegaMan, the Animal Crossing player character and the WiiFit instructor have all been revealed as fighters (although I secretly hope the WiiFit Instructor is a joke.)
Everyone is pretty hyped up about MegaMan and I know he has been on some people wish lists but the Animal Crossing fighter intrigues me the most, as a 12 year old I mused to joke/wish that there would be an animal crossing fighter and would laugh about how he could attack with his shovel and nets and what ever and thought it would be hilarious and would never happen and now that it has it makes me feel weird.
Is it weird that I'm more excited about the villager and the Wii fit trainer more than MegaMan (probably because MegaMan is an Obvious choice for a fighter and the other two are not.)
I hope that professor Layton at least gets a stage as I think it would be a good idea it could be like the warioware stage in brawl where you have to answer puzzles and not to mention the Layton universe would make a pretty stage, The professor would make a good fighter too, I also hope some of the new Pokemon could become fighters too like they did with Lucario in brawl, obvious choices there would be Zoroark or mewtwo and it's new forms but I still would like to see what they will do and who else has made it to the rooster.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Counting Stars- OneRepublic
I'm a really big OneRepublic fan and I was over joyed when they announced on twitter that their next single from the new album native was counting stars and that they were making a video and it didn't disappoint.
I have to admit I think I prefer this to the "feel again" and "if i lose myself" videos, it was just edgier than the other two (however Brent Kutzle the bassist dancing in "if i lose myself" was just too cute.)
This Video features a OneRepublic, crocodile and a mass religious- esque healing dance.
I guess the mass healing ritual what ever it is represents how music "heals" everything, maybe heal is the wrong word more like "makes you feel better", music can effect larger groups of people because obviously people have accesses to music where ever they are in the world and it doesn't make any difference who they are, everyone has their own music tastes.
I'm not too sure what the crocodile is doing, maybe he represents fear because they are seen as dangerous animals and because the croc is walking around maybe he represents the anticipation of fear, like its searching for something, he will eventually find someone and scare them but until then it's just walking around.
I really wanted to share this video because I think this song, band and video deserve more attention.
This Video features a OneRepublic, crocodile and a mass religious- esque healing dance.
I guess the mass healing ritual what ever it is represents how music "heals" everything, maybe heal is the wrong word more like "makes you feel better", music can effect larger groups of people because obviously people have accesses to music where ever they are in the world and it doesn't make any difference who they are, everyone has their own music tastes.
I'm not too sure what the crocodile is doing, maybe he represents fear because they are seen as dangerous animals and because the croc is walking around maybe he represents the anticipation of fear, like its searching for something, he will eventually find someone and scare them but until then it's just walking around.
I really wanted to share this video because I think this song, band and video deserve more attention.
Soul Eater
I have now joined the Soul Eater Bandwagon.
Over one weekend I have watched over half of all the soul eater episodes (I would have watched them all if it weren't for me feeling bad about ignoring my family, so I watched it for 3 hours at a time then took a break for an hour and a bit before watching it for another 3 hours, I did this on Saturday night, Sunday morning and evening then again Monday morning and evening.)
I decided to watch Soul Eater when i was scrolling through memes and finding a picture of Death the kid (I'd seen him before but never really cared enough to look it up.) But The meme/picture what ever it was criticized his symmetry which clearly intrigued me to the point of looking him up.
At first I watched it with subtitles (I was sort of skeptical of the dubbed version, personally I find that dubbed anime isn't as good as subbed, its just I never like the voices and things get lost in translation and what not.) so I watched them subbed up until 34-ish then saw the first episode dubbed and loved it so much i went back and watched my favorite ones in English and then continued where I left off.
I have now gotten to the point whilst doing other things I'm thinking about Soul Eater and hoping/wishing that Soul and Makka end up together. it's horrible, its like I'm losing my willpower and I need to know what happens next (I haven't had this since reading the hunger games, yes its that bad and yes I'm that sad.)
Thankfully there are only 51 episodes so by the time I've finally seen them all I should be fine but Soul eater has a manga with more chapters and it's still on going!
I'll probably end up reading that when I've finished with the anime and if the Soul Eater Manga is anything like the Onepiece manga I'll probably be reading it for ever.
My favorite character is soul then Death The Kid then Makka, like I said before I really liked the dubbed version, I was expecting Makka to sound whiny but thankfully she wasn't (for some reason girls in anime are slightly whiny)so that was a nice surprise, I had higher hopes for Kids voice, his Japanese voice seemed to be slightly better, he sounded more regal and I was expecting him to sound English but his voice fit his character well and I do like it, it's just not what I had in mind, even Black Star's voice was okay (I was dreading his dubbed voice the most because he his the "shouty anime boy" character and I find their voices annoying when they get dubbed into English, no offence.) but even Black Star sounded good.
Over one weekend I have watched over half of all the soul eater episodes (I would have watched them all if it weren't for me feeling bad about ignoring my family, so I watched it for 3 hours at a time then took a break for an hour and a bit before watching it for another 3 hours, I did this on Saturday night, Sunday morning and evening then again Monday morning and evening.)
I decided to watch Soul Eater when i was scrolling through memes and finding a picture of Death the kid (I'd seen him before but never really cared enough to look it up.) But The meme/picture what ever it was criticized his symmetry which clearly intrigued me to the point of looking him up.
At first I watched it with subtitles (I was sort of skeptical of the dubbed version, personally I find that dubbed anime isn't as good as subbed, its just I never like the voices and things get lost in translation and what not.) so I watched them subbed up until 34-ish then saw the first episode dubbed and loved it so much i went back and watched my favorite ones in English and then continued where I left off.
I have now gotten to the point whilst doing other things I'm thinking about Soul Eater and hoping/wishing that Soul and Makka end up together. it's horrible, its like I'm losing my willpower and I need to know what happens next (I haven't had this since reading the hunger games, yes its that bad and yes I'm that sad.)
Thankfully there are only 51 episodes so by the time I've finally seen them all I should be fine but Soul eater has a manga with more chapters and it's still on going!
I'll probably end up reading that when I've finished with the anime and if the Soul Eater Manga is anything like the Onepiece manga I'll probably be reading it for ever.
My favorite character is soul then Death The Kid then Makka, like I said before I really liked the dubbed version, I was expecting Makka to sound whiny but thankfully she wasn't (for some reason girls in anime are slightly whiny)so that was a nice surprise, I had higher hopes for Kids voice, his Japanese voice seemed to be slightly better, he sounded more regal and I was expecting him to sound English but his voice fit his character well and I do like it, it's just not what I had in mind, even Black Star's voice was okay (I was dreading his dubbed voice the most because he his the "shouty anime boy" character and I find their voices annoying when they get dubbed into English, no offence.) but even Black Star sounded good.
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