Fall Out Boy Save rock and Roll.

Recently Fall Out Boy have come out of hiatus and released an album having worked on the album in secret which is pretty much the best ways to come back from a break as the second you announced you're back together you already have a whole album, there is less pressure and it's much nicer for your fans not having to wait, plus it would be pretty awkward if you announce that you are getting back together and you all fall out putting the album together so I have so much respect for Fall Out Boy for doing this in secret.

What happened to Fall Out Boy during the hiatus is rather sad, the band took a break because they simply didn't enjoy it anymore, people weren't liking the new tracks and they couldn't so it any more.


They all ventured on solo careers which sadly ultimately failed, the lead singer Patrick Stump wrote, produced and performed a solo album, married his girlfriend and lost a lot of weight, his solo career flopped and in a blog entry he revealed how "fans" would throw abuse at him on his solo tour with comments like "We liked you better fat" which is horrible considering the work that he put into his solo career and weight loss.

Bassist Pete Wentz began abusing prescription drugs and split from wife Ashlee Simpson, wrote a novel and hosted a reality competition about tattoos.

Drummer Andy Hurley and guitarist Joe Trohman formed a heavy metal outfit " the dammed things"  with Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano of "anthrax" and Keith Buckley of "Every time I die".

The album came about when Stump wrote Wentz a letter about how he felt like he was in a dark place and wanted an outlet for creativity and the two began writing together.

The whole back story really depresses me, I just feel horrible that they got to a point of feeling like that and I'm quite angry that people treated them like that to begin with, it's sad to think that happened and people (like me) had no idea that happend a just brought the new album as if nothing happened.

 The nice part is that "Save rock and roll" has achieved so much popularity without everyone hearing the sad back story and pitying the band, Instead they just made a great album and reinvented them selves.





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My Relationship with Midsomer murders.

I pretty much love all Tv and I usually like Mystery Dramas but something Midsomer murders makes me want to hate it but in reality I end up compelled to watch the whole episode.

Midsomer murders is a British murder mystery Drama that takes place around an area called Midsomers (a small fictional county) the series has been running since 1997 and new episodes air a few times a year, the episodes are usually aired before the watershed and has given plenty of kids (including me) nightmares over the years.

I think most of my hate for the series comes from that time I saw a couple having a picnic then the next time we saw them they were dead in a field  and ever since then til about the age of 8 I would cry uncontrollably every time an episode would air.

now I hate/Love it because the plots are really weird, usually in mystery dramas like Law and order or Lewis etc, a person will kill someone for reason  then they might go on to kill other people to cover up something but Midsomer murders has the craziest motives.

If you though CSI or it's many spin off's had weird murders you haven't seen anything yet, Midsomers is like film HotFuzz expect i'm not sure whether Midsomers is meant to be funny or not.

Each episode seems to have a theme, like one episode all the deaths were golf related, I.E the murder killed his victims with golf items, the whole episode was set around a golf course.
another was set around a miniature model village and it opened up with a dead man pinned to the floor like Gulliver.
 
The most recent Episode was cheese themed, the man killed people with cheese related items because they no longer wanted to make cheese in the traditional way, he killed about 4 people, it was hilarious.

I do respect the series, because it has had such a long and I honestly do find it funny which I love and I would like to think it's meant to funny or sarcastic or something.
I also like how British this is, only in Britain would this ever make sense which is nice, you can easily air other British mystery drama's in america but for some reason I don't think any one else would understand.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes (the video game)

I love the Lego video games, there is something really exciting about playing as Lego versions of your favorite Film or comic book characters.

Me and my friend are often making Lego video game wishlists I think the hunger games could be a cool Lego game but i won't be holding my breath.

Any way since me and my friend saw the avengers we agreed that would make an awesome Lego game,well travelers tales has gone one up and made a "Marvel" Lego game, it will include characters from The Avengers, The X-Men and even Spider-man and Deadpool are going to be playable characters.

What I like about the Lego games is that they are funny and nothing gets much cuter than Lego people (or maybe that's just my opinion) but what really sells this game is that they appeal to pretty much anyone, my Brother loves it, my Dad loves it, I love it.
It is easy to drop in and out of the game so if my Mum calls anyone way from the game the other player doesn't have to quit or wait and then the person can come back after and play again also the films/comic books are usually the kind of films/comics that both parents and their kids know and love.

The only problem I have with the games is my Brothers video game rage, if you don't do what he wants you to do he will yell at you but that isn't the games fault, I wished you could play with more players because in my house we argue about who's going to play, other people must have this problem too so I wished more people can play at the same time, or maybe not.
I would hate to have 3 brothers yelling at me for doing something wrong, that would be terrible and so much worse.

Me verses my Brother

Me and my Brother argue about everything but nothing infuriates both of us more than each others taste in media.

almost everything I watch, listen to and play he will hate and pretty much everything he watches, listens to and plays I hate.

It is actually really weird that two children who were raised in the same house by the same people can disagree that much on what we think we is cool however we do have something in common, we both get passionate about what we like and every now and again one of us will be watching/listening/playing something and the other finds interesting and would join them or ask them questions like "what are you listening to?" or " can you start the video from the beginning?", we do sometimes like the same things but that is really rare or it is something really hard to hate.

I can't really say who I think has better tastes in media because I'm obviously going to say me but I shall elaborate the difference in our tastes.

Music:

I like:
Bands like OneRepublic, The Fray and Keane the most because I like the lyrics and Instruments.

My Brother likes:
DJ's like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia, apparently he likes the beats, I think he also likes the artists that feature in thoses songs (because DJ's don't sing) unless he is Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic which he will hate regardless, I do like DJ's too but I like my brother it depends who's singing.

We Both like:
Bastille

Video games:

I like:
Lots of games but I play some video games he doesn't like/doesn't like anymore, like professor layton and pokemon.

My brother likes:
He likes first person shooters and FIFA the most and hogs the PS3.

We Both like:
Smash Bros and most first person shooters.

Films:

I like:
 most films, I prefer fast paced action to slow, I like animated films the best, It annoys my whole family if  I watch anime. I like fantasy and sci-fi.

My Brother likes:
My Brother also likes action, he hates gore and horror , he likes some animated films and likes sci-fi.

We Both like:
Okay, our film taste is pretty similar.
We both like the film "17 again"

Tv:

I like:
I watch too many cartoons, I like super hero cartoons a lot, sitcoms, dramas and mystery dramas are cool.

My Brother likes: 
In all honesty he spends more time playing video games, but he likes game shows more than me, he hates superhero cartoons, the sitcoms I watch and most of the other stuff I like too.

We Both like:
Soap Operas.


It is really nice when we find things we both like because it doesn't happen too often and we have more fun when we both enjoy something.

Girl Meets World the Boy Meets World sequel.

I'm excited to hear that a Boy Meets World sequel is in development titled " Girl Meets World" the new series will follow the 13 year old daughter of Cory and Topanga Mathews.

I was born in England half way through the 90's so I shouldn't really know as much as I do about 90's american sitcoms but because Disney channel uk aired 90's sitcoms during the late 1990's and early 2000's that I actually got to see them, unfortunately none of my friends have seen them and have no idea what I'm talking about when I mention "Smart guy" or  "Boy Meets World".

If you are wondering what Boy Meets World was, it  was a sitcom that followed a young boy called Cory Mathews from the age of 12 to becoming a man and marrying his childhood sweet heart, it was really sweet at times and sad at others, it was just about life in general and it was just really nice to watch and funny too, i recommend watching some episodes.

(Now if your wondering what smart guy was about because I mentioned it and now your curious, it was about a young boy who was moved up to an older class at school because of his intelligence, he ended up sharing class with his older sister. you should check that out too.)

Any way back to Girl Meet World, i'm really looking forward this and have high hopes for it but at the same time I am feeling wary this might not live up to my expectations.

The thing is that Boy meets world was really good and it had such a long run so if this new show doesn't match that people will disappointed,  the show will air on Disney channel and I do love Disney channel (Obviously) but Boy meets world aired on ABC, I'm just worried that the series will be too geared toward pre-teen girls like Hannah Montanan was and I didn't really like that so much, but I'm still looking forward to it, the cast sounds good and if it's any where as good as Boy Meets World it will be great.

One thing about what I've heard about Girl Meets World that I'm pleased about is the fact that Mr Feeney is back! Mr Feeney was the best part of the show and I wasn't expecting for him to come back, unfortunately Eric and Shawn do not intend to to make returns as of now but maybe they will change their minds.

Any how I will be dedicating a lot of time to watching this when it comes out and hope that it lives up to my expectations.

My relationship with Lara Croft.

I have a long and complicated relationship with Crofty, my first memory of Lara was when I was little (probably 3 or 4) and my Dad and Uncle both had Tomb Raider games and I would watch because i was terrible at video games
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 All was good watching my uncle make Lara swim underwater, it was pretty exciting and I was enjoying myself when out of now where a crocodile came along and ate her, I cried. Hysterically. I told my Uncle that it was a horrible game and he should throw it in the bin, to be honest it wasn't the best idea to let me watch Tomb Raider but I don't think games had age ratings back then.

The new Tomb Raider has been out a short while now and i came across a video on YouTube about the horrible death animations in the new game and I can tell you they are painfully brutal.

Aren't they lovely, now if I had seen that game as a child I would've been traumatized, weirdly enough these animations are now what draws me to this game, maybe it's because I can now appreciate the effort that goes into every gory frame, or because graphics are so much better now or maybe i'm old enough to not freak out when fictional people die. (okay so maybe I do freak out sometimes.)

Recently I've been playing the old PS1 Tomb Raider games, there is a long story about how I brought a second hand PS1 and games, my friends dad even gave me some PS1 games he had because i had been with my friend when i brought it , only to take it home and find out that I can't use it but as it turned out you can PS1 games on our PS3 so I didn't completely lose out.

The controls for the PS3 are so much easier than the PS1, I remember getting frustrated when I was little playing the Playstation but I thought I was just bad because I was young and I presumed that i got better over time. I was wrong.

I was stuck in this cave for ages, I can't remeber what the PS1 controller was like but when you play Play Station 1 games on the PS3 you use the arrow buttons to move, If you press the down arrow you hop backwards and to change direction you need to press the left or right arrow to turn on the spot then press forward to walk, this took me about 10 minutes to work that out, I still forget how to move and end up hopping around or running in circles.

Then I found this opening thing on a ledge, I tried to get Lara to jump onto the ledge but she just jumped up and down, It was so frustrating I eventually worked out that after she jumps you need to press another button so she grabs onto the ledge then press the up arrow to make her physically climb and I felt really stupid that i had spent so much time trying to climb a ledge that came up to Lara crofts chin.

 it was really weird to me, the games I play literally tell me what to do and or do it for me which also makes me feel stupid for not knowing what to do myself, like the Amazing Spider-man game for PS3 to move Spidey all you have to do is press a button to look through his goggles point to one of the golden Spider-men  and Spider-man will somersault through the air while you sit back and watch so having to physically haul Lara up onto a ledge seemed kind of alien but kind of cool at the same time.

Any way got out of that cave and got killed by bats, re-spawned worked my way through again, worked  out how to use the gun, shot the bats and carried on.
Like I mentioned before the controls did this annoying thing there you had to turn on the spot before moving and this made it hard to walk across the bridges in the nest room, I fell off the bridge and got stuck in a pit, the only way out of this pit was to find a ledge and climb out which isn't easy when you are hopping backwards trying to run away from wolves, I died.

By this point I spent so much time on this game and have barely even got through the first level but I thought I knew what I was doing so I re-spawned again and got back to the wolf pit room and tried not to fall into the pit and then I fell in the pit again, thankfully I shot the wolves this time, the room was kind of cool there was this 2D mummy thing that made me and my brother laugh, I climbed out of the pit and made my way to the next room.

The next room had a trench thing with vines growing out of the ceiling, I presumed that you have to jump across and/or swing on the vines, I jumped over the trench and I even button mashed hoping to do something cool to get my across but she just fell into the trench and the trench had a bear in it, the bear didn't really do anything to Crofty but i didn't want to let it try so I shot it  any way.

I made my way back to the top of the ledge and tried leaping again but landed next to my dead bear, I did this 2 more times before giving up, I couldn't even get through the first level and I swear i spent over an hour to get that far.
I still feel very embarrassed about the whole thing but I'll probably try it again at some point, now I know that there is someone out there who knows about getting over that trench and will embarrass me further but the point is that Tomb Raider is a fun and hard game (hard for me any way) and I will probably buy the new game at some point and I will be patiently awaiting any new Tomb Raider titles in the future.

The ending of "the lich" adventure time.

Adventure time has always had a habit of being wierd but "the lich" has got to be one of the weirdest episodes.

Here is the ending to the episode as for me this is what made the episode truly weird, warning this blog and video contain spoilers.

the episode ends with a more realistic finn with more human facial features and a non magic jake the dog, rather ironically the ending is peculiar because its more realistic looking (for adventure time that is) although i wouldn't say this alternate reality is normal because its not, its still got that fantasy feeling but it's still miles away from the adventure time we're used to.

The continuity in this episode is immense having seen a one armed finn with a nose before in the king worm but there are some crazy theories regarding finn's mother not to mention haven't we seen this house before? 

They look pretty similar, so does this mean that whatever is going to happen to one armed finn with a nose from some other dimension happened in finn's dimension, so confusing.

The theory surrounding finn's mother (from what people have suggested on the internet) is that the ghost in the episode "the creeps" is finn's mother, if you look at paintings in the mansion the woman in the pink dress is similar to the one worn by finn's mother, people also suggest that the ghost looked like her hair was seaweed so maybe something happened to her resulting in finn's fear of the ocean, but this seems unlikely  i could be wrong but if it was finn's mother why was her painting and ghost in a mansion i guess we'll have to see how it plays out next season.

I think what confuses me the most is why does finn have a nose, i know most people are concerned by the robot arm which is an alarming change but i think the nose freaks me out the most, most likely because the majority of the characters don't have noses(like marceline, finn and the princesses) unless they are animals (like jake, tree trunks and the penguins) or they are crazy/evil (like lemongrab and the ice king) so by giving finn a nose it feels uncomfortable which in itself is unsettling as its just a nose and surely finn should have a nose, i'm thinking maybe like the ice king lemongrab thing this finn is crazy or troubled, i don't really know.

The whole robotic arm feels less shocking, not too sure why, i heard a theory that the loss of his arm represents the character's loss, the right arm often symbolises peace, justice and truth so losing it could symbolise that finn no longer either has peace, justice or truth in his life or he doesn't represents the hero in this reality, also the flute holds some symbolism of its own, the flute is often associated with the spirit world and magic and is an instrument of the gods, it would appear that through symbolism at least this finn has lost a considerable amount and i can't wait to see the next episode.

I'm running out of cartoons.

I was gutted to hear that DC nation was pulled on the 13 of october till january, i'm a big cartoon fan and absolutely adore young justice, living in the uk the new episodes are behind so i watch the episodes online (i know bad shmell) when the episode is being aired in the us its late in the uk so i tend to watch the episodes on sunday mornings.

Any way on the 14th i was panicking when i couldn't find the episode or any reviews looked into it and found out that actually the DC nation block had been pulled for no apparent reason and will re air in january, which is depressing seeing as young justice had just come out of a hiatus and we'd only seen two episodes, besides the point the episode appeared on itunes and i found it online and saw it anyway, but that really isn't my point.

i also love gravity falls and adventure time, there hasn't been a gravity falls episode since the 5th of october and there won't be one until the 2nd of november and even then wikipedia doesn't mention any other episodes after "boss mabel"  which is the episode to air on the 5th, so i guess that means its the end of the season, as for adventure time the next episode "the lich" looks as if its the season finale too.

 So no young justice, no gravity falls and no adventure time so before long i won't have any cartoons to watch for a while, but it'll probably do me good really to get my butt of the computer and out the door, either way january should be great, young justice will be back, there will be a new batman and teen titans go! even green lantern might start warming to me who knows, but i think i might just stick to the sitcoms I like new girl and how i met your mother are pretty good and not going on a hiatus any time soon as far as i know, then again the new teenage mutant ninja turtles is pretty good so far.

Either way much worse can happen to a person then not having any cartoons to watch and if that's one of your biggest concerns in life then your life can't be that bad.

Peta: pokemon black and blue.

Whilst looking through the internet i found out that peta made another video game parody campaign, peta and pokemon don't really see eye to eye, peta claim that pokemon makes dark issues seem light hearted and give children the wrong idea, which i guess is understandable considering the main goal of the game is to capture creatures and make them fight.

I'm a big fan of pokemon, but i'm also a strong believer in  animal rights and against animal abuse, but i'm not so much of a big peta fan.

Peta is an organization that campaigns for animal rights their slogan "animals are not ours to eat, animals are not ours to wear, animals are not ours to use for entertainment, animals are not ours to experiment on, animals are not ours to abuse in any way" and while i love animals and i do respect peta's work, but it doesn't mean i necessarily agree with them.

First of all "animals are not ours to eat".
My mother is a vegetarian because she feels its cruel to eat animals, the problem with being a vegetarian is the nutrients you miss due to cutting meat out of your diet, many vegetarians (mostly women) suffer from anemia, it is possible to get these nutrients (such as protein and iron) from other foods such as beans, lentils, eggs and nuts but meat is more effective.

 We are omnivores we eat both meat and vegetables I don't feel that not eating meat is necessary, though it is sad that animals get eaten, but animals get eaten in the wild by other animals too but i feel really needs to be addressed (which is one of petas mains concerns) is animals being abused and neglected by farmers. I'd feel much better about eating meat if I thought that the animals didn't suffer any unnecessary pain during life and that in some way the animal had an enjoyable life, i would also hate to think that lots of the animal went to waste, for instance a pig has so much to offer in the way of meat, you have the nice meat that everyone likes like bacon and ham, pork chops etc, then you have the meat that is less desirable like organs which can be still be eaten or used for science and then anything else can be made into dog food, i would rather have all of the animal used then for it to go to waste.

Secondly animals that are tested for medicine is in my opinion is necessary, my father works for GSK, at the site he works on they test animals, the company it self makes toothpaste, ribena, medicine's etc  and according to my father (who doesn't work in the animal testing department) they are working on cures for terminal cancer and inherited diseases and that is the sort of animal testing i can agree with, as sad as it is to think that animals are being given diseases and tested but imagine how amazing it would be to be told you have terminal cancer and there is a cure, i can agree with that.

What i don't agree with is testing for beauty products, this type of testing was highlighted in the parody game when juniper sprayed your pokemon with perfume, i really don't see why you would need to do this any more, there must be a really long list of chemicals that are safe for humans i don't understand why you would go out looking for new formula's and chemicals to use when you have one's that you know are safe and works just as well.

I sort of agree with not wearing animals but at the same time i don't, its the same with testing animals for me, using real fur for coats and other items of clothing is pointless when you can get good quality fake fur, i would prefer real fur from a farm that treats its animals well and went on to use the animal for meat then having it poached in the wild if it came down to it but i would prefer fake fur, i feel slightly different about poaching as you don't know the effect it has on the environment, what if a vixen was shot and her babies died there would be less foxes and this would upset the ecosystem and further more you know the animal wasn't tame and did not trust humans and gave a fight and chase which is cruel, of course killing anything for a fashion statement is cruel anyway.

As for entertainment as long as the animal is well treated and looked after accordingly i believe its fine.
Our knowledge of animals has grown significantly over time, we know their requirement and how they behave, we now know that keeping an elephant in a circus cage is inappropriate (and to be honest i think that's obvious) we now know of ways to train animals effectively without abusing them (horse whispering for instance).

The game was a real eye opener but didn't feel it was the right way about it, it probably made a lot of pokemon fans think about the morality of the game's they play, but really pokemon isn't to blame for animal cruelty, sure some kids who play it might grow up to be animal abusers, but i think that is down to the type child and think they would grow up like that regardless of what game they play or film they watch, if that was the case i'm sure there'd be more violent people out there, i don't think games or films or anything like that really effects a child's development (of course it's not wise to buy an eight year old call of duty) but i really don't see how games like pokemon or mario could encourage animal abuse.

While the game is an eye opener and it is an interesting way of getting a message out, but i feel its a money  waster, surely it would be more effective to spend money educating children and push for better animal welfare laws and cracking down on real animal fighting rather than using that money to make a game criticising where you fight made up animals, it felt more like an attack than a campaign.