So cool!

This is a really cool anime that my brother Forrest did of me! :D

You should go read his blog because it's pretty hilarious!

BOB's blog

Bewitched

So normally I can't stand Will Ferrell...  I think he's a hammy actor and super annoying.  But I do love Nicole Kidman and this movie is on the level of Penelope and Speed Racer.  (Two of my favorite movies.)

I've seen this movie three times in the last week now... :P  And it's wonderful!

Funny, lighthearted, sweet, romantic....

Endora was fabulous!



I love her costume in this part.

Her clothes were so cute! I want to try doing my hair that way sometime too...

Bewitched is a great romantic comedy which I would highly recommend.  So cute!

:D

Well, you know my last post? I've been trying to exercise my imagination more at night before I go to sleep.

That has accomplished two things.

1. I have not been sleeping. Hardly at all.

2. My dreams have been so fantastic! They're amazing and visual and interesting! I think I'll do a post about one or two of them later.

Imagine...

One of my friends recently did a very interesting post.  (Actually all of his posts are interesting, you should really go read his blog.)

But his post and the fact that I've been re-reading The Lord of the Rings series, (just finished the Two Towers today) reminded me of how things were about 4 or 5 years ago...

I used to be so much more imaginative!

I read and read and read...  I would read the same books over and over again. Fall in love with the characters. I cried over them and laughed over them and dreamed about them when I slept. The book world was my world practically.  My book world was more real sometimes than real life. 

I would have given anything to be able to join their world.  To live among hobbits or elves. To see the things in my books with more than just my imagination.

I think I was a little unhealthy.  I started with the Hobbit and read through to The Return of the King and then started on the Hobbit again.  All the while keeping up a steady diet of Narnia, Series of Unfortunate Events, Watership Down, and anything else I could get my hands on. I've read every single fairy tale from every nationality and all the variants of them.

I'm not really sure why I stopped. Maybe because my Mom made me stop reading during the day or because now reality is better than fantasy.

But it's starting to reawaken in me. I think it's because I'm finding art that I actually love. Also because I have music, real music that moves you. Also because over the last year my dreams have been so fantastical. Sometimes even when they're bad dreams I almost don't want to wake up because I want to know how they end. Actually parts of some of my dreams are what inspired my story that I'm working on.

There's just so much out there to imagine...  One book that I've been meaning to read over again is The Never-ending Story.  I'd grown up on the movie and thought it was ok.  But then... I read the book and it was spectacular.  I'm not sure if I'd still think so but it was amazing...  It inspired me so much.

The problem with me is that I do have a vivid imagination.  And I get inspired so easily and so hard.  I get these needs to do something with it.  But I am not majorly talented in anything.  I can sing sort of, draw barely, write I think, and play the piano a little.

I need to write something that makes people feel the way that Daniel said.  Maybe that's aiming a little high...  I think it's because I've gotten so much from books and from my fictional friends that I need to create some of my own for other people to love.  And I could... if only I knew how to get it out. I get all these inspirations and ideas and pictures in my head but I don't have the skill to do any of the things in my head.  So it just gets all pent up and frustrated.

Yeah, I'm not really sure where this post was going...

I think I've just been inspired by Harry Potter 7 Part 2...

But imagine... a world

with fairies...


Princesses


Invisible cloaks


wizards!


Giant eagles, unicorns, talking animals, magic carpets, wishing wells, wands, magic harps, poisoned apples, pixie dust, elves...  It goes on forever and ever and ever.

In The Neverending Story they say that the land of Fantastica, (the world of imagination and stories) has no borders. You can never come to the edge of it. It goes forever and ever. But when people lose their imagination The Nothing eats away at it leaving absolutely nothing in it's place. Not even a hole.

So... I am going to go to bed right now and imagine.  Imagine a whole world and a whole cast of intricate characters.

Goodnight!

Vincent and the Doctor

This song and this video are so beautiful together...

Even if you don't like Doctor Who I think you should watch that episode. The first time I saw it I'd just recently watched a documentary on Vincent Van Gogh that made me cry very hard...  He was such an amazing person... and to think he only sold one or two paintings in his whole life.

Then I went and watched this episode...  It was amazing.  The creators did such a wonderful job with presenting Vincent well.  It was beautiful.  I sobbed...

I was wishing the Doctor really existed just so he could do what he did in that episode.

It was a beautiful artistic episode with moving music.  And Vincent Van Gogh is my favorite artist.

Harry Potter

I must confess... I only started reading the Harry Potter books and watching the movies quite recently.  I think it was only a year or two ago actually...

But, I was thoroughly hooked! The plots are so full and lifelike. Watching the characters grow and change was so interesting.  While, I certainly don't try to claim ultimate fandom, I really do love the story.

So...

Last night I went to my very first midnight showing and it was for the finale of Harry Potter!  :D  It was kinda really amazing.

I got to the theater at 7 after a while of bus troubles.  :P  I missed the first bus and the next one was soooo late.

So Wesley and I both got there at 7 and sat in line to save spots for Benny and Katy.  The line was so long... I've never been in a line that long.  It filled up the whole lobby of the theater and then went outside and down the sidewalk.  And we weren't even at Bridgeport...  That one they closed down the whole street I guess.  There were seven showings at our theater and we went to the 12:15 one. 

Some of the costumes I saw were pretty wild. :D

So... we waited in line for 2-3 hours.  Benny got me a coffee (thank goodness, I would never have survived otherwise. I need my caffeine!" and we ate some dinner later. We got into the theater about 9:30 and sat in there till it started.  

Wesley did shadow puppets on the screen which was pretty hilarious and Benny was bummed that no one had brought a beach ball.  I guess it's some sort of thing that people bring beach balls to midnight showings?  There were some people playing Apples to Apples.  I was wishing we'd brought that...  We watched a couple youtube videos and talked and stuff.  I was kind of thinking I should take a nap but I wasn't tired enough yet.  :P

Then it started :D  I bet Wesley the actual movie probably wouldn't start until 12:45 and I think I was pretty close.  :D  He thought that the trailers would either be nonexistent or end before 12:15.  :P

There was a glitch in the screen during the trailers though so they had to shut everything down and restart it.  Wesley did another shadow puppet on the screen and everyone cheered and clapped.  It was kinda hilarious.  Probably the most cheered shadow puppet dog ever.

The movie itself was pretty epic.  Of course the book was better, but I think this was one of the best movies compared to the books.

I cried. And Benny laughed at me.

By the way, Severus Snape is my hero.  I LOVE HIM!!!

And I cried. When Snape died...  Great sadness and mourning.

So am I the only one who doesn't really like James Potter?  He kind of sounded like a jerk.  And Severus seems so amazing.... In the movie when Harry sees Snape's memory of himself finding Lily dead I cried so hard. :( 

Now I want to go read all of the books again.  There is so much more in them than you can include in a movie!

Anyways...  I once again had a really good day with Benny, Katy, and Wesley.  I love you guys! :D

Yeah....  It was pretty amazing.  Now I want to go read all of the books and watch all of the movies over again...

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