Half-Blood Prince

Yos.

I have a bad headache right now and I’m not sure if I’m in the mood to write this, but I said I would, so here goes.  Actually, I said I might, and it’s not like I’m breaking any loyal blog readers’ hearts if I don’t, but I’m going to pretend that everyone ever wants to know my opinion of the movie because it makes me feel important

So because we wanted to see the midnight showing on Tuesday, that meant that I would have to miss NYC prep, and I was kind of bummed about this and almost didn’t go, but we watched the movie and it was good, so I guess it was worth it.   But ohmygosh I watched the episode I missed this morning and PC was being such a biiooootch!!  And the whole Cole/Sebastian thing… DAYUM, girl, don’t even get me started!

Just kidding.  I don’t really give a shit about NYC Prep, but I’ll probably watch it tonight anyway because it boosts my self esteem to know that even I am more mature that the all-mighty PC and his menacing sidekick, Jessie.  Although, if it were a Wednesday night and it was So You Think You Can Dance I was missing for HBP, that would be a different story…

OH MY GOSH, Kyla, stay on topic PLEASE!  Sheesh, I don’t know if it’s the headache, or the fact that I’ve spent the last two days with 4 and 6 year olds pretending to be a pirate named Captain Longhook who’s trying to save the Teddy Dog of Doom from drowning in the Cave of Despair, but I just cannot focus.  SOOOOO Half-Blood Prince…

Basically, I thought it was the best movie yet.  Maybe not my favorite because I’m pretty attached to movies 1 and 3, but as a film, it was definitely the best.  I’ve seen it twice now and I really don’t think it’s the type of movie I’m going to get tired of quickly like 4 or 5.  I thought it did a fantastic job telling the story, the acting was at it’s best, the humor was genuine, and it was overall just a pretty movie.  That last part was something that I really got to appreciate the second time around because the first time I was just so caught up on the excitement of the night and what was actually happening that I didn’t really notice just how nice and beautiful the cinematography was.

So, all of this being said, I’m really surprised at the number of mixed reviews that’s coming from fans.  From what I’ve heard/read on facebook, I think most of the disappointment is about the content that was cut or changed from the book.  To this, I only have one thing to say: GET OVER IT!  Siriusly guys, we are 6 movies into this thing now.  By this time you should be getting used to the fact that movies and books are completely different things!  What makes a good book does not necessarily make a good movie, and I think that of this movie more than any of the others, I agree with them about what scenes should have been cut.  And honestly, I really didn’t think that they cut that much!  I think most of the complaints are about the memories and Voldemort’s background, and while I agree that the whole Gaunt family thing would be a cool scene to see visualized, I also think that adding more memories about Voldemort’s family and Hephzibah Smith, plus all the conversation between Harry and Dumbledore that goes along with those plotlines would have just slowed down the movie.  They weren’t necessary, there was plenty of other stuff to include, so it’s fine with me that the memories were cut.  And really, they included enough of the little details from the book like the canaries and the “Ron, you’re making it snow” to make up for it.  I am, however, a little concerned that Dumbledore didn’t give Harry any idea as to what the horcruxes might be (except for when he stared rightat Harry’s scar), but I guess that’s just something they’re going to have to explain in DH.

Now, other stuff that I liked about the movie:  1.  Tom Felton.  Hot hot hot, such a great actor, please don’t send Draco to pigfarts because I want to see him on screen acting like an emo troubled death eater every day until the day I die.  Ok, in all siriusness, I really was blown away by his performance.  This was such a different Draco- there were no snide, douchey comments that were said just to piss off Harry, no boasting about his father’s money, it was just like Draco was completely separated from the world of Hogwarts and all the hormones that were flying all around him.  He was wrapped up in his emotions and his death-eater struggles, and I thought that this was really fantastic character development.  Sexy, too.

2.  The humor.  I was worried in the beginning that the humor was going to be a lot like movie 4- forced, artificial, and cutesy one-liners.  There were a few of those, but mostly the humor was just natural, genuinely funny stuff, and I laughed not because this was Harry Potter and his best friend being really awkward teenagers on screen (ok, sometimes I laughed at this), but because they were funny.  And Felix Felicis.  Yeah.  Genius.

3.  The acting.  This goes along with the humor, but I feel like the kids finally grew up and learned how to act.  These were definitely their most natural and believable performances yet, and THANK GOD Emma Watson has learned to keep her eye brows still.  Also, I really loved Slughorn, Snape, Lavender, Cormac, and, believe it or not, Dumbledore (except when he asked Harry whether he and Hermione were dating- that, my friends, is PROOF Michael Gambon hasn’t read the books).

4.  Quidditch.  Man that was a fun scene.  Rupert was just going to town on that pitch, and I felt really happy for him.

5.  The attack on the burrow.  I don’t care that the screenwriters made it up, I don’t care that it didn’t serve any purpose or move the plot forward.  It looked cool, and I liked it.  Actually, my brother said that visually it was probably the best thing to ever happen in a Harry Potter movie, so yeah.  Neato.

Things I didn’t like:

1.  Harry and Ginny.  Mostly just Ginny.  And when I say mostly just Ginny, I mean mostly just Bonnie Wright.  Sorry.  The whole thing was awkward and unresolved, but I think there’s finally enough sexual tension between Ron and Hermione to make up for them, so maybe they should just leave it unresolved.  Just leave Bonnie out of the next movie, actually.  We don’t need her.

2.  Harry chasing after Snape.  What they had was good, I just wanted more.  Harry is supposed to be pissed off during this whole scene because he just freaking saw Snape kill Dumbledore!  And when Harry calls Snape a coward, Snape is supposed to FLIP a SHIT!  He freaking makes flapjacks out of that stuff in the book because NOONE is going to call Severus Snape a COWARD!  I just wish he reacted a little more violently, that’s all.

So I think that’s a pretty good summary of my thoughts for now.  Hopefully there will be a band meeting tonight with lots of merrymaking and no headaches, and I look forward to it.  PEACE OUT!

-Kyla

AHHH

HOLY CRAP I JUST CHANGED THE PICTURE AT THE TOP OF THE WEBPAGE BLOG THING THIS IS SO CRAZY AND REVOLUTIONARY MOTHER OF PEARL I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I DID MERLIN’S BEARDED PANTS THIS IS SO INSANE I MIGHT JUST MOVE TO MARS AND GO TO PIGFARTS BECAUSE I AM SO ASTOUNDED BY THIS DRAMATIC EVENT THAT IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD AND I HOPE THAT SIRIUS FINDS ME CAUSE WHEN HE DOES I’M GONNA KILL HIM CAUSE HE WAS THEIR FRIEND MOFO I MAY HAVE JUST UPLOADED A NEW PICTURE BUT I FEEL LIKE THE WAY I IMAGINE ATLAS WOULD FEEL IF HE JUST TOOK THE EARTH AND SMASHED IT INTO A MILLION PIECES RIGHT IN FRONT OF GOD’S FACE AND I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A VAMPIRE BABY GROWING INSIDE ME AND THIS NEW PICTURE IS MAKING ME FEEL CRAZY ENOUGH TO WANT TO CALL THAT BABY-MONSTER RENESMEE IS THAT TOO WEIRD?  OH COURSE IT IS YOU DUMB BITCH WHY WOULD YOU EVER CURSE YOUR CHILD IN THAT WAY YOU PERFECT LITTLE MONSTER WITH YOUR PERFECT LITTLE LIFE WHY DON’T YOU AND EDWARD JUST GO LIVE IN A COTTAGE SOMEWHERE AND FORGET ALL ABOUT COLLEGE AND A FUTURE?  OH I FORGOT YOU ALREADY DID  JESUS CHRIST THIS PICTURE IS THE CRAZIEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN EVER EVER EVER!!!!!

So do you like it?

More Convo

Well, since Alex succeeded in thoroughly embarrassing me on the interwebz by posting a recording that basically reflected a cross-section of my mind, I thought I’d post another bit of a gchat conversation that I found.

Ok, so those two thing have nothing to do with each other because I’m probably only embarrassing myself further by posting ridiculous gchats, but I don’t really care.  Blahh.

I think this took place right before midterms cause the beginning of the chat had stuff to do with common themes found in Heart of Darkness and A Portrait of the Artist and shit, but it becomes apparent pretty early on in the conversation that we eventually abandoned all hope of productivity.  This is just the end of the chat, and I don’t know how to do that cool thing where part of the post is hidden under a link that’s like “Click to continue reading” or whatever, so Alex, I’m leaving that part up to you, all-mighty webmistress.Message from Alex: DONE AND DONE (PS, I hope I don’t sound pissed in this.  I just finished watching My Life on the D-List, and too much Kathy always puts me in a weird mood.)  (PPS. I might write a little bloggy entry tomorrow about HP and the Half-Blood Miracle of a Movie.  But I might not.  I might not even remember that I wrote this entry tomorrow morning.  Bugger.)

GCHAT

me:  teachers just dont understand me

Alex:  lol

me:  my genius is too much to handle, so they fail me

Alex:  “their grading system is so….overrated”

me:  grades are overrated

Oh Perez.

There are so many reason why I dislike Perez Hilton. I don’t visit his website, but Alex reads it daily, and occasionally she’ll send me a link to something that just makes me hate him even more.

If you don’t know (and good for you if you don’t, really), Perez was recently “beat up” while he was in Toronto by the manager of Will.i.am. So, in response, he made an 11-minute long video recounting the events of that evening and giving his thoughts about violence, Will.i.am and Fergie. You can watch the video yourself here, but I’d just like to recall some of the points he made:

“I can’t believe people are getting this upset about me saying Fergie is fugly, or whatever.” Really? You can’t believe that Fergie is getting upset about you calling her fugly?

“I like writing about other peoples’ drama. I don’t want drama in my own life.” You can’t expect to live a Hollywood life and not experience any drama. If you publicly offend people, they’re going to be angry. That’s to be expected.

“I have ten million+ people that visit my website everyday! I don’t need press, I don’t need publicity, I don’t need or want this!” Ok, now you just sound like a douche.

“I made the split-second decision that I was going say what I thought was the worst thing that thug would ever want to hear, because I was standing my ground without being violent. I told him, ‘You know what? I don’t need to respect you, and you’re a f**. You’re gay and stop being such a f*****!’” First of all, calling someone a f***** when you know it’s going to upset them is violence. Do you really think that hurting someone verbally can’t be just as bad as hurting someone physically? Second, YOU’RE A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST! You’re not supposed to use that kind of language! Holy moly…

“I thought my eye was falling out of my head!” This is just one of those things that makes this video absolutely hilarious. And it’s even better that there’s, like, a tiny little mark under his eye. “It is unacceptable, and talk about unprofessional!” Him punching you was not any more unprofessional than a gay rights activist calling someone a f**.

“We went back to the hotel, and they followed us to the hotel! Which is where they were also staying…” Hahahahahaahaha

“I could have said anything I wanted! That was not an excuse for their manager to attack me!” So him asking you to never write about his band again is an excuse for you to provoke him by saying what you knew would upset him the most and calling him a f**? Actually, you know what? I think that after five years of making gossip out of the private lives of celebrities and saying extremely offensive things about people on a widely-read website you deserve a punch or two. I agree that violence is not the answer, but I really can’t blame people for wanting to give you a black eye.  Sorry.

“When the police weren’t coming, I took to twitter.” Straight from John Mayer’s twitter: First, “I love that @perezhilton uses his cellphone to log on to twitter to post a tweet to ask his followers to call the police for him.” Second, “Can somebody please call Amex and get me a replacement card?” Soooo fantastic.

“I would never hurt someone like that.” Really? Isn’t that, like, the point of your blog? To hurt people?

So, because Alex and I found this video so hilarious, we decided to make our own response that recounts the awful tragedy that befell her at the movie theater:

This makes things very difficult.

This will sound stupid, but my heart literally ACHES for summer!
The windows in my house are open, I can hear the breeze outside, and I can SMELL it! Smell! As in my NOSE knows what’s coming! And it is coming.
I drove to dance today in shorts and flip flops with the windows rolled down, I made Crystal Light raspberry iced tea, the HPB trailer is friggen awesome, I’m not wearing socks right now, and the weather is BEAUTIFUL!
These are the absolute worst conditions under which to write a research paper.

And that’s all I can say because on the toolbar of my computer screen lies a minimized word document, and in that document lies the rest of my evening, the middle of my night, and probably the very early hours of my morning.
2 1/2 months, and then we graduate. Lord, help me.

Supreme Crispy Eggplant

Chinese food always makes me feel weird.  I don’t think I noticed that until today.  We were going to have awesome Indian leftovers from our rockin dinner partaayy last night, but we decided to order chinese in honor of the new year.

In other  news, we are writing a fanfiction!!!!  Yes, Alex and I have finally put our bizarre imaginations together and have begun creating something that’s perfectly parodical.  Alison contributes as well, but I don’t think we’ll reveal how.  That would take the fun out of it.  Soooo if you are in the mood for something that’s truly original, check out La Marseillaise:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4772055/1/La_Marseillaise

In other other news, I was teaching a private dance lesson today to these two second graders who are best friends and utter goofballs.  We were practicing some jumps and the one girl, Rachel, burped right when she hit the ground.  Sooo hilarious.

Kyla’s Year in Pictures

Happy New Year!!!!!

What’s in a name?

These things are fun.

Names
1.YOUR REAL NAME:
Kyla

2.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother & father’s middle name)
Anne James

3.NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad)
Claude Rudolph

4.STAR WARS NAME:(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Muhky

5.DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Raccoon

6.SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, city where you were born)
Marie Columbia

7.SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add “THE” to the beginning)
The Blue Tea

8.FLY NAME:(first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Kyer (What’s a fly name?)

9.GANGSTA NAME:(fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Cookies and cream tagalong

10.ROCK STAR NAME:(current pets name, current street name)
Saturn Arcadia (i don’t have a pet right now, so this is the name of my most recent fish, which isn’t very recent.)

11.Yet ANOTHER NAME:(1st pet, street you grew up on)
Ibby  Arcadia

12.YOUR GANGSTA NAME:(first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Kylizzle (sounds like carlizzle?)

13.YOUR IRAQI.. NAME:(2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name)
Yhmalager

14.YOUR GOTH NAME:(black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Jupiter (nice…)