Creative Writing

So I've been wanting to write again, but I didn't know where to start. I googled creative writing ideas and found several prompts that were interesting. So many to choose from! I'd like to finish my fics I've written but I hate jumping in the middle when I haven't written in awhile. Sleepy now...will hopefully start writing in a day or two.

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot.... BOTH ways Yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that . . . I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of todayI hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and the tape would come undone. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig? We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! ;You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEKfor cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!Regards,The Over 30 Crowd (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or not.)

My Picks for the VMA's

So the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards are coming up and I decided to vote this year.

Best Female Video
· Beyonce "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
· Katy Perry "Hot N Cold"
· Kelly Clarkson "My Life Would Suck Without You"
· Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
· P!nk "So What"
· Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me"

My pick: Katy Perry "Hot N Cold." I liked her before she was real big with "I Kissed A Girl." I love how she wears vintage clothes and has an amazing singing voice. Wish her song "Ur So Gay" would've nominated instead but as it is more controversial than "I Kissed A Girl" it really hasn't gotten much air time.

Best Hip-Hop Video
· Asher Roth "I Love College"
· Eminem "We Made You"
· Flo Rida "Right Round"
· Jay-Z "D.O.A. Death of Auto-tune"
· Kanye West "Love Lockdown"

My pick: Flo Rida "Right Round." Eminem has gone down hill since his earlier days. His songs are funny but not really worth my time anymore. He's kind of ridiculous now. My other thought was Kanye West. Though I love that song...he's way too cocky already and doesn't need his ego inflated anymore than it already is. Flo Rida's song is a good one since I like some 80's songs and a remake of Right Round was great. Though the lyrics weren't the same it's still a great song.

Best Male Video
· Eminem "We Made You"
· Jay-Z "D.O.A."
· Ne-Yo "Miss Independent"
· T.I. feat. Rihanna "Live Your Life"
· Kayne West "Love Lockdown"

My pick: Kayne West "Love Lockdown" for lack of a better choice.

Best New Artist
· 3OH!3 "Don't Trust Me"
· Drake "Best I Ever Had"
· Kid Cudi "Day 'n' Nite"
· Lady Gaga " Poker Face"
· Asher Roth "I Love College"

My pick: Lady Gaga "Poker Face." My other pick would've been 3OH!3 "Don't Trust Me." Both very catchy songs.

Best Pop Video
· Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
· Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) — "Good Girls Go Bad"
· Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
· Britney Spears — "Womanizer"
· Wisin & Yandel — "Abusadora"

My pick: Lady Gaga "Poker Face." I already went through the whole Beyonce thing. Britney Spears...need I say more?





Best Rock Video
· Coldplay — "Viva la Vida"
· Fall Out Boy — "I Don't Care"
· Green Day — "21 Guns"
· Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"
· Paramore — "Decode"

My pick: FOB "I Don't Care." I didn't choose Paramore since the Twilighters will be voting for them thought I do like them and I am a Twilighter it's time for some relief from that. Kings of Leon is good so it was a tie between FOB so I choose the band I've liked longer.



Breakthrough Video
· Anjulie — "Boom"
· Bat for Lashes — "Daniel"
· Chairlift — "Evident Utensil"
· Cold War Kids — "I've Seen Enough"
· Death Cab for Cutie — "Grapevine Fires"
· Gnarls Barkley — "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
· Major Lazer — "Hold the Line"
· Matt and Kim — "Lessons Learned"
· Passion Pit — "The Reeling"
· Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Heads Will Roll"

My pick: Uhhh...I don't remember since I randomly picked one! LOL.

Video of the Year
· Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
· Eminem — "We Made You"
· Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
· Britney Spears — "Womanizer"
· Kanye West — "Love Lockdown"

My pick: Lady Gaga "Poker Face."

Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)
· Beastie Boys — "Sabotage"
· Björk — "Human Behaviour"
· Dr. Dre — "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang"
· Foo Fighters — "Everlong"
· George Michael — "Freedom! '90"
· OK Go — "Here It Goes Again"
· Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — "Into the Great Wide Open"
· Radiohead — "Karma Police"
· David Lee Roth — "California Girls"
· U2 — "Where the Streets Have No Name"

My pick: OK Go "Here It Goes Again." Come on! The treadmills were awesome!

They didn't have the other categories up before but here's the link to go vote yourself: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2009/categories.jhtml

Tune in Septermber 13th to see who wins!

New Place!

My mom wanted to build a website for her dogs and stuff. She tries to do one with google on her own. Let me say it was a little more complex than I thought it would be. I couldn't figure it out unless I'm dumb or something. I really didn't feel like reading the instructions because to me, if it's an easy website builder you shouldn't have to.

Anyways, I tell her I'll do it. I do some research. I found a couple of places that seemed easy but you have to pay before you can try it out or put your credit card info in. Hell no! I don't want to do that shit. I finally found Weebly. It's free and EASY! It's basically webpage building for dummies! So cool. So I might make my own website and blog there now since you can add a blog to your website. I'll probably still keep this up though.

Here's my mom's website link: Rockwood Labradors. It's a WIP.

True Blood

Funny how after Twilight's success we have True Blood come out. After I watched the first episode and did some research I found out it was based off a book series, I decided to read the book Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. It was actually really good! Very hot too! I like it better than Twilight, but Twilight is still great in its own ways. After I read the first book Iwent out and bought the rest of the series. If you like vampires and the supernatural then I'd totally recommend this for you! The show does differ in some ways from the book but I think it'll make it on it's own. It doesn't drift too far from the book. I love Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse. I think she does a great job. They're marketing campaign was pretty good too.

Quarantine!

I went to go see Quarantine with some of my friends. I have to say that's the scariest fucking movie I've seen in awhile. (Suprisingly it didn't make me sick since it was made like the camera movements of Blair Witch and Cloverfield.) I knew it was a movie about zombies and I figured it'd have a lame plot like Dawn of the Dead but actually it was a very interesting plot. Instead of zombies appearing from out of nowhere or hell or something it was a biological attack from a doomsday cult. They actually made the Rabies virus ten times worse than what it was. One of the characters that's a vet actually said that he thought the people were showing signs of rabies. Victims started to show signs of infection very quickly.

Thanks to this movie I look at rabies totally different now. I'm not even vaccinated. (Costs $600--fuck that!) Rabies is a really painful way to die too. The period between infection and the first flu-like symptoms is normally two to twelve weeks, but can be as long as two years. Soon after, the symptoms expand to slight or partial paralysis, cerebral dysfunction, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, hallucinations, progressing to delirium. Hydrophobia is usually a big sign. (Inability to swallow and hypersalivation.)

In Rabies: The Facts, Kaplan et. al. describe several typical cases, including one of a 23 year-old Englishwoman:

“On June 17, 1981 she was bitten on the ankle by a dog in New Delhi. On August 18, about two months later, she experienced the first prodromal symptoms. She became anxious and depressed, and it became impossible for her to drink more than small sips of liquid. While sleeping, she frequently sat up in bed suddenly, terrified. On August 19, she became confused, hallucinated, and was incontinent of urine. On August 20, she was unable to eat or drink and was taken to the hospital where she hallucinated and screamed in terror. Misdiagnosed as a psychiatric case, she was injected with a tranquilizer and sent home, however she repeatedly woke up screaming in fear and became so wild and agitated that her husband felt he could not deal with her by himself and took her to her mother's house. She remained terrified, hallucinating and screaming in horror throughout the night. She had no water for almost three days. She fell into a coma the next morning, and died on August 23.”

Twilight Saga

Okay, so I just got done reading the Twilight series. Twilight itself was pretty good. One of my favorite books. New Moon was okay, but Edward wasn't in most of it and Bella was wallowing too much in her self pity. Yes, I know how bad it hurts but hell, I would've hooked up with Jacob. He was there for her. I liked the fact that she turned into kind of an adreline junkie. What irked me though is the fact she could cliff dive, walk up to strangers, and ride motorcycles, but she feared impending death from vampires. Where's the logic there? She claims she wasn't suicidal but come on! If she was just an adrenaline junkie then being that close to the vamps would've been a rush. Hello?

Onto Eclipse...that one was good. The turmoil from being with Edward but hurting Jake at the same time. Good drama. Loved that there was a battle at the end too. Kinda iffy on the whole this is the first of whatever though! Suddenly because Bella is the center of focus in the vampire world all this new shit/first of something starts happening?! Starting to sound like a fanfic to me. Speaking of fanfic that's what the last book was! My thought was OMG I paid to read this when someone could've just written it on FFNET. Yes, I still enjoyed it, but there were so many weak spots. I didn't like the Jacob POV much. I understand it's need though since Bella was pretty much incapacitated and we needed to see what was going with the pack. Here's where Bella is def a Mary-Sue though: she has such control over herself. Drinks blood as a human. Can immediately control her mental shield. The ending was pretty anticlimatic too. Come one I wanted a battle and at least one of the Volturi to die/be vanquished.

On another note, I heard that this isn't the last of the Twilight series. Meyer may be planning to write other books, but Edward and Bella won't be the center of it. I'm thinking either some of the other vampires, the pack, or Jacob/Nessie. I'm interested to see what she comes up with. And although I've ranted for the most part on the bad things of Twilight overall I do like it. It just has some weak points. I'm really pissed about Midnight Sun though. So I guess I'll read the manuscript she has on her site. So sad. Peeps if ya just wait the best is yet to come. Now it may never!!! I'm the most impatient person I know, but come on! I could've waited. That's what fanfiction is for!!! Read it or write it buddy! I might come up with my own Twilight fanfic. I just need to develop a consistent character and background before hand otherwise it'll be crap. That's it for now.