Sneezy's Music!

Welcome to Sneezy's Music, the part of the blog where Sneezy comes out and posts songs that she likes but didn't create.

Club Called Heaven by Black Cards
I like this song because it sounds like an old record AND a pop song with a good beat. It's different from most songs one hears today.





Try by Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield released a new album recently, and I love Natasha, so it pains me to say this, but the album wasn't very good compared to her last ones. All the new songs sound the same, somewhat boring. I admit Strip Me has grown on me since I first heard it, but that was months ago, so the others might grow on me too, but it will take a while. However, in spite of the slow music, I kind of like the following song. It's just kind of nice. I dunno.





Islands by The XX
I first liked the song just because of the video. It's interesting and different. Someone said it shows how "No man is an island." I think I agree with that pretty much. The song is called Islands, and the dancers do seem lost without their partners. The song grew on me too. Nice lyrics.






Rosie by Daisy Dares You
I first liked the song becauses...it's a fun song. The video's not great, but it's okay.







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Thor
I had to add this movie trailer too. It's for Thor (says the Queen of the Obvious). It looks good. At the start of the trailer, it looks like another boring superhero movie about some invincible guy with mysterious origins, but as it progresses, it shows Thor being reprimanded for being a "vain, greedy, cruel boy." This means Thor is far from perfect, which is unusual for superheroes. It seems to be setting up character development, which is rare in entertainment. It's also rare to deride vain, greedy, cruel people. Often, they applaude characters for being vain and cruel (Shawn Spencer of Psych comes to mind, sorry little brother) and greedy (Entrapment comes to mind, although I don't remember much of it). Thor might be applauded for those traits too, in spite of the trailer suggesting that he won't. In which case, it will stink. I will not lose hope, however, that the marketing reflects the movie and character development will occur.

Also, I like Thor's line about how our ancestors called science magic. That's just what I've always thought!







Well, TTFN!

Huh? Where'd My Thought Go? Nevermind. Behold Jane and the Dragon.

I was thinking of something I wanted to post on here, and now I've forgotten. Oh, well. I'll just keep writing and see if it comes back to me. I'll write about something else I've been meaning to write about, something that might even be what I was thinking about before and forgot, since I don't remember if it was or not.

I. Love. Jane and the Dragon.

It's a TV series about girl knight and her friend Dragon going about their lives in a medieval castle. The theme song tells the backstory with super-catchiness. It's a fantastic series. It's for kids, so it's sweet and safe, but it's usually pretty mature too. And it's funny, with lovable characters, great voice acting and animation, fun stories, and well...everything else! I think it was made in New Zealand. It's only twenty-something episodes long. I hear they made a second season but never aired it, and I wonder what we'd have to do to get them to release it. We should start a petition or something.

Here's one of my favorite episodes. (It's 23 minutes, so make time before you start because it's gripping.) I love it because I love Jane and I love Jester and they make a great couple, but more than that, it demolishes one of the most annoying cliches in the history of storytelling: bitter enemies are secretly in love. Those love interests "who always bicker except when they're saving each other and there's evidence of sexual tension"? Death! Death to those love interests and their cheesiness! Only morons fall in love with people who are jerks to them. In this episode, Jane and Gunther act like they hate each other because -- guess what? -- they really do! It's hilarious and brilliant! And even better for the fact that Jane and Jester are NICE to each other because -- guess what? -- they like each other! Brilliant!

I laugh so hard every time I see this episode. Enjoy!






Read the following only after you've watched the episode (she says to the people who continue to read anyway...and the ones who actually heed her words, thank you): I love when Jester tells Gunther, "What Jane sees in your lowbrow, witless behavior, I shall never know." And Gunther totally admits to it, "Sees in it?" And probably the funniest part is Sir Ivon's rant at the end about "nice people."

I still haven't remembered what I was going to post on here before, but I strongly recommend you watch the rest of the series. It's funny, entertaining, and sweet, and it's not one of the main issues of the series, but Jane is great for little girls (and boys) to look up to because she's realistic and doesn't just do what she's expected to do because she's a girl and the daughter of a lady in waiting. She takes the road less traveled by. She might be my favorite, but it's so hard to choose. Jane and the Dragon will blow your mind. Maybe.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and May all Your Mail be Personal

Personal mail is what you get from people you know and maybe sort of like, right?

My family thoroughly enjoyed Christmas vacation.

We read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and loved it as much as we have every year for...a lot of years. I didn't crack up as hard as I did the first time we read that the Herdmans' idea of a game was to try and squash each other with their garage door, but I enjoyed other aspects of the book even more. The first-person narrator, Beth Bradley (I think), has a lot of personality even though she doesn't actually do much. (The book tells of only one time she physically reacts to something: when Alice Wendleken says she's going to tell her mom about the problems with Beth's mom's pageant. "There wasn't much I could do about, except pinch Alice, which I did." I think even that is fantastic in terms of showing character.) The other characters are realistic and lovable too. The Herdmans are terrible, terrible people, but I love that the book explicitly says they're the worst children in the history of ever, I love that even they have some good in them, and I love that they change by the end. I also love that we started Christmas morning, not by tearing open presents, but by finishing the book. It was a real change of pace, eating a sleepy breakfast at the table then moving to the couch for some read-aloud BEFORE calmly opening presents. We sure know how to liven things up around here.

We experienced the same hectic insanity on New Year's Eve. We went, of all places, into our car. And THEN to Walmart, if you can believe that. Before we knew it, we were attracting stares as we organized a chorus of talking toys called Sing-a-ma-jigs meant for three-year-olds. We moved our calamity to the craft isles where we spelled out festive phrases with wooden letters. We rounded off our escapades by buying me one of the Sing-a-ma-jigs (whom I named Bobo), a stuffed Pooh Bear toy, an Alice in Wonderland key chain, and...POP! Soda pop. Then we went home. No doubt you've already read about it in the tabloids. No? Well! I feel snubbed.

I loved New Year's Eve just as much as Christmas morning, truth be told.

But it's over now. It's a new year, and I feel like I should put a new picture at the top of my blog. I did put a pic at the bottom of the blog. See it?

Anyway, in other news, I saw a new trailer for Paul a while back, and I withdraw my endorsement. It looks awful.

Here's a trailer for a movie called Hanna. It looks alright.





My big brother showed me this video. It's funny. =)





I shall have to post again soon.

TTFN. =)