Christina Perri: September 2010

Monday, September 27, 2010

Music Mondays: Michael Jackson, Thriller:

When you think of the most influential musicians you instantly think of Michael Jackson, at least I do. The first song I ever heard from Michael Jackson was Black or White then hearing Beat It and Billie Jean. His music is simply amazing and my favorite song of his is Thriller, no surprise there :D The music video is also the best music ever made, seriously they combine my two favorite things in the video. Dancing and zombies what more could you want?! Michael Jackson is a musical genius and it shows when everything he touches turns to gold. Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs including "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style have influenced numerous hip hop, pop, contemporary R&B and rock artists. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time. His other records, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Dance Hall of Fame as the first (and currently only) dancer from the world of pop and rock 'n' roll.

Some of his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards (as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award); 26 American Music Awards (more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century"); 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career (more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era); and the estimated sale of over 800 million records worldwide. Jackson won hundreds of awards, which have made him the most-awarded recording artist in the history of music. He was also a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for beneficial causes and supporting more than 39 charities. I chose Thriller for this week's Music Monday because it's my favorite song from Michael Jackson and it's a big part of the horror genre. Everybody knows the song and even the dance, when it comes on the radio or someone plays it on their Ipod you can't help but movie you're head to the music and sing along.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

A Supernatural Sunday Season 1, Episode 1:

I'm starting a new segment on my blog called A Supernatural Sunday where each Sunday I will be reviewing a episode from the hit horror t.v. show Supernatural staring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester. Today's episode I'm reviewing is the pilot. The episode starts out 22 years ago with Dean being 4 years old and Sam just a little baby. Their mother Mary kisses Sam goodnight and their dad John arrives home from working. Everyone is asleep then Mary gets woken up by hearing Sam crying through the baby monitors. She goes into his room and See's a man standing over Sam's crib. Mary says to the dark figure "John is he hungry?' and the man just says ssshh so she heads down stairs to the kitchen to make him a bottle when she See's John her husband sleeping on the couch with the t.v. on.

She cries out "Sammy!" and runs to his room and then John is suddenly awaken by Mary screaming so he runs up to Sam's room to find Mary pinned to the ceiling caught on fire. He screams out for Mary then Dean runs out of his room wondering what's going on so John grabs Sam out of his crib and hands him to Dean and tells him to go outside and don't look back. Once Dean is outside he looks at the window of Sam's nursery watching the flames flow out. John runs out of the house and grab the two boys and heads away from the house. After that it switches to present day and Sam is now a big boy attending college at Standford and he has a hott girlfriend Jessica to show off. Good job Sammy, good job.

It's Halloween and they head down to a big party in one of the dorms and they talk about how Sam has a interview to extend his full ride at Standford and how they don't really talk about it with his family since his family is "different" Later that night when Sam and Jessica are sleeping Sam wakes up and hears someone stumbling through the basement so gets up and grabs a baseball bat and heads down to the room to check out who is there. He sees the dark figure coming after him so he tries to fight him off then the guy pins Sam to the ground and reveals himself to show that it's his older brother Dean. Dean tells Sam that their father is on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days so they head out to search for their father. While their looking for their father they find out that some guy in the town went missing and later he was found dead in his car with no trace of finger prints or signs of struggle.

The boys pose as Federal marshells to find out what's going on but of course the local cops have no idea what's wrong. They find the victims girlfriend hanging up flyer's of her boyfriend so Sam and Dean walk up to her to ask her some questions about her boyfriend and one of her friends came up to her to help her. They all sit in the diner and talk about how her boyfriend told her that he was going to call her back and never did. Her friend continued to tell the boys about a local legend how a woman was murder on a street up town in the 80's and she hitchhikes and anyone who picks her up is never seen again. Sam and Dean check into a hotel and find out that their dad rented out a room there for a whole month so they break into his room and find out that their dad had already found out about what was going on in the town and it was a woman in white or also known as a weeping woman. On the wall it shows articles of all the missing people through out the country and it showed a article of a woman Constance Whelch who killed herself after her babies were found dead in the bathtub. Dean gets himself arrested since that's what Dean does best so Sam heads off to talk to Constance's husband about his wife's death. After talking about him he realizes that Constance is indeed a woman in white.

A woman is white or a weeping woman is a woman who's husbands were unfaithful and them suffering from temporary insanity murdered their own children then ended up killing themselves. They pry on the men who are unfaithful to their own girlfriends and wives then they kill them. Late at night Sam is driving back to the hotel and See's that Constance is in the back seat of his car telling him to take her home and she locks all of his car doors so he couldn't escape. She tries to kiss him but he yells out "You can't hurt me, I'm not unfaithful!" and she replies "You will be" she presses her hand down on his chest to kill him but Dean shows up shooting her which doesn't kill her it just makes her go away. Sam jumps up and puts the car into drive and says "I'm taking you home" and drives right into the house where Constance and her family use to live. Constance tries to kill the boys but she notices water running down the stairs so she goes to check it out and she See's her two kids standing at the top of the stairs saying "Come home to us mommy" and they swoosh down and grab onto Constance and bring her down into hell or the spirit world whatever you want to call it and the boys are saved. After that Dean wants to keep on hunting but Sam has to get back to school for his interview in the morning so Dean drops him off and Sam's walks into his apartment looking for Jessica.

Sam lays on his bed then something starts dripping onto his head, he opens his eyes to see Jessica pinned to the ceiling and she catches on fire. Dean runs into the apartment since he heard Sam screaming and he grabs Sam and pulls him out of the room before the whole apartment caught on fire. After that it shows them loading up the trunk of Dean's car with guns and Sam says "We have work to do" and closes the trunk and the episode is over. This is one of my favorite episodes of the season and I enjoyed it, I love how it showed what happened to their mom and how it got their dad into hunting and showing what happened to Jessica which ends up motivating Sam into hunting everything evil on their way to find the thing that killed her which is the same with their dad. This is a very good season and a very good t.v. show everyone should check it out especially if your into this kind of thing which I'm pretty sure all of you are. It's like a mini horror movie that's just about 45 Min's long, some say it's an hour but I don't think it's that long. Oh well you be the judge on how long you think it is.

Stay tuned to next weeks episode Wendigo.

*Since this isn't a movie review I'm not going to be doing my Skull ratings on this.*

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Oozing Thoughts Of A ADHD/O.C.D Mind:

I'm planning on moving to California, June 2011 if anyone knows of any jobs involved in the horror community out there PLEASE let me know.

I have a family of shrunken heads in my room, my mom told me I have to take them down when Halloween is over. Little does she know that in my world every day is Halloween.

I swear I've seen every single episode of The Golden Girls and it never gets old.

I could use the whole can of hair spray on my hair and it will still fall flat within ten minutes.

I think we all (the horror bloggers) should start a horror convention of our own where we can go and meet everyone and hang out. I think that would be a blast and we can all get to know each other outside of the Internet. Wow that sounded cheesy, I still think we should do that.

Is it just me or do you think dolls can see inside you're soul?

I'm trying to decide which tattoo I should get first. 666 on my neck, a zombie pin up on my leg or a bloody Jason mask with a knife through it on my back shoulder?

I just like to give a shout out to Chuck Conry from Zombies DON'T Run. You're awesome!

There is only one movie that can make me feel pure happiness every time I watch it. That movie is Children of the Corn (1984)

Sometimes I wish I went to college right after I graduated from High School instead of waiting till I was 22.

People tell me I look pale and I need to get some color, I tell them I'm going for the undead look.

I REALLY need to get my degree in English.

I blame Stephanie Myer for killing the entire vampire genre. Damn Twilight!

I'm Team Dean Winchester.

Sometimes I'm glad I wear hearing aides cause all I have to do is turn them off when some moron is trying to talk to me and I can say "What?! I can't hear you, I'm deaf!"

I'm hearing impaired with my hearing aides and partly deaf without them since I can't hear you unless you scream really loud. I also talk like a normal person and not a actual deaf person, if I didn't tell you I wore hearing aides I don't think you ever would know.

Some days I think I should become a nun then I remember I don't believe in that sort of thing and I probably wouldn't even be considered since a lot of religious people think I'm a devil worshiper.

I talk too much and a lot of the times when I talk about what's going through my mind it sounds like rubbish.

I think this will be all for tonight cause if I don't shut up I'm going to end up talking for hours about things that wont even make sense. :D

i want!

how amazing is this multi-colored hair!? STUNNING! i wish my hair would grow out so i can do something similar.

all of these pictures are from the free people catalog. i want pretty much everything in there! and i would love to master their art of layering. when i try, i feel sloppy and like there is too much going on. i'll get the hang of it one day!

so i have had such a rough past few months. i won't go into detail but i'll just say how happy i am that it seems the clouds are parting and the sun is out again! i have taken a little hiatus from my jewelry design and hope to get back to it very soon. right now i have stitches in my right hand from a broken glass while doing the dishes :( but as soon as this heals, i'm back in business!
hope you all have a lovely weekend...and a safe one without stitches involved!!
xo
katie

Friday, September 17, 2010

arnold schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (English pronunciation: /ˈʃwɔrtsənɛɡər/, German: [ˈaɐnɔlt ˈalɔʏs ˈʃvaɐtsənˌʔɛɡɐ]; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman, and politician, who is currently serving as the 38th Governor of California.

Schwarzenegger began weight-training at 15. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 22 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest a total of seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent face in the sport of bodybuilding long after his retirement, and has written several books and numerous articles on the sport.

Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon, noted for his lead role in such films as Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnold Strong" and "Arnie" during his acting career, and more recently the "Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator").[1]

As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in California's 2006 gubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat Phil Angelides, who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his second term on January 5, 2007.[2]

Schwarzenegger is married to journalist Maria Shriver. The two have four children (two girls and two boys).

arnold schwarzenegger

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Top 10 Creepy Children In Horror Movies:

Why are children so creepy? Is it the way they look? The way they act? The way they laugh or even just the way they smile at you. Nothing is more creepy then a little kid coming after you with a knife and a craze look in their eye. This is why kids shouldn't be aloud to play with sharp objects, screw the fact that they might hurt themselves cause all I care about is if they hurt me. If their even a smidgen like these kids then we know their not going to hurt themselves. Their so small that you wont see them coming and they can creep up and get you without even knowing that they were coming after you, dude they could bite you're ankles their like evil midgets. With the fact that children are so damn creepy I decided to make a post of the top 10 creepy children in horror movies. In my eyes and opinion these are the children that are the creepiest and the one's you need to look out for and be warned about.

Now grab you're shotgun, holy water and crucifix feast you're eyes on you're computer screen, it's time for JennyB's Top 10 Creepy Children In Horror Movies! dun, dun, DUUUUUNNNNN!!!

10: Henry Evans - The Good Son. The blond hair , blue eyes and that smile. It's so deceiving! Be careful with kids like Henry, just because he can bat those baby blues of his doesn't mean he's all sunshine and rainbows.

9: Esther - The Orphan. If I was that creepy looking I would be angry and kill everyone I can get my hands too

8: Children - The Children. EEEWW just look at them, they look like death. They murder their parents and everyone around them which makes them worthy of Children of the Corn.

7: Issac - Children of the Corn. The way he's able to brain wash all the children in the town to murder their parents and make them believe this is God's work puts him on my list. Creepy children chillin in the cornfield preaching the words of God, no thank you!

6: Regan - The Exorcist. Any kid that gets possessed by a demon is considered creepy and will make it on my list.

5: The Grady Twins - The Shining. Yeah twins are creepy especially these twins, if they can

show you their death and they go around chanting "Play with us Danny" then run far away from

them cause that's just wrong and there being two of them doesn't help the situation.

4: Young Micheal Myers - Halloween (1978) The dazed look and what he grows up to be says it all.

3: Samara - The Ring. Samara crawling out of the t.v. always scared the shit out of me, after watching this movie I couldn't sleep in my room for at least a week cause I had a t.v. in my room.

2: The Children - Village of the Damned. Any kids with glowing yellow eyes and hair like that is creepy also if they live in a place called Village of the Damned then you know it can't be good and bad things will happen.

1: Damien - The Omen. He is the Devil's son after all and any little kid that can do what he can is bad, very BAD. For me if I gave birth to the Devil's son I wouldn't freak out I would use it to my advantage. I would seek my son on the people who wronged me I would have him help me get what I want. Am I condoning what he is or what he does? No all I'm saying is make the best with what you have and turn a bad situation good.

The moral of this post is to show every one out there that not all children are fun and cute. They do have a dark side and they are evil and will kill you. If any of you're kids start acting weird and start showing signs that they might be a creepy little kid like all these kids on my list seek help and a loaded shot gun or in Damien's case holy water. Man this list makes me want to get my tubes tied.

If you don't seek help and just let you're kid embrace his "inner demon" then this is what he's going to grow up to be.