Here’s to you Shirley Temple

I didn’t have the completely regular 90s kid childhood. Every day after school, I’d go over to my grandma’s house. We’d play tic tac toe, we’d play connect four, we’d read books upon books. Another thing we did? Watch movies. They weren’t just any movies either. When I say I didn’t have the completely regular 90s kid childhood, this is what I meant: I didn’t grow up on Disney movies. I grew up on Shirley Temple. I had pretty much the whole collection. I’d sit there with my grandma and become entranced by her movies. The glitchy screen would roll what seemed like hours of credits before it even began, and then from there, the story would take me in and love me.

The end would come. Andddd repeat…I have no idea how many times I watched each movie. Let’s just say it was a lot. So I wake up today and a news banner had come across my screen saying that this iconic childhood star had died at 85. Her movies touched my life. They made my childhood a big part of what it was. I really don’t know how else to put it. So here’s to you Shirley Temple. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for the memories. They were grand.

Just because I can

Over thanksgiving break, I got to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire….and yes, it was as awesome as it looked and everyone is saying.

I’ve read the books and it was a darn good adaptation compared to how most book-turned-into-a-movie things go. Say for example…the first hunger games. I mean, yeah it was alright. But…I missed Madge and the Avox girl. and…okay, you get the point. But Catching Fire was my favorite book out of the whole series so I was pretty proud of the movie. Take into account that I’ve got the hardest woman crush on Jennifer Lawrence (she really can do no wrong…seriously. Go to youtube, type in Jennifer Lawrence and you’ve got your whole day set) and I fell in love with the movie. Finnick was perfect. Everything was good. The acting was seriously top notch. You can never go wrong with Woody Harrelson..you just can’t. But anyways, I digress.

One of my favorite parts of going to the movies is the trailers before the movie starts. I looooveee it. I don’t know why exactly because I could just as easily youtube them. Again, on with the reason I’m typing this blog:

Vampire Academy. I’d heard about this movie coming out and I was excited. Here’s a random fact about me. I like vampire stories. Pretty much any of them. For those of you wondering, yes, I did enjoy Twilight both books and movies. If that takes me down a notch or if it makes you want to write me off well then….you suck. I would never do something that mean or shallow. So I liked the impossible and impractical love story. SUE ME. I’m pretty sure if we go through all the books you like, we’d find impossible and impractical stuff….hellllooooooo that’s what fiction is about. People don’t read books for boring stuff they find in their everyday lives. They read books to escape their reality. They read books to feel if only for those few hours, days, however long it takes you to read a book, that there could be something more. Okay sorry, rant over. I swear.

I watched the trailer (Vampire Academy) and I have to say, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was supposed to be about. Sooo I decided to read the series. That’s what I did over thanksgiving break..okay well over the last weekend of it anyways. And it was good. I loved it. In one of the books, I was actually crying my heart out over a scene it was so emotional. So, if you’re into vampires and paranormal fiction, if you’re into impossible and impractical romances that give you some modicum of hope, and you have not yet read the Vampire Academy series. Do so. And if you think they suck, well then…my bad and let’s agree to disagree.

After reading the series, I went back to youtube and watched the trailer for the movie and I have to say, I’m still inexplicably lost. I’m not exactly sure where they’re going with this but here’s another random factoid about me: once I start something like this, I have to finish it. Even if I don’t want to. Even if it might be painful for me. 

Ugh…I need to stop reading….

hahaha just kidding! That will never happen.

 

We used to be friends

Yeah, so. A few years back, I discovered this gem on netflix (too young when it first aired) and I watched the whole entire first season before they took it off. But I couldn’t just stop so I watched the rest of the series and I was so upset to find out that there was no more of this beautiful creation. UNTIL NOW! THAT’S RIGHT. Take it in. You guys have no idea how excited and overjoyed this 4 minute clip makes me. If you don’t know what this is, for shame. Go watch the series. If you do, you obviously share my ecstatic excitement.