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Babel on Life: Scary doll head and not-so-scary book collection.

2010-06-20T14:10:00.000-07:00

Scary doll head and not-so-scary book collection in my library.

-x-

Today has been strange. I've had an odd feeling all day, like I've already lived out this day and was just repeating it.

Life is weird like that for me.

I seem to, when in a sleepy weekend daze, retrace my steps around certain people and places. Almost like I'm lost and have been swung out of orbit of my own timeline.

We all have days when we feel an urge to look over our shoulders and an itch to relive and re-see a day that we haven't thought about in years.

Well that's how my Sunday went.
For only a couple of days in a year i get into feeling this vacant.

Strange though it seems I'm quite content in revisiting some memories and some lost words and worlds that i thought lay forgotten.
It's in times like today we can remember where we all started from and what light guided us.

Stephanie x

McFly: Poor Dougie {RE: No Go Queen}

2010-06-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

This is a repost from No Go Queen (a blog dedicated to McFly)

Link
Frankie Sandford never argues with her McFly boyfriend Dougie Poynter about what to watch on TV, because she rules the remote. The 21-year-old singer - voted fourth sexiest woman in an FHM poll - revealed she likes to spend her nights in watching TV and snacking.
She said: "I wouldn't say Dougie and I ever argue about what to watch because we watch what I want to, and that's that." The Saturdays cosied up on a giant pink sofa in London's Covent Garden to promote T-Mobile's Night In which rewards customers by giving them 'five things for £5' at Blockbuster. Frankie has just moved back into the London home she shares with Dougie after a brief split earlier this year, but insisted they had no problem living together. She revealed: "He's more of a woman than I am. I am really messy and leave my stuff everywhere and he is always tidying up after me."

*She really wants us to hate her doesn't she? What a spoilt manipulative cow.

[RANT/]

~ I'm so far beyond sick of her.

Not only does she not respect Dougie's privacy she exploits the poor boy for publicity. ¬_¬

I cant wait for the day that she gets knocked off her pedestal....
OK, all I'm going to say is that, ask yourself if she really did love Dougie then she would respect his privacy.

Sorry about the bashing but what Frankie has been saying and doing through the tabloids is seriously a new level of desperate. Attention whore's born with a silver spoon in their mouth tend to make up the most ignorant people in the whole of humanity. It's just morally wrong to exploit a person in the way that she does Dougie. What makes this so much more horrible is that Frankie is dehumnising someone she actually claims to 'love'.The girl has no shame. *sigh*

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice - Thoughts (S.5 E.7)

2010-06-10T09:48:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice
Season Five - Episode 7

Amy's Choice is a character piece. It’s an exploration of all three current cast members with a focus on Amy Pond in particular. The episode opens “five years later” with the Doctor stumbling back into Amy and Rory’s blissful married life in a sleepy English village. Amy is now pregnant and Rory has a terrible ponytail.

What the hell happened here then?

~ I liked this episode more than i thought i would.

It's good idea but it felt that the entire plot was limping to an end.

===

The character Amy has always been frankly annoyingly self obsessed to me.
I like that character of Amy, don't get me wrong.
It's not the writing that's at fault here.
I really just hate the way Karen portrays Amy.
Loud and bashful doesn't have to be annoying girls and boys! If you remember back to the character Donna you can see my point. I just find that Karen's lack of natural acting talent is sapping what life and spark the character Amy could ever of had.

So i'm afraid i am with those who are underwhelmed with Amy.

anyway...

Like i was saying i really enjoyed tonight's episode, personally finding it the best so far as it was really unsettling & creepy - reminded me a bit of Hush in Buffy or the original Prisoner series.

While i agree that the explanation was rubbish It could've been written a bit better.

No doubting it there.

~x~

I'm afraid. I was thinking how much better the story would have been if it was a black and white 60's episode featuring Patrick Throughton with his companions Jamie and Zoe.

~x~

Enter: Toby Jones’s Dream Lord.

His oddly round yet still angular face looks like William Hague pushing himself through a rubber band and a brilliant bit of casting because we could imagine in a different universe were the Doctor could still be played by an older man, Jones would be just the man to do it.

One of the best elements of the episode was in keeping the true nature of the Dream Lord hidden so that fans could spend much of the story assuming that he was somehow The Master, The Master or my guess, The Celestial Toymaker (it couldn’t be The Valeyard, of course, that would be silly, even though functionally they were doing much the same thing, expressing the Doctor’s id, and look at how I’m burying that in some brackets).

Toby Jones was the pulling force of this show. His voice expressions, his demeanor was mysterious and dangerously intimidating. The lines Toby was given as the Dream Lord were pure genius! =P

and, - The comedy and scary atmosphere were wonderfully paced together.^-^

Next Week: "I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much."

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice - Thoughts (S.5 E.6)

2010-06-06T16:56:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: Vampires of Venice
Season Five - Episode 6

"The unexpected, unadvertised solution which kisses it all better is known as a deus ex machina - literally, a god from the machine. And a god from the machine is what the Doctor is now.

A decent detective story provides you with enough tantalising information to allow you to make a stab at a solution before the famous detective struts his stuff in the library. Doctor Who replaces this with speed, fast talking, and what appears to be that wonderful element 'makeitupasyougoalongeum'.

The Doctor himself has in recent years been built up into an amalgam of Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ... and Tinkerbell. There is nothing he doesn't know and nothing he can't do... Perhaps they should start transmitting the programme on Sundays.

After all, when you've had your moan you have to admit that it is very, very entertaining, with its heart in the right place, even if its head is often in orbit around Jupiter," he said. "I might shout at the screen again, but I will be watching on Saturday." ~ Terry Pratchett

I think Pratchett is spot on...but more than 'makeitupasyougoalong-ism' being a recent curse of Doctor Who - I think it's been a problem for quite some years.

He makes a very persuasive case for the Doctor 'being God'. When you think about it like that; the propensity for the Doctor to fail vanishes. There is no conflict because the Doctor can never be stumped. Conflict drives drama - ergo; drama ceases to exist.

I did laugh when the angel 'got him' in Flesh And Stone. We know the Doctor's never going to be 'got'; there'd be no shows without him. Atleast they killed Buffy (although it was both in terms of plot and tv series).

anyway.. *cough*

Alas, if anything, The Vampires Of Venice is cookie-cutter Doctor Who. Yes, sumptuously lovely to look at, entertaining and witty, but it's just rehearsing any number of rather tired scenarios from the previous series and not really bringing anything new to the table.

Yes, it's difficult to try and be original after 47 years and the series is bound to keep offering up traditional stories every year but this just smacked too much of repetition.

And for once couldn't we just have a Doctor Who story where the vampires actually are the supernatural bloodsuckers of legend and myth, maybe even tying in with the Great Vampires of State Of Decay?

Why do they automatically have to be space-fish aliens?

Either go for the vampires or go for the marauding space-fish because in the end it'll help avoid all the contrivances chucked into the script to explain why the space-fish are pretending to be vampires and the silly inconsistencies of having creatures that react badly to sunlight romping through the episode in broad daylight only for one of them to be vaporised by a quick flash of sunlight from Amy's Boots No 7 make up mirror.

Next Week: How Do You Want Amy?

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone - Thoughts (S.5 E.5)

2010-06-06T16:36:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone
Season Five - Episode5

*sigh*

They need to develop Amy's character soon because so far she is as dull as Martha Jones..... thank god for River Song she's was the best thing in this Saturdays episode.

I really liked the episode but the ending...no idea what to make of it. At all. =/

- I wish Amy had a little bit more to do as she spent the whole section with her eyes closed being pretty annoying. -

The 'companion at the centre of everything' thing - please let it just be a coincidence and not the actual case. We just went through all that with Donna a mere two years ago..

The angels moving was really creepy. I didn't expect it to be at all, thought it would completely ruin the horror but it was chilling.

It's being heavily implied that River Song killed the Doctor isn't it? Hopefully just a regeneration then. Of course it isn't going to be that simple and the writers are just throwing us a huge red herring but I wouldn't mind a regeneration. I love Matt Smith but he hasn't implanted himself as the Doctor yet. I assume he will when this series is over, regardless of whether he stays or not.

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns

Where is this leading? We’re still no wiser about River Song; she’s apparently not who he thinks she is, but has killed someone who we’re to assume is the Doctor but like their proposed future marriage that may be misdirection. In trying to explain the apparent continuity error of the Doctor suddenly having his jacket back whilst questioning Amy about her memory, Wikia suggests this is some future version jumping back into his own time-stream on a detective hunt which sounds like a very Moffaty thing to do (with the possibility that some of the other inconsistencies groused about here there and everywhere aren’t errors but features). We know that Steven sent an episode of the series to Russell for a once over – is it because the timelord travels even further back?

Next week: Being Timelord

Stephanie xx

Babel on Life: kisses falling lightly like shooting stars

2010-06-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

picture by stephanie (me)

The river in shallows murmured and chattered,
In deep pools, sighing, swishing, and swirling.
The sun blazing down on great patches of gold.
The Gorse bushes popping, their seed pods exploding.
While the Broom gently swayed, wafting its perfume
On the delicate touch of the breeze from the river.
Nature could not have been kinder
That day, as we walked in its splendour.
We shyly held hands - it was our first meeting.
Then we sat on the grass in quiet conversation.
Long pauses, deep sighs, then trickles of words,
Nervous laughs, like the sounds of the river
As it flowed past our feet.
We turned to each other with lips slightly pouting,
Both of us nervous of that very first kiss.
Our lips barely touched, like a butterfly flutter,
Or was it a puff from the wind on the river?
Your sweet tiny face seemed mounted in gold,
Eyes open wide and Kingfisher blue.
New love, young love, needs time to mature,
But we drifted apart, then found love once again.
True love, mature love, but not with each other.
Yet still the Broom, its perfume heart stopping,
And the Golden Gorse goes on pleasing,
Down by the river, for other lovers walking,
Just as it did when we were so young.

~By David Lewis

***

have a nice day everyone. :)

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who ~ How to Exterminate a Dalek!

2010-06-03T15:08:00.000-07:00

^_^

Step one, get close to the Dalek [very carefully]

-x-

Step two, throw the blanket over the Dalek

-x-

Step three, throw yourself over the Dalek.

The Dalek will go MAD!.. =P

Stephanie xx

Note To Self: When in Danger..

2010-06-03T15:07:00.000-07:00

"When in danger,
When in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and shout."

That's always worked for me!

=P

Stephanie xx

Movie Night: Thir13en Ghosts

2010-06-03T15:03:00.000-07:00

..*nervous laugh*

*locks all the doors and windows, rolls under bed with large teddy bear*

Did anyone just watch Thir13en Ghosts on FIVE?

The Jackal scared the hell out of me, AGAIN!

The first time i watched 13 ghosts i was alone at 3 in the morning! When it got to the part when The Jackal was released I got so freaked I had to run and turn on the light... I watched it again, about a week later with my mum and i still freaked.

*facepalm* oh, the shame. XP

But a guy with a straight-jacket on and a cage attached to his head?

Yeah, that was/is pretty freakin' scary!

Stephanie xx

-x-

Climate Change ~ Ignorance

2010-06-03T14:58:00.000-07:00

memoryintoreveriee:

This is probably one of the most ignorant things I have ever read in my life.

There’s actually tons of data to SUPPORT global warming and climate change, it’s just that nobody can prove it. Also, CO2 isn’t a a pollutant-and he never said it was- but it is a greenhouse house gas whose concentration is rapidly rising, and thus becoming a problem by contributing to global warming (as the theory goes). As for population control, use a damn condom and/or legalize abortion. There are so many babies being born that go into orphanages or end up on the streets because their parents didn’t want them in the first place.

And wow. Okay. You sound so much smarter by calling liberals idiots just because they don’t share your views.

/rant.

*prepares to lose followers*

darkowonderland (aka ~ me):

*highfive* :)

-X-

I am sick to death of these folks who are so void in their ignorance that any other person's opinion is automatically wrong. Just because they don't agree does not give a person the right to dismiss an other persons opinion.*facepalm*

*dances with colourful ribbons*

Stephanie xx

Wolf Moon

2010-06-03T14:56:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's a wolf moon tonight boys and girl. =P

And not only is it a FULL moon, it's a RED moon!

haha, seriously... =P

Red full moon sitting in the clouds... scary!

It's like suddenly everything's gone evil! ..*nervous laugh*

*locks all the doors and windows, rolls under bed with large teddy bear*

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Cold Blood - Thoughts (S.5 E.9)

2010-06-03T14:52:00.000-07:00

God speed Rory.

His comedy and loyalty made him a little favourite character in my eyes. Wish the poor darling didn't have to suffer the fate he did. Such a sad ending.

Shame. :(

Amy didn't deserve him, honestly.

-x-
His death kinna kicks the person who said "It is better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all" in the teeth.

What made Rory's death more severe was not only that he took 'the bullet' to save The Doctor, it was that his very memory was erased.

He ceased to exist, in all of time, space and memory.

Horrible. XS

The scene in which The Doctor was begging Amy to hold on to the memory of Rory. That "he lives on in your memory", it made me tear up.

I'm always a sucker to a good old sad scene, especially in Doctor Who.

Stephanie xx

Lord Who?

2010-06-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings tonight!

Oh, yes. =P

***

I love life because things like Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings exist. ;)

(why am i so weird?)

Stephanie x

p.s so yeah Doctor Who then The Return Of The King this week.

It’s seriously criminal to show Lord of the Rings with adverts - it’s long enough, Channel 4! =P

RIP ~ Gary Coleman

2010-06-03T14:48:00.000-07:00

"Gary Coleman passed away Friday morning in hospital.

Gary slipped into a coma and was initially put on life support after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage and sadly sliped away. He was only 42.

His wife Shannon Price and her father were by his side."

So sad. :'(

You will be remembered. xx

Dare Say .My Inspiration.

2010-06-03T14:47:00.000-07:00

I hate it when people act like they think they are perfect. No one is totally comfortable with themselves, honestly. Perfection is a lie!

from
BroccoliLies

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Son!

2010-06-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

The Doctor's Son!

Dear Mr Steven Moffat,

Please can you make this story happen, PLEASE, thank you. xx

BORED & POINTLESS: Spell-your-name-using-mcfly-songs

2010-05-27T17:09:00.000-07:00

S- Silence Is A Scary Sound
T- The Heart Never Lies/Transylvania
E- Everybody Knows
P- POV
H- Hynotised
A- All About You
N- Not Alone
I- Ignorance
E- Easy Way Out

M- Memory Lane
U- Ultraviolet
I- I Wanna Hold You
R- Room On The Third Floor

*the songs i've put in red are the songs you should really look up. they are amazing!

Stephanie xx =P

Catholic Friend Asked Me: What do you think about religion?

2010-05-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

My Catholic friend asked me what i think about religion.
This is my answer.

~ now i'm a little drunky/hyper so most of this is a ramble.
DO NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY!!!
i mean it!

HAHA =P

Stephanie x

DOUGIE POYNTER 'TO MARRY' FRANKIE! - what? ¬_¬

2010-05-04T06:38:00.000-07:00

THEY may have only just got back together, but wedding bells could be in the air for Frankie Sandford and Dougie Poynter.
According to friends, the Saturdays singer and McFly frontman – who had split for six weeks – are set to get engaged any day.
A friend told us: “They split up because their hectic schedules meant they were finding it hard to find time to see each other."

“But while they were apart they spent most of the time on the phone to each other. They realised they can’t live apart any longer.”

The pair had dated for more than a year when they split in March.

Frankie, 21, moved out of the flat she shared with Dougie, 22, and despite being linked to JLS star Aston Merrygold, 22, and Calum Best, 29, she insisted she was single.

And after a crunch meeting at London’s May Fair Hotel, she recently confirmed their reunion, saying: “Everyone keeps saying how pleased they are we’re back together.”

The friend added: “They plan to get engaged and hope to be married before Christmas.

“They are determined not to let work get in the way.”

Dougie is currently finishing McFly’s new album and The Saturdays are in the studio recording their third album in under two years.

*erm, no. where the hell did this come from?!
these sort of things scare me. the way they come out with all this random stuff is slightly terrifying haha

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels - Thoughts (S.5 E.4)

2010-05-01T08:43:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels
Season Five - Episode 4

*shivers*

I genuinely think the Weeping Angels could
(if done well) become an iconic Doctor Who monster...

Even though I knew those angels were going to pop up I still jumped everytime, brilliant enemies and the scariest I have ever seen from the show.

Great episode, a return to form but I still felt it was a bit lacking as a whole their seemed to be a lot of waffle rather than advancing with the story but all in all it is a step in the right direction.

I don't like how Amy is appearing to be so useless though, the way the Doctor is constantly telling her to stay away or wait for him in the Tardis, it just makes her look pointless as far as her character/story is concerned.

And River Song is still brilliant.

Would have liked a bit more of an exciting cliffhanger. =/

-x-
I actually think Matt Smith's Doctor is evolving quite nicely. It seems to me that in the first and second episode, he was referencing David Tennant a lot, and has gradually been bringing through new characteristics and quirks. This latest episode definitely showed a progression of character.

Amy is ok, and the chemistry is there, but she NEEDS MORE TO DO!..

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns
I’ve tried to spend the past four hours and eight paragraphs not looking for some deeper meaning, because until the results of next week’s poll are in, sorry, we’ve seen next week’s episode (the election is getting to me) with all of its Moffatty twists and turns, as ever its impossible to really say what this story is about. Silence in the Library was good, but it was Forest in the Library which made it special and though it’s certainly true that across new aand classic Who if a story is rubbish to begin with its rare to see a massive increase in quality and vice versa, The Space Museum also starts well in a museum (obviously) and look what happened there. We fans don’t forget.

Next Week: Everybody must get stoned …

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks - Thoughts (S.5 E.3)

2010-05-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks
Season Five - Episode 3

WOW, that episode went rather too fast.

The pacing was just a mess to be honest. For the size of what could've been a great plot was entirely cut. I didn't feel like there was any MASSIVE thing at stake ( i know the entire earth was gonna be 'blown up', duh.) but there was no intense feel around the Daleks.

When all the colourful Daleks rolled out i immediately (don't judge me) thought of the teletubbies! haha ...not my most adult moment i must say.

I'm thinking that Big, Bright, Primary colours are not and will never be threatening. The Daleks did openly and honestly look like plastic toys. (not a good thing).

I do love the development of Amy and the new Doctor though.

- overall the episode was a 'little' messy, but i did enjoy watching it. I wish they would bring back the two episodes per plot thing again like they did in classic Doctor Who, if you know what i mean...

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns
Perhaps I’m reaching, but what if the crack that’s either following the Doctor around or as I suspect the Doctor is following around (A month later? Really?) is a revisionist switch, a chance for Moffat to pull back on some of the more eccentric mythology from the Davies era or even eep, the nu-Who equivalent of the Faction Paradox, a way of explaining some of the inconsistencies? Three episodes in there are mysteries afoot and they’re character based, not disappearing bees and planets. My brain, so full of stuff, is now casting about and wondering if he’s even reaching as far back as The Next Doctor, when Tenth wondered why a giant Cyberman stomping London isn’t in the historical record or if Churchill’s apparent ignorance of Torchwood is also connected. Probably not. Either way, it's an indication that Moffat isn't ready to put a lid on his predecessor's work just yet, not completely ignoring continuity or totally embracing it but something else. Good here, init?
Next Week: Let the River RUN!

Stephanie xx

McFly: Ouch Tom! XS

2010-04-26T14:04:00.000-07:00

Tom 'has' (might have) broken his ankle!!

=[

[LINK] TOM: "Oh dear...twisted my ankle at football...slightly swollen. Ahhh, only a couple of hours wait to have an x-ray :( "

*It's looks really bad..
poor, poor tom XS

McFly: Dougie, Frankie Shopping -_-

2010-04-21T11:46:00.000-07:00

* [LINK]
Either we’re right about everything always or Frankie and Dougie could be in the mood for sending themselves crackers.

Frankie and Dougie were lovers, so Elvis almost used to sing.

Then were some tears and then were some embarrassment.

And in our experience that usually proceeds to some late night drunken phone calls and some late night drunken Facebook friend deletion (“it’s for the best”) and then some very late night drunken phone calls about drunken Facebook friend deletion and then possibly a drunken shag and then another, hungover, argument about drunken Facebook friend deletion before the drinking really begins.

But possibly not for Frankie and Dougie who are either proving us absolutely right by getting back together and going out shopping together or are in that terribly polite and try-hard period where they’re “being just good friends”.

Beware both, that way lies potential drunken friend deletion when your constant FB wall-stalking unleashes a new and vicious kind of pain when they make friends with a member of the opposite sex you’ve never met.

So, what say you Frankie? Tweet yer later!

Oooooooooooooooooooooh, and whatdidyabuy?

(Pic: Film Magic)

*THE SHORTS! THE SHORTS" O.O
My god! Dougie BURN THEMMMM! .....and the shoes please ;)

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Beast Below - Thoughts (S.5 E.2)

2010-04-17T13:03:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: The Beast Below
Season Five - Episode 2

For some reason it feels to me that new who and classic who where intermingling in this episode. Which must i say, is FANTASTIC! (pun intended)

I really don't like spoiling things for people (and this is why i don't do reviews anymore) i really want you (yes you, the person reading this) to see this episode with fresh eyes. That's what Doctor Who is about, having no idea where the Tardis will take you next.

-x-
I'm really not getting the appeal of Amy at the moment.

I still don't know anything about her, in the sense that i really don't feel close to here character and have yet to come to actually caring about her. Most likely it's down to her character still being in development though.

The Smilers where literally terrifying! (i would've freaked out to even have been near one of those masks!)

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns [on April 11, 2010]

Then, right at the end, Moffat curiously evokes The End of the World himself. But instead of Rose being disturbed by the Doctor as she looks out into the immensity of space, it’s the Doctor ruminating on his failure to see the details which were right in front of Amy. I thought initially we were supposed to assume that he had been testing his new companion, her moral code, but instead he seems like a man who understands what he’s lost in this regeneration, that the human elements of his tenth persona which inescapably led to his doom have been divested and he knows he’s returned to having an alien perspective. When he clumsily embraces Amy, it’s as though he’s trying to literally absorb her humanity. Then its off to the TARDIS again and Moffat commits another surprise as like the early Hartnell era we effectively get the next episode teaser as part of the story, Churchill, Daleks and all (oh yays) because like children, no sooner have we read one story, we want to be enchanted by the next one straight away.

that is all ;)
Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour - Thoughts (S.5 E.1)

2010-04-17T12:44:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour
Season Five - Episode 1

So this is how it begins. Matt Smith has landed. He seems to have landed on his feet and not on his back, thank god!

This episode was a 'cracking' good beginners episode. Good introduction to both a new Doctor and Companion. The CGI was iffy, but all in all i thought it was a great opener for the new season ahead.

My favorite moment from Eleventh Hour, was when The Doctor made the Atraxi view the information about Earth with scenes of the alien threats then asked them who stopped followed by old archives of his former incarnations asked them then he pops through the video hologram of David Tennant and said "I'm the Doctor, run."
And then those Atraxi ran like hell. EPIC!

Quote from: Jackie Tyler-Wilde [on 10 April 2010, 22:20:38]
It all suffered a bit from RTD style "far future not seeming all that different to our time" syndrome.

Agreed.
Russell had a little problem with this in his era, and it really irritated me.
But i know Steven Moffat (hopefully) will not go there.
Moffat lives for Doctor Who so I'm thinking he's checking everything twice and wont let us down.
-x-

and that is all ;)
Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Season 5 - Thoughts, and opinions begin right here!

2010-04-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

Hello, ladies and jellyspoons.

--I've watched DW since i was a little girl (i'm now just turned 16). When i was little (around six-ish) i started watching Doctor Who Classics on re-runs with my father. That was of course way before 2005 when NuWho came back to our tv screens.)--

I'm a neurotic Doctor Who fan like some may already know and I'll be giving my 'thoughts 'on the new season of Doctor Who, the beginning of Matt Smith's era as The Doctor.

I say 'thoughts' because i will not be doing full blown reviews unless it is needed. My life is rather hectic at the moment so my thoughts will be all that I'll have time for. Plus i don't really make a great reviewer, sorry folks. but meh what you going to do (small grin) if you want amazing full blown reviews then you know to go right here [Behind the sofa - Doctor Who REVIEWS]

that is all ;)
Stephanie xx

McFly: LIVE ON USTREAM 02/22/10 11:44AM

2010-04-08T17:52:00.000-07:00

The Dallas Austin Experience 02/22/10 11:44AM

[LINK]

:)

Stephanie x

Movie Drinking Game - Ginger Snaps Style (mwhahahaha)

2010-04-08T14:26:00.000-07:00

A 'Ginger Snaps' Drinking Game. [LINK]

Drink Every Time . . .

1. A cure is mentioned
2. A dead dog is shown
3. Ginger's tail is shown
4. Ginger gets in a fight with anyone
5. Pamela tries to talk to her daughters
6. Anyone dies
7. Ginger and Brigette are made fun of
8. Anyone screams or cries

funfunfun :P

WARNING: if your underage don't play this game! -_-

Stephanie x

McFly Fly

2010-04-05T14:09:00.000-07:00

RE: Obsessed yes. Unhealthy NO.

2010-04-03T16:55:00.000-07:00

This is my response to Nutty Madam's Video: Obsessed yes. Unhealthy NO.

Stephanie x

Movie Review: Moon (2009)

2010-04-03T16:37:00.000-07:00

-Moon-
(2009, Directed by Duncan Jones)

Writers: Duncan Jones (original story)
Nathan Parker (screenplay)

Release Date: 17 July 2009 (UK)

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot summary: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. The long period of time alone however has resulted in him talking to himself for the most part, or to his plants. Direct communication with Earth is not possible due to a long-standing communication malfunction but he does get an occasional message from his wife Tess. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone. He also comes to realize that his world is not what he thought it was. [Written by garykmcd for imdb]

Tagline: The last place you'd ever expect to find yourself

Awards: Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 17 wins & 15 nominations

User Reviews: Fantastic...

Intergalactical Frisbee: Little Review
Unbelievable.. the whole film from beginning to end is an absolute masterpiece! (We all want to live, no matter what the curcumstances.) =P
Some say the film starts slowly, but i found the first half hour to be an important portrayal of what it would mean to be alone in space.
Sam Rockwell did one heck of a job in this movie! He should have been nominated for an Academy Award and the movie for all the other attending awards. Pity. Too bad it's a thinking person's movie.. =P

*****
#5 - Star
*****

Stephanie x

The Saturdays: Frankie says she's not dating JLS AstonThe Saturdays' Frankie Sandford says she's not dating JLS-Aston.

2010-04-03T16:32:00.000-07:00

Don’t worry boys, Saturdays star Frankie Sandford is still young, free and single!

I got to the bottom of rumours that the sexy singer has been shacked up with JLS wee-man Aston Merrygold (pictured top right) by asking the lady herself to spell out the truth.

Not only did she say reports of her “union” with hunky Aston are a load of cobblers, she also told me of her sadness folowing her split with McFly dish Dougie Poynter (right).

Frankie told me at the Lee Jeans launch party this week: “It’s inevitable that Aston and me do get pictured together because Rochelle is dating Marvin from JLS.

“It’s already happened with all this stuff about us dating – it’s false. It’s crap. And the stuff about me and Calum Best was crap too.

“Calum literally sent me a Tweet and that’s where that story came from.

“He’s a nice guy but I’m not going there... I’m not stupid! I’m just friends with Aston – he’s a nice guy. It can be really annoying if you’re falsely linked to other people.”

Frankie was clearly in the mood to talk and she admitted that she’s yet to get over McFly boy Dougie Poynter after their split last month.

“I didn’t think anyone would care about Dougie and I splitting up,” she revealed. “I was so surprised by the reaction to it. We are staying good friends.

“I know that’s what everyone says but I don’t bulls**t. We need time apart and that’s what we’re doing now. I needed to get away from everything so that’s why I took myself off Twitter and had a holiday.

“It’s hard enough splitting up with someone but when you’re in the public eye it’s so much harder. I had no idea and I’m learning about it. If you split up with your boyfriend, you wouldn’t then see him pictured out with other girls in the paper.

“He’s going to start dating other girls, and I’m fine with it, but I don’t want to see it and learn about it in the papers. It’s going to be hard.”

Frankie, currently in the studio with the rest of the Saturdays recording new material for a repackaged summer version of their album Wordshaker, sounds desperado for a relationship of some kind.

She told me: “I haven’t been out on any dates since we split.

“But I really want to be taken out on a date! I’m not good at the whole dating scene and I just want a boyfriend. But I don’t go out on a date for the sake of it.

“First I need there to be a spark and hint that it might turn into a relationship.”
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*OK fuck it!!
I wish she'd just stop fucking answering questions/talking about Dougie - and let the whole thing bloody die. It's been dragged out long enough!

stephanie x

Doctor Who: "The Kiss"

2010-03-25T16:13:00.000-07:00

It shall be forever known in the Sci-Fi Convention Circles as 'The Kiss'

Doctor Who: "Give thanks that Davies' Doctor Who finally regenerated."

2010-03-25T16:03:00.000-07:00

[LINK] The Gallifreyan dust cleared by now on the final episode of the Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who. And, after watching and digesting the final episodes of the David Tennant era, Davies couldn't move on fast enough for me. The two-part story, "The End of Time," was watched by 10 million in the UK -- flirting with a 50 ratings share. So, it's an undeniable success. It was also an undeniable mess of a story that proved unworthy of Tennant's swan song. Davies forever deserves credit for taking the street credit his successful work on series like Queer as Folk gave him and investing it in one shot from the BBC to bring back the network's crown jewel, Doctor Who. And he deserves credit for increasing the nerdy guy-friendly show's popularity with women by introducing "Buffy-ized" romance and humor. But, the hard truth is Davies isn't a gifted sci-fi genre writer. And it showed in "The End of Time." What irked me so much about Tennant's final adventure as The Doctor? Davies did everything during his tenure as executive producer to weaken one of TV's greatest heroes -- to corrupt him and make him less of a heroic figure. Maybe he wanted to humanize The Doctor. Or maybe Davies is cursed by too much cynicism to allow for heroes. But Davies really trashed The Doctor in these final tales. Why he would do that to a show he loved and wanted to bring back is beyond me. Yes, The Doctor fought back another alien invasion of Earth and bested The Master, but Davies sent The Doctor out crying like a petulant child. In what should've been Tennant's chance to finish up with nobility and heroism, he died whimpering under a layer of pretentious opera music. Suffice to say, I doubt very much the talented writer and new executive producer Steven Moffat will let the new Doctor (Matt Smith) go out with such a lack of fanfare.
Stephanie xx *I felt the same way until I thought it over. A time lord is not immortal. They've established that different regenerations have different personalities. I think Tennant's doctor loved life so much he would miss it. It didn't crystalize for me until the scene at the table with Wilf - it's still him, but he dies, and another man walks away with his life. And the irony that his current regeneration (and life) was about saving civilizations and time and that he died to save one "insignificant" man...yeah, you can expect maybe he'd have some...frustration or disappointment about that. Especially after Waters of Mars with the whole "Time Lord Victorious" thing - I think that that didn't have enough time to play itself out and was crammed in a little quickly, especially with Planet of the Dead not really touching on it at all. One of the things I enjoy about DW and RTD is that you don't get bogged down with the sci-fi technobabble that doesn't make any sense, and would just lower it into Voyager-level sci-fi. Don't forget, half of sci-fi is fiction...sometimes there's way too much science, and it can be way too easy to write yourself out of a corner with a magic wormhole or an alien machine that does whatever you want it to (*cough*immortalitygate*cough*). RTD wrote some awesome stuff - the first Master trilogy (the TARDIS as a paradox machine, etc.) and the Children of Time trilogy were complex and pretty great. I think you're really selling him short. I also think saying he did "everything" to "weaken" Tennant couldn't be farther from the truth - I mean after all, he created the Tennant Doctor himself. I've also read RTD say that the tenth Doctor would have been different if Tennant hadn't played him, so maybe some of the influence you're talking about is based on David Tennant. Again, I think you've really missed the mark here. And I think conversely, RTD managed to make all his companions pretty amazing - he managed to turn Donna Noble from a whiny (and to me, annoying) brat into the savior of the universe...and #10's best friend. RTD managed to handle each companion differently, with complexity, and really told a story - Rose's love, Martha's love for someone who didn't even notice her (perception filter :D) and Donna, the temp who saved the world. I will say though, I wasn't as thrilled with End of Time as I was the other series finales. It lacked an...epicness, I felt. It wasn't what I wanted...but then again, don't the best stories throw you a curve and make you think instead of just giving you what you want?

Doctor Who: 'is in good hands with Moffat'

2010-03-25T15:59:00.000-07:00

For those of you who might be worried about Steven Moffat taking over as lead writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, take comfort in the man's lifelong dedication to the show. In this video, fans get to see a bit more of departing Doctor David Tennant walking around the studios where Doctor Who has been filmed over the years and talking about the show. Moffat, who takes over for previous lead writer and producer Russell T. Davies, remembers his father calling him excitedly to the television, saying Doctor Who was on. It wasn't the show's regular night, but Moffat rushed to the television anyway, only to find it was the kids show Blue Peter, which often promoted and previewed episodes of Doctor Who, and burst into tears. Moffat's impressive resume includes the BBC shows Coupling and Jekyll, and he has written some of the better episodes of Doctor Who since he signed on in 2004, including "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "Blink." The tone of the show is certain to change at least slightly with the shift from Davies to Moffat, although Davies has said Moffat was the only writer whose scripts he never rewrote. In this interview, Moffat talks about how the show demands a big story every week, something fitting a feature movie, but Moffat has shown an ability to focus on his characters and their relationships amid whatever universe-expanding spectacle might be taking place (I'm thinking here mostly of "The Girl in the Fireplace"). And he'll have an entirely new Doctor to mold as his own. I, and I'm sure a legion of Doctor Who fans, will be eagerly awaiting the new season set to start this spring. For those who want to review the last year before the change, Doctor Who: The Complete Specials is out on DVD February 2. A quick note, the video title here has the wrong spelling of Moffat's name. It is Steven Moffat, rather than Stephen Moffat.

Stephanie xx :)

Doctor Who: 'Best of David Tennant'

2010-03-25T15:55:00.000-07:00

For those of you still crying in your screwdrivers over David Tennant's exit from 'Doctor Who,' and waiting for Matt Smith to fill the void, BBC America has posted a three-minute video of "Tennant's greatest moments as the Doctor" to promote 'Doctor Who: The Complete Specials'.

The clip takes us from "new teeth, that's weird" all the way up to the Master's death, with a good number of clips from the specials in between. And of course, Daleks and Cybermen. There are some nice reminders of how good Tennant was at playing both drama and comedy on the show, including his back and fourth with Sky Silvestry ("Shamble bobble dibble dooble") from 'Midnight' from series four and his exchange with a would-be companion from 'Planet of the Dead' ("People have traveled with me and I've lost them, lost them all").So until we get a new Doctor, here's one last (?) look back at Tennant:

Stephanie xx :)

Dare Say .My Inspiration.

2010-03-04T02:47:00.000-08:00

dare i say i have a 'few'?
lol (small grin)

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. " — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
-- Casablanca

If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever? -- Casper

A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same.
-- Fried Green Tomatoes

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Professor Keating (played by Robin Williams) in Dead Poet's Society

"Men and women are learning animals. If you do not see what they have learned, you're blind. They are creatures ever changing, ever improving, ever expanding their vision and the capacity of their hearts. You are not fair to them when you speak of this as the most bloody century; you are not seeing the light that shines ever more radiantly on account of the darkness; you are not. seeing the evolution of the human soul!… …True, what you say about war. Yes, and the cries of the dying, I too have heard them; we have all heard them, through all the decades; and even now, the world is shocked by daily reports of armed conflict. But it is the outcry against these horrors which is the light I speak of; it's the attitudes which were never possible in the past. It is the intolerance of thinking men and women in power who for the first time in the history of the human race truly want to put an end to injustice in all forms. -- Marius to Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles) "
— Anne Rice

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." - G.K. Chesterton

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out." — Stephen King

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
" - Roald Dahl

"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none" — Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)

"If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him." — Neil Gaiman

"It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter." — J.R.R. Tolkien

"...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." — Stephen King

"It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you" - Russell Brand

"...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little." — Stephen King

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do with it. You are beautiful. - Ian (The Host)" — Stephenie Meyer

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"For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too.

...But perhaps, it was only an echo."

- Lois Lowry,
The Giver, Ch. 23

*walks off into sunset*

Review: Doctor Who - The Day of the Troll (Audiobook)

2010-02-23T18:36:00.000-08:00



status:	Read from February 11 to 13, 2010
review:	David Tennant is an amazing narrator! This story pushes a lot of buttons and does it to great effect. With a creepy monster under the bridge and the freezing silence of a future Britain crippled and empty you will shiver. This audio book is fun and intense, made for those who like a good thriller. To me this Doctor Who audio book is one of the good ones, I'll definitely be giving it a re-listen in the near future. *** Oh, and before i forget! Don't listen to this when your in the dark (or alone) haha. I was walking home with this playing on my ipod tonight, and i swear I've never got home faster in my life. =P Stephanie xx

Review: Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori

2010-02-23T18:31:00.001-08:00



status:	Read from February 15 to 21, 2010
updates:	view all 2 status updates
review:	Wow, i've read some trashy books in the last few years, and this is one of the worst. I got this book years and years ago when i was in primary school (about the age of 7) when the school book fair came passing. I liked the title back then. Thinking I'd get a story of ghosts and scary ghouls i handed over my money for it. The book was eventually forgotten the second i got it home though.. haha Almost seven years to the day i found it amongst old childhood stuff as i cleaned out some old boxes from the loft. The book was heavily damaged but i remembered it straight away, and i also remembered that I'd yet to read it. So i sat down about three days ago to finely read this dusty battered children's novel for the first time... -&- The entire plot is in shambles, the characters are see-through and don't move the plot along. They just seem to be carelessly thrown about the place and into stupid idiotic situations. The writing has some similarities to other gothic fairytale-ish children's books that i grow up with ..ie: 'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' - the authors ability to tell a good story isn't even close to being up to par with Lemony Snicket, even though the narrative voice can be mistaken to be similar it's in no way cutting it close to being any good. I really had no idea what i was reading! The plot buggered off half way through. I'm going to be honest here, i just wanted all of the characters to die. Expect Damp, that silly little baby is just so joyfully ignorant ^-^ (ignorance is bliss ladies and gentlemen) Didn't like it, want to bin it and will never admit to actually reading it, Never Ever! Stephanie xx

Review: Stardust by Neil Gaiman

2010-02-23T18:23:00.000-08:00



status:	Read in February, 2010
review:	"In the sleepy English countryside.." I love Stardust, it's so very charming. Neil Gaiman is a great author, I'm a massive fan of his books - his stories are always original and thought provoking, one after another. The way his words flow together in Stardust is lovely. The characters are all very likable here, (maybe with the exception of Victoria) and the plot is cute. I need to talk more about the plot of Stardust, i like it. It's simple and sweet, very cutesy. A perfect plot for a children's story in other words. I can't argue that Stardust 'the book' is better than stardust 'the film' since I'm a HUGE fan of the film. So basically in my eyes the book could never really live up to the film (i saw the movie first so that might be why). After seeing the movie my attention was caught i wanted badly to read this book. I wasn't really 'that' disappointed with the book in the end. My after thought once i put the book down for the last time last night was, "well i liked it, the movie was better though" - why is the movie better? Because. The villains are brutal in the film whilst in the book the villains are weak, their characters are almost limp. That's Neil Gaimans real trouble as an author for me - it's that in his books you sometimes can almost forget that the 'bad guys' are actually 'that bad', if you get what i mean. Over all it's a good quick read. Great for children and pre-teens, lovely for older teens and up I'm sure as well. Stephanie xx

Instructions by Neil Gaiman

2010-01-13T19:06:00.000-08:00

"Instructions," by Neil Gaiman
Art by Jeanie Tomanek.

Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before.

Say "please" before you open the latch,

go through,

walk down the path.

A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted

front door,

as a knocker,

do not touch it; it will bite your fingers.

Walk through the house. Take nothing.

Eat nothing.

However, if any creature tells you that it hungers, feed it.

If it tells you that it is dirty, clean it.

If it cries to you that it hurts,

if you can,

ease its pain.

From the back garden you will be able to see the wild wood.

The deep well you walk past leads to Winter's realm;

there is another land at the bottom of it.

If you turn around here,

you can walk back, safely;

you will lose no face.

I will think no less of you.

Once through the garden you will be in the wood.

The trees are old.

Eyes peer from the under-growth.

Beneath a twisted oak sits an old woman.

She may ask for something;

give it to her.

She will point the way to the castle.

Inside it are three princesses.

Do not trust the youngest. Walk on.

In the clearing beyond the castle the twelve

months sit about a fire,

warming their feet, exchanging tales.

They may do favors for you, if you are polite.

You may pick strawberries in December's frost.

Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where

you are going.

The river can be crossed by the ferry.

The ferry-man will take you.

(The answer to his question is this:

If he hands the oar to his passenger, he will be free to

leave the boat. Only tell him this from a safe distance.)

If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.

Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that

witches are often betrayed by their appetites;

dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;

hearts can be well-hidden,

and you betray them with your tongue.

Do not be jealous of your sister.

Know that diamonds and roses

are as uncomfortable when they tumble from

one's lips as toads and frogs:

colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Remember your name.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found.

Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped

to help you in their turn.

Trust dreams.

Trust your heart, and trust your story.

When you come back, return the way you came.

Favors will be returned, debts will be repaid.

Do not forget your manners.

Do not look back.

Ride the wise eagle (you shall not fall).

Ride the silver fish (you will not drown).

Ride the grey wolf (hold tightly to his fur).

There is a worm at the heart of the tower; that is

why it will not stand.

When you reach the little house, the place your

journey started,

you will recognize it, although it will seem

much smaller than you remember.

Walk up the path, and through the garden gate

you never saw before but once.

And then go home. Or make a home.

And rest.

Stephanie x(:

Jonathan Ross: Leaving the BBC

2010-01-08T11:15:00.000-08:00

"Although I have had a wonderful time working for the BBC and am very proud of the show I've made while there, over the last two weeks I've decided not to renegotiate when my current contract comes to an end. I would like to make it perfectly clear that no negotiations ever took place and that my decision is not financially motivated."

Jonathan Ross broke millions of his fans' hearts across the country when he recently announced he will be leaving the BBC in July.

The Thing -- This one’s still in the script stages, where i hope it gets stuck!

2010-01-03T05:07:00.000-08:00

My Tweets on Remake: The Thing ... *puke* ...\o/

Hahaha http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17011 ..I picked the wrong f-ing genre to be obsessed with... -_-

Oh no, here we go again... with the ever immortal Remake Money Monster rawr... these are sad times folks

I've been thinking about pitching a remake of Meet The Spartans lol ..anyone up for it? =P

If a Hollywood exec saw an original idea he'd hit it with a hammer!... Being a scriptwriter right now must be like being a lottery winner.

The Thing -- This one’s still in the script stages, where i hope it gets stuck! The original is a flat-out classic..

..but given how many John Carpenter movies are getting the remake treatment, suspect that it’ll get to the screen in the next three years..

Two Thousand and Ten or Twenty Ten...?

2010-01-03T05:00:00.000-08:00

So whats it gonna be? Two Thousand and Ten or Twenty Ten...? I like the sound of Twenty Ten, it has it's charm...*wiggles eyebrows* =P

Movie Review: The Lovely Bones

2010-01-03T04:21:00.000-08:00

*-&- I Love It..! It's poignant, gripping, emotionally alive and gorgeous. Though i feel i have to warn everyone who hasn't yet seen this film, that it's very distressing! I seriously never cry at films, EVER! I now know why you can 'never say never' in the end lol.. Since i cried all the way through. My tears never stopped, my face burned, i got dizzy and lightheaded (+ very heavy hearted) very quickly.. *bows head in shame* I got so encased in the film like no other film before.

It's weird isn't it? When you think you'll never find a romantic comedy funny or get angry with a film, get energetic from the adrenaline (or without shame weep over portrayed heartbreak) that's when you kick yourself in the teeth because 'that random pick of a film' broke you down and made you laugh, made you cry in the end.

'The Lovely Bones' broke my heart, it's my new tear jerker. Replacing my only other one in a million weepy film 'My Dog Skip'. Now don't laugh, i have a good reason, I'm a dog lover... (it's a animal thing) lol XP Please if you haven't had a chance to watch this film yet, you might get a surprise as it may 'haunt' you a little afterwards... :)

Stephanie x

Review:
Is there a filmmaker in history who’s made four bigger back-to-back movies than Peter Jackson? Fellowship, Two Towers, King, Kong… that’s a total of 30 words in the full titles, 745 minutes in running time (883 if we’re talking the extended cuts), $1.3bn at the box office and more spectacle, CG extras and horizon-stretching battles than a T-Rex could shake an Oliphant at.

So how’s this for a change of pace: an intimate family drama set in a small American town (one street, primarily) and faultlessly recreating the early ‘70s. It’s a lost world but there’s not a dinosaur in sight – though a beast does live across the street and Jackson gets to flex the fantasy once more by visualising a land so vast and fertile it makes Middle-earth look like a disused parking lot. Welcome to heaven.

Confused? Then you haven’t read Alice Sebold’s 2002 bestseller The Lovely Bones, to which Jackson and partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens cleave faithfully but not, wisely, reverentially. It tells the imaginative, heartfelt tale of Susie Salmon (“like the fish”), a 14-year-old who is raped and killed by Mr Harvey, her inconspicuous neighbour. Only she’s not ready to die, instead loitering around the gateway to the afterlife and peering back over her shoulder as the murder investigation unfurls below.

Sensitively cast - Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz as Susie’s parents, Susan Sarandon as vulgar Grandma, a bewigged, bespectacled Stanley Tucci as Harvey and Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan as poor, hurting Susie – Lovely Bones is a touching, at times distressing film. It deals with loss, grief, rage, familial breakdown and love, most of all love. But it’s also energetic and entertaining, the camera already moving whenever Jackson cuts into a scene and the horror/thriller elements given just enough fizz to recall the director’s early genre forays (minus the splatter) but not so comic book as to undercut the drama.

The Lovely Bones, both book and film, opens with a close-up image of a snowman trapped in a snow globe. The image reverberates around the entire movie. From Susie Salmon sitting on her heavenly gazebo narrating her own life following her brutal murder, to her father Jack (Wahlberg, good hair) building intricate model ships inside delicate bottles to her mother Abigail (Weisz) keeping Susie’s room in pristine untouched condition to her killer George Harvey (a terrific, meticulous, barely recognisable Tucci) carefully tending to his miniature doll house, these are characters looking to build ideal worlds but who eventually become ensnared by them, unable to move on, tethered by their pain. If this makes Lovely Bones sound like a draining downer, it shouldn’t: it is poignant, gripping, emotionally alive (but never sentimental) and gorgeous. All this from the man who brought you Meet The Feebles.

With its heady teen protagonist and themes of murder intertwined with the fantastical, on paper this felt like Jackson returning to the intimate, small-scale milieu of Heavenly Creatures (the fascination with the afterlife connecting with the real world also touches base with Jackson’s forgotten flick The Frighteners). Eschewing Sebold’s almost comic vision of the afterlife as a kitsch heavenly high school, Jackson’s vision of “the in-between”, a holding pen between Earth and Heaven, is a cornucopia of digitally enhanced vistas, flower iconography, quickly shifting landscapes and startling memorable images: a horrific bathroom vignette, a fleet of ships in bottles bobbing on a sea, a gazebo planted firmly in the middle of a midnight lake with the moon as a clock.

It defies most conventions and it defies most categories too. It is part ghost story, part romance and part murder mystery.

Release Date: Jan 29th 2010
Certificate: tbc
Genre:
o Drama,
o Horror,
o Thriller
Starring:
o Mark Wahlberg,
o Rachel Weisz,
o Susan Sarandon,
o Saoirse Ronan,
o Michael Imperioli
Director:
o Peter Jackson

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The Lovely Bones (Novel)
by Alice Sebold

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Girls Aloud: Let's get Untouchable by Girls Aloud into the Top 10

2010-01-03T03:37:00.000-08:00

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Let's get Untouchable by Girls Aloud into the Top 10 is on Facebook...

Girls Aloud to The Top
Because Top 10 records are Untouchable

On May 3rd 2009 Girls Aloud’s 21st single, ‘Untouchable’ became the first to miss the UK top ten upon its official release, breaking a string of consecutive hits that ran back to their debut single Sound Of The Underground in 2002.

With its dazzling sci-fi inspired video, the most expensive produced by the band, and with many fans judging it not only one of the best songs of their Out Of Control album, but of their career as a whole, many were disappointed at the track stalling at number 11 in the charts.

The objective is to get Untouchable back in the top 10. But for that, we need your help.

To do this, we are going to choose a specific week when we will proceed to download the song and/or its remixes from any download site that counts towards the chart.

Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle herself has shown her support of the campaign on popular social networking site Twitter:

'Some very kind friends have an idea.. Go to http://www.tinyurl.com/untouchabletop10 what a supportive group we have!! Your the best!!'

http://twitter.com/NadineWorldwide/status/7310844515

Help make Untouchable top 10 in 2010!

Contact Info

Email:
Website:
http://twitter.com/UntouchableTp10
http://girlsaloudblog.com/untouchable-to...

The Plan:

The objective is to get Untouchable back in the top 10. To do this, we are going to choose a specific week when we will proceed to download the song and/or its remixes from any download site that counts towards the chart.

Guide to Download

The sites that you can use to download the song/remixes that WILL count towards the official charts are:

* iTunes
7Digital
Play.com
Hmv
Amazon
*

If you want to buy the song more than once, don't buy it from the same shop. Ie. You want to buy 5 copies, buy one from iTunes, one from 7Digital, one from Play, one from HMV and one from Amazon. If you get the song 5 times into your shopping cart in the same shop, it will only count as ONE SALE and you will have wasted your money.

DON'T start downloading the song until we choose the week. If you download it now it won't have any effect, we all need to download the song at once on the same week.

IF YOU DONT LIVE IN THE UK THEN DONT BUY IT! Purchases out of the UK don't contribute to the charts.

TESCO DOWNLOADS MAY NOT COUNT! We are waiting for confirmation on whether tesco downloads contribute to the the charts or not.

For updates or if you want more information, follow the 2 main twitter pages:

@UntouchableTp10 - http://twitter.com/untouchabletp10
@HelpUntouchable - http://twitter.com/helpuntouchable

These sites have all helped promote the campaign:

Digital Spy - http://tinyurl.com/ya2d8rt
Girls Aloud Media - http://tinyurl.com/ykugf26
Sarah Harding Addicts - http://tinyurl.com/ylcst4r
Total Cheryl Cole - http://tinyurl.com/yz8qbec
Kimberley Walsh Online - http://tinyurl.com/y9ps3ow

Celebs that have helped promote the campaign:

Daizy from Girls Can't Catch - http://tinyurl.com/y9pmtu6
Rachel Adedeji from x Factor 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/yabll5l

Also a massive, massive thanks to Nadine Coyle and Anthony Kaye for showing their support for the campaign and helping out.

*I love this idea, for what reason i have no idea. It's a good song, but i honestly have no idea how this is gonna end. Actually, i think it will fail.

note:... i'm a little pessimist aren't i? ... lol ;)

Stephanie x

...The lyrics are cute XP

Girls Aloud - Untouchable Lyrics

Through wind and rain we got here
Now we’re flying babe with no fear
We’ve been doing pain for so long
When I stare in your eyes it’s all gone
Through wind and rain we burn bright
Learn to fly through flames and hold tight
With so many ways to go wrong
But when I look in your eyes they’re all gone

And in my dreams it feels like we are forty stories tall
When you’re around ooh we’re untouchable
And in my dreams it feels like we aren’t ever gonna fall
We’re safe and sound and we’re untouchable

It’s only real when you’re not around
I’m walking in the rain the sun goes down (oh, oh)
And only love can save us now
I need you hear again to show me how (oh, oh)

I know that love shouldn’t be so hard
And sometimes we’re standing in the dark
But you light up everywhere I go
And I know a heart shouldn’t beat so hard
And sometimes we’re swimming with the sharks
But you light up and keep me out the cold

It’s only real when you’re not around
The candle in my head is burning out (oh, oh)
I know that love shouldn’t be so hard
And sometimes we’re standing in the dark
But you light up everywhere I go
And I know a heart shouldn’t beat so hard
And sometimes we’re swimming with the sharks
But you light up and keep me out the cold

Whenever you’re gone, gone
They wait at the door
And everything’s hurting like a before
Without any meaning
We’re just skin and bone
Like beautiful robots dancing alone

Whenever you’re gone, gone
They wait at the door
And everything’s hurting like a bore
Without any meaning
We’re just skin and bone
Like beautiful robots dancing alone

Song Information

Released 27 April 2009
Recorded 2008
Genre Electropop, Dance
Length 6:45 (album version), 3:49 (Single Mix)
Label Fascination Records
Writers Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Matt Gray
Producer Xenomania

Doctor Who: The End Of Time Part Two: The Verdict - digitalspy

2010-01-03T03:10:00.000-08:00

The End Of Time Part Two: The Verdict

Saturday, January 2 2010, 16:40 GMT

By Ben Rawson-Jones, Cult Editor

The amount of tears being shed during the final half hour of David Tennant’s Doctor made Timothy Dalton’s saliva tsunami in Part One look like a drop in the ocean. The concluding chapter of Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who stint was rife with flaws, yet potent and powerful enough to milk dry the emotions of every faithful fan who has watched this wonderful show in recent years and decades.

With one simple cry of “allons-y” aboard the Vinvocci spacecraft, The Doctor finally kicked the unevenly paced story into top gear and careered towards the home straight. A battle with The Master’s missiles, a thrilling leap from up high, a tender moment of self-sacrifice from two Time Lords and a touching visit to some familiar faces all combined to provide the necessary impact and thrills that the production team and cast deserved. If the Kleenex were still dry, then the Ood song should have changed that.

The strength of the climactic scenes had little to do with the opening ninety minutes of the story though, which was too padded out, convoluted, rehashed and uninspired to muster any sustained intrigue. It simply wasn’t a patch on the brilliant likes of ‘The Parting Of The Ways’, ‘Doomsday’ and ‘Journey’s End’. All the guff about prophecies, white diamonds, Naismith’s daughter and timelocking was far from compelling.

Instead, while the self-contained narrative faltered, the testing of the tear ducts was largely a culmination of the terrific work put in by Tennant and Davies over a number of years. Throw in some tearjerking performances from Tennant, Bernard Cribbins and John Simm, plus Murray Gold’s emotive score, and the physical effect is very much like chopping onions right beneath your eyes.

Davies’ script tapped into the emotional core of the show that he reinvented, with friendship, forgiveness and violence high on the agenda. The whole notion of The Doctor using the gun as a murder weapon was tensely conveyed and the bond between Wilf and The Doctor worked very well. Bernard Cribbins turned in an outstanding performance as the old warrior and the decision to elevate him to full companion status was an, erm, masterstroke.

Speaking of which, John Simm was consistently thrilling to watch – especially as his character exuded far more pathos in this episode, rather than the cackling impersonation of WWF wrestler The Million Dollar Man, Ted Dibiase, that he was approaching in Part One. Dalton also lent his commanding presence to Rassilon, in a role that would have been very one dimensional in lesser hands. It’s just a shame that he didn’t use his powers to send Gallifrey hurtling towards a certain pair of ‘cacti’ (sue me) aliens, who were two of the poorest characters in the show’s history and bereft of any non-human mannerisms.

The repulsion of the Time Lords from Earth, involving a gunshot to a machine, was as messy and groan-inducing as the circumstances of their arrival on Earth. Fortunately, a loud gasp was the only response to the shock revelation that Wilf was responsible for the fateful four knocks. The Doctor’s self-sacrifice in the chamber, in a surprisingly poorly directed scene, was brought to life by the great chemistry between Cribbins and Tennant.

The final scenes were undoubtedly self-indulgent as The Doctor took a trip down memory lane, but so what? The show has earned such moments and the cameos from Martha, Mickey, Rose and Sarah Jane were a rewarding pay-off to the hordes of loyal fans who have invested their time and faith in the series. For those casual viewers who tuned in expecting fireworks and were baffled by the significance of (the fittingly named) Verity Newman’s ‘The Journal Of Impossible Things’, then that’s their own fault for not watching regularly.

As for The Doctor’s matchmaking between Captain Jack and Alonso, it was a hilarious and swift kick to the balls of those who have whinged about a so-called ‘gay agenda’. The decision to leave the old woman, played by Claire Bloom, with an air of ambiguity was also a wise move and bound to lead to plenty of theories in the near future.

The Tenth Doctor’s final words left a lump in the throat and were perfect, forming a nice contrast to the fantastical and upbeat parting words of Christopher Eccleston’s previous Doctor. It wasn’t well conveyed, but presumably the damage caused on the Tardis by the regeneration was due to all the nuclear energy absorbed by The Doctor finally being unleashed. It’s too early to judge Matt Smith as The Doctor but the omens are very good indeed, and his brief performance was charismatic and exuded a joyous sense of adventure.

Despite some misgivings with the stretched-out storyline and the mangled plot exposition, it’s only fair to accentuate the positives of the second part of ‘The End Of Time’ given the nature and significance of the episode. An array of fine performances certainly helped to bolster events and ensure the RTD era was wrapped up in style. It wasn’t an easy journey at times during the swansong, but ultimately the sheer spectacle, humour and heightened emotion of the events were hopefully enough to win viewers over. After all, if The Doctor can still extend his hand of friendship to The Master despite all of his flaws, let’s try to do the same for ‘The End Of Time’. The outgoing Doctor Who team deserve a happy ending.

Doctor Who: David Tennant Breaks Hearts

2009-12-31T09:11:00.000-08:00

Doctor Who: David Tennant Breaks Hearts

Tennant predicts Dr Who heartbreak
David Tennant said that viewers would be left heartbroken by the final "brilliant" plot twists as he bows out of Doctor Who. Tennant, 38, who has been hailed by many as the best Doctor in the Time Lord's history, gave a hint about the big climax to the epic tale, which airs on BBC1 on New Year's Day. The story, titled The End of Time, Part Two, sees the 10th Doctor facing the end of his life as the prophecy "He will knock four times" looms, while the terrifying plans of his nemesis the Master spin out of control.
Tennant told BBC Breakfast: "Coming to the final episodes, you (think) will these live up to one's hopes for what that finale will be? And then you read the script - The Doctor's been told he's going to die, he knows he's going to die, so you get to play that new flavour with this character that you've got to know so well... suddenly you're playing a man who knows his end is coming. He's been told: 'He will knock four times' and you get the Master with these four beats in his head and you think, well, that's what that is. When you find out tomorrow night what that really means - (it) just breaks your heart - it's brilliant."
He confessed to being "maybe a little" jealous of new Doctor Matt Smith because of the fantastic time he would be having in the job. Tennant, who has filmed a pilot for a show in the United States called Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, was asked about his plans for the future. He said: "I'm sort of waiting to hear, to be honest with you... it could go one of two ways and I'm literally waiting to be told." Asked what he would be doing if he had not taken the Doctor Who job, Tennant told BBC1: "Who knows? It's like Sliding Doors isn't it? Things can work out very differently... even when I accepted it I had no conception that four years later it would still be going strong."

In another interview, Tennant was also asked about speculation that Madonna had approached him to take part in a movie project. But he told GMTV: "I've never met the woman. She's never called me."

McFly: It’s All About You Baby - take McFly's survey

2009-12-30T22:18:00.000-08:00

It’s All About You Baby - take McFly's survey

Let’s hear about YOU! Come on, open up and tell us your innermost secrets!! OK so we don’t need to know that much detail… but McFly do want to hear all about YOU. All it takes is 5 minutes of your time to complete their online survey. There’s are a bunch of easy questions that will really help McFly connect with you, get to know you a bit better and make it easier to give you what you want. It’s a chance to tell us the kind of things you like, what you CAN’T STAND, how you spend your time, what’s hot and more importantly what’s not.
So open up and let McFly get inside your head.

Click here to take the survey.

McFly Make the Spanish News!

2009-12-30T22:12:00.000-08:00

McFly Make the Spanish News!

McFly are making it big in Spain where their fans recently caused mayhem at the airport as the band arrived. 'Falling In Love' is getting a lot of support in Spain with radio stations 40PP and Flaix FM playing the track.. Check out this report on Spanish News Channel Antena 3:

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McFly: Song of The Decade

2009-12-30T22:10:00.000-08:00

McFly have a whopping 16 songs in the top 50 Song of The Decade poll!

Absolute Radio have been running a nationwide poll to find the Song Of The Decade. The results have been published and McFly scored an incredible 16 songs inside the top 50 – that’s 32% of the top 50 songs belong to McFly !!! Although they weren’t lucky enough to get the No.1 song of the decade (That went to the Killers for Mr Brightside), their highest scoring song was at an impressive No.7 for their debut single ‘5 Colours In Her Hair’. To see the full Song Of The Decade run down, click here.

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Thats Frankie Outrageous, Love.

2009-12-28T11:03:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY was all about THE SATURDAYS - courtesy of foxy FRANKIE SANDFORD'S outrageous dress.

The stunning singer's outfits have become increasingly risqué of late, but yesterday's sparkly frock trumped the lot.
Boasting more tears than The Incredible Hulk's ill-fitting collection of shirts, Frankie left little to the imagination as she arrived at the Variety Club Showbiz Awards in London.
The most notable rupture in her outfit was the one that gave those standing rear-side a sneak preview of her behind.
Not wanting to be outdone by their daring bandmate, the rest of The Saturdays raised their game in the style stakes and attracted their fair share of lusty glances in a variety of skimpy designs.
The Sun: Link

*frankie is really pretty, dumb as a post though...

Frankie it's WINTER!

2009-12-28T10:58:00.000-08:00

FAR be it for FRANKIE SANDFORD to sleep off the indulgences of Christmas.
A cosy health-rebuilding night in was the last thing on the SATURDAYS beauty's mind as she hit the London club scene with a pal.
Wearing tiny denim shorts, a floaty vest and a smart blazer, the singer looked fresh and raring to go while most of the nation tucked into the turkey leftovers in front of the box.
Frankie was all smiles as she arrived at Boujis nightclub last night, minus McFLY boyfriend DOUGIE POYNTER.
The Sun: Link

*What no dougie this time eh? lol

You Me At Six - Always Attract.

2009-12-28T09:58:00.000-08:00

You Me At Six - Always Attract.
from closey92 on YouTube

McFly: Interview - European Tour 2009 (Paris) -- Better Quality

2009-12-28T09:55:00.000-08:00

An interview with McFly in Paris during their European Tour 2009. French subtitles.
Free clip from mrsdannyjones6 on YouTube

McFly: Giovanna Falcone

2009-12-28T09:53:00.000-08:00

Slideshow of the beautiful Giovanna Falcone!! She's an actress, and has been Tom Fletcher's girlfriend for years and years and years. Enjoy! Song: Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Nine Days
Free clip from mrsdannyjones6 on YouTube

McFly: Interview - Celebrity Master Class (Premier 21 Podcast)

2009-12-28T09:51:00.000-08:00

An interview with McFly on Premier 21
Free clip from mrsdannyjones6 on YouTube

McFly: Danny Jones - Born to Run

2009-12-28T09:49:00.000-08:00

Pictures of the beautiful Danny Jones set to McFly's cover of Born to Run. Enjoy!
Free clip from mrsdannyjones6 on YouTube

McFly: V Festival Interview

2009-12-28T09:42:00.000-08:00

An interview with Tom, Danny, and Dougie of McFly at V Festival 2009

McFly: Heatworld Interview

2009-12-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

Posted by Digital 23 November 2009 14:01

Being big fans of McFly ourselves, we knew that you'd all want to know every word that came out their lips yesterday. So, we've put up the whole interview just for you to enjoy. Don't say we never do anything for you...

Tell us about today. What have you been up to?
Tom: We’ve been doing a Celebrity Masterclass, where we’ve been trying to pass on some knowledge to a group of 26 people...
Danny: [Interrupting] 26 youths.
Tom: We’ve been talking about our career over the last six years. It’s been good talking about the bits of our job most people don’t get to see, like the behind-the-scenes stuff. Like, coming up with ideas for videos, or the album artwork, or recording...
Harry: Yeah, it was good. We first of all talked about how we got into it, how it all started for us, our journey, how we all met, and our record deal. All that kind of thing, and then we split them into three groups, and first we talked about song-writing and lyrics...
Tom: We did a breakdown of our song Lies, explained all the lyrics and how we came up with it. Normally we don’t get to say, really.
Harry: Then we set them a challenge to rewrite the lyrics to Lies, the verse and the chorus, in pairs, and then in each group they chose the best lyrics to perform.
Tom: They did good, didn’t they? It was only, like, an hour.
Danny: It was really, really good.
Harry: That was our thing, Tom was saying about their song-writing and lyrics and coming up with ideas, you have to dare to suck, just get out there and do it. Don’t be afraid. They did really well with it, and to just get up there and sing...it was awesome. Me and Danny talked to the groups about production and recording an album, and Tom and Dougie talked about the creative side of things, while Tommy our tour manager talked to them about touring and stuff, so they got an insight into everything. In the end, the guys [Tom and Danny] played them a little tune (Falling In Love – it was amazing), and it was a good day.

Do you think that a lot of kids assume the way to get famous is to do The X Factor or similar?
All: Yeah.
Tom: That’s the thing. I think a lot of them were kind of surprised by how much work goes into it. You know, hearing about how, when we’re writing songs like now, when we’re writing songs for our next album, already we’re coming up with what the next tour stage is going to look like, or what the artwork’s going to be like.

As this point, the boys get distracted by a signed picture of them on the table (the same one you can see above). Danny has noticed that Harry is “popping out” on the end, and finds it very funny...

Danny: Harry’s just popping out of there! That’s the worst picture ever.
All crack up.
Harry: I can’t believe they did that to me! Why did they do that?
Tom: [Laughing] It’s like a panto photo!
Danny: It’s like your picture when you work at GMTV.
All crack up again.
Harry: I could be a GMTV presenter...
Danny: You could with that!
Tom: That should be your Twitter profile picture!
All laugh.
Harry: I look like Ben Shephard!
Dougie: You do, yeah, I think that’s it.
heatworld: There’s nothing wrong with looking like Ben Shephard...
Danny: I’m Tweeting about this interview!

After we’ve all compared who has the most followers on Twitter and talked about how good Harry looks in a cricket jumper, we get back on track...

Do you think you’re good role models for young people?
Danny: I can roll quite a long way...
All fall about laughing.
Danny: A forward-roll model!
Harry: I think we are.
Dougie: I think so, yeah.
Harry: We’re quite well-behaved.
Danny: That’s quite a tough question.
Tom: I think we are, in comparison to other people. I think the fact that we work hard at our job means a lot. Obviously a certain amount of luck is involved, and we have a one-in-a-million type job, but it does take a lot of hard work to do this. We sit somewhere in the middle of a pop boy band and the creativeness of a rock band. We have the best of both worlds.
Danny: The best of both, like the bread.
Tom: Like that middle advert. It’s good to be in the middle. We’re semi-skimmed milk, that’s what we are.

Has there been one bit of advice, throughout your career, that you’ve always remembered?
Harry: When you’re going through hell, just keep going. I love that quote.
Dougie: When you’re going through hell, just keep going?
Harry: Just keep boshing it. Just bosh it! Epic, isn’t it?
Dougie: That is cool. Who’s it by?
Harry: Winston Churchill.
Danny: That is cool!
Harry: That makes it even cooler.
Tom: I think I’ve seen that on Call Of Duty 2.
Harry: I remember Robbie Williams at The Brit Awards after-party, me and Dougie were talking to him and he said something really nice and gave us some advice. He was like, “Enjoy yourselves.”
Dougie: Be the band you want to be, not the band you think you are. Tom Delonge from Blink 182 told us that.
Harry: Dougie loved that!
Dougie: I loved it. I went home and was like, ‘Yessss!’ I got an erection.
All laugh.
heatworld: You got an erection?!
Dougie: [Laughing] Nah...
Danny: We can’t take you anywhere, can we?

Has there been one person who has been the best teacher for you guys?
Harry: We’ve kind of learnt along the way and been there for each other. We’ve always been together.
Dougie: We kind of taught each other as well. If I started being a bit of a knob, then I know one of these [gestures around the room] would tell me.
Tom: Our management have been great, too.
Harry: You know, we enjoy it, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Danny: Well, we do take it seriously.
Harry: We take it seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We take what we do very seriously.
Dougie: We don’t think we’re the most amazing band in the world...
Danny: Yeah we do!
Harry: [Deadpan] We do.
Dougie: We’re not like, I am legend.
Danny: [Laughing] I am London!
Tom: We are my favourite band, that’s true. [Laughing] We’re amazing. I think I would really like myself, if I wasn’t myself.
Dougie: But every time you see yourself on TV, you always go, ‘Oh no,’ like that.
Tom: I hate myself on TV.
Danny: I think I’d be really jealous of McFly.
Harry: I wouldn’t.
Danny: I’d be like, ‘They’re so scabby.’ I’m so jealous.
Tom: Look at those poor talentless twerps – how did they make it?
Harry: I wouldn’t like you if you said the word ‘twerps’!
Dougie: I love ‘twerp’.
Danny: Makes me think of a Twirl. Mmmm.
Harry: Do you think if you were exactly the same person, but you looked different and you met you, do you think you’d like yourself?
Tom: I’d be jealous of their normal chin.
Harry: No, you’re the guy with the normal chin.
Tom: Oh... Then I’d probably hate him.
Harry: I think I’d think I was quite classic. [Laughs.]

Do you think you’d ever do anything like this again? Another masterclass?
Harry: Our manager was like, ‘Harry, you could be a college professor.’ And I was like, ‘Really, what would I teach?’, and he was like, ‘You know...music.’ So I was like, OK...
Tom: It’s quite fun. If the person is genuinely interested, then it’s really great. When Dougie was talking it was a little bit...
Dougie: [Interrupting] Amazing!
Tom: [Laughing] Yes, amazing. I would like to do it again, yeah.

What would you be doing if you weren’t in McFly?
Tom: Professional Tweeter.
Dougie: Burglar.
Harry: Shagging...
heatworld: Shagging? Does that mean you don’t now...?
Harry: [Laughs.] I don’t know why I said that! I don’t know what I’d be doing, being a hobo apparently.
Danny: You’d see him in, like, Rio de Janeiro walking down the street.
Dougie: I’d be, like, hanging out...

Can you tell us anything about the new album?
We went out to Australia in February to do some recording, and then along that way we sort of found a new direction, halfway through the recording process. We came home, then we had the tour earlier in the year, and then we went out to Brazil and Europe, so we were touring for most of the year and now we’ve just started writing again and er...

Danny has started laughing at the photo of Harry “popping out” again...

Tom: [Distracted] And, so, we’ve kind of got a new direction we’re exploring...

Danny is trying not to laugh and it sounds like he’s squeaking...

Tom: And, like, this whole year, because we haven’t released anything, we’ve spent the whole year planning what we’re going to be doing next...

Danny, Dougie, Harry and heatworld are all now laughing.

Tom: [Laughing] You can’t have a serious conversation about this...
Danny: [Almost crying with laughter as he holds up the picture] It’s signed!
All crack up.
Danny: It’s signed like he’s proud of it!
Dougie: I’ve got to put that in my wallet.

A lot more laughing as Dougie attempts to fit the picture of Harry into his wallet.

Tom: Anyway, we’re writing up until about February, then we go back into the studio around then I reckon.

Will there be a UK tour next year?
Tom: Definitely! We’ll definitely tour next year.
Harry: [To heatworld] Will you come?
heatworld: Yeah!
Tom: We’ll release something first, because we haven’t released anything this whole year.
Danny: Release a dove.
All laugh.
Tom: We’ve got some quite different plans for next year. Not sort of music related, but something new. Something quite exciting... It’s really boring talking in the creative stages, because we can’t say anything. This whole year has been setting up stuff.
Danny: It’s pretty epic.
Tom: Much more so than we’ve ever done before.
Danny: Lots of exciting things, but they just take a bit of planning.

Harry: Do you want to ask us one more thing? Go on...
heatworld: OK. Harry, why don’t you Tweet more often?
Harry: [Groans.] That’s a bad question!
heatworld: Lots of people were asking that on Twitter today.
Harry: Tell them I’m aloof. [Laughs.] That’s a great word. He’s being rather aloof today! I love it.

McFly: Digital Spy Interview

2009-12-28T09:36:00.000-08:00

McFly

Friday, July 4 2008, 06:46 BST

By Nick Levine, Music Editor

The McFly boys aren't just chart-topping popstars these days - they're entrepreneurs running their own record label too. In fact, they've just brokered a rather audacious deal with the Mail on Sunday, which will distribute copies of their new album, radio:ACTIVE, six weeks before it hits the shops. But have they kept their sense of fun as they've grown up? We called drummer Harry Judd - the one who knows a certain Miss Lohan pretty well - to find out.

What made you decide to set up your own label?
"Well, we had an opportunity to leave our label, Island, and we took it. We decided to set up our own label and invest our own money into it so we could have complete creative control. People are really sceptical about it and don't believe that we parted with Island on good terms, but we genuinely did. We just wanted the opportunity to do things differently."

How are things different now?
"I think this album has much better songs and the production is a huge step up for us. This is the album we always wanted to make and this is the way we always wanted to sound. It's not stripped down at all. In the past, because there were so many people making decisions at our label, the album would often get filtered and wouldn't sound how we wanted it to sound. We're still the same guys and we're not going to start releasing death metal or anything, but everything just sounds better now."

What's the single, 'One For The Radio', about? It has quite a pointed chorus: "Don't pretend you hate us when you sing along..."
"It's a positive lyric. It's saying we really love what we're doing and we've got lots of really loyal fans, so we don't really care if you don't like us."

Do you feel some music fans have dismissed you unfairly in the past?
"People are entitled to their own opinion, but I think often their opinion of us was based on things we didn't necessarily want to do. If people don't like us now, that's fine, because this is who we really are."

Is there one thing from the past that you really didn't want to do?
"Yeah, doing the Greatest Hits album. I really didn't want to do it and I was really p***ed off about it. At the same time, you can understand why the label decided to do it. Even if we hadn't supported it and we'd chosen not to promote it, they still would have released it because they own the masters to all our songs. It's great being on our own label now, because we'll own all our masters from now on."

Why were you so against it?
"Because we weren't breaking up and we had so many new songs that we wanted people to hear. We'd churned out three albums in three years and people had already heard all of those songs. It just didn't feel right because we were desperate for people to hear our new stuff. There's a bit of a stigma attached to Greatest Hits albums too, and we certainly didn't want people to think, 'Ooh, they reckon they've got loads of great hits'."

What persuaded you to sign the deal with the Mail on Sunday?
"It was an opportunity that came up and it just seemed like a no-brainer really - it means that within one day millions of people will get to hear the album. I believe there are loads of people out there who would love our stuff but they've never given us a chance because they pigeonhole us as a boyband or something."

How have fans reacted to the deal?
"It's been mainly positive, but I think some of them found it hard to understand, at least initially. A few fans are worried that the songs might not be as good because they're being given away for free, but that's not the case at all. Actually we want more people to hear these songs because we're so proud of them. Some people want the full album package with a booklet and all that, but that's coming out in September so they won't miss out."

Do you read the Mail on Sunday?
"Well, my mum gets the Mail on Sunday so I have read it a bit over the last few years. She'll definitely be picking up her free copy of the album on July 20."

Now that you're growing up and have your own record label, will you still show your cheeky sides? Will you still get naked at G-A-Y?
"Yes, definitely! We don't want people to get the wrong impression and think we're trying to be all cool and serious now. We're really good mates and we like having a good time and titting around, so we'll still be doing things like that."

Will Dougie still set fire to his pubes onstage?
"Haha I'm sure he will! He's a very odd boy. I can see him now actually, he's eating a salad out of a plastic bowl on his own. He doesn't talk when he's hungry, so that's why he's not doing an interview at the moment. He needs to refuel."

McFly: Ghost Hunting With…McFly Interview

2009-12-28T09:33:00.000-08:00

October 10th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: ITV2, Reality TV

Taking a trip into the deepest, darkest places in Northumberland, the world’s foremost ghost hunter, Yvette Fielding and pop punksters, Mcfly prepare to delve into the spooky unknown! Join the band and their ghost hunting guide as they prepare to face their most frightening fears. Ghost Hunting With…McFly is brand new and exclusive to ITV2, Tuesday 23 October at 9pm. Here is how the boys found the whole experience………

Why did you want to take part in the show?

Tom: We thought it would be fun…….we were wrong!

Dougie: I didn’t

Had you experienced any paranormal activity before you took part in the show?

Tom: No, not really. Harry saw a ghost once, and Dougie and I saw a UFO.

Dougie: I once saw the ghost of a cat’s bum.

Danny: No never.

Dougie, you seemed to be the most scared during the trip. Did you anticipate this?

Dougie: Well, I bought 10 pairs of boxers in case.

What was the scariest location you visited and why?

Tom: The mine – it was pitch black, wet and underground.

Dougie: The mine, because it was cold damp and very dark.

Harry: The castle, because it felt like we were in a real horror movie.

Danny: I think it was when I was in the hut in the forest on my own, I shat myself!

What was the most positive part of the show for you?

Tom: When it was over and we got back to the hotel.

Dougie: None of it.

Harry: Taking part in everything that I was asked to.

Danny: When Dougie ran into the wall in the lead mine.

Was there any part during the experience where you nearly walked out?

Tom: No, I wanted to finish the night.

Dougie: The whole thing.

Harry: Yes, once.

Danny: No, I wanted to go through with it all.

Tell me about the Ouija board experience?

Tom: The Ouija board wasn’t so bad, it was the stones being thrown at us that was f*cking scary!!

Dougie: It sucked, I crapped my pants.

Danny: Scary.

How did you find working with Yvette?

Tom: She was very nice in the end. Weird, but nice.

Dougie: I think she’s a witch and she keeps trolls locked up in her house.

Harry: She was great fun, awesome.

Tom – When at the castle you felt like you were being pushed. Why did you not tell Yvette about this as it was happening?

Tom – It was weird, but I wanted to be pushed harder and I thought if I told someone about it, it might stop.

Are you glad you took part in the show?

Tom: Yes.

Dougie: No.

Harry: Definitely.

Danny: Very glad, it was a great experience and I would love to do it again.

Do you now believe there is something out there?

Tom: Maybe…..we’ll have to come back and do it again to find out.

Dougie: Yes.

Harry: Definitely.

Danny: Something! Don’t know what though?

Have you had any further paranormal experiences since taking part in the show?

Tom – Not yet.

Dougie: I keep feeling someone touching my bum, but I think it’s Tom!

Harry: Dougie is a paranormal experience!

Finally, why should ITV2 viewers watch your show?

Tom: If you wanna see four wimps completely shitting themselves and running around in the dark for an hour, whilst having ghosts throw rocks at them, then this is the show for you. Ghostbusters eat your hearts out!

Dougie: If you like watching cocky losers soil their pants and cry like babies, this show is for you!

Danny: Because it’s the best one yet!

McFly: Popjustice Interview

2009-12-28T09:22:00.000-08:00

Story filed Sunday, 09 October 2005

An interview with the gentlemen from McFly in which tour-related issues are discussed. "I want the big benders back."

So says Dougie Out Of McFly in this 'sensational' and 'hard-rocking' interview wot we have done with a) Dougie and b), c) and d) the rest of The 'Fly.

We have done it because they are out and about doing a series of pop concerts - a tour, if you will - which will explain why most if not all of the following questions are of the 'on the road' variety.

It's tempting to say we joined them backstage on the first night but in truth we just did them on the phone about three weeks ago.

But anyway.

While on tour, do you have any fairly standard rider requirements which could be blown out of all proportion by the tabloid media?
Dougie: Not really, but it's very difficult to get a good diet when you're on the road - most of our food comes from motorway service stations and hotel room service.

Do you eat petrol and trouser presses?
Dougie: No, it's just all the Burger Kings and KFCs. I don't like eating at Wimpy, though - Wimpy sucks.

Wimpy used to have a sausage in a bun 'combo' called a Big Bender. Did you ever get your mouth around a Bender?
Dougie: HAAAA!!!! They had a sausage called a Big Bender? NO WAY. That's an amazing name for a sausage! (Laughs uproariously) Awesome! They should bring that back. Put that in writing! I want the Big Benders back!

Tourbus beds are a bit like coffins. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Harry: A good thing, I think, because if you crash and die then you're already in the coffin, so it does save time because they could just cut the bed out and chuck it straight in the ground. But if you crash then you're screwed either way.

You've got a female string section on tour with you. Do any of them have a fiddle?
Harry: No.

Would you like them to have a fiddle?
Harry: Yes, I would like that very much.

People always promise surprises when they go on tour. Is there anything genuinely shocking in your set?
Harry: There is one thing - it's quite shocking but I think people will like it.

Does it involve nudity of any description?
Harry: No, it involves music...

That's not completely shocking, is it? You go and see a band live, and the band plays music. HOLD THE HOME PAGE!
Harry: A fair point. Perhaps it's not that controversial. You'll just have to wait and see. We're very excited about it, though.

Which band are you glad you're not in?
Dougie: I would have to say Franz Ferdinand. I actually quite like their music, but the way they come across on stage just seems really weird. With their weird short haircuts, and their marching. It's too intimidating for a young lass like me!

Are you not just intimidated because you think they might have better hair than you?
Dougie: No! Not at all. Maybe it's subconscious. (Thinks for a bit) No, it's definitely not the hair.

Are there any rituals you all do before you go on stage? A group prayer, perhaps?
Danny: We all have a big poo. All the big American acts say a prayer - McFly have a poo. But there's nothing worse than being on stage and needing to go to the toilet.

Have you ever soiled your underwear on stage? That could be a major problem considering McFly's 'trousers below arse' policy.
Danny: I've always been quite lucky, but I presume you just take a break. What else can you do? You can't poo your pants on stage!

Well you could, but you'd have to make sure you did it each night to make it look as if it was part of the show.
Danny: Yes. That would be typically classy, wouldn't it?

Dougie. Quiet, hairstyle-changing Dougie. You do a new solo song on the tour. Is it 'emo' and should the rest of the band's 'Charlie alarms' be sounding?
Dougie: I'm not that into emo! I suppose I have my emo moments, every now and again. My 'emoments', I suppose you could call them. But no, this song isn't emo! It's standard girl-and-boy stuff.

Harry. You're about to go on stage in Glasgow or somewhere and you realise you've left your hair straighteners on in London. Disaster! What do you do?
Harry: Well, I don't user straighteners now, so...

Well your iron, then.
Harry: I don't iron my clothes. And I don't cook, either.

Come on, Harry, play the game. Presuming you wash from time to time, imagine you've left a tap running in London. You do wash, don't you?
Harry: Yes, let's go for a tap. In that case, I would ring our estate agent and get them to go round to the house and turn the tap off.

You see after all that hassle, that was a really boring answer.
Harry: Hahah! Okay, then - I'd actually reveal that I was a superhero, and I'd fly home, smash through the walls of the house, and pull out the sink with my bare hands. But dramatically, that would create even more of a leak - so I'd get my bed and shove it down the pipes to stop the leaking. I would then bosh through the wall again and fly back up yo Glasgow, and make it on stage in time. Was that dramatic enough for you?

That'll do nicely.
Harry: Great!

How 'rock and roll', in terms of popular cliche, is your general on-the-road routine?
Harry: I'm hooked on Sudoko. It's not very rock and roll, is it, sitting in your room at 3am with a pen and paper? Oh well.

Is anyone allowed to shit on the tourbus?
Tom: Absolutely not! You cannot shit on the tourbus. It's liquids only.

Tom, be honest. Have you ever broken the 'Number 2' rule?
Tom: I almost did, once. You have to sit down to go for a wee on the tourbus, because if you stand up and you go round a corner it all goes everywhere. One day I sat down and then I thought, 'Hm, I need a fart', and you know how farting has an effect on these thingsÃ¢?Â¦ It almost came out, but fortunately I managed to hold it back in.

Has anyone else ever done one?
Tom: No - we thought there was once but when we investigated it turned out to be a bit of chocolate.

McFly: 'New album will blow you away'

2009-12-28T09:12:00.000-08:00

McFly: Tom Fletcher _ has declared that the band's next album "will blow you away".

The group have spent the latter half of this year recording tracks for the follow-up to 2008's Radio:ACTIVE, which they have previously suggested will be a sci-fi concept album.

Fletcher has now given fans an update on the upcoming record's progress, saying: "We spent a couple of weeks in Atlanta working with Dallas Austin and his awesome friends.

"We came up with some absolute tunes. The next album is gonna blow you away. [I] can't believe how awesome the songs are already."

He added on the band's MySpace: "Since then we've been home, getting in the mood for Christmas and catching up with friends. Apart from the odd car crash, it has been an amazing month."

*McFly are expected to release the album in spring 2010.*

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*I dont aagree with that date.

I think it's far to early , so i dont expect McFly's Album to be out in spring at all.

My guess is late july... but who knows, for i a know it could be october ...haha*

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

2009-12-28T08:49:00.000-08:00

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
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Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?

..Everything! This book is unnerving, in a good way.. :D

I'm currently reading Uglies (book 1),
and I'm really surprised that I'm actually enjoying it,
not only that I'm getting slightly addicted to it.

The reason I'm surprised is just down to the fact that I've read so many bad reviews on the Uglies Trilogy. Though at the end of the day obviously my curiosity got the best of me and i went out and ordered the book.

I was slightly/very wary when i read the first line..
--"The early summer sky was the colour of cat vomit."--

..My initial reaction was "Oh no! What? Cat Vomit? Seriously???" ... XP

Well, anyway i got passed it and carried on.
Finding myself getting carried away into the story...

The fact that I'm enjoying it makes me think most of the 1,2 and 3 star reviews were maybe taking the book out of context, instead of enjoying the book for what it is, if you know what i mean.

What are your thoughts on the Uglies Trilogy?

Do you like the book/s?

Are you thinking about picking up copy up?

Stephanie x

:)

The Doctor : David Tennant Picture

2009-12-27T19:40:00.001-08:00

As David Tennant leaves the Tardis

2009-12-27T19:26:00.001-08:00

Who's the greatest doctor of them all?

As David Tennant leaves the Tardis, there'll be tears before bedtime..

And so, the end is near for David Tennant as Doctor Who. He's fought the Daleks and seen off the Master and will be sadly missed by his legions of fans. Now, as he is about to face his biggest intergalactic challenge yet, he prepares to leave the series with a bang - and his own sonic screwdriver.

David Tennant may stand accused of being a big softie, but the reason for all the emotion is quite simply that the 38-year-old Scot, born David John McDonald in West Lothian, has, by common consent, been the greatest Doctor in the world's longest running television sci-fi series.

Nor will he be leaving the Tardis with a whimper. The first of a two-part final is scheduled for Christmas Day in the evening with the return of his archenemy, The Master, who is in a ferociously bad mood since being shot dead at the end of the episode Last Of The Time Lords in 2007.

Greater secrecy surrounds this Christmas special than does the origins of the universe, but last month a Children In Need trailer revealed that we can expect trouble after Tennant is summoned to the snowy planet of the Ood - a species of alien who (appropriately for Christmas) sports a turkeyish toggle on
the lower part of their face.

Final countdown: David Tennant, as the Doctor, receives a warning from the Ood

The telepathic species have called the Doctor to warn him of a shadow which has been cast across the universe, and remind him that he will perish when Death knocks four times.

To add to the excitement, the two-part special concludes on New Year's Day with the emergence of newcomer Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.

Tennant says: 'The forces gathering are quite unlike anything we've seen before. They're on a whole new scale. We've managed to keep a few surprises, even if people think they know what's coming.'

But before that, former 007 Timothy Dalton appears as a senior Time Lord in an extraterrestrial dressing gown. We can also look forward to Bernard Cribbins as Tennant's Tardis companion, as well as Catherine Tate, June Whitfield, Brian Cox as one of the Ood, and Alexandra Moen as the jailed killer of the Master.

Welsh director of the Christmas special Euros Lyn promises a full-scale intergalactic clash of the titans with specially adapted backdrops at mediaeval Caerphilly Castle near Cardiff as well as a Corus steel plant in Llanwern.

Tennant and all the cast testify that it was a hugely emotional shoot, especially when the dreaded four knocks were finally heard to signal the arrival of the Reaper.

'I was nearly a puddle,' confesses Tennant. But Euros Lyn tells a sweet story about how it unravelled: 'When we shot the very final scene, David was 30ft in the air on a big flying rig. We brought him down and he went back to his trailer and it was all a bit flat, so we faked a final shot to bring him back for a round of applause.

'When he realised what we'd done he welled up and tried to make a speech, but he had to stop and sparked everyone else off, too!'

The tears are likely to be infectious. 'It's a stonking two and a half hours and there won't be a dry eye in the house. Even your turkey will be wet!' warns lead writer Russell T. Davies, breathless with excitement.

The first four: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, John Pertwee and Tom Baker

'I wrote my heart out for these specials, because I wanted to give David everything. Together we've loved pushing the Doctor further than ever before and this Christmas is David's final time to fly.'

Davies himself recognises there has been something of the Lennon and McCartney about his relationship with Tennant. 'Surprisingly few lead actors have a sense of humour,' he says. 'I'd written the Doctor as a man full of chat, just having a babble, and David got that instantly.'

Rewinding to the very beginnings provide a useful contrast. William Hartnell (1963-66) launched the Doctor with the look of a 19th century member of the Royal Society with good Masonic connections. As his successor, Patrick Troughton (1966-69) was a much more impish, childlike scruff, with a Beatles mop of hair.

My own first memory of the Doctor was Jon Pertwee (1970-74). Being the Seventies, there was a touch of the Bee Gees about him, but his collection of capes, velvet jackets and frilly shirts, rendered him a debonair Doctor to be reckoned with.

However, the high point of Doctor Who before its current golden age was with Tom Baker (1974-81) who came a close second to Tennant in Doctor Who Magazine's poll to find the best Doctor of all time.

Baker was a hard act to follow and Peter Davison (1981-84), in spite of his boyishness, never matched his predecessor's off-the-wall charisma.

Doctors of the Eighties: Peter Davidson, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann

Still, Davison was the Doctor Tennant grew up with, the inspiration for the 'brainy' specs he pulls out when faced with a knotty problem.

Davison even recalls that when he filmed the Time Crash episode with Tennant in 2007: 'He was a little in awe of me because I was "his" Doctor and I was a little in awe of him because he's such a great actor.'

After that, with the best will in the world, Doctor Who suffered an identity crisis with Colin Baker (1984-86) and Sylvester McCoy (1987-89). But by then the franchise was as wobbly as its low-budget sets. Not even Paul McGann, star of cult film Withnail & I, could raise much kudos for the Doctor in the 1996 film.

And yet, as everyone knows, Doctor Who can always regenerate. Many were sceptical before its relaunch in 2005, especially with Davies, a script writer known only for Channel Four's late-night series Queer As Folk.

But when Christopher Eccleston (2005) appeared with It-girl of the day Billie Piper it was clear that the Doctor had moved on and foresworn polystyrene monsters.

What we got in David Tennant, from 2006, was a combination of all of the best of all the previous Doctors. Thoughtful, scatty, intense, witty, boyish, vain, bookish, youthful and hip all rolled into one.

And Tennant treasures his time in the Tardis. 'I got to do so many more things than I ever imagined. Hanging off things, being blown up, being made up to look nine million years old. It was continually surprising.

'You see the impact the show has and the enthusiasm people have, but until you're in the middle you don't realise how all consuming it is. It's been an incredible time, a real privilege, actually, to be at the centre of something that attracts so much love and attention.

Modern day: Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and newcomer Matt Smith

'It's been overwhelming at times because wherever you go people know you as Doctor Who and when you go into the supermarket there's your face on a cake, a T-shirt, a jigsaw and a little plastic figure. It's unlike anything else I can imagine doing as an actor.

'I'm jealous Matt Smith is going through that now, though it couldn't happen to a nicer chap. But I'm looking forward to not knowing what happens next and to being a viewer again.'

He takes with him not just the memories, but also a sonic screwdriver which remains under lock and key at home. Following such an act won't be easy for Matt Smith who didn't sleep for three days after he heard he got the job. Already, cyberspace is bristling with criticism of the young pretender. Many 'Whovian' fans carp that he looks too odd. They don't like the bow tie or the tweed jacket. Above all they think he's too young.

And, at 26, he is the youngest ever Doctor. But what they're really scared of is the fact that they don't know Matt Smith and only time can heal that. Until then it's going to be a painful transition for the fundamentalists who believe David Tennant to have been Doctor Who's finest hour.

And yet, Matt Smith has proved himself one of the finest young actors on the British stage. What's more, just as Tennant had Russell T. Davies, so Smith comes with Steven Moffat leading the team of writers.

Moffat has shown himself to be just as good as Davies and probably a little more adventurous. He says: 'The Doctor is a very special part. As soon as Matt walked through the door, and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man.'

Although Smith was stunned by landing the job of the Doctor there is every reason to suppose he'll be just as big as any of his ancestors. And, whatever else he does, he'll also do it his way.

Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One is on Christmas Day at 6pm on BBC One. Part Two will follow on New Year's Day at 6.40pm.

The Saturdays: B-Sides

2009-12-25T16:18:00.000-08:00

Links:
"If This Is Love" • What Am I Gonna Do
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"Up" • Crashing Down
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"Issues" • Beggin' (Double right click under the part that says->Free Download)
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"Just Can't Get Enough" • Golden Rules
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"Work" • Unofficial
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"Forever Is Over" • I Can't Wait (Double right-click under the part that says->Free Download)

:)

Girls Can't Catch: St. Trinian's 2 premiere!

2009-12-11T16:15:00.000-08:00

Phoebe blogs:
St. Trinian's 2 premiere!

The girls' fabulous debut single 'Keep Your Head Up' is featured on the St. Trinian's 2 soundtrack album, which you can pick up here, and of course that meant that GCC hit the glam London premiere of the film in style! Phoebe has written you all a blog covering outfit drama, taking to the red carpet and meeting an old friend!

Phoebe: "We had been excited about the premiere for ages so when we went to Universal to get ready we were like hyper little kids ha..! We couldn't wait to walk down that red carpet… but typically I forgot something…my belt!! So I had to rush to Topshop and buy a new one which was rather annoying. We all are fans of St. Trinians anyway, so for our song to be in the film and for us to attend the premiere was like putting kids in a candy shop!!

'When we arrived on the red carpet (which was actually pink!) and all the cameras started flashing it was really overwhelming! We arrived quite early so we went and sat inside and we had bags of free choccie on our seats which doesn't usually happen in the cinema! Before the film started, all the stars of the film were bought up onto the stage - including Sarah Harding - our fellow label friend!! The film started and everyone went crazy clapping and cheering which was lovely!

'The film was fab, the actors were incredible and all three of us had a lovely time. After the film ended I bumped into Brian Friedman who did my choreography while I was on The X-Factor which was such a lovely surprise!! It was nice to see some familiar faces..

'After meeting some of you guys we got in a cab and off we went - we had such a good time, and hopefully will do it again soon! Phoebe x"

Did you go to the premiere to see Girls Can't Catch? Why not tell us all about your day in the comments below, or have a chat about it in the forum.

Stephanie x

Girls Can't Catch: Performing Echo on TV

2009-12-10T16:22:00.000-08:00

Jess blogs: Performing 'Echo'
on TV for the first time...

The girls recently headed down to the Hollyoaks set to perform 'Echo' for the first time on TV as part of the Hollyoaks Music Show. The girls were thrilled to have the opportunity to perform 'Echo' on TV for the very first time! Jess has written a blog about the day for you all, where she tells us all about where GCC performed, what they wore and the other acts they saw!

Make sure you tune in from
11:35 this Sunday on
Channel 4!

Jess: "A couple of weeks ago, we were lucky enough to take part in filming for the Hollyoaks music show, which is a great new channel 4 programme based on the Hollyoaks set!

We traveled up to Liverpool the night before so we could be up nice and early to head over and when we went downstairs for breakfast there was another band sat next to us who looked really recognizable; but it wasn't until after we left that we realised it was Lost Prophets - who we then saw later on the show as they were appearing too!

Of course for those of you with a decent memory, we'd been on the Hollyoaks set before, so it was great to be back seeing some familiar faces and this time doing something a little bit different!

This time, our performance took place outside of il Nosh (the infamous Hollyoaks cafe). It was quite odd performing as the audience was behind us rather than in front;- which was a first for us but actually worked really well :) There were also some GCC fans in the audience who had made their way there just to see us, so was great to meet a few of them and have them there joining in with our performance of 'Echo". Watch out for a guest DJ slot behind us too…!

We really liked our outfits for the performance (I had some awesome sparkly leggings!) but the stage was on the terrace part of the cafe and it was such a cold, wet day, we were absolutely freezing! Luckily we were only required to run through the song twice before the crew felt they had everything they needed :)

It was so much fun though and I'm really looking forward to watching it back and also checking out the other artists that have appeared on the show! I think the idea of having a music show with this set up is really fun, and I already know I'll become a regular viewer :)"

You'll be able to see Jess and the other GCC girls in their star turn on The Hollyoaks Music Show from 11:35 this Sunday on Channel 4!

Stephanie x

Go Christmas shopping with GCC!

2009-12-10T16:21:00.001-08:00

girlscantcatch.com
We recently launched a new competition to celebrate the launch of the amazing video for the girls' new single 'Echo'.

YOU have the chance to join Daizy, Phoebe and Jess on a Christmas shopping spree in Topshop!

All you have to do to win this money-can't-buy prize is to keep tweeting to tell all your friends to check out the 'Echo' video!

Just tweet #echoechoecho and point folks in the direction of http://tinyurl.com/yjpzbnr and we'll pick a winner from all the entries at random.

The lucky winner will spend an hour shopping with GCC in London's Topshop! The winner must be able to make their own way to the store.

Girls Can't Catch : How To Be A Popstar Intro

2009-12-10T16:15:00.000-08:00

Girls Can't Catch: How To Be A Popstar Intro

The Red Room

2009-12-10T06:20:00.000-08:00

The Red Room is a Free Audio-Book By H.G. Wells.

It's a wee-bit too cute for my taste but i like it none the less.

The Red Room is just a simple P.G tale for the kids... Which makes it a strong effort - Grade C. It was Wrote in the mid 1894's & deals with the internal human conflict between rationality and the irrational fear of the unknown.

Time: 21:15 mins <- why not give it a try-

Summary: Choosing to spend the night in the remote Lorraine Castle, the narrator
will rest in a room said to be haunted; in an effort to disprove the
various legends surrounding it. Despite ominous warnings from the three
elderly cripples who reside there, he ascends to the "Red Room" to
begin his night's rest.

Download link

Stephanie x

The End Of A Love Affair

2009-12-10T06:19:00.001-08:00

This happened when my aunt was living in a flat in Tokyo. My aunt was then studying to be a seamstress and when she came home it would always be well past midnight. Her apartment building was an old type, built with wood and iron stairs set outside which made clanging noise whenever my aunt used them to go up to her room on the first floor.

There was a room on the ground floor just beside the iron staircase, and through its window my aunt would often see, on the way to her own room, a silhuetto of a young woman with a braided hair. The young woman always appeared busy cooking and doing some houseworks in spite of the very late hours.

A year and a half had passed and my aunt's lifestyle had remained unchanged. She would come home late every night and saw the young woman's silhouette through the window, and heard noises coming from there, although she never got to see the young woman face to face.

One time my aunt was late paying her rent, and her landlord came to her room for collection.
They had a little chat, and while at it my aunt casually mentioned to her landlord about "the young woman on the ground floor."As soon as her words were out she noticed her landlord's face had gone pale; he left her then and there, as if he was running away, completely forgetting what he had come for.

It was sometime later that my aunt got a chance to hear a proper explanation from her landlord; he said that the young woman whom my aunt saw was probably a ghost of a woman who committed suicide, after she had an affair with a married man which ended very badly. That room on the ground floor, he said, had been empty for years. The young woman's lover often visited her after midnight so she would often prepare meals for him around that time.

People should never have affairs. Don't you think?

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The photograph is just an image and is nothing to do with the story.

You Are Not The One!

2009-12-10T06:17:00.000-08:00

You Are Not The One!

Late one night after working overtime in an office, a man called F
picked up a taxi. The taxi driver was a friendly man, and for a while
they merrily chatted away.

Sometime later the taxi began to
climb up a dark hill. Now woods surrounded them on both sides and there
was no other car around.
Then the taxi driver suddenly said to F in
a serious tone of voice, "Listen. In this place you mustn't look
outside the windows. Got it?"

F was perplexed at the driver's abrupt change of mood and "Yes.."was all he could reply.
The
taxi drove on through the woods. F began to feel uneasy and asked the
driver, "Why shouldn't I see outside?" But the driver didn't respond. F
was getting spooked.
It was just then he heard a strange groan
coming from outside the window beside him. F was startled and looked at
the window in spite of himself.
Then he saw, spread out on the window, a large, angry face. When it saw F, it cried, "You are not the one!"

F
lost consciousness immediately and could not remember what happened
afterwards. Apparently on that road on the hill there was a hit-and-run
accident not long ago which had left one man dead, and the killer was
still at large. Since then the dead man had been appearing on the road
every night, looking for his killer.

A FACELESS WOMAN UPDATE

2009-12-10T06:16:00.000-08:00

A FACELESS WOMAN UPDATE

The faceless Woman made her first appearance in Hawai`i on May 19, 1959
when Bob Krauss reported in The Honolulu Advertiser that she had
allowedly visited the ladies' restroom at the Waialae Drive-In Theater in Kahala.

In one version of the story, a girl left her car and went into the restroom
around midnight to put on fresh lipstick. In the mirror she saw a figure behind her
with long hair and no face. She saw that the figure had no legs, only half a body.
When the girl turned around, there was nobody behind her. The door slammed
shut and locked as the poor girl screamed and fainted.
In another version reported by Krauss, the woman went to the restroom. As
she entered, she noticed the place was occupied by another woman who was
standing in front of the mirror combing her long, beautiful hair. The first woman
came closer and spoke. The second woman turned slightly. She had no face. The
first woman was so frightened she ended up in the hospital with a breakdown.

The suggested cause for the haunting of the faceless woman was the fact
that the Waialae Drive-In Theater was located next to a cemetery. Although
manager Albert Silva strongly denied in 1959 the stories that the restrooms of his
drive-in theater were haunted, he did note that the stories helped business.

"Every
night a couple dozen people asked me if I've seen the ghost," he said. "I haven't

but
I've sure heard enough about it. Business has been booming since
Thursday." When I first discovered the faceless woman in the
newspaper archives, I
was curious whether anyone had ever actually been an eyewitness to the unusual
entity. The story by Bob Krauss indicated that the sightings were "rumors." No
single firsthand account given of the woman's appearance. This was a perfect
example of what Jan van Brunvand called "urban legend," stories from the friend of
a friend, who had heard the tale from his cousin.

During the course of a radio interview in 1981 concerning Hawai`i's ghosts,
an anonymous caller asked if I had heard of the faceless woman in the Waialae
Drive-In. I assured her that the ghost was famous in 1959 and that I had indeed
read about this urban legend. The caller then proceeded to share with us her
personal, firsthand account of seeing this faceless creature. The spirit had red hair,
the caller said, and was combing her hair down in front of her face in the mirror.
When she looked in the mirror, the red-haired woman combed her hair back,
revealing that she had no eyes, no nose and no mouth---only a blank, featureless
face.

All these incidents were included in the first ghost story which I submitted in
1983 to the Hawaii Herald, a newspaper for the Islands' Japanese-American
community, an essay which was reprinted in 1994 in OBAKE: Ghost Stories in
Hawai`i. In that essay I suggested there were strong ties between the faceless
woman of the drive-in and a similar spirt called "mujina" which had been
described by Lafcadio Hearn in Kwaidan, his wonderful collection of obake
stories. Further research revealed that this faceless ghost is also seen in
contemporary Japan---often inside female bathrooms.

Since the publication of the first essay on mujina in Hawai`i, the faceless
woman has evidently expanded her appearances to other venue throughout the
Islands. For example, rumors now circulate that she has been seen in two different
restaurants in Hilo, and that several shopping malls on the island of O`ahu have been
visited by the faceless phantom.

The Children Upstairs

2009-12-10T06:15:00.002-08:00

The Children Upstairs

This is a story I heard from my friend at university. A man (we call
him "K") got whiplash in a car accident and decided to convalesce at
home for a week. K was married but his wife was also working, so he was
all alone during the day. For the first few days he enjoyed the
freedom, but when the third day came boredom began to set in. Still he
had to stay in because his injury kept him from going anywhere.

Then
one day past lunchtime he was watching TV absent-mindedly when he heard
heavy stamping noises and children's voices from upstiars. He didn't
pay much attention to it, although he wondered if they were on a school
holiday. The next day he again heard the same children's voices, around
the same time as the previous day. It sounded like they had two
children up there. The place where K lived was a large apartment block
but inspite of that it tended to be very quiet during the day; the
children's voices, therefore, echoed loudly in contrast to the
quietness of the surrounding. K however did not feel annoyed, but was
rather glad of the distraction and a break it gave him from the eerie
silence.

The next day K, feeling bored and not motivated enough
to cook lunch, ordered some pizza. The pizza, which arrived within 30
minutes, turned out to be too much for K that he left one whole pizza
untouched. Usually he would keep any left-overs for his wife but this
time he remebered about the children upstairs and, willing to do
something kind, he decided to take the pizza to them.

K had no
idea who the occupants of the room upstairs were but rang the bell on
the door anyway. He heard something stir inside, but there was no
answer. He rang the bell again. He felt someone was looking at him
through the peephole. "Who is it?" A faint voice called out from behind
the door.

K explained he was from the room below and that he had
some pizza left from his lunch and wondered if they wanted it. The door
opened a crack. It looked unusually dark inside the room. From the gap
about 5 cm wide a woman appeared, revealing only half of her face.
"Thank you very much. But we don't want it," the woman said coldly. It
was a little too dark to discern her facial expression. K suddenly felt
he was somehow out of place, like he shouldn't be there; however he
tried to explain to her that he wanted her to give the pizza to the
children.

A lukewarm air breezed out of the door. He smelt an
unpleasant odour. In an instant two children's faces lined up below the
woman's face. The door was open still just a crack. The dull eyes of
the children stared at him. The three faces were forming a line.
"I
see.... then... I will accept your kindness." The woman said. When K
put the pizza box through the gap a hand reached out right from the
side and snatched it away.

The three faces were still staring at
K. "Thank you....." He heard the faint voice again. K quickly left the
place. He felt spooked. In the corner of his mind he sensed something
was seriously wrong. The image of the children's faces had left a
burning impression in his mind. Faces..... He felt a chill down his spine. Faces...they were forming a line... His pace quickened. He wanted to get away as fast as he could. He waited for the lift but it would not arrive. Forming a line....vertically....on top of each other.....
He pressed the button again and again, but the lift still did not come.
He turned to the emergency stairs. His head throbbed with pain. He
began to feel nausea.

Just as he opened the heavy door leading
to the emergency stairs, he felt eyes on his back. Turning around, he
glimpsed, about ten metres from him, the same three faces looking at
him from the corner of the corridor. Like before, they were showing
only the half of their faces and staring at him with their dull eyes.
The cold day light shining through the windows illuminated their faces.

No
longer caring about his neck he frantically ran down the stairs.
Although the health-conscious K often used stairs instead of lift and
could even ran up four floors in one go, he felt as if no matter how
fast he ran he would never reach the ground floor. Faces lined up,
on top of each other....that's impossible...that means there are...no
bodies......and the strange things I saw behind the faces
were...hands.....holding up the heads......

He ran into the nearest convenience store and asked the people there to call the police.
The
police came, and searched the flat - and found the bodies of the mother
and children in the bath tub. These bodies were headless.

According to their findings, it had been three days since the heads had been chopped off the bodies.
And
the husband, who turned out to be the murderer, was found hiding in the
wardrobe - insane. He insisted his family was still alive. There was a
terror in his eyes; the polie did not know the source of his terror.

But K knew.

Piggyback

2009-12-10T06:15:00.001-08:00

Piggyback

Once there was a family of four, the father, the mother, the son and
the daughter. The father and the mother had grown cold to each other in
recent years and were arguing all the time. In spite of that, the
family planned to go on a holiday. But the day before the holiday began
the couple had a fierce fallout again. The father this time got out of
control and murdered the mother. The next morning the father left home
for the holiday with the children as if nothing had happened. After
some sight-seeing the three of them sat down to rest. Then the son
looked quizzically at his father and asked; “Daddy, why have you been carrying Mommy piggyback all morning?”

THE FACELESS WOMAN

2009-12-10T06:13:00.000-08:00

Mujina 'Nopperabou'

'This japanese urban legend is called 'No Face', about Nopperabou, a creature from Japanese folklore.

Though they look like normal people, the nopperabou's distinctive feature is their face, which lacks eyes, a nose, or a mouth. Instead of normal human features, nopperabou have only smooth skin. People who encounter nopperabou usually do not immediately realize that they are talking to something that is otherworldly, as the creatures are able to create the illusion that they have a normal human face.

A nopperabou will wait for the right moment before causing their features to disappear, scaring the person they are speaking with. People usually run into nopperabou at night in lonely rural settings, although they can appear anywhere as long as the area is deserted. The nopperabou primary purpose is to scare humans, but beyond that they do not seem to have any sort of agenda.

One famous nopperabou story is Lafcadio Hearnfs Mujina. The story is short and deftly describes an encounter with a nopperabou, but it is also the source of much confusion. In the story, Hearn refers to the creatures as mujina, which is actually a different type of creature altogether (a sort of badger). This mistake has caused a lot of Western readers to mix up the names for nopperabou and mujina, and even today you will run across authors and scholars that are using the wrong name. Regardless, the story itself is a very typical tale of nopperabou mischief.'

The Mujina of the Akasaka Road

On the Akasaka Road, in Tokyo, there is a slope called Kii-no-kuni-

zaka, ---which means the Slope of the Province of Kii. I do not know why it

is called the Slope of the province of Kii. On one side of this slope you

see an ancient moat, deep and very wide, with high green banks rising up to

some place of gardens; ---and on the other side of the road extend the

long and lofty walls of an imperial palace.

Before the era of street-lamps
and jinrikishas, this neighborhood was very lonesome after dark; and belated
pedestrians would go miles out of their way rather than mount the Kii-no-
kuni-zaka, alone, after sunset.
All because of a Mujina that used to walk there.

The last man who saw the Mujina was an old merchant of the Kyobashi quarter, who died about thirty years ago. This is the story, as he told it : --- One night, at a late hour, he was hurrying up the Kii-no-kuni-zaka, when he perceived a woman crouching by the moat, all alone, and weeping bitterly. Fearing that she intended to drown herself, he stopped to offer her any assistance or consolation in his power. She appeared to be a slight and graceful person, handsomely dressed; and her hair was arranged like that of a young girl of good family.

"O-jochu," he exclaimed, approaching her,---"O-jochu, do not cry like that!... Tell me what the trouble is; and if there be any way to help you, I shall be glad to help you." (He really meant what he said; for he was a very kind man.) But she continued to weep,---hiding her face from him with one of her long sleeves.

"O-jochu," he said again, as gently as he could,---"please, please listen to me! ... This is no place for a young lady at night! Do not cry, I implore you!---only tell me how I may be of some help to you!" Slowly she rose up, but turned her back to him, and continued to moan and sob behind her sleeve. He laid his hand lightly upon her shoulder, and pleaded:---"O-jochu!--- O-jochu!---O-jochu!... Listen to me, just for one little moment!... O-jochu!--- O-jochu!"... Then that O-jochu turned round, and dropped her sleeve, and stroked her face with her hand;--- and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth,---and he screamed and ran away.

Up Kii-no-kuni-zaka he ran and ran; and all was black and empty before him. On and on he ran, never daring to look back; and at last he saw a lantern, so far away that it looked like the gleam of a firefly; and he made for it. It proved to be only the lantern of an itinerant soba-seller, who had set down his stand by the road-side; but any light and any human companionship was good after that experience; and he flung himself down at the feet of the old soba-seller, crying out, "Aa!---aa!!---aa!!!"... "Kore! Kore!" roughly exclaimed the soba-man. "Here! what is the matter with you? Anybody hurt you?"

"No---nobody hurt me," panted the other,---"only... Aa!---aa!"... "---Only scared you?" queried the peddler, unsympathetically. "Robbers?" "Not robbers,---not robbers," gasped the terrified man... "I saw... I saw a woman---by the moat;---and she showed me... Aa! I cannot tell you what she showed me!"... "He! Was it anything like THIS that she showed you?" cried the soba-man, stroking his own face---which therewith became like unto an Egg... And, simultaneously, the light went out.

A Girl Ghost

2009-12-10T06:11:00.000-08:00

I don't know what this is but looks pretty eerie..

Click here to see " A Girl Ghost"!
Be careful of the volume, there will be sound!!!

Cursed Video

2009-12-10T06:10:00.000-08:00

Yet another video rumoured to be cursed.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

The Red Room

2009-12-10T06:08:00.000-08:00

*The following story is fairly well-known and exists in several different versions.

Late one night, a taxi driver picked up a girl. When he asked her where she was going she replied she was going home.

“Please
go straight down this road,” “turn right there,” she instructed him as
he drove on. During the journey the driver sometimes gave furtive
glances at her through the rear view mirror; the girl had beautiful
shiny hair and seemed pretty, although he couldn't see her face clearly
because she sat with downcast eyes. He also found her quiet and demure
manner attractive.

Before long they reached a lonely, deserted
hillside. The girl said, “You will see a house straight ahead.” And
sure enough, a small, old cottage emerged from the darkness. The girl
got off, and the driver stayed and watched her go into the house. It
was odd that a young girl like her should live in such a lonely, old
place, seemingly all on her own. He was intrigued and instead of
leaving straight away, got out of the car too and crept up to the
house, feeling an urge to know more about her and see her face
properly. He felt he was behaving improperly but could not help himself.

When he got close, he saw all the curtains were drawn and there was no way to see inside.

He
circled around the house a few times but there was no attempt from
inside to lift the curtains. He thought if he stayed any longer the
girl might notice him, so he nearly gave up and left when the front
door caught his eyes. The door had a large keyhole, which looked as
though it would work just as fine as a peephole.

He looked through
the keyhole; but found, much to his dismay, all he could see was the
colour red, and there was no sign of either the girl or any kind of
furniture in the room. Now matter how long he kept at it the scenery
remained the same.

He gave up looking, but still could not
forget about the girl, so he stopped by the small restaurant he'd seen
on the way to her house, thinking he could make a few inquiries about
her there while having a meal at the same time.

He told the
restaurant owner what had happened, even revealing (although he was
terribly embarrassed) that he had a peek through the keyhole.

“I looked through the keyhole, but all I could see was something red…I know it wasn't a proper thing to do.”

The owner, hearing that, looked at him strangely and said to him;

“You know that girl… she has some sort of disease and her eyes are both crimson red.”

*Did you understand what the restraunt owner's words meant? :)

The Monkey Dream

2009-12-10T06:05:00.000-08:00

I was dreaming. Ever since I was a child, I was sometimes aware, when I
was dreaming, that I was in a dream. This time was the same. I was
standing on a platform of a dark, empty railway station. What a gloomy
dream, I thought. Then an announcement was made, in a dull, spiritless
voice of a man;
"The train is approaching. If you get on it something scarrrry will happen to youuuu." It sounded nonsensical.
Soon the train came in. It wasn't a proper train, but rather like a monkey train (*1) you might see in amusement parks, and there were some men and women seated on it in a row.

I
sensed something unusual about the dream, but I decided to get on the
train, just to see how much fear I could take. If I really found it too
much I could always wake up. I was able to make myself wake up whenever
I wanted, but the only time I could do that was when I was aware I was
dreaming.

I settled into the third seat from the back. The air
around me felt so realistically warm it was hard to believe this was a
dream at all.

"The train is deparrrtiiiing,"
said the announcement, and the train started moving. My heart was
pounding hard with both anxiety and expectation. The train entered into
a tunnel soon after leaving the platform. The tunnel was illuminated
with a mysterious purple-ish light.

This
tunnel - I thought - is like the tunnel I saw on that "ghost train"
ride in an amusement park I once went when I was a child. This thing
I'm on too is just a monkey train. After all, this dream, like any
other dreams, is just made up of pieces of my own memories. It doesn't
feel scary at all.

Just then there was another announcement. "The next station is, Ike-Zukuri, Ike-Zukuriiii(*2)."
Ike-zukuri?
You mean like a fish? While I was still wondering, a loud scream broke
out from behind. When I turned around, I saw the man in the last seat
was surrounded by four ugly midgets ( 3*) dressed in rags.

Before my eyes, the man was cut into pieces with sharp knives and it was really like an ike-zukuri.
An overpowering stench filled the air, and the man screamed and
screamed until my ears began to hurt. Bloody intestines and various
organs were pulled out of the man's body and scattered all around him.
Immediately behind me sat an ashen-faced woman with long hair, but she
seemed totally uninterested of what was happening behind her, inspite of the ghastly din it was making.

I
for one was certainly unprepared for this turn of events, and began to
feel scared. I thought I would wait a little longer and see what
happened next, and then try to wake up. Before I knew it, the man on
the last seat was gone, leaving behind only some dark, reddish blood
and chunks of meat. The woman behind me was still looking straight
ahead with a blank look on her face.

"The next station is Gouging Ouuut, Gouuuging Ouuuuut," the announcement said.
This
time two midgets appeared and with something that looked like serrated
spoons they began to gouge out the eyes of the woman behind me. The
woman's face, which had been a total blank only a moment before, turned
into a mask of great fear and pain; then came from her a piercing
scream, which nearly shattered my eardrums. I saw her eyeballs pop out.
The stench of sweat and blood was unbearable. I bent over, trembling
with fear. This was it. I couldn't bear it anymore. Guessing from how
things had been, the next would be my turn, since I sat in the third
seat from the back. I was going to wake up - but not, I decided, before
I check what the announcement would be next.

"The next station is Mince Meat, Mince Meeeaaaat."
This
was the worst I could possibly expect. I could easily imagine what was
going to happen. I focused all my energy on waking up from the dream.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up....." This intensive praying was usually
enough to escape from a dream.
Abruptly, I heard something buzzing
and wheezing close to me. A midget crawled up into my lap and held up
some sort of device and waved it towards me. It must be a tool to turn
me into a mince meat. Still, all I could do was close my eyes tight and
pray frantically "come on, please, wake up! Wake up wake up wake up
wake up...!" The buzzing sound was getting closer and closer. Finally
it got so close that I felt the wind pressure on my face. And just when
I thought it was the end of me, everything became quiet and still.

I
managed to escape from the nightmare. I was wet all over with sweat,
and tears were streaming down my cheeks. It wasn't until after I went
to the kitchen and drank tons of water, that I was finally able to calm
down. The dream was real - too real; but it was just a dream, nothing
more, I told myself.

The following day at school I told my
friends about the dream. They just found it funny. It was only a dream,
they said, and that was all.
Then four years passed and I became a
college student. I kept myself busy with studying and working. So much
had been going on in my life that by that time I had completely forgotten about the dream.

But one night, it started again.
"The next station is Gouging Ouuut, Gouuuging Ouuuuut,"
the dream began from that scene. Immediately, my memories came flooding
back. Things carried on exactly in the same way as before. The two
midgets were gouging out the woman's eyes. I started praying straight
away ."Wake up, wake up, wake up!"

But this time, for some reason, I couldn't wake up as easily as the last time. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up....."

"The next station is Mince Meat, Mince Meeeaaaat,"
said the announcement. The time was running out. I heard the familiar
buzzing, and it was getting closer and closer. "Wake up, come on, wake
up wake up wake up!!"

A dead silence descended. I somehow
managed to escape again. With a huge relief I was about to open my eyes
when I heard: "you are going to run away agaiiiin? But the next time is goiiing to be yourrr laaast." It was the voice of that announcer in the dream. When I opened my eyes I was back in my own room.

The last voice wasn't a
part of the dream. I heard it in the real world, there are no mistakes
about it. Why me? What things have I done to deserve this? Since then I
have not had the same dream again; but I know that if I ever
dream it again, I will die, probably by a heart attack or something. It
might appear to be a heart attack in the real life, but it will be a
"mince meat" in the other world.....

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Notes:
1* - A "monkey train" is how some people call a toy train in Japan. There used to be a famous toy train in Ueno
Zoo in Tokyo, run by a monkey (actually the monkey did was just sit on
the train and nothing else). You can see a picture of the original
monkey train here. The monkey train of Ueno
Zoo was banned after people started vociferating about "animal rights."
The monkey train is now gone, but the name lives on by itself.

2* - Ike-Zukuri (or iki-zukuri)
could be literally translated as "live-making or live-arranging." It is
a fish served alive and whole, slices of flesh having been cut and put
back in place (kensyusha's new college Japanese-English Dictionary, 5th edition). Go here to see what it looks like.

3* - I've got nothing against little people. In fact, I measure only about 5ft that I might be called a midget myself.

What's The Old Hag Looking For?

2009-12-10T06:03:00.000-08:00

Stephanie's comment: this dream is one of Japanese urban legends and it is said to be dreamt mostly by children.*

In the dream you are standing inside a room. And there you see an old hag who is frantically looking for something, rummaging through drawer after drawer.

You ask her, "what are you looking for?"
The old hag turns around and spreads out her hand.
"I am looking for my little finger."
You look at it and sure enough her little finger is missing.
Then the old hag asks you, "can you help me find it?"

If you have the above dream, make sure you say yes to her request, and find her little finger.
Because if you can't find her little finger, you will never be able to wake up again.

Ronald Kelly's Undertaker's Moon: Excerpt

2009-12-10T05:57:00.000-08:00

Undertaker's Moon (Excerpt)

The
distant rattle of chains. Then a long and mournful howl, bouncing off
the shadowy walls in the dead of night, penetrating plaster and wood,
squeezing like a cold draft through the tight cracks of the floor
beneath his bed and prying his four-year-old mind from the depths of a
sound sleep.

Brian sat up, clutching the edge of his blanket
in his tiny hands. He peered into the semi-darkness of the upstairs
nursery. Half of his surroundings were shrouded in nocturnal gloom, the
other half etched in the silvery moonlight that shone through the
window.

He sat there, his ears straining against the silence,
trying to determine whether he had been dreaming or not. Then the
horrible sound came again – a high pitched wailing like some animal
torn between loneliness and insanity. Brian was about to call out for
his parents, but the noise of rattling chains caused the words to
freeze in his throat. There was the sound of metal links clinking one
against the other, followed by the tortured screech of steel being
stretched beyond its capacity. There came the brittle report of the
expected break, and then unnerving silence filled the house once again.

Brian
closed his eyes and listened for more sounds. He heard nothing at
first, but then they came. First there was the faint creak of heavy
footsteps on the risers of the staircase, then the noise of harsh
breathing. He could hear the dreadful sounds as they reached the top of
the stairs and then started down the hallway… toward the nursery.

Tears
of fright squeezed from beneath his eyelids as he heard the creature
halt in front of his door. The coarse breathing continued, sounding
like the huff and puff of a fireplace bellows. A metallic rattle forced
him to open his eyes. He could see the brass knob of the nursery door
jiggling in a slash of moonlight. Whoever was out there couldn't get
in. The door was locked. Brian's mother did that sometimes, for a
reason the child couldn't quite understand.

But as a low
growl rumbled from behind the wooden barrier, Brian knew that such
precautions could not insulate him from the boogeyman that lurked on
the other side. His suspicions were affirmed a moment later. A mighty
snarl rang through the upstairs hallway and, suddenly, the top panel of
the door split open, sending slivers of wood spinning into the room. A
dark appendage of muscle, bone, and glossy black hair exploded through
the jagged hole and Brian realized at once that it was the gnarled hand
of some horrible beast that was groping through the darkness for him.

"Mommy!" he shrieked shrilly. "Daddy!"

Abruptly,
the door exploded and the beast was inside. It was huge and shadowy,
its shoulders nearly as broad as the width of his bed and its height
mashing its pointed ears against the plaster of the high ceiling. The
spattering of winter moonlight that filtered through the frosty panes
of the window brought out the most horrifying features of his unwelcome
visitor. The long ivory teeth dripping with glistening slaver, the dark
claws twinkling like honed blades, and the eyes. The deep brown eyes
that blazed like fire beneath ferocious brows.

Eyes that seemed hauntingly familiar to the cowering child.

[END/]

Undertaker's Moon is in part a Free Audio-Book/novel By Ronald Kelly

My Thoughts: It's ghastly, filled with gore and drowning in violence.
Undertaker's Moon is just a simple werewolf thriller.
That
is very likely to send a shiver or two down you're spine. I picked this
audio for my site because i find it very interesting & I'm sure
some others will too. It'll either make you sick or maybe even scared.
It's not really a story for the weak hearted. The readers voice is
eerily calm and drove me to turn on my bedroom light...lmao :P (Grade
B-)

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Summary: Are you sacred of the dark? Well, you should be. lol
WARNING: Lots of violence and gore.
Rating: 16+

Stephanie x