Hiya, guys! I know it's been a while. Just haven't had any real inspiration hit my noggin until today with a fun and somewhat reminiscent conversation on Twitter with a bud. And once again, all I can say to you guys is to buckle up and ready yourselves for a good old fashioned Trista babble fest, complete with all the randomness your heart could POSSIBLY desire!
You guys know already that I have issues with modern day cartoons. I feel they dumb things down for children. So unlike the classic shows we had as kids. You could sit and watch 30 minutes of Nickelodeon and learn that you definitely never wanted a plumber that was missing a nose coming after you in your sleep! Death by plunger... not very appealing. Yep... I'm talking about that old Nick classic "Salute Your Shorts"! I LOVED that show! You know how some things just stick with you? The theme song to that show was one of them! Along with the everyday life lessons they taught... Exhibit A... NEVER ALLOW A GROUP OF FRIENDS TO NICKNAME YOU DONKEY! The reprecussions in life have to be bad... The poor guy doesn't even act anymore!
Then there was Doug, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, AHHHH Real Monsters, Are You Afraid of the Dark. I believe Are you Afraid of the Dark was actually in the little Saturday night program Nick had called Snick. Clever, huh? OH! And KABLAAM was AWESOME!!!! Anyone remember it? The show that took place inside of the comicbook? SOOO much fun! Then of course every girl HAD to watch Clariss Explains It All ANYTIME IT WAS ON! I remember how badly I wanted a brother to call "Ferg Face", just cause. LOL!
Shows back then just said everything they needed to say... PBS was the station back then for dumbed down television shows. Why do people conform? They think it makes things easier when in reality... it only makes you look stupid, like you have no individual ideas.
In short I WANT THE GOOD OL' SHOWS BACK ON THE TUBE!!!! I think we should picket! Till next time guys! :o)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
What Else is New?
Hi guys! So.... I was watching Buffy. What else is new, right? Actually it's been a pretty good while since I'd watched an episode. I had started rewatching them about 4 weeks ago to do some Buffy quotes back and forth with a pal of mine, seeing as they still air the show where she lives. I had decided I was going to start in at the episode she was at, just to refresh my mind on the quotes, because I don't look them up... I feel like it's cheating, and that may be the Buffy trivia champ in me talking. I have most of the scripts memorized oddly enough. I think I made it through one episode before things in life started going wonky... you know how that goes.
Anyway. Moving right along. I was watching Buffy, only watched the episode HUSH last night, well... actually, around 3ish this morning. Let me just say, NOT an episode to watch before you go to sleep. Not scary, just weird dreams of wrinkly old dudes trying to cut your heart out and you "can't even shout". Anyhowzers, watched the episode, and thought to myself, during the seen where Giles is explaining who the Gentlemen are, you know the one, I thought, well... who ARE the Gentlemen! So, the researcher in me got to wondering if it was simply a tale created from Joss Whedon's exquisite imagination, or if they were REALLY fairy tale monsters.
My results? The "Can't Even Shout" tune, set to "Master of the House" from Les Miserables, is an actual jump rope song that children used to skip rope to! Kinda freaked me out a little... almost like the "Lizzie Borden" rhyme. Creepy. Anyway, there are some parallels with HUSH and another fairytale. If Disney didn't swap and switch the fairytales up to make them kid friendly, basically what you'd have is a Saturday night horror matinee in a literary binding. After looking through a series of different websites, all of which I Googled anything that would lead to the Gentlemen. I finally remembered an old book of my grandmother's I had that was an original copy of Grimms Fairytales... well, not the German version, the after it was translated version. I kept seeing references to a story, in my online research, called The Seven Brothers. If you count the Gentlemen on the show, there are seven of them, hence the reason for needing seven hearts. I finally grabbed the copy of Grimms Fairytales that I had. I probably looked very much like Giles on the series when the realization struck him that he'd seen them before. I grabbed the book, flipped to the Table of Contents, and there, among the yellowed pages and black lettering, staring straight back at me... THE SEVEN BROTHERS. So, I did what any good detective with the last name of Holmes would do. I read it. :o)
The story, was about a poor couple that had 7 sons, and, since humans can never be pleased with what they already have, they wanted a daughter. They finally had a little girl, and she was a sickly little thing. When she was older, the father sent one of the boys to get some water from a spring, and the others decided to go along. Apparently, they took too long for the father's liking and he wished that they were changed into birds(upon researching, some translations say ravens, some translations say cows.) Mine only said BIRDS, so I'm going with birds. So, pops makes this wish, and suddenly all these birds start flying around his head. He's saddened by his mouth speaking before his brain thought. Apparently, back then, all you had to do was wish and it came true... hmmm... I wish I had a million dollars. Ah, well, it was worth a shot. Back to the story. So, dear old dad turned out to be Daddy Dearest. They took care of the birds, and the sister grew up really pretty and healthy. She overheard the townspeople saying one day how pretty she was, but what a shame it was about her brother, which, up until this point, she'd completely forgot she had. She goes to this woman that was supposedly the town witch. She tells the sister that she must stay totally silent for 24 hours to change her brothers back to their natural form. So to ensure that she does, the sister asks the witch to take away her voice... UH OH! Gee... Little Mermaid much? So, the voice is gone, and the sister goes back to the house, which is oddly enough no longer inhabited by her parents, not specified as to why not. She lets the birds out of the cage, and here is where the Grimms version differ from all the rest of the translation. The witch sneaks in, changes the brothers into creatures(again not specified what kind), gets two of them to hold down the sister while the witch cuts out the poor girl's heart as the remaining brothers look on smiling.
So see? Similarities, but I liked Joss' version a lot better. Plus... to make the silence last longer that five minutes, it was just a genius episode. Not as good as ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, which will ALWAYS be my favorite, but I LOVE HUSH! It was just creative. My opinion, it set the bar pretty high for a series on a network that, at the time, few people had even heard of. I need Joss' mind!
Here's to an exciting blog adventure on the next go around guys! :o) Catch ya'll later, and take care!
Anyway. Moving right along. I was watching Buffy, only watched the episode HUSH last night, well... actually, around 3ish this morning. Let me just say, NOT an episode to watch before you go to sleep. Not scary, just weird dreams of wrinkly old dudes trying to cut your heart out and you "can't even shout". Anyhowzers, watched the episode, and thought to myself, during the seen where Giles is explaining who the Gentlemen are, you know the one, I thought, well... who ARE the Gentlemen! So, the researcher in me got to wondering if it was simply a tale created from Joss Whedon's exquisite imagination, or if they were REALLY fairy tale monsters.
My results? The "Can't Even Shout" tune, set to "Master of the House" from Les Miserables, is an actual jump rope song that children used to skip rope to! Kinda freaked me out a little... almost like the "Lizzie Borden" rhyme. Creepy. Anyway, there are some parallels with HUSH and another fairytale. If Disney didn't swap and switch the fairytales up to make them kid friendly, basically what you'd have is a Saturday night horror matinee in a literary binding. After looking through a series of different websites, all of which I Googled anything that would lead to the Gentlemen. I finally remembered an old book of my grandmother's I had that was an original copy of Grimms Fairytales... well, not the German version, the after it was translated version. I kept seeing references to a story, in my online research, called The Seven Brothers. If you count the Gentlemen on the show, there are seven of them, hence the reason for needing seven hearts. I finally grabbed the copy of Grimms Fairytales that I had. I probably looked very much like Giles on the series when the realization struck him that he'd seen them before. I grabbed the book, flipped to the Table of Contents, and there, among the yellowed pages and black lettering, staring straight back at me... THE SEVEN BROTHERS. So, I did what any good detective with the last name of Holmes would do. I read it. :o)
The story, was about a poor couple that had 7 sons, and, since humans can never be pleased with what they already have, they wanted a daughter. They finally had a little girl, and she was a sickly little thing. When she was older, the father sent one of the boys to get some water from a spring, and the others decided to go along. Apparently, they took too long for the father's liking and he wished that they were changed into birds(upon researching, some translations say ravens, some translations say cows.) Mine only said BIRDS, so I'm going with birds. So, pops makes this wish, and suddenly all these birds start flying around his head. He's saddened by his mouth speaking before his brain thought. Apparently, back then, all you had to do was wish and it came true... hmmm... I wish I had a million dollars. Ah, well, it was worth a shot. Back to the story. So, dear old dad turned out to be Daddy Dearest. They took care of the birds, and the sister grew up really pretty and healthy. She overheard the townspeople saying one day how pretty she was, but what a shame it was about her brother, which, up until this point, she'd completely forgot she had. She goes to this woman that was supposedly the town witch. She tells the sister that she must stay totally silent for 24 hours to change her brothers back to their natural form. So to ensure that she does, the sister asks the witch to take away her voice... UH OH! Gee... Little Mermaid much? So, the voice is gone, and the sister goes back to the house, which is oddly enough no longer inhabited by her parents, not specified as to why not. She lets the birds out of the cage, and here is where the Grimms version differ from all the rest of the translation. The witch sneaks in, changes the brothers into creatures(again not specified what kind), gets two of them to hold down the sister while the witch cuts out the poor girl's heart as the remaining brothers look on smiling.
So see? Similarities, but I liked Joss' version a lot better. Plus... to make the silence last longer that five minutes, it was just a genius episode. Not as good as ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, which will ALWAYS be my favorite, but I LOVE HUSH! It was just creative. My opinion, it set the bar pretty high for a series on a network that, at the time, few people had even heard of. I need Joss' mind!
Here's to an exciting blog adventure on the next go around guys! :o) Catch ya'll later, and take care!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Early Morning Randomness
Hiya guys! I know, another bloggage so quickly, you're probably thinking, what's up with that. Well, I'm gonna tell ya! I was playing this video game this morning, after my standard two hours of sleep... I was feeling a tad bit nostalgic for some of the older gaming consoles, so I dragged out my N64 and blew all the dust off of it with one of those spray cans of air. I LOVE THOSE THINGS, but they taste really bad. Not that I make a habit of eating them of anything; it's just... well you know how sometimes you get the taste of something on your hands? Well, I'm a nail biter, ergo... the bad tastiness...
Moving right along... I busted out one of my old favorite games for N64. Used the little dust remover cannister, and then popped Banjo Kazooie in the console for a quick play. Quick I told myself... not so much. Once I got in "the zone", it was all over! I started remembering hidden areas, small little tips I picked up the first time I played the game, and last but not least... I dragged from my memory the year that Rareware and Nintendo merged... a VERY detrimental part of the game... unless you plan on getting stuck in ONE SPOT for the rest of the time you're playing. Followed by, yes I'll say it, a VERY valuable cheat! Anyhow, I didn't get stuck... I had a blast moving through the different levels, defeating one boss after another. I tell ya, it's just not a game unless you have a bear with a bird in his backpack, and a severly overweight witch as the main characters... AHHH! It was so much fun!
So I started this game somewhere in the vicinity of 4ish this morning... finished it up around 6:30ish. I don't have issues with quitting games or anything, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that when you're on a role with winning, don't quit! So I defeted the evil Gruntilda, and got Banjo and Kazooie to a lovely island retreat after all their hard labors, and fruitful tasks.
Had to put the randomness out their guys! Hope you enjoyed! Until next time! Peace out!
Moving right along... I busted out one of my old favorite games for N64. Used the little dust remover cannister, and then popped Banjo Kazooie in the console for a quick play. Quick I told myself... not so much. Once I got in "the zone", it was all over! I started remembering hidden areas, small little tips I picked up the first time I played the game, and last but not least... I dragged from my memory the year that Rareware and Nintendo merged... a VERY detrimental part of the game... unless you plan on getting stuck in ONE SPOT for the rest of the time you're playing. Followed by, yes I'll say it, a VERY valuable cheat! Anyhow, I didn't get stuck... I had a blast moving through the different levels, defeating one boss after another. I tell ya, it's just not a game unless you have a bear with a bird in his backpack, and a severly overweight witch as the main characters... AHHH! It was so much fun!
So I started this game somewhere in the vicinity of 4ish this morning... finished it up around 6:30ish. I don't have issues with quitting games or anything, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that when you're on a role with winning, don't quit! So I defeted the evil Gruntilda, and got Banjo and Kazooie to a lovely island retreat after all their hard labors, and fruitful tasks.
Had to put the randomness out their guys! Hope you enjoyed! Until next time! Peace out!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Weird Weddings...
Picture it... A beautifully decorated church. In the front, a groom dress in a dapper gray tuxedo, 2 groomsmen by his side as he anxiously awaits his future bride to make her way down the aisle so the two can be joined in marital bliss. One bridesmaid makes her entrance, signaled by a soft string arrangement of "Cannon in D", followed by another, before the Maid of Honor begins her path. A small, wide eyed flower girl, probably no older than three or four makes her way down the aisle after a very rambuncious 4 year old ring bearer. The peach colored rose petal mark a trail for the bride, a vision in a white Cinderella style dress, to follow. One of the most beautiful love songs of all times is sang the vows are said, and the two are pronounced husband and wife. They turn to face their attentive audience... most of which are wearing a few questionable costumes. The couple beams as they make their way out the back of the church. The guests file out row by row and make the short drive down the road to the reception hall. The band, friends of the bride, arrive and set up as people are still filing in. The bride and groom enter, their eyes taking in the peach and mint green decorations of the reception hall. A loud voice rings out, "I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Noah Windham." The band begins playing music... the complete score to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, minus "Sweet Transvestite". After going through the score, the group segues into some rather depressing 80s ballads.
The story you have just heard is true... I was there, as a matter of fact, I was in the band, doing the lead vocals, and lead guitar! All the music choices, not my own. It's what the bride wanted. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea. All I know is she has a good reason to look back on her big day and laugh! Sure the wedding LOOKED normal on the outside, but get behind the closed doors of the reception hall in Chapel Hill, NC, and a different story was told. I'm so glad the couple was majorly into theatrics, or there may have been some regret on their part. But, hey, at least they have interesting stories for the children and grandchildren in the future! :o)
Till next time guys!!!!! Enjoy and take care!
The story you have just heard is true... I was there, as a matter of fact, I was in the band, doing the lead vocals, and lead guitar! All the music choices, not my own. It's what the bride wanted. Why? I haven't the foggiest idea. All I know is she has a good reason to look back on her big day and laugh! Sure the wedding LOOKED normal on the outside, but get behind the closed doors of the reception hall in Chapel Hill, NC, and a different story was told. I'm so glad the couple was majorly into theatrics, or there may have been some regret on their part. But, hey, at least they have interesting stories for the children and grandchildren in the future! :o)
Till next time guys!!!!! Enjoy and take care!
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