Tuesday, November 21, 2017

"Reel" Life Questions

One of my favorite movies is A Few Good Men. It's just the perfect blend of funny and serious. I've seen it a hundred times but every time I watch it I still laugh at the jokes and I'm always invested in it's story. It gives a good luck to what can be experienced in the military. Another of my favorite is Aladdin, I love Robin Williams as the Genie he just puts so much life into the character, and its kind of nostalgic for me because it's one of the movies that I grew up with. In fact I love pretty much anything with Robin Williams in it, he's just such a great actor everything he did seemed really genuine.

I can't stand romances I find them cliche and dumb. They all see like the same thing to me and I don't understand how some one could watch them and not be bored. I just don't get the appeal. Maybe it;s just because I find them really fake, and how the girl no matter what always falls for the guy. It never ever shows what happens when she chooses someone different.

I watch movies all the time usually on the weekends with my family downstairs in the basement. My puppies lay down in front of the T.V. with a bone (because that's the only way to keep them quite) and our big tomcat Rocky is all curled up in someones lap. We then watch a movie as a family sometimes a comedy or sometimes an action movie, but it's our favorite thing to do together.

I need something to eat and drink, I just can't focus unless I'm chewing on something or drinking something. I've been known to eat entire large popcorn buckets by myself, just because I'm not paying attention while I'm watching the movie I'm just absent mindlessly putting popcorn into my mouth.

The survey told me that I am really emotionally stable and that I am open to new experiences. It also told me that I would enjoy aggressive movies the most with a score of 100 percent. I'd say this is pretty true I love most of Quentin Tarantino's movies and his tend to be brutally violent.

If my life was made into a movie I would be played by Mathew Mcconaughey. The main plot points would be me moving too Texas, My life adjusting to Texas, Then me Moving to Springfield, and me then adjusting to Springfield and moving on to college. 

Movie quotes

"My name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father prepare to die." - The Princess Bride

"It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong I am not a big man." - Fletch lives

"Did you wake me up? Did you Rub my lamp? Now all of a sudden you're walking out on me? I don't think so." - Aladdin



Thursday, November 2, 2017

First Draft Children's story: Mighty Mac Fights the Dragon.

Mighty Mac was a viking, known through out the land for his heroic deeds.

He fought monsters, and evil wizards, helping people everywhere.

One day he came upon a kingdom in big trouble.

A dragon had made his home in their mountains

His roaring from his cave made the villagers terribly frightened.

Mighty Mac went to the king and declared he would slay the dragon

Mighty Mac packed his bags he filled it with food and water and everything he would need

When he was finally ready to go he attached his ax of awesome to his belt.

He set off from the kingdom, ready to fight.

Mighty Mac climber the towering mountain, hearing the roaring of the dragon.

He climbed for days and days through the sunny, the rain, and the snow.

Finally he had reached the dragons cave.

He entered the cave, and he heard a mighty roar

As he approached the dragon he discovered, that was no roar it was merely a mighty snore.

He walked to the dragon as it woke up

"Excuse me?" he asked the dragon " Would you mind to try and be a little quieter your scaring the villagers?"

"Sure." the dragon replied, and he went back to bed.


I plan on illustrating the book by myself.







Friday, October 20, 2017

Books for Kids

Iggy Peck Architect

by Andrea Beaty

Illustrated by David Roberts

Yes, It says that she likes tall things, the books she has written, and where she lives.

It's Iggy standing on the title drawing plans to continue building his castle. A woman and a cat are watching him. The woman has a disapproving look on her face. There is another building that looked like he built it next to his castle.

The characters are Iggy Peck, his parents, his class, and his teacher Mrs. Lila Greer

It takes place in his house, his class and a small green island with a bridge too it.

Iggy loves to build things, he wants to be an architect. His teacher is afraid of tall buildings and bans Iggy from building. He then uses his building skills to save his teacher and class.

This book has rhyming, it teaches a lesson, has kids as characters, has adults as characters, it uses humor, it has illustrations, it uses color, and it has a lot of words per page.

"With no chance to build his interest was killed."

6-7 years old because it's around the same age as Iggy so he would be more relate-able  to them.

Definitely the illustrations are very detailed and it's about a topic I would have found very interesting.

About the author

Garrett Peck lives in Springfield Missouri with his parents, his two little sisters, his two puppies, and his two cats. When he's not writing he enjoys playing basketball and video games. He wrote this book because he loves to make people laugh, and help them learn.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Childhood Questions

6. My favorite cartoon when I was little is easily Lunatics Unleashed. It's about the loony tunes becoming super heroes in a sci-fi world. It was always really cool because I loved the loony tunes, and I love super heroes so it was kind of the best of both worlds for me. It has stuck with me because it is such a unique concept, there really is nothing like it. I was go see it if it was made into a Hollywood blockbuster, even if it was terrible, just because the concept of it would be enough for me to hope that it would be good.

12. When I was four I had a streak of just constantly having strep. It was literally me getting strep like seven times in a row before my parents finally got my tonsils removed. I really remember having to drink the medicine that had a bubble gum flavor and was pink just like it. That taste is so recognizable, and it actually brings back good memories, instead of the bad because I was you know sick all the time. I remember after getting my tonsils removed I had this cool bunk bed where the top was my bed and the bottom was a futon. I remember laying on the bottom eating ice cream and watching a cool dinosaur movie. I still remember that movie and I know that it's actually on Netflix right now.

14. My favorite books growing up were the fablehaven series by Brandon Mull. It's a story about these wildlife preserves, that instead of the run of the mill lions, tigers, and bears (Oh My) they have dragons, fairies and other mythological creatures. They have to fight to keep theses preserves safe and the boundaries between the creatures in place. It's very dangerous because not all of the creatures are the friendly. Which makes sense trolls are famous for eating people after all. The sense of adventure and discovery that these books gave me was really changed my life. It is a series that I plan on reading to my kids just because one there really good books and hold up well even at my age now, and I feel like it would be a good way to get my kids interested in reading like I am.

34. This is going to sound arrogant, but I was the one who learned to believe in myself. I got tired of being beat down by bullies though most of middle school, so I decided that I was the only person that I needed, that I could do anything that I wanted or needed to do. So I developed this uncompromising belief of my abilities. It's made me very independent, I can't stand relying on other people. It's also made it very difficult for me to ask for help. Which has forced me to develop excellent researching and problem solving skills because I refuse to do the easy and rational thing and just ask for help. Maybe one day I learn that I can't do everything by myself, I'll probably have to learn it the hard way. That's pretty much how I learn anything anyways.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Shadows Deepen - Color Story

The blackness enveloped me. I stood in an empty cavern I could see nothing around me. All I knew was darkness, an impenetrable void of nothingness around me. I began to blindly feel my way around for something to give me a guide in this void. I started to walk with my hands out in front of me desperately grasping for something, anything.

I kept moving the oppressive darkness started to lighten. I still couldn't make anything out but the void was slowly turning into a dark Slate, I gave me hope that this massive sameness shouldn't stay the like this forever. The haze of gray slowly cleared.

I then reached a warmly lit cave. A flowing river of lava separated the cave into two halves. Shadows danced on the wall, as I moved around the cave searching for an exit, using the dim light of the lava. The glow helped lead me to what appeared to be an exit. As I took the exit the orange glow surrendered to a light.

Finally I had reached the outside world, I basked in the sunlight. Happy to be out of that oppressive prison, I walked through a field and stared in awe of the sunflowers and dandelions. I closed my eyes and tilted my face up towards the sun, I felt its warmth and was finally content. I had survived the darkness to the warm yellow of the light of the sun.