EXPLODE
I don't know if anyone has noticed yet, but there has been a certain theme that pop songs have taken.
EXPLOSIVES.
Yes, as in kaboom explosives. Really, are artists running out of ideas right now? Once one of them starts a song with a certain theme it's like they think that they're supposed to follow.
Firework - Katy Perry
Well, fireworks aren't exactly bombs, but they fit into the category pretty well, anyway. Miss Perry's number definitely gets a gold star for being inspirational and for actually being something other than partying. The song, being dedicated to the gays of the community, makes use of metaphors that basically spell out that there's a spark in everyone that makes them unique and useful.
Firework - Katy Perry
Well, fireworks aren't exactly bombs, but they fit into the category pretty well, anyway. Miss Perry's number definitely gets a gold star for being inspirational and for actually being something other than partying. The song, being dedicated to the gays of the community, makes use of metaphors that basically spell out that there's a spark in everyone that makes them unique and useful.
Dynamite - Taio Cruz
They can't really be avoided, can they, songs about partying. See, at least Katy's work was meant for something good, not just some other party song about getting drunk and dancing. Sigh. Anyways, Taio's Dynamite, apparently referring to a club that he plants to um...'light up', is really another song worthy of a club. Yeah, I don't get what it means either. Seriously, though. What is the substance of singing and filming a song that talks about and shows the singer partying with a bunch of slu-scantily clad girls grinding their behinds and using you as a stripper pole?
They can't really be avoided, can they, songs about partying. See, at least Katy's work was meant for something good, not just some other party song about getting drunk and dancing. Sigh. Anyways, Taio's Dynamite, apparently referring to a club that he plants to um...'light up', is really another song worthy of a club. Yeah, I don't get what it means either. Seriously, though. What is the substance of singing and filming a song that talks about and shows the singer partying with a bunch of slu-scantily clad girls grinding their behinds and using you as a stripper pole?
Grenade - Bruno Mars
As long as the party songs live on, apparently the sappy love ones won't stop either. Bruno Mars' latest single, Grenade, basically talks about how he gave everything to a girl but she never really gave back. It's really cheesy, what with lines like "I would go through all this pain for ya, take a bullet straight through my brain". As much as I hate songs and videos like this in general, it was still pretty funny to watch Bruno Mars stupidly drag that piano around town.
As long as the party songs live on, apparently the sappy love ones won't stop either. Bruno Mars' latest single, Grenade, basically talks about how he gave everything to a girl but she never really gave back. It's really cheesy, what with lines like "I would go through all this pain for ya, take a bullet straight through my brain". As much as I hate songs and videos like this in general, it was still pretty funny to watch Bruno Mars stupidly drag that piano around town.
A Dedikation to Viktor Krum
He's more than an athlete...he's an artist! Here's to Bolivian bon bon Viktor Krum, the world's greatest seeker. Sure, he has, what, one line in the movie, but it's the freakin' best one there! Viktor, I love you. Viktor, I do. When we're apart my heart beats only for youuu!
Yeah, clearly I have watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire waaaaay too much.
Disclaimer: I don't really like him, as in all those people with sappy things in their minds would think, but I think he's pretty awesome.
Hell yes, I do. Viktor Krum FTW!
Yuu hav no biznes hir. Dis tent is for champyons. And frendz.
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Hey. Dude's gotta have some fur.
Attack of the Banats
Pustiso ka ba, kasi I can't smile without you.
Camera ka ba, kasi twing tumitingin ako sayo, napapangiti ako
Di tayo tao, di tayo hayop. Bagay tayo, bagay talaga.
Any of those sound dreadfully familiar?
These ridiculously corny comments are known today as banats, cheesey romantic words used by Filipinos to declare their love for a person...or to annoy that person to death.
Well, that's what Jeffrey did anyway.
During the Regional Schools Press Conference, the usual parade took place supremely early in the morning. While we marched at a funeral dirge's pace and talked about random stuff, Jeffrey, our contestant for sports writing, remained silent, which was surprising as he's one of the noisiest people. Pretty, soon, however, he started talking again...with banats.
Only his were waaaay more cornier than the common ones.
1. Kape ka ba, kasi ikaw ang nang-gigising sa akin.
2. Ref ka ba, kasi tuwing binubuksan kita...yeah, I'd rather not continue
3. Piso ka ba, kasi ikaw ang bubuo sa milyon ko
Trust me there is a lot more like that, but I honestly can't remember anymore.
1. Kape ka ba, kasi ikaw ang nang-gigising sa akin.
2. Ref ka ba, kasi tuwing binubuksan kita...yeah, I'd rather not continue
3. Piso ka ba, kasi ikaw ang bubuo sa milyon ko
Trust me there is a lot more like that, but I honestly can't remember anymore.
SiMs What the Hell? Moment
IT'S A COW!
I thought the dude in the cow costume would come to campus to wreck havoc since he's from the rival university.
What the hell is THIS dude doing then?
Homework Distractions on the Internet
10. Constantly visiting your YouTube account and exploring your recommended for you list.
Sometimes, randomness shows up there and you have no idea why. According to YouTube, you watched some video related to it. Question: How is watching Your Guardian Angel: Sims 2 version related to Habbo Gold Hacks: Plz. watch ?
9. Reading Super Effective.
...it's his PEEE.
8. Yahoo! Messenger
Well, it's not really a distraction, but if you go online as much as I do and your friends go online the same number of times, it can be a problem, especially when you have a TON of stuff to do and it's already 4 AM and you're not done with anything.7. Hollywood gossip sites
I don't really care if Jon Gosselin found a...uh..."normal" job or if Miley was caught smoking something, but when I see any dirt on the stars, I usually end up reading it.
6. Finding something incredibly wrong
OK, I can definitely concede to the fact that not everyone in the internet is smart. I can forgive most mistakes. But, it's a different story when some dude mispells too much words, commits too much Internet sins and talks about things that don't really make sense. What usually happens is that I'd end up correcting him anonymously.
5. Going to YouTube to watch videos for music while you're studying but ending up watching the video for real
Lesson learned: Get freakin' iTunes
4. Reading whatever article's in in Yahoo!
Or any article for that matter. Heh, sometimes, reading about eight things I didn't know about dreams is just too hard to resist.
3. Searching random stuff in Google and ending up reading the whole wiki article about it.
One Google search on types of Japanese ghosts and I end up reading an entire article on the original RIngu novel. Heh, result? Not doing anything but downloading the book and reading it.
2. Ducky of Awesooooome!
Mark Douglas' genius is addictive! How can someone come up with THAT many parodies? When I ate a plate of nachos and went right to bed, I had a lot of freaky dreams dancing through mah head. I was visited by Ke$ha and Lady GaGa they said you should start a music show blah blah blah.
1. Watching an Ugleh Dancah...uh...dance with anyone's face on.
Oh the stomach cramps. Oh the never ending laughter. Oh the swing + kick. Oh the...PINK TRACKSUIT! It gets worse when the clones start coming out and it haunts your dreams. I look so stupid when I'm dancing...
Wanted and Desperately Needed: A Solution to Vacation Hangover.
According to dictionary.com, hangovers are, and I quote, "the disagreeable aftereffects of drunkenness" and "any aftermath or lingering effect from a distressing experience."
While students aren't exactly drunk or recovering from a disastrous experience, they, or should I say, we also have hangovers. But from what? Our parents aren't exactly the type to let us get wasted, so the only thing we get hungover from are vacations.
Yep. Vacations. Those lazy days when school is cancelled.
Day before the vacation takes effect, I personally feel pretty happy already. The high of doing nothing for, say, three whole days already manifest pre-no school. When the first day arrives, the happiness continues and it still does until about the afternoon of the third day. Why? Well, for one thing, it's during the night of the third day when it finally hits me that I have to go back to school tomorrow.
And so, this is when the hangover starts.
Let's be dead honest here. I am a procrastinator through and through, which means that the work teachers give for any vacation would go undone until about ten hours before they need to be passed. That fact DEFINITELY does not help at all with the hangover situation. Trust me, I go on slacker mode the minute I realize that tomorrow would be a school day, so that combined with my hangover equals no work done until about midnight when I manage to convince myself to work already.
The next day, in school, the hangover would still definitely show. I'd probably be asleep in the first period or doodling mindlessly during lessons, both of which are not appreciated by teachers.
I know that I'm not the only one suffering from this annoying tendency, so to anyone out there with a suitable, tried and tested method to snap out of a vacation hangover fast, I'd appreciate some advice.
Fraternal Dynamos of the Industry
Who was the very first person you started a band with?
No one other than your siblings, of course! (The neighbors and cousins came next.)
Though of course that band was completely temporary (ours only lasted a week; we became cooks and waiters the week after), you and your siblings still made some music together, whether you composed the lyrics yourselves or you just sang along (badly) to a CD cranked in the stereo.
While your dream of becoming a rock star ended after a couple of days, these brothers carried out their musical ambitions till they were old enough to get money from it.
GERARD AND MIKEY WAY
Vocalist and Bassist
My Chemical Romance
Despite being the awesome and successful rock stars they are today, the Way brothers never dreamed of becoming musicians when they grew up. Gerard wanted to become a comic book artist and Mikey...well, Mikey couldn't even play the bass. When they finally realized their calling though, the brothers teamed up to form the great American rock 'n' roll band My Chemical Romance. Oh, and just so you know, Mikey learned how to play bass overnight.
BILL AND TOM KAULITZ
Vocalist and Guitarist
Tokio Hotel
Though they look completely different, German boys Bill and Tom are identical twins. Having been raised with a music institute owner for a step father, the Kaulitz boys were never strangers to the industry. They set off as artists at quite a young age, but certainly it payed off. Today, their band, Tokio Hotel, is as successful as ever.
JOHN AND EDWARD GRIMES
Vocalists
Jedward
Their remake of Queen's Ice Ice Baby can seriously be stuck in your head for days to come. Having been discovered in the X-Factor, the Irish identical twins love singing...and apparently shaping their hair to be those of pineapple tops.
Vocalist and Guitarist
Tokio Hotel
Though they look completely different, German boys Bill and Tom are identical twins. Having been raised with a music institute owner for a step father, the Kaulitz boys were never strangers to the industry. They set off as artists at quite a young age, but certainly it payed off. Today, their band, Tokio Hotel, is as successful as ever.
Vocalists
Jedward
Their remake of Queen's Ice Ice Baby can seriously be stuck in your head for days to come. Having been discovered in the X-Factor, the Irish identical twins love singing...and apparently shaping their hair to be those of pineapple tops.
The Great American Rip-Offs
For a hell of a long time, I've noticed one recurring trend with American films, books, and series. They're based heavily on a Japanese original.
I'm not calling the American entertainment (for most part) industry as copy cats...wait, yes I am. Seriously, since time immemorial, anything Japanese that's cool and hip (some controversial) has an American "counter-part."
The sad thing about it is the world pays more attention to the copied, less cool version of that certain production (Oh power of Hollywood) and assumes that it's the Japanese who leeched off the idea that the brilliant Americans thought of themselves. Sigh.
Obviously, not all Jap products are copied (it would be too obvious if they were), but still. They're COPIED.
Can't find any movies or books that Americans redid? Then, let me have the pleasure of pointing them out to you.
TEAM JAPAN: Battle Royale vs TEAM AMERICA: The Hunger Games
THE COMMON THEME:
Kill or be killed
THE ORIGINAL: BATTLE ROYALE (2000)
In Koushun Takami's controversial epic, Japan's youth wages a rebellion against the adults; cutting classes, committing crimes and the like. Threatened, the grown ups decide to pass the Millennium Educational Reform, or Battle Royale Act. The reform basically dictates that a random junior high class will be chosen and kidnapped to be placed in a deserted island. Here, the students are forced to kill each other in front of the whole nation until only one student survives within three days. If they refuse or if more than one still stands after the designated time, bombs attached to their necks go off.
THE COPY: THE HUNGER GAMES (2008)
The story takes place in the ruins of North America, then currently known as Panem. The nation consists of twelve districts and one ruling and cruel government residing in the Capitol, basically another district, but much nicer and better-looking than the others. Being the evil dictators that they are, the Capitol forces each of the twelve districts to send two tributes, one boy and one girl, to fight in the Hunger Games, a "fight to the death on live TV." Why? Well, for the sake of entertainment of course.
TEAM JAPAN: Ringu vs TEAM AMERICA: The Ring
THE COMMON THEME:
Watch the cursed video and die in seven daysTHE ORIGINAL: RINGU (1998)
A group of teenagers vacationing in a resort find an unlabeled video in their cabin. Curious, they decide to watch it. The video was weird, showing random flashes of a woman combing her hair, the word 'eruption' and a still shot of a well. Thinking nothing of it, they go home only to die at the exact same time after a week. Reiko, a reporter, hears about the death of her niece, one of the teenagers, and decides to investigate, which leads her to watching the video herself. Convinced that she only has a week to live, she contacts her ex husband to help her break the so-called curse. With only hours left before her death, Reiko miraculously manages to stop the chain of deaths caused by Sadako, a disturbed girl who died in a well and concocted the video. However, having watched the copy of the video, her ex hubby dies at the hand of Sadako herself after she climbs out of the TV.
THE COPY: THE RING (2002)
America's version focuses on Rachel and her investigation into the mysterious death of her niece. Through a bit of legwork, she discovers that Katie had snuck away with her friends to a cabin a week before her death and had watched a video with her friends. 7 days later, all four of them were dead at the exact same time they watched the video. This leads her to the same cabin where the kids watched the video. She watches the tape herself, bearing witness to a disturbing chain of black-and-white imagery. Shortly afterwards, like the teens before her, she receives a whispered phone call telling her she will die in 7 days. As the film continues both her friend Noah and her son Aidan also see the film and fall under the same curse.
[taken from http://www.best-horror-movies.com/the-ring.html. no infringement intended]
These are just two of the many other productions that America has copied. Seeing as I have a slow Net at the moment, I can't really post and compare them all. However to give you an idea of what the others are, I'll spell some of them out for you.
Word of advise to American film makers, stick to action films. Here, your fancy special effects can work and can be your saving grace in case the plot's bad. Trust me, the horror flicks you copy off of Japanese maestros would still pretty much suck even if your effects are better than theirs.
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