So I haven’t been on [wordpress] in well over a year (or almost) but I somehow stumbled over it today and thought I’d just write a short post. First of all, wordpress has changed so much since I was last here. It’s so much more organized and stuff, but I bet you already know that. Anyway, I’d just like to say ‘hi’ and wish you all a happy april 16th.
love to all of you guys out there,
jello 🙂
Sometimes I just hate electronics so much. They just are so complicated. Even for me, super nerd. If I haven’t complained to you already, my [bamboo fun] tablet doesn’t work. I mean, I haven’t even had it for a year, but it’s already having issues with stuff. This has been happening for about a few months and has been annoying the heck out of me. Lucky me, it suddenly started to work again, so I feel so happy. 😀 But anyway, back to technology and electronics. I often feel that it’s made to smart for us. At least a year ago, I thought I was quite the computer geek when I learned from one of those “Get To Know Your Mac: A Guide for Dummies…” kind of books that you could eject a cd/disk by pressing the little button featuring a top pointing arrow on top of a thick line. I know… right? I should’ve known. I think that a computer could be a ton more maneuverable without so much stuff weighing it down, draining disk space. Not like I hate macs’ cool features. You know, I found out today about another branch of imacs, commonly known as eMacs. (I know, how creative) As in Education Mac. They were cut off in 2006 for some reason. Anyway, yeah… all I want for my computer is internet, photoshop and a word proccessing application… even notepad will do! :O
Um, that reminds me of this cell phone, Jitterbug. It gives me the creeps. It’s really big, has big buttons, and has no features whatsoever.
Icky huh?
Pretty sure they’re for seniors… No complications whatsoever.
Do you ever recall your grandparents or even parents asking you how to do simple things such as change ringtones and take pictures? It’s just weird. oO It just shows how geek-like the new generation is, and how too proud we are to admit it. Hahaha, I’m weird.
You’ve just had a heart attack from the sudden sporadic changes in the sublime site that is Jellopenguin.
-Jello as of this moment
If you haven’t noticed, Jellopenguin has undergone major changes, such as a new, stylish template, a new page, and other things that I don’t want to spoil in one sentence.
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number five… is it?
So the past day, I think, I was working on this stuff because I was so so sick. Well, It’s a picture of a pug, and I’m hoping to use it as an example for my first ever Jello tutorials. I’m thinking of a super snappy name for them, though… Like jello-torials or jeltorials or something cool like that. (Feel free to comment and help me out here) In’t that cool? I think my first tutorial will be… dun dun dun, secret. Actually, here’s a hint, it’s gonna probably be about masking images, which is totally nerdy, so brace yourself. Okay, so there are two, since I enjoy playing with colors. Everything there is MINE. All brush credit go to their respective owners and blah, blah.
Here yah go! ^
I know, it’s really bad quality. 😦 Well, here you go, feel free to admire and comment!
So, yeah, I haven’t posted in ages, well, I have some nice, long excuses:
1. I’m sick with the stomach flu. blaeech.
2. Okay, actually never mind, that’s it.
But I’d like to address those of you who have been commenting and viewing my blog recently… 2,246 hits! Haha, I’ve been waiting so long for that, thanks for all of the support.
Okay, because I’ve been gone so long, I have quite a lot of stuff to catch up on… I mean, the OLYMPICS, and movies and stuff. (I saw Wall•E… mixed reviews….) I love reviewing movies! (As you can see from the latter post 😀
Well, once again, thanks for all the help and stuff, who knows, maybe I could get 6,000 hits? Well, maybe in the next… oh, two, or three years…? ;0
Things to check back for!!
• Star Fox: Assault
• Pug Love
• The Olympics: Days 1, 2, 3, etc…
• The Olympics: Michael Phelps’ Quest for Gold
• WALL•E
• Other Fun Stuff including sort of kind of maybe contests… 😀
• QOW
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• Yes, I know, it says Conacte me. I DON’T CARE… gosh, too many complaints about that issue. 😀 Okay, moving on.
• Unless you’re actually someone I know personally, you can’t chat in the private friends only chat.
• A new page coming up soon! (not really a complaint, but still)
• Just a note to people who have recently asked me to participate in their contest, I probably won’t join… and if I do, it’s gonna be laaaaate.
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So, as many of you have heard, the movie, The Dark Knight came out today… correction, the 18th… I thought it would be really horrible and stuff, but it turned out to be really very good. The whole movie was simply thrilling, with nonstop action and tons of suspense, even with a few hints at humor. (: I have to say that it was really one of the better movies that I’ve seen lately. Also:
Ahem, Spoiler Warning… not really, but kind of sort of maybeish…?
I really didn’t know what to expect, after all, it’s Batman… come. on. But it was really truly remarkable. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, gripping the arms of my gum covered seat. I was stunned with the outcome, the whole movie and the Joker. Yep, I’m going to keep raving about Heath Ledger’s gripping performance… Rip.
You know, the movie was great, and so was Christian Bale… (who is awesome, by the way) but the real… actor, star, character… was the Joker. This mad psychopath who has this unending hunger for death. My gosh, everything was in a way very satisfying. 😀
Quotes from the Actors
Heath Ledger was spectacular as the Joker… it makes me sad. He was his own true character. I think the best part about Ledger as the Joker was how he made the character his own, adding in his personal touch, I guess.
“I don’t have a technique. I’ve never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That’s the one thing that guides me through every decision professionally. Socially, also. That’s my technique. Yeah, you read through the script 100 times. I guess I have little characteristics about myself. Sometimes, most often than not, once we start shooting I won’t look at the script at all until we finished shooting. It’s kind of like it’s been imprinted in my head during rehearsals. You just let it go.”
– Heath Ledger to Reel.com, May 2001
and another quote,
[On playing “The Joker” in The Dark Knight (2008)] The Joker, so far, is definitely the most fun I’ve had with any character. He’s just out of control — no empathy, he’s a sociopath, uh, a psychotic, mass-murdering clown. And, uh, I’m just thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying it. It’s just exceeded any expectations I had of what the experience would be like.
-Heath Ledger
Christian Bale was great, too, although he looked awfully funny with his hair like that. 🙂
I like being kept in the dark myself. You know, like mushrooms: Keep ’em in the dark and feed ’em -censored for the benefit of all audiences :)-. See, I think that’s an enjoyable vegetable to be.
-Christian Bale about something I don’t know what…
Yay for Christian Bale, he wants to be a mushroom, like me!
At the time that [Christopher Nolan] asked me to do it [Batman Begins (2005)] I actually couldn’t do one push-up. They sent me to a trainer, who was having to hold my T-shirt at the back just to pull me up. I’ve come a long way from that.
-Christian Bale about Something
Just another weird quote… um, yup.
Now Back to the Movie
Okay, so enough of the graphic novel surmise… if you’re still reading:
Opinions About the Movie
If you ask me, I really think that the movie was Christopher Nolan’s whole idea of Batman and his legacy. He recreated Batman, the Joker, Gotham City as a true to life city with a true to life plot. The Joker was not some clown, but a sadistic killer, a psychopath who committed these offenses for no reason but for entertainment. As for Batman, he is a rich, famous Bruce Wayne, who secretly works as a masked vigilante, Batman. See? Not a superhero, but a vigilante… everything is being revolutionized as real. That’s right, no super powers, no human wolf hybrids… just crazy clown men and multi-millionaires dressed in way too tight clothes. 🙂
Favorite/Memorable Quotes Etc. from the Movie
Scene when: Joker hands out playing cards-Quote: “Here’s My Card…”
Scene when: Joker makes the pencil “magically disappear” It was one of the first very sudden violent scenes… :O -“I can make this pencil disappear… it’s magic!…”
Scene when: Lucius Fox is confronted by Reese who believes he knows the identity of batman-“…so you think that your boss puts on a bat suit…sneaks out at night and beats people up…want to blackmail him…?”
Scene when: The Joker appears in the so called “Laughter truck”
Scene when: The Joker is found in the nurse’s costume and when his detonater is not working properly. 🙂
Scene when: The buff man has a cellphone in his tummy… 😦 I really felt bad for him… human bomb. Quote: “He said he’d fill me up with lights… like Christmas.”
Scene when: Batman beats the Joker around.
Scene when: The tall buff prisoner dumps the detonator out of the window. Quote: “I’m going to do what you should have done ten minutes ago…” (by that time the whole audience started clapping… ugh)
Scene when: Harvey, aka ‘Two-face’ uses his special luck making coin on several unlucky people.
Scene when: The Joker sticks his head out of the police car.
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‘Synposising’
This movie was pretty much amazing in so many ways. Number one, it’s the first movie I know that reccieved a 5 star rating, it’s lowest rating being 4 1/2 stars. Number two, it shattered box office reccords with an astounding $155.3 million just from this Friday to Sunday.
Some Facts:
If you combined all of the money that The Dark Knight’s predecessors made in its first week, (that means Batman Forever, Batman Returns, Batman Begins) it still would not ammount to what The Dark Knight made in its first week.
The Dark Knight made $66.4 million on Friday, more than Batman Begins made in any one weekend.
The top grossing weekend films from Friday to Sunday:
Anyway, I think that’s pretty cool, but not unbelievable for such a great movie… I personally believe that there were many reasons why people flocked to see this movie. One big factor had to have been that The Dark Knight was the last movie the late Heath Ledger worked in as the Joker. It just amazes and saddens me to see how this great actor passed away before even the release of the movie, also knowing how remarkably well he did. I mean, he was amazing. “You will never kill me and I will never kill you…we will do this forever…”that was probably the saddest part of the whole movie for me. Especially knowing that the movie was pretty much open for a sequel… Well, if there was a sequel what do you think should happen? I bet you anything there won’t be Mr. Penguin… Mr. Plastic or Superman. Anyway, what I find interesting is how everything’s so realistic. Remember when Jack Nicholson played the role of Tim Burton’s Joker? At that time, he had to be a real joker, more bubbly than dangerous… probably robbing, not killing. It’s been said that Nicholson actually came to warn Ledger of what he was about to do. He told him how dangerous playing such a dangerous role can be. To prepare for his role, Ledger supposedly lived in a motel room for a month, forming the Joker’s personality and habits, every so often referring to some dark batman comics and Alex from Clockwork Orange. Yes, his slightly slumped posture, his incessant habit of licking his lips, his maniacal laugh and high pitched voice, even his psychology: how he thought and acted. That was Heath Ledger’s creation… Mwahaha, I sound ominous. ( : I have to say that if Heath could get an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor… he would. :O When asked by Christopher Nolan why he wanted to play the part of the sinister, murdering Joker, Heath simply replied, “Because he’s fearless…” And fearless might be the right word to describe the Joker.
Everything he [the joker] did had no rules applied to it. He just lived for entertainment. But something, I don’t know what, made me think he was do all of that to hopefully get killed. I dunno. I mean he seemed pretty sinister and bloodthirsty, but he also seemed sad, forever smiling at everything he and others did. I’m pretty sure he was convinced that the human race was hopeless, a race that would, If allowed, eat psychotherapy up like fresh out of the box Twinkies. So he did his best to get all of it over with or something. He seemed pretty happy to fly down headfirst off of a sky scraper at the end of the movie, and only a little disappointed when batman catches him at the last moment. Other than that, The Joker seemed to lie a heck of lot. 😀 First, he says he has no plans whatsoever… which is obviously a lie. I mean, who just improvises on a whim to dress up as a nurse, blow up an entire hospital, come out alive, and somehow plant bombs in two ships, one full of normal people, and one full of convicts…? Or when he has innocent civillians ducked taped to guns and garbed in the masks of the followers of the jokers, then dresses his followers up as doctors?… Anyway, the movie was really great, that’s why I’m still writing.
The Meaning/Morals
To me, the moral/s/ of the movie was pretty weird and twistish but still very continuous throughout the whole of the movie. First, remember the twin sided coin that Harvey raved about? Saying he makes his own luck. At first you (and I did too) might think the whole thing is really pretty stupid, relying on a coin to decided everything for you. Then, you find out that the coin is a twin sided coin, so it has heads on both sides. (this was pretty apparent to me… and should have been to you ^^) Still, you might think that’s pretty stupid. I mean every time he talks to someone, he takes out his little lucky coin and says something like, “If this lands on heads, you get to do blah blah blah but if it lands on tails, you can’t blah blah blah…” Well, I won’t bore you to death, but in the end, Harvey gets half of his face exploded off and the same with his little coin thing. Thus is the birth of Two-face. Anyhow, this explains an underlying element/force in all of life… chance. Aside from the coin, the Joker underlines this point many times, what with his two bomb loaded boats, the two rooms with Harvey and the other with his girlfriend… and lots more that I can’t name right now… This simply states how there are always two sides to something, and how much chance really affects us and vice versa. Another type of moral had to do with humans’ natural instincts and behavior. This was mentioned a couple of times by the Joker and reflected from the attitudes and actions of the civillians of Gotham City. The Joker kept saying how humans would eventually turn on eachother, and he kept trying his best to do so. Um, yeah that’s a mouthful of stuff I wrote, so enjoy it…. please. 🙂
Wonderful acting, wonderful sets and plotline, amazing costumes, makeup and props!
-----Babang-----
The Inspiration
Y’know, I was reading more about the whole Batman Dark Knight thing, and I guess Dark Knight was actually a graphic novel, created for the most part by Frank Miller. Apparently, the plot is quite different in comparison to the Dark Knight movie.
For one, Batman has retired after Robin dies, and goes back to fighting crime, only to stop ‘Two Face’ or Harvey Dent, who is also in the movie. Apparently, the citizens of Gotham City begin to question Batman’s loyalties.
It is said that Frank Miller’s graphic novel brought around a new era of superheroes… not those innocent buff men in tights, but a more mysterious, gritty… questionable hero. More appealing, I guess. Another thing, the new Batman in the graphic novels is darker and a little more violent, seriously thinking about breaking his no-killing rule.
Well, some 13 year old girl named Carrie, I believe, dons a Robin suit and saves Batman’s life from a gang of reckless teenagers called the Mutants. Although Alfred objects, Bruce Wayne/ Batman accepts Carrie in as Robin, even though she isn’t an orphan as all the previous Robins have been.
After Batman puts ‘Two Face’ safely behind bars, he does the same thing to the leader of the Mutants and gains some followers from the widespread gang.
In the end, James Gordon, this big police chief man, is replaced by Ellen Yindell…. I think. She absolutely hates Batman so she decides to have some type of warrant thing for him and the Joker. Batman ends up breaking the Joker’s neck, but not killing him, so the Joker kills himself… As for Batman’s warrant for arrest,
Superman who agreed to work for and under the government, is commissioned to kill him. Batman and Superman are thrust into this epic battle where Superman ends up killing Batman. At Batman’s funeral, somehow, someone finds out that he has a heartbeat, so he was obviously faking his death… But still, Alfred the butler dies of a stroke as he destroys Wayne Manor. In the very very very end, Batman leads Robin, the Sons of Batman, and Green Arrow into some type of cave thing past the former bat cave that Alfred destroyed… he says that he hopes to retire from crime-fighting but sort of seek revenge for all those people who tried to arrest and kill him. Um, then there’s a sequel to that… but that’s all too confusing… I don’t even know. Just researched a lot.
Number one, I had this giant recital thing yesterday… was too tired to really give any details, though. So here I am to tell you guys a little about it. So my wonderful private teacher, David Sills (Go look him up, won’t you?) decided to have this whole jazz recital with this really very experienced band. That’s a little too advanced for me. Well, I was quite nervous, but I had no choice… I just had to do this, it would be a little embarrassing, but a great experience, right? So We (my sisters and me) were pretty much the last people to preform, and that did nothing to take the edge off of the suspense, of course. To intimidate us even more, these two extremely talented saxaphonist students preformed… Something and Autumn Leaves.
Well, I felt like I did pretty terribly, but… I dunno. It turned out to be pretty fun and stuff. The worst part was my horrible timing and improvisational skills. Other the countless number of proficient musicians there, there was some young third grader who had as good a tone as me. That was scary. D:
Well other than that, I finally got my Ps7 to work again. I don’t even know how I did it… in fact, I didn’t do anything, it just started to work again. So yippee, I’m back in business! (Yep, all of those images and entries for contests were sadly collaborated on a meager pse4) So congratulate me, because I feel happy!
Finally, I’ve gotten around to making an entry for Redcowz. It’s kinda late and all, but still,
Very late, but finally finished!!
So I’m finally done, and I know that the cow’s stuffed away in the corner but that’s the best I can do with that ugly cow; shame on you, ugly cow. 😦
If you read closely, all the cows have a label. Starting from the top to the bottom-left, the inspiration, the neglected, the obvious, the truth. This simply refers to the stuffed cow as the inspiration for the site (sort of) and my project, the neglected is the sad looking red cow because he looks like a much better cow than the one provided, and was not chosen. Then there’s the obvious, which is the cow that was provided for the project, and the truth, which is a cow shown as a diagram for a beef cut. The reason for ‘the truth’ is simply to say, no, cows aren’t red… and yeah some other stuff to, I guess. Yep, it’s all so deep and stuff. I leave you to figure out the rest, MWAHAHAHA.
So call me superstitious and gullible, but have you seen any of those videos that have popped up on the internet featuring cellphones popping corn, hillarious, isn’t it? [x] Well, if you don’t believe it, which I didn’t at first, I’m not saying you have to. Afterall, it could be fake, it may not be, but doesn’t that scare you? The fact that cellphones alone can radiate enough energy to pop corn kernels? It has the same amount/strength of radiation stuff as a microwave or stove.
If you haven’t seen this before, some people surround a few popcorn kernels with four phones, I believe. Then one person calls the phones and with the pleasant tones and rings, the kernels begin to pop! All the people in the video begin to laugh hysterically. It’s almost as funny as it’s dangerous. D: I wonder if the people after doing their little video, pick up their phones and then call up their friends and give them a two hour long report. Haha.
Trickery there must be, however, because, as a simple matter of logic, if your cell phone emits enough electromagnetic energy to pop popcorn, it should also make your head explode. When was the last time that happened to you?
-David Emery, Cell Phone Popcorn?
Just imagine what it can do to our heads if it can do that to popcorn… Are our cellphones actually popping our brains? Do you realize that in order to pop corn kernels, the kernel flips inside outm and puffs out forcibly, expanding, as if it were blown up or something… imagine our brain doing that. Ick. And to think I learned this three days after I got my nifty Glyde. So I stick to texting. I think that some of the best ways to prevent all of this is to either use land phones, text or use speakerphone on your cell. That way, you can hold the phone away from you… texting doesn’t even require you to listen to anything, so your fine there, and land phones (ie, phones that aren’t cellphones) are ususally plugged in or something. You know, I’m no scientist, so I really don’t know the cause for the popping corn thing, and I don’t know if land phones pop corn. Why don’t you try it out and see? Yeah, I’ve seen people talk on there phones for hours… unlimited minutes, poor them. Like that girl on that one old at &t commercial… I think. She’s talking for several hourse on her phone, and these at & t employees are smiling and tracking her time.
So think carefully the next time you pick up to answer a call from your Uncle in Vermont… think carefully the next time you attempt to pop corn with your cellphone… who knows what could happen……
So today is a nice warm day, sunny and bright, perfect for the beach, right? But first, since I’m at my grandparents’ house I have something else to do… make jam! You see, my grandma has thousands upon thousands of fruit trees and plants and things. After all, she lives right next to the forest, and actually owns part of it. So yesterday, we gathered plums from this giant plum tree that overlooks a hill at the edge of their property. It was surprising that there were so many plums…about seven bowl-fulls and more! We would just collect them when they fell on the ground. Today, we turned many of those bowl-fulls into jar-fulls of plum jam.
Well, we’re still not done with that yet, but we were supposed to go to the beach a while ago. But my cousin is buying a new camera today, so we’re waiting for her to finish up with that. She’s buying the camera from one of her brothers’ friends who makes short videos of pro-skater teams or something… I dunno. So we’re just sitting here waiting. Making jam and playing piano and bloggin and whatnot. (sounds like Stephen :D) Well, excuse me for second while I stir the jam! (no, really)
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