White Demon Love Song

Here is my new favorite song by the Killers. It’s from the “New Moon” soundtrack and is probably the best song on the album, but I may be biased.

The World We Live In

Here is a song by the Killers that I just felt like sharing. Thanks to luisinhan on youtube.

How Addictive is the “Twilight” Saga?

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I didn’t see “Twilight” when it first came out. I was browsing the dvd rack at Blockbuster and came across it. I like vampire movies so I figured it would be worth a shot, although I wasn’t sure if it would be just another teeny bopper movie.

The movie was great. I loved the story of Bella and Edward. I loved watching Edward’s struggle between loving and killing Bella. It was such a bizarre twist to a romance story.

I didn’t really get into the books at first. I was in Walmart and came across the first book in the series and decided that it might be worth the $8 it cost me. The book made me fall in love with the series. I haven’t been able to put them down. Right now I’m on “New Moon” but almost finished. I’ll be reading “Eclipse” shortly after that since I bought it as a Christmas present for myself.

It is hard to compare a book to a movie. The book is always more detailed, and you can use your imagination more. But the actors become the characters to you. I still imagine Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart when I read the books.

I do have a few quams with the story. Bella needs to man up, atleast in the books. She acts and is treated like a paper doll. Her character is tougher in the movies. She also needs some self esteem. Yes he’s the love of her life, but she’s only 17. There will be others, atleast in reality there would be. Men come and go.

I hope that the teenage audience can tell the difference between reality and fantasy and realize that life doesn’t have to revolve around a boy. But we are human and sometimes we do just what these characters do. We metaphorically jump off cliffs for the ones we love. We stare down danger to save them if we must.

“Breaking Dawn” seems like a daunting task as the book is over 700 pages. But I’m not there yet. For now I’m going to enjoy the fantasy that Stephanie Meyers has created and see where it goes.

“Tweet for Cash” is a Scam

These type of sites irritate me. One more get rich quick scheme that is really a pyramid scheme. “Tweet for Cash” claims that you can pay $1.95 for all the information you need to become rich overnight. It doesn’t tell you that you will pay nearly $50 a month after a 7 day free trail. You make money by scamming others the same way you’ve been scammed. Just type in “Tweet for Cash scam” and you will see what a crock it is.

Warning: Work at home jobs are rare. They only exist in certain areas such as medical coding and billing, freelance writing, and a few others. But these opportunities require actual work and skill. Don’t fall for anything that asks you to pay for information that you can find online for free yourself. Be wary of anything stating “work at home”.

“A Dustland Fairytale” – The Killers

The music video for “A Dustland Fairytale” is a mixture of the movie Grease and  Barry Manilow’s Copacabana.   Brandon Flowers has very short appearances in the video.  The band is seen together in a few short shots as well. As with most Killers videos, they take place in the dusty southwest, where they come from. 

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The video is about an older man reflecting on the biggest mistake of his life – the night he killed a man.  He is returning home after decades away from home and his sweetheart.

The editing is dead on.  It flips back and forth in time so fast that you aren’t sure which era you were looking at.  I thought the beginning exposition and the “fairytale” ending could have been left out.  I would have preferred the video end at him looking in the window and his old flame is about to open the door.  But I’d rather not see the embrace.  Leave it to the imagination. 

Maybe Flowers isn’t much of an actor and that is why he usually doesn’t play major parts in the videos.  The only one that he played a major role in is “Mr. Brightside.”   Even though he is the focus on many other Killers videos, he plays a performer, not a character in the video. I think this video would have been better if he played the young man who was sent to jail.

Here is the video for“A Dustland Fairytale” by the Killers

A Poem About WFMZ

To work here, you’ve got to walk the walk

Does that camera guy ever talk?

Where did that cable go again?

Get Corey, he’ll know where it ends

Jeff does the worm

Hey look, I think Kristin got a perm

Oh no, Boss is having a fit

I think I’m fired again, oh shit

New people came and went

But us oldies know WFMZ is heaven sent

Some Haikus

Tried to lie to God

Can’t get anything past him

Damn it’s hot down here.

 

Formerly nothing

in my mind did speak of it

Now a kanundrum.

 

Went on the old dirt trail

to see a man in pale blue

Turned back far too soon.

 

11 Haiku Poems
Current mood:  creative

 

Tried to lie to God

Can’t get anything past him

Damn it’s hot down here.

 

Formerly nothing

in my mind did speak of it

Now a kanundrum.

 

Went on the old dirt trail

to see a man in pale blue

Turned back far too soon.

 

Mediocracy

is a death trap in itself

Singledom is best

 

When I was a girl

God whispered me a secret

He hasn’t talked since.

 

Flavored cherries grow

in strange little holes of dirt

That’s why I like pears.

 

Hell hath no fury

like a mistress scorned by love

She will have revenge.

 

My favorite dog

was a poodle named Scooter

He died on a whim.

 

He told me to go

and said he wouldn’t miss me

He wasn’t lying.

 

Childhood was over

grown ups have no dignity

Can’t I go back to 5?

 

Twenty one reasons

to turn you the other cheek

Twenty two to not.

Mighty Dog Finalist

Here is a link to a video of my friend’s dog. She’s trying out for the newest Mighty Dog commercial and is already in the Top 10. Push her to the Top 3 with a vote of 5 paws!

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Moonlit Carousel

A moonlit carousel sways on her own in the wind.
No engineer to tell her which way to go.
No children to throw up on her majestic hollow horses.
No supernatural setbacks or gremlins in the gears to make her run wild.
She’s just a tender machine, tilting to the side, creaking and groaning a little to show her age.
One day she won’t be standing there.
But for now she does, holding her ground by the rust of her legs.

The Killers Played at Madison Square Garden

I went to see the Killers at Madison Square Garden in January and it was an amazing concert. I had a great seat. The audience stood the whole time so I was sore by the end of the show but they made it all worth it. The band played all my favorites including “Mr. Brightside” and “Smile Like You Mean It.” They also played several of their new songs from their latest album “Day and Age” including “Human” and “Spaceman.” Brandon Flowers was a seasoned performer. If you look at older clips of their performances on Youtube, he appears ackward and unsure of himself and how to move his body. But since the first tour he’s grown tremendously as a performer. The drummer, Ronnie Vannucci, threw out 7 or 8 drumsticks to the audience members at the end of the show. If they hit any bad notes during the show, I couldn’t tell. One, because it was so loud, and two, because they rock! Some audience members were able to record parts of the concert. Here is a Youtube clip of the Killers performing “Human.”