Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire was one of the best movies I have seen for awhile. It was amazing and there are not very many words to describe it besides awesome, amazing, and simply incredible, which basically are all the same thing!! I loved it and will watch it until I know all the lines [it was that good!!]. It was really sad though to know that kids and people in general actually have to live in conditions[slums] like that every day right now in India. Some of the child actors who portrayed younger versions of the main characters actually were from the slums, like Rubina Ali, Azharuddin Ismail and Tanay Chheda[there are more]. What I thought was really nice was that all the kids got flown to the Oscars and then went to Disneyland the next day. Azhar and Rubina's stories are very sad though. When Azhar got back from America, he had a fever and was vomiting. His family[which basically is father and himself] is so poor, they have to sleep under a tarp because the shack that they had was in an illegal place got taken down by the local authorities. Also, when Azhar refused to take an interview with a reporter, his father slapped him. When Rubina got back, she kept on the dress that she wore to the Oscars for days after until it was stained and she has said to different reporters that she is tired of living in the slums since she got a chance to see what America is like. Also, reporters have said that there is a thin stream of sewage running in front of Rubina's house.

Both of these children come from rough backgrounds and I feel bad for them and the others who have to live in situations like these every day. The good thing is that the producers of this movie set up trust funds for the children and sent them all back to school, since their parents couldn't afford it. I think that American children should watch this movie so they can really be grateful of what they have and see how some others have nothing. Watching this movie made me a whole lot more thankful for what I have =)

Congrats to everyone who worked on Slumdog for winning those 8 Oscars!! It definitely deserved them!!

So... I have this really cool cousin named Candice...she's the best!!

I loooooooooooooove Jane Eyre!! This is my second time reading it out of thousands more to come!!

^_^

Oops I forgot

I forgot to say in the blog that I just posted a while ago that Imogen Heap, or "Immi" as her fans like to call her is British. I love Brits. England is the best. I want to live there so bad!

Music and Twilight!

It has been awhile since I last made a post. I got some interesting cd's for my birthday. The first two I got were M.I.A cd's. I got her cd Arular from 2005, and Kala, from last year (which was 2007 if you are feeling strangely slow). Arular is a little more saucy and dirty than Kala. It has a parental advisory explicit content warning on the cover because she drops the f-bomb a couple of times in a few of her songs but the cd is good minus the profanity. Kala is also good too. Most people only know M.I.A for Paper Planes, which is also on the CD. My favorite songs on Arular would probably have to be Pull Up the People, Bucky Done Gun, Sunshowers, Amazon, 10 Dollar, Hombre, U.R.A.Q.T, and Galang. My favorite songs on Kala are Bird Flu, Boyz, Mango Pickle Down River feat. Wilcannia Mob, Paper Planes, and Come Around feat. Timbaland. The Wilcannia Mob is a group of Australian boys who have one single out called Down River. They are fro Wilcannia, Australia and they collaborated with M.I.A for her cd. When they recorded with Maya(M.I.A), they were all really young. Im not sure about the ages but now they are all about 16, 18, and 19. I think it was really cute to hear som little Australian boys trying to rap with their little accents and everything. Whoa, I totally got sidetracked!! I forgot about the other cd!! My friend Angela gave me Imogen Heap's cd, Speak For Yourself. That cd was AWESOME!! It is one of those cd's that you listen to when you are at home alone and it is raining and you just curl up with a good book ( I know, that story is always used when someone describes when and where they like to read, I hear it all the time!) Imogen uses a synthesizer and does her own backround sound effects. She plays the guitar and piano. She also is the most creative artist I know, from what she wears on her body and head, to what she uses and background sound effects. I am subscribed to her vlog on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/imogenheap?ob=1) and she gives you the background, behind the scenes info on her upcoming projects, and stuff like that. In one song (this has to do with the sound effect part), she has two xylophone sticks and is hitting the lights on the ceiling in her music room and recording it into the song! And in her song Closing In, which is on Speak For Yourself, she is hitting empty cd cases against the big cardboard rolls that carpets come on. She even remembered to say thank you to the carpet place she got the rolls from on the insert in the cd. My favorite sound effect by her was in an song for her new cd, she played a snippet for the web and she said that towards the beginning of the song, she turned on her gameboy color, and it fit perfectly in the song! Anyways this is so random and off subject but Twilight is coming out on Friday. Ugh, it is going to be so bad. If anyone who is reading this hasn't read the book yet, do yourself the favor and read the book first because you will ruin the book for yourself by looking at the ugly actors in the movie who don't even look like the mental images you get from reading the book. The only decent looking people in the cast are Cam Gigandet, who plays James, and Peter Facinelli, who plays Carlisle. Everyone else is ugly.

Randomness...as usual. But interesting stuff though

Well it is a month closer to the premiere of Twilight and I kinda can't wait even though it is going to be bad. I am excited though. Today I had to take this picture off of my friends myspace. It was a picture of Cam Gigandet, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. They are the three actors who play James, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black in Twilight. It was such an attractive picture [in black and white] that I couldn't resist it and now it is happily on my myspace profile.

My other friend burned me this cd of X-Japan and Versailles. It is AWESOME!! If you have the chance you should really listen to them!! X-Japan's song Xclamation is my favorite!! Especially the bass part!! Taiji is kickbutt!![I can't really say the other word I meant to say because adults I know read this blog!!] My favorite song by Versailles is Zombie. It is a good Halloween song.

I just realized that that was the first time I talked about music on my blog...anyways you should go listen to my awesome M.I.A. playlist on my myspace page if you are my friend on myspace. Otherwise, I guess that's too bad that you can't hear it. Actually the first song isn't M.I.A., but still the playlist is great!! The list of songs are:

1. Kaboom- Ursula 1000
2. Pull Up The People- M.I.A.
3. Bucky Done Gun- M.I.A.
4. Sunshowers- M.I.A.
5. Galang- M.I.A.
6. Paper Planes- M.I.A.

Random

I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation. That is when I get a break from school and get a chance to finally finish a book that wasn't Japanese manga since school started!! It has been really stressful so far this year and I am very much looking forward to the next break we get from school or the next 3 day weekend. I am so exhausted and am getting less sleep since school started. But anyways, has anyone heard any good songs lately or heard of a good band or an interesting book??

I am glad that The Secret Life of Bees is finally coming out as a movie on October 13 or 17[I forgot] I really enjoyed that book and I am super excited for the movie. I think it will be good and it looks like Dakota Fanning finally chose a good part in a movie.

Oh well. Off to go do some more studying. =(