Well, I have to confess, before this, I never knew what RSS feeds were. I knew they existed, but I never took any notice of them. I've seen them around on numerous websites, a bit like seeing someone you vaguely know at parties, but never thought to investigate any further, also a bit like seeing someone you vaguely know at parties!
I can see the point in subscribing to your favourite websites but I'm really not wasting that much time searching for new news. I barely use the internet at all, unless it's work related or facebook. It's interesting to know that you can do this, but it's not something that I would use, outside of this course. But then again, I am a bit of a techno-phobe...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Star Wars? No. Family Guy? No.
As the title of this particular post might suggest, I was thinking, considering my blog title or the Star Wars quotes on my blog, I should write about them. But no, what's to write? Apart from the fact that Star Wars is Awesome and Family Guy is so wrong, it's Awesome there's really nothing more to add. So I decided on something that takes up alot of my time. Reading, and the tpyes of books I read. I was talking to one of my friend's the other day about reading (she doesn't like to read, finds it difficult! - only person I know who doesn't enjoy reading!!) and we were talking about the different types of books that people enjoy reading. I'm a huge fan of horror and fantasy - in that order, and if she tries to read, she reads chick-lit (not that there's anything wrong with that...).
It got me curious as to why people are drawn to certain genre's. I mean, I think I like horror because I enjoy the adrenalin rush (although, when the lights are all out and my imagination takes over, I dont enjoy it at all) and fantasy, because it is so different from the life I live today, it takes me away, lets me drop out of my life and into a world where I'm fighting every day for my life, overcoming huge obstacles and basically defeating evil SOB's. Of course, I dont enjoy every horror book I pick up and fantasy can sometimes be difficult to read (the types that I read, anyway). Mostly I stick to authors I know (especially for horror - Stephen King does something to me), but every once and awhile I try a new one, and am lucky.
But back to my original thought, why are people drawn to different genres? I cant answer that question, but I can take a stab in the dark about it. I think people pick up books for different reasons, as I've already said, I like to drop out and land in another world, my friend only likes to read stories that she can relate to, my dad reads westerns, which makes me think he likes the whole being a good guy and saving the town/damsell in distress from the bad guy (good overcomes evil at every end).
But really, I'm just pulling answers out of thin air. I dont know why people choose the books they do, but I would like to know. I mean, I get that people are different and are interested in different things, but could you really describe why you like the genres you do? I found it a little difficult, I like it because I like it, what's to explain? I'm interested in it because I am. Try it, and let me know what you think.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Greetings
Greetings,
Well this is my first Blog post. I'm doing this because I'm currently taking part in the Public Libraries Web 2.0 training, and one of the first thing you have to do is to create a blog. So here it is. I hope you find it interesting...although I am not promising anything... haha
I have to say, I find it hard to think of things to write. But I guess I could write about the movie I saw on the weekend.
It was The Last Excorcist, and dude, was it scary.
If you're planning on going to see it, I'd suggest that you read no further as I'm including spoilers...
Anyway, its a mockumentary about a priest who has, basically, lost his faith and is about to quit the priesthood. He starts off telling us that he doesn't believe in excorcisms and that he hasn't for awhile (after reading an article about a kid who somehow dies from suffocation from an excorcism), so he decides to take a camera crew to the last excorcism that he plans on performing.
It's extremely hard to like the priest. You can see that he's charismatic, and his followers love him, but the way he talks about decieving people about excorcisms and with his whole belief in God makes him really hard to connect to.
So Priest Cotton (yes, that is his name!) randomly chooses a letter from his "fan mail" and briefly reads it through, and this ends up being the family that he and his crew go to see.
So he takes us for a drive to some old hick country town and proceed to the very outskirts to an isolated farm. We meet the son on the way, who couldn't be angrier about the priest being there and tells him to, you know, get lost. But they continue to the farm where we meet the redneck, boozo, highly religious father and his possessed daughter.We find out that the daughter has been taken out of school and church by her father, you never really find out why, but I assume it's something to do with religious beliefs. PC (priest Cotton) then performs some tests on the daughter, basically she puts her feet in a tub of water and we see PC drop something in and the water starts to boil. (At this point, I was really starting to hate PC, I mean, I get that he'd lost his faith or whatever, but these people were relying on him to help them, and he was putting on a performance)
So, now we see the setting up of the excorcism, which consists of and Ipod with "demonic" noises and some fishing wire, some electric shock rings, and so on and so forth. He performs the excorcism, and all goes well. PC declares the daughter to be free of demonic possession and goes back to his hotel. At some point during the night we follow the crew to PCs room at the hotel and the daughter is there, And something is obviously wrong, she spews and tries to hook up with one of the crew and is just being plain weird, so they take her to the hospital. And we find out she's pregnant. And my first thought, along with everyone else's is that it's the fathers.
PC tries to get the local priest in on the action but he declines, saying that the father was quite aggressive the last time they spoke and he doesn't think that he'd want to see him. He does, however, agree that if the father wants to see him, he will go.
Then, it all starts to go a bit crazy. They end up taking the daughter home and the PC tries to convince the father to get her to see a psych but the father goes nuts and pretty much says, if you wont excorcise her again, then get out, and goes off to pray. A huge commotion suddenly goes on upstairs and they all run up (apart from the father who is still outside praying) to her room where you can hear her throwing herself against the door and playing a recorder (wierd!!). Finally they get into her room, but cant see her until she makes a noise and they find her on top of her wardrobe. They decide to kidnap her (basically) but the father starts shooting at them, and so PC agrees to the excorcism.
The excorcism takes place in the barn. Basically PC tells the daughter to call forth the "demon" and eventually the "demon" takes over. Then it seems that it's not a demon, but just the daughter is ashamed, because she had sex with some guy who works in a tuckshop. So PC and gang head home. But on the way home, they drive past the tuckshop where the guy who plowed the daughter works. So they decide to stop in, and find out that said guy is gay.
So PC and gang turn around and head back to the farmhouse. No one is there, but they here the daughter screaming, somewhere out in the forest. They follow her screams, and we see the local priest in a red robe, the daughter lying on a flat rock thing, trying to give birth and the father tied to a tree, along with a bunch of other people surrounding them. There is also a huge bonfire nearby. The daughter gives birth to some sort of creature (the devil) and the local priest throws it into the fire. There's screaming and explosions from the bonfire and suddenly there is only the daughter left. PC walks out to the fire with his cross out, and you hear one of the crew screaming that "they're here", the camera guy turns around and we see her get chopped up. The poor camera guys sprints away, and eventually stops running, a twig cracks and suddenly the son is there with a knife. He slashes the camera guys throat and the camera falls to the ground. The end.
I was a bit disappointed with the end. What happened to PC? What happened to the daughter and her father? And what's with the local priest and the son?
Well this is my first Blog post. I'm doing this because I'm currently taking part in the Public Libraries Web 2.0 training, and one of the first thing you have to do is to create a blog. So here it is. I hope you find it interesting...although I am not promising anything... haha
I have to say, I find it hard to think of things to write. But I guess I could write about the movie I saw on the weekend.
It was The Last Excorcist, and dude, was it scary.
If you're planning on going to see it, I'd suggest that you read no further as I'm including spoilers...
Anyway, its a mockumentary about a priest who has, basically, lost his faith and is about to quit the priesthood. He starts off telling us that he doesn't believe in excorcisms and that he hasn't for awhile (after reading an article about a kid who somehow dies from suffocation from an excorcism), so he decides to take a camera crew to the last excorcism that he plans on performing.
It's extremely hard to like the priest. You can see that he's charismatic, and his followers love him, but the way he talks about decieving people about excorcisms and with his whole belief in God makes him really hard to connect to.
So Priest Cotton (yes, that is his name!) randomly chooses a letter from his "fan mail" and briefly reads it through, and this ends up being the family that he and his crew go to see.
So he takes us for a drive to some old hick country town and proceed to the very outskirts to an isolated farm. We meet the son on the way, who couldn't be angrier about the priest being there and tells him to, you know, get lost. But they continue to the farm where we meet the redneck, boozo, highly religious father and his possessed daughter.We find out that the daughter has been taken out of school and church by her father, you never really find out why, but I assume it's something to do with religious beliefs. PC (priest Cotton) then performs some tests on the daughter, basically she puts her feet in a tub of water and we see PC drop something in and the water starts to boil. (At this point, I was really starting to hate PC, I mean, I get that he'd lost his faith or whatever, but these people were relying on him to help them, and he was putting on a performance)
So, now we see the setting up of the excorcism, which consists of and Ipod with "demonic" noises and some fishing wire, some electric shock rings, and so on and so forth. He performs the excorcism, and all goes well. PC declares the daughter to be free of demonic possession and goes back to his hotel. At some point during the night we follow the crew to PCs room at the hotel and the daughter is there, And something is obviously wrong, she spews and tries to hook up with one of the crew and is just being plain weird, so they take her to the hospital. And we find out she's pregnant. And my first thought, along with everyone else's is that it's the fathers.
PC tries to get the local priest in on the action but he declines, saying that the father was quite aggressive the last time they spoke and he doesn't think that he'd want to see him. He does, however, agree that if the father wants to see him, he will go.
Then, it all starts to go a bit crazy. They end up taking the daughter home and the PC tries to convince the father to get her to see a psych but the father goes nuts and pretty much says, if you wont excorcise her again, then get out, and goes off to pray. A huge commotion suddenly goes on upstairs and they all run up (apart from the father who is still outside praying) to her room where you can hear her throwing herself against the door and playing a recorder (wierd!!). Finally they get into her room, but cant see her until she makes a noise and they find her on top of her wardrobe. They decide to kidnap her (basically) but the father starts shooting at them, and so PC agrees to the excorcism.
The excorcism takes place in the barn. Basically PC tells the daughter to call forth the "demon" and eventually the "demon" takes over. Then it seems that it's not a demon, but just the daughter is ashamed, because she had sex with some guy who works in a tuckshop. So PC and gang head home. But on the way home, they drive past the tuckshop where the guy who plowed the daughter works. So they decide to stop in, and find out that said guy is gay.
So PC and gang turn around and head back to the farmhouse. No one is there, but they here the daughter screaming, somewhere out in the forest. They follow her screams, and we see the local priest in a red robe, the daughter lying on a flat rock thing, trying to give birth and the father tied to a tree, along with a bunch of other people surrounding them. There is also a huge bonfire nearby. The daughter gives birth to some sort of creature (the devil) and the local priest throws it into the fire. There's screaming and explosions from the bonfire and suddenly there is only the daughter left. PC walks out to the fire with his cross out, and you hear one of the crew screaming that "they're here", the camera guy turns around and we see her get chopped up. The poor camera guys sprints away, and eventually stops running, a twig cracks and suddenly the son is there with a knife. He slashes the camera guys throat and the camera falls to the ground. The end.
I was a bit disappointed with the end. What happened to PC? What happened to the daughter and her father? And what's with the local priest and the son?
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