Best Christmas films

Now everyone knows that there are traditions that we go through at Christmas and for many people watching the right films is one of them. So I thought I would indulge you all in my Christmas film selection which if I don’t watch, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas.

So in no particular order,

Number 1: Love Actually

Love Actually, what a classic! I don’t know many people who don’t love this film or at least fin it mildly amusing. I just love the cast! They are all brilliant and even though there are sad moments in the film and for some people things don’t work out it is still such a feel good movie which is good to watch when you’re curled up on the sofa with a glass of wine (in a very Bridget Jones-esque way in my case)

“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes, If you really love Christmas, Come on and let it Snow”

Number 2: The Nightmare Before Christmas

One of Tim Burtons many amazing films (I am a massive Tim Burton Fan). I have actually watched this film about 4 times in the past 2 weeks because I love it that much, I even made my little brother sit and watch it with me, he is only 6 so he lost interest pretty quickly but I’m pretty sure he enjoyed the bits he watched… If he didn’t I might have to disown him. Joking, joking… maybe.

“What’s this? what’s this, there’s colour everywhere. What’s this? There’s white things in the air. What’s this? I can’t believe my eyes I must be dreaming wake up Jack this isn’t fair. What’s this?”

Number 3: Elf

I’m not gunna lie, it’s not a brilliant movie in general but I love it because it’s just so silly but brilliant at the same time. It is obviously more of a children’s film but if you do need a way to get into the Christmas spirit this film is probably the best way to do it. Its a happy and stupidly hilarious film, if you’re in a bad mood over christmas it will cheer you up Promise.

Number 4: The Grinch

And who can forget Jim Carrey covered in green fur trying to steal Christmas from Whoville? This one is possibly my favourite, maybe because it’s the one I’ve been watching for the longest. I personally love Jim Carrey and I think he is brilliant in this as the scrooge type character created my the magnificent Dr. Seuss, probably another reason it’s my favourite, you can’t go wrong with Dr. Seuss!

Number 5: Gremlins

I ALMOST FORGOT! how could I forget the gremlins? How?! I haven’t watched it yet but it will get watched now i’ve remembered, and i will probably watch it tonight. It may not be your average feel good christmas movie but it is still amazing all the same. And let’s be honest who wouldn’t want gizmo for christmas?

HOW FREAKING CUTE IS THAT?! awwww. Someone buy me one? Please… as a christmas present. I promise not to get him wet or feed him after midnight!

You make me happy <3

OMG 3 blog posts in less than a week, there must be something wrong with me. Although, I am currently in an amazingly happy mood for no reason in particular but there may be a few factors contributing to my happiness.

Reason Number 1:

I’m listening to Never Shout Never, how can that not make me happy?! Christofer Drew’s voice is so pretty and also he is one sexy man… Its true. Have proof.

I told you he was sexy.

See? That picture is currently my desktop background… n’aww isn’t he cute.. Sorry, lost my train of thought, I got distracted by his face. But anyway, for those of you who haven’t heard of Never Shout Never you should give them a listen. Personally I’d recommend listening to; Happy, Trampoline, I Just Laugh, cheatercheaterbestfriendeater and Coffee and Cigarettes. Its very hard for me not to just list all their songs! Although I would say listen to the older stuff because personally I think it’s a lot better than the new album, the new albums still good, just not as good.

Reason Number 2:

I have bought and wrapped all my Christmas presents I think this must be the first year that I haven’t left something, if not everything, until Christmas Eve. Man it’s a good feeling, don’t you think? I don’t have to worry and panic up until Christmas day like I normally do so I can just sit back and relax (and completely ignore the fact that I have exams in January that I should be revising for)

Reason Number 3:

Tumblr…. I don’t know if it is contributing to my happiness but I have been on it for like 2 hours and several of the pictures on there have made me giggle! I am new to Tumblr and I am already pretty much addicted. Here are some of my favourite pictures from today. 

So there you have it folks, today’s tumblr best… that I have found, there’s probably a lot more out there.

If anyone would like to follow me on tumblr feel free  http://i-guess-im-dreaming.tumblr.com/ and I will follow you back

IT’S FOREVER DAY :D

Holy crap, jess has written two posts in two days?! :O what an chievement that is.

But that is not the point of this post, this post is about Forever Day. Some of you may know what this is some of you may not but basically someone called Alex Day also known as ‘nerimon’ on youtube has written and produced a song called ‘Forever Yours’ and basically the idea is to get it to number one for Christmas. Currently it’s in 4th place as far as I’m aware so it’s all very exciting. However, we need it to be at number 1 and so I thought I would let all the lovely people who read my blog know that we need your help! There are now about 8 versions of this song which have been released today and there are different versions currently in the Top 10, 20, 30 and 40 charts which is pretty amazing. Now all of these can be found on iTunes and all you need to do is buy them! You don’t have to buy all of them but the more you buy the more likely ‘Forever Yours’ will get to Number 1!!! Just think how amazing it will be for an unsigned artist to be at number 1 on christmas?! It would be pretty epic, let’s be honest. Also all money is going to World Vision charity so you know this is not simply a money making scheme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUbeDbG8Q-o&feature=g-u&context=G2f25d76FUAAAAAAAAA

Go to the link above to find out more about Forever Day and subscribe to nerimon and also all the links to the songs are in the description box below the video!

EVERYONE please listen to and buy the songs and pass the message onto your friends.

Thankyou

Quick Note

Yes i realised that last post wasnt spectacularly interesting, i promise they’ll get better, i just forget how to make words fit together in an interesting and sensical way for your reading enjoyment. give me time to get used to it again and everything will once again be more interesting, but will not necessarily make sense… my mind never makes sense

Image by ]babi] via Flickr

Really, I just fail, I am never saying again that i will update my posts more regularly because clearly I WONT! I am sorry to those of you that do bother to read my blog, I have let you down, again, I am just a terrible, terrible person. However, the sheer lack of posts has left room for lots of new happenings in my life which you will hear about over a number of posts which may or may not be published in the near future (notice how i am making no promises).

But for today I feel the need to talk about CHRISTMAS! woooooo christmas, ohhh yeahhh. Since yesterday, when I broke up from school I have started feeling christmasy, kind of. But for my christmasy spirit to kick in so late is unusual for me. I BLAME THE FACT I’M GETTING OLD! yes, since my last post several months ago I turned 18! What. The. Hell. As far as i can tell, 18 is supposed to be the age where people begin to mature, they take on more responsibilities and the such like. That does not apply to me in anyway whatsoever, my mental age remains firmly stuck at about 13 and will probably remain in that rut for the next 20 years of my life. I appear to have gotten sidetracked from my original train of thought. I was talking about christmas. Anyone else excited? Anyone else also not bought their presents yet? No, me neither. This is another reason that i just fail at everything in life. In november i started telling myself that i needed to sort out my christmas presents, did i listen to my internal monalogue? No, no i did not and so i told myself i could leave the present buying for another week… then another week… and another and now, i have 1 week until christmas and a gazillion presents to buy and not enough money to buy them with. So the next week is going to be spent hunting frantically for presents as i have also cleverly left it too late to order things off the internet like a normal person would do.

But anyway, thats quite enough for one day because if i tried explaining everything that i want to talk about since the last post you  would end up reading a full blown novel based on the inner working of my mind.

So, i’m going to say MERRY CHRISTMAS now just incase i do not get around to writing any more posts any time soon…

What to do?

Indeed, after promising to write shiny new posts a few times a week I have failed miserably and have spent the past 3 months barely glancing at my site stats, which are painfully low I might add. Although that would be my fault for failing to update my blog.

Well, new things happening, I have dropped out of school. It really does sound bad when I say it, but it is not as terrible as it sounds, I will be re-doing the year come september but due to current circumstances I am unable to finish this one. I have no intention of throwing my education away. Extra holiday for me! Honestly not as great as it sounds, during the week I get rather bored, I will have to find something to do, maybe do some artwork? Maybe I could actually think about that novel that I am always claiming I want to write, but never actually get around to it. Anything is better than sitting around twiddling my thumbs.

Also I should probably get around to applying to a different school, one closer to home so that I don’t have to travel 2 hours a day, because lets be honest, if you have just been in a car or on a train for an hour after school, when you get back the motivation to do work is not exactly high, more like, screw that I want to relax! I am also hoping that I can change the subjects that I took, it turns out that english literature and history arent my strong points, dont get me wrong, I find history really very interesting and I enjoy the poetry side of things in english, but when it comes to exams and timed essays I just fail miserably and when english lessons ruin a book by picking it apart bit by bit it takes the fun out of reading a book at all. I will keep art and french, which are probably my strongest subjects, and change english and history to maths and chemistry. Yes, I do realise that it is a drastic change, I have been informed of this many a time. However, as sad as this may sound I really do miss maths, I always enjoyed the lessons and chemistry was always my strongest science. I think what makes the subjects more appealing to me is that fact that the work is not based on how well you can phrase what your saying and its not about sounding academic, it is more a case of learning formulas and applying them to different situations. Although they are apparently much harder, I guess I will just have to work harder, which, to be fair, I havent really done this year.

Hopefully with all this spare time on my hands I might actually be able to write some more posts… you never know.

English Homework

Possibly one of the most interesting homework’s I have had this year has been to write a poem based on a photograph of our choice and based on the style of Ted Hughes’ ‘Six Young Men’

I have used a photograph of my great great Grandad and when he fought in the First World War which I will add to this post when I get it on my computer.

However, I thought I might as well put it up on here considering my lack of posts. It is not perfect or anything extraordinary, but it isn’t terrible.

It is still also unnamed.

Enjoy

 

He remains intact on that photographic page,

On that same stool where many before him once sat.

The innocence of their youthful, untouched faces

The hint of a smile on their un-chapped lips.

His eyes, still full of life and ready to go, lit by the flash of the camera,

Even as they have been faded on the ochre tinged paper.

 

His celluloid face cannot recount his tales.

He will not be killed, but he will not be unaffected.

One day, he will leave his tank to check his map, for a moment

In almost an instant, he will feel the heat of the exposure of the flames,

As his tank and crew are half blown away by the Boches shell

And they are left to rot and return to the soil.

 

There was nothing he could do

But return and write letters of comfort to the families

Of those people who had been his friends and his comrades

By the dim light of a candle and with the stub of a pencil

Scrawled as neatly as possible on a worn page

Unable to understand why it had not been him

Struggling to keep the splash of his tears off the page

 

I do not know if there are any pictures to keep those men alive

Or if they have been forgotten, erased by the passing of time

But without the young man pictured in this photograph I would not have been here

He is my grandfather’s grandfather, although now he no longer here

I will remember him and the men he could not have saved

By the single moment captured here

by Jessica Anthonisz

Being Uninspired in Need of Inspiration

Happy New Year and the suchlike everyone

Been so long since i posted a blog, I appear to be doing very badly at keeping up on the whole blogging thing, like I always say I will and then I never bother, I always come to my laptop when have nothing to do,with an intention of writing a blog, I just always manage to be distracted by other things, mainly facebook, it also distracts me from school work. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg knew that by creating facebook a large percentage of school grades would inevitably go down due to the addictive nature of it.

But anyway, that is not what the main topic of this blog was going to be about.

Main topic in todays blog: INSPIRATION…. I need it. I really feel the need to write a novel. However, there is one small, minor problem that I am currently faced with… I don’t know what to write about, I have no plans for a plot as of yet and I’m constantly thinking of ideas and then dismissing them. I would like to write a fantasy but then i don’t want to write about vampires since there are currently way too many crappy vampire books out at the moment, werewolves, maybe, witches and wizards, J.K. Rowling pretty much has that space covered. So yeah, I’m stuck… and i thought, maybe writing a blog post to get me doing something which involved writing would maybe give me some ideas… but that theory doesn’t appear to have worked so far.

Oh well, it was worth a shot, i will find a decent storyline… eventually… i hope!

If anyone can suggest anything to help inspire me please let me know, would be much appreciated

Also, as part of a new years resolution i will try and write more blog posts than usual, but I always say that and it never seems to happen. But never say never!

Birthdays

Image by freakgirl via Flickr

So, its my 17th birthday and I’m finding that the appeal of your birthday gets less and less interesting every year. Also i have noticed the decreasing amount of presents and cards you receive as you get older, i think family assume once you reach a certain age you don’t enjoy receiving  presents. I would like to bring this myth to an end… presents and cards are still appreciated and they make one feel loved. However, i would like to thank those that did send cards, they were much appreciated.

Also my loving parents decided to leave me for Portugal on saturday so i had no reminder that it was my birthday until i logged onto face book, i had forgotten my own birthday, great effort. Can’t you sense my excitement?

However once arriving at school and finding that my friends still cared i was rather pleased and the day got better . Midnight beast tickets, a couple of tops and some jewelry was greatly accepted and my awesome friends made it a good day. Although it was pretty much an average day, with a couple of presents thrown in.

But, as i said, the excitement that would usually keep you up at night when you were little ebbs away as the years go on as does the intense hyperactivity you once felt at christmas. Maybe its the knowledge that you’re getting older which puts us off, but considering I’m only 17 that shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Oh well. In my old age i believe that bed is calling me.

Creepy Children…

Chidren have got to be the creepiest things in any horror movie/series. Creepier than monsters or demons or…..psycho murders. The only thing scarier than small children are dolls and spiders.

I dont know what it is that makes them so creepy really. I think maybe it has something to do with the fact that children are suppose to be sweet and innocent and the idea of a child being a twisted murderer or a deranged psychotic freak, is truly disturbing.

Also, it may have something to do with those big eyes small children have, and the really high-pitched voices.

Anyways short but sweet

also id like to apologise for lack of posts,