The Wizard of Oz

So I have always assumed that the movie closely followed the book. I mean ever since I was a child I have known and loved this story, so I was surprised at the differences between book and movie. Now don't get me wrong, I adored the movie, how could I not? It's like a right of passage, a tradition. Every child knows about and has seen The Wizard of Oz. Starting this book I thought I knew what to expect, the story, characters ect. ect. ,but the further I got the more I kept saying " whoa, now just wait a gosh darn minute here". The base story was the same of course, little Dorothy, with Toto...yes, yes that's right, but there was no old cranky woman trying to take Toto, or Dorothy running away. No traveling fortune teller?...hmmm. The story in the beginning was much simpler than that, which was refreshing actually. Of course further down the yellow brick road I traveled, right about the point where she meets the Tin Man, whoa!!! I had a quite the shock! The story of how he became the Tin man really threw me. I wasn't prepared for his story to be so, shall I say, gruesome. In fact, the Tin Man was continually violent throughout the story, all for good reason of course, but it still shocked me. Of course I don't hold it against him hehe. The trip down the yellow brick road was so much better in the book too. The town made completely of china with the dainty china people, the Quadlings, whose heads were flat and could crush your body. I mean come on, how fun is that? I loved loved loved this book. Just a little FYI, the Wicked Witch of the West doesn't have a huge role in this story. Not compared to the movie of course. Highly recommend this one:o)

Dandelion Wine

I recently found myself in a place that "we readers" find ourselves from time to time..."what to read next?" I can say with complete acceptance of the fact that I have a book addiction or fetish, or obsession, or maybe it's just that I am actually a true lover of books. The smell, the feel of the pages in my fingers, the anticipation of a new adventure, or any number of other metaphors to describe the things about books that make me go all nilly willy inside my belly. As I saying, I recently found myself sitting by my bookshelf pulling a book off and reading the first few pages and thinking "nah, it's not the right time for this one". I decided to walk away from the shelf (even though it called my name over and over) and give myself a break from what could have been a "forced read". You know that feeling of reading something just because it's there and it's something you have been meaning to read, even though you aren't really 'feeling it'? So I decided to get online and do some browsing when I found myself on favorite blog site (Padfoot and Prongs) which is really no surprise. I check for daily updates, new posts, reviews ect. ect. On this particular day Prongs had posted a Happy Birthday post to one of my most favorite authors Ray Bradbury. Of course it was a lovely post and by the time I had finished reading it my mind was set on what book to venture into. Thank you Prongs!

DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury is about a boy who has a magical summer, after he realizes, "I'm alive, I'm really alive!" He starts to notice things in a much different way, including his family, friends, and the people in his neighborhood. The story goes into events that took place that summer with Doug, his brother Tom, his family and the surrounding town. He experiences joy, fright, loss, and adventure. This book was amazing to say the least and I found myself caught completely up in this story, as I always tend to do with a RB book. I haven't read a "bad" book by this author. Each one is beautiful, and mysterious, and full of sights, sounds and smells. It's true! The writing style of Ray Bradbury is so completely...well you just need to read him for yourself. Why take my word for it?

Wake up by Arcade Fire

Somethin’ filled up
my heart with nothin’,
someone told me not to cry.

But now that I’m older,
my heart’s colder,
and I can see that it’s a lie.

Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don’t grow up,
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little god’s causin rain storms turnin’ every good thing to rust.

I guess we’ll just have to adjust.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’ to be
when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’
With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am go-goin’

You better look out below!

Where The Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer #2

Another image

I love photography! I was going through some of the images I have taken in the past few months and came across this one. It's from a project that my best friend and I did in which we had to shoot things that were blue, green, and orange, or the combo and any of the three. I took this with my Nikon D300 with the macro attachment. I think it's a fun photo.

Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King

Lyrics to Funny The Way It Is :
Lying in the park
On a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass
And the children play
Sirens pass and fire engine red
Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this

The evening comes and we’re hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by
With the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing ‘Why can’t we be friends?’
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in a lover’s kiss
Like a pretty bird on a breeze
Or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
And another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
A soldier’s last breath and a baby’s being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing under me
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
‘Member how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky and jetplanes
So far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me
Boy it takes a bird so close but every time
They never catch her
But they can’t stop trying

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
Another is dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
A soldier’s last breath and a baby’s being born

Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody’s broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny they way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school
And other is dropping out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing under me
It must have been much harder
When there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
‘Member how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars.


AWESOMENESS!

Film and Art

So here is the teaser trailer for the new Alice in Wonderland movie due out early next year. I'm super excited about it and am looking forward to being one of the first in line to see it:o)





On another note I will be adding a new subject to my posts...PHOTOGRAPHY. Being that I'm one myself and photography seems to be in every corner of my world, why not share some of it with the world. Here is one of my recent images:o)