Five Facts: Me!

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Now I know that this might not be the best Five Facts Fact Person(FFFP for short) to pick, but heck, why not?

1. First, I love computer games. I especially like the ones where I can choose my fate or unleash my creativity. Games with linear story lines are fun and all, but they just don’t get me in that must-do-the-most-ambitious-thing-ever-that-I-will-never-get-done state of mind.

2. Second, l really enjoy a good book and perhaps the movie version too. I get engrossed in these fictional worlds and never-ever want to get out. They engage me for one reason: I relate to the characters in some sort of way. I can go on a frenzy where, in the space of a month, I read most or all of a sires.

3. Third, science is cool! I think that the discovering new things is right up my alley. I like science class, I just don’t always agree with the teaching styles. If we did more things that were even slightly relevant, I could see the point in all the worksheets, but do they really improve my understanding of science?

4. Fourth, I find playing my saxophone both relaxing and stressful. My activities in both symphonic and jazz band take up a large amount of time, but for a great reason. I you were to give me any saxophone, mouthpiece, and reed, I could play it well enough. My favorite sax is the Bari.

5. Fifth, I like being at home. My parents don’t understand it, but then again, they aren’t at school for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
My house is where I can be me. The sad truth about it is; I spend so much time doing homework, that I feel that I hardly get to enjoy it. Home where I do the things that I like, which include film making, reading, playing, and most of all; just being extremely lazy.

Hopefully you found an interesting thing about me that you can relate to. (I know all sax players can relate to me)

MLIA Week 3: A Night At The Movies

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This week,
Was interesting.
Definitely.
Almost half of my future city things were due, my Bari Sax broke, and above all the freaking SECOND PART OF THE HOBBIT came out. As you probably deduced, I love LOTR and all things to do with it.
So…
This is a review of the movie in case you haven’t seen it. The things with spoilers will be at the end, with a lot of empty space so as to not ruin the (great) movie.

Let us begin.

This movie was spectacular! The sound was not too overpowering, but noticeable. In case you didn’t know, the hobbit films were all shot in this high frame-rate 3D sort of way. This makes for a great visual experience. I thought that the 3D was cool, and most importantly, not distracting. This movie was, in my mind, the dull part of the book. In the middle of the book, it gets pretty boring. Peter Jackson did a great job adding action to otherwise boring parts.
It starts with an amazing prologue, just PJ is good at. No real action, just talking and observing. Gandalf meets up with Thorin Oakenshield and convinces him to take back the ancient dwarf fortress Erebor.
A very nice cut happens, and you are taken twelve months into the future at the edge of Mirkwood. Due to some bad things happening in the fortress of Dol Guldur, Gandalf has to leave the group. Mirkwood looks fantastic. The 3D was used very well for some creepy spider-webs effect. Now, there are big nasty spiders. Jumping all around and causing a great deal of havoc for our little adventurers.
The ever more addicting ring comes in handy, and needless to say, they escape.
All of the animations look great. I might even be able to say they are the best I’ve ever seen. Lake town looks awesome. Erebor looks awesome. Everywhere looks awesome.
One name.
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Smaug.
This is what this movie is about! Man, does he sound good! Benedict Cumberbatch has this smooth, deep, rumbly voice that is AWESOME! He speaks in almost modern English, but it fits perfectly. Again, the animation could be confused as a real dragon. Smaug completely takes up all of Erebor. He can move fluidly through caverns and halls.

Spoiler time.

The dwarf’s plan to kill smaug is not in the book. Neither is Legolas. But something about the additions make it better.
The plan fails, and smaug has the idea to go and destroy lake-town, as the prophecy says. The movie ends in a total cliffhanger, which I like. The last line in the whole movies is Bilbo saying, “What have I done?”

This was a great movie. Go see it. Get your grubby little hands on the disk. Add it to your collection.

And last of all, be a LOTR nerd.

MLIA Week 2: Sax In the Desert

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Over Thanksgiving, my family and I went to a ranch south of Marfa, TX. This place was really cool and had tons of activities to do. I went skeet shooting, but that is beside the point. I brought my Alto Saxophone to hopefully play whilst there. We went up the hill behind the ranch and looked at the grave of the founder of the ranch and then started playing. I didn’t play anything special, but my improv skills have improved a ton since the beginning of the year. I played some happy jazz, then a bit of sad blues to finish it off. This was so very fun, and my dad got a pretty cool video.

All around, there was no sense of development. You could see desert hills for miles in each direction. The next day, we took a humvee ride up the side of a very large mountain. You might think that the desert was close to sea level, but that was not the case. On top of the mountain, we were about 7,000 feet above sea level. Far off in the distance, I could just barely make out fields of grain being burned in nearby Mexico.
This humvee had two seats attached to the front, which were really fun to ride on up and down the steep slopes. I tried to ride them as much as possible, even though I was probably only supposed to ride once.
This thanksgiving had to be on of the best ones I have ever had.

Five Facts: Sauron

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To prove that I am a total nerd, and LOTR fan, I am going to show five facts about the dark lord Sauron.
1. Sauron is 9ft 10in tall in the prelude to the Fellowship of the Ring movie.
2. He is from the first age, so he should have been about six Thousand years old, give or take a few hundred, at the time of his death.
3. Originally, he was neutral but then was turned evil by the previous Dark Lord Morgoth.
4. At the end of the second age, he had assumed the titles King of Men and Lord of the Earth.
If any of you have seen the Hobbit film, you will recognize this:
5. Sauron took shape of the Necromancer from the years TA (third age) 1050 to TA 2941.

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The Necromancer as seen in the Hobbit film.
“Wikia.” The One Wiki to Rule Them All. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013.

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The eye of Sauron looking about.
“Wikia.” The One Wiki to Rule Them All. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. <http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Sauron?file=TheEyeofSauron.png>.

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I Am From Poem

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I am From…

By Timo N.

 I am from my bed, like a zombie from the dead

From iMacs and Selmer Saxophones

I am from the classroom

The lefsa

I am from the cedar, always in my view

The grass whose green blade was so nice to cut

I’m from travels and weirdos

From Ken and Gail

I’m from non-communication and moving

And from eating well

I’m from answers and YOU ARE AWESOME to Ole Svenson

I’m from summers in Minnesota

I’m from San Diego and Noraway

From meatballs and bread

From my grandma in a far away land

And a bathroom

A wavy quilt, a piece of art

On the wall, for all to see

 

 

MLIA (My Life Is Awesome) Week: 1 The Little Things

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This week, I had a mild cold. I took cough drops every night. Now, I had a bad cough and took a drop late at night. I threw the wrapper in the general direction of my trash can. I heard it hit something. I hate to assume things, because I am usually wrong.
This time was different. I decided to tell myself that it had gone in the can. This made me quite happy with this small, but nice, accomplishment. In the morning, I checked the floor and nothing was there. I had made the shot in the dark!

Later this week, I was cleaning my bathroom and needed to throw a paper towel away. Me being my lazy old self, I did not want to move from the precarious position on the counter. I threw the towel behind myself, and to the side toward the trash. It went in! I was so happy that I got up and gave myself a high-five in the mirror.

These are the things that made my life awesome. What made your life awesome? Post it in the comments.

My pets

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I have two cats named Mojo and Jumper. They are quite lazy and sleep all day. We got them when they were both tiny kittens of the same litter. They grew up in California and then moved to Texas when we did.
This is jumper:

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This is Mojo:

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As you can see, they are incredibly hard to tell apart. It took me a full day to figure out how to tell them apart, but it took my dad almost 4 years! They keep me good company when I’m at home alone. They are the best pets I have had in my entire life, which is not much.

Beowulf

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For English class, we are required to read the novel Beowulf. Personally I think the book is quite interesting. I haven’t found the underlying theme yet, but there are some hints to it.
If you haven’t read it, you should get the one by Robert Nye. It’s a lot shorter and more to-the-point kind of writing. The time period is very unclear to me.

What do you think of it if you are reading it? Post a comment sharing you thoughts and feelings.

Halloween

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The sweet smell of candy. The spooky decorations around the neighborhood. Can you guess what holiday this is?

That’s right, it’s halloween time! 

I love the holiday. The candy is only part of it for me. Probably my favorite part is the costumes. This year I am going as Bilbo Baggins from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies. What are you going as? Tell me in the comments so I can see what the popular costumes are this year. I have a feeling that morph-suits will be a big one again.

I have this problem with candy. I really like to save it for future use, but sometimes I save it for too long and it becomes bad. If anyone could help me with this that would be great.

Here are some cool facts about halloween.

1. 50% of kids prefer to get chocolate candy while 24% prefer non-chocolate and 10% prefer gum.

2. Jack O’Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.

3. Ireland is typically thought of as the birthplace of halloween.

4. Halloween has been called Hallow’s Eve, Witch’s Night, Lamswool, Snap-Apple Night, Samhaim, and Summers’s End.

5. In 2010, 72.2% of people will hand out candy, 46.3% will carve a pumpkin, 20.8% will visit a haunted house, and 11.5% will dress up their pets.

I hope you enjoyed the cool facts about halloween!

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Should Video Games be A Sport?

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I think there is no reason for the game not to be. I know of many games that are great to watch and fun and intense to play. I think it would be fun if they televised people playing games from all over the world. I know of many of people who make a full income off of YouTube playing games, so why not have they play them on TV? Also, the companies would make a good amount of money from entry fees

I’m not very good at these games, so I could never hope to compete live. But as always, there is this tiny little chance that I can get a team that might be a good competitor.
Comment your opinion below and see others!