Los Angeles-Holiday Update Five

Yesterday I arrived in Hollywood, Los Angeles. So far I have seen:

-The Hollywood sign
-The Warner Brothers Studios. I was very excited to see this, because a LOT of Tim Burton's films were produced by Warner Brothers. Also, the Harry Potter, Batman and Looney Tunes franchise are owned by Warner Brothers. We got a tour around various sets of films and tv series (Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman (Returns), Spiderman etc.) and we got to see a lot of props seen in the films (the couch in the poster of that new film with Steve Carrell, a set of Corpse Bride, a lot of Harry Potter stuff). Also, there was a Sorting Hat. It sorted me into bloody Gryffindor! In the end, my parents bought me a Bellatrix Lestrange wand Yay!
-The Odditorium. A LOT of weird stuffs there.
-Burbank aka Tim Burton's birth place.

LA is awesome.

-HipsterForce

I Can't Believe These Songs Are More Than A Year Old!

We No Speak Americano-Yolanda Be Cool
Alejandro-Lady GaGa
California Gurls-Katy Perry
Hey Soul Sister-Train
Waka Waka-Shakira
Sunshine-Ginger Ninja
Stare Into The Sun-Graffiti6
Woman-Anouk
Don't Unplug Me-All Caps

Still Las Vegas-Holiday Update Four

OK, I really have to change my opinion on Las Vegas. In my last post, I was kind of neutral, but now I've seen more, I must say it's amazing. Because all the hotels with normal prizes were knocked to the ground due to renovations, we were forced to go to a hotel just outside the city centre. Little did we know that this is where all the casinos used to be. It's more of a centre than the actual centre! I've walked through a giant mall/casinoplace with all kinds of people in costumes: Elvis, Elmo, The Cookie Monster, Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton's The Mad Hatter, Pee-Wee, Spiderman, That creepy purple dinosaur, SpongeBob, Spiderman, Iron Man and some dude from Star Wars that looked like a black droid. Awesome.

We ate in a Cuban/Mexican restaurants with fabulous fajitas. I've always wondered what would happen if someone from the USA would come to the Netherlands. In the US, if you order something to eat you get enough for three people. In the Netherlands, you get enough for one person. If you ordered too much, you can always ask for a doggy bag here. In the Netherlands, people will just stare at you if you ask for a doggy bag. Ah well. At least the Dutch have better cheese.

-HipsterForce

Las Vegas-Holiday Update Three

As you can see in the title, I'm in Las Vegas right now. It is, without doubt, the most confusing city i've ever been to. There are no signs whatsoever, there was no tourist information (on a SATURDAY!). It is, however a great city. You can't possibly imagine what it's like to drive through a desert for hours and hours, with a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and suddenly there is this big city, casinos everywhere and Elvis impersonators. Awesome

Yesterday, I went to the Grand Canyon. Not the best idea if you're afraid of heights. I had to distract myself by trying to remember lyrics of songs. So I stood there, about 700 metres from the ground, singing the Oogie Boogie song. I probably looked like a fool, but it was worth it.

-HipsterForce

Feelgood

It's very hard to feel a little more happy after what happened in Oslo, but if you want to try, these songs might help (list by HipsterForce):

1. David Bowie & Queen-Under Pressure
2. Joss Stone-Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now
3. Danny Elfman-What's This?
4. Within Temptation-In Perfect Harmony
5. Jay-Z & Alecia Keys-Empire State Of Mind
6. Tim Curry-Sweet Transvestite
7. Christina Aguilera-Candyman
8. P!nk-Get The Party Started

Sondheim's Getting Real

Sweeney Todd: 'Tis your delight sir, catching fire from one man to the next.

Judge Turpin 'Tis true sir, love can still inspire the blood to pound the heart leap higher. What more...

Sweeney Todd: What more does man require?

Judge Turpin: Than love, sir?

Sweeney Todd: More than love, sir.

Judge Turpin: What sir?

Sweeney Todd: Well, oxygen... food. Water, perhaps...

Judge Turpin: Oh.

-HipsterForce

Harry Potter Characters In Their Rightful Houses SPOILERS

Gryffindor-boring wizard.
Harry Potter,Ginny Weasley, Sirius Black, Narcissa Malfoy
Ravenclaw-good, awesome wizard.
Luna Lovegood, Remus Lupin, Hermione Granger, Fred&George Weasley, Severus Snape, Nymphadora Tonks
Hufflepuff-not able to do sh*t.
Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley, Sparkly Cedric, Percy Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Peter Pettigrew
Slytherin-amazing wizard. On the bad side
Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange

Obviously, Slytherin and Ravenclaw are the best.
-HipsterForce

Near Salt Lake City-Holiday Update Two

So yesterday we drove from Yellowstone to a place 200 miles north of Salt Lake City. Today we drove from that place to a place 100 miles south of Salt Lake City. Let me just write down a few reasons why the US is awesome:
- Amazing wildlife. Within 24 hours of arriving in Yellowstone, I had seen a bear, buffalo, elk, a beaver and the famous geyser Old Faithful.
-A lot of vegetarian food to eat.
-Free WiFi EVERYWHERE!

-HipsterForce

Harry Potter

I'm really looking forward to seeing Harry Potter (well, actually Bellatrix is more awesome than all the other characters combined, so I'm not looking forward to seeing Harry Potter) That's all I have to say.
-HipsterForce

Seattle - Holiday Update One

By the way, I'm in Seattle right now, and it's really awesome. At first I didn't know what to think about it, because I didn't know Seattle all that well. Of course I knew that Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and All Caps are/were from Seattle, but I didn't really know anything else. But, anyway, Seattle is AWESOME! I've been in the Seattle aquarium, where there is a big shark research going on, and where they have the most adorable otters. Also, I've been in the Space Needle and the Museum of sci-fi and pop music where there were exhibitions of Nirvana, Battlestar Galactica and Avatar.
In about three weeks I'll be in Los Angeles, where I'm going to visit a LOT of cool places.

-HipsterForce

Oh, something else, Seattle looks REALLY futuristic, with the monorail and all:)

Lines In Films That Almost Made Me Cry

Okay, I'm really, really not the kind of person to cry during films. I can't even remember if I've ever cried during a film at all. HipsterForce is just an emotionless machine. And yes, I just referred to myself in the third person. And with a weird nickname. Anyway, these lines got me close to crying:

Big Fish:
[20-year old Jenny]: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.

Moulin Rouge:
[Christian]: You're free to leave me but just don't deceive me and please, believe me when I say I love you.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
[Mrs. Lovett]: ...And tastes like... well, pity...

Little Miss Sunshine:
[Dwayne]: FUUUUUUCCCKKK!! (If you've seen the movie you'll get why this is touching)

Corpse Bride:
[Emily]: I know that I am dead. Yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed.

The Nightmare Before Christmas:
[Jack]: And nobody really understood- well. How could they!- that all I ever wanted was to bring them something great, why does nothing ever turn out like it should!

Conversations With Other Women:
[Woman]: There are no happy endings in our future.

Alice In Wonderland:
[Iracebeth]: he tried to kill me... HE TRIED TO KILL ME!

Alice In Wonderland:
[Tarrant]: What's the hatter with me?

Till Human Voices Wake Us:
[Ruby]: Let us go then, you and I!...Where's that from?

Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
[Mahk Dahcy]: Your sex life doesn't concern me. At all.

As you can see, it's mostly Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter or a combination of those two. That's because for me, they are two of the few people that can really capture emotion. So for me, it's really great that they work together a lot.

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison - My Chemical Romance

In the middle of a gun fight...
In the center of a restaurant...
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Well, they're never gonna get me,
Like a bullet through a flock of doves...
To wage this war against your faith in me,
Your life...will never be the same.
On your mother's eyes, say a prayer...say a prayer!

Now, but I can't
And I don't know
How we're just two men as God had made us,
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
I'll kiss your lips again.

They all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost,
My cellmate's a killer, they make me do push-ups (in drag)
But nobody cares if you're losing yourself...am I losing myself?!
Well, I miss my mom,
Will they give me the chair,
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope if you dare;
Ah, nobody knows...all the trouble I've seen!

Now, but I can't
And I don't know
How we're just two men as God had made us,
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
I'll kiss your lips again.

To your room...
What they ask of you
Will make you want to say, "So long..."
Well, I don't remember,
Why remember...YOU?!

Do you have the keys to the hotel?!
'Cause I'm gonna string this motherfucker on fire! (FIRE!!)

Life is but a dream for the dead,
And well I, I won't go down by myself,
But I'll go down with my friends.
Now now now now... (I can't explain)
Now now now... (I can't complain)
Now now, yeah!

When I turned on my music player to listen to the song it was this song, playing, in the middle of a thousand others.

Meaning in short:
In the middle of a gun fight...
In the center of a restaurant...
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Well, they're never gonna get me,
Like a bullet through a flock of doves...
To wage this war against your faith in me,
Your life...will never be the same.
On your mother's eyes, say a prayer...say a prayer!

It's about drugs. He thinks the drugs can't get him, but they do. He questions his friends, who tell him to stop. The gunfight is the beginning of the addiction.

Now, but I can't
And I don't know
How we're just two men as God had made us,
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
I'll kiss your lips again.

This is about knowing his life and career suffer, the dying wish is from his friends, they try to stop and protect him. He doesn't think so.

They all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost,
My cellmate's a killer, they make me do push-ups (in drag)
But nobody cares if you're losing yourself...am I losing myself?!
Well, I miss my mom,
Will they give me the chair,
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope if you dare;
Ah, nobody knows...all the trouble I've seen!

The first thing I don't know really but when his mom comes up, it could suggest that he just misses his family. And in the end he realizes the drugs are killing him and his career. By the way the last sentence: Gerard Way (vocals) saw 9/11 with his own eyes, he said f*ck art, I've gotta make a change. Not very original but awesum isn't original.

Life is but a dream for the dead,
And well I, I won't go down by myself,
But I'll go down with my friends.
Now now now now... (I can't explain)
Now now now... (I can't complain)
Now now, yeah!

So his friends, his band will actually go down with him.

Pain in my heart for your dying wish
- Adrenaline Bomb Sunshine

Drawing Of The Dutchess

This is what the Dutchess looks like:

The picture didn't really work out as I wanted, but it's still OK. Or at least, I hope so.

Chapter One

-THE DREAM

I know I'm dreaming. I've dreamt so often, I've taught myself to recognize my dreams. I can even adapt some of my dreams. Problem is, I haven't figured out how to wake up yet, and this is one of those dreams where you'd really like to wake up. So here I am, lost in my dreamworld. How the [bleep] am I going to get out?

Since you can't see through my eyes, I'll try to sketch a bit of my recurring dream:

-It's a bit cloudy. Bright enough to see the outlines of the sun, but too cloudy to get a sunburn. If one could have a sunburn in a dream that is.

-There is one giant mountain with yellow snow on it. Not yellow snow as in dirty snow, it's just that the snow that falls from the sky is yellow. This is how I know when I'm in a dream or not. In real life, I love snow, but I hate the colour yellow.

-It is, except for the yellow snow, beautiful in every possible way. If I were the softhearted, romantic, OMG-at-the-end-of-the-movie-the-two-protagonists-start-to-date-I-did-so-not-see-that-coming kind of girl, it would be my paradise.

Now why, do you ask me, would I like to wake up? It seems like the perfect place to hide from the real world. That is true. But everytime I have this dream, something bad has happened to me. The first time was just after my pet rabbit had died, the second time was in the hospital, after I'd broken my foot, and the third time was after my parents told me they were going to divorce (which ultimately, they didn't). I guess that I've just matched my bad memories to this dream, and that's why I hate it.

I walk to the big tree in front of me because that is the place where I always hear why I'm here, but before I get there, I hear somebody approaching me. That is strange, I've never seen another animal here, let alone a human being. I turn around and I see the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. She has long red hair, and she was very pale. I wanted to ask her who she was, but that didn't seem like a very polite way to greet someone, so I just tried to do a curtsey (which, now I think of it, is also a really weird way to say hi to a stranger).
"Who am I?" the woman said. "I'm the Dutchess."
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-HipsterForce

So this is the first chapter of a short story that I'm going to write. Hope you liked it! More will follow.

Who am I?
I am the Dutchess.

The English Language

You can see it in every magazine, adults are expected to say it and it is one of the vaguest things in the English language: Be yourself.
Now, I think these two words are very interesting: What do we mean by being yourself? Is it possible to not be yourself?

A weird thing about people who say one should always be oneself, is that most of the time, they don't know what being yourself is. When you ask it, they will probably answer something like: "Having your own unique clothing style, or a unique style in music etcetera."
Apparently one's self lies in being unique. If you're not unique, you're a slave of life and you've got to be set free by being yourself.

But what if one's self lies in wearing everything that everybody else is wearing? Or if you really feel comfortable doing what everybody else is doing, just for the sake of not standing out? Who is to say that is not your true self?
I'm just saying: Don't be yourself to stand out. Be yourself because it is impossible not to.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not critcizing anyone who thinks people should be themselves, au contraire. I'm just interested in this aspect of English language. Because there are so many people who speak English, there are also many sub-languages: You've got the "internet-English" with a lot of 'lols' or 'trolls' or 'me gustas'.
You've got the "high school-English" with a lot of 'likes' or 'be yourselves' or 'OMGs'.

Of course these also exist in other languages, but because English is a bigger language, more people speak it so more sub-languages begin to form. And that's why English is so damn fascinating.


Bye!
-HipsterForce

Ughhhh!

Just read a review of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. This is what it says:
[Copied directly from IMDb]

"There are some "Disney moments" that literally set off a gag reflex as well."

I'm sorry what?
They LITERALLY set of a gag reflex? So you're just sitting there, watching a movie and suddenly a guy next to you almost starts to vomit, and he's like: "Yeah man, I'm sorry, just couldn't stand that awful 'Disney moment'"
Please DO NOT use the word literally if you don't know the meaning. Because literally means: exactly, without exaggeration.
It happens way too often that people use the word literally out of context, like:

'It was so funny, I literally died laughing!'

No, you did not.

That concludes this awful, unnecessary rant

Bye!
-HipsterForce

Things One Should Be Able To Do

1. Ride a bike
2. Whistle
3. Play at least one song on the piano
4. Bake an egg
5. Swim
6. Simply walk into Mordor
7. Strut like a PIMP
8. Hate and/or troll

Knowing The End Of A Story

Because I like plot twists, I decided to look what Wikipedia had to say about it. They named a few stories with famous twist endings, such as The Sixth Sense. Unfortunately though, they also revealed the end to Fight Club. I haven't seen it yet, so the ending is kind of spoiled for me. Although I did expect this to happen after I read the story of Fight Club and the things people had to say about it, it's still a kind of a bummer to know what's going to happen.
This lead me to writing this, because this case is one of the few where I read the ending of a story NOT on purpose. See, every time I watch a movie that could be remotely scary, I read the ending of the movie. This makes it less scary to watch, but even better: It makes it more fun.
I know that a lot of people will disagree, but here's my point: If you watch a film with a plot twist at the end, you've got to watch the whole film again, to look for clues that foreshadow the ending. Now, most people won't watch a film twice in a row because that takes too long, and it is boring. So without knowing, you could have missed a lot of clues. And for me, noticing clues is what a story is all about.
Example: If you know a character is going to make something explode in the last scene but you don't know how, it's fun to look for things that can lead to the explosion. By doing this, you could possibly create a whole new story.

Bye!
-HipsterForce

News That Cheered Me Up

Good news for people with arachnophobia! You know how it's commonly known that you eat eight spiders a year while asleep? Well, that turned out to be a myth. The flesh around your mouth is extremely sensitive, so you'd wake up before the spider would get to your mouth.
To me this is just a nice little newsfact. I've never really been afraid of spiders, and I've certainly never been afraid of eating spiders because you don't notice it, 'cause you are, well... asleep.
To some people though, this matters. I know somebody who really had arachnophobia. She couldn't even walk through a corridor if there was a spider in it. And she started crying when somebody showed her a fake spider. I guess that she'll be really delighted if I tell her that spider-eating is not possible.

Bye
-HipsterForce

P.S.
Other news that cheered me up:
1. We passed the 400 pageviews, YESSHHHH!!
2. I've already seen 11% of the movies. That just means that I've seen 11 movies, but 11% sounds like MOAR.