Friday the 13th Things - 13 Halloween Activities for my Future Reference

Greetings!
I am sorry to have not posted much, but between the rush that is catching up on late schoolwork, working double to pay off my medieval dress, and the fact that I haven't been sleeping all that well lately due to stress and bad dreams, I don't really have much good to say.

Also, I regret to say that on November 17 I forgot to acknowledge that it was a monthly celebration, me being 5 months as a Goth. Ah well. Come December it'll be the grand celebration of 6 months, I will catch up then.

Now, on with Friday the 13th Things Survey.
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            Friday the 13th Things - 13 Halloween Activities for my Future Reference

1: Carve Jack o' Lanterns and Turnip Lanterns

2: Buy a myriad of candles and put them all over my future house.

3: Take my future children out to Trick or Treat

4: Tell stories about the origins of Halloween to my future children

5: Dress up in a traditional costume (Not one of those silly fairy/fireman/princess outfits, rather zombie, mummy, GHOST, vampire, such.)

6: Visit the local graveyard before sundown on Halloween, and yes, I'd take the kids.

7: Teach my future family how to bob for apples.

8: Make sure that my future family feels that Halloween should be defined as much of a holiday as Christmas, no less! (This is something my own parents and sister don't feel strongly about, had it not been for me, they would've just considered it another day.)

9: Watch a Tim Burton movie every year. :)

10: Bake Apple/Pumpkin Pies

11: Eat a lot of candy. :)

12: Play Nox Arcana all over the house.

13: Visit Ireland and celebrate there.

Well, that's it!

Farewell!

Friday the 13th - My 13 Top Favorite Songs

Greetings!
Life has been dreadfully slow of late, the most 'interesting' thing was having the living daylights scared out of me by four swooping magpies raking their claws across my head...Gosh, I can hardly wait for nesting season to be over.

But now for the Friday the 13th post to come...However, I am changing '13 favorite childhood TV shows' to 'My 13 favorite songs', as I didn't watch much TV as a child.

                                            My 13 Top Favorite Songs
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1: Alice Cooper - Life and Death of the Party

2: The Cure - Just like Heaven

3: The Damned - Eloise

4: The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love

5: Nox Arcana - Phantom Toccata

6: The Cruxshadows - Deception

7: Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

 

8: The Sisters of Mercy - When you don't see Me

9: Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare

10: The Cure - Mint Car

11: Kansas - Carry on my Wayward Son

12: Nox Arcana - Temple of the Black Pharaoh

13: Nox Arcana - Hallowed Ruins

Well, there you have it!

Of course I listen to a lot more music than this, but this group always has my highest vote...And Nox Arcana is AMAZING, I just can't stop listening to it...especially the organ and choir tracks...

Farewell!

Friday the 13th Things - My Favorite TV shows/Movies

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This Friday the 13 things post is supposed to be my favorite TV shows, but as I don't have 13, (I don't watch much TV) I'll state movies.

                                     My 13 Favorite Movies and why I like them.


1: Lord of the Rings: Because I love anything J.R.R Tolkien wrote and even if the movie trilogy is a bit off center, it's still ranking among my top favorites. (Fantasy, medieval, magic, languages, AWESOME?)

2: The Wedding Singer: As I already talked about in an earlier post, I love this movie because it's 80s, a musical, and it's kind of cute...hehe. Yeah I'm still rambling about George...

3: Pirates of the Caribbean: Who am I to pass up a fantastic pirate movie with several of my favorite actors?

4: Zorro: I like old period movies, so of course this set was a fanastic view. Plus I thought the actors were quite good.

5: Alice in Wonderland: Yay Tim Burton! And awesome actors...

6: Repo! The Genetic Opera: It's a Gothic Rock Opera. That's just good. :)

7: The Hangover: Heh, I often like a good average comedy sometimes, this was one that I especially liked.

8: Benny and Joon: This movie, is just so cute. I've seen it 3 times now and still want to see it again.

9: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: This was funny, and yay Tim Burton!

10: Interview with the Vampire: Yes...I know it's not accurate but I still liked it...

11: The Corpse Bride: Cute, just CUTE! and YAY TIM BURTON :D

12: The Crow: Made me actually tolerate crows now. :P

13: The Phantom of the Opera: Musical!!

On another note, I will tell about the TV shows I actually DO watch.

1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: At first I thought I'd hate it, but It's actually pretty fun.

2: Supernatural: Love love love.....The Paranormal, humor, awesome actors...

3: The Addams Family: This is just...awesome.

4: The Munsters: I like it better than the Addams, it inspired me to decorate my room with cobwebs...:D

5: Merlin: Yes, quite historically inaccurate, but rather charming all the same. A nice take on the legend.

Well that's all.

Farewell!

Friday the 13 Things (Double post) 13 Favorite Hobbies

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As I mentioned before, last week I forgot to post this survey, so I'm catching up all at once. :) Many THANKS to Hayley Callaway!

                                         My 13 Favorite Hobbies

1: Movie and Book critiquing. (An easy way to say this is that I am a Nitpicker.)..Generally boring people out of their minds by lecturing on all the movie vs book faults or how many errors a movie or book had.

2: Knitting...although my evil school moderator has asked me to make her a scarf...but considering she's one of my main enemies, no ---------- uh, way. (Have to keep this blog clean)

3: Blogging, of course is another hobby of mine.

4: Reading Classic fiction. It's fairly rare that you'll see me with a modern written book.

5: Drawing comic strips and chibis. I fail so terribly at art that all I can do is a bit of painting and chibi/comics.

6: Studying history and folklore/mythology. My favorites are Celtic, Medieval, Greek, and Egyptian.

7: Writing humourous short stories. And a little fanfiction.....*Shifts*

8: Lecturing. It's a living part of me. When a topic is brought up almost always I get dragged into some sort of debate or lecturing speech/rant.

9: Watching cheesey movies and TV shows. Examples: Mean Girls, Supernatural, Bend it Like Beckham and Merlin. (Merlin is so mythologically/historically innacurate...but the fact that's it's vaguely hilarious and yes...cute....I have become addicted to it. Same with Supernatural...I watch it for the cheesy cute moments, so I can go Aaaaw. OR start fawning over the characters....ehe...yeah...

10: Photography: I'm terrible at it, but I still like to try.

11: Filmatography: If I got the chance I'd LOVE to work on a movie. I'd film, design the costumes, write the script or act in it....it's been my dream all my life....but everyone has dreams that can't come true. :(

12: I enjoy pestering people and generally making bad jokes whenever an occasion arises, several times I've been nicknamed the jester, even though my whole family is pretty ridiculous. :D

OKAY, enough oddness.

Farewell!

Friday the 13th Things - Favorite Actors/Actresses

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Since I missed 2 weeks of Friday the 13th things by Hayley Callaway I'm doubling up now. This week is my favorite actors/actresses and what movies I like best from them.

                              13 Favorite Actors or Actresses

1: Johnny Depp: Corpse Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, Benny and Joon, Sleepy Hollow, Chocolat, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands.

(Oh yeah and just to add more....Nightmare on Elm Street, Nick of Time, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)

2: Helena Bonham Carter: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd, and Corpse Bride.

3: Winona Ryder: Little Women, Dracula, Beetlejuice, and Edward Scissorhands

4: Kiera Knightly: Pirates of the Caribbean, Princess of Thieves, Bend it like Beckham, Pride and Prejudice, and I kind of like King Arthur, but it was pretty off...

5: Orlando Bloom:  (DON'T ASK!) Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, The Three Musketeers, Kingdom of Heaven, and Troy (Uh I like it somewhat)

6: Geoffrey Rush: The King's Speech and Pirates of the Caribbean

7: Alan Rickman: Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Dogma, and Sweeney Todd.

8: Heath Ledger: The Dark Knight, 10 Things I Hate about You, and Knight's Tale

9: Elijah Wood: Lord of the Rings, Huck Finn, and The War

10: Ewan McGregor: Moulin Rouge, Star Wars, and Big Fish

11: Anthony Head: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, and Repo! The Genetic Opera

12: Christopher Lee: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Sleepy Hollow, Escape from Witch Mountain, Alice in Wonderland, and Corpse Bride

13: Drew Barrymore: (AGAIN, DON'T ASK) The Wedding Singer, E.T, Charlie's Angels, Never Been Kissed.

Yes, I know. I am cheesy as hell...

Farewell!

Friday the 13th Things - 13 Books I Want to Read

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As it is Friday (No, not the song. SHUT UP Rebecca Black), I have taken the next section of Hayley Calloway's survey. Here goes!

1: Unfinished Tales - J.R.R Tolkien: Yes, because I am a die hard addict of his books.

2: Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice: Because I need a break from Twilight mania oozing out of the mainstream.

3: The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice: I need to fill in space...as I'm not sure how many books there are that I haven't already read.

4: Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice: See above for reasoning.

5: Jekyll and Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson: Yes, because I am also a heavy fan of his books.

6: Les Miserables - Victor Hugo: Yes, because I haven't read it before.

7: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley: May as well, since I'm almost through Dracula.

8: Gothic Charm School - Jillian Venters: Every babybat looking for ways out into the world of Goth should read this.

As I don't really have any more that I can think of, I'll list the last numbers as my top favorite books.

9: Harry Potter - J.K Rowling: Yes, just because.

10: Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/The Simarillion - J.R.R Tolkien: I am a major fan! :)

11: The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis - Because it's amazing.

12: Little Women - Louisa May Alcott: Because I like a good Victorian based tale.

13: Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson: It's amazing. :)

Friday the 13th Things - 13 things I'd like to Make or Create

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Since's it's Friday again, it's time for another 13 things. (Thanks again to Hayley Callaway for creating this survey!)

                                            13 Things I'd Like to Make or Create.

1: A maxi net/lace skirt.

2: A patchwork short skirt.

3: A bell sleeved dress/shirt.

4: An array of carved turnips and pumpkins.

5: Paper Mache gargoyles.

6: A sucessful set of cartoon drawings of movie/book characters.

7: A Hogwarts inspired knitted scarf.

8: A pair of black bloomers.

9: Rasberry muffins, chocolate chip cookies and German mud cake.

10: A length of bad poetry. :P

11: A simple organ inspired piece on the keyboard to go along with my choir soundtrack.

12: A pair of vertical striped pants/skirt.

13: A couple of calligraphy pieces in Runes, Enochian and Latin.

Well, that's it for now. I'll be back later with THE MONTHLY POST.

Farewell!

Friday the 13th Things - 13 Places I Want to Go

Greetings!

I have little to nothing good to say for a 'decent' post, so I will fill in a survey instead.

I give all credit to the lovely Hayley Callaway (www.hayleycallaway.blogspot.com) for the creation of this charming application that she's allowed me to use. :)

                                                13 places I'd like to visit in my lifetime

1: Middle Earth. I have to visit Gondor and Rivendell in particular...(sadly impossible)

2: France, Notre Dame. All those gargoyles and pretty cathedrals appeal very much to me.

3: Canada. I have a great uncle there and it's a lovely place compared to dry, deserty and windy Australia.

4: England. It's the birthplace of so much history, who doesn't want to go there?

5: France, Paris. Need to see the Eiffel tower and other things.

6: Italy, Rome: Just for the sake of it.

7: San Diego, California. I want to see where my dad grew up. :)

8: Leizpeg, Germany. For obvious reasons...aka Wave Goffik Treffen?

9: America, somewhere. I just have to go look at Hot Topic. Oh yeah and participate in an American Halloween.

10: Ireland. TO see the origins of Halloween, eg: Festival of Samhain, and study various bits and pieces of history.

11: New Zealand. Seeing the areas where they filmed Narnia and Lord of the Rings.

12: Transylvania. That'd be fun...

13: Egypt. Yeah to finally appease my constant splurges of studying Egyptology by seeing the pyramids. (And learn everything possible, on location. :D)

I'd have mentioned Sydney, but I'll be going there in 2 years for my GED...so yeah.

Well, that's it! Farewell readers. :)