Vampire's Day Soiree - Best Vampire Movies/TV shows

Greetings!
I decided to join the Vampire's Day Soiree, an event for Valentine's Day by Holly Horrorland (Blog post link HERE...

My post is on several good Vampire TV shows and movies, as I couldn't perform any kind of 'Vamp' look, my clothes are just not that versatile!

Also included in this post are each (TV/movie) best couple/best character
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1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Back when vampires didn't SPARKLE, Buffy is one of my favorite vampire TV shows. Buffy is a 16 year old girl that discovers her true identity as the slayer.

I really liked this TV show, all the seasons were really good, and the show has an extremely strong cast. Both main characters and backups show quite good acting skills.

Best Couple: Angel and Buffy...but Spike and Drucilla are the Ultimate.

Best Character: Spike
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2: Angel

A spin off of Buffy, it follows the path of Angel, the vampire with a soul, as he strives to protect Los Angeles from demon hordes.

In my opinion, Buffy was the better show, but Angel has it's strong points as well.

Best Couple: Angel and Darla or Cordelia and Doyle.

Best Character: Angel
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3: Interview with a Vampire

A vampire named Louis tells his 200-year-long life story to reporter Daniel Molloy.

Most of you reading this are probably familiar with this awesome movie, of course, the book is better but I quite enjoyed the movie.

I normally detest Tom Cruise, but in Interview I actually couldn't recognize him until the credits came up! :)

Best Couple: Uh. Louis and Claudia? Not really a couple but they were nice together.

Best Character: Lestat (Obviously)
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4: The Little Vampire

An EXTREMELY cute film, and very well done for a kids' movie. A lonely boy moves to Scotland with his parents and discovers his new best friend, who is a vampire named Rudolph.

I highly recommend this if you want to watch a cute movie with not so spooky themes. (Just enough...:))

Best Couple: Anna and Tony (Anna's ridiculously childish crush on Tony is quite amusing)

Best Character: Anna or Rudolph
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5: Dracula: Dead and Loving it

One word: Hilarious.

I like a good comedy every now and again, and what better than a parody of Dracula?

I rate it 7/10, for good humour, if not book canon fact. :)

Best Couple: Dracula and Mina, although the Mina and Jonathan scenes were extremely funny.

Best Character: Dracula...but Renfield is certainly close behind.
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6: Fright Night

A teenager suspects that his new neighbour might be a vampire.

I watched this one Valentine's Day morning, and even though my suspicions were that it was blatantly cheesy and unrealistic, (Well...it was KIND OF cheesy, but that's not the point) it actually surprised me.

For instance, this movie is NEW and yet they have vampires that abide by the rules, (For the most part...) like the 'explode in sunlight.' I was quite glad to see that vampire fiction hasn't all slid down the tubes.

I give it a 8/10.

Unfortunately for me, while watching it (especially during the first part) I started getting nausea...Yes, that's my problem. One horror movie and I'm 10 steps short of throwing up. This whole morning I had my hand on my stomach and I had to stop Fright Night a few times and watch something funny so I didn't feel ill.

(Note: This even happened with INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE. I lose, big time.)

Besides that, it was fun and enjoyable to watch, I rate it as a favorite of mine.

Best Couple: Charlie and Amy.

Best Character: Peter Vincent, no competition.

OH YEAH

Anyways, that's about all for now.

Farewell!

Twitter!

Greetings!
I made a twitter account a few days ago, just today I remembered to tell my followers/readers about my twitter. I haven't posted much, but perhaps in the future I'll learn the ropes and tweet more often :)

If any of you want to follow me here is my name:

@Cherishjo15

Please tell me your twitter addresses in the comments and I'll try to follow you back.

Farewell!

Nightmare Before Christmas Key Chain

Greetings!
Here is a mini post, last night my Jack Skellington key chain arrived off Ebay, so here are a few pictures.

Sorry it's so blurry, my camera is terrible!

Farewell!

Photoshoot with my Sister and Ebay Purchases

Greetings!

In my last post I mentioned a post on my newly aquired items from ebay, and today my older sister took pictures of me in my new outfits.

(Note makeup is much better now due to the fact that Sharon (my sister) applied it)

Medieval dress again

Gothic Victorian inspired, with my new parasol from Ebay!

You can't really see them, but I'm also wearing my new Victorian cameo choker and black petticoat.

This outfit was inspired by well....a cross between Edwardian swimwear and Mrs. Lovett's outfit in the song "By the Sea"

My first band tee shirt! Also there are my new spiderweb stockings and another go at red hair extensions.

Yay for Sisters of Mercy!

I'm planning on wearing this outfit for casual Gothy days...as soon as I get a garter belt.

Well, I guess that's all for today.

Farewell!

Bat Fit Challenge 3

Greetings!

Here is my second post for Batfit's 3rd Challenge, the introduction is here as stated by Le Professeur Gothique:

For this Bat Fit Challenge you are to give up a bad habit,

and in turn, replace it with a good habit.

"Bad habits come in many shapes and sizes; and can be physical, mental or emotional. Bad habits gravely affect our total health, leading to physical health problems, depression, anxiety, and unfulfilling personal relationships. I challenge you, dear readers, to get rid of ONE bad habit. There's going to be a void where the bad habit was so fill it up with a good habit."

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I already know exactly what I need to get rid of, it's blocked me so much and it even got in the way of my Bat Fit dancing.

For this challenge the habit that I'm going to kick is extreme laziness. I need to wake up and go to sleep much earlier, and I need to concentrate on my work and not just spend all my time playing games or watching TV/movies.

And also, I'm going to try to kick out other bad habits while I'm at it, those being negative thinking and excessive swearing, yes, I don't swear out loud but I have a tedency to rat on something awful in my head, and I need to stop being a pessimist all the time.

Okay...some more. Also I need to kick out my ridiculous worrying. Whenever someone doesn't come home on time or something seems to be a bit odd I get into an excessive state of worry and always assume that things have fallen to the pits. I need to stop as it's not going to benefit me. Worrying about 2012 caused me to hate Christmas this year and be depressed, so that's out!

And of course I have to stop being shy and nervous about what people think of me.

I hope to kick these habits very soon, and for anyone else doing this challenge, best of fortune to you.

Farewell!

30 Followers!

Greetings!
I found this morning that I have 30 followers, wow!

I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking interest in this blog of mine, even though I haven't updated much.

But in the future there will be an hair/clothes outfit, as a few days ago my petticoat, victorian cameo and spiderweb stockings arrived in the mail, and shortly I should be receiving my Sisters of Mercy T shirt, a parasol and my Jack Skellington keychain. *Happiness*

I guess I'll see you then!

Farewell!

Bat Fit 2012

Greetings!
Today I stumbled apon Le Proffeseur Gothique's 'Bat Fit 2012' excercise and health challenge: Link here

I decided to join in, and so here is my first post on it.

Challenge one was to keep a notebook with your personal achievements in it, to write in constantly. Here is a picture of my notebook that I just customised today.

Bats, for 'Bat fit' and Runes translating into 'Bat fit for Cherish'

The book on the right is my regular notebook which I also customised myself, it holds all my random art, recipes, scraps and whatever else I feel like writing in.

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The first assignment, as written by the Professeur.

"1. Write your health goals for 2012. Be brutally honest, candid and realistic about what you want to achieve. Many of you shared this with us on the Facebook page, however it's time for you to write it out in your own handwriting.

2. Once you've done that, your second entry will be for you to explore the meaning of good health. What does it mean to you? How does it relate to your goals? Be absolutely realistic.

3. Write no less than five things that you are grateful for, or that you've accomplished during the day and are proud of, or that you like about yourself.

Share pictures of your journal on your blogs! Heck, share your first two entries on your blogs, too!"

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My entries:

1: I have a bad lifestyle at the moment, I hardly exercise at all, I eat a tonne of junk food, and I'm way too depressed and lazy all the time. As such, I'm at least 10 kilos overweight, my bust is larger than it should be...Genetics don't seem to be on my side unfortunately, I'm short (While the rest of my family is tall...GRRRRR) and that means that means that I look fatter easier.

I'm 15 and I have a lot of headaches and back trouble because of my lifestyle, I sit in my chair all day without getting any fresh air, I can barely walk (Much less run) a quarter kilometre, and while swimming I can barely do 24 laps.

TO sum that up: I have a terrible lifestyle, and since my stomach hates the food I eat, I daily have trouble eating properly. and even when I have a chance, I often don't eat healthy.

My legs and arms are fat and wobbly/short because of laziness, and I never feel energetic. I sleep in till 9:00 and go to bed at 1:00 am. I am severely out of shape. And although I have a Dutch build from my mom, aka heavy set figure making me look larger, I still have a LOT of weight to lose!
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2: For me, good health is being like I was when I was 13. I woke up every day at 6:30 and did kickboxing with weights for an hour, I ate only healthy meals and fruit for snacks, bags of chips and chocolate were reserved for once a month at the most.

I went to bed at 11:00 pm at latest, and during my time at my swimming club I achieved intermediates and earned 2 badges equalling 50,000 metres. I swam every day for and hour and a half, and on distance swim days I swam 1 kilometre at least. I also rode my bike every day for half an hour to and from swimming club.

 Yes, my goals are to try and achieve this at the least this year.
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Entry 2:

I did a little better today, I managed to wake up a bit earlier but unfortunately due to not having much to eat in the house, I ate a couple of white bread buns for breakfast...*facepalm*.

Oh, and here are the 5 things I'm happy about for day 1 of bat fit.

1: I'm going swimming today hopefully, so I can feel a lot better and make more effort.
2: I'm getting out of the habit of not getting enough sleep.
3: I'm drinking green tea again for health.
4: Even though it's hot I'm not as lazy as I was.
5: I'm glad to have joined Bat fit as it means I have to clock in my workouts so I have no excuses for laze.

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As for the professeur's 2nd assignment for Bat fit, I did manage to dance for 20 minutes...

...But I could barely do that. I guess it'll take awhile until I can manage it well. :(. Also since I don't listen to much 'dance' music, I settled for the Cruxshadows...they really are quite good for dancing :), Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtracks...Zydrate Anatomy in particular is really dance happy.

And my favourite track of today was 'Rocky Horror Picture Show: Time Warp', since I learned the choreography of this song, I had a good bouncing time moving about to it.

So ends this post on Bat Fit, I'm sure I'll be back in a day or 2 with more updates on it.


Yes, posting this on my blog is a bit awkward for me, but I think it's important, it really shows how much I need to improve!

Farewell!