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Not Everyone Will Fall In Love With Edward Cullen...

its 2009 and everyone is still going gaga over edward cullen. i have nothing against him nor the twilight saga, i personally think he's totally hot but im definitely not biting the edward craze. if i were to describe the movie, the only word that i can think of is 'cute', its not the greatest movie of the year but its one of those 'kilig' movies you must see. i wasnt such a fan but curiosity always gets me, and being a book-slut that i am, i suppose deep down inside, ive been summoning an actual copy of the book. so, when i finally found a copy through my 15 yr old niece, i started reading it. stephanie meyer is a real story teller, no doubt about that, you can perfectly imagine even just the smallest detail base on her descriptions . but it will probably take awhile for me to finish the book since a lot of it is a drag. its not just the kind of book that you can never put down but i can totally see why it was such a hit and why it was such a hit with a particular age group.

maybe if im 15 years old i would have joined this edward fan club. not that im being an uptight, wrinkled old prune who is incapable of romance. but edward is exactly the unreachable type of guy, he's everybody's dream and he's just so physically perfect and too sparkly. yet his character was so abusive, controlling and obsessive. i dont find it romantic how he stalks bella and when he drags her to his car by force. and the attraction of bella according to her descriptions are more on his physical assets and the feeling she gets from being with him than his personality. its stupid, childish and boring. i find edward's mysteriousness and evasiveness annoying, not appealing. take away his supermodel looks, and he's really not all that. girls who love him are those who fantasize about being loved by beautiful man. and who doesnt want to be loved by beautiful man? but it gets old when their personality cant keep up with their looks. ive fallen in love with many story book characters and edward is not one of them. its a story meant for 15 year olds. but that being said, i cant say i didnt enjoy it.


***getz

SU2C

It was a night of "breaking"... I really need to take a break.

I found this link something about cancer and found out it's all about the September 5th Stand Up 2 Cancer Show. I've heard of this event but never really paid much attention. Since I'm "breaking" I tried to go to the details further since I also have the luxury of time to do so. I found an article of Gina Telaroli's Top 10 Cancer Movies That'll Make You Stand Up (http://www.takepart.com/2008/09/04/top-10-cancer-movies-thatll-make-you-stand-up/).

I was checking out Youtube.com at the same time and found a live performance video JUST STAND UP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V53NqovXvA), I care to take a glimpse of it since I read Mariah Carey's name. When I saw the video, live during the SU2C Show (Stand Up 2 Cancer Show), I, "Oh!", these two are perfectly related. How nice! I really like the song (JUST STAND UP), the lyrics so enlightening and encouraging specially to those who lost all hopes about living because of cancer. Seeing the spectacular line up of women talent, the marvelous stage, lively band playing, audience cheering and standing up, will surely live out the dying hope in you.


I so like the lyrics so I posted this



Surfing through and through trying to find a video of the show (live), I found this, a highlight from the Stand Up 2 Cancer Show. Since I did not found a video for the live show, I decided to post this one which is trully inspiring also.

Sorry for the vid guys, for better viewing check this one out http://video.aol.com/video-detail/hightlights-from-the-stand-up-to-cancer-show/1235457587



All the videos I watched, articles and posts I read and the song I listened almost brought me to tears. Everybody is doing the greatest thing they can contribute to change the face of cancer forever. That event started the end of cancer.

Adele's Chasing Pavements

An old friend introduced me to this vid. It got some really catchy tune to it and the choreography of the "shadow scenes" is very interesting so I got curious and Wikipedia-ed it. Then I found out that the song and vid came out early this year and earned 2008 MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Choreography. It's really awesome. But what got me more curious is the fact that the single did not enjoy a respectable amount of airplay in several US radio stations as it got banned due to its perceived meaning of the title "Chasing Pavements." According to Wikipedia, the source of the perceived meaning is said to come from an entry submitted to Urban Dictionary. So, of course I googled it and found this link at Yahoo! Answers. Here is the Urban Dictionary definition:

"Slang term used for the act of specifically searching for a partner with whom to engage in either rimming, frosting or other scat related activities. The term 'pavements' is used as a euphemism for buttocks."

Now, that's crazy. In all fairness to Adele and her song and the video, I firmly believe that it's nowhere near the Urban Dictionary definition. And isn't it why they call it urban as in urban legends because it's not true and proven? Shesshh! Such a shame that such a beautiful song and vid is given little exposure just because of some lame and silly urban myth! Oh, well! It's America after all.

*jun*