 |
| This doll was a Christmas gift. It sits proudly in my room, to add to the Asian feel of my room |
Showing posts with label pop culture all. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop culture all. Show all posts
This and That
|
|
Hot Man Wednesday- Callum Blue
|
|
DOB: August 19, 1977
Where: London, England
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1999-present
-English born actor of film and TV.
-Best known for his roles on the Showtime TV show The Tudors, Dead Like Me, and as the role of Zod in the American series Smallville. He also played Alex on the British series The Secret Diaries of a Call Girl, opposite Billie Piper.
Film
-The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement: Andrew Jacoby
-Dead Like Me: Life After Death: Mason.
-The character Mason was a young man who died in 1966 in London by trying to drill a hole into the top of his head chasing the ultimate high. So if you watch the show, you'll see sometimes wearing something with the Union Jack(British flag) on it, whether it be gloves or boxers sticking out of his pants. And on the Halloween episode, he makes a reference to The Who and The Stones. He makes a bet with a kid that he can win all his candy off him if the kid answers his question: "Who was the only member of The Rolling Stones to croak to death from drowning?" and the kid says "Keith Moon" and he gets angry and tells the kid to go away after telling him it was Brian Jones.
TV
-Dead Like Me: Mason
.jpg)
Absolutely Fabulous Guests
|
|
This show is a British sitcom. I've seen it before, it's okay, but I like My Family alot, that show cracks me up because it can relate to my real life waaaaaaaaaaaay too much! Except, unlike Susan, my mom CAN cook, and I'm the older sibling, lol.
IDK why or how this suddenly came in my mind, I guess it's because this was one of few British shows my dad actually did watch, other than Primeval.
Episodes
Guest Stars
-Many of them were actors or actresses, musicians and many of them were British or American. Let me rephrase this, almost all of them are British/English, either one is probably good.
-Anita Pallenberg
(Played the Devil on the episode "Donkey")
(Ben Harper on My Family) (Played Pete on the episode "Schmoozin'")
(Played therapist on the episode "White Box")
(Played herself on the episode "Jealous")
(Played Saffy on the episode "Hospital")
(Played Hilton on the episode "Sex")
(Played herself on the episode "Panickin'")
(Jannie Harper on My Family) (Played Saffy's daughter on the episode "The End")
(Played God on the episodes "The Last Shout I" and "Donkey")
(Played Kunz in the episode "White Box")
(Played himself on the episode "Schmoozin'")
(Played himself on the episodes "Gay" and "Comic Sketch Relief")
(Plays herself on the episodse "Parralox" and "Menopause")On this episode, the character Patsy wants a baby very badly, to the point of buying Mick Jagger's sperm from an auction to have it. Which I think is the most disgusting thing imaginable!! EWWWWWW!
 |
| If this is Twiggy now, wow, she's really beautiful. At least I think that, not too sure about what everyone else thinks or feels :D |
 |
| Patsy |
(Played Bettina on the episodes "New Best Friend" and "White Box")
(Played himself on the episode "Comic Relief Sketch") Readmore..
Katy Perry
|
|
DOB: Oct. 25, 1984
Where: Santa Barbara, California
Genres: pop, dance, gospel
Occupations: singer-songwriter, actress
Instruments: vocals, guitar, piano
Years active: 2001-present
Website: http://www.katyperry.com/
-Gained attention with the release of her album One of the Boys(2008). It had 3 chart topping singles: "I Kissed a Girl" "Hot N' Cold" "Waking Up in Vegas"
-In 2009, she was voted Billboard's Hot 100 as the 51st artist of the 2000s
-Her best selling album is Teenage Dream from 2010, which was her 3rd studio album.
Early Life and Career
-Born to Mary Hudson, an evangelist who had an odd first marriage in Zimbabwe and Keith Hudson, who was a West Coast scenester in the 1960s. She has German, Portugese, Irish and English ancestry.
-Is the 2nd child of 2 pastors. Has an older sister named Angela Hudson and younger brother named David Hudson
-At age 15, her singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee. She signed to the Christian music lable Red Hill, recording her first album at 15. She also changed her name to her mother's maiden name Perry because Katy Hudson was too close to actress Kate Hudson.
-Katy Perry earned a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards. She was nominated in 5 categories at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, such as Best New Artist, and Best Female Videi, but lost out to Britney Spears. But Perry won the award for Best International Female Artist at the 2009 BRIT awards.
-In 2010, she released her Teenage Dream album. It hit #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. The cover art is a painting by Will Cotton showing Perry lying naked on clouds of cotton candy.
Artistry
-Her musical influences are Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Shirley Manson, Freddie Mercury, the late front man to the British rock band Queen
-She was inspired by the song Killer Queen to do a career in pop music
-According to her, Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill influenced her to no end
Image
-She is best known for her unique style of dress. It's usually bright in color, and reminds you of decades past.
Personal Life
-Has had many relationships, such as with Gym Class Heroes front man Travie McCoy, Relient K front man Matt Thiessen and most recently, British comedian Russell Brand
-Perry and Brand got engaged in December 2009 and she stated plans to get British dual citizenship.
-In an August 2010 Rolling Stone interview, she said "I am sensitive to Russell taking the Lord's name in vain and Lady Gaga putting a rosary in her mouth. I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen."
Discography Readmore..
The Green Mile
|
|
The Green Mile
One of my favorite movies ever!
-1999 American drama directed by Frank Darabont
-Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King
-Told in a flashback format and stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe, Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey.
-Tells the story of Paul Edgecombe and his life as a supervisor on the death row during the Great Depression and the supernatural events that he was able to witness
Did You Know?
-The music old Paul Edgecombe hears in the nursing home is the same music the nurses played at medication time in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-When Melinda Moores is visited by Coffey, she gives him a St. Christopher medal. According to Catholicism, St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers, and like Coffey, died a martyr.
-Doug Hutchinson, who played Percy Wetmore, was actually 39 years old, instead of being 21 like the character in the book.
-When Paul and John go outside, John looks up and says "Look Boss, it's Cassie, the lady in the rocking chair". This is a reference to the constellation Cassiopeia
Plot
-In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecombe(Dabbs Greer) begins to cry while watching Top Hat. His elderly friend, Elaine Connolly, shows concern for him and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of when he was a corrections officer in charge of Death Row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul(Tom Hanks) worked in was called "The Green Mile" because of the color of the floor's linoleum. Condemned prisoners would walk this floor, nicknamed "The Last Mile" by the guards because it was their last mile before their execution.
-One day, John Coffey(Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant of a black man, 6'8'', is convicted of raping and murdering 2 small white girls named Kathe and Cora Detterick. He shows all the signs of being a gentle giant; keeping to himself, soft spoken, fearing darkness, and crying often. Soon enough, John reveals unusual powers by healing Paul's urinary tract infection and bringing a mouse back to life. Later on, he would reveal that he would heal the terminally ill wife of the prison warden, Hal Moore(James Cromwell).
-At the same time, Percy Wetmore(Doug Hutchinson), is a sadistic guard who enjoys bothering the prisoners. The only thing that is keeping him there is he "knows people, big people". He is the nephew of the governor's wife. Percy recognizes that the other officers greatly hate him and uses that to demand to be "put out", meaning front line position, on the next execution. After that, he promises that he will have himself transferred to the Briar Ridge Mental Hospital. A deal is made. But then when it comes time for the execution of Eduard Delacroix(Michael Jeter), Percy sabotages it. He is supposed to soak the sponge that goes inside the electrode cap for a quick death in brine to conduct it better. But he does not soak the sponge, and this causes Del to catch fire and die in great, slow pain
-Before Del's execution, a violent prisoner named William "Wild Bill" Wharton(Sam Rockwell) arrives, due to be executed for multiple murders committed during a robbery. At one point, he grabs John's arm and John physically senses that Wharton was the one who raped and killed the 2 girls, the crime John was accused of. John "takes back" the sickness in Hal Moore's wife Melinda and puts it into Percy, who goes mad and shoots Wild Bill to death in his cell, after which, Percy falls into a coma like state. He is tranferred to the Briar Ridge Mental Hospital. In the aftermath of these events, Paul talks to John, who says he "punished them bad men" and offers to show Paul what he saw. John takes Paul's hand stating he has to give Paul "a part of himself" in order to see what really happened
-Paul asks John what he should do, if he should open the door and let John walk. John tells him that he is ready to die because the world has too much pain in it and he is "rightly tired of the pain." As the last request he makes, John watches Top Hat. When John is put into the electric chair, he asks Paul not to put the traditional black hood on, as he is afraid of the dark. Paul agrees, shakes his hand, and John dies.
-As Paul finishes his story, he notes that he requested a transfer to a youth detention center, where he spent the remainder of his career. Elaine questions his statement that he had a fully grown son at the time and Paul explains that he was 44 years old at the time of John's death and that he is now 108 years old and still in excellent health. This apparently had a side effect of John giving a "part of himself" to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's mouse brought back by John is also still alive. Paul believes his outliving all of his friends and relatives is to be a punishment from God for having John electrocuted. Paul explains he has deep thoughts about how "we each owe a death; there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long." Paul is left wondering if Mr. Jingles has remained living, and wonders how long it would be until Mr. Jingles death.
Cast
-Tom Hanks: Paul Edgecombe
-Michael Clarke Duncan: John Coffey
-Bonnie Hunt: Janice Edgecombe
-David Morse: Brutus "Brutal" Howell
-Doug Hutchinson: Percy Wetmore
-Sam Rockwell: William "Wild Bill" Wharton
-Michael Jeter: Eduard "Del" Delacroix
-James Cromwell: Warden Hal Moores
-Patricia Clarkson: Melinda Moores
-Barry Pepper: Dean Stanton
-Jeffrey DeMunn: Harry Terwilliger
-Harry Dean Stanton: Toot-Toot
-Dabbs Greer: Old Paul Edgecombe
-Gary Sinise: Burt Hammersmith
-Graham Greene: Arlen Bitterbuck
-William Sadler: Klaus Detterick
-Bill McKinney: Jack Van Hay
Ferrari
|
|
This post is for my stepdad. He loves and I mean LOVES anything Ferrari!! He has alot of Ferrari models in the basement in addition to a few T-shirt bearing the Prancing Horse.
Ferrari
-Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, they manufactured race cars and sponsored drivers before making street legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A in 1947
-This company is best known for it's participation in racing, especially in Formula One
History
-Enzo Ferrari never intended to make cars in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers in Modena.
-Scuderia Ferrari literally means "Ferrari Stable" in Italian
-Ferrari successfully raced various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department
-In 1941, Alfa Romeo was taken by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini for the war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small enough to be unaffected by the government.
-The first actual Ferrari car was called the Tipo 815.
-The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine
-In 1988, Enzo Ferrari oversaw the launch of the Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year. It's one of the most famous supercars ever made.
-From 2002-2004, Ferrari introduced the Enzo, the fastest model at the time, in honor of the company's founder. Since the cars were $1.8 million apiece, it was only limited to the most wealthy car owners
-On May 17, 2009, in Maranello, Italy, a 1957 250 Testa Rossa was auctioned o0ff, by RM Auctions for $1.2 million.
Competition Cars
Current
-2011 Ferrari 150 Italia
-2010 Ferrari 458 Italia Challenge
-2009 599XX
-2008 FXX Evoluzione
-2007 F430 Challenge
-2006 F430 GT
Sports
-1953 Ferrari Abarth 166 MM/53
-1960 Ferrari 250 TR 61 Spyder Fantuzzi
-1963 Ferrari 330 LM Berlinetta
1957-1960 250 GT Berlinetta/California Spider
1968-1973 Daytona
1996-2001 550 Maranello
2001 Barchetta
-Fernando Alonso
-Michael Schumacher
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
