Just because it seems better doesn't always mean better

      Always thinking if you want to remake a movie or sequel to make it better, or remake a song to make it better, doesn't mean it will always mean it gets better.



   Sometimes it's better never to remake a good movie like Psycho (with Vince Vaughn playing Norman Bates the villain) or having them have sequels to movies as well. Toy Story being an example of having good sequels. But some movies should not have not even made a sequel. First off, Home Alone (the first one) was a classic. A great film and I loved it. When the second one came out, it was ok. Not too bad, still had the same corny jokes and still has Maculy Culkin, but when it got to the third, lets just say, the franchise died with the jokes and the tiring subplot of catching burglars. And there there was a fourth and fifth that made it worse.

  They also have movies that just release to video (mostly Disney) some good some bad, mostly bad. That are mostly sequels and some of them don't deserve to even have been made. Let alone have needed to be made into a sequel like for instance Fern-gully 2: the magical rescue (or as I like to call it the tragical rescue) and there are even lamer Disney sequels like "Return of Jafar" from Aladdin or "Hunchback of Notre Dame II" and even "Mulan II" because mostly sometimes with the sequels or pre-quels, usually the same voice actors are replaced with other voice actors that try too hard, or try to match the same as the previous person but fails to do so. (ALA: Mulan II did not have Eddie Murphy voicing the dragon and they had someone else doing it half-assed) Now I'm not going to nit pick on it on it, because there were some that were actually good like the third and last Aladdin movie that revealed Aladdin's father. That wasn't half bad, and  Cinderella III wasn't too bad either (although it might have some issues)


   With songs, that's a whole other thing. They have something called "cover version" and with one song, it could played by many other people. For instance the famous "Hallelujah" song (originally played by Leonard Cohen) has been performed by many other artists. Some good, some not so good, but the best had to be form the late Jeffrey Buckly. He did the greatest performance of "Hallelujah" ever performed by anyone else, and has been considered one of the best versions of "Hallelujah" ever played. Even Peter Gabriel's song "In your eyes" also had cover versions as well such as George Benson and Kylie Minogue, but Gabriel's is better.

   Sometimes, some artist have been known to steal songs or backup tempos for a song. Like the famous "Jack and Diane" song by John Mellencamp, the background beat was stolen with use of another song by Jessica Simpson. Forgot the name of the song though. Another song stolen was "Gangsta Paradise" by Coolio, who thought the song was too dramatic to be made into a hilarious "Amish paradise" song by Weird Al.  Even "Kashmir" had a different tune when the movie "Godzilla" (another remake) came around and P. Diddy wanted to make a song with a "Kashmir" a little different, and so many Led Zepplin fans were not happy about it one bit, even if Jimmy Page was part of the project.


   So sometimes, things that people thinks can get better with a cover version song or a sequel/prequel sometimes, it is best not to fool around with a classic song or movie. Till then, Ciao bloggers!

COLD!!!!

   I know it's January, but does it have to feel like Alaska too???? It has been very cold lately and it will get colder. That got me to thinking, what will summer be like?? Will it be hotter, and hotter, and HOTTER??


    Seems mother nature likes to make the world a living hell. Wether we like it or not. Sometimes, we don't realize how cold it will get before it hits us like a bold of frozen lightning and it chills us to the bone. January is almost over, but winter is till within us until mid to end of march. It will one quick spring this year and Easter is on the last day of March this year that is for sure. Old man winter has knocked on our doors too many times and let himself in without us opening those same exact doors he's knocked.
  Winter sometimes can be an ugly word for people, but sometimes others don't mind the cold, they live the cold, they breath the cold. They'll take anything just to go into that first step of winter snow and live it.

   I, on the other hand, prefer cold over hot. I don't mind it being it cold, but not so cold that you can freeze to death out there. I'm not a big fan of the hot heat that can scorch the skin of a human being. I mean if the temperature was the "devil's oven" as I like to call it.  What I like to do if I'm too cold, cuddle up with a nice blanket and just relax in a warm house and when it's just too hot for me to handle, fans away. Ever heard of the old expression: "Man wants hot when it's cold, Man wants cold when it's hot, Man always wanting what is not" Till then, try to stay warm because spring will come soon. Till then, Ciao Bloggers!

What are your fears????

    Everyone has a fear. If we didn't we would be robots. I have many fears, and I'm trying my best to conquer some, but I don't think I can conquer them all. There are a list of fears I have that have a certain name with them. Such as...


       Arachnophobia....which is a fear of spiders. I've been fearing spiders since I was a young girl. I don't why spiders creep me out, but I just don't like it when little bugs like those spiders decide to crawl on the floor and even some spiders are known to kill. NO JOKE!!! For some reason, I don't have a huge fear of snakes unless they camouflage in the ground and yes snake bites kill more people than avalanches alone. For some reason though, I fear spiders more than snakes. Not as much as I use to when I was a little kid, but I still get creeped out when I see spiders or spider webs.


   Achulophobia... which is a fear of darkness. That's why when I sleep, I need to have my bedroom door open, or have a nightlight on when I was little. I just don't like the dark so much. I mean unless if I'm in a movie theater, and they dim the lights and you can still see a bit of light. and there is brightness on the movie screen, but where there is no windows, such as closets, pitch blackness, I just need a little light to feel safe. That's just how I am.


 Acrophobia... which is a fear of heights. I still fear heights to this day. I can't even see Hitchcock's "Vertigo" without even squinging. I don't mind staring at an airplane window but don't say the words don't look down or else I will end up looking down. I don't like going on roller coasters as well (well my heart condition won't let me) Just don't want to stand on a very, very high building and imaging vertigo straight down. I would feel like an ant would if it was on top of bed, on the edge of it, looking down.


Astraphobia.... which is a fear of thunder and lightning. Although I'm all right with the sound of thunder, it's lightning I'm more afraid of, mostly because of lightning kills more people than thunder ever would. Thunder is just a sound. Lightning is a bolt of light that comes from the sky. Plus, when I was an eight year old girl, I got my first taste of lighting when it flashed right in my face from my bedroom window. Ever since then, I've been scared of it since. I just don't like the bolts of lighting.


Colurophobia.... which is a fear of clowns. Although Krusty the clown is an acception (along with Bozo) all other clowns scare the shit out of me. I don't even like going to the circus because of them. I feel like Kramer on Seinfeld. He's afraid of clowns too. I don't even like reading Stephen King's "IT" since it's about a clown (or a spider). I never cared for clowns. I never liked clowns. I am afraid a clown will come and scare me to death. I don't know why, but many people, even my dad, aren't big fans of clowns.

    I have another fear as well.. Fear of going on TV or in public. Not huge as these five, I want to conquer that fear more.  I'm trying my best to not be afraid of speaking to people in public. I use to be shy. I use to even have a fear of dogs, but I don't anymore. Now I have a new dog name Shadow to love and care about. 


Here's another strange fact: Some celebrities have fears. Lyle Lovett has a fear of cows, that's right cows. Hillary Duff can't sleep until after she cleans her room. She has a fear of dirt. Even the actor that played Harry Potter (like me) has a fear of clowns.  Woody Allen mostly has a fear of everything!!! (Well except Manhattan)  

   We have fears. Some we want to conquer, some we are afraid to conquer. It's ok to admit your fear. It shows that your human, you are better than your fear, and someday, you'll get over it. Like I did with dogs and public speaking and soon I'll conquer my fear of heights and clowns... but till then one day at a time.... Caio Bloggers!