Dr. S.M. Lockridge's "That's My King"

Memories From Childhood, Part III

The BBC Chronicles of Narnia movies (1988-1990)

I watched these videos so many times when I was little...It originally was a TV miniseries on the BBC network. By the time I got my little hands on it, it was a 3 disc DVD collection; one for The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, one for both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and one for The Silver Chair. While the special effects and costuming of the animal characters were pretty bad, the music and plot lines were enjoyable. The animal suits never really detracted from the whole experience for me, even now (and those beaver suits were pretty bad).

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003)

This game has got to be (other than Pokemon) the game that I have played the most, logging over 100 hours of gameplay. I love this game (and it's sequel)! While the missions never change, there are so many of them. Plus there are a ton of different job and ally configurations to try, it never gets old. Definitely one of my favorite strategy games.







Rocket Power (1999-2004)
Good show from the early 2000's. My favorite character was Tito, of course. Kinda makes you wish that you lived in Hawaii. And, like in "Lord of the Flies", my friends associated me with the fat, geeky kid with glasses...so I was Squid. Jerks ;)

The Giver- Lois Lowry (1993)


I read this book in elementary school, though I can't remember if I read it in fifth or sixth grade (age 11 or 12). I really like this book- it's my favorite out of all of the "required readings" I had to do in elementary school. My only complaint is that it was too short. I have heard that there are two more books in the series, so I'll definitely check those out in the future. I believe they're called "Gathering Blue" and "Messenger".

Misty Mountains Cold

In honor of the Hobbit movies coming out soon (yay!), here's a song from the book that was also partly featured in the animated Rankin/Bass version.

Far over the misty mountains cold,

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away ere the break of day,

To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient kings and elvish lord

There many a gleaming golden hoard

They shaped and wrought, and light they caught,

To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung

The flowering stars, on crowns they hung

The dragon-fire, in twisted wire

They meshed the light and moon and sun.

For over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old,

We must away ere break of day,

To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves

And harps of gold; where no man delves

There lay they lay long, and many a song

Was sung unheard by man or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,

The winds were moaning in the night.

The fire was red, it flaming spread;

Laid low like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale,

And men looked up with faces pale,

Then dragon's ire more fierce than fire

Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountains smoked beneath the moon;

The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.

They fled their hall to dying fall

Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

For over misty mountains grim

To dungeons deep and caverns dim

We must away ere break of day,

To win our harps and gold from him!

Memories From Childhood, Part II

Movie

The Sandlot (1993)

Man, this movie has it all: Funny lines, great characters, awesome music, and baseball. I loved this movie as a kid, and I still greatly appreciate it even though I like other movies more. My favorite scene is when they play a night game on the 4th of July, and the fireworks are going off, and Ray Charles is singing America the Beautiful in the background...simply awesome! 

"You drink out of the toilet...and you like it!" 

"Well, you play ball like a girl!" 

*gasp*

Video Game

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX (1998)

Oh geez, this game was/is great. I wish that I still had the cartridge so I don't have to play it on an emulator. Either way, this was one of my first GameBoy games, and definitely my first Legend of Zelda game. My cartridge had a glitch or something in it though... it would always wipe the memory right after I beat the last dungeon, so technically I've never beaten it.

TV Show

Dexter's Laboratory (1996-2003)

I really liked this show when I was a kid, though I'm not really sure why. It's not that it's a bad show, I just don't remember why I liked it so much. My favorite episodes are the D&D spoof episode and the one where Dexter and his friends become superheroes. It's not "Lab-ratory" it's "La-bor-a-tory"!

Oooohh...Scandal!

“I’d like to refocus everyone’s attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let’s redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped shit from their Porta-Potties into the river. That’s a fucking scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so’s plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I’d feel better about our future.” -Olivia Wilde

Memories From Childhood, Part I

With this series, I would like to reminisce a bit, and put a few things that I remember fondly from my childhood. Each entry won't have the same kinds of things each time, but most will be media related. Here we go!

Movie
"The Hobbit" (1977)

This had to have been one of my favorite movies of all time- well, at least when I was a little kid. From the age when my mom thought that the goblins wouldn't scare the crap out of me, I watched this all the time...I'm surprised I didn't wear the VHS out. I still have it to this day. Even though most people think that the soundtrack was bad (and I guess they're mostly right) the songs were one of my favorite parts of the movie (that and the battles). I especially liked the songs involving the goblins.

Video Game

Pokemon Red (1998)

This was one of the first video games on a system other than PC. While I found the TV show dumb, never really got into the manga; I loved collecting the cards and playing the games. The Pokemon series is still one of my favorite handheld gaming franchises. I remember the first time I played it, I holed myself in my room, sitting on my bean-bag chair and played it from the time I got home from Target to dinner time, and then again after dinner until my mom made me go to bed. I started with Charmander, and I remember having the hardest time beating Brock and Misty until I leveled up my Butterfree and Oddish enough.

TV Show

The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998-1999)

While looking back now, this show was just a crappy copycat of Power Rangers, but as a kid, I loved this show even though it only lasted for a year. It was about 4 young knights in medieval/mystic Ireland, and many of the episodes involved Celtic myths. I remember I had one of the action figures (Angus- the one 2nd from the right) and I played with that thing a lot. It had many small armor pieces, and I never lost any of them surprisingly enough. To be quite honest, I'd like to get the action figures again, but they're hard to find- especially Ivar's. 

This is Why I Don't Like Vegans

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2011/07/06/self-righteous-vegan/

I'm really glad that all vegetarians and vegans (and everyone in between) are not like this, but people like this woman really piss me off! It's one thing to have your own views, but it's completely different to impose yours on someone else because 1) "It's good/better for them" or 2) I can't stand to be around someone like you (aka: not as good as me). Argh!