This Halloween - Lonnie

I did go out for the Halloween on the last two years, but I had done nothing for this year. It was so mash up. First, I have to thank for the high technology right now, because of that, my mom had known the threatening note of Halloween from the newspaper at Chicago before I heard about it. And the last thing she told me was: “Stay in your dorm, and I will call to check you. If you want to lose the mom, then you just go out.” These words must be some kinds of word that parents used for scaring their children, but sadly, I trusted. My mom did not call me until the next day. At Friday evening, after dinner at outside very early, I went back to my dorm with my friends. Fortunately, they did not want to go out, also because of that threatening note. So, we just stayed at the lounge of the dorm, and play the wii for the whole night, and watching people kept going around.

The Dark American Psycho Knight

A couple months ago, a movie Batman the Dark Knight hit the box office. I was in Korean when the movie first came out and I went to watch it with my friends. The movie was great. Everyone applauds about Joker’s(Heath Ledger) acting. Batman was acted same actor as the first series, Christian Bale and his acting was great, too. Today I was searching movie trailer of Batman and I found someone made a mash up the original Dark Knight trailer with American Psycho. I didn’t watch the American Psycho but I heard that Christian Bale acted in the movie. He tilted the video The Dark American Psycho Knight. It seems like the author put some scenes of American Psycho into the Dark Knight trailer but it seems like just one perfect trailer. In the video, the Batman, or Christian Bale of American Psycho, is crazy; such as he curses out to a girl, kills people, instead of saving people. It was not funny video but the producer made really good connection between the two movies. For instance, in the Dark Knight, Batman is not a hero anymore, many people blames him because many innocent get harmed because of Batman. So he is more likely portrayed as an evil. In the American Psycho, Christian Bale seems a murderer, so it is really good connection between the evil hero and the murderer.
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mash-up

I watched one mash—up about the High School Musical 2 and heard some music about mash—up. The editor of the film, High School Musical 2, changed the purpose of the whole movie. The movie still has it original characters in it but it replaces the movie with music. It’s a four minutes place at YouTube I had found; it’s totally a different story from the original to the mash—up. The sound it played is more like a hip—hop music.

The song I listened to is a song from Britney Spear. The editor mixes two songs into one. It’s more like a remix, adding two songs into one created a new song. I think mash—up isn’t a bad thing but sometimes when some features added into the original, it makes the whole thing goes wrong. I watched High School Musical 1, 2, and 3, it watches enjoyable to watch it. Everyone in these movies sings pretty well but the mash—up of the High School Musical it wasn’t enjoyable at all. The two songs I listened for the mash—up of Britney Spear’s song were great. Putting two songs into one created a new song. The most important is the new song sounds not bad at all. I think it’s important to have the same of the original.

By: Shu Mei

McCain vs. Obama

Obama

Barack Obama wants to "spread the wealth around" and is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie.

Barack Obama's plan will harm employer coverage, continues the push toward government-run health care and will damage private coverage.

Barack Obama opposed the new strategy and predicted wrongly that it would fail. He voted to deny critical funds to our men and women fighting in Iraq.

McCain has served his country since he was 17 years old!

John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan that will create millions of good American jobs, ensure our nation's energy security, get the government's budget and spending practices in order, and bring relief to American consumers

John McCain will make health care more available, affordable and responsive to patients and he will give families more choices over their care.

John McCain had the judgment to understand that America's strategy in Iraq was failing and the courage to call for a dramatic change. That strategy is now working, and America is succeeding in Iraq

I think that Obama should not be the President of the United States of America!!!!!

Someone that claims to be an america, and goes to a church that actually believes that we deserved to get bombed by terrorist!! This is outrages!!

Barack Obama's Racist Church If Sen. Obama rejects the Rev. Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church? http://www.johnmccain.com/Undecided/WhyMcCain.htm Jamie Adishian

Trunk or treat

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This weekend I went home to go trick or treating, but instead of trick or treating my mom took us to church to trunk or treat. I had no idea what that meant, but she told me that it involved people from the church passing out candy out of the trunks of their cars, which was awesome. This Halloween I have never walked so little and got so much candy. It was a whole lot of candy with way less effort. Plus they had games like basketball and a blow-up jumping thing. There was also a bonfire for teens and adults who wanted to roast their hot dogs on the fire. I burnt a few until I finally got how to do it, but they were all good and taste. There was also some food inside if you couldn’t roast hot dogs or didn’t want to. It was music playing to inside of each car and inside of the church. This was the most fun I have ever had on Halloween. Afterward we were invited to a skating party and a lock end, but I was to tired to go and lazy so I just went home and went to sleep.

Ingrid McShan's Blog

For the mash up blog i watched Halloween-Shrek 2. The video wasnt scary but there were features added to make it seem as if it was scary. The sound effect was from a scary movie as if something bad was about to happen. The picture was also kind of dark throughout the entire video as if it was really a scary movie. The main character Shrek was targeted as the scary person in the movie. Many people were scared of him and it showed him having bad behavior and losing control. It was different from the original because first Shrek is not the bad guy. Also, since it was the halloween feature they tried to make it scary. The halloween feature was saying how everyone has a dark side in them and it was waiting to come out. In this mash up, it was Shrek dark side coming out of him. The original had more of a happy vibe throughout the movie. Shrek was more depended on in the original movie even though some characters were still scared of him. I liked the original movie better.

Mash Ups

I found a mash up that was of High School Musical and Saw. I have not seen any of the High School Musical movies but I have seen all the Saw movies. The match up of these to movies was really weird for me to watch, one of the movies was directed towards children and the other movie was and extremely nasty horror movie. The mash up was focused on the High School Musical cast and then they voiced over the kids talking and inserted these awkward kid voices talking about killing people after school and in college, and they inserted lots of clips from the Saw movies from the horrific torture scenes. The mash up was not as good as the Shining and Mary Poppins that we watched in class, but it was enjoyable to watch. I really liked looking for an interesting mash up. If i would not have had a huge paper due on Monday I would have spent more time searching for a better mash up. It always surprises me, with the stuff that people come up with I would never in a million years would think to take two completely different movies and make a clip of them together, even if I had the idea to do that I would never know how to do that. It is so interesting and amazing what people are able to come up with, sometimes I wish I had a more creative mind!! 

Ashley Hummel