Melissa Gutierrez's Blog, page 117
December 14, 2012
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AVENGE ME HAMLET
FOR I WAS KILLED BY YOUR UNCLE, AND MY BROTHER
O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
this is more relevant than anything I’ve ever reblogged onto here
Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her....
Sandor Clegane unfastened his cloak and tossed it at her. Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. The coarse weave was scratchy against her skin, but no velvet had ever felt so fine.
The Ninth Doctor Rewatch: The Parting of Ways
“I think you’re...
The Ninth Doctor Rewatch: The Parting of Ways
“I think you’re forgetting something. I’m the Doctor and if there’s one thing I can do it’s talk. I’ve got give billion languages and you haven’t got one way of stopping me. So if anybody’s gonna shut up, it’s you!”
"The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been..."
“The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, “that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about Basketball Diaries?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?” The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory.
“Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory. ”
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.”
- Roger Ebert (via veronox)
“Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory. ”
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.”
- Roger Ebert (via veronox)
Some Harry Potter Facts.
Emma Watson's favorite HP book is Prisoner of Azkaban and Rupert Grint's favorite HP book is The Goblet of Fire.
Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be put in Hufflepuff beacuse he found Gryffindor's reputation of bravery intimidating.
Most of the members of the Black family are named after stars.
Voldemort cannot love because he was concieved under the effects fo a Love Potion.
J.K. Rowling has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing.
Tom Marvolo Riddle is also an anagram for "immortal odd lover."
Slytherin house was the first and last house mentioned in the series.
October 9 of 1995, Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement for the first time to practice the Disarming Charm.
In the movie scene "Nineteen Years Later", Tom Felton's girlfriend Jade Gordon makes an appearance as Draco's wife, Astoria Greengrass.
Voldemort is bald because this way people can't use his hair in a Polyjuice Potion.
Neville asked the Sorting Hat to be put in Hufflepuff beacuse he found Gryffindor's reputation of bravery intimidating.
Most of the members of the Black family are named after stars.
Voldemort cannot love because he was concieved under the effects fo a Love Potion.
J.K. Rowling has said that when she took an online Sorting Hat quiz it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
Both Sirius and Fred, Hogwarts pranksters from different generations, died laughing.
Tom Marvolo Riddle is also an anagram for "immortal odd lover."
Slytherin house was the first and last house mentioned in the series.
October 9 of 1995, Dumbledore's Army meets in the Room of Requirement for the first time to practice the Disarming Charm.
In the movie scene "Nineteen Years Later", Tom Felton's girlfriend Jade Gordon makes an appearance as Draco's wife, Astoria Greengrass.
Voldemort is bald because this way people can't use his hair in a Polyjuice Potion.
