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*EDIT* HOLY SHIT !! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COLOURS?!!

LOOK ABI!
dance magic dance XD


i iz in ur house, eatin ur dolls D:


and sylar is playing SSX with the camp male maid D: and losing haha.


they are growing into 'children' in like.. an hour, so then we can change what they look like finally! and dress them as pirates XD awesome.

Saw...

... Slow Club last night (lol at my myspace bulletin-style beginning) and it was AWESOME. Really like them now and want the girls hair cos it is the lovely XD. They were headlining with teo bands before them. The first guy was actually a solo artist... nice bloke and a really good guitar player but in my opinion not so strong on the lyrics, didn't know his name...

Next band (Delphi) were good too ... the second guy on guitar was an AMAZING player and I think the overall sound was good... lots of energy to it and the front man's voice was le wicked XD

Slow Club rocked my socks! Not heard much of their music before but really liked everything they played. Really nice people too... The venue was so small even the people at the back of the room could have a chat with the people on stage and we took up the entire section of middle seating save two chairs... we were only a party of 7. The stage was 4 metres by 2 metres lol.

I now owe Rosie 5 pounds cos I liked the band so much I bought a T-shirt... plus to be honest I wanted a green T-shirt in general anyway XD. We semi-accidently manage to ditch Umit and Marc and their friend on our way out and went back to Mina's house without them... I am cool beans and gave Rosie and Bing a lift (well, technically my dad is cool beans) to the respective places they needed to be...

AN AWESOME EVENING and great to see Mina again after sooooo long. Thank you again for the nailuto!! XD

P.S we are now in a mega wicked band ftw, it's called Lets All Bite People! XD I CAN HAS PLAY GUITAR WEEDILY WEEDILY WEEDILY WEEEEE

ULTIMATE LIFE

sorry sims post. LET US HAVE OUR ULTIMATE DOLLS HOUSES, OKAY!
so abi and sylar...and spinster sister ME.
events occurred...

weddingXD


im painting the downstairs window, LOOK HOW AWESOME MY HAT IS!!!


lol at how sylar is a criminal (he will be a better one soon...)


and lol at how my ultimate destiny in life is to be a super hero!! we live in the same house XD haha. im just a cadet right now..


this happened to me while at work..

i made the wrong choice XD the outcome is so me...


but sim abi was pregnant XD


she got the best maternity clothes ive ever seen in the game!! and yeaaah sylar is alseep there in a stinky sandwich...


you'll have so many babies! 400 BABIES!! well, two.. but thats more than we expected!


SO we called them Nicky and Jessica lols


yes, our surname is Awesome XD

Media Exam - Sources

Sources to SHARE! (and contribute to?) im numbering them to make my Q2 post easier. you also need to quote the whole URL in your exam if its a website for some stupid reason.

you need around6 METHODS and 12 SOURCES so pick and choose the ones youll remember.

METHOD: NEWSPAPERS - SECONDARY
1. The Guardian, saturday Febuary 17th 2007 John Patterson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2013708,00.html
+ reliable. its a trustworthy source of academic value.
+ its actually EXACTLY what we are researching

METHOD: BOOKS - SECONDARY
2. Television Culture, John Fiske, Routledge 1991 (thats the publisher)
+ useful for audience and genre research, reliable and trustworthy academic style
- not on sci-fi D: borrrring
- toooo much informaaationn D:

3. Television Drama; Audience, Ageny and Myth, John Tulloch (these John guys really like tv), Routledge 1990
+ more specific towards tv drama, including sci-fi!
+ info on audience and tv texts
- sooooo much info

4. Television Audiences and Culture Studies, David Morley, Routledge 1992
+ genre and audience!
- non specific
- too much info again

METHOD: INTERNETS - SECONDARY
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/heroes_%28tv_series%29
+ specific
+ detailed
- unreliable D:

6. http:/comicbooks.about.com/od/comicmovies/fr/heoresreview.htm (doesnt actually work but WHO CARES)
+ good for review of first episode
+ good interview with tim kring (so, overall its useful and specific?)

7. http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklyterrestrial&RequestTimeout=500
+ very useful for popularity information in the UK
+ reliable source
- quite hard to use, couldnt specify program you had to specify date

8. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/nielsen-more.htm
+ very useful
+ shows position of heroes in top 20 and gives stats in millions etc...
+ reliable
- would have been hard to find heroes if it wasnt so popular

9. http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/
- vaaaague
- biased lol
+ says the network and production team tho...

10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813715/companycredits
+ reliable
+ useful for what else the company have done
+ specific

METHODS: MAGAZINES - SECONDARY
11. Heroes, issue 1 dec/07/jan08, Titan Books
- full of crap
- biased/useless
- good for behind scenes technical info

12. Media Magazine, issue 22, december 07, Chris Bruce (AQA EXAMINER!!)
+ reliable
+ exactly our question, specific
- long D:

13. SFX Magazine, issue 30, Future Publishing
+ had stuff on heroes...
- but it wasnt that useful

METHOD: MESSAGEBOARDS - PRIMARY IF YOU POSTED IT - SECONDARY IF YOU STOLE IT
14. http://heroesfanatic.com/forum/generaldiscussion/globaljoy
+ very useful
+ global response, most ages (ie american teenagers)
- lots of crap (ie american teenagers)

METHOD: TEXTUAL ANAL (YEAH!) - PRIMARY
15. Heroes, season one, BBC 9pm - 11pm wednesday july(?) - dec 07
+ useful!

METHOD: INTERVIEWS - PRIMARY
16. Interview with 21 yr old female student who doesnt usually watch tv dramas
+ very useful

17. Interview with 45 and 46 yr old employed couple, (my parents lols) who watch every tv drama on tv
+ very useful

METHOD: FOCUS GROUP - PRIMARY
18. we so did one of those. vary our ages a bit XD
+ awesome to the max

METHOD: InfoTrak - SECONDARY
19. "insatiable appetites" (abi will have to provide more reference than that...)
+ stuff about american tv
- a bit shit

20. "beyond far"
+ very good, specific to tv drama and question

DONE!!!!!!!!!! makes me wish i could type the whole exam D:

Media Exam - 1

Media Exam structure for question 1.
for Abi, TomSka, Rosie2 and Bing if he so wishes...

Structure:
Intro/strategy summary - Barney told me to state my topic and then my focus area basically. eg "i was interested in Heroes because i watched it and found a lot of other people, who arent usually known to delve into the sci-fi stuff of last years london expo, watching it too AND LOVING IT. wtf? i 'wanted' to find out why this was by tediously analysing every fu... etc etc"

Methods/Sources and how USEFUL they were - describe what you planned to do, eg "i watched it, then wanted to ask poeple stuff, then looked at magazines, then went on internet, looked at some books..." go through each of the steps of research you did, or stole off someone else lol. and say how useful it was, and perhaps why and how it lead you to the next step. eg "i used the overpriced official magazine to find out why heroes is appealing according to the people who made it. there was a lot of crap and biased quotes because the actors are incredibly vain, but it was useful in technical sfx some ways..." this should be the maaaain part of your first question, so lots of paragraphs here.

Summary/conclusion thing - sum up! but about how useful it was and not how painfully hard and boring its been. lie if you have to! eg "Overall researching the topic of tv drama has been more difficult than i imagined, the most useful source was X because it has a well researched article from a repected academic journal. This meant that i could trust the souce loll etc"i dont know what to do if your most useful source was INTERVIEWS as mine probably was, but i guess you could blag something about it being a primmary source and so its just far better than anything ever.

Alphabetically: I hate...English

Does anyone have any A03 (the home brand) biscuit that I can eat and become magically powerfully great at taking my GREAT F*CK-OFF SCALPEL to language and dissecting it and sliding its great fleshy CROCK-O-BULL into my essay so that I CAN STOP F!STING (yes I went there) the MASSIVE PILE OFF W@NK that is my english essay!?

No?

Not been baking lately?

Fine

Then: Dear Santa please remove any "generalising waffle" form my conclusion because apparently I'M A MASSIVE SH^T HEAD who can't right essays for toffee!!!

PARTY ON WAYNE

Yesterday i realised that abi and i ARE wayne and garth of waynes world fame. WE ARE. we just ARE.
And so, ive decided to spend the £15 i earnt last night BABYSITTING LOL on a waynes world cap. the rest, as its only £12 including P+P, on a black t-shirt to go with the hat and the ripped jeans i already own so i can dress up at wayne :D!! Abi is working on a garth costume. there IS a party... but thats just a coincidence to the fact WE MUST DO THIS.

waynes world 1 will be watched tomorrow afternoon for the lols. that will keep me going through my media mock which i have in the morning.. interview and exam this week, another exam the week after and im also really scared of going to rome in less than a month! JUST GOTTA KEEP A GOOD FRAME OF MIND!

PARTY ON GARTH

WAYNES WORLD
WAYNES WORLD
PARTY TIME
EXCELLENT
NOODLEYNOODLEYNOOODLEYNOODELY

D:

I want to CRY just tried to do my English, actually REALLY tried, got a hundred words in and realised I haven't got MY STUPID FRIGGING BOOK so I can't write ANYTHING ELSE LBCWLIBWEKJFMNVSDKFGWIOHEFLJHLI!!!!LJBL!klnc...ghj...(=anger is spent)

Have just spent the last half an hour reading over old blogs to make life lol-tastic again! So I'm not feeling so bad... Gonna Have to go and get my English later...and probably my media though I DON'T HAVE TIME for it... At the moment all of my subject teachers seem to want all of my time monopolised by their particular subject so I am *dead*.

I just want to curl up in a ball and smile I CAN'T DO EITHER at the moment without feeling really guilty DX

I also want Rosie to blog...she said she would.... WE DECIDED TO GO TO THAT PARTY AS WAYNE AND GARTH ftw. It'll be quite good cos both me and Garth are blonde, however, I have notice he has a fringe and I don't so it's not going to be perfect...but I s'pose it's obvious from my other option that I never really expected it to be perfect..

ARGHGIGGERARGGIGGERARGHARGHARGH *RIP RIP RIP* I just want to go to bed...or town...or the cinema...or just not here...

YAY

One of my friends is having her eighteenth party be a film themed dress up party! Rosie doesn't know yet but she is invited too!

Anyway, so far these are the suggestions for my costume:
Marty Mcfly (Back to the Future)
Ted "Theodore" Logan (Bill and Ted)
Garth (Wayne's World)
Arthur Dent (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Karate Kid (I'm not spelling this one out for you)
Shaun (Shaun of the Dead)
Nic or Danny (Hot Fuzz)

-sorry to insult you intelligence with the bracketed information but not EVERYONE is overly knowledgeable about these movies...However we still love those people and think they are wonderful... which is why I have provided for them-

Now before you say ANYTHING I know they are ALL MEN but that just seems to be the kind of characters I lend myself to (*sob*)...

So what do you think? Any ideas? I NEED A HAND PEOPLE!!!

Albi

TomSka (ASSSS) wanted a (hang on we love him really) stunt dummy... One you could throw off buildings and hit with cars and stuff... so we made him Albi. Albi took us about 5 hours from excitement commencing to completetion. We got the method off of Backyard FX (IndyMogul on Youtube). We wrapped me (Abi) in tape and cut me out again XD Then we stuffed the figure and....well.... clothed it.

Albi we love you, you're oh so creepy!

(Albi is name so because 1. I'm Abi, inserty L, and 2. we were watching FOTC's racist dragon at the time...yes, for 5 hours)

ROSIE TOOK PHOTOS:

New Year Playlist

Rosie's new year playlist. Bing said i should do one, and ive had a few songs strike me as awesome recently... some that ive had a long time that have become something. i cant give you them to listen like Bing did, i dont even have some of these in my itunes library.

1. Mr Fisk ~ Lightspeed Champion
dont remember it from when i saw them, but it makes me want to see them again.
i try my best to conquer all and be my most evil
but i fail
i sure fail

2. Raindrops ~ Regina Spektor
my newest addition to my collection of her songs. delightful.
in a town thats cold and grey, we will have a sunny day.

3. Shake It Out ~ Tilly And The Wall
ignored for far too long, a nice Tilly song that ends so well.
dont want this to end, dont wanna climb those stairs and go to bed
so lets dance

4. The Absense Of God ~ Rilo Kiley
i could quote the whole thing, another amazing song from umit.
And we'd still be ruled by our dueling perspectives
And I'm not my perspective
Or the lies I'll tell you every time


5. Dulcinea Duct Tape ~ Troubled Hubble
reminds me of the day Bing showed it to me, just before we filmed Tom's music video, right?
when your goose flies away, duct tape wings so that he stays.

6. The Distance ~ Travis
not my favourite by any means, but i just cant get it out of my head!
How far will you run, to get whatever you're after
Year after year after year
…Now there's nothing left for me to do,
But sit around and see the view

7. Limassol ~ Maxïmo Park
the annoying beggining makes me usually skip this song, but when i let it play i enjoy it a lot.
thinking clearly never came as easy as it did for you

8. Midnight Surprise ~ Lightspeed Champion
possibly my favourite song on this list, definatley my favourite song of the year so far.

9. Resolution ~ Motion City Soundtrack
new yearsy, and i LOVE it so much.
I like the universe, but she messes with my words
So let's give it up for the New Year

10. Words From Reuben ~ Reuben
just good right now.
…And if not, I hope we do,
I could fall asleep on you

thats not including the whole kate bush album abi gave me XD which is just awesome.