NEW YEAR IS COMING!

This will be the first year that I will go out with friends for the New Year's Eve. I'll go with Irene, Andra, Carla and Sergio ( I'm not sure Carlota is coming). We will go to Vic, to the sportscentre "Pati Vic". I'm really excited about it, because it's going to be my first time to go there and the music will be great! Laura has gone there and she told me that she had a very good time, but she said that there were lots of people, that annoys me but if there weren't enough people it will be boring. I hope you will do something special too :D.

Happy New Year Joan!

INCEPTION

It's one of the last films I have seen and one of the strangests!

Dom Cobb and Arthur perform an illegal espionage by entering in the subconscious minds of other people to extract valuable information. Cobb's wife died because she thought that she was in a dream and when they are into a dream, to wake up they have to be killed or wake up from a "kick" (can be a car driving off a bridge, a falling elevator...). They meet a girl called Ariadne who is an architect student and she can design labyrinths of the dream landscapes.

In the film they enter to an important and rich man, who helps them to know, like a secret of his father. Wewn he gets asleep, they enter to his mind in three different dreams.
In each dream they enter to, they carry a "totem" it determinates if they are in another person's dream or not. The final part you can imagine what happens because Cobb's totem is spinning.

CHRISTMAS SONGS

I like old Christmas songs. My father put them always in this time of the year (or earlier). He says that we can feel the Christmas spirit, and it's true. Christmas is my favourite part of the year, maybe it is because everyone is kind and happy, or when you go out the streets are full of lights. In Manlleu, Christmas i so boring, the lights are awful (they wanted to be ecological). The only good thing is the ice rink and this year and don't know if i will go, so definitely Manlleu is not good enough to have a good time.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER

Last weekend I went to Barcelona to visit my uncle, who lives there. On Saturday we went shopping and on Sunday, my sister my uncle and I went to the cinema. We watched that movie in 3D. It is really good and in the 3D quality is better.

The film is based on the book written by C.S Lewis.

Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are living with their cousin Eustace Scrubb. They are in the bedroom when they enter to Narnia's world. They end up on the ship where there's King Caspian (Ben Barnes). In this movie there's more action than on the others, for exemple, they fight hardly all of the time.

They have a mission: they must locate the Seven Swords from disappeared Seven Lords, and save them and other people that have diappeared too but with a starnge green fog. Then they have to put the swords on Aslan's table.

At the end, Edmund and Lucy won't return to Narnia anymore, because they are too old like Peter and Susan.

Narnia's films are good. It's not necessary to read the books because I think that they are boring and heavy. I think the stories are a bit similar to the Lord of the Rings.

ECLIPSE

It's the third part of the Twilight Saga. I didn't go to the cinema, but I watched it on Saturday.

There's a thing that I don't like: Victoria is not the same actress and I don't like Bryce Dallas Howard.

In this film Victoria is making an army of neophites (new vampires who are very dangerous) to fight with the Cullen family and then, kill Bella. She uses Riley to bite other people.

Edward knows that, and their family are training how to fight with neophites. They can do it with the werewolves help.

In Forks there are lots of murderers and disappearances and Charlie (Bella's father, he's a policeman) is investigating, but he can find nothing.

The day of the fight Edward, Bella and Jake go at the top of the mountain. There it will be difficult to get with them. The others (vampires and werewolves) are fighting with the neophites and they are winning.

Finally, Victoria finds Edward and Bella. Edward can kill her before she attacks Bella.

The film finishes when Edward gives to Bella the marriage ring.

Now they are filming the last book: "Breaking Dawn". I hope it will be released next year.

NEW MOON

This is the second part of the Twilight Saga.

I think it is not as good as "Twilight", because Edward doesn't appear too much. The film is about the relation between Bella and Jacob.

Edward leaves Bella because he thinks it's the best for her, that he could hurt her more than he was doing. Bella is really upset and alone. She doesn't have friends.

After some months to be alone Bella start to meet Jacob and bein best friends. Jacob falls in love with Bella, but she doesn't correspond him.

In this film Bella discover that Jacob is a werewolf.

Then Alice (Edward's sister) comes to Bella's house to see if Bella is alive or not, because Edward thought she was dead and went to visit the Vulturis (they are like the king of the vampire world and they make the rules). To save him Alice and Bella go to Volterra (Italy), people there are celebrating the Vampire Week, so it's easier to be discovered. Bella can enter where Aro, Cayo and Marco are and save Edward, only with one condition: to be like them.

They accept but Edward says he will do it only if she marries him.

TWILIGHT

I don't know why I didn't post it before, because it's one of my favourite films.
I have read all the books and you can't compare them to the movies. The books are fantastic and the films, well, they aren't bad but not as good as the books.
The movie is about a girl called Bella who goes to live with her father Charlie. She goes to Forks, there she meets her new friends: Mike, Angela, Eric, Jessica and Tyler. When they are eating at the canteen she suddenly sees a strange and beautiul people: the Cullen family. She looks especialy at Edward because he is very atratcive.
At biology class they have to seat together. The first time they don't speak but the second day they become "friends". Bella falls in love with him an he falls in love with Bella. One day they go dinner and Edward explains Bella that he can read minds. When she is at home she remember that he's cold, strong and really fast. She serches in the Internet and find a word: vampire.
Then she meets Jacob, a friend of her who is in love with her too. He tells Bella a story about werewolves and vampires, then she understans everything.
One day she goes to Edward's house to meet his family (Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet) and they are happy with her, except Rosalie. Then they go to play baseball in a field and they find three bad vampires: Victoria, James and Laurent. James wants to eat Bella but Edward an his brothers can kill him.
The film finishes with Victoria (she was James' girlfriend) wants revenge.
The best actor in the film is Robert Pattinson. :D

ITALOBROTHERS

ItaloBrothers are a German group.
The group is formed of: Zacharias Adrian, Kristian Sandberg and Matthias Metten (vocalist).
The style of Italobrothers can be comparate with Italian bands like Bloom 06, Prezioso, Floorlilla, Gigi d'Agostino, Gabry Ponte. That's why some people thing they are Italian and for their name.
They only have released one album: Stamp! (2010). And they have made nine singles:
·The Moon (2006)
·Colours of the Rainbow (2007)
·Moonlight Shadow (2007)
·Counting Down the Days (2007)
·Where are you now? (2008)
·Stamp on the Ground (2009)
·So Small (2009)
·Love is on Fire (2010)
·Radio Hardcore (2010)
My favourites are "Stamp on the Ground" and "Love is on Fire".
They also have done remix with Cascada, Floorfilla and Manian.

LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS

I only got the film from the videoclub because I saw the name Orlando Bloom. I didn't know that he acts only 2 minutes but I like the film.
Emily Jackson "Jacks" lives in London. She works at British Vogue. She lives with her friend Peter Simon (he's gay), he has never been on a relationship and he always dreams about it. Jacks goes with her ex-boyfriend, James because she doesn't want to be disappointed by a serious relationship.
Then, one day, Paolo (a photographer) comes from Argentina to work at Vogue. They think that he is gay, so Jacks tells Peter how is him. When Jacks discovers that Paolo isn't gay, she gets furious and Paolo wants to leave and go back to Argentina. They forgive and the film finishes when they are at the cinema watching their story, because Peter is a screenwriter and he writes it.
I felt a little bit disappointed because Orlando Bloom didn't appear, but the film is good.

EMINEM

His real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III. He was born on October 17th, 1972 in Saint Joseph (Missouri).
He is an American rapper, record producer and actor.
He started his career in 1992. His first album was Infinite (I never heard it before).
Then in 1997 to 1999 he released The Slim Shady. It's one of the most popular albums. It has songs like Crack a Bottle, Old Time's Shake
In May 2000 he released The Marshall Mathers it broke the records set by Snoop Dog and Britney Spears. With the songs Stan, The Real Slim Shady, The Way I Am, My Name Is...
The Eminem Show was released in summer 2002 with songs like Without Me, Say Goodbye Hollywood, Sing For The Moment, Hailie's Song...
In 2004 he released his 4th album: Encore. It includes: Like Toy Soldiers, Just Lose It, Encore, Rain Man, Paul, When I'm Gone...
Curtain Call: The Hits (July 2005) is a greatest hits album.
Now he has released his last album: Recovery. I think it's his best album because he sings with other singers and the songs are very good. My favourite in this album are: Not Afraid, Love the Way You Lie (ft. Rihanna), Won't Back Down (ft. Pink), Cinderella Man and Almost Famous.
Eminem has won eleven Grammy Awards.
I've been listening his music since I was little, but now I like it very much.
I think that he has changed the rap music history.

SHUTTER ISLAND

It is one of the most strange films I've seen. When things happen you don't know if they are real or not.
The film is about two detectives (Edward Daniels "Teddy" and his new partner Chuck Aule) who they go to Shutter Island on a ferry. There, there's a mental hospital (Ashecliffe Hospital) and they have to investigate the disappearance of a patient (Rachel Solano) who has escaped of the hospital under supervision.
Teddy and Chuck become friends and Teddy tells Chuck that he was a soldier and liberate people from a concentration camp, he also tells that his wife (Dolores) died two years ago because someone burned their house.
They go to a house to investigate and when they return to the hospital they are separated. Teddy asks for Chuck and Dr Cawley makes him believe that he came alone. Teddy looks for Chuck and the last place he looks is at the lighthouse. At the top of the lighthouse there's Dr. Cawley, he says to him that his name is Andrew Laeddis not Edward Daniels (the names are similar) and that he murdered his wife after know that she murdered their children.
Teddy was a patient from the hospital and Chuck didn't exist, he was his psychiatrist Dr. Sheehan.
At this part I felt really confused.
The film is directed by Martin Scorsese. Leonardo di Caprio plays Teddy.

LADY GAGA

Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (very strange).
Her music style is electronic, pop, dance...
She's a singer, a songwriter, a dancer and a pianist. Gaga is because of Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga". Them, Michael Jackson and Madonna were her influences.
Her career began in 2005 with her real name, but she was always singing Radio Ga Ga, so her producer called her Lady Gaga.
In 2008 she released her album: "The Fame". It includes: Just Dance, Poker Face, Boys Boys Boys, Brown Eyes, Paparazzi, Money Honey, Eh,Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say), Lovegame, Beautiful Dirty Rich, The Fame, Summerboy, I like it Rough, Starstruck and Paper Gangsta.
My favourite songs ara Paparazzi, Lovegame, Just Dance, Beautiful Dirty Rich and Boys Boys Boys.
On November 2009 she released The Fame Monster. It includes: Bad Romance, Alejandro, Monster, Speechless, Dance in the Dark, Telephone, So Happy I Could Die and Teeth. I like all the songs in this album.
She has won 95 awards and has been nominated 191 times.
Lady Gaga looks really eccentric but lots of pepole like her, and me too!

ALICE IN WONERLAND

I watched this movie last weekend.
It is a fantasy movie based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll. It's always the same story, a little bit strange but I like it.
The principal characters are:
-Alice: -Mia Wasikowska- She's a nineteen-year-old girl who returns to Underland for the second time in thirteen years.
-The White Rabbit: It's rabbit in a waistcoat and a clock.
-Tweedledum and Tweedledee: -Matt Lucas- They're two twins very funny.
-Absolem : The caterpillar.
-The Mad Hatter: -Johnny Depp- He's a hatter who made hats for the White Queen but he became crazy.
-Chesire Cat: It can apperar and disapperar whenever it wants.
-Mirana, the White Queen: -Anne Hathaway- She's the Red Queen's sister. She lives in a happy castle out of fear.
-Iracebeth, the Red Queen: - Helena Bonham Carter- She's the White Queen's sister. She's easily irritated and nobody loves her.
-The Knave of Hearts: - Crispin Glover- He follows the Red Queen's orders. He's arrogant and the pnly who can calm her moods.
-The Jabberwocky: A dragon creature controlled by the Red Queen. At the end of the film Alice kills it.
My favourite character is the Mad Hatter, who is played by Johnny Depp (is almost unrecognizable).
The film is direced by Tim Burton, he's one of my favourites directors. I really like his films.

REMEMBER ME

This is one of my favoutite films. I like it because I love Robert Pattinson!! And also because it's so great, but it makes you cry a lot.
Remember me starts with a girl called Ally (11 years old), who saw the murder of her mother on a subway platform in New York. The mother is shot at her forehead when two muggers tried to rob them. Her father (Neil) is a detective.
Ten years later (2001):
Tyler is a 21-old guy who studies at university and he has a lot of problems: his brother commited suicide 6 years ago, his father (Charles) ignores him, and his little sisiter (Caroline) is bullied at school by her classmates. One night Tyler and a friend fought with Neil, and then they know that Ally is his daughter. Tyler and Ally start to be friends and they fall in love.
At the end of the film Tyler and his father begin to connect again, his sister is "happy" and eveything is fine.
Here comes the worst part: Tyler goes to the office of his father to meet him, but he isn't there. Then Caroline is at school and on the blackboard there's a date: 11th September 2001.
Tyler is in the building which is located in the World Trade Center, where the planes hit and he dies. :(

THE BLACK EYED PEAS

The Black Eyed Peas are a North-American music group of R&B, pop and hip-hop. They are from Los Angeles (Californa).
The group is composed of: Will.i.am (William James Adams), apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo), Taboo (Jaime Luís Gómez) and Fergie (Stacy Ferguson). They all sing.

They've won six times the Grammy Award. They have released five albums since they started:

-Behind the Front (1998)

-Bridging the Gap (2000)

-Elephunk (2003)

-Monkey Business (2005)

-The E.N.D-the Energy Never Dies (2009)

I think the last album is the most different because they changed their style, it's all electronic music. But I like it, for me, the best song in this album is I Gotta Feeling maybe because it's produced by David Guetta.

This week I'll write twice!!

GREEN DAY

Hi Joan!!
Today I'm gonna write about my favourite group of music: Green Day.
Green Day is an American (California) band, formed in 1987. The members are: Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals and guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass and vocals) and Tré Cool (drums).
Their style is punk rock, pop punk and alternative rock.
Since 1987 they have released nine albums:

-39/Smooth

-Kerplunk

-Dookie

-Insomniac

-Nimrod

-Warning

-International Superhits!

-American Idiot

-21st Century Breakdown.

The last in 2009.

American Idiot won the 2005 Grammy for "The Best Rock Album", and they win a total of seven of the eight they were nominated in the 2005 MTV Music Awards.

My favourite songs are: Basket Case, 21 guns, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Good Ridance, When I Come Around, The Simpson Theme, Whatsername...

I really like their music and I'd love to go to the next concert that they're going to do!!