Heaven’s in New York

Bonjour!

Has anyone noticed that my blog subjects follow an ABAB pattern, well everyday but today because today a new poem starts! yay!

Anyway lets chit-chat about something fun, movies! Recently I saw the film The Forbidden Kingdom and it was not the cheesy kongfu movie I thought it was going to be. In fact is was very entertaining. Sure some parts were a little yawn-full, but what movie doesn’t have a scene or two like that! No matter, all that matters is my personal opinion on the movie.

The other movie I saw was this so called romantic comedy, One Last Thing.  I said, “so called” because of the fact that the movie was really emotional and not really the type of movie I was expecting. Before I actually tell you what I was expecting I’ll give you a brief, little synopsis; A boy, Dylan, who is a sophomore in High School has terminal cancer. Wish Givers Foundation (the equivalent to our Make a Wish Foundation) grants his last wish to go fishing with some sort of sports player, but everyone is shocked when Dylan says his true wish is to, “have a weekend alone with Nikki” who is a big supermodel. So on and so forth, I think you get the point. Doesn’t that sound like a semi-funny movie!! I think I only laughed no more than 4 times. Although the movie wasn’t the funny movie I was wanted, I still enjoyed it and found it somewhat touching. Before I stop rambling about this film I’ll let you read probably the best quote from the movie, “when you’re born you cry and the world is happy. when you die, the world cries… and you are happy.” Isn’t that deep! Makes you really have some hope for the great beyond.

The song that played during the credit made you appreciate the film a little more. The song was called Heaven’s in New York by Wyclef Jean.

If it was my last day on earth

I’d treat it like my first

go out the way i came in

so innocent so pure with no thoughts of insecurity

Live life to the fullest be what i wanna be

Last day on earth I tell my momma dont cry I’ll see my daddy in paradise

Where the blind can see, the mute can talk, the crippled can walk

but for now Heaven’s in New York

Happy Earth Day.

-Clover

Drive Home

Greeting!

I’m back, and although there are a million other things I should be doing this moment, I find myself typing along to some song that’s playing from my iTunes. It’s depressing, iTunes that is, would you like to know why? Well, I’m going to tell you anyways, iTunes reminds me of my iPod, which is long gone. Long story short it was lost a the movie theater.

What’s that you want to hear the story? I guess I could tell a bit of it. The truth about what happened to my iPod.

So I have about 5 free movie tickets sitting around my home, but you know how those things work! You have to wait a week before you can see a movie, because during its first week it’s called a special something or other. And when all your friends want to go to the movies they want to see some new release, in this story the new release just happened to be Nim’s Island, which by the way was a movie I was even dying to see. (Figuratively speaking of course) I was happy to spend $9.50 and support this wonderful film, although I should have got the student discount. It was opening night so of course it was a little crowed in there, so we didn’t get our favorite seats, but still decent ones.

After the film ended is when it happened, the credits rolled, we got out of our seats, and made our way out to the hall. My friends head straight from theater 4 to theater 5 (note actually theater number are not based on the real account). In English this is called ’sneaking into a movie’ and to say the least I was nervous, never in the 16 years I have been alive had I done something so reckless. The movie was 21 and we had planned on seeing it afterwards, but it was the movie I thought I was using my free pass for (ironic eh?). I didn’t do the right thing and walk out of the theater, because truth is I wanted to be there, these are the lines that I kept feeding myself;

“Everyone does this at least once.”

“You go to the movies almost every week you should get a freebie here and there.”

“Well since I’m already here.”

Between the previews and the start of the movies my cell phone had fallen out of my pocket, and when it fell it must have taken my iPod with it. I’m always checking my pockets and making sure I have everything, sometimes I can be just a bit too paranoid, so of course I noticed it was missing within 2 minutes a the least. Quickly I pulled out my cell to use as a light, and searched around for my heavenly music device. I even asked my friends to help and soon we had search the two rows between us. Harsh reality hit, it was gone.

I’ve always had a strong opinion about karma, this just raises it even more. In a way I guess it was a good (?) thing. A valuable life lesson was learned, a life lesson that is certainly not learned by half the teenage population.

Now, I’m actually in the process of getting a job, so that I may buy a new one (this time possibly a iPod touch!) and I’ll be sure to guard it with my life.

-Clover

P.S. I defiantly recommend both movies to anyone, they both had a few ups and downs, but overall highly enjoyable.