The Grey Jack Frost

The Grey Jack Frost

Sunday, October 27, 2013

The Season is Over

Hello people's.

Recently cross country season has ended. This Saturday I went on a run around my neighborhood. I liked it a lot. I ran around my block five times which is around 2.5 miles.

I listened to music while I ran but I stayed on the left lane so I would see if any cars were coming. It seemed different than running at regular practices. At practice I liked it and wanted to do it but I was counting down how many I had to do. Here, I think it was different because it was something I was doing on my own, and that pushed to to whenever I ran past my house instead of saying ok you have to do one more to meet your goals, it was like ok let's do one more because you want to. I saw all the fall trees zoom by and I had a lot of fun and felt really great when I was done.

I'm definitely doing this again next year it was a TON of fun. I like cross country more than track because you get to see al these beautiful things and it's surreal. Long distance running seems more rewarding and its more fun to push yourself for longer. I was only able to run one competition but next year I'll actually be in the school and will be able to run every one. I felt very good about this season and by our last practice I could keep up with most everyone else even though I'm still in eighth grade.

If you guys would like to hear about some of the music I listen to let me know. Bye.

By Ashton

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Descent

Hello peoples. Today I'm doing a blog on another horror movie. Here it goes.

This blog is on a movie called The Descent. It starts off with the main characters husband and daughter dying in a horrible car crash. A year later her and her friends are gathered together in the Appalachian mountains to go spelunking. They are supposed to be in an explored cave system but Juno, the girl who planned the trip has them go in an unexplored cave system. Before long panic sets in as the caves get more and more dangerous and they have the feeling they are being watched...

The monster in this movie does not appear until halfway through the movie and the movie is still really scary before that. Caves are kind of like space. It's the unknown that scares us. Just as there could be anything out there, there could be anything down below us and that scares the human race's pants off.

There are also many ways to die in either setting and something scares us about being miles underground. Imagine being trapped under a rock. Alone, with no light, miles underground where you were starving slowly. That's pretty terrifying. The ending of the movie is very odd and there are many ways to interpret it but I liked the movie a lot.

Bye.




By Ashton

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Hello peoples. Today I'm talking about my trip to the New York Comic Con. Here it goes

On Friday my Dad picked me up during school to drive me to my Aunt robins. We stopped there and spent the night there with my cousins Isaac and Andrew. The next morning my Aunt was nice enough to drive us to the Javitz center, where it was being held. This made it a lot better than last year because we didn't have to park she just dropped us off. She also gave me a card and 25 dollars for my birthday so I had 125$ dollars to spend there.

This time we went straight into the dealers room. I had a lot of fun looking at all the costumes and booths people had set up. I ended up only going 15 dollars over I got four different things and I will write about them later. Afterwards we went back to my aunts and had Thai food for dinner. Unfortunately we had to leave and we didn't get home until around midnight. You can see pictures of the Comic Con on my Dad's Instagram.

Now I'll review the things I got at comic con.



This is the Deacon from Promethus. He looks awesome and I really like the painted on blood on his head. He has okay joints but his shoulder joints are a little restricted by his sculpt.



His inner mouth also comes out.



He comes with 2 Hammerpedes, open and closed,
and a dead engineers helmet...



With the head inside.

Next is the battle damaged engineer and the trilobite 2 pack also from Prometheus.






This is the trilobite. It is just as gross as it in the movie if not worse. It's tentacles are bendy and can turn where they meet the body.



This is the battle damaged engineer. ( who ends the movie in much worse shape ).






His face reminds me of two-face. Next up are 2 Aliens I got.



The first is just a regular repainting of an Alien I have...









But the second is awesome because it's blood red.

Finally I got the Vasquez Vs. Night cougar alien that Kenner made. It wouldn't be that good but it is the only way to get Vasquez in America without high prices.



Vasquez toting her giant missile launcher. She also came with a pulse rifle which is good because she's the only Kenner figure that comes with one.

The black alien that came in her two pack versus the original I already owned.





By Ashton

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Gravity

Hello peoples. Today I'm doing another movie blog. Here it goes.

I'm doing this blog on the movie Gravity. Gravity is a movie that takes place mostly in space. It is realistic science fiction. So these are astronauts in space in current time. The movie starts with 3 Astronauts floating around their spaceship fixing a communication system.

The main character is Dr. Ryan Stone. ( a girl ) they receive a message that Russians have tested a missile on one of their own satellites but that the debris will not intercept their path. Soon after they receive an emergency message to get inside the ship, the debris has caused a chain reaction among other satellites sending a deadly wave of metal hurtling towards them at immense speeds. They are unable to get inside the ship in time and the ship is utterly destroyed. Sending the 2 alive Astronauts flying through space to try and get to earth before 90 minutes when the deadly space junk is due to hit them again.

This is the basis of Gravity. It's rated PG-13 but if you omit one scene where they find the other dead crew members than it would probably be PG. I REALLY enjoyed this movie. At first I did not think it would be that good and that it would just be people floating through space the whole time, which it often is but it is really cool and suspenseful. As far as I could tell they were no scientific mistakes and everything seemed accurate. The soundtrack is pretty nice too. It had a very good message as well, (SPOILERS), when Ryan is alone in space, this deadly thing she's witnessed kill several others, she finally overcomes her fears, stops being scared and accepts her fate. But that does not mean she's giving up and she does all she can to beat this enemy and just focuses on being awesome.

I loved the movie Gravity. By.


By Ashton