My Notebook

Hello peoples. Today I'm writing about some writing I plan t do at school and an example of it. Here it goes.

So recently I've gotten a notebook to write in for entertainment at school. It's not just for entertainment though it's also because lately I've been feeling a need to write some of these things down. Some of them are stories or poems though they often don't rhyme. Other things would just be sayings I've made or bits of wisdom I want to remind myself or stories about my life. Kinda like a journal but more interesting.

Here is an example of something I'm going to put in.

It's Friday and I'm outside running around my neighborhood. This is my third lap around the block and in spite of the chilly fall winds I've taken my jacket off at my last pass by my house. I've gotten to that point where I've gone far enough I won't be stopping for a while. No, I'm not done with it yet it just pushes me to continue. I come to one sharp hill with bright autumn trees on either side of the road. I speed up to get up the hill and my earbuds keep pumping music. Sweat steadily streaks down my temples and then I'm there. At the top of the hill, the view is amazing and I can see both the sun and the moon like rulers of the sky. The clouds have blended in with the oranges and the purples and the sky is split in half between the day and the night. The sunlight shines almost parallel to the horizon and pronounces the fall trees. I haven't stopped running and I'm sprinting down the street like a rocket. The sunlight is beautiful and I close my eyes for a moment and soak it all in like a sponge. It seems to give me a reason, motivation for my every purpose and reason for everything I do. I keep my eyes close and spread my arms out, greeting anything it's gonna throw at me. I was untouchable.


By Ashton

Warlord

Hello people's. Today I'm doing a comic book review. Here it goes.

Recently we have completely stripped my old room so that Katie could move into it. While we were cleaning it out I found some of my old comic books. When I was smaller I read my entire Warlord essential. I still really like it and I asked my Dad if they made any more comics after what I already had. I remember hearing somewhere that they didn't so I wasn't to hopeful but he said yes and now I have more on my iPad.

So warlord is the story of Travis Morgan who was a pilot in the U.S. Airforce. He was on a mission taking photos of supposed Chemical warfare bases in Russia when a Russian plane shot his plane. His plane was going down straight over the north pole. Before he crashed he ejected with a parachute. To his surprise he found himself in a subterranean world! Skartaris.

Skartaris exists because at each pole the earth slowly curves inward on itself, Morgan did not recognize the curve because of how gradual it is. Inside is a world in eternal day because of the sun perpetually held at the center by Earth's gravity. Here Morgan finds creatures from the dawn of Earth, Dinosaurs living alongside modern creatures. Skartaris was once inhabited by the great wizard kings so there are magical creatures and wizards. The civilization of Atlantis once ventured here and the land knew great technological advances before they destroyed each other by war. Now it is inhabited by men and women living in the dark ages of sword and sorcery completely oblivious to the once great civilization.

I like Warlord a lot. It reminds me of Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs because both of the heroes live in a land of the sword in modern times and both of them are almost always on a quest to save there loved ones such as there sons or wives. Even though they face great challenges neither of them are ever really bested with the sword but the story is still great. Bye.


By Ashton

My Music

Hello peoples. Today I'm writing about some of the music I listen to. Here it goes.

Most of the time I listen to Alternative music but sometimes I listen to Electronic. I like these kinds of music because they really fire me up and the chorus is usually very good. Whenever I'm running the chorus of these songs really help me run faster from the power of the music. The way I buy music is just buying the songs I really like from different artists. Then I put them together in one playlist and listen to them that.

Here are some of the songs in my favorite playlist.
Nothing by The Script
Breakeven by The Script
Paradise by Coldplay
You found me by The Fray
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
It's Time by Imagine Dragons
Demons by Imagine Dragons
Monster by Imagine Dragons
Apologize by OneRepublic
Good Life by OneRepublic
Secrets by OneRepublic
I'm Yours/Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Straight No Chaser
Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's
Animal by Neon Trees
Fallen Kingdom by TryHardNinja (definitely check out the music video for this just search Fallen Kingdom in YouTube.)
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
We Are Young by Fun.
Sail by AWOLNATION
Kill Your Heroes by AWOLNATION
Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood

Some of my favorite songs would be Sail, Sweater Weather, Fallen Kingdom, I'm Yours/Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and Demons. My favorite band is probably Imagine Dragons because a lot of their songs are good.

Bye.


By Ashton

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

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

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

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