I'm back!

Hello!

So, it has been like 4 years since my last post, some series have ended, others have been cancelled and for better or for worse there are always new ones.

In the last couple of years superhero series, or Marvel and DC characters (mostly DC), have become the new focus of young, and not so young audience. Arrow, Agents of SHIELD, The Flash, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Supergirl, between others. I love it, I'm a big fan of action movies.

I'm from Spain and only last year Netflix came into my life. Even though it doesn't have the extensive catalogue as the US or Canada it's pretty great. Every week they add something new and their original movies or series are available fairly quickly, excluding some series they had sold to other tv channels before they came to Spain, like House of Cards and Orange is the new black. I think Netflix subscription is very cheap as in the rest of the world (I have the 4 accounts subscription and is about 12€).

Netflix resurfaced my love for documentaries, there are tons, the first one I watched was Making a Murderer, it is a series but a documentary also. It's OK, boring at times but overall interesting. One documentary I loved was Going Clear, I didn't knew anything about Scientology and of course is a bias way to get any knowledge about it but I believed everything about it. And there are a lot of documentaries about how badly we eat and how everything is full of sugar and the overweight problem in the US , they are cool too but if you watch maybe two of them I think t you have seen it all. Another good one is The Propaganda Game, about North Korea, I like it, very informative.

I hope I won't forget about writing again.

Cheers!

Euro2012

So it’s football time (or soccer L ). I don’t usually watch football but I love the World Cup and the Euro Cup. I have some money “invested” on this cup and I think I’m going to loose big time. Two years ago at the world cup I won some money, but this isn’t my year. I have to admit that my fortune is thanks to my brother, this year we did different bets and he is actually in second place, lucky bastard, jejeje. But I think his luck is going to end because the Netherlands are not going to pass to quarters. I bet that the final was Spain – Netherlands so I’m screwed.

Also is almost summer time. Long days and shorter working hours, for some of us. Swimming pools, beach, sports etc. Vacations and relaxing time.  I know I need it, I can’t believe that we are at the middle of the year, I am so tired that it feels that is November, but I have done nothing with my life so it feels like February… so sad. Well there is always next year (or not…. LOL).

In the movie department of my long list of movies I have only seen The Avengers, MIB III is at the theaters so I still have time to see it, and if I am not mistaken no other have been released yet, so, good. Webcomics are the same, maybe there are a couple of new ones, and I keep spending my money in webcomics books… no comments. Books… well nothing worth to mention, I am finishing a cute story, and then my blood needs some mystery, so I have to decide what to read next. My Wii is on pause, but this summer I am sure I am going to play a lot.

Have a great summer!!!! 

A good year to go to the movies

So I have notice, and I’m sure that you have too, that in this year a lot of great movies are coming, and some are long-awaited, like The Hobbit (first of two) and The Dark Knight Rises (The last Batman of Christopher Nolan’s saga). Then we have Avengers (no comments, just excitement), Prometheus (Who doesn’t like Alien?), MIB III (more aliens in a funny way, I hope), Resident Evil: Retribution (I like the resident evil movies, no story, a lot of action), The Expendables 2 (epic cast, don’t you think?), World War Z (zombies are always welcome), Django Unchained (for the Tarantino fans).

Then there are another movies that I could see at the theater but I’m not so exited, like: The Amazing Spider-man (I don’t know, maybe is great), Skyfall (Usually the Bond movies are good), Underworld: Awakening (For the action), The Bourne Legacy (The Bourne saga was very good), Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (I HATED the first one, but I’m willing to try again).

I’m sure there are a lot worthy movies out there that I haven’t mention, so this year I see myself eating tons of popcorn and drinking liters of iced tea (and dying young, lol).

If you know me (or read my blog) you should be asking yourself about The Hunger Games movie, well… I have already seen it, and I’m going to see it again when is released here in Spain. Let me tell you something, I don’t care that the book is a ripoff of a book setted in China or a Stephen King book, I loved The Hunger Games books and the movie is very good, everything that makes young people read again is OK with me, even if that book is (I’m saying this with a little bit of vomit in my mouth) Twilight. BARF!!!! LOL. 

How was Easter?

Have a great month people!!!!!

A little bit of everything

Let’s start with books. I’m now in the middle of the 3^rd and final book of The Hunger Games, it’s excellent, if you have the time to read the first book before the movie release it would be great, if you can’t or won’t I recommend you to go to see the movie at the movie theatre, I think and hope that it would be very very good, I can’t wait to see it, I’m very exited about it.

In the gaming subject I haven’t played a lot lately but I finished Halo and now I’m playing Half-life 2, I have played Half-life before, as always it has its annoying parts, but overall I like it.

Web comics… it’s a never ending story, I keep finding new ones, and I keep spending money on them. I’m stopping buying stuff, for a little while, je!

TV-wise. Well you may know that Terra Nova was cancelled, I think it was the right call, is an expensive and no so great series. A few weeks ago started a series called The River, is quite good, it has a little of Lost supernatural mystery, but I’m afraid that the ideas will run out fast, we will see. Another new series is Smash, my friend tells me that he think that is a Glee for grownups, jejeje, well I can only say that if you like musicals this might be the series for you ;-)

This weekend is a long one thanks to father’s day or San José here in Spain, and soon is Easter, so enjoy and be careful.

It has been more than a month since my last post so this time I’m covering myself…

Have a great month!!!!!!

Book post

Hello!!!

Sorry about last week, I didn't had an inch of inspiration. This week I am still a little blocked, but at least I have a topic: BOOKS!

My parents read in bed before sleeping every single night so I acquired that same routine. I’m a slow reader but I think I have read quite a lot. I like novels, am not fond of real stuff, like self-help or history (this one I’m a little ashamed of). In the fictional side I like almost everything.

In the mystery/murder/detective kind I have a blur in my head, sometimes I see my book shelf and I don’t know if I have read one of those, once I was finishing one of these books and 5 pages left to the end I realize that I knew the ending, I cursed my self because of my bad memory and for all the time I have wasted, like I told before am a slow reader. Since then I read the summary of the book like a thousand times to be sure and I try to separate the ones I'm sure I haven't read from the ones I have, the last one I read was The Tunnel, I think, LOL. The only mystery/murder/detective novels that I can surely distinct are the Agatha Christie ones, Murder in Mesopotamia and And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) are my favorites.

Then the classics, in this category I am a total chick, I love Little Women, Gone with the wind and Sense and Sensibility, and novel that I loooove that is girly but not a classic is Memoirs of a Geisha, great novel, I didn’t watch the movie, and I think I never will.

Horror!! Stephen King and Anne Rice. Stephen King we all know, many of his books have movies like Carrie, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary, Misery, The Shining, Cujo, Dreamcatcher (worst book and movie EVER!!!) and many many others, but these I have read. Anne Rice I think the only famous movie is Interview with the Vampire, I have read Merrick and Exit to Eden, this last book has explicit S&M moments, and some friends borrow it and they couldn’t read it, they skipped those moments that lasted pages and pages LOL, so a 300 page book became like a 100 page book for them.

Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling…

Fantasy, adventure, honor, friendship and a lot of books. Well I have to admit I haven’t finished the Narnia series. I prefer The Hobbit than the LOTR series, and the Goblet of Fire is my favorite HP book and I think that’s why it’s the movie I like the less (well I haven’t seen the last one yet).

Now I’m reading The Hunger Games, it was a gift (thanks again to you know who you are ;-)) and I really like it, I hope that the whole three books are as good as the few chapters I have read.

Have a great week!!!

A Bear post

Hello!!!

I think we can get another round of webcomics. So I have become addicted to a webcomic called Bear Nuts by Alison Acton, It’s about a Discount Zoo with very dysfunctional animals, the main characters are the bears, these have their personalities shown with a picture on their tummies like the Care Bears but a little bit creepier. 

The boss is Prozac, he is the one on my profile pictures in FB and Google, and he has a pill as tummy symbol. Prozac is always maintaining the peace in the bear pit. Next in line is Death with a scull as symbol, Death is a very cool calm guy with some electrifying powers.

The trouble makers are Evil and Lech, Evil with a satanic star picture is the worst of all, always doing the cruelest pranks that most of the time gets out of hand. Lech is the horny bear and his symbol is a panty. He is no stranger to pranks and lately has team up with Evil, not a good combination for the sake of the rest of the zoo animals.

The ones who get most screw over are Gay and Nerd. Gay is just fabulous, he’s caring but not a fool, I think he has a rhinoceros as symbol. Nerd can’t get a break, poor guy. He only wants to do his starship models and dress like Captain Kirk, but always is someone screwing him. His picture is a hotdog, I think I read is because he is a wiener…

At last we have Tanked, Gimp, Crack and Vanity. Tanked is one of my favorites he is always drunk, he is one of the most caring and sweet when he isn’t puking, you can guess that his symbol is a jar of beer. Tank loves watching WWE. Gimp is out resident S&M guy, he is very quiet and his picture is handcuffs. Crack is just a very paranoid bear, he is afraid of everything, they all have tried to help him, but there is no way, his symbol is a needle (medical no the one we use to stitch). And our last character is Vanity he actually is a panda bear and he is a star (the star is also his symbol), all the humans loooove him, so his self-esteem is very high.

Some of the secondary animals are the monkeys, elephants, giraffes and the polar bears. The polar bears are the bullies of the zoo and the monkeys are the well deserved escape goats. Monkeys can be mean.

I think at last my obsession with webcomics is paying off. At last I have an idea for a webcomic, I have only written a couple of strips and now my next step is to learn how to draw and I am going to do something about that, for sure.

Have a great week!!!

Let’s PLAY!!!

Hello!!!

I don’t call my self a gamer but I do like to play video games, mobile games, board games… well I think almost any kind of games. Lately I have been playing some Xbox and I think is next to my beloved Wii, sorry for the Play Station fans, I think for most people all comes down to which game do you like more God of War (PS3) or Halo (Xbox 360), tons of games are for both consoles but these two are exclusive, yes, there are a lot of games that are exclusive for each console, but I think that God of War and Halo are the most famous ones, but at the end of the day I am a Mario kind of gal so that’s why Wii is my number one console.

So I haven’t played God of War but I have played other PS3 games and looking the games list of each console I think that Xbox has more variety of the three, PS3 doesn’t have enough fun dumb games and Wii have too much fun dumb games, so I will enjoy all the time I have with my friend’s Xbox, I have already finished Portal (one) and Bastion (mini game), now I’m playing Halo (one). Let me tell you Bastion is GREAT is those games you have to buy online, is not very long but is very fun to play, I think is a different kind of game and well accomplished. Portal gave me the creeps, is not cool when a robot ask where are you in a creepy voice and tries to kill you, besides that is a very very cool game, It makes you think in a different way, problem solving way and I like that very much, I love those puzzle games almost as much as the mindless stupid but really fun games LOL. And finally Halo, well who doesn’t like to shoot things, I like shooting aliens more than shooting people, but don’t get me wrong the next game I will be playing is Medal of Honor or something like that.

I’m going to give some credit to PS3, I have to say that Little Big Planet is one of the most creative games I have ever played, the best way to play it is multi player mode and it is a blast, sooo much fun. Wii… what can I say the Mario Bros franchise and Zelda, and every day more and more shooter games are been released for Wii, so for me Nintendo rule the most.

Mobile-wise now I’m playing Block Puzzle, Greedy Spider, World of Goo (the first time I player it was on my fabulous Wii) and the game I could not live without: Fruit Ninja (This game you can play it with the Xbox Kinect using your arms as swords, is very tiresome).

Have a great week!!!