"Marilyn Monroe looks pretty." "Eh thats Meryl Streep." "I don't care."

^Yes you do!^

I hate it when people do that. Of course you care!!!

OMG its Speech Friday! Let's see.... I know!
"Farewell, Aragog, king of arachnids, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew won't forget! Though your body will decay, your spirit lingers on in the quiet, web-spun places of your forest home. May your many-eyed descendants ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained."
-Horace Slughorn, perhaps, the only person( though fictional) who can make flowers out of garbage (figuratively).

And I do need to give a big  hello to my faithful followers whom I know to be reading this, because I haven't posted since Monday. I apologize, but I did have more time to post during Winter Break. Yes, I am back at the academy, sadly, and have returned in engaging in the act of, as they call it these days, learning. And Winter Break was not as wintery as The-Gloomy-Days-Following-Winter-Break, which have so far been ridiculously cold. One good thing out of it is that the academy has allowed us to wear jeans during these freezing days. 

OH NO!!! Transformers is having another sequel. This one which nobody asked for. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. No kidding. I left the movie theater with two nearly deaf ears and one heck of a headache. But it has to be the best non-book based sequel name ever. I will give examples.
1) You may be unaware that a Cats and Dogs sequel is coming out. Why why why so many un-asked-for sequels! But the worst part is the name. Cats and Dogs: the Revenge of Kitty Galore. Oh yes, this is no joke. It is coming out this July. And I have no interest in seeing it.
 2) Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde. I have no comment on that one. Oh who am I kidding I have a comment. That sounds like some cheesy pick-up line, like "My favorite color is blonde."
3) 2 Fast 2 Furious. I just have a big sad WOW for that one.
4) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. By the time you tell the ticket clerk that, he will already be off his shift.

I have a dream, where sequels merely have a number after the original title, where there won't be puns relating hair colors and actual colors, where ridiculous word puns won't take place, and where titles will be short enough and not have words that half of the population can't pronounce.

-Wolfie

It's elementary, my dear Watson.

^he never really says that, you know.^

So I saw the Sherlock Holmes movie. It was really good. Although it was nothing that blew my mind away, it is still well worth watching. And it is better if you see it in theaters; its one of those movies that is probably three times better in the big screen than on your television. It did not exceed my expectations, but it is not like I was disapointed. What really made the movie good was Robert Downey Jr's acting.

So anyways, the Golden Globe nominations are in. It doesn't seem as if though this year's ceremony will be as good as last year's; or maybe its just me being skeptic about the nominations.

OHMAIGOSH! Voldemort is a Half-Blood! I knew this ages ago, but it only struck me now that this is ironic. I thought, before later books, that he would surely be a pure blood because of his intentions on other people. Which means most of the Death Eaters don't know this, for they would probably hide this from him. It would only be ironic-er is he was a Muggle born. Mudblood Voldie... ehhh that doesn't seem right.

-Wolfie

Everybody Loves Random Dog and Hogwarts

So picture this: 1 AM in the morning, Christmas Day. Our guests are leaving from our Christmas Eve party, and then this random dog just shows up. And its really cute yet big yet really tame. And it is obviously lost, because it has a collar (but no tag), and it was groomed and bathed. We were like ugh. Its not as if we were going to let it roam outside in the street, so we let it in our backyard. Its not like we were particularly thrilled to have another dog to take care of, on Christmas. But everyone fell in love with it and no one wanted to leave it outside. During the night, it broke out screen. But not on purpose, of course, it was just nervous because it was lost.
We had not clue on whose it was, but since we felt bad, we began looking for the owners at like 9 AM. We intergotated like tons of neighboors and like stalked a bunch of cars to ask the people if they knew who the dog belonged to (it was Christmas morning. not that many people are outside) We found the owners after one hour only. Ya. Bam. Be jealous. Only Inspector Wolfie here can accomplish that. They were really unlucky. The dog escaped on Christmas on the one day that they took his tag off to repair it.
Anyways, I got the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game for Christmas. I am addicted. BECAUSE ITS AWSEOME! The gameplay PWNS, and it had a bunch of cool features like making potions and dueling, but what really makes it awsome is Hogwarts. Its huge and really complete. It has every staircase, room, corridor, courtyard, bridge, commonroom, and outside thing that was in the books, movies, and they even added more stuff to make it even bigger and better. I got lost. And I don't easily get lost in Hogwarts. So that's to show you how big it is. And its really accurate.
Well I hope you had a Merry Christams!

-Wolfie

You would not believe your eyes, as ten million clementines...

^... rolled in the courtyard as I sat down in the bench. No seriously, its happened to me before^

BONJOUR MES PETIT THEIERES! (I just called you all my little teapots, btw)
Its been soo long since I've last posted> ELLEN DEGENERES WON THE WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE POLL!

AND NOW, I have a special segment I like to call *WHATS THAT PERSON'S REAL NAME?!*

Lady Gaga - Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Jay-Z - Shawn Corey Carter
Fergie - Stacy Ann Ferguson
Pink - Alecia Beth Moore
Marilyn Monroe - Norma Jeane Mortenson
Katy Perry - Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
David Copperfield - David Seth Kotki

Anyways, I just watched J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
It was really good. She cried a lot, though. She was really poor before she wrote the books. She said she lived next to a graveyard as a child, and that she thought her entire childhood was wasted because of her poverty. She said Harry Potter was a a way to get her childhood back.
Tear jerking, I know. :')

Its almost Christmas. Yay! And Happy Hanukkah, btw!

And I was watching the HBP bonus features, and Daniel Radcliffe was asked if he prefered chocolate or strawberry ice cream. His responce was: chocolate, of course! I'm not stupid!
Since when has food reference been linked to intelligence?

Anyways, I'm doing this project for World History, and I'm in charge of researching stuff about oracles and Delphi.
An oracle is like a Greek temple, and Delphi is a Greek city. It turns out that at the Delphic oracle the preistess would die after prophecies were given. I wonder how many lives were spared...

Who else is a Law & Order fan? Everyone talks about NCSI or NCIS or watever, but I prefer Law & Order.

I can't wait for the holidays. Until we meet again, farewell.

-Wolfie

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

***OFFICIAL HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE REVIEW***

by Bouncing Wolf

The amazing ability of the Harry Potter world to charm those who witness it is beyond any magic featured in the series. Watching the trio wander around in the walls of Hogwarts is like putting on a familiar magical cloak, that though not invisible, gives one the feeling of comfort. Perhaps it is because as I grew up listening to Britney Spears and Black Eyed Peas music, watching Law and Order late at night, and watching SpongeBob I also grew up watching Harry Potter. What it was that fascinated me so much as to lure to read the books, I don't know. But as we watched Harry get his scar, get bitten by the Basilisk, travel back in time, witness the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and struggle in agony as he read the mind of the Dark Lord, we not only witnessed these exciting events but we also watched the progression of some acting that before may not have been so talented but now has one heck of a value.

We watched Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, and the other fellow younger actors of the Harry Potter series develop their acting skills. We watched the older actors, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Magy Smith, Gary Oldman, Robbie Coltrane, and the other middle aged cast sink more and more into their roles. And of course, we need not exclude the minor yet extremely important roles, like my preference, Bellatrix Lestrange, beautifully portrayed in the Order of the Phoenix and the Half-Blood Prince by Helena Bonham Carter. There was Quirrel from the Sorcerers Stone. We all remember Dobby and Lockheart from the Chamber of Secrets, Lupin and Wormtail from the Prisoner of Askaban, Alastor Moody from the Goblet of Fire, and another one of my favorites, Professor Umbridge. It is how Harry Potter can uniquely combine these actors and characters and plot and settings and make one big fantastic cinematic world that breath-takingly illustrates the even more fantastic world that J.K. Rowling created.

Yet this is not a review of the Sorcerer's Stone, nor the Chamber of Secrets, nor the Prisoner of Askaban, Goblet of Fire, nor Order of the Phoenix. It is a review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The movie opens with a dramatic scene following where the Order of the Phoenix left off. Dumbledore wraps a protective arm around a paparazzi surrounded Harry Potter, as we witness a close up to the glasses of the sad looking Harry. This is when I knew David Yates had knocked this one out the park. Next comes a promising scene of Death Eaters wreaking havoc in London with flabbergasting special effects. This movie, from the very beginning, has a mysterious ambiance that captures the more darker theme of the movie throughout the full two hours. The superstar group of this movie is no longer the Harry Ron and Hermione trio, but the Harry and Dumbledore duo. The film captures the flourishing relationship of Harry and Dumbledore from teacher and student to friend and friend. This, however, does not remove the limelight from the classic trio, who also take a big part in the film. Daniel Radcliffe progresses immensely in his acting skills that where once appropriate for a middle school play and now grew to a very professional actor. His impeccable timing is key as he brilliantly captures the essence of comedy and mixes it is the seriousness and excitement of the movie. Rupert Grint made the most improvement in the now chick magnet Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson professionally manages to capture her role as a more mature and less nerdy Hermione. Tom Felton also succeeds at playing a Draco Malfoy that is more involved in the central plot than ever before.

In the latest chapter of the franchise, the Wizarding and Muggle worlds both face danger like no other as Lord Voldemort quickly rises up to power. Harry and his classmates at Hogwarts also take the challenge of surviving adolescence as hormones rage across ramparts. Draco Malfoy receives a grim task from the Dark Lord, Snape is revealed to be a Death Eater, and Harry receives help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. He receives private lessons with Professor Dumbledore in which they explore Voldemort's past in look for his weakness. This instalment is also definitely the funniest of them all. Newcomer Professor Slughorn aids this more humorous movie and Jim Broadbent offers the best performance of the film. In the end, a tear jerking climax, a flabbergasting battle and a cliffhanger ending leaves you not only satisfied, but hungry for the next installment.

We have gone from the magical Sorcerer's Stone, the mysterious Chamber of Secrets, the shocking Prisoner of Azkaban, the exciting Goblet of Fire, the dramatic Order of the Phoenix, and have gone all the way to the thrilling Half-Blood Prince. We can only guess as to what awaits us next.

This movie is a success. Funny, romantic, exciting, suspenseful, and terrific. It could not be any more clear to me that David Yates NAILED this movie; and that it is the best installment of the series so far. I am once again reminded of why J.K. Rowling is now a millionaire, and how marvelously she managed to create a magical world that pulls readers and viewers in, an effect movie producers cannot buy.

And I am reminded that I have been wearing the magical cloak all this time, a cloak that is permanent, and whose magic never wears off. I am reminded that this is the SIXTH movie, and that it is a billion dollar franchise; and mostly, I am reminded of WHY it is a billion dollar franchise.

I am left counting the days to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and with a simple message for David Yates: Blow me away.

And no doubt, he will.

-Wolfie

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince vs. New Moon

Just like Arnold Shwartzinager vs. Paris Hilton, huh?

There pends the question in mind. Fantasy vs. Romance.... hmmm.... which one. Well put it like this. Comedy/fantasy vs. Romance. hmmmm... Not good enough for you? Lets see.... Comedy/Fantasy/critically acclaimed vs. Romance/Critically Panned. Not good enough? Gosh its hard to believe what a couple of shirtless actors can do to some of you ladies out there....

If critics don't quite make up your mind, perhaps the word of general everyday people can. If not, then take the word of professional wolf bouncer Bouncing Wolf.
My summaries of both movies(that is, if one of them doesn't qualify as male model documentary)

New Moon: At her birthday party, Bella Swan gets a paper cut. Add insult to injury, Bella is attacked by Jasper Cullen. Because of the terrible tragedy involving this almost fatal and tear jerking insident, Edward Cullen ends his relationship with Bella. Due to this intensly tragic break up, Bella becomes depressed for several months due to her inability to move on in life. The desperate straits that an obsessed teenage will go to to catch a glimpse of her ex vampire boyfriend are demonstrated as Bella becomes what I describe as suicidal, comiting dangerous acts such as jumping off cliffs. Not to leave out that professional shirt-taker-offer Jacob Black comes in the picture, to make a Vampire vs. Werewolf escence. Through a series of miscommunications, Edward believes Bella killed herself, he tries to kill himself by exposing himself shirtless in a vampire government fascility: a mix between a Romeo and Juliet climax cliche and a messed up deodorant comercial. In the course of this plot line, Edward asks Bella to marry him and- The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Directed by Chris Weitz, Produced by Mark Morgan... *credits continue*

Half-Blood Prince: Death Eaters wreak havoc in London as both the Wizarding and Muggle communities become less safe due to the sudden and unexpected rise of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Back at the failed romantic encounter between a boy with a lighting shaped scar and a bubbly waitress, Professor Dumbledoor recruits Harry Potter for a task. In a mix between a wicked Star Trek teleportation and the effect of time travel demonstrated in Deja Vu, the pair arrive at the house of Horace Slughorn, who after due negotiation, agrees to return to Hogwarts as a teacher. Draco Malfoy recieves a mission from the Dark Lord, though apprehensive Mrs. Malfoy seeks help from aways-known-bad-guy-but-no-proof-until-now Severus Snape, who is revealed to be a Death Eater. Once back at the familiar castle, the Harry Ron and Hermione trio embark in a boat like no other: S.S. Teen Drama. Hormones rage across ramparts as newcomer Lavander Brown comes in the picture and Ron finally gets a girlfriend and both engage in the act of 'snogging', an appropriate sounding word that accurately discribes the more vulgar version of kissing that these British teens do. Also, Harry recieves help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince via the Prince's textbook, which also contains many dangerous spells, one of which causes an insident involving a whiny blonde and Snape. In the midst of this drama, Harry takes classes with Professor Dumbledoor in the quest to find the key to Voldemort's past. To do this, Harry must persuade Slughorn to give in a memory. An ashamed Slughorn finally gives in. After witnessing the heart stopping memory, Harry and Dumbledore go on a mission to retrieve a 'horcrux', a piece of Voldys soul trapped in an object and one of seven others that must be destroyed in order for Voldy to die, in a seaside cave. They encounter a crowd of semi-dead bodies in a scene that brings back flashbacks f Gollum from the Lord of the Rings. After a long battle, they retrive the horcrux and head back to Hogwarts, were Dumbledore is killed in a shocker scene by Snape. After a short battle which reveals the identity of the Prince, Snape, the Potter trio head to the astronomy tower in the final scene that reveals a counterfeit horcrux. The trio agrees upon not comming back to Hogwarts next year in order to complete the task Dumbledore startes- destroying the horcruxes.

Now, you choose. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince vs. New Moon. If you choose the second choice, I am honeslty stunned at how easily a shirtless guy can desieve you.

-Wolfie

OMG ITS FRANK, NEWTON, NIXON, AND POTTER!

RANDOM FACT: ISAAC NEWTON WAS BORN THE YEAR AFTER GALILEO DIED.
Its OMG week! YAY! So well I've had my dose of confusion, and I will now tell you what happened.
First, I watched this wicked awsome movie called THE BOX . "Huh?", you say? Wolfie shall summarize. It came out like a month ago. How do you not know what it is? Anyways, its about this couple who is broke and recieve a box with a button in it. The stranger who mailed them the box says that if they press the button, two things will happen. First, they will recieve $1,000,000. Second, someone anywhere in the world whom they don't know will die. At first, they are like no that would be terrible. But then the wife presses it because she thinks they need the money. The stranger then comes the next day, gives them the million dollars, and before he leaves, he tells them that whoever recieves the box next will surely not know them. *suspence music*. Ya the other movie I wastched was- well I'll tell you hoq I came to watch it first. We ordered it, and it was family movie night, so naturally I didn't have a choice, I had to see it. I didn't want to see it because it was a politics movie, and from the many politics movies I have been forced to watch, I never liked any of them. Its called FROST/NIXON, and they were all like omg it was nominated for best movie wow sparks will fly angels will sing annoying morning show hosts will resign and all the rest will happen if you watch it. So I did. And amazingly, I ACTUALLY enjoyed it. And Richard Nixon was played by the same guy who played the stranger in THE BOX, this guy named Frank. I think his last name is Lagella or something.
Anyhow I'm doing this project on Isaac Newton, and I am going mad. This guy did way to many things for a lifetime. All of the websites have articles that take like and hour to read, and the books are all not in chronological order. GRR.
AND GUESS WHAT!!! HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE MOVIE DVD IS COMMING OUT DECEMBER!!!!
Anyhow, vote for me, for I am running for possible next Sporks Are Useless member.
+PLUS+
People vote for the offial TTACD things. And I have decided on the month names.
At TTACD,
January- Month of Sleeping
February- Month of Eating
March- Month of Marching
April- Month of Talking
May- Month of Confusing
June- Month of Relaxing
July- Month of Traveling
August- Month of Buying
September- Month of Yelling
October- Month of Scaring
November- Month of Thanking
December- Month of Celebrating
Until my next post, as they say in Finland, hyvästi!
- Wolfie

Wolfie is back, MJ madness, and NEW MOON WEEK!!!

GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?! MY PC IS FINALLY FIXED!!! Nah just kidding but soon it will. Sorry for not having posted in a long time, but PC problems make it hard to. SOOOO much to say, so little energy to type it... Well i shant. Too tired. Anyways, I saw the Michael Jackson movie the other day. It was wicked awsome. Anne are you okay, are you okay, are you okay anne? Thats stuck in my head now. AND NEW MOON IS COMMING OUT IN TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see it. Ya. Save the gasp moment. No exagerated and overly dramatic pause, please. In my oppinion Twlight is quite interesting. Well at least 1 out of four of the books are. And that one is the moon which is not old. Genius work of art. And HBP dvd is comming out soon, (December 8) and Star Trek dvd already came out. Nerd power.
Sooo to wrap it up
Comming up in TTACD:
New poll (finally)
New Moon review
AND...
Mascot
Another poll
New Feautures
Due to the movie comming out this week, the Most Memorable Person of the Week goes to Edward Cullen.
And due to Star Trek dvd release, the quote of the week is: Live long and prosper.
Dont expect to hear from me soon :(
-Wolfie

And So TTACD Begins

Yay! This is the grand opening of Turn The Air Conditioning Down! Now I finally can actually have a blog instead of just reading my friend's blogs. Oh exitement! Get ready to read a lot of randomeness, my very unimportant-yet-crucial opinions, and the odd events in the life of Bouncing Wolf.
Eh don't you just hate it when places have too much air conditioning? Like movie theaters. I don't know why they have to put the AC's at like 60 degrees. Its like they want to give everyone colds (which by the way always stay in your body once you get them. They haven't found a cure for the common cold yet. Ugh, I know, right? I mean they come up for cures for the flu, chicken pox, pink eye, and all of those complicated deseases but not THE COMMON COLD? I mean you are sitting right now with the common cold, only you can't really tell. Creepy right. Well don't blame me. I always thought Albert Einstein figured out the cure...). Like a week ago I was going to a water park, but it started thundering (the staff was like "thunder is a major hazard in water parks. One in every a thousand people get struck by lighting, and water gives a broad..." blah blah blah.) so I went to the movie theater, cause I have brought a change of clothes. Only I didn't bring shoes, so I went in with flipflops. When I left, my feet were that creepy shade of pale blue.
And the movie (harry potter 6) was very good to. I had seen a couple of times before, but I was with my cousins, and they hadn't seen it, so I was like watever. So even though my feet turned into a pair of popsicles, I enjoyed it.
-Wolf