Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Glee! Rocky Horror Glee Show

So for Christmas this year, one out of the three things that I wanted for Christmas. I got Season 2 of Glee on DVD. Glee is my second favorite show. I love to watch what songs they sing love to be part of the group that hates Sue, and the drama and men are so yummy. It's already on the third season and it has been okay. I think it will get better. The last episode for sections was sooooo good! Best episode of the season so far. So I decided to write reviews of each episode to give me some blog posts. I watch them on my computer and then I will write a review of them. And rate the episode and each song. And then my favorite song of each episode. While I watch these episodes with my headphones in, my sister and her best friend are watching Vampire Diaries Season 2 on the TV so I will hear the conversation on that TV every so often.
The Rocky Horror Glee Show isn't the first episode of the season, it is the 5th but I will write reviews for the other ones before this one. I remember first seeing the commercial for this episode. I had never heard if Rocky Horror Picture Show before Glee. I looked it up and saw what was part of this 70s musical. They throw food at you, it can be very inappropriate, and there's a transvestite.
Now, after Glee I have seen parts of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it is in a weird way really good. I will eventually see the whole thing all the way through. But after this Glee episode it probably is one of my favorite episodes in all of Glee.
The episode begins with a pair of red lips and a black screen and Santana singing Science Fiction/Double Feature. It is a cool way I thought of beginning the episode because it makes you think if you are watching the right thing. I give this song 5 out of 10 lips (perfect for the episode) because its one of those slower songs and it is only beginning the show. But her voice is still really good. The episode continues with Will wanting to do Rocky Horror Picture Show as the musical because he wants to impress Emma Pillsbury even though she is dating Carl(John Stamos) and Will is still in love with Emma. Everyone is cast in the musical and Will cuts out the bad parts of the musical to make it more appropriate. Finn is Brad in the musical and has to sing in his whitey tightys. He realizes he is uncomfortable with his body. But Finn shouldn't be because Cory Monteith is gorgeous! He is so cute and I am happy to know that we get to see him shirtless.
Sue Sylvester has her Sue's Corner. This "corner" makes me want to smack her even more. I hate Sue along with many other Glee fans. But I do love Jane Lynch. She is pretty cool.
Rachel and Finn sing Dammit Janet. I like this song but I don't think I could listen to it as much as the other songs. Rachel sings and doesn't actually look like she is about to cry because she always makes those weird faces when she sings. Though, I still love her voice. Mercedes Kurt and Quinn do a great job at looking...dead? Not sure how to describe how they are supposed to act but they still do a good job at fitting in the weird feel of Rocky Horror. I give this song 7 out of 10 lips.
John Stamos then performs What Happened to Saturday Night? He does a good job at this song and being in Full House will eventually get out of my head watching him in Glee enough times. I give this song 5 out of 10 lips. It's not my favorite but it still is good.
Mercedes decides that she can be Frank-N-Furter and sings Sweet Transvestite. Her voice is so strong, she looks great in the video, and it was a great song. It was just an overall great performance. This song deserves 9 out of 10 lips.
Will then takes Sam out of being Rocky Horror and decides that he has to be the part. So we have seen Sam also shirtless and it is so good. Um 10 out 10 lips for his body!
When Emma and Will talk, Emma sings Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me. Ok, to state this clearly this is my second favorite song in all of Glee. I LOVE this song. I don't know why it is so good. It's such a fun song to sing to sing to and I love the "Creature of the Night" sung by everyone at the end. I heard this was Jayma Mays audition song for Glee. She does this song so well and I am so glad they included it in the musical. The weird thing is she is singing Janet's part to Rocky Horror, which is Rachel's part she plays. I do not think that Lea Michele could sing this song as well as Jayma sings it. And plus she rips off Will's shirt. I think he deserves a one hundred and ten percent for that body! Also, the song gets a 10 out of 10 lips.
Finn decides to walk around school in his costume which means topless. It was also beautiful. I think this episode is so good because it had three men topless.
Will cancels the show because he realizes it would be too risky but he still wants the glee club to perform the song for themselves. So they perform their last song, Time Warp. This song is so great because it seems everyone has a fun part to sing in it. The dancing is great, the costumes looked so amazing, and the overall performance was such fun.
So my favorite song of this episode was definitely Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me. I really enjoyed this episode and will be watching it again and again and again.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Juliet Immortal Book Review!


So I recently finished the book Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay. It was a lot better than I expected. I found this book on goodreads.com. This book had just been published so I got my hands on it pretty quickly, especially being from the library. It was a random decision because I loved the cover and the title. I love Romeo and Juliet so when I saw something that seemed to relate to Romeo and Juliet, I wanted to give it a try. The cover is ravishing, it is so pretty. I started this book over Thanksgiving break for something to read. I really tried to put it down but I couldn't. It was pulling me in.
This was a book about Juliet Capulet who was bouncing from soul to soul to protect soul mates. She didn't want Romeo, he also was bouncing from soul to soul, to get to the soul mates. Romeo was on the Mercenaries, which are the people who are trying to keep the soul mates apart and the Ambassadors were trying to stop the Mercenaries from killing people. Juliet wasn't an Ambassador but she was helping them and was working her way up to become one. But she wasn't reaching them because she was facing something dark.

**Time for Spoiler Alert**

This book was a lot more violent then I expected. A lady was kidnapped and then murdered. There are specters that haunt Romeo and Juliet and are usually always bloody.

Here, Juliet goes into the body of Ariel Dragland. Her memories are open to Juliet so she knows what is happening. But the thoughts and actions are from Juliet. Juliet meets Ben. She falls for him hard. Immediately. It made me realize that love can always have a second chance. Because I was always in love with Romeo and Juliet. That whole love at first sight makes my heart melt. But then with Ben, it made me realize that Ben was so much better for Juliet then Romeo was for her.

Juliet faces a whole battle throughout the book with many things. Some are against Romeo, some against what will happen to her soul, and others are against herself. She has to realize that she has to love herself. She is shown what really happened that night she died. She kept telling herself that Romeo killed her but she never wanted to admit that it was herself.
The romance in this novel was really good. But I liked how it had a mix of everything. There was romance, adventure, suspense, gore, and violence.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants a good read. It did make you think a bit. But that's something I liked about it. I could definitely see this as a movie. If this would be a movie, I would be first in line to see it.

The things I didn't like about it: (**Still Spoilers**)

There was always talks about the original story of Romeo and Juliet. I was a little disappointed that there was never talk about Romeo's best friend Mercutio. I always thought he was an awesome guy. About three chapters take place in Romeo's voice and he never even mentioned him either.

Also, at the end, Juliet finally wakes up back to when she was put to sleep before she dies. She bangs on the coffin and someone opens it up. It is Ben. So, they immediately fall in love in another life. Romeo has run off and she doesn't care. She still remembers Ben and he starts to remember too. He tells her he is Benvolio, Romeo's cousin. I liked how they would be together but I wasn't the biggest fan of the fact that in another life, Ben was Benvolio. But I had to accept it. But I did like how it was in another life kind of love. That was sweet.

**End of Spoilers**

So overall, this book was amazing. I would love it to be a movie. So that way, people would know about it and I could tell them to read the book because it was so good.

On some side notes, I went to Sephora the other day and picked up two things. So mini haul!

I got the mini Bad Gal Lash from Benefit. I heard great reviews from this mascara and my mascara at my dorm is not the best. This one is really good and I am loving it! It's even better because it is mini and I always have better luck with mini mascaras than normal sized ones.

I also got Sephora's face powder. I am running low on my favorite Physician's Formula face powder but I wanted to try something different. This isn't the best picture but the best one I could find. Mine has Sephora's symbol in the middle of it.


This is my mini haul and book review! I plan on reading way more books over my Christmas break because it is the end of my first semester! I have a huge list and plan to break through a good amount of those books. I think the next book will be The Secret Life of Bees. I also will be working a lot to get me some money to buy more books and makeup. :)

Love Ya, Catie