Brand(s): Raw, Smackdown, ECW
Theme Song: Are You Ready? by Hazen Street
Date: November 26, 2006
Venue: Wachovia Center
City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tagline(s): n/a

Again, old wrestling stuff. So here’s a quick match card.

Dark Match: Carlito defeats Charlie Haas in a singles match.

Match 1: Team WWE Legends (Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes and Ron Simmons with Arn Anderson in their corner) versus The Spirit Squad (Kenny, Johnny, Nicky and Mikey with Mitch in their corner). This was a traditional Survivor Series match. Team WWE Legends wins with just Flair left.

Match 2: Was a singles match for the WWE United States Championship. Chris Benoit (c) defeated Chavo Guerrero (w/ Vickie Guerrero).

Match 3: Singles match for the WWE Women’s Championship. Mickie James defeated Lita (c).

Match 4: Another traditional Survivor Series match. Team DX (Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy and CM Punk) defeated Team RKO (Edge, Randy Orton, Mike Knox, Johnny Nitro and Gregory Helms). Team RKO had Kelly Kelly and Melina in their corner (for Knox and Nitro, respectively). All of Team DX survived.

Match 5: First Blood match. Mr. Kennedy defeats The Undertaker. But he sort of cheated. Because of MVP.

Match 6: Another traditional Survivor Series match. Team Cena (John Cena, Bobby Lashley, Kane, Rob Van Dam and Sabu) defeated Team Big Show (Big Show, Umaga, Finlay, Test and MVP). Sole survivors were Cena and Lashley.

Match 7: Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship. It was also a last chance match. Batista defeated King Booker (c) (w/ Queen Sharmell).

This is just really quick. She’s the protagonist of the Books of Pellinor, which is the series I’m currently reading. She’s a Bard of a supposedly destroyed school. And lots more things that can be spoilers. Read her books!

Brand(s): Raw
Theme Song: Run by Day of Fire
Date: September 17, 2006
Venue: Air Canada Center
City: Toronto, Ontario
Tagline(s): n/a

This is so old. D: I need to post it now. Really quick match card.

Dark match: Super Crazy defeats Shelton Benjamin in a normal singles match.

1: Johnny Nitro (c) defeats Jeff Hardy for the Intercontinental Championship in a singles match.

2: Kane, in a singles match, fought Umaga to a double count-out.

3: The Spirit Squad (c) (specifically Kenny and Mikey) defeat The Highlanders in a tagteam match for the World Tagteam Championship.

4: D-generation X defeats Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon and The Big Show. It was a Handicap Hell in a Cell match.

5: Trish Stratus defeats Lita (c) in a singles match for the Women’s Championship. This is Trish’s last match.

6: Randy Orton defeats Carlito in a singles match.

7: John Cena defeats Edge (c) in a tables, ladders and chairs match for the WWE Championship.

This is one of my favorite Taylor Swift songs. So I thought I’d just post it.

Lyrics from ELyrics.net

Say you’re sorry, that face of an angel
Comes out just when you need it to
As I paced back and forth all this time
Cause I honestly believed in you

Holding on, the days drag on
Stupid girl, I should have known
I should have known

I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairy tale
I’m not the one you’ll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell

This ain’t Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it’s too late for you and your white horse, to come around

Baby I was naive, got lost in your eyes
And never really had a chance
I had so many dreams about you and me
Happy endings, now I know

I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairy tale
I’m not the one you’ll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell

This ain’t Hollywood, this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it’s too late for you and your white horse, to come around

And there you are on your knees
Begging for forgiveness, begging for me
Just like I always wanted but I’m so sorry

Cause I’m not your princess, this ain’t a fairytale
I’m gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well
This is a big world, that was a small town
There in my rearview mirror disappearing now

And its too late for you and your white horse
Now its too late for you and your white horse, to catch me now

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
Try and catch me now
Oh, it’s too late to catch me now

Author: Tamora Pierce
Year: 2003
Genre: Fantasy
Protagonist: Alianne of Pirate’s Swoop

I finished reading this for the third time a few weeks back and just never got around to posting this. Anyways, here we go. Spoilers ahead.

So, Trickster’s Choice is the story of Alianne – aka Aly -  of Pirate’s Swoop, daughter of Alanna of Pirate’s Swoop (the Lioness and King’s Champion) and George Cooper of Pirate’s Swoop (sypmaster and former King of the Rogue). Her parents also happen to be leading characters throughout TP’s first set of books, Song of the Lioness.

Anyways, Aly comes home to find her father hard at work. For what is the umpteenth time, she tries convincing him to let her work as a spy but he refuses. Her mother comes home and Aly tries to talk her unimpressed mother into it as well, but again, fails. Seeing as Aly and her mother constantly fight over Aly’s lack of ambition, Aly gets on her small ship to go first the neighbouring lord in Port Legann. Unfortunately, she gets captured by pirates who shave her head and plan to sell her as a slave in the Copper Isles.

Aly bruises herself up nicely in hopes of not being bought by someone who wants her for his bed and, in the end, gets bought by no one as she’s seen as troublesome. Instead, the slave trader gives her away to Chenaol and Ulasim, cook and head footman to the Balitang household. While at the Balitang house, Aly figures out that the two races on the Copper Isles have not been getting along. The luarin – the white people – have invaded years before and took over, treating the raka – the brown-skinned – as second class citizens and slaves for the most part. The king of the Copper Isles is mad/crazy and after a few weeks with the Balitangs, he exiles them out to their estate on a secluded island. Mequen and Winnamine (duke and duchess of the Balitangs) must sell as many of their slaves because they can’t afford them. Here, we meet the god of the Copper Isles, Kyprioth, a trickster god who wants his beloved raka back in control of his lands. He chooses Aly as his chosen, considering he’s worked with her father before, and tricks Mequen and Winna into thinking he’s Mithros (patron god of the luarin) so they’d keep Aly as he tells them they have a great destiny and they need Aly. (Holy run-on sentence). Believing him to be Mithros, they take Aly with them as the nursemaid to Petranne and Elsren, the duke and duchess’ young children. Aly also spends time with Dovasary and Saraiyu (Dove and Sarai), Mequen’s half-raka daughters from his deceased first wife. Aly makes a bet with Kyprioth that she can keep the Balitang family – specifically Dove and Sarai – alive all summer.

At their new residence, Aly gets ‘demoted’ to goatherd so she may travel the lands and become familiar with them. Here, Kyprioth gets her some allies in the form of the crows, with who he’s made a bet. The crows assist Aly and teach her home to speak with them. As time goes on, Aly discovers the raka conspiracy among some of the Balitangs head servants and manages to wiggle her way into their midst after some interference from Kyprioth. Though wary of her, they know their god and must trust her as much as they can. And she learns of their plan to dethrone the dirty bloodline of the luarin and put a half-raka queen on the throne, mainly Sarai. One of the crows, Nawat, also changes himself into a human to better assist Aly. He becomes the one person she can trust above all, though she’s unsure of how to feel around him as he wishes her to be his mate and she starts getting romantic feelings for him.

Much happens over the summer, including an assassination attempt on the family and them gaining the trust of a sour mage named Ochobou (who also happens to be Ulasim’s mother). An old friend of Mequen named Bronau who visited before shows up. At this point, the original king as well as his son who succeeded him has died. His young three year old son is now king and Bronau had tried to kidnap him (Bronau’s brother is married to the only daughter of the original king), but failed. Bronau comes to the Balitangs to take Sarai and marry her. As Mequen is next in line for the throne, Bronau demands that Mequen demand his right to the throne then abdicate in favor of his eldest daughter and her husband. Mequen and his family refuses, and a fight breaks out both here and below with the servants against Bronau’s soldiers. Bronau ends up killing Mequen and in a fit of rage and sorrow, Sarai ends of killing Bronau. After the mess upstairs is clear, Aly flees downstairs to see what’s going on. She’s hurt and gets even more injured but the Balitang household ends up winning, though not without causalities.

Afterwards, Aly is freed of her slavery and she remains as just a servant so she may assist the Balitangs. Her father, George, steals his way their and in a disguise, tries to buy Aly so he may bring her home. This upsets the Balitang family, especially Sarai, who says no one can buy their Aly. Aly comes to meet this stranger and is thrilled to see her dad. But she realizes she doesn’t want to go home right away and says she needs to finish what she started, having finally found something that interests her enough to stick to it. After a few days, George returns to Tortall without Aly.

Characters of Importance

Alianne of Pirate’s Swoop: protagonist. Daughter of Alanna and George. She works as a slave for the Balitang family though she’s the chosen of the god, Kyprioth. She’s a master spy.
Nawat Crow: a crow who turned himself into a man. He’s Aly’s one true ally who has some difficulty understanding the difference between how crows and humans operate.
Mequen Balitang: duke of the Balitangs. He believes Aly is actually the chosen of Mithros, his patron god.
Winnamine Balitang: duchess of the Balitangs. She’s Mequen’s second wife and mother of Petrane and Elsren.
Saraiyu Balitang: Mequen’s oldest child. She’s half-luarin on her father’s side, half-raka on her mother’s. On both sides, she carries royalty.
Dovasary Balitang: Mequen’s second child. She’s quieter and more clever than her elder sister.
Kyprioth: patron god of the raka. He bets Aly if she can keep the Balitang family alive throughout the summer.
Ulasim Dodeka: head footman to the Balitangs as well as leader of the raka conspiracy. Raka.
Junai Dodeka: Ulasim’s daughter who also serves as Aly’s bodyguard. Raka.
Ochobu Dodeka: Ulasim’s mother. A mage who hates luarin. Raka.
Chenaol: head cook for the Balitangs and member of the conspiracy. Raka.
Fesgao: man-at-arms for the Balitangs and member of the conspiracy. Raka.
Lokeij: slave hostler and member of the conspiracy. Raka.
Bronau Jimajen: old friend of Mequen and Winnamine. Member of the royal family through marriage. He attempts to woo Sarai though he’s much older.

Because I insisted on watching LotR in the last couple of weeks. :3 Too lazy to look up his stats. They’re probably complicated anyways.

Artist: HOME MADE Kazoku
Language: Japanese
# of Tracks: 3
Release Year: 2005
Genre: J-Rock, Rap

Tracklist:
1. On the Run
2. Live on Direct Part II
3. Adrenaline F

Oh, HMK, you are totally one of my favorite japanese music groups evvvveeeeerrrrrrr~. Anyways, the buying of this single came from an obsession with the song On the Run (which is how a lot of my CD buying comes from, to be honest). I don’t remember how I heard this one, probably on YouTube or something. Anyways, On the Run is the band’s fifth single release.

Track #1 is On the Run. It’s such a feel good song. I adore it to pieces and insist anyone should give it a listen. Lyrics. Music video is below.

Track #2 is Live on Direct Part II. It’s just a nice little short track. Just over a minute long. Pretty interesting.

Track #3 is Adrenaline F. Honestly, this song makes my day. It’s so amusing to listen to, even if you don’t know what the hell they’re saying. I can’t find the lyrics to it though, sorry.

Starring: Edward Speleers, Rachel Weisz, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Written By: Peter Buchman, Christopher Paolini (book)
Year: 2006
Genre: Fantasy, adventure
Run Time: 104 min.

Again, I watched this months ago and I don’t have a DVD at the ready so I better just post a really short synopsis. First off, I must say, I never read the book. I don’t know if I ever will. Maybe one day. So I don’t have anything to compare it to. This was definitely not the best movie out there. It was alright, I guess. I’ve seen way more interesting dragon related movies in my lifetime.

Eragon lives in a village in this land where dragons and their dragon riders used to fly everywhere until the king started killing them or something like that. One day, Eragon finds a dragon egg and it hatches into Saphira. He finds out that he was meant to be a dragon rider and Saphira is his dragon. Together, with a storyteller named Brom who was formerly a dragon rider, they set out to stop the evil king guy.

Yeah, that’s all I got. =/ Not too interested in this.

Characters of Importance

Eragon: played by Edward Speleers. Leading protagonist. Is a new found dragon rider.
Saphira: voiced by Rachel Weisz. Eragon’s dragon partner.
Brom: played by Jeremy Irons. Former dragon rider who accompanies Eragon and trains him.
Arya: played by Sienna Guillory. Princess from another land who travels with Eragon and Brom.
Galbatorix: played by John Malkovich. King of the land and main antagonist.
Durza: played by Robert Carlyle. A shade who works for Galbatorix.

Starring: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan
Director: Harald Zwart
Written By: Christopher Murphey
Year: 2010
Genre: Marital arts
Run Time: 140 min.

It’s been a long time since I posted a movie. This was the one that was farthest away since I watched it on the list and I don’t have a DVD handy for it so I thought I’d get it out of the way. This is extremely short because it’s been months since I watched it. Post doesn’t contain spoilers cause I don’t remember everything.

Jaden Smith follows in his parents’ footsteps as he plays Dre, a 12-year-old boy who moves to Beijing, China after his mother gets a job transfer. When outside, he meets a young girl named Mei Ying who he quickly befriends. But Cheng, a child kung fu prodigy, notices and quickly bullies and humiliates Dre in front of everyone present. Cheng and his friends soon become regular bullies towards Dre until one day, the apartment maintenance man, Mr Han, stops them, revealing he is a master of kung fu. Desperate to show Cheng that he’s not a coward and can take him on, Dre gets Mr Han to be his kung fu teacher (after some persuasion). Their eventual goal is to defeat Cheng at the upcoming, local kung fu tournament.

See, short and no spoilers. :3

My biggest little nitpicking at this film is how it’s still called the Karate Kid when they aren’t teaching Karate but Kung-fu. =/ But whatever. It’s a decent enough movie.

Characters of Importance

Dre Parker: played by Jaden Smith. He recently moved to Beijing with his mother. Mr. Han is teaching him kung fu.
Mr. Han: played by Jackie Chan. The complex’s maintenance man who agrees to teach Dre kung fu.
Sherry Parker: played by Taraji P. Henson. Dre’s mother.
Mei Ying: played by Wen Wen Han. Dre’s friend who he has a crush on.
Cheng: played by Zhenwei Wang. A kung fu child prodigy who bullies Dre.
Master Li: played by Yu Rongguang. Cheng’s kung fu instructor who teaches his students to be merciless.