Scream 4 Review

As probably the world's biggest Scream fan, needless to say, I was anxious for Scream 4 to come out. I certainly had my reservations; it has been 10 years since the last film, horror films don't exactly have the best rep for sequels, trilogies, etc., and the fact there was an entirely new breed of cast members. However, I knew Wes Craven was directing, and the most important characters would be present: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox Arquette. The originial Scream film is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, movies. The second one was just as great without cheapening the original (in my opinion) and the third, although unlike Craven's style, was original and kept me guessing until the end.

After seeing the movie, I don't think I had a strong negative or positive attitude about it - I really was torn. I loved the beginning scenes, the spoof on horror movies (I won't go into too much detail for those who haven't seen it) and the characters were well developed. I'm not a fan of Hayden Panettiere, but I was actually impressed with her in this movie! The ending was pretty lame, and the whole play on motives they did to try and relate back to the first film was sort of cheesy. The killing scenes weren't nearly as gory as the first three, and the "jumpy" factor was lacking as well.

All in all, though, I have to give props to Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson and all my Scream cast originals for making a fourth installment. It's definitely my least favorite of all four films, but I won't complain about getting to relive the excitement of seeing a new horror film - especially one that's part of my favorite movie series.

King's, On Writing

While reading Stephen King’s On Writing, I immediately related to the first few chapters where King describes his “childhood” attempts at writing. In one chapter, he describes a nail that starts to fall off the wall resulting from too many rejection slips hanging on the door; all throughout elementary school I tried week after week to get one of my short fiction stories posted in the school’s paper but failed week on end.

According to King, in order to be a successful writer, you must read a lot and write a lot. Why wasn’t I getting published in West Freehold’s newspaper then?! I read constantly; mostly Judy Blume…but read, nonetheless! I also loved to write and did so each day during school and night before bed. Perhaps my fiction stories filled with serial killers and bloody guts spewing out everywhere was a little too graphic for my fellow seven-year-olds. I guess I can thank my older sister persuading me to watch Scream and Terminator 2.

            

I should try and find those short fiction stories and submit them to King; who knows, they could be the next installment of It !

NHGN News Release

Press Release: Hair & Fashion Models, Volunteers, & Donations Wanted!

Contact: Lindsay Rizzo

President of the NH Chapter of the Guidette Nation

(603) 556-1234

lindsayrizzo@fistpumpnation.com

Calling All Communications/Marketing/Fashion Majors:

NH Chapter of the Guidette Nation seeks your help!

BELKNAP COUNTY, NH (March 20, 2011): Who doesn’t love a good ol’ fashion and hair show?! If you’re one who doesn’t, then come on down, anyway, and help promote the biggest event of the summer!

Contact us via email by May 15^th, 2011 and find out more details at www.nhguidette.com.

For our first annual Guidette Hair & Fashion show scheduled for July 12^th, 2011, members of the NH Chapter of the Guidette Nation are looking for volunteer hair models and fashion models. For this particular show, we are only looking for female models for hair and fashion. However, ALL patrons are encouraged to volunteer to help organize, promote, and make sure the event runs smoothly. We are looking for about 30 models and 100 volunteers.

We are also reaching out to any and all businesses or private associations who wish to donate money, products, services, etc. to an auction we will be hosting during the show. Proceeds will benefit Future Guidettes of America, as well as portion of the profits going to the Italian-American Charity of the United States.

Anyone who is interested should contact us at lindsayrizz0@fistpumpnation.com. Models and volunteers must be over 18 or have written parental permission. Volunteer models are subjected to an interview process and volunteers for the event may also be asked to provide references.

The deadline for volunteer applications is May 15^th and ticket sales will begin shortly thereafter. More information about the event, ticket prices, and other details can all be found on our website.

Guidette Hair/Fashion Show!

As President of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Guidette Nation, I will be organizing a hair/fashion show with Snooki inspired hair and fashion! All proceeds raised from ticket sales and a possible auction (still being planned) will benefit Future Guidettes of America and will also be used to help build a capital in order to open Fist Pumping Academy for Men! I've written Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and requested her presence at our event! I believe her appearance will help boost ticket sales and really help our members be inspired and motivated!

By the way, this isn't real. :) Dana makes us do crazy assignments and I can't help but pull my reality television addiction into the classroom!

Ciao!

Lady With the Spaghetti Hair

Hiyaaa! So, for class, we were told to create a micro-fiction piece (500 words or less) based on a picture from Lisa Rae Winant's page. Usually the only fiction I write is serious and dark because it's what I'm most comfortable with, but I decided to try and take the humorous route. Hope you enjoy it! :)

I am the lady with the spaghetti hair. Everyone stares at me and my red and white striped bandana and the spaghetti that flows from my head. I try to hide the noodles in my bandana, but it just grows and grows so quickly that it just follows behind me and rolls up into a giant, wet ball of pasta! Sometimes the children in town will follow behind me and throw meatballs at me, and some will even follow with a fork and try to take some of my spaghetti. I’ve tried to cut it off, but the more I cut, the faster and longer it grows back!

            Having spaghetti hair isn’t as fun as you’d think – I need to wash it with marinara sauce and condition with parmesan cheese, or else it gets all sticky and then it gets hard as a rock! People will sometimes tell me to look at the bright of things; “you’ll never go hungry!” “Well,” I say to them, “how would you like to eat your own hair?!” I wish I could go somewhere everyone had spaghetti hair so I wouldn’t feel so alone. Maybe I’ll take a walk and keep going until I find that place. Or, maybe, at least a place where that Lady Gaga character lives, I saw her wear a dress and shoes made out of meat.

            Yes! That is where I will go. I will walk until I find her, and we can live in our spaghetti-hair and meat-shoes world together, and no one will bother us and we can just dance!

Wooder vs. Water?

Let me begin by saying I do not have an accent, nor did I ever have an accent. People from New Jersey, my home state, tend to get bashed quite horribly for saying words "wrong" or "differently." When I moved here three years ago, I was pretty adamant in my argument that "cawfee" sounded just the same as how any New Hampshire-ite said "coffee." However, after three years and a few months having lived in Gilford, NH, I can safely say I have learned that cawfee and coffee are most definitely not the same!

As I said before, I don't like to think I have an accent, I like to just think that I speak uniquely. :) I don't say certain words as strongly as I used to, but there are some days when I catch myself falling back into my "don't take no crap from nobody-Jersey attitude-bada bing" speaking habits. One word I say specifically, which I still think sounds perfectly normal, is water. I'm convinced that I sound just like everyone else when they say water, but according to my friends and co-workers up here, I don't. I probably get the most ridicule for that word in particular. At work, my co-workers will literally spend hours coming up to me saying,  "Linds! Say this word.. Linds! Say it again!" 

Does it get old? Sure, but I don't mind. I like knowing that I speak so eloquently and CORRECT! :)