Bitten By Twilight

Now a days, you can hardly turn your head before you see a Twilight book in the hands of a teenage girl or hear someone gushing about Edward and Bella. You can’t go on Facebook without seeing vampire bumper stickers and groups everywhere. You turn on the TV and you see celebrities promoting the Twilight movie on the VMA’s. You can’t even go out to buy a magazine without seeing Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. So what do you do? Well, you know how the saying goes, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
So, what’s all the hype about? “The story is about a girl who falls in love with a vampire, but, it’s much better than it sounds!” said junior Katie Davis.
“It has a crazy wild storyline. Drama is addicting and this is drama that's not offensive to anyone. This is just something for our own imaginations a complete escape from anything real” said junior Amanda Johnson.
Twilight isn’t just another “vampire book”; it’s also a Romeo and Juliette styled love story. The writing style is interesting and many people can relate to some of the high school social problems that take place in Twilight.
Not only is it a great book, but the Twilight movie is coming out on November 21. Although the novel got major fan response, some fans have mixed feelings about what’s happening with their beloved books.
“Some books are meant to stay books...period. This one has to much inner thought to really bring to life. It’ll be interesting to see how they plan on pulling it off without getting assassinated by devoted fan girls” said junior Michelle Smith.
Many Twilight fans are upset about the book becoming a movie because it ruins the images in their head. What they don’t know is that the movie makes Twilight more accessible for people who are too busy to read a 500 page book, and would rather have it condensed into a 2 hour movie. The Twilight craze is not only sweeping the nation, but the world. Everyone has been bitten by the magic that is Stephanie Meyer’s novel and upcoming movie, Twilight.

Gone in a Blink

Growing up in the nineties, you went through so much. Saying “psyche!” or “not!” after a sentence was completely normal, you’d do the Macarena with your friends, and you wore the converse before they became “old school.” There’s some stuff we left behind (thankfully) like mom pants and shoulder pads, and there’s stuff that followed us through. While most of us left N’sync behind, we brought along some bands into the new millennium, only to have them fall apart soon after. One of those bands produced one of the greatest hits in the nineties with “na na na na na na na na na na” making up most of the song, in All the Small Things by Blink 182.
Blink 182 was formed in 1992, just 13 short years before its breakup (call me superstitious, but I think the 13 is a sign). Blink 182 was made up of Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor (who was later replaced by Travis Barker). Tom and Mark were best friends- they were basically the masterminds behind Blink. They were yin and yang, peanut butter and jelly, goofy bassist and cool guitarist. They complimented each others features, just by talking or making each other laugh. They grew closer and closer (along with Travis, of course) as Blink 182 became more and more famous. They released countless hits, only to make even greater music in the later CDs.
But sometime in the early 2000’s, Blink 182 hit a sour note. Mark and Tom stopped hanging out, stopped making each other laugh, stopped clicking, as if you had taken two perfect pieces of a puzzle and put them in a blender. They just stopped fitting together. The environment where they worked became tense and strained instead of fun and entertaining like it once had been. They grew farther and farther apart, and the Blink trio took a huge break before coming out with their last album Blink 182.
Then, while they were on tour with Music for Relief, helping to aid victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, Tom’s agent called Mark and Travis and cancelled the last show. The day after, Blink 182 announced an “indefinite hiatus” on Feb. 22, 2005 and Blink 182 came to a crashing end. What happened to The Mark, Tom and Travis Show? Tom wanted to spend more time with his family, while Mark and Travis, although they loved their families very much, also wanted to keep touring and writing music with Blink 182. So Tom got his way- his agent called a very devastated Mark and Travis to tell them that Tom would no longer be in the band. You would think that, like relationships, breaking up would either be done in person, or by the actual person himself, but Tom did not have either the decency or courage to face Mark and Travis, and hid behind his agent.
There WAS little to no chance that the band would ever get back together, especially since they had moved on to other(not bigger or better) things. Also, they hadnt spoken since. Recently though, Travis was in a car accident. This made the 3 long lost brothers realize that "life is too short" to hold grudges. They talked! For the first time in 3 years! You could almost hear Blink 182 fans everywhere rejoicing. Mark wrote, in his blog, that they didnt know about Blink 182 getting back together. The fact that he mentioned it, gives me hope though.