Everyone’s favorite person - only backwards
The teaser is up! Just go to http://teentechbuzz.blogspot.com/ to download it. We got it hosted on Aaron’s idisk account, it’s just a teaser for the podcast.
The first episode will be up sometime next weekend. That’s about all for now, except for the fact that life has been pretty busy with school, homework, test prep etc. (gee…….. notice how all 3 are SOMEHOW related to school?) but I’m trying to post every day!!!
422 songs on itunes and counting - YAY!!!
You may have noticed the new template. If you have, good job - you win a prize! If you haven’t, open your eyes and actually care about life!
With that said, yes, I got a new template for the blog. I also added links to:
So yeah, I made some changes, and it looks pretty cool. And of course I also changed my picture. The last one was boring, but I think that this one (to the right, see the watermelon?) really…….um…….. EXPRESSES me. Hey - I like watermelon!
I saw “Rear Window” about a week after I saw “The Birds”. It wasn’t as exciting as the birds, but still a good movie.
I think that it was great how you followed each of the neighbors along with the main character. The set was GREAT, although it was quite a bit boring at times staying in the same room for the whole entire movie. Still, the ending was suspenseful, exciting, and fun though it took a while to get there for the begginning.
I mean, like half the movie happened before they got to the plot. So it wasn’t exactly as exciting as the other Hitchcock films, but it was still a great film that kept you guessing what would happen next.
Overall, it wasn’t as exciting as some of the other Hitchcock films, it was a very interesting piece of work and a great accomplishment in set design:
[rating:4]
Aaron and I are setting up a podcast that is called “Teen Tech Buzz”
The first episode SHOULD be up by next sunday or so. It stars me and aaron and we talk about - well - iPods, computers, cellphones, gadgets… all of those fancy things.
Here’s the logo/album art thingy that I made for it:
Each episode should be about 20 min. long (it has to be pretty long if your reading this aaron) and it will come out weekly. You can get it on itunes OR this blog:
http://teentechbuzz.blogspot.com
It’s going to be fun! That’s all for now. I saw “Rear Window” by Alfred Hitchcock the other day. I’ll post a review soon.
Okay, I’m going to make up for my week or two of not posting, so here goes:
About two weeks ago I saw “The Birds”! Great movie, my favorite Hitchcock yet. Many people say that the birds looked fake, but I think that they looked great. Especially for back then. It was really well done, how the attacks just got worse and worse. And the sound effects were great. The way it sounded when the birds were attacking the house…….. GREAT scene.
What I did miss was the absense of music. It was just so…….. quiet. Even when they showed a dead man and did the zoom all choppy… like closer each shot - there was no MUSIC! It was seriously weird.
But besides that it was great, and the way the bird attack led to the chaos in the town with all of the fire and everything was great. Still, then ending really wasn’t that great….. I mean I know there couldn’t be much of an ending, but still - all they did was leave the house to go to San Francisco. I mean - big deal.
Overall, I loved this movie, except for its few flaws:
[rating:4.5]
It has now officially been 6 full days of school!
But there’s one thing that is better than all othters……
You see, the BEST teacher in the school, Mr. Barton is doing a film class to replace the drama class. Of course everyone wanted to do it JUST because of Mr. Barton not the film part. Well I got in!!!
But…… Aaron didn’t get in. I wish he had.
Still, in the class we’re basically going to watch movies and then make them! Cool!!!!!!!!!
Also, I have Stuyvesant (best school in the city) and other specialized high school test prep. It’s a BIG test, and although I would rather go to Beacon (not a speacilized high school) but just in case I’m taking the test (like aaron) just because everyone else is…….. BUT:
It’s the same day as the weekend before my birthday….. the day that I’m seeing the ONE MAN STAR WARS SHOW with aaron! But it’s in the morning luckily. And the good thing is there probably won’t be much hw that weekend at all!!!!!!!!!
I can’t wait till monday for the next film class!!!
I also can’t wait for Lulu’s birthday on October 9th!
I also can’t wait for my birthday on October 24th!
I also can’t wait for Christmas!!!!!
But I can wait for the rest of the school year…….
I’ve been updating Netsua over the past few days. Instead of linking to my blog now there’s a game section. It’s still under construction and many of the links just take you back home but I’m working on it daily. I’ve also been updating the news and have been doing a lot of new things. Just to tell you.
I saw “The Birds” last night by Hitchcock. I’ll probably talk about it more tommorow. I’ve got to watch the special features now!
Okay, here’s the long, in-depth post that you’ve been waiting for. School has been pretty good so far!
That is, there hasn’t been any homework yet.
When we came in for homeroom/humanities for the first day with Ms. Burnett all of the chairs and tables were piled upside down and crazy with different-colored strings tied all around them. Apparently we had to break up into groups and get one color string of as fast as we could without breaking it. It was pretty fun for doing teamwork and everything.
When we went in for Math Mr. Gotel (the math teacher) he gave a sort of speech of what he expects from us and that if we do the work then the Math A Regions big huge test thing at the end of 8th grade would be easy. Then he remarked that he had took the bus last year and “knew the deal” and that what many kids did started with a “C”. It just so happens that I take that bus and you might say that some kids ask for help from other kids with their math homework on the way to school. At the end of his speech a few kids clapped and said that it was a very good speech.
Then there was Science with Ms. Nowak. The first thing we did was learn all about the nature of hurricanes. All about them from drafts of cool air in Africa the devestating the United States. Apparently Hurricane Katrina had an eye that was about 40 miles in diameter…………………… ANYWAY……………
Next we had health and guess what we talke about? Hurricane Katrina and the diseases that spread through the water and all of that bad stuff. My brain is hurting now…… lets talk about something more interesting:
Well….. I finally convinced my Mom to create and account on iTunes. Now I can download songs from the biggest music store on the internet. Pretty cool if you think about it. There are also podcasts which are awesome. Grandma and Grandpa, click on the word “podcasts” to find out what it means.
And last but not least……. An incredibly addictive yet stupid game:
XWAP
Mom is ADDICTED to it. I mean seriously… half the time she’s doing this instead of work….. and it is fun, so give it a try!
Austen Squarepants is a 15-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents, Deri Weed and Ira Squarepants. He is interested in technology (particularly web design), filmmaking, and photography.
Netsua.com is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also co-hosts a technology podcast called the Teen Tech Buzz among other things.
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