Over the holidays i went to the movies and saw 'When a Stranger Calls' it was really scary!!!!!! I went with Reiden. It was a brilliant movie even if i was scared out of my brains! The story is basicly that a girl is babysitting at some desolate place and she gets all these strange calls from a stranger (hence the name!). She thinks nothing of it at first but gradually becomes more freaked out by it and decides to call the police. The police told her to try and keep him on the phone for 60 seconds so they could trace the call. After a few attempts she managed to hold the line.The police called her and franticly told her that the call was coming from inside the house. Then she saw her best friend dead in an upstairs room. She began to run and grabbed the kids and got them to hide the guy started to chase them and they hid in the big aviary. Then the girl turned around and he was pressed against the glass of the aviary she turned on the watering system so they were surrounded by a watery mist and they couldn't be seen she got the kids to hide in a hole and she hid in the water under the bridge. The stranger found his way into the aviary and walked on the bridge over her head, she ducked under the water and saw the maid dead on the bottom of the pond. he started to grab at her and she finnaly managed to get out of the house.

The police came and took him away and she finnally got a look at the man's face who had so mercilessly chased her and killed her best friend. The final scene shows her in a phsyciatric hospital and she has a hallucination of some sort that he is in the hospital. The final visual you see is of her kicking and screaming and the doctors and nurses trying to restrain her. I'm now very paranoid about being home alone. Which i think is understandable. But the movie was very well made. i liked it.

www.ninemsn.com.au/dolly This site is one of my favourites because it is the website of my favorite magazine DOLLY i am subscribed to this magazine and love to read it whilst enjoying a hot chocolate. The site is good because there is more for you to do and an oppertunity to send in your stories and photos to appear in the next issue of DOLLY. You can send in embarrasing stories, poems, comments on articles that appeared in the latest issue, enter a competition called 'shout out' where you can voice your oppinions on any issue that you feel strongly about, the winner gets their entry printed in the next issue and a small prize each month. There are also activities like 'rate the babe' and numerous quizzes and also online polls on various issues. The site is changed every month simutaniously with each issue. this is why i have included this link.

I chose ‘Scenes from an italian restaurant’ because it is a song that i have grown up with and have only recently been re-introduced to it (Billy Joel) now that I’m older i actually understand what his music is all about. ‘Scenes from an Italian restaurant’ is one of my favourites. The story in this song is the narrator meeting up in an italian restaurant with an old friend and going over high school memories, like the music the ‘teenage nights’ and the story of the ‘popular steadies’ Brenda and Eddie. the song has four parts. the begging about being in the restaurant and next is the bit about the teenage nights and then a bit about Brenda and Eddie and then it goes back to the same format as the start, being in the restaurant.

Envy

A powerful emotion

Triggers hate and greed

I see her sweet talking my best friend

And envy burns deep

Maybe because I’m threatened?

She’s prettier than me.

They all seem to like her

More than they evey liked me

My envy triggers hatred

I want to see her dead.

The people that I love the most 

Are dragged in by her air

They spend more time with her than me

I just want to scream

I taste bitter fury.

Before she came,

I had power

Now that power’s gone

I want it back so desperately

With a deep and dreadful longing

All the while the hatred grows.

The hatred is so strong, she haunts my dreams

Laughing in my face

Telling me she’s better than me

In each and every way

I wish that she would dissapear

Never to be seen again

And then i would be free

Free from

Envy