The Return of the Travelers?

Hello all, this is to let you know that The Travelers WILL be returning, hopefully during my month-long Christmas break. I have left Taylor and her friends (and enemies) hanging in the balance for too long--and, more than that, I've left The Travelers' loyal readers hanging!

On another note...pop music...because of riding on a bus several times a week I have been forced to listen to pop music a lot; there are many songs I like...but I have been forced to listen to the terrible ones as well!! (Like Everybody Talks by Neon Trees...yuck...) Also popular at the moment are Wide Awake by that robber of name-spellings, Katy Perry, and Whistle, by I don't know who but I don't like it; I see it as one of the worst pop songs ever. I heard Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye the other day; this was a happy surprise as I thought this song was not on the radio much anymore; I thought it had gone with Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen into the world where extremely popular songs go after a few months. Where is Adele in all this? I have not heard her songs very often lately. Also, I am happy there are new Taylor Swift songs, but I was disappointed by We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. This is frankly just not up to Taylor Swift's standard. So, what do YOU think...? Any songs you have been loving/hating?

On ANOTHER note...Pretty Little Liars is officially going into a fourth season! The Avengers came out on DVD! and it's so cool! Also...The Dark Knight Rises is coming out on DVD in early December!

I know it's not usual for me to take practically a whole blog post to talk about popular culture, but the fact is, I like to talk about it, so I think this is a good thing to use my blog for...:) so, you'll probably be seeing more posts about songs, movies, tv shows, etc....and don't feel bad if I'm ever criticizing something you like...it's nothing against you, I just sometimes like to look at things critically! :)

Hope you enjoy this post....:D

The Dark Knight truly Rises!!! :)

The title of this post says it all. The Dark Knight Rises is definitely worth a watch, guys. You don't have to go see it in theaters but it's definitely an experience I'm glad I got! A movie of such epic proportions is really worth watching on a big screen, but seriously, consider watching it even if you wait 'til it's out on DVD.

I promise not to give out any spoilers but I have to say I thought the movie was very good. After such a movie as The Dark Knight, which is at the moment quite near the top of my all-time favorite movies, you'd think it'd be impossible to make a movie that would even get close to the epic, powerful, cinematic feel of The Dark Knight (which I didn't see in theaters because I wasn't watching the Batman movies yet...SIGH.) Yet TDKR, as I prefer to call it so as not to exhaust myself, measures up to TDK.

My only complaint now is that I still have the remnants of a headache given to me by the lovely computerized volume control at the movie theater which apparently likes to turn itself back up to very loud even if it is manually turned down. I believe there may be a conspiracy: do movie theaters want us to go deaf?

Also, I have to say that almost 100% of the movie trailers we saw were for horribly violent, "shoot-em-up" type movies--seriously, people? In a violent world, do you really think we want to watch all this horrid violence? Isn't watching a movie supposed to be fun?

This is the end of my rant. For now. That said, I highly recommend you watch TDKR! Also, if you haven't yet, I also recommend watching Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, as well. By the way, if you're not a Batman fan, I wasn't either until I began watching these Christopher Nolan films.