August Birthdays

Since it's August, time to do a blog post about b-days in August.

Lucille Ball

• Had one of the longest careers in TV, especially on the I Love Lucy show, which is one of my favorite TV shows

Antonio Banderas

• In the movie Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, he provided the voice of the sword fighting cat Puss in Boots.

Coco Chanel

• According to 20th century fashions, this woman was a genius! She created fashionable clothes inspired by menswear. Go her!!! She was a pioneering French fashion designer who is best known by Chanel

Dustin Hoffman

• One of his best known films is the 1982 movie Tootsie, where he played an actor named Michael Dorsey who dresses up as a woman named Dorothy to land a job on a soap opera.

Scott Caan(major hottie!!!!!!!)

• He is the son of acting legend James Caan.
• On the 2010 remake of the old 1960s show Hawaii Five-O, he plays Det. Danny 'Danno' Williams.

Andy Warhol

• This man was a leading figure in the movement of pop art. He made pop art pics of all kinds of people, such as Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, etc.

Some of his art

Muhammad Ali

Michael Jackson

Mick Jagger

Sean Connery

• His trademark role was that of British spy James Bond. Personally, he was one of the better James Bond people than the others!!

Michael Jackson

• He was most often referred to as the King of Pop. 

Debra Messing

• American actress on the show Will & Grace, where she played Grace Adler.

Robert De Niro

• New York-born Italian actor, director. He is best known for his tough guy roles

Halle Berry

• She won the NAACP Image Award for the movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which was based on the first black actress to win an award.

Tim Burton

• His trademark are his dark, quirky, weird films such as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland. He also loves to work with Johnny Depp and English born actress Helena Bonham-Carter, who he is seeing.

Mother Theresa

• She is best known for her humanitarian work, helping the poor, sick, dying. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title of Blessed Theresa of Calcutta

Richard Gere

• In the movie Shall We Dance, he had to learn how to ballroom dance. And he also had the same name as my grandfather, John Clark.

Geri Halliwell

• Best known as Ginger Spice, a member of the early 2000 all girl British pop group the Spice Girls. And she also supports the fight for the cure for Breast Cancer.

All of this info came from Wikipedia, so that people won't think I'm stealing the info, and if need be, look it up!!

Facts

Recently I had to do this 100 Facts thing in class in honor of the 100th day in class, don't know why!! We had to write 100 facts, but I could only come up with a few. The reason for it is the teachers wanted to see if we were any different than when we first started at Gateway, so here are a few of mine.

1.  I'm 20 years old
2.  I currently attend Gateway Community and Technical College

This is the campus in Boone county, or in the form of cities, Florence, Ky

In 2008 I graduated from Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Ky

1.  My favorite TV shows are Top Gear UK, My Family, Mr. Bean, CSI:NY, Law and Order:SVU, The First 48, Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

My Family, an English TV show, not surprised, huh? From left to right: Janie(daughter), Susan(mom), Ben(dad), Nick(white shirt), Michael(son)

CSI:NY

Mr. Bean

Top Gear UK(to avoid confusion with the lesser liked Top Gear in America)

Law and Order:SVU

1. My favorite rock bands are The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Foreigner, The Beatles, Journey

Aerosmith

The Beatles

Foreigner

Journey with new lead singer Arnel Pineda

The Rolling Stones, 2006, during their A Bigger Bang tour in New York 

Van Halen

1.  I enjoy reading books on my front porch in the summer
2.  I'm allergic to pointless drama
3.  My dream jobs are: tattoo artist, dancer, artist, writer, world traveler, video game designer
4.  My favorite singers are Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, Ritchie Valens, Carly Simon, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Aaliyah, Steven Tyler

Paul McCartney's music is always calming to me

George Harrison was my other favorite Beatles member. As far as I'm concerned, as a Beatles fan, in my opinion, George Harrison and Paul McCartney were the cute ones!

Carly Simon

1. I want to visit China, Japan, Italy, Australia, England some day
2. Someday I want to learn how to read, write and speak Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and German
3. My favorite actors are Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Hugh Jackman, Sylvester Stallone, B.D. Wong, Denzel Washington

Jet Li

Chow Yun-fat from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Hugh Jackman

Sylvester Stallone

B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang on Law and Order: SVU

Denzel Washington

1. My favorite actresses are Lucy Liu, Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, Marisa Tomei, Mariska Hargitay, Michelle Yeoh

Lucy Liu

Halle Berry

Queen Latifah

Marisa Tomei

Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order:SVU as Det. Olivia Benson

Michelle Yeoh

1. In my spare time, I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles, doing anything artsy craftsy, listening to music, reading books, spending time with family
2. Some of my interests include Chinese culture and Chinese history, Japanese culture and Japanese history, world cultures and world history, foreign languages, police work, Medical history and stuff related to it
3. Some of my favorite movies include Freejack, The Full Monty, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, Kiss of the Dragon, The Corruptor, Bulletproof Monk, Unleashed, War, the Flower Drum Song, Mulan, Memoirs of a Geisha











4. I enjoy reading books about police work, memoirs, medical stuff, fiction, biographies
5. My favorite genres of music include British rock, hard rock, R&B, jazz, country, alternative, Latin, Latin rock
6. If you were to try and find me in Bellevue, KY(my hometown), you would find me at my house on the front porch reading a book, or you would find me in Florence, Ky, at the mall, in a music store browsing at the various sections of music, somewhere between Rock and Latin
7. My hobbies include scrapbooking, photography with a digital camera, jigsaw puzzles and  dancing]
8. I have a mom named Brenda who works at Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC, a dad named Steve who works at US Bank, the 2nd shift, from 2pm-3am, a stepdad named Greg who works the EXACT same shift at the EXACT same place, a sister named Jessica who recently graduated high school and got an Ed Hardy tattoo on her 18th b-day, of a skull with roses that says Love Kills Slowly.
9. I love to think I'm a reincarnated hippie and I probably am, at least that's the impression my mom's under.
10. I'm a hug fan of all things 1960s and 1970s
11. Ever since grade school, I've been bullied because of my appearance
12. I"m afraid to be myself because of what others may think
13. My favorite classes in high school were Spanish I and Spanish II, Accounting, English
14. My favorite classes here at Gateway are Intro to Art, Intro to Computers, Corporate Identity, 2 D Design, Strategic Concepts
15. Peace lover, hippie, darn tree-hugger are just some of my common nicknames
16. I proudly admit that I find Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones to be drop dead gorgeous and if I were his age and he asked, I'd marry him in a heatbeat!
17. I proudly admit that I find Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones to be drop dead gorgeous as well, and if I were his age, and he asked, I'd marry him in a heartbeat! Sorry, both Ronnie and Mick are very attractive men for their ages.
18. For some strange reason, I find Asian, Italian and English guys totally sexy, idk why! Maybe it's the accents.

Chinese flag, not necessarily Chinese guys

English guys, idk, maybe the accents?