Star Sparkle Blog

I realised that I hadn't posted anything belly dance related, so today I'm going to post a belly dance video. This is a performance by the Bellydance Superstars (an American belly dance troupe), where some of them dance with Isis wings, which are two bits of sparkly material joined together in a "wings" shape and worn around the neck. The dance is called Entrance of the Stars.                                          For more info about the Bellydance Superstars (also known as BDSS), visit their website: Bellydance Superstars

I thought I'd start a new feature where I post a random music video every so often! The one I'm posting today is a Telugu (Indian language) one. The Telugu film industry is known as Tollywood, like Bollywood.  There used to be this Sky TV channel called Mana Telugu where they showed music videos. I liked some of the songs but they never showed their names. Recently I decided to have a look on YouTube to see if there were any songs I recognised and I found one of them.  It's called Koncham Koncham (or Konchem as it's called in this version- I had to post another video) and is from the film Dee. If anyone reading this speaks Telugu and could do an English translation of the lyrics, that would be good! :)  

I went to see the new Fright Night two Mondays ago. I knew that it would never live up to the old one for me but I thought it was worth seeing. And it was quite good, I enjoyed it. I saw it in 3D (the first time I'd seen a 3D film), which was strange, every time there was glass shattering or a spark from a fire I kept thinking it was going to get in my eyes! lol. In this story, Charley Brewster (played by Anton Yelchin) has recently become popular and started dating one of the hottest girls in the school, Amy (Imogen Poots). He can't quite believe his luck. He has a new group of friends and has left his old ones behind. However, one of his old friends "Evil" Ed Thompson (Christopher Mintz- Plasse) resents (quite rightly!) being ditched and when he needs Charley's help, he uses their role playing past to blackmail him. Kids have been disappearing from their high school and noone seems particulary bothered apart from Ed and his friend Ben, who has now also vanishe...

Sorry that I haven't posted much here again! I don't think I have many readers here yet but I'm sorry anyway. I've had a lot going on lately, including computer problems. Also, I think part of the problem was that I was doing great, long posts which were taking a lot of time and energy. So in order to post more regularly, I've decided to do more smaller posts (although of course I will still do longer posts sometimes such as Top 10 lists). Hope anyone reading this is having a great week! :)

The new TV series Teen Wolf  started in the UK a few weeks ago. It's based on the Michael J Fox film about a teenager who becomes a werewolf. Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) is a typical American teenager. Just before school starts he goes into the woods with his friend Stiles (Dylan O'Brien), looking for a body. When Stiles' dad (who is a policeman) shows up, Scott hides from him and is left alone. He is pursued and then bitten by a wolf. Afterwards he discovers he is changing in unexpected ways, not only is he faster and stronger (which improves his performance on the school lacrosse team) but he also transforms into a werewolf on full moon nights (or when he gets angry)! Around the same time, he meets new girl Allison (Crystal Reed), whose dad happens to be a werewolf hunter. Scott also comes across another werewolf, Derek (Tyler Hoechlin) who he suspects is the one who bit him. Derek denies this and tells Scott his attacker was another wolf, an "Alpha"  werewolf....

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been having a lot of computer problems lately, but I'll try to get back to posting regularly. :) More posts coming soon!

These are my favourite music related websites and applications. :) iTunes Great for buying/downloading and listening to music. Once you download iTunes onto your computer you can buy music from the iTunes store (and listen to samples before you buy) and also upload your own music to iTunes. Visit the site to download it. Amazon This online shop is good for buying music, as well as books, video games and lots of other things. You can also listen to samples on Amazon. They don't always let you listen to samples on the UK site, so I sometimes go to the American and German sites instead when I want to hear album snippets.  HMV Website for the CD, DVD and game shop. You can get good deals on here and also listen to music samples for some CDs. Spotify This is an application that you download to your computer and then you can listen to music for free. The account I have is Spotify Open (the free one) and you can also get paid accounts, Unlimited and Premium, which cost £4...