O, Facebook! My Facebook!

Here’s a poem I wrote for my English class. Yep.

O, Facebook! My Facebook! What a captivating tome!
How do you stunt so many’s productivity by keeping them prisoner’s at home?
With all the praise and raving I’ve heard from friends with access to this novel,
If I take their word, it is undoubtedly a tremendous marvel!
I’ve waited and searched
For a book like this
Because, far and wide I have read
Of Zuckerberg’s magnum opus.

I journeyed to the bookstore to find this magical creation,
Surely to be crammed with vastly useful information.
All this talk of walls and shared illustrations!
This text is truly enthralling across the nations!
The love for this spreads through all ages
All maturities are given happiness;
They are all in awe
Of Zuckerberg’s magnum opus.

And so for eons I have longed and yearned for my turn
To read this great work, to soak in its knowledge, to learn.
But I am rattled to discover what a phony Facebook is truly.
I had been lied to of the glamours and perfections of the time-sucking ugly.
What a let-down you actually are.
I can’t figure why some of us
Would grandly talk wide and far
Of Zuckerberg’s magnum opus.

 

Also, I GOT FOUR TEETH PULLED TODAY OH MY GOSH YEAH IT HAPPENED.

Okay, bye.

Twenty-Nine Questions You Get To Know The Answers To

Look, I know I haven’t done a proper, written post in days and days. Will you forgive me? Gee, thanks, pal! Have I told you how nice your face is lately? It’s rather nice. I promise I’ll make a nice update post, but I liked the idea of doing a survey-like post. So here are the answers! Hurrah!

1. Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.
“Foolish,” Ra Ra Riot, “Let This Go,” Paramore, “This Has Opened My Eyes,” The Smiths, “Machine,” Regina Spektor, “King of Anything,” Sara Bareilles, and “Skinny Genes,” Eliza Doolittle.

2. If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?
Ooooooo. Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn.

3. What does your latest text message from someone else say?
“AMERICAN IDOL”

4. Ever had a poem or song written about you?
Uh…not that I’m aware of…If anyone has…I’d be delighted to hear it! *waits hopefully* *met with silence* *crickets* *tumbleweed*

5. When was the last time you played the air guitar?
The last time I played air guitar was while I listened to Galifreyan History by Chameleon Circuit today. I also lip-synced. (You know that’s my thing now, right? Proof.)

6. Do you have any strange phobias?
Canoes, boats, surfboards, etc.

7. What was the last lie you told?
I never lie. (That one.)

8. How do you vent your anger?
By firing Avada Kedavra curses at every living thing I see.

9. Are you happy with person you’ve become?
Surely, surely.

10. What’s a sound you love?
The sound of someone’s voice when you know they’re smiling.

11. To you, what is the meaning of life?
I never understand what the “meaning” of life is. How about the “motive” of life? To gain knowledge and spread love and live peacefully with everyone.

12. What was the last book you read?
Well, I’m reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream right now. For fun.

13. Do you have any nicknames?
Yes. Would you like to know them? Hm? Yes? Maybe you should rephrase your question then.

14. What was the last movie you saw?
The Sorcerer’s Stone. THEY’RE ALL SO CUTE AND SMALL, MY GOODNESS.

15. Do you have any obsessions right now?
HAHAHA, do you want a list? What should we start with? Movies and TV shows? People? Books?

16. Do you believe in magic?
I would like for it to be real (HOGWARTS WHERE IS MY LETTER), but no, I don’t think that one of these days I’ll be able to turn matchsticks into needles.

17. What is your astrological sign?
Leo. Apparently I like praise and a good leader. Okay.
18. Can you touch your nose with your tongue?
*attempts* *fails*

19. What were you doing last night at 12 AM?

Slumbering. Why? What were you doing? Story time!

20. Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend?
Sure. I think I like myself enough to tolerate knowing someone like myself.

21. How can I win your heart?
Aw, I feel like an orchestral accent and a rain-streaked window would work really well here.

22. Can insanity bring on more creativity
Ostriches and praire grass celebrate the anniversary of lip gloss legislative program and telephone boxes are prettiest at their prime blue.

28. What’s the last song you listened to?
“This Far” by Landon Pigg. I recommend him.

29. What would be a question you’d be afraid to tell the truth on?
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA *hyperventilation*
Did you have fun reading those? I had fun answering them. Comment below some of your answers to the questions!

I will depart from here with a Shakespeare quote because he is my new obsession:

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind

- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love (from the mind),

Ellie

Some Random Forgotten Footage

Some Random, Forgotten Footage from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

A bit of footage I found hanging around in my iPhoto! And yes, that first clip is from four years ago. Crazy, I know.

Love Ellie

P.S. Look at you getting two videos a week! WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT?!

Vlog for Blog: In Which I Lip-Sync and Show Off My Wall

It is as the title says.

Vlog for Blog- In Which I Lip-Sync and Show Off My Wall from Ellie Shackelford on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching, I adore your face! Really, though. It’s more than beautiful. Stunning, to be honest.

Oh, and also, some outtakes of the Milana and Ellie Format can be found here on my Vimeo account, if you feel like watching to teenage girls not follow a script of any kind and create lots of editing for Elleford Productions.

Yours,

Ellie

Doctor Who Trocks

I remember when I didn’t know what Doctor Who was. I suppose it was maybe, oh, 2 and half-ish months ago. Sometime in November I began watching this brilliant British television show with my father, ten-year-old brother, and seven-year-old sister.
And now the Doctor and all his enemy aliens have consumed my life, just like Jo Rowling and all her beloved characters did in fourth grade. (My life is sitting in her vault, making tons of friends with all the other lives it contains.)
Doctor Who is a sci-fi show featuring an immortal Doctor from an alien planet who time-travels and continually saves the world from extraterrestrials.
You already love it, right?
Don’t pretend, I know you’re super excited to hear more.
The show was off the air for over a decade until it resurrected in 2005 starring the fantastic, cheerful, lovely Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, who in the first episode met Rose Tyler, portrayed by Billie Piper, who worked at a department store in London until she became the full-time companion of the Doctor. The pair of them travel through space and time fixing history and fighting aliens and continuously saving universe and human race.
It makes me happy.
My favorite Nine/Rose episodes are the ones with gas mask children and- oh, wow, that one is SO terrifying but SO GOOD. So if you’re one of those fans that only watches the David Tennant episodes, go watch the gas mask zombie episodes on Netflix NOW. I mean it. They thrill me so.
And then at the end of the Ninth Doctor series, CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON CHANGES! His form changes! He looks different! He looks like…OH MY GOSH, DAVID TENNANT! David Tennant plays the hilarious, lovely, amazing, spectacular, fabulous, brilliant, and very marvelous Tenth Doctor! -cheers- And Rose sticks around. Which is fine. I like Rose. ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE I KNOW OR MAYBE EVEN LIVE WITH AND LOVE THINK SHE IS A “BIMBO”. Rose is very clever. Most of the time. So be quiet.
David Tennant lasts as the Tenth Doctor for awhile. I’M ONLY ON HIS SECOND SEASON, OK, I’M NOT THAT FAR, OK, I CAN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT
So far, I really like Ten’s regeneration episode. CHRISTMAS INVASION BEST EVER YES YES LOVE LOVE And the Time Vortex and stuff…and also his Scottish accent in the werewolf one. And when Lady Cassandra kind of possesses him kind of in the cat-nurse episode, and he says “foxeh” AND IT’S FUNNY HAHAHAHA
Okay, so yay, David Tennant. You’re brilliant and…brilliant.
The other awesome thing about Doctor Who is the HUGE fandom that comes with it. There are comic books, backpacks, mugs, toys, t-shirts, SO MUCH STUFF, and it’s all amazingly cool. Another fairly new thing is TROCK. “Trock,” or “time lord rock” is a genre of music all about Doctor Who. I’m dead serious. The lyrics are about Doctor Who. Have you ever heard of wizard rock (wrock), the scrumptiously dorky genre of music concerning Harry Potter? Well, this is the time-lord-y, Galifreyan version. ARE YOU EXCITED, ARE YOU EXCITED?
The first ever trock band, Chameleon Circuit, was started in 2008, formed by four British Doctor Who fanboys in their twenties, Charlie McDonnell, Alex Day, Liam Dryden, and Eddplant. Their first self-titled album documents seasons one through four and CHEERS MY NERDY, WHOVIAN SOUL. When I say “It’s brilliant”, I mean “I AM A FANGIRL AND I LIKE THEM VERY MUCH YAY WHATEVER QUALITY THEIR RECORDING EQUIPMENT IS THANK YOU FOR MAKING FUN OF THE QUALITY CERTAIN BLOOD RELATIVES I AM ACQUAINTED WITH IT’S THE LYRICS THAT COUNT ALL RIGHT”. Anyway, after this first peek into the universe of music about Doctor Who, tons of fans began to follow Chameleon Circuit’s footsteps, including one of my loveliest friends, Tasia! Tasia recently has begun a trock band with her friend, who I will call Salamander, called Fishfingers & Custard, and it makes me happy. So, SHOUT OUT TO TASIA AND SALAMANDER, I HOPE I GOT YOUR BAND NAME RIGHT THIS TIME!
*cough*
So if you’re looking for a fun TV show to start watching with lovely accents and captivating special effects, please check out Doctor Who for my sake.
Maybe we can even dork out together some time.