SOUNDTRACK: JULIET-“My First Hardcore Song” (2012).
Lars from NPR (I’m just going to call him Thor from now on) pointed me to this song.
Juliet is 8 years old and while she didn’t write the music, she sings all the words (and one assumes wrote the lyrics, right?). Juliet can scream with the best of them.
And, of course when she opened up the pit, it made me want to get our pit ready at home, too….
There have been replies and haters, but none can compare to the original. Juliet has destroyed out Old Skull as my favorite pre-adolescent hardcore band.
ooooooooooooooooooooh. Oh.
[READ: April 2012] The Secrets of Droon: Books 29-31 & SE#5
Droon grows more and more exciting with each book. I have high hopes that we may finish this series before Clark’s school is over (sometimes it’s fun to set little goals for ourselves, even if they are meaningless). [Since this is being published after he finished school, I know whether this came true or not, but you’ll have to wait to find out].
Book 29 is Pirates of the Purple Dawn. One of the fun things about Droon is that old enemies keep coming back. In this book, an old enemy Ving, king of the hawk bandits of Tarkoom, comes back (from book 11!). But this time, he has brought his twin sister Ming with him. I enjoyed that although they are twins they not only don’t really like each other they’re not all that alike–Ving hates the water and Ming is in charge of a group of pirates! They plan to bring dragons back from the past to destroy Droon.
The book opens up in a funny/tense way. Eric is in school but he is dreaming of Droon. And then he starts talking in his sleep–telling the whole class about Droon and even firing a fireball at the blackboard! This gets the kids in class very excited–one even wants to go on a field trip to Eric’s house to see Droon herself! And things grows even more chaotic when Galen’s twin Nelag shows up and confuses things tenfold. When the kids finally get to Droon, they journey to the land of Jabar-Loo.
After this funny intro, things get more serious. There is a Purple Dawn, which means a rift in time (which means Clark will have a slightly hard time grasping everything). This means that they have to go see Portentia the oracle who was around for the first Purple Dawn. Things grows even more serious when the pirates kidnap Keeah–as if the kids didn’t have enough to worry about. And what about that green mist and the vision that Eric had? (more…)
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