HEY ASS-BUTT.
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
My favorite TV show.
Well, this one's kind of obvious: Supernatural. I mean, I only talk about it ALL THE TIME.
But seriously, it's a delightfully interesting tale with surprisingly well-developed characters for something that is basically a forty-five minute soap-opera with heavily homosexual religious undertones. They feel real and you grieve right alongside them when shit goes south.
Also it helps that everyone on this show is delicious, but eh.
Additionally, the way that the various demons and angels are represented is fascinating, as well as the creature-of-the-week concepts. (The fact that I actually knew most of them has no bearing on this subject, you can't prove it does nyaaah.) And there is some seriously scary shit going on (see also: THE WORLD COULD BE ENDING AND YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW). Plus, I love how often it makes fun of itself and everything around it. It's a very non-serious show that is presented in such a serious way that you have to take it seriously.
TL;DR: DO NOT FUCK WITH MY SPN.
But, I can't say that SPN is my FAVORITE show, because...well, I like a lot of others. Doctor Who is an obvious one, especially of late (and oh god do NOT get me started on how head-trippy the resemblance between Amy and Anna is, do NOT), although I can't speak for the ones before New Who came out. I've been meaning to watch them, it's just...well, they're a different beast than the Who I'm used to, and if that's wrong I don't wanna be right.
And Eureka, if you've never heard me talking about it, which is kind of like...well, it's like if the Doctor met Sam and Dean and there was a night of wild hot sex in the TARDIS, then one in the Impala, and then a writer who was not there to witness either happening got an idea for a show about a town in the middle of Oregon populated entirely by the world's geniuses, and then that shit got put on TV. That's Eureka.
Eureka isn't the BESTEST show ever, but it does have a lot of really great quirky actors (Matt Frewar!) and a really sweet father/daughter dynamic that I don't see in a lot of other shows, mostly because most other shows with teenagers either have both parents present or neither parent readily available. So Eureka does some interesting things there. Plus, the cast is HUGE, and almost everyone shows up more than one time. Which means you're always seeing new faces, people from two seasons back are getting brought up, and you end up with a cast of characters almost as big and complicated as the LOTR trilogy (false: it's not that bad, and people do tend to go missing for long periods at a time, but it's still kind of bordering on ridiculous). I mean, most shows kind of focus in on one or two, maybe three central characters, and then there are a couple of repeated supporting characters, and then a bunch of one-or-two shot-ers who are never mentioned again (y hallo thar SPN and DW). But with Eureka, even though someone may not seem all that important, they tend to keep coming back again and again. So even though there isn't a whole lot of character to...well, most of them (Lucas), you get multiple opportunities to learn as much about them as you can, and the rest...well, you can guess it, Eureka's pretty open ended like that.
Also it's all shot in FUCKING TECHNICOLOR, so everything's all bright and happy all the time. IT'S GRATE.
I also like Mythbusters, because *science*, and there's this show called World's Dumbest which has a bunch of B-list celebrities I've mostly never heard of (80% of which are probably using this show as their community service) watching videos of stupid people and commenting on how stupid they are. It's great, mind-numbing, but great.
There's the Simpsons, which is actually the result of Stockholm Syndrome, and Family Guy, which is the result of withdrawal. And then those guilty-pleasure shows like 16 and Pregnant, Bridezilla's, and some hair-cutting show that I can't remember the name of at the moment.
My favorite book.
Shit.
No, really: shit.
Okay, well, here goes nothing.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which is a beautiful dystopian tale told in language that roams from flowing poetic to startlingly blunt. It addresses the issue of feminism and how subtly a woman can have influence in a male-dominated society. Also MARGARET ATWOOD. No, really, it's a delightful book and a quick read and it's such a cocktease, but what little there is of it, it does a lot with it.
1984, by George Orwell, because I LIKE dystopian novels, okay? No, but seriously, for a while there when I was really into anarchy this book had me eight different levels of paranoid. It was delicious.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, aka THE ONLY REASON I CAN SPELL THE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM WHICH I USE, because LOLOL DYSTOPIAN.
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk; it's a beautifully poetic piece of work, written in such a way that's made for reading aloud, to yourself, as you're wrapped up in the psychosis of the main character. It's delightfully disgusting at times, the narrative to the point on the issues of sex changes and your jaw being shot to all hell, and rather than focus on Brandy and her personal trial of becoming a woman, as so many novels about gender reassignment are, it instead focuses in on what should, for all intents and purposes, be a minor character in this play called life. A girl without a face, and invisible monster who can't talk and can't be seen, she is the leading lady casting a shadow over the much more ostentatious Brandy Alexander, and it is delightful.
Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne-Jones. Okay, raise your hands if you've never heard of this one and can guess why I like it. None of you? Okay.
My favorite quote.
Surprising to none, this comes from Invisible Monsters. See also: the entire book.
No, I kid, I kid. But there are a lot of parts to this book that...you read them, and the words just mean. It's like it opens up a whole new school of thought for you.
This is one of those quotes:
"Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products."
and
"'Your perception is all fucked up,' Brandy says. 'All you can talk about is trash that's already happened.'
She says, 'You can't base your life on the past or the present.'
Brandy says, 'You have to tell me about your future.'"
and
"'Now,' those Plumbago lips say, 'You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night.' That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me.
'When you understand,' Brandy says, 'that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,' Brandy says, 'then we'll figure out who you're going to be.'"
I think what enchants me most about this last one is the concept that everything that's happened to you already is just trash; you can ball it up and throw it away, put it somewhere where it can't hurt you anymore. I like that idea. I like the idea that you can give yourself a second chance by just throwing your past away and honing in on a new future, a new story for yourself. Life's just one big fucked up fairytale, and this book gets that.
And, I guess, the best way to sum up the book in general is this:
"Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.
Find what you're afraid of most and go live there."
I can't tell it any better than that.
Additionally, a lot of the things said in Doctor Who hit home with me. Like
"Some days are special. Some days are so so blessed. Some days nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while-every day in a million days when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call-everybody lives."
because I like that ideal.
Same thing with Supernatural.
"Any ass-chapped monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are hard."
and
"But then again, nothing really ever ends, does it?"
Additionally I may be hung up on the whole CHUCK IS GOD thing, but who can say?
Whatever tickles my fancy?
This does:
Or, no, wait. This does:
I CAN'T DECIDE.
AAAAND FINALLY a photo that makes me happy:
Why does this make me happy?
1) RICHARD SPEIGHT JR.'S APPROVAL FACE
2) GABRIEL ;___________________________________;
3) I SAY THIS PHRASE QUITE A LOT.
THAT'S IT.
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
My favorite TV show.
Well, this one's kind of obvious: Supernatural. I mean, I only talk about it ALL THE TIME.
But seriously, it's a delightfully interesting tale with surprisingly well-developed characters for something that is basically a forty-five minute soap-opera with heavily homosexual religious undertones. They feel real and you grieve right alongside them when shit goes south.
Also it helps that everyone on this show is delicious, but eh.
Additionally, the way that the various demons and angels are represented is fascinating, as well as the creature-of-the-week concepts. (The fact that I actually knew most of them has no bearing on this subject, you can't prove it does nyaaah.) And there is some seriously scary shit going on (see also: THE WORLD COULD BE ENDING AND YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW). Plus, I love how often it makes fun of itself and everything around it. It's a very non-serious show that is presented in such a serious way that you have to take it seriously.
TL;DR: DO NOT FUCK WITH MY SPN.
But, I can't say that SPN is my FAVORITE show, because...well, I like a lot of others. Doctor Who is an obvious one, especially of late (and oh god do NOT get me started on how head-trippy the resemblance between Amy and Anna is, do NOT), although I can't speak for the ones before New Who came out. I've been meaning to watch them, it's just...well, they're a different beast than the Who I'm used to, and if that's wrong I don't wanna be right.
And Eureka, if you've never heard me talking about it, which is kind of like...well, it's like if the Doctor met Sam and Dean and there was a night of wild hot sex in the TARDIS, then one in the Impala, and then a writer who was not there to witness either happening got an idea for a show about a town in the middle of Oregon populated entirely by the world's geniuses, and then that shit got put on TV. That's Eureka.
Eureka isn't the BESTEST show ever, but it does have a lot of really great quirky actors (Matt Frewar!) and a really sweet father/daughter dynamic that I don't see in a lot of other shows, mostly because most other shows with teenagers either have both parents present or neither parent readily available. So Eureka does some interesting things there. Plus, the cast is HUGE, and almost everyone shows up more than one time. Which means you're always seeing new faces, people from two seasons back are getting brought up, and you end up with a cast of characters almost as big and complicated as the LOTR trilogy (false: it's not that bad, and people do tend to go missing for long periods at a time, but it's still kind of bordering on ridiculous). I mean, most shows kind of focus in on one or two, maybe three central characters, and then there are a couple of repeated supporting characters, and then a bunch of one-or-two shot-ers who are never mentioned again (y hallo thar SPN and DW). But with Eureka, even though someone may not seem all that important, they tend to keep coming back again and again. So even though there isn't a whole lot of character to...well, most of them (Lucas), you get multiple opportunities to learn as much about them as you can, and the rest...well, you can guess it, Eureka's pretty open ended like that.
Also it's all shot in FUCKING TECHNICOLOR, so everything's all bright and happy all the time. IT'S GRATE.
I also like Mythbusters, because *science*, and there's this show called World's Dumbest which has a bunch of B-list celebrities I've mostly never heard of (80% of which are probably using this show as their community service) watching videos of stupid people and commenting on how stupid they are. It's great, mind-numbing, but great.
There's the Simpsons, which is actually the result of Stockholm Syndrome, and Family Guy, which is the result of withdrawal. And then those guilty-pleasure shows like 16 and Pregnant, Bridezilla's, and some hair-cutting show that I can't remember the name of at the moment.
My favorite book.
Shit.
No, really: shit.
Okay, well, here goes nothing.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which is a beautiful dystopian tale told in language that roams from flowing poetic to startlingly blunt. It addresses the issue of feminism and how subtly a woman can have influence in a male-dominated society. Also MARGARET ATWOOD. No, really, it's a delightful book and a quick read and it's such a cocktease, but what little there is of it, it does a lot with it.
1984, by George Orwell, because I LIKE dystopian novels, okay? No, but seriously, for a while there when I was really into anarchy this book had me eight different levels of paranoid. It was delicious.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, aka THE ONLY REASON I CAN SPELL THE TEMPERATURE SYSTEM WHICH I USE, because LOLOL DYSTOPIAN.
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk; it's a beautifully poetic piece of work, written in such a way that's made for reading aloud, to yourself, as you're wrapped up in the psychosis of the main character. It's delightfully disgusting at times, the narrative to the point on the issues of sex changes and your jaw being shot to all hell, and rather than focus on Brandy and her personal trial of becoming a woman, as so many novels about gender reassignment are, it instead focuses in on what should, for all intents and purposes, be a minor character in this play called life. A girl without a face, and invisible monster who can't talk and can't be seen, she is the leading lady casting a shadow over the much more ostentatious Brandy Alexander, and it is delightful.
Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne-Jones. Okay, raise your hands if you've never heard of this one and can guess why I like it. None of you? Okay.
My favorite quote.
Surprising to none, this comes from Invisible Monsters. See also: the entire book.
No, I kid, I kid. But there are a lot of parts to this book that...you read them, and the words just mean. It's like it opens up a whole new school of thought for you.
This is one of those quotes:
"Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products."
and
"'Your perception is all fucked up,' Brandy says. 'All you can talk about is trash that's already happened.'
She says, 'You can't base your life on the past or the present.'
Brandy says, 'You have to tell me about your future.'"
and
"'Now,' those Plumbago lips say, 'You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night.' That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me.
'When you understand,' Brandy says, 'that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,' Brandy says, 'then we'll figure out who you're going to be.'"
I think what enchants me most about this last one is the concept that everything that's happened to you already is just trash; you can ball it up and throw it away, put it somewhere where it can't hurt you anymore. I like that idea. I like the idea that you can give yourself a second chance by just throwing your past away and honing in on a new future, a new story for yourself. Life's just one big fucked up fairytale, and this book gets that.
And, I guess, the best way to sum up the book in general is this:
"Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates.
Find what you're afraid of most and go live there."
I can't tell it any better than that.
Additionally, a lot of the things said in Doctor Who hit home with me. Like
"Some days are special. Some days are so so blessed. Some days nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while-every day in a million days when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call-everybody lives."
because I like that ideal.
Same thing with Supernatural.
"Any ass-chapped monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are hard."
and
"But then again, nothing really ever ends, does it?"
Additionally I may be hung up on the whole CHUCK IS GOD thing, but who can say?
Whatever tickles my fancy?
This does:
Or, no, wait. This does:
I CAN'T DECIDE.
AAAAND FINALLY a photo that makes me happy:
Why does this make me happy?
1) RICHARD SPEIGHT JR.'S APPROVAL FACE
2) GABRIEL ;___________________________________;
3) I SAY THIS PHRASE QUITE A LOT.
THAT'S IT.