Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens.
Because I had yet ANOTHER frigging seizure (thank God my neurologist is jumping on this so hard and so fast so it can be dealt with before I move -- I cannot overstate my love for this woman), I figure I could use a perk-me up. Thusly, I'm stealing scribble_myname's heretofore dubbed "Few Of My Favourite Things" meme.
It's better than cranking the Backstreet Boys and dancing like a maniac shut up I am on a kick this week and I don't know why and YES I am aware I just lost any and all music cred I've ever earned.
Though, really, who am I kidding? Once I'm finished this, I'll be doing that anyhow.
CUTS ARE FOR THE WEAK ETC. ETC.
Coffee
Because this one is such a shocker, amirite?
I can actually pinpoint when I started drinking coffee regularly. It was the summer after my first year of University. A Saturday morning, actually. Mum was sitting at the kitchen table flipping through the paper as she drank her coffee. I'd trundled up from bed, and for the first time, I poured myself a cup. This went without mention or notice, and from that point forward coffee was part of my morning ritual.
Let's get a little more specific though. One of the best places I've had the privilege of enjoying a cuppa is Seattle Coffee Works. Whenever I'm in Seattle (which is generally for the Emerald City Comic Con, though I occasionally go other times as well), I like to go there for breakfast. The food's alright, but the coffee is to frigging DIE for. I always pick up a bag of the Obama Blend too. It is, no word of a lie, one of the smoothest coffees I've ever tasted.
I've considered ordering bags of it to my doorstep regularly, but I figure it's best to keep it as a treat.
Film
I had never been much of a movie nerd before I started working at a theatre. I was a fan of cinema, and I liked movies -- that's why I wanted to work there -- but I wasn't a movie nerd. That changed quickly.
I adore all kinds of movies from all kinds of genres, and the more that I watch the more I come to love. Anything linked is to their trailers, for the record...and for the further record, the older trailers tend to be vaguely spoiler-y. Proceed with care.
I've got a thing for classic stuff. ("Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", "Rebel Without A Cause", "To Have And Have Not")
I'm developing a taste for noir, both modern and classic. ("Brick", "The Big Sleep", "Laura")
French cinema is starting to appeal to me. ("Paris, je t'aime" which may or may not count, but whatever, "Jeux d'enfants" -- SO. $*%&ING. GOOD -- "A la folie, pas du tout")
Spy-action-y stuff has always been a weakness of mine. (Bond Reboot stuff, and the Bourne movies)
I adore the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"28 Days Later", which I can never seem to define in terms of genre -- because despite what the trailer shows you and what you might think, it's more than just a zombie movie -- blows my mind every time.
I could continue on and on and one with this, but I won't. I'm going to be such a good girl with the next two...
Music
Guys. Guys, I'm not even going to try here. You know me and my infinite iTunes. If I start this, it will never end.
Books
Betcha thought that this section was going to get the sort of treatment "Music" did, didn't you?
I was an odd child. I was reading by age four, obsessed with a dinosaur encyclopaedia in my school's library by age five, and had fixated on "Macbeth" at age eleven. When I was twelve, my teacher dropped a thick-ass, probably not-at-all-age-appropriate short story anthology on my desk with the instructions that I had just been given my new silent reading.
(Best. Teacher. Ever.)
Now I've got a couple pieces of paper on my wall that say I spent five years studying language, story, and how to teach it. I spent those five years working at a bookstore as I studied.
I can really only sum it up as reading is my thing.
Now, to pick out a favourite book would be impossible (though "Alice In Wonderland" comes close, as does Tolkien's writing, and Stephen King's Dark Tower universe). I could honestly list a metric crapton of books here that I have loved and that have meant so much to me. I have been shaped by so many authors and so many works that to try and explain them all would just be a disservice to them all.
The most influential book in my life, however? That's an easier call than you might think.
Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" was the first book to open my eyes to fantasy/science-fiction and to kick open the door to other worlds. It was a gift from my biological dad's girlfriend when I was about nine or ten, and the first book I ever wore out from repeated readings.
I am by no means discounting my love for Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, or King, or anyone/thing here. I still love them all, and they mean a whole hell of a lot to me. It's just that If I hadn't spent time with Meg Murry on Uriel and Camazotz, there's no way I would never have found my way elsewhere. Not to Middle Earth, not to Mid-World/In-World/Out-World, and not even Wonderland.
So. What are a few of YOUR favourite things, ladies and dudes?
It's better than cranking the Backstreet Boys and dancing like a maniac shut up I am on a kick this week and I don't know why and YES I am aware I just lost any and all music cred I've ever earned.
Though, really, who am I kidding? Once I'm finished this, I'll be doing that anyhow.
CUTS ARE FOR THE WEAK ETC. ETC.
Coffee
Because this one is such a shocker, amirite?
I can actually pinpoint when I started drinking coffee regularly. It was the summer after my first year of University. A Saturday morning, actually. Mum was sitting at the kitchen table flipping through the paper as she drank her coffee. I'd trundled up from bed, and for the first time, I poured myself a cup. This went without mention or notice, and from that point forward coffee was part of my morning ritual.
Let's get a little more specific though. One of the best places I've had the privilege of enjoying a cuppa is Seattle Coffee Works. Whenever I'm in Seattle (which is generally for the Emerald City Comic Con, though I occasionally go other times as well), I like to go there for breakfast. The food's alright, but the coffee is to frigging DIE for. I always pick up a bag of the Obama Blend too. It is, no word of a lie, one of the smoothest coffees I've ever tasted.
I've considered ordering bags of it to my doorstep regularly, but I figure it's best to keep it as a treat.
Film
I had never been much of a movie nerd before I started working at a theatre. I was a fan of cinema, and I liked movies -- that's why I wanted to work there -- but I wasn't a movie nerd. That changed quickly.
I adore all kinds of movies from all kinds of genres, and the more that I watch the more I come to love. Anything linked is to their trailers, for the record...and for the further record, the older trailers tend to be vaguely spoiler-y. Proceed with care.
I've got a thing for classic stuff. ("Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", "Rebel Without A Cause", "To Have And Have Not")
I'm developing a taste for noir, both modern and classic. ("Brick", "The Big Sleep", "Laura")
French cinema is starting to appeal to me. ("Paris, je t'aime" which may or may not count, but whatever, "Jeux d'enfants" -- SO. $*%&ING. GOOD -- "A la folie, pas du tout")
Spy-action-y stuff has always been a weakness of mine. (Bond Reboot stuff, and the Bourne movies)
I adore the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"28 Days Later", which I can never seem to define in terms of genre -- because despite what the trailer shows you and what you might think, it's more than just a zombie movie -- blows my mind every time.
I could continue on and on and one with this, but I won't. I'm going to be such a good girl with the next two...
Music
Guys. Guys, I'm not even going to try here. You know me and my infinite iTunes. If I start this, it will never end.
Books
Betcha thought that this section was going to get the sort of treatment "Music" did, didn't you?
I was an odd child. I was reading by age four, obsessed with a dinosaur encyclopaedia in my school's library by age five, and had fixated on "Macbeth" at age eleven. When I was twelve, my teacher dropped a thick-ass, probably not-at-all-age-appropriate short story anthology on my desk with the instructions that I had just been given my new silent reading.
(Best. Teacher. Ever.)
Now I've got a couple pieces of paper on my wall that say I spent five years studying language, story, and how to teach it. I spent those five years working at a bookstore as I studied.
I can really only sum it up as reading is my thing.
Now, to pick out a favourite book would be impossible (though "Alice In Wonderland" comes close, as does Tolkien's writing, and Stephen King's Dark Tower universe). I could honestly list a metric crapton of books here that I have loved and that have meant so much to me. I have been shaped by so many authors and so many works that to try and explain them all would just be a disservice to them all.
The most influential book in my life, however? That's an easier call than you might think.
Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" was the first book to open my eyes to fantasy/science-fiction and to kick open the door to other worlds. It was a gift from my biological dad's girlfriend when I was about nine or ten, and the first book I ever wore out from repeated readings.
I am by no means discounting my love for Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, or King, or anyone/thing here. I still love them all, and they mean a whole hell of a lot to me. It's just that If I hadn't spent time with Meg Murry on Uriel and Camazotz, there's no way I would never have found my way elsewhere. Not to Middle Earth, not to Mid-World/In-World/Out-World, and not even Wonderland.
So. What are a few of YOUR favourite things, ladies and dudes?