Potterhead
Holla! 4 months from today comes the end of the Harry Potter experience... well, at least the end of my favorite part of the Harry Potter experience, which is guessing what the next book will unveil... BUT since Deathly Hallows is the last of the Potterverse, I'm soon to be in the market for a new obsession.
If you don't know me well enough, you may think "isn't obsessive a strong word?"
Folks...
my license plate: "BLUDGER"
my current hobby: Flash programming for leakynews.com
my current arts/crafts project: a golf-ball car decal painted gold with wings attached to look like a snitch
where i spend half my day: leakylounge.com
the last book I read: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
the last t-shirt I wore to bed: "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good"
the last thing I wrote: a fanfic about Felix Felicis
the last thing I listened to on iTunes: Pottercast
Which, by the way, I'd like to show the latest and greatest creation for the blog challenge:
So yes, obsessive is a strong word... strong, yet completely true.
I've been telling everyone at the design agency I work for that I'm going to be instituting a "Potter Week" in July. I'll put paperback versions of the books in the lounge, make desktop backgrounds for everyone to use for that week, the soundtrack playing in the bathroom, and instead of the bathrooms saying "Men" and "Women" they'll say "Wizards" and "Witches," and I'll replace our Friday Beer Cart with a Butterbeer Cart.
But then, after that...
*sigh*
Sometimes, in the middle of a movie (any movie), I'll be at the edge of my seat, and I'll realize how involved with the story I've gotten. "This will be the only time," I think to myself, "that I won't know the end of this movie, because after this, I'm going to know what's coming and I'll never be able to experience it for the first time again." Yes, I actually think those kinds of things.
These are the last four months of not knowing. These are the last weeks of speculating and re-reading, looking for clues...
That's why I want my TME machine... Temporary Memory Erasure machine. If I wanted to watch a movie, I'd turn on my TME machine and I'd forget I ever saw that movie, and be able to watch it again for the first time. Once I was done, I'd turn the TME back off, and my original memory would return. I'd do it with Harry Potter. I wonder if every "first" experience would be the same? Would there be a time that I figure out one of the HP mysteries on my own? Would there be a time where I read it for the first time and didn't like it?
I doubt I'd have much of a life apart from re-living all my favorite movies and books over and over again if the TME was ever invented.
I will soon be in the market for a new obsession! What will I throw myself into wholeheartedly next? The truth is, it could be anything. It'll most likely be a movie or a book, since that is the pattern of my obsessive personality. The Ender's Game saga was close to replacing Harry back in the summer when I discovered that it was a series and not just one book. I liked Ender's story, but Bean's story is equally, if not more, enthralling.
What does this say about me? Harry Potter... Ender... Bean... Anakin Skywalker... I seem to connect well with young boys who have little control over their own lives, I suppose?
Truth is, there's no way of knowing what's next. Something sweet may be coming out then, and I will attach myself to it like one of those sucker-fish to the side of a dirty aquarium.
If you don't know me well enough, you may think "isn't obsessive a strong word?"
Folks...
my license plate: "BLUDGER"
my current hobby: Flash programming for leakynews.com
my current arts/crafts project: a golf-ball car decal painted gold with wings attached to look like a snitch
where i spend half my day: leakylounge.com
the last book I read: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
the last t-shirt I wore to bed: "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good"
the last thing I wrote: a fanfic about Felix Felicis
the last thing I listened to on iTunes: Pottercast
Which, by the way, I'd like to show the latest and greatest creation for the blog challenge:
So yes, obsessive is a strong word... strong, yet completely true.
I've been telling everyone at the design agency I work for that I'm going to be instituting a "Potter Week" in July. I'll put paperback versions of the books in the lounge, make desktop backgrounds for everyone to use for that week, the soundtrack playing in the bathroom, and instead of the bathrooms saying "Men" and "Women" they'll say "Wizards" and "Witches," and I'll replace our Friday Beer Cart with a Butterbeer Cart.
But then, after that...
*sigh*
Sometimes, in the middle of a movie (any movie), I'll be at the edge of my seat, and I'll realize how involved with the story I've gotten. "This will be the only time," I think to myself, "that I won't know the end of this movie, because after this, I'm going to know what's coming and I'll never be able to experience it for the first time again." Yes, I actually think those kinds of things.
These are the last four months of not knowing. These are the last weeks of speculating and re-reading, looking for clues...
That's why I want my TME machine... Temporary Memory Erasure machine. If I wanted to watch a movie, I'd turn on my TME machine and I'd forget I ever saw that movie, and be able to watch it again for the first time. Once I was done, I'd turn the TME back off, and my original memory would return. I'd do it with Harry Potter. I wonder if every "first" experience would be the same? Would there be a time that I figure out one of the HP mysteries on my own? Would there be a time where I read it for the first time and didn't like it?
I doubt I'd have much of a life apart from re-living all my favorite movies and books over and over again if the TME was ever invented.
I will soon be in the market for a new obsession! What will I throw myself into wholeheartedly next? The truth is, it could be anything. It'll most likely be a movie or a book, since that is the pattern of my obsessive personality. The Ender's Game saga was close to replacing Harry back in the summer when I discovered that it was a series and not just one book. I liked Ender's story, but Bean's story is equally, if not more, enthralling.
What does this say about me? Harry Potter... Ender... Bean... Anakin Skywalker... I seem to connect well with young boys who have little control over their own lives, I suppose?
Truth is, there's no way of knowing what's next. Something sweet may be coming out then, and I will attach myself to it like one of those sucker-fish to the side of a dirty aquarium.