It's meeting the man of my dreams / then meeting his beautiful wife

[fbajet]

I was going through some old boxes that we had kept in storage, and it was like going through a time capsule of my middle and high school years.  The most amusing discovery?  My stash of old CDs, since the late 90s/early 2000s were still the pre-iPod era.  I found:

• Alanis Morisette, Jagged Little Pill
• Foo Fighters, There's Nothing Left to Lose
• Vanessa

Comments

[vertigo3l]

I loved Jagged Little Pill. It was the first CD I ever owned!

[fbajet]

I'm rediscovering it now! Unfortunately my computer is down so I cannot update my iPod...I feel like the only one still listening to a discman :P

[aurillia]

I can't really remember me at 13, let alone what music I listened to! I know I had pretty poor taste though ;) At least I hated New Kids On The Block! (yeah showing my age now I know!)

I picked up the Entertainment Weekly mag, the one with Edward on the cover, but I don't really know why. I read the article but there's really nothing in that magazine to warrant spending, what, $6 on it?

I find the image of him and Bella from the big group shot incredibly disturbing. It's a horrible photo, they all look terrible. He looks really off and not at all attractive! Do you know the one I mean? Chapters has a big cardboard cut-out of it next to the display of the books and it gives me the willies.

Oh Faramir is so sweet! Reading that quote I wanted to shout "Yes, I love you Faramir!!" *sigh* That's a great speech/declaration. Thanks for posting it :)

[fbajet]

Regarding Edward and Bella's look, I read somewhere that the marketers were going for a sexy yet dangerous vampire look. I think all they got across was creepy. :\

Awesome, another Faramir fan! He's one of my all time favorite characters, and I was sort of crushed when he didn't get more of a spotlight in the last LOTR movie. So, I re-read quotes like these to remind me of his awesomeness :P

[aurillia]

Creepy, definitely! It's not sexy at all! (If that's what they think "smouldering" looks like I'd be very surprised if they've ever been laid!)

Faramir's a sweetie :)

[fbajet]

That's crap! SW, LOTR, Dune, Star Trek, any scifi/fantasy fans should be up in arms.

I'll be even madder if this woman got her PhD or something official off of this premise.

[_xehra]

Dammit, I have lost my Moulin Rouge soundtrack! I have #2, but not the original! I lost so many CDs while moving house. *sigh*
Man, 'Rush of Blood to the Head' makes me want to slit my wrists after a while of listening :p Thank god X&Y came along is all I can say.
Re: Twilight - I just don't get it. At all. I think I am too old!

[fbajet]

That’s probably a blessing that you haven’t been sucked into the Twilight vortex. I was for about 2 months, but then it’s as if I snapped out of it. It’s just awesome to poke fun at, which is why I’ll be watching the movie. =P

[_xehra]

Ok then, so maybe you can explain it to me! I came back to the interwebs a few weeks ago and it was just THERE. What is this fandom? Was it a book/s and now a movie?

[fbajet]

Oh boy. How can I give a 30 second drive-by account of Twilight?

Twilight is a wildly popular book series among tweens, teens, their moms, and curious scifi/fantasy fans who end up rather offended that the author, Stephenie Meyer, is touted as the next JK Rowling. The first book centers on the impossible love affair between Bella Swan, a hormone-addled 17 year old willing to die for her love, and Edward Cullen, a vampire who is so breathtakingly beautiful that he SPARKLES . (That’s also the kind of writing style Meyer painfully uses-I kid you not.) The next 900 pages of the saga basically go back and forth between his undying love for her and his impulse to devour her; or the life-threatening situations Bella wanders into because the girl is hopeless. Not to make things too boring, though, Meyer does add a juicy love triangle later on, and hot damn, I’d take the third guy any day. However, I digress