Favorites

I enjoyed Leigh-Ann’s post over on frecklednest.com so I thought I’d join in on the fun. It reminds me of the MySpace days where people wold post bulletins like these! Remember the bulletin board? That’s what it was called, right?

Anyway onward to the Q&A on a few of my favorite things!

• 1. Favorite Hobby?

I know you don’t think it’s a hobby, but if you knew me you’d know I certainly treat it like one. Good Lord do I love napping.

• 2.Favorite TV Show?

Oh how I love this show. I started watching about three years ago and just this past year it’s finally started playing on Adult Swim!

• 3. Favorite Restaurant Food?

I know you don’t approve, but I am enamored with Taco Bell. It’s vegetarian friendly, cheap, serves Mountain Dew and is DELICIOUS. Our love runs deep.

• 4. Favorite Thing to Shop For?

Books. I love book stores and flipping through books and reading the backs. I love books really. Reading is one of my favorite things to do. These lovely books pictured are Penguin Classics, Waterstone’s Hardback Set. To see more of them check out this flickr.

• 5. Favorite Animal?

Dogs. Aren’t they fantastic? I don’t think you could ask for a better creature.

• 6. Favorite song?

I know it boggles people, but this song has been my favorite for about four years. I can’t explain it, I love a lot of songs but I just like the way this song makes me feel. I could only find the live version to embed, but it’s still nice. Definitely give the album version a listen if you can.

• 7. Favorite Word?

I really enjoy fun and odd words so I think it depends on when you ask me this question. As of right this moment my favorite is kerfuffle! It’s a good one, no? I can’t recommend enough the book “L is for Lollygag,” it has a bunch of fun, weird words and their definitions and the most divine illustrations, as you can see just from the cover!

• 8. Recent favorite YouTube video?

I find this hilarious. Kamelåså!

• 9. Favorite Movie?

• 10. Favorite Childhood Memory?

I love that my mom let me use pink spray on hair dye, paint my face like a cat and wear my ballet leotard when I was five. I’m sure this memory is partially so strong just because I have photographic evidence, but yeah, it was a good day.

I also like when my mom told my first grade teacher that I had a dentist appointment and really just took me and my brother to see “Muppet Treasure Island.” My parents are pretty cool.

• WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITES? TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS!

True Blood: You Slay Me

Picture courtesy of HBO

Dear “True Blood,”

I like you. I do. But sometimes you irk me, I mean Bill isn’t very likable or attractive (and for being the romantic male lead that seems like a bad thing), Bill and Sookie breakup and get back together frequently and rather inexplicably and I hate how EVERY MAN is in love with Sookie.

Why do so many shows make their leads the most sexually sought after person in the whole country? Example: David Duchovny’s character on “Californication,” Mary Louis Parker’s character on “Weeds,” Courtney Cox Arquette’s character on “Cougar Town,” and surely other shows I can’t think of right now.

That’s not relatable for the vast majority of us (and for those it is relatable for: those of us who aren’t wooing you hate you) and it’s a cheap way to heighten drama. Also, come on! Mary Louise is pretty, but she’s not that pretty! In fact, she normally has a weird psychotic twinkling in her eye that I think is very off-putting.

Really guys, this is who you all want? Don't look at me like that Mary!

But back to True Blood, despite these flaws (including a far too long story line involving the bull headed lady in season two and so much sleazy and gratuitous nudity I feel bad for the actors), I like you. I like you so much I can’t live by this prolonged TV timeline of waiting practically a year between seasons. Sure, sure, quality television takes time to make, but I can’t live that way.

So I bought a boxed set of the book series the show is based on. And now I regret it.

Picture courtesy of Amazon.com

The writing is horrible. I find it hard to believe people can overlook this. Listen, I’m no expert on literature (or really anything actually), but this is bad. Many times throughout reading the first book I cringed at the way Charlaine Harris writes.

Really, this is the format that made the series popular? With the “Twilight” series there was something strangely engaging about them that distracted you from the poor and repetitive writing and sex scenes didn’t make me go, “Ewwwwwwwwww.” Actually, there weren’t any sex scenes in the “Twilight” series were there? Meyer was kind of a jerk and skipped over that and then just wrote the most horrific birthing scene ever.

This is Charlaine Harris. Does anyone else find it weird that both "sexy vampire" series were written by dowdy middle-aged women? (Click for Source)

Whatever faults you may have “True Blood,” at least I can commend you on actually elevating the quality of storytelling in the transition from books to TV by a million. I salute you TV writers, you took some pretty tepid crap and turned it into something awesome. And you gave America Alexander Skarsgard, who’s a total babe. Thanks for that.

True Hottie (yaaay puns!) (Click for Source)

I’m still going to finish the books though (as long as I can stomach them), my impatience simply outweighs my taste barometer.