Once more, with feeling

mood: creative

music: That's How Strong My Love Is - Otis Redding

As much as I love blogging, I have to admit, we’re kind of going through rough patch right now. When I was away, I completely neglected the blog (as you can see by the huge – well, at least huge for me – gaps between entries) and I’ve been having a trouble getting back into the swing of things now that I’m back. I feel horrible but with school coming up again and my work schedule coming back into the picture, I know I’m going to have to work to set aside time to nurse my seriously mistreated blog. After some reflection, I’ve decided that maybe I just need to change things around a bit so that I can get out some of my random obsessive thoughts in a shorter and more concise form.

I have always been a big fan of EW’s weekly “Must Lists” with their random insights into both the obvious and the overlooked fixtures in pop cultures. In the spirit of one of my favourite parts of my favourite magazine, I’ve decided to start my own. I don’t know that I’ll be able to just write one a week, but I’m going to try it out and see how it goes.  Knowing me, I’ll probably do this AND a few other long winded posts throughout the week. Even though I know shouldn’t dedicate so much time to this, I can’t seem to quit this damn thing. It’s almost as addictive as Lily Allen’s new single...Shit! That’s supposed to be on my list! Man, I’m getting off to a horrible start.

THINGS TICKLING MY FANCY PANTALONES AT THIS MOMENT:

-          LILY ALLEN’S NEW SINGLE: “THE FEAR”:

You can put me on a diet of Michael Buble and adult contemporary crooners as long as you don’t starve me of my quirky girl ditties. Okay, that’s a lie. I loathe Buble and co. But I do have a serious appreciation for the witty honest-to-goodness fucking cool girlie singers such as Lily Allen. And Lily’s latest track, “The Fear” is just the ticket to get me in a hopelessly giddy mood usually achieved only through a euphoric cocktail of tea, 70% dark chocolate, Can’t Hardly Wait and some other delectable adolescent cinematic crisis flicks. With lines like, “I am a weapon of mass consumption” and “It doesn’t matter, cause I’m packin’ plastic, and that’s what makes my life so fucking fantastic”, what’s not to play on repeat?!

P.S. - How effin' cute is her outfit dans le video? It's like Twiggy meets Alice in Wonderland!

-          BOY MEETS BOY by David Levithan:

 I read this book on the cruise and my god, was it ever loverly. I’ve been hopelessly devoted to David Levithan’s oh-so-witty-yet-oh-so-heartfelt prose since I fell upon Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (yes, before the movie) and this book just cements what I think will be the literary equivalent of a happy, loyal and long lasting marriage. This man writes how I feel: over analytical and random but somehow, strangely connected. And his characters all weirdly embody some strange long lost trait I never knew I had. Oh and he just happens to use my favourite word (infinite) more frequently then anyone outside the deliciousness that is The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Boy Meets Boy is all Nick and Norah was and more. I mean, the story takes place in a beautifully optimistic world where drag queens are only made fun of when they aren’t feminine enough, high school boys don't have to hid their love for one another and where a bowling quiz team (they answer trivia questions whilst knocking down the pins) is just as popular as the football team. Can you say, amazing? Or rather, sign me up, right now!? Oh yeah, and then there’s that whole boy-on-boy romance thing that I seem to be ridiculously drawn to. In essence, it’s the whole package. He he..I am forever 12. (Further proof of this: I clearly have unhealthy relations with the teen fiction section of Indigo.)

PHOTO: Amazon

-          ADELE:

Vi always told me Adele was wonderful but I never gave the poor girl a chance. But then when I was away, I caught a glimpse of her video for “Chasing Pavements” and I thought to myself, perhaps I ought to give her another chance. And thank Morgan Freeman I did! Her cd , 19, is just flat out fabulous. Although I love pretty much every song on the album, my favourite at the moment has to be her cheeky and soulful track, “Best for Last”. I especially love when she asks, “Do you see my heart on my sleeve? It’s been there for days on end. It’s been waitin’ for you to open up.”  This girl can make the simplest set of sentences seem epic with that humungous voice of hers.

PHOTO: Exclaim.ca

-          THE FACT THAT BEN FOLDS IS COMING TO THE KOOL HAUS

He’s been rockin’ the suburbs of my heart for a long while now and so the idea of seeing him live is pretty much the equivalent of musical bliss.

PHOTO: Boston.com

-          SPIKE AND BUFFY’S STEAMY RELATIONSHIPPAGE ON BUFFY SEASON 6

I used to think Angel was the only vamp who could puncture Buffy’s beasty hating heart but at this moment, I’m kind of loving Spike’s affair with the Slayer. It’s a lot hotter and more dangerous than Buffy and Angel’s relationship was (well, minus that episode of Angel where he gets a soul for a day and he and the Buffster spend the day in bed). I mean, in one scene their passionate throws (I mean this most literally and figuratively) get so intense, the building they’re in collapses. Plus, no matter how bad a guy is, if he has a British accent, eventually I’ll be in love with him. Except Giles. Although the man is terribly cute at times, our love is strictly platonic.

-          NEW YORK TOURISTS

Yes I know, I’m not a New Yorker (yet) but tourists seem to think I am. At one point on my recent trip to Le Big Apple, I was walking by my lonesome around the Times Square area, and all a sudden, two different women stopped me and asked me for directions. While, this could just be because they thought I looked like a knowledgeable tourist with similar interests as them (the first women asked me where Anthropologie was and the other asked me where a food court was), I like to think it was because they thought I was an established inhabitant of everyone’s favourite city. After all, I kind of fit the part. I never sleep. I am constantly on the go and trying to do too much. I love good pizza. And oh yeah, I love the city more than life. I just need to get a terrible addiction to caffeine and I think I’m in!

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