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shadowkatThe spontaneous, off the cuff, culture junkie meme...or create your own meme:
1. Favorite Television Series Currently Airing
The Good Wife - it's the one I look forward to. Witty dialogue. Makes me laugh out loud - more than most situational comedies actually. And I love the characters.
Smartly written, acted and directed - with just the right amount of satire. Often tv shows that are satirical go too far or get too obvious, The Good Wife tends to trust its audience.
2. Favorite genre?
Don't really have one. I like all genres and tend to jump around as the mood strikes me. Right now, I've binging on the romance genre, with occasional side-tracks in fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, and literary. Because I like all genres, I'm rather bewildered by folks who don't. My mother for example is not fond of horror and rarely reads it. I don't know why. And my grandmother - who was rather interesting, disliked horror, fantasy and romance genres. She preferred mystery and suspense. Read a book a day, literally, I am not exaggerating. But what was weird about all this - is unlike most people I've met who tell me they don't like the romance genre, my Granny read a lot of romance novels. I found out she didn't like them when I was binging on mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels in my mid-twenties. During this period, I despised romance novels and avoided them like the plague - having burnt out on the genre in my teens. I go through phases. She wanted to borrow my books after I finished reading them.
ME: I thought you liked romance novels?
Granny: No.
Me: But you read a lot of them.
Granny: Well, they are there and there isn't anything else available.
Me: But your daughters all think you love them. That's why they supply you with their novels after they finish reading them. Why don't you tell them you don't like them?
Granny: I don't want to hurt their feelings.
Me: But if you told them what you liked - they'd bring the other books..
I asked her why she didn't like romance novels - and she didn't appear to know. She just didn't. Which seems to be the case - or so I've discovered - when people tell you they don't like something - they have no clue why.
3. Favorite TV Show of All Time?
Buffy
I honestly couldn't tell you why. Oh I've wrote lengthy posts listing various reasons.
But I think that series just resonated with me on a deep level, which you either get or you don't. Even amongst fellow fans...this isn't always easy to explain. Because lets' face it people like things for different reasons, just as they watch or read for different reasons. For me, I think Buffy hit a lot of my story kinks rather hard.
It also played around with the narrative form, and it was under the wire, few people seemed to know about it - so it managed to skirt paint-by-numbers or mainstream tv traps, which are common with more popular or known series. Popularity, or so I've discovered, can often destroy a perfectly good television series.
The other reason, I think I liked it, was the male characters were more often than not the damsels in distress, while the female characters were the heroes. Nice gender flip. And that wasn't the only gender flip - in many respects, the female characters in that series took on traditional male roles in the story tropes. And, they were allowed to remain feminine, girly. The writer took a trope that was traditionally male and at times quite chauvinistic - and turned it around. He also commented heavily on the genre and the tropes - creating the first meta series. Prior to Buffy, meta episodes were rarely done, and none quite as well. Supernatural tries - but it lacks the subtlety that Buffy maintained. I don't know, Buffy just worked for me, in ways a lot of series haven't before or since.
4. Favorite Song?
I can't choose just one. More like songs, plural. I have over 3,000 on my ipod and in the cloud. Over 300 albums. And at least 2000 artists - lots of compilations. And I love pretty much all music, with few exceptions - don't like the extremes in sound.
Anything too high pitched, annoys. Not a fan of church organ music, rap, opera, and a lot of choral music. I like lyrics, rythm, something with a beat, a sense of movement, and lift.
Love Jazz. Also adore Broadway Show tunes. Opera? I can't understand the lyrics...and it sounds like a lot of ooohing and ahhhhing. So never really learned to appreciate it. My parents adore it. My mother tells me it is an acquired taste. And I've admittedly not seen any good operas performed. The best opera that I've seen was a high school production of Carmen. Have met a few professional opera singers here and there. One guy I went to law school with - had trained to be an opera singer. Also, I've listened to and seen every opera by Gilbert and Sullivan - took a class on it in undergrad.
Also love folk music, acoustics, singer-songwriter, and classic rock.
5. Favorite comfort food?
Apparently chocolate, which is the one food I can't quite give up. I've given up dairy, cheese (doesn't digest well), wheat, rye, barley, grains, potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes (well for the most part), fruit juices, ciders, alcohol, but when it comes to chocolate...
And I like to bake home-made chocolate chip cookies...damn it.
6. Favorite curse word?
Fuck. It's multi-purpose and equal opportunity.
7. Favorite male characters?
* Spike
* John Crichton (Farscape)
* Hawkeye Pierce (MASH)
* Sherlock Holmes
* Doctor Who
* Remington Steele
* Apollo
* Mark (from Battle of the Planets)
* Davey Jones from the Monkeeys
8. Favorite Female Television Characters?
* Aeryn Sun
* Buffy
* Willow
* Veronica Mars
* Xenia
* Alicia Florick
* Diane Lockhardt
* Emma Swan
* Cristina Yang
9. Favorite television show soundtracks?
Buffy and Supernatural
For some reason those two series have the best sound or song-tracks. No clue why.
I keep meaning to get Supernatural's song-track. I've hunted done individual songs from it.
Others? Nashville, and I've admittedly downloaded songs from Glee and SMASH. But no one came close to Buffy as best song-track. That show also featured a lot of live bands playing their cover songs.
Here's a rundown of my favorites from these series:
* The Lucky Ones - Biz Naked (Buffy)
* Key by the Devices (Buffy)
* Transvelvania Concubine by Rapunzel (Buffy)
* Virgin State of Mind (Buffy)
* Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas (Supernatural)
* Side Show (Nashville)
* Black Roses (Nashville)
* Dreams (Nashville)
* Crazy Dreams (SMASH)
* Red Neck Woman (SMASH)
* Rest in Peace by Joss Whedon (Buffy)
* Walk Through Fire by Joss Whedon (Buffy)
* Blue by Joss Whedon (Buffy)
1. Favorite Television Series Currently Airing
The Good Wife - it's the one I look forward to. Witty dialogue. Makes me laugh out loud - more than most situational comedies actually. And I love the characters.
Smartly written, acted and directed - with just the right amount of satire. Often tv shows that are satirical go too far or get too obvious, The Good Wife tends to trust its audience.
2. Favorite genre?
Don't really have one. I like all genres and tend to jump around as the mood strikes me. Right now, I've binging on the romance genre, with occasional side-tracks in fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, and literary. Because I like all genres, I'm rather bewildered by folks who don't. My mother for example is not fond of horror and rarely reads it. I don't know why. And my grandmother - who was rather interesting, disliked horror, fantasy and romance genres. She preferred mystery and suspense. Read a book a day, literally, I am not exaggerating. But what was weird about all this - is unlike most people I've met who tell me they don't like the romance genre, my Granny read a lot of romance novels. I found out she didn't like them when I was binging on mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels in my mid-twenties. During this period, I despised romance novels and avoided them like the plague - having burnt out on the genre in my teens. I go through phases. She wanted to borrow my books after I finished reading them.
ME: I thought you liked romance novels?
Granny: No.
Me: But you read a lot of them.
Granny: Well, they are there and there isn't anything else available.
Me: But your daughters all think you love them. That's why they supply you with their novels after they finish reading them. Why don't you tell them you don't like them?
Granny: I don't want to hurt their feelings.
Me: But if you told them what you liked - they'd bring the other books..
I asked her why she didn't like romance novels - and she didn't appear to know. She just didn't. Which seems to be the case - or so I've discovered - when people tell you they don't like something - they have no clue why.
3. Favorite TV Show of All Time?
Buffy
I honestly couldn't tell you why. Oh I've wrote lengthy posts listing various reasons.
But I think that series just resonated with me on a deep level, which you either get or you don't. Even amongst fellow fans...this isn't always easy to explain. Because lets' face it people like things for different reasons, just as they watch or read for different reasons. For me, I think Buffy hit a lot of my story kinks rather hard.
It also played around with the narrative form, and it was under the wire, few people seemed to know about it - so it managed to skirt paint-by-numbers or mainstream tv traps, which are common with more popular or known series. Popularity, or so I've discovered, can often destroy a perfectly good television series.
The other reason, I think I liked it, was the male characters were more often than not the damsels in distress, while the female characters were the heroes. Nice gender flip. And that wasn't the only gender flip - in many respects, the female characters in that series took on traditional male roles in the story tropes. And, they were allowed to remain feminine, girly. The writer took a trope that was traditionally male and at times quite chauvinistic - and turned it around. He also commented heavily on the genre and the tropes - creating the first meta series. Prior to Buffy, meta episodes were rarely done, and none quite as well. Supernatural tries - but it lacks the subtlety that Buffy maintained. I don't know, Buffy just worked for me, in ways a lot of series haven't before or since.
4. Favorite Song?
I can't choose just one. More like songs, plural. I have over 3,000 on my ipod and in the cloud. Over 300 albums. And at least 2000 artists - lots of compilations. And I love pretty much all music, with few exceptions - don't like the extremes in sound.
Anything too high pitched, annoys. Not a fan of church organ music, rap, opera, and a lot of choral music. I like lyrics, rythm, something with a beat, a sense of movement, and lift.
Love Jazz. Also adore Broadway Show tunes. Opera? I can't understand the lyrics...and it sounds like a lot of ooohing and ahhhhing. So never really learned to appreciate it. My parents adore it. My mother tells me it is an acquired taste. And I've admittedly not seen any good operas performed. The best opera that I've seen was a high school production of Carmen. Have met a few professional opera singers here and there. One guy I went to law school with - had trained to be an opera singer. Also, I've listened to and seen every opera by Gilbert and Sullivan - took a class on it in undergrad.
Also love folk music, acoustics, singer-songwriter, and classic rock.
5. Favorite comfort food?
Apparently chocolate, which is the one food I can't quite give up. I've given up dairy, cheese (doesn't digest well), wheat, rye, barley, grains, potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes (well for the most part), fruit juices, ciders, alcohol, but when it comes to chocolate...
And I like to bake home-made chocolate chip cookies...damn it.
6. Favorite curse word?
Fuck. It's multi-purpose and equal opportunity.
7. Favorite male characters?
* Spike
* John Crichton (Farscape)
* Hawkeye Pierce (MASH)
* Sherlock Holmes
* Doctor Who
* Remington Steele
* Apollo
* Mark (from Battle of the Planets)
* Davey Jones from the Monkeeys
8. Favorite Female Television Characters?
* Aeryn Sun
* Buffy
* Willow
* Veronica Mars
* Xenia
* Alicia Florick
* Diane Lockhardt
* Emma Swan
* Cristina Yang
9. Favorite television show soundtracks?
Buffy and Supernatural
For some reason those two series have the best sound or song-tracks. No clue why.
I keep meaning to get Supernatural's song-track. I've hunted done individual songs from it.
Others? Nashville, and I've admittedly downloaded songs from Glee and SMASH. But no one came close to Buffy as best song-track. That show also featured a lot of live bands playing their cover songs.
Here's a rundown of my favorites from these series:
* The Lucky Ones - Biz Naked (Buffy)
* Key by the Devices (Buffy)
* Transvelvania Concubine by Rapunzel (Buffy)
* Virgin State of Mind (Buffy)
* Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas (Supernatural)
* Side Show (Nashville)
* Black Roses (Nashville)
* Dreams (Nashville)
* Crazy Dreams (SMASH)
* Red Neck Woman (SMASH)
* Rest in Peace by Joss Whedon (Buffy)
* Walk Through Fire by Joss Whedon (Buffy)
* Blue by Joss Whedon (Buffy)