Thursday, November 25, 2010

(#41) It's true that we love one another...

This just about sums up my relationship with my brother.

Monday, November 22, 2010

(#40) [A Few (More) of] My Favorite Things



Puppies.

Nicki Minaj. Don't judge me.

The Band.

Bangles.

The Who.

My Slanket. Yes, I am Liz Lemon.

White cheddar popcorn.

Cute boys/JGL.

Meteor showers.

Books.

Kate Nash and her ability to write songs about my life.

Smmertime (which means beaches).

Kelly Kapoor.

Disney World.

Best franns.

Boys with dark curly hair (no thanks on the cigarette, though).

Gerber daisies.

Bill Hader.

T-Fey/Liz Lemon.

Red lipstick and other fun makeup.

What makes you happy?

Friday, November 19, 2010

(#39) Things We Said Today

"Send me dead flowers to my wedding,
and I won't forget to put roses on your grave"
-The Rolling Stones

"Your debutante just knows what you need,
but I know what you want"
- Bob Dylan

"Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity."
-Tina Fey

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"The sunshine bores the daylights out of me"
-The Rolling Stones

"Good times don't last long sometimes. "
- Levon Helm

"And in the end,
the love you take is equal to the love you make"

-The Beatles

"You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow,
rather lay awake in your bed full of sorrows."

-Kid Cudi

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
-Alaska Young via Looking For Alaska by John Green

"My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking."
-Amy Winehouse

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

(#38) All I want for Christmas...

One of my new favorite websites. You can basically add anything from anywhere online to a nice, condensed, in-one-place wishlist.

This is mine:

http://www.wanelo.com/index.action?contentaction=listcollectiondetails&id=12524&userId=1907

Check it out, I promise you'll love it. Or at least like it.

(#37) Climb the fence, books and pens...

So I'm obviously not posting once a day...or week, even.

I love books. Love love love love love them. I literally cannot remember a time in my life before I could read, and I feel like books have really shaped who I am, especially these -









Saturday, October 30, 2010

(#36) Feeding time with TV

I love television a bit too much. I tried to narrow my favorite shows down to three and couldn't quite make that.

1. Arrested Development

By far and away the cleverest show ever shown on television. Such a travesty that the wonderfully dysfunctional Bluth family only lasted three seasons. If you've never seen this show, do yourself a favor and rent it. I promise you will fall in love after three episodes.


2. 30 Rock
I love love love this show. Written from a backstage perspective of a weekly sketch comedy show a la SNL, it's magnificently fast-paced and hilarious. A worthy successor to AD's title of Funniest Show on Television.


3. Mad Men
Y'all know I love me some Mad Men.


4. Parks and Recreation
As The Office started declining in quality, Parks and Rec did the opposite. Such a funny mockumentary about the travails of life in small government - I realize that sentence sounds a bit ridiculous, but trust me.

Friday, October 29, 2010

(#35) Act Naturally


I have two favorite movies, and they're a bit disparate.

1) Jaws (1975)
I can't say anything about this film that hasn't been said by thousands of people for over thirty years, but I will say that I love that this movie is so much more than a big shark. There's so much human emotion - love and hate and humor - at the heart of it. My two favorite scenes are the one with Brody and his son at the dinner table and of course Quint's famous Indianapolis speech.
Masterful.

2) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
So funny. So well-written. So quintessentially '80s. SO GOOD.