30 Days, Day 2
Because this one is easy, the post is really long. Go figure.
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
I was working on a film studies specialization for awhile there in college. (And by awhile, I mean my junior year, before I got super lazy and decided that writing an honors thesis about movies was a waste of time for someone trying to find a career in the anemic news industry and I had probably better concentrate on that if I ever wanted a job...plus I decided to focus on design and wanted to take art classes instead. Also I'm a flake.)
Anyway, as a result, I saw a lot of very, very good movies (as well as Good Movies, the ones that everyone says are good). Some of them I adored, like "Casablanca," some of them were really weird and therefore fascinating, like The Pillow Book, and some of them, I'd pretty much rather throw myself off a bridge than watch ever again. (In my intro class, we watched this Irish movie about a garbage strike? And kids throwing themselves into garbage choked canals to kill themselves? Yeah, I didn't enjoy that one at all. It was awful.)
But my favorite movie would probably make my film professors fail me on sight, because it's hardly award-winning stuff that makes you think (or depresses you to the point of making you want to throw yourself off a bridge).
Because it's Love Actually. I'm on my second DVD, because I lent the first one out and it got lost, and I literally could not live without having a copy of it. (And I still stop flipping channels every time the edited-to-be-appropriate version is on Lifetime. True story.)
I watch this movie at least once every Christmas, and if Christmas is All Around is not part of your Christmas playlist, you're totally missing out. I watch this movie when I am sad or stressed or angry. (You can gauge how depressed I am by whether or not the voiceover at the beginning makes me cry, and if I'm watching it wrapped up in my yellow blanket, it means I've had a really. bad. day.) I had to skate a program for my ice skating final freshman year, I used the Prime Minister's Theme from Love Actually. Evora/Ladwig are using Love Actually for their short program this year and even though they kind of fell all over the place the first time I saw them skate it, I still cried. Kate threw my bachelorette party...it was Love Actually themed (and yup, we watched it).
I made the cellist at our wedding learn the Portuguese Love Theme so I could walk down the aisle to it.
Love Actually makes me happy. In fact, if today wasn't packed full of skating to watch, I'd watch it right now.
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
I was working on a film studies specialization for awhile there in college. (And by awhile, I mean my junior year, before I got super lazy and decided that writing an honors thesis about movies was a waste of time for someone trying to find a career in the anemic news industry and I had probably better concentrate on that if I ever wanted a job...plus I decided to focus on design and wanted to take art classes instead. Also I'm a flake.)
Anyway, as a result, I saw a lot of very, very good movies (as well as Good Movies, the ones that everyone says are good). Some of them I adored, like "Casablanca," some of them were really weird and therefore fascinating, like The Pillow Book, and some of them, I'd pretty much rather throw myself off a bridge than watch ever again. (In my intro class, we watched this Irish movie about a garbage strike? And kids throwing themselves into garbage choked canals to kill themselves? Yeah, I didn't enjoy that one at all. It was awful.)
But my favorite movie would probably make my film professors fail me on sight, because it's hardly award-winning stuff that makes you think (or depresses you to the point of making you want to throw yourself off a bridge).
Because it's Love Actually. I'm on my second DVD, because I lent the first one out and it got lost, and I literally could not live without having a copy of it. (And I still stop flipping channels every time the edited-to-be-appropriate version is on Lifetime. True story.)
I watch this movie at least once every Christmas, and if Christmas is All Around is not part of your Christmas playlist, you're totally missing out. I watch this movie when I am sad or stressed or angry. (You can gauge how depressed I am by whether or not the voiceover at the beginning makes me cry, and if I'm watching it wrapped up in my yellow blanket, it means I've had a really. bad. day.) I had to skate a program for my ice skating final freshman year, I used the Prime Minister's Theme from Love Actually. Evora/Ladwig are using Love Actually for their short program this year and even though they kind of fell all over the place the first time I saw them skate it, I still cried. Kate threw my bachelorette party...it was Love Actually themed (and yup, we watched it).
I made the cellist at our wedding learn the Portuguese Love Theme so I could walk down the aisle to it.
Love Actually makes me happy. In fact, if today wasn't packed full of skating to watch, I'd watch it right now.
Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy