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Comment to this post with the phrase Green is amazing, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
1. If you had to choose, Regular Show or Adventure Time?
You're a monster for making me pick. They're both amazing cartoons and Rigby and Mordecai are basically my spirit animals, but probably Adventure Time. Regular Show is amazing with surprisingly complex characters I want to know more about - but so is Adventure Time! They both have awesome in-show mythologies, but the world building in AT - because we still don't know if Ooo is Earth! Because aside from Marceline and Spoiler, we still don't know anyone who can tell us where all the other humans are! - has me excited for all future episodes of it. Not that I'm not excited for new eps of RS! RS I can watch over and over and over and over and over again and enjoy every time. AT, I spend more time thinking over each episode.
Sidenote: I love that both shows use the usual id-ego structure (Rigby-Mordecai, Jake-Finn) without having the id character be so zany and unrepentant that it becomes annoying. Jake often has to be steered on course by Finn, but they switch out the id role between each other and Jake is basically one of the loveliest characters I've ever seen. Rigby gets a little more annoying, but he's died multiple times and often carries the consequences for his actions. There's a point in Meat Your Maker when he thinks he's killed Mordecai through his actions and that Mordecai died angry at him and there's this moment where he just goes "I can fix this! I can fix this!" and starts talking to Mordecai's body, telling him he'll take care of them both-
hang on am I sad enough to illustrate this with caps and dialogue? YES I AM!
"Mordecai, don't die mad at me!"
"Dude. Leave."
"Mordecai? Mordecai?"
"Oh no. Oh no. [close to tears] I can fix this."
"I can fix this."
"Don't worry Mordecai, I'm gonna take care of us. You'll see."
"How'm I doin'? Huh? Mordecai?"
"[Pretending to be Mordecai and moving his head] Yeah Rigby, you're doing good!"
"[COLLAPSES ONTO A BOX OF CANNIBAL HOT DOGS AND MAKES FRIENDS WITH THEM]"
ugh Rigby gets everything wrong and makes all the bad decisions and he's selfish and stupid and I love him so much. Mari just needs a Mordecai and she and Rigby are basically the same is it any surprise I love Rigby so.
I have so many character feels on Finn (AT), Jake (AT), The Ice King (AT), Marceline (AT) and Benson (RS), Mordecai (RS) and Skips and Pops (RS) too.
BASICALLY BOTH OF THESE SHOWS HAVE THE MOST AMAZING STORIES AND WRITERS but I award AT an extra point for world so objectively RS comes second. In my heart though they are equal.
UGHHHHH I could talk about both of these shows forever.
2. Favorite alcoholic beverage.
I like pink wine and I'm also a fan of whiskey. In the cocktail zone, Woo Woos are good. IRISH COFFEE TOO. I must not betray my roots.
3. What is a relaxing day to you?
Breakfast whenever I want, usually at the sandwich shop. Then a nice walk along the river, then TV with my friends.
4. Favorite book(s).
Norwegian Wood, Never Let Me Go, White Teeth, A Farewell to Arms,To Kill a Mockingbird, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Dubliners, Hard Times, The Bell, the Artemis Fowl/Alex Ryder serieses and like a million others.
5. Favorite songs.
Anything by the Mountain Goats, almost everything by Ingrid Michaelson with special notes to: You and I, The Way I Am, The Chain, Winter Song and Breakable.
Tourist, The Awkward Goodbye, wires and Black Swan Song by Athlete
How to be Dead, Spitting Games, Chocolate and Grazed Knees by Snow Patrol.
Hello Sadness, Death to Los Campesinos!, My Year in Lists, By Your Hand and We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives by Los Campesinos!
Everything by Emmy the Great, with special mention to: Trellick Tower and Absentee.
Florescent Adolescent and Mardy Bum by the Arctic Monkeys
After Hours by the Bluetones
Life on Mars? by David Bowie
Climbing to the Moon, Last Stop This Town, Christmas is going to the Dogs, Dead of Winter and Rock Hard Times by Eels
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
The Captain and the Hourglass, All My Rage, Goodbye England - Laura Marling
Baby Blue Sedan, Modest Mouse
Buildings, Regina Spektor
Matinee Idol - Rufus Wainwright
On Peak Hill and Your Ex-Lover is Dead, Stars.
The Ocean, The Con, Tegan and Sara
A-Punk, Vampire Weekend
Stray Italian Greyhound, Vienna Teng
Now Way Back, 8mm.
6. What would your dream residence look like?
Proooobably somewhere small! A living area would be nice (I've not had one) and so would a large kitchen! A big bedroom with a desk and somewhere to put my books.
7. What's your favorite thing about being a media student?
My homework tonight is to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also that I'm supposed to be on top of the latest trends in TV and social media so watching TV all the time is just me being a responsible student. It's also really interesting.
I guess I also love writing the essays. There's something incredibly refreshing about being able to turn to things as different as Tumblr and JSTOR, music and image to complete a piece of writing. A lot of the time it's just incredibly fun and it's seriously helped me understand a lot of the economic and technological as well as social world we live in. Particularly I love anything involving identity and media as well as how media helps with protest. There are very few fields out there where watching the live feed of the Egyptian protest was an actual assignment.
From Ginga:
1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT QUOTE
"Get rid of the sea-ward!"
"I'll leave when I'm good and ready."
I HAVE TO RUN so watch me change that when i get back. I love everything they say in the first and second seasons.
2. If you could bring only one album, book, and movie with you to a desert island, which ones would you pick?
Everybody by Ingrid Michaelson! And probably Catch-22 because it's so long but every page is a delight. As for movies, I own very few but probablyyy Au Revoir Taipei since it's so sweet I can watch it forever.
3. Favorite literary character? Bonus round: favorite literary character you'd actually want to spend time with?
HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. ok, probably Ruth, from Never Let Me Go. I know she's a dick, but she struggles so hard it just warms my heart. As for characters I want to spend time with, Kvothe from The Name of the Wind and Yossarian from Catch-22 seem like they'd be fun to hang out with.
4. An outside event that's changed the way you look at things.
I guess, the moment I discovered photography. Photographs are my only links with people like my mother and grandmother and having them around me reassures me that despite my memory loss, not every event in my life was intangible and I didn't have to lose a moment after it passed.
For a less happy moment, a talk I went to recently about the economic reasons behind the Iraq war. My dad was part of the finance team for that government and seeing the effect he and his colleagues had on a country...was very disheartening.
5. Places you haven't been that you'd like to go to?
Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland and technically I've been to Germany but we only drove through it so there too pls and ty.
6. If you had total artistic license and an endless budget, what kind of tv show or movie would you create and what would it feature?
NERD ALERT
It's been my secret dorky dream since I was 17 to make an adaptation of Hard Times for the small screen. We've also been secretly/slowly working on an adaptation of The Bell by Iris Murdoch.
But for something completely original, oy. I have three I'm working on right now.
The first is Inspector Monday. It's a parody of most cop shows, set in a sleep English village which seems to have one murder a month. But outside of the extraordinarily high death rate, nothing much ever happens so the police are really over enthusiastic when it comes to things like rescuing cats from trees or dealing with old mrs Miggins, the local trouble maker.
DI Monday is the local genius police officer who's a genius in everything...but policing. He's an expert on whatever the case needs him to be an expert on, he's in love with every member of his unit and is being constantly turned down, he has several crippling phobias which all seem to kick in off screen (so every week he's being rescued from a roof or from having fallen into the local zoo's panda exhibit) and he hates police work. He only does it because the local community all bully him into solving their problems each week. IDK it's such a stupid show, but opening the CeltX file to add more zany villagers to wreck his life with makes me happy.
The second is um. Basically a load of Irish gods, except reincarnated and each episode is their tale retold in modern form - a lot like Shakespeare retold but more drinking and violence.
The third is the one I've done the most work on, but the trend for stories of its type has gone out the window so there's no way I'll get it made. Basically, the angel Ariel comes down and possesses a dead human's body to harbour in the apocalypse. Except, Ariel actually kinda likes humanity and ends up trying to stall it with the help of someone who's grown up blessed by god and the younger sibling of the body he's possessing and their genius best friend.
If I had to choose, I'd probably go with the third one because it would be the most expensive to advertise/get the special effects in/make everything good. But I'd love love love an unlimited budget Hard Times (maybe I can cast Harry Lloyd) or mythology retellings.
7. Favorite and most talented Draw Something partner???
NO IDEA (you)
1. If you had to choose, Regular Show or Adventure Time?
You're a monster for making me pick. They're both amazing cartoons and Rigby and Mordecai are basically my spirit animals, but probably Adventure Time. Regular Show is amazing with surprisingly complex characters I want to know more about - but so is Adventure Time! They both have awesome in-show mythologies, but the world building in AT - because we still don't know if Ooo is Earth! Because aside from Marceline and Spoiler, we still don't know anyone who can tell us where all the other humans are! - has me excited for all future episodes of it. Not that I'm not excited for new eps of RS! RS I can watch over and over and over and over and over again and enjoy every time. AT, I spend more time thinking over each episode.
Sidenote: I love that both shows use the usual id-ego structure (Rigby-Mordecai, Jake-Finn) without having the id character be so zany and unrepentant that it becomes annoying. Jake often has to be steered on course by Finn, but they switch out the id role between each other and Jake is basically one of the loveliest characters I've ever seen. Rigby gets a little more annoying, but he's died multiple times and often carries the consequences for his actions. There's a point in Meat Your Maker when he thinks he's killed Mordecai through his actions and that Mordecai died angry at him and there's this moment where he just goes "I can fix this! I can fix this!" and starts talking to Mordecai's body, telling him he'll take care of them both-
hang on am I sad enough to illustrate this with caps and dialogue? YES I AM!
"Mordecai, don't die mad at me!"
"Dude. Leave."
"Mordecai? Mordecai?"
"Oh no. Oh no. [close to tears] I can fix this."
"I can fix this."
"Don't worry Mordecai, I'm gonna take care of us. You'll see."
"How'm I doin'? Huh? Mordecai?"
"[Pretending to be Mordecai and moving his head] Yeah Rigby, you're doing good!"
"[COLLAPSES ONTO A BOX OF CANNIBAL HOT DOGS AND MAKES FRIENDS WITH THEM]"
ugh Rigby gets everything wrong and makes all the bad decisions and he's selfish and stupid and I love him so much. Mari just needs a Mordecai and she and Rigby are basically the same is it any surprise I love Rigby so.
I have so many character feels on Finn (AT), Jake (AT), The Ice King (AT), Marceline (AT) and Benson (RS), Mordecai (RS) and Skips and Pops (RS) too.
BASICALLY BOTH OF THESE SHOWS HAVE THE MOST AMAZING STORIES AND WRITERS but I award AT an extra point for world so objectively RS comes second. In my heart though they are equal.
UGHHHHH I could talk about both of these shows forever.
2. Favorite alcoholic beverage.
I like pink wine and I'm also a fan of whiskey. In the cocktail zone, Woo Woos are good. IRISH COFFEE TOO. I must not betray my roots.
3. What is a relaxing day to you?
Breakfast whenever I want, usually at the sandwich shop. Then a nice walk along the river, then TV with my friends.
4. Favorite book(s).
Norwegian Wood, Never Let Me Go, White Teeth, A Farewell to Arms,To Kill a Mockingbird, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Dubliners, Hard Times, The Bell, the Artemis Fowl/Alex Ryder serieses and like a million others.
5. Favorite songs.
Anything by the Mountain Goats, almost everything by Ingrid Michaelson with special notes to: You and I, The Way I Am, The Chain, Winter Song and Breakable.
Tourist, The Awkward Goodbye, wires and Black Swan Song by Athlete
How to be Dead, Spitting Games, Chocolate and Grazed Knees by Snow Patrol.
Hello Sadness, Death to Los Campesinos!, My Year in Lists, By Your Hand and We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives by Los Campesinos!
Everything by Emmy the Great, with special mention to: Trellick Tower and Absentee.
Florescent Adolescent and Mardy Bum by the Arctic Monkeys
After Hours by the Bluetones
Life on Mars? by David Bowie
Climbing to the Moon, Last Stop This Town, Christmas is going to the Dogs, Dead of Winter and Rock Hard Times by Eels
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
The Captain and the Hourglass, All My Rage, Goodbye England - Laura Marling
Baby Blue Sedan, Modest Mouse
Buildings, Regina Spektor
Matinee Idol - Rufus Wainwright
On Peak Hill and Your Ex-Lover is Dead, Stars.
The Ocean, The Con, Tegan and Sara
A-Punk, Vampire Weekend
Stray Italian Greyhound, Vienna Teng
Now Way Back, 8mm.
6. What would your dream residence look like?
Proooobably somewhere small! A living area would be nice (I've not had one) and so would a large kitchen! A big bedroom with a desk and somewhere to put my books.
7. What's your favorite thing about being a media student?
My homework tonight is to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also that I'm supposed to be on top of the latest trends in TV and social media so watching TV all the time is just me being a responsible student. It's also really interesting.
I guess I also love writing the essays. There's something incredibly refreshing about being able to turn to things as different as Tumblr and JSTOR, music and image to complete a piece of writing. A lot of the time it's just incredibly fun and it's seriously helped me understand a lot of the economic and technological as well as social world we live in. Particularly I love anything involving identity and media as well as how media helps with protest. There are very few fields out there where watching the live feed of the Egyptian protest was an actual assignment.
From Ginga:
1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT QUOTE
"Get rid of the sea-ward!"
"I'll leave when I'm good and ready."
I HAVE TO RUN so watch me change that when i get back. I love everything they say in the first and second seasons.
2. If you could bring only one album, book, and movie with you to a desert island, which ones would you pick?
Everybody by Ingrid Michaelson! And probably Catch-22 because it's so long but every page is a delight. As for movies, I own very few but probablyyy Au Revoir Taipei since it's so sweet I can watch it forever.
3. Favorite literary character? Bonus round: favorite literary character you'd actually want to spend time with?
HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. ok, probably Ruth, from Never Let Me Go. I know she's a dick, but she struggles so hard it just warms my heart. As for characters I want to spend time with, Kvothe from The Name of the Wind and Yossarian from Catch-22 seem like they'd be fun to hang out with.
4. An outside event that's changed the way you look at things.
I guess, the moment I discovered photography. Photographs are my only links with people like my mother and grandmother and having them around me reassures me that despite my memory loss, not every event in my life was intangible and I didn't have to lose a moment after it passed.
For a less happy moment, a talk I went to recently about the economic reasons behind the Iraq war. My dad was part of the finance team for that government and seeing the effect he and his colleagues had on a country...was very disheartening.
5. Places you haven't been that you'd like to go to?
Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland and technically I've been to Germany but we only drove through it so there too pls and ty.
6. If you had total artistic license and an endless budget, what kind of tv show or movie would you create and what would it feature?
NERD ALERT
It's been my secret dorky dream since I was 17 to make an adaptation of Hard Times for the small screen. We've also been secretly/slowly working on an adaptation of The Bell by Iris Murdoch.
But for something completely original, oy. I have three I'm working on right now.
The first is Inspector Monday. It's a parody of most cop shows, set in a sleep English village which seems to have one murder a month. But outside of the extraordinarily high death rate, nothing much ever happens so the police are really over enthusiastic when it comes to things like rescuing cats from trees or dealing with old mrs Miggins, the local trouble maker.
DI Monday is the local genius police officer who's a genius in everything...but policing. He's an expert on whatever the case needs him to be an expert on, he's in love with every member of his unit and is being constantly turned down, he has several crippling phobias which all seem to kick in off screen (so every week he's being rescued from a roof or from having fallen into the local zoo's panda exhibit) and he hates police work. He only does it because the local community all bully him into solving their problems each week. IDK it's such a stupid show, but opening the CeltX file to add more zany villagers to wreck his life with makes me happy.
The second is um. Basically a load of Irish gods, except reincarnated and each episode is their tale retold in modern form - a lot like Shakespeare retold but more drinking and violence.
The third is the one I've done the most work on, but the trend for stories of its type has gone out the window so there's no way I'll get it made. Basically, the angel Ariel comes down and possesses a dead human's body to harbour in the apocalypse. Except, Ariel actually kinda likes humanity and ends up trying to stall it with the help of someone who's grown up blessed by god and the younger sibling of the body he's possessing and their genius best friend.
If I had to choose, I'd probably go with the third one because it would be the most expensive to advertise/get the special effects in/make everything good. But I'd love love love an unlimited budget Hard Times (maybe I can cast Harry Lloyd) or mythology retellings.
7. Favorite and most talented Draw Something partner???
NO IDEA (you)