Okay, yeah. I've had a good month or so of intelligent writing on here. I'm going to talk about Gossip Girl.
I do realize how incredibly teenage-girl it is of me to like this show, but I have to know what haaaappeeens! I've been watching the show since season 1. It's always been my guilty pleasure, and I've always watched it alone. Sometimes that's nice, but it also means I have no one to talk with about it, because I seriously doubt anyone I speak to regularly watches it too. Anyway, I really like this show. I'm not sure why, really, but I have the INTENSE NEED to know what happens every week. I also kind of like the characters. Some of them, at least. I even kind of like the ones I dislike. I think my favorite character right now is Nate, which is funny because I really didn't like him all that much at the beginning of the show, or even the beginning of last season. I also really like Blair and Chuck. They're both still really complex characters even though they've both grown and matured since s1, which is nice. Jenny is ridiculously stupid, and honestly so is Eric right now, which is sad because he actually used to be cool. I don't blame Jonathan for breaking up with him. He's being a prat. I HATE TRIPP A LOT and I'm very glad Nate punched him in the face. I mean finally. He's stupid. And mean. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Serena, in that I am enthralled by her story and want to watch her, but I also get very annoyed by the majorly stupid descisions she makes. At least she's consisted with her character, I guess. Lily and Rufus kind of bore me sometimes, I'll admit. I used to like Dan a lot better, too. I liked him when he was dorky. Not as much anymore, though I can see him sort of going back to being likable, and I hope that he does. Vanessa doesn't interest me that much most of the time, though some of her storylines are cool. Her mother is Zoe from Firefly, which leads me to believe that her father is Wash. It must be so.
Anyway. I'm impatient for the show to come back on. This whole thing with Chuck's mom confused me and I want to know what that's all about, and I will admit that I want Serena and Nate to be together. Mostly because I think Nate is cool and I would like him to get something he wants for a change instead of just helping everyone else.
Do you guys watch Gossip Girl? And if not, do you have any guilty pleasure tv shows you CAN'T STOP WATCHING? I'd like to know I'm not alone, hah.
In other news, I watched Confessions of a Shopaholic for the first time tonight, and I was surprised at how good it was! It was super cute. I think part of that may have been that Hugh Dancy is just wildly attractive (I can't help it -- I'm SUCH an anglophile, and his hair is perfect!), but it had a really cute story. I love romantic comedies, because they're so easy. They all have similar basic plot structure, and there is no edge-of-your-seat biting-your-nails what's-gonna-happen to it, which is honestly just nice sometimes. It's nice to get away from all the real world uncertainties and pain and just escape into this world where the people will love and lose, and ultimately end up happy and together because they're meant to be that way. It's just...nice. I wouldn't want to watch nothing but romcoms, but I also wouldn't want to watch any movie genre exclusively. The consistency and stability of a well done romantic comedy can be extremely therapeutic, though. I would reccomend one if you're having a bad/stressful day/week/month. Unless you're a boy who's not into that. That's okay too.
I also finished the second draft of a short story I plan on submitting in a bi-monthly contest. If I win, it gets published online and in a magazine, which would be amazing. If that happens, I'm totally linking it here. If not, I could probably post the story on here if you guys are interested. Let me know if you are.
I need to sleep now. Goodnight!
Emily
Ghost Whisperer: 1.22
Books this year: 16
EDIT: I also forgot to answer Elisabeth's question as to which modern opera I want to see in Canada. It's called The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano. It's amazing! Here's a link to Marie Antoinette's aria, "They Are Always With Me", which is gorgeous and chilling. She's a ghost in the opera, so it's her memories of her life and especially her death.
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I love Gossip Girl! It's my guilty pleasure ... well that and One Tree Hill.
ReplyDeleteI used to never watch television but I stumbled on the CW this past summer and since then I've gone back and watched all of the episodes online. This season was okay, my character preferences line up almost perfectly with yours.
I don't really have a 'guilty pleasure' TV show, but that's probably because I don't watch much TV.
ReplyDeleteHowever as far as movies go, rom coms are probably my guilty pleasure genre. I couldn't agree more with everything you said about them. I call them 'mood movies' because you have to be in the right mood to watch them - if you're in the mood for something predictable, cute, reasonably funny, with lots of attractive people and without a plot that requires much attention or emotional involvement, then they're great. Confessions of a Shopaholic was fun. I nearly died of embarrassment when I hired it from the video store because I realised that I knew the guy who served me from school...
Also, I'd love to read your short story, published or not! :)