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30-day writing challenge: Day 18

19 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by ejridener in Art, Challenge, Family, Life, Literature, Movies, Music, Travel, Uncategorized

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Day 18: Post 30 facts about you

I’m going to treat this as a “meet to admin” type situation. Every year in the “Notes” section of my Facebook page, I post a “30 things about me part…” since my senior year of high school. The reason I have continued to do it is because it’s funny to see how things change and how I’ve grown from senior in high school to fourth year college student. I recommend doing it because it’s a nice thing to look back on after a few years and it provides a little flashback to who you were years before.

giphy-31.I used to want to be a vampire

2.I name my technologies

3.My iPod, Vlad, is like a lifeline, pacifier and addiction all wrapped in one

4.I love to travel and have visited most of continental United States and Hawaii along with Cozamel

5.I have a dream of visiting London, Ireland and Paris

6.I identify as Goth

7.I am a literature nerd

8.My favorite Shakespeare play is Richard III followed by Coriolanus

9.My nephew and I almost share a birthday

10.I love to cook but rarely do so

A blanket I made as a baby shower gift for a close friend.

A blanket I made as a baby shower gift for a close friend.

11.I knit to relax

12.I think I’m a 70-year-old trapped in a 22-year-old’s body

13.I have a coffee problem

14.I consider myself a straight ally

15.My bedroom looks like a crypt complete with black-out curtains, black bedding and enough skulls to rival the Paris Catacombs

16.My favorite Edgar Allen Poe work is “The Tell-Tale Heart”

17.I am a huge Game of Thrones fan and, spoiler alert, am still a bit emotional at Jon Snow’s death

18.My favorite artist is Kevin Llewellyn

19.I love my Nikon I bought for my digital photojournalism class, even though I struggle with the manual setting, and love to take pictures of just about anything

20.My mom and I, even though we are incredibly close, are like Doris Day and Wednesday Addams…guess which one’s Wednesday?

21.My alarm clock is my foe

22.My favorite composer is either Thomas Newman or Danny Elfman

23.My favorite director is Tim Burton

24.My iPod has 2,220 songs and counting

25.I love thunderstorms

26.I prefer nighttime and avoid the sun like the plague

27.I have my mother’s Irish skin until I venture into the sun where I burn once and my father’s Native American heritage holds my tan for at least six months. No, I’m not happy about that

28.Our Yorkie, Kitty, and I used to have a severe case of sibling rivalry until Jules passed and we mended the fence because we lost our friend

29.My favorite book is Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

My Chemical Romance in the music video for "Teenagers."

My Chemical Romance in the music video for “Teenagers.”

30.My all-time favorite band is My Chemical Romance

30-day writing challenge: Day 14

15 Monday Jun 2015

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Day 14: Post your favorite movies that you never get tired of watching

I love movies.

I don’t have a favorite movie but I do have a list of movies I could watch over and over and never get tired of so thankfully today’s challenge was kind enough to let me list more than one. In order to keep things sane, I kept it to ten.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
This is probably me playing into the Goth stereotype but frankly I don’t care. Tim Burton, as will be mentioned many times in this post, is basically like a spirit animal to me and his movies have been like an escape for a good portion of my life. I love this movie, know the words to the songs and have an ever-growing collection of Jack Skellington things (including the onesie pajamas from a previous post).

This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
This is a recent favorite that constantly makes me laugh. My mother suggested I watch after seeing a portion of it but, joke’s on her, she didn’t have to convince me because the trailer looked hilarious and I had wanted to see it while still in theaters. While my parents were away on vacation, I was able to watch from the beginning and it didn’t disappoint. Adam Driver, whose character in Girls is one of my favorites, along with Tina Fey, Jason Bateman and Jane Fonda made this movie truly amazing.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
I can’t help but randomly quote this movie and want to chase down people who have cheated their vegan diets and scream “no vegan diet, no vegan powers!” This film mixes comics, video games and music to make a quotable and lovable movie.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
How can you not love this movie? It’s basically the number one cult classic on anyone’s list and can never be remade. I don’t care if they attempt to do it; it will never be as good as the original. You kind of just want to get up and do the Time Warp while wearing a drag-esque face and fishnets.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The ultimate misfit movie and it comes in the form of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton teaming up for the first time. I think I always identified with Edward in the sense that he was a dark stranger in a pastel cookie cutter community. Anytime I see an Avon catalogue, I think of Kim knocking on everyone’s door, “Avon calling!” I may or may not have an Edward action figure on my bookshelf.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Oh look, it’s Tim Burton and Johnny Depp again (hint, it’s not the last time either). This one scared the daylights out of me as a kid because of the opening scene in the corn fields and the horseman. Now? I love it. I think Depp brings the quirkiness needed to Ichabod Crane and Burton brings the eeriness needed to the town of Sleepy Hollow.

Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned (2002)
This is the movie that started it all for me. I’ve stated many times I’m a Goth and it all goes back to this movie. Is it a good adaptation of the book? Not exactly seeing as they combined “The Vampire Lestat” with “Queen of the Damned.”  Anne Rice fans hated this movie but for a young girl who was terrified of horror movies and scared to watch this movie with her mom, the soundtrack drew me in and I have loved it ever since. Stuart Townsend’s Lestat is my great vampire love.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
My favorite horror movie and it’s not because it’s a traditional horror film. Filmed and set in the mid 60s, the tale of a woman who finally becomes pregnant with the baby she’s always wanted only to find out her elderly neighbors are “witches” who want her baby for their rituals. That’s not exactly what’s going on but I love the thriller rather than the gore and this movie has always been a tense favorite.

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
I remember seeing this movie in the theater (I still have the ticket stub) and laughing while watching my brother squirm as Sweeney slit the throats of their victims. I’m not a psychopath, I just though it was funny he was so freaked out at the obviously fake blood. Turns out he has a things with necks like I do with Achilles tendons. The songs are catchy and you can’t help but want to sing along with the demon barber and his helplessly devoted landlady.

Dark Shadows (2012)
I love vampires and have more books about vampires than I do textbooks, which is saying something after four years of college, and I’ve seen a countless amount of vampire movies. Vampires plus Tim Burton plus Johnny Depp and I’m sold not to mention Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Lee. This movie not only hooked me because of its quirkiness but also because it made my dad and I bond over our love of Johnny Depp.

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