The Things I Have Been Watching, Listening to, and Reading
1. Most recent: Dr. Who. I started it earlier this month, and am absolutely loving it. Honestly, I have no idea why; when I first began, I was really put off by pretty much every character, and even Google'd "How to watch Dr. Who" in a vain attempt to figure out what I was doing wrong. This led me to an article which suggested watching the first episode with Matt Smith as the Doctor, which I promptly did, and was inspired enough to go back and have another go at the first season. By the end, Christopher Ecclestion started to grow on me, surprisingly, and I was actually sad to see him replaced by David Tenant. I won't lie, the whole ambiguous romantic thing bothers me a lot, and if I watch it for too long I get the urge to speak in a British accent, but still. It's steadily climbing up there in my list of favorite television shows.
2. I've also returned to the vlogbrothers (hence all the references in the last post) and am now approximately 90 videos away from being up to date (considering I was about two years behind last time I went hardcore and tried to catch up, this is extremely impressive). Again, if I watch it for too long, I start to want to speak like John and Hank. It's sort of weird.
(I just watched three episodes of Dr. Who, and right now as I type this I am imagining Mickey saying all of it. It's exceedingly disconcerting.)
3. Fight Club. Read it, feel slightly disturbed, liked it more than Gatsby or Animal Farm though. Good writing/lyricalness but completely depressing worldview (may have been point, do not really care though).
4. The Dark Knight Rises. Saw it on a day off at camp. Not the biggest fan of Anne Hathaway; I felt that Marion Cotillard had waaaaay more chemistry with Christian Bale. Also, not sure how I feel about the return-to-first-movie plotline thing; in the first movie, the whole thing seemed far-fetched, and I felt the same way this time when they re-introduced the Brotherhood. I don't know, I just really like The Dark Knight because it felt like something that could almost happen. Not actually, but the Joker was just such an effective villain, and so completely terrifying, that it was always going to be a tough act to follow, and quite honestly, I find the whole idea of a Brotherhood of awesomefantasticninjafighters to be a little campy. I'm not sure if that effectively conveyed my feelings, but oh well.
5. Other movies I've watched: The Immortals (epic and bloody with hot people and I swore a lot while watching it), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (I wasn't as impressed as I wanted to be), A Knight's Tale (oh hey there Heath), Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog (I did not see that ending coming)
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