On Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky
@Probs Third book is the best.
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On Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky
@Marzipan A nonprofit promoting Ayn Rand? What an amazing sentence.
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On Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky
@teenie I haven't read it either but I'm very tempted to. It was my nerdy ex's favourite book, too.
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On Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky
@E I love Amelie! But I get the "contrived quirkiness" thing. Some people are so desperate to appear unique they'll do whatever ~random~ thing they can think of just to be remembered. I love Amelie a lot and I don't think she's mentally ill, but I don't exactly want to be her (except for the looking like Audrey Tautou part) because her life is really not that great!
For me Amelie is just a fun film to follow and look at than something to live by. I think that's the main thing with any book or film mentioned here - as long as you can separate your life and the character's life, you're good.
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On Favorite Books of the Secretly Jerky
My favourite (or at least one of my very favourites) fiction books is Catch-22... typical right? What does it say about me? I'm so paranoid now!!
Besides some "classics" or books people explicitly recommend to me I tend to read non-fiction more than fiction nowadays. I don't know why since I like fiction just fine, but I'm not really down with the whole fantasy/dark romance/vampires etc stuff that seems to be huge right now (at least, it's what all my friends read even though many of us will soon no longer qualify as "young adults") and it just doesn't interest me in the least. Maybe I need friends that or more widely read, or I just need to take a few stabs in the dark myself...
I always want to read new books but finding a good one is daunting... I don't know whose opinion to trust anymore!
Basically, when I want to relax I crack open a Carl Sagan book at a random chapter because I find him so comforting. An entire library of him is enough to keep me happy...
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On A Femme's Guide to Improvement: Overhead Lights
Wow, great idea! Eerily good timing considering I was just agonising over my exact same light fixture just this week. Unfortunately my biggest dilemma is that I can't reach it even when standing on a chair, and I'm a tall person! I'm gonna have to find some help...
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On Katy Perry and Kanye West's Freaky "E.T." Music Video
Even though I can't stand Katy Perry, I kinda dig this video. I am a space and sci-fi nerd, though, so yeah, pretty, otherworldly visuals are right up my alley. Pity about the song.
imo the most unsettling part was the product placement near the end, about as subtle as a crowbar to the head...
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On Your Cubicle Could Save Your Life
I've been writhing in the throes of my quarter-life crisis a lot lately (so young but not young enough!) and this helps but also doesn't.
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On The Slutty New Troll
I don't want to be one of those "my childhood" people, but... my childhood. My childhood?
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On I'm Changing My Name, Again
I have a super common name (Kelleher - at least in Ireland, where I'm from, it's super common) so I never felt particularly attached to it. Though I do have a keyring of it and stuff and I guess it has a certain rhythm to it that I like. It's certainly hard to imagine being called anything else.
I understand the feminist implications of not taking a spouse's name, but I gotta admit my inner little girl has always been excited to do it. If my hypothetical future husband has a cool name, at least. My last boyfriend had the surname Hitchcock, and I kind of wanted to marry him just so I could have that amazing last name...
My mum initially kept her surname (O'Connor) when she married my dad, but said that official documents and business and etc was so awkward and confusing post-marriage that she just gave in and changed it. Being forced into taking a name just to "make things easier" would definitely suck, though she's personally no longer bothered by it.