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[guanin]

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

I know, I know, this was supposed to be yesterday, but between period fail and an attempt to be productive, it didn't happen. ETA: And now due to LJ it became day 5.

Oh, and I re-discovered my favorite song last night through Conan's last Tonight Show last night. "Free Bird" by Lynryrd Skynyrd. And now it makes me sad.

Anyway, here's

Deadwood: The Old West during the Gold Rush yet it's not a Western at all. The best character driven show I have ever seen. I was so mad when HBO let it slowly die. It's absolutely wonderful in everything. The sets, the richness of the language, the intensity of the storylines, the acting (oh, the acting). David Milch gets a huge bow from me for this one.

Battlestar Galactica: I never thought I'd have a scifi show in my favorite list, but wow. This show is amazing. I spent days with the finale stuck in my head, going, "Whoa."

Arrested Development: Some of the funniest television ever. The emperor of dysfunctional families. I also kept wondering who is the worse mother: Lucille Bluth or Angela Petrelli.

Buffy: My first fandom show and still one of my favorite shows despite the heap of great shows I've seen since that middle school weekday night when I saw the pilot episode for that little mid-season replacement that looked interesting.

And an honorary mention to The Wire, the most excellent marriage of character and plot I have ever seen.

And because I feel like it, anything Conan is in. "Free Bird" now has a whole new significance for me. Till September, buddy!

Comments

[c-quinn.livejournal.com]

Battlestar Galactica: I never thought I'd have a scifi show in my favorite list, but wow. This show is amazing. I spent days with the finale stuck in my head, going, "Whoa.

I wanted to like Battlestar. I really did. But... I just couldn't get into it. I did try Caprica last night, though, and thought it was well-handled (perhaps because no knowledge of Galatica is needed. [laugh]).

. I also kept wondering who is the worse mother: Lucille Bluth or Angela Petrelli.

Well... Angela was going to let Peter destroy New York... I think that trumps Lucille and her puppeteering of her boys. Though I would say Lucille wins with inappropriate touching. Buster. *shudder*

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Caprica takes place before BSG, so I think all you need to know is the irony of this technological revolution causing their destruction. That and the One God being the Cylon's religion.

Good point. But Lucille doesn't even pretend to care. Then again, at least she's honest about that.

[saena17.livejournal.com]

Deadwood is on my list of shows I must try. I've heard such good things about it, and it looks really intriguing. I'll have to let you know what I think of it when I finally get around to seeing an episode.

And I will have to give Battlestar and The Wire another try one of these days. I'm still puzzled as to why they didn't grab me (since the recommendations came from one of my best friends and my dad, the two people whose TV tastes are most in line with my own). It may just be a matter of watching it at the right time. Sometimes you don't appreciate things the first time round, you know?

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Yes, do watch it. I really, really wish sometimes that I could sit down the Heroes writers and show them this series so they can learn how ensemble show is meant to be handled. It's got loads of characters but they all fit perfectly.

The Wire is not the kind of genre I like, but the characters hooked me. And yet I can't watch too many episodes in one sitting. They feel heavy after a while.

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, askdjw. As for who the worse mother is? I'm not far in Arrested Development (but it is owning my life atm) and I never managed to get past that Adam dying episode in Heroes (;_;) BUT...I think I have to say Angela Petrelli. As terrible as Lucille is, she's...easier to handle, I think, than Angela.

This is very, very debatable, though. DD:

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Arrested Development = awesome. I bought myself the full series one Christmas and now I watch them over and over. Yeah, I think I'm going with Angela as well because of all the death and destruction. But at least she hugs her kids. But then again, it's mostly for nefarious reasons.

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

Mhm. It's like Lucille is just a bitch, but Angela is actively dangerous and psychotic.

I don't think Lucille would kill one of her kids. Intentionally. Angela though. Really. I could see it happening. If it suited her purposes. Didn't this actually happen with Nathan or something one season? Or Peter? /doesn't remember

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Well, it looked like Angela might have ordered the hit on Nathan at the end of S2, but it turned out to be Peter. And she was really worried when Nathan disappeared in Season 4, although that resulted in ignoring Peter.