Music & Lyrics (but no RomCom)

Time for the year-end music meme! Now, I'm not sure if this is an existing meme or if I've just invented it, but the rules are simple.

1. List the five songs you listened to most often in descending order
   
2. Include four lines from each

Here I go:

Ladyhawke - Magic  
You stayed in my head where I saw you all the time
I didn't think you'd care, I didn't think you'd care
I found you one day with a mouthful of attitude
And you stole me away, you stole me away

Bat for Lashes - Siren Song

My name is Pearl & I'll love you the best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart

And the stars are exploding in your eyes
It won't be long until you'll be running

Ellie Goulding - Guns and Horses

It's time to come clean and make sense of everything
It's time that we found out who we are
Cause when I'm standing here in the dark
I see your face in every star

Fleet Foxes - Quiet Houses 

Don't give in
Don't give in
Don't give in
Don't give in

Bell X1 - Flame

You brought your flame
Into the chambers of my heart
You brought your flame
Where all's been condemned to dark

Feel free to tag yourselves. Allez-y!

My Not-So-Secret Shame

Now Playing: Auletta - Meine Stadt

Here it is, the year-end TV meme of shame, ganked from Indiequill. The rules are simple:

1. Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
   
2. Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.
   
3. Highlight new additions with an Underline.
   

Now, I honestly don't know where I found time to watch all these shows. I suppose a future version of me could have come back to the past with time-dilation technology which she lent me to do good works with, I wasted it on TV, she threw her hands up in despair and left, but not before erasing my memories of her and said technology - but the more likely explanation is that I'm epically kamchor. Also, there are some shows on this list that I know I must have watched, but for the life of me I can't recall a single episode. What happened on The Nanny besides Fran Drescher being shrill?

• 24
  
• 30 Rock
  
• 90210
  
• 7th Heaven
  
• ALF
  
• Alias
  
• American Gothic
  
• American Idol
  
• America's Got Talent
  
• America's Next Top Model
  
• Angel
  
• Arrested Development
• Ashes to Ashes
  
• Babylon 5
  
• Batman: The Animated Series
  
• Batman Beyond/Batman of the Future
  
• Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
  
• Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
  
• Baywatch
  
• Beverly Hills 90210 (original)
  
• Benidorm
  
• Bewitched
  
• Big Love
• Blackadder
  
• Bonanza
  
• Bones
  
• Bosom Buddies
  
• Boston Legal
  
• Boy Meets World
  
• Breaking Bad
  
• Brothers And Sisters
  
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  
• Burn Notice
  
• Californication
  
• Castle
  
• Catherine Tate Show
  
• Chappelle's Show
  
• Charlie's Angels
  
• Charmed
  
• Cheers
  
• Chuck
  
• Clarissa Explains it All
  
• Columbo
  
• Commander in Chief
  
• Crossing Jordan
  
• CSI
  
• CSI: Miami
  
• CSI: NY
  
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
  
• Dark Angel
  
• Dark Skies
  
• DaVinci's Inquest
  
• Dawson's Creek
  
• Dead Like Me
  
• Deadwood
  
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
  
• Designing Women
  
• Desperate Housewives
  
• Dexter
  
• Dharma & Greg
  
• Different Strokes
  
• Dirty Sexy Money
  
• Doctor Who
  
• Dollhouse
  
• Dragnet
  
• Due South
  
• ER
  
• Everwood
  
• Everybody Loves Raymond
  
• Extras
  
• Facts of Life
  
• Family Guy
  
• Farscape
  
• Fawlty Towers
  
• Felicity
  
• Firefly
  
• FlashForward
  
• Frasier
  
• Freaks & Geeks
  
• Friday Night Lights
  
• Friends
  
• Fringe
  
• Futurama
  
• Gavin and Stacey
  
• Get Smart
  
• Gilligan's Island
  
• Gilmore Girls
  
• Glee
  
• Gossip Girl
  
• Grey's Anatomy
  
• Grange Hill
  
• Growing Pains
  
• Gunsmoke
  
• Happy Days
  
• Harry Hill's TV Burp
  
• Have I Got News For You
  
• Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
  
• Heroes
  
• Home Improvement
  
• Homicide: Life on the Street
  
• House
  
• How I Met Your Mother
  
• Ideal
  
• I Dream of Jeannie
  
• I Love Lucy
  
• Invader Zim
  
• Invasion
  
• Hell's Kitchen
  
• JAG
  
• Jackass
  
• Joey
  
• Kim Possible
  
• King of Queens
  
• Knight Rider
  
• Knight Rider: 2008
  
• Kung Fu
  
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  
• La Femme Nikita
  
• LA Law
  
• Laverne and Shirley
  
• Law and Order
  
• Law and Order: CI
  
• Law and Order: SVU
  
• Law and Order: UK
  
• Legend of the Seeker
  
• Leverage
  
• Lie To Me
• Life on Mars
  
• Little Britain
  
• Little House on the Prairie
  
• Live At Apollo
  
• Lizzie McGuire
  
• Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
  
• Lost
  
• Lost in Space
  
• MASH
  
• MacGyver
  
• Mad Men
  
• Malcolm in the Middle
  
• Married… With Children
  
• McLeod's Daughters
  
• Melrose Place
  
• Merlin
  
• Miami Vice
  
• Misfits
  
• Mission: Impossible
  
• Mock The Week
  
• Modern Family
  
• Mod Squad
  
• Monk
  
• Mork & Mindy
  
• Mumbai Calling
  
• Murphy Brown
  
• My Life As A Dog
  
• My Three Sons
  
• My Two Dads
  
• Mythbusters
  
• NCIS
  
• Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
  
• Nip/Tuck
  
• Numb3rs
  
• One Tree Hill
  
• Oz
  
• Paradox
  
• Peep Show
  
• Perry Mason
  
• Power Rangers
  
• Press Gang
  
• Prison Break
  
• Private Practice
  
• Privileged
  
• Profiler
  
• Project Runway
  
• Psych
  
• Pushing Daisies
  
• QI
  
• Quantum Leap
  
• Queer As Folk (US)
  
• Queer as Folk (UK)
  
• ReGenesis
  
• Remington Steele
  
• Rescue Me
  
• Road Rules
  
• Rome
  
• Roseanne
  
• Roswell
  
• Royal Pains
  
• Sanctuary
  
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
  
• Scrubs
  
• Seaquest DSV
  
• Seinfeld
  
• Sex and the City
  
• Six Feet Under
  
• Slings and Arrows
  
• Smallville
  
• So Weird
  
• South of Nowhere
  
• South Park
  
• So You Think You Can Dance
  
• Spaced
  
• Spongebob Squarepants
  
• St. Elsewhere
  
• Star Trek
  
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
  
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  
• Star Trek: Voyager
  
• Star Trek: Enterprise
  
• Stargate Atlantis
  
• Stargate SG-1
  
• Starsky & Hutch
  
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  
• Superman
  
• Supernatural
  
• Surface
  
• Survivor
  
• Taxi
  
• Teen Titans
  
• That 70's Show
  
• That's So Raven
  
• The 4400
  
• The Addams Family
  
• The Amazing Race
  
• The Andy Griffith Show
  
• The A-Team
  
• The Avengers
  
• The Beverly Hillbillies
  
• The Big Bang Theory
  
• The Brady Bunch
  
• The Colbert Report
  
• The Cosby Show
  
• The Daily Show
  
• The Dead Zone
  
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
  
• The Flintstones
  
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  
• The F Word
  
• The Golden Girls
  
• The Good Wife
  
• The Honeymooners
  
• The Jeffersons
  
• The Jetsons
  
• The L Word
  
• The Love Boat
  
• The Magnificent Seven
  
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  
• The Mentalist
  
• The Monkees
  
• The Munsters
  
• The Nanny
  
• The O.C.
  
• The Office (UK)
  
• The Office (US)
  
• The Powerpuff Girls
  
• The Pretender
  
• The Real World
  
• The Shield
  
• The Simpsons
  
• The Six Million Dollar Man
  
• The Sopranos
  
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
  
• The Twilight Zone
  
• The Vampire Diaries
  
• The Waltons
  
• The West Wing
  
• The Wire
  
• The Wonder Years
  
• The X Factor
  
• The X-Files
  
• Third Watch
  
• Three's Company
  
• Top Chef
  
• Top Gear
  
• Torchwood
  
• True Blood
  
• Twin Peaks
  
• Twitch City
  
• Unfabulous
  
• Ugly Betty
  
• Veronica Mars
  
• Weeds
  
• Who Dare Wins
  
• Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
  
• Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
  
• Will and Grace
  
• Wings
  
• Xena: Warrior Princess
  

I think I may have to renounce the material life and live out the rest of my life in a monastery with no wifi or TV reception.

Christmas/Boxing Day Roundup

Now Playing: Ravel - Une Barque Sur L'Ocean

Look what Santa left under the tree:


A Keurig B30 Mini Coffee Brewer! For all my gourmet-coffee-at-home needs. I can recommend Timothy's Columbian Fair-Trade Dorado, but you can use your own regular coffee blend with a reusable coffee filter. Now, I generally prefer teas or tisanes, but this machine makes a damn fine cup of coffee.

Boxing Day Haul: I picked up these kickin' boots at Scarborough Town. Plus Lush had a buy-3-for-the-price-of-1 deal on their soaps, so I now have Sexy Peel to last me months.

Also saw Sherlock Holmes on Boxing Day. A few quick thoughts:

• Robert Downey Jr, why so fabulous? Also Jude Law, I find myself surprised that I have taken in none of your work since The Talented Mr Ripley.
• Holmes and Watson have an epic bromance. In fact, you don't even have to squint to see it as a straight romance, really - they have a bad breakup, Watson seeks consolation in the arms of Mary Morstan, Holmes sulks.
  
• In terms of their general interaction, though - Holmes is outrageous, Watson is exasperated - they reminded me less of Holmes and Watson 1.0 than House and Wilson - who are obviously a modern, medical take on Holmes and Watson 1.0.
• When they cast RDJr, they must have filled their American cast quota because the two American roles - Irene Adler and Ambassador Standish - are played by Canadians.
  
• I thought it interesting that it was the villain - by Mark Strong - who looked most like the classical Holmes - tall, hair pomaded, the long jacket reminiscent of an Inverness cape.
• Finally, this movie is definitive proof that the rating system is completely ridiculous. It was released in Canada with a PG (Parental Guidance) rating, though it features a close-up of a dead body with maggots, boxing violence, people-being-set-on-fire violence, etc etc. Imagine the hapless parent who doesn't have time to watch trailers, and buys a ticket to watch this movie with his or her family based solely on the film's rating? "Daddy, why is that man so pale? And why are their worms on his face? Why is he sleeping in a coffin?"

Merry Christmas!

To you and yours, my very best wishes during this festive season.

Reindeer on Standby...

Now Playing: Metric - Gold Guns Girls