Doctor Who

This is part of one of those things I can't help but get obsessed with. It cannot be helped. Because it is The Doctor. If you don't know what the hell it is I'm blathering on about while I should be working on a History Project, I will tell you.

Time and Relative Dimension in Space

• Doctor Who is a British Cult TV Show that has been running since 1963.
• It is the longest-running sci-fi series.
• It is about The Doctor, an alien-dude who travels through (and accross, and in any direction imaginable) time in order to save the Earth from other weird aliens and races. 
• The Doctor travels in the Tardis, which looks like a 1960's London Police Box.
• There have been eleven incarnations of the Doctor, however it is still the same character.
• There have been a lot of companions, however the only ones I have seen are Dianna (in one episode) and Amy and Rory (in seven)
• It might be a good idea to tell you that I have only seen about eight episodes, but really there are about a million.
• There have been six series. I don't know what that means, so until I can find a Doctor Who wiki page thing, I'm screwed.



My mom thinks he looks like a perv. puh-leeze.

• The current Doctor, Matt Smith is really hot. Also he's the youngest person to have been cast for the role.
• Richard Nixon (not the real one!) has appeared on the show.
• So has Winston Churchill (again, not the real one!!)
• And Vincent Van Gogh has also dropped by (again, not the real one!!)
• Men in suits are hot. Men in suits with bow-ties are hot. Men that dress like Dan Radcliffe in How To Succeed Without Really Trying Matt Bommer in White Collar and Matt Smith in Doctor Who are hot. 
• The Doctor has a Sonic Screwdriver, which if you will, is the equivalent of Harry Potter's wand. There, that will probably be the only time I will ever feel compelled to compare HP and DW. I solemnly swear. Damn, I'm on a role. 

 I don't think this is a show I would have watched if it wasn't because my friend Elizabeth kept talking about the Doctor's awesomeness. Although she loves David Tennant (the Tenth Incarnation) and I frankly cannot, I must admit I am extremely excited about this whole new fandom. 

The only thing left to do here (besides my History Project, of course!!) is to somehow get my hands on EVERY DOCTOR WHO EVER MADE. Netflix might be a good idea, don't you think?  

And just a note of general interest: out of all the people I actually interact with on a (quasi)daily basis, FIVE are fans of the Doctor. My dad used to be. But the Star Wars and Star Trek came along.

The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) played Bartemius Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

 
 

 

Imaginary Friends

I'm fifteen, and I admit I have imaginary friends. Not in sense that I play with them, or anything. I'm not entirely crazy, you know. It's like there are 'energies' or my idea of what a certain person would be like in real life there with me. This actually only became clear to me as we were watching Julie & Julia for the third time. Julie (Amy Adams) was going on about how she could feel Julia Child in her Queens kitchen while she was cooking for her blog. And later, when a reporter informs her that Mrs. Child doesn't think very highly of what she's doing her husband (A Man who looks a lot like Mark Ruffalo) reminds her that the Julia in her head does. That's when I had a sort of mini epiphany. Yes! that is exactly what I do! 


I realize I might not be making an ounce of sense to you, but believe me, it will. 


Take my Harry Potter obsession, for example. There have been times when I have asked myself "What would Hermione do?" or "What would Luna do?" and "What would Harry do?". I do this because they are people* I admire . Hermione is the loyal, too smart-for-her-own-good type, Luna is the I-don't-care-about-what-you-think-of-me type and Harry... well he's Harry (I do think that should be considered as some sort of descriptive word right now....). It's not as if I can go and ask my mother for advice in a situation where our points of view are polar opposites. Instead, I try to look at it through the eyes of someone who would, ideally, agree wholeheartedly with me. 

Winter

These are pictures I have taken on my way home from school...

It usually is terribly cold. 

Not that you can see that.

Going outside in the early morning is never fun.

Dancing Shadows!

Shadow Sisters... that kind of sounds like a Riot Grrl band, wouldn't you say?

My ever-growing fangirl wall. Bones, Dan Rad, Tom and Summer, She and Him. My cousin, my sister and I a few years ago...
I printed out some Emma Watson pics... and a couple of other things I didn't get around to posting yet.

Growing Up

I feel the last five years of my life have been, perhaps the ones where I have changed the most. Besides the obvious, such as not being a little kid anymore, there are other ways I have grown up that really took me a while to figure out. There's times, for example, where it will suddenly click that the way I think/feel about something now is definetly not how I would have felt/thought about it maybe even a year ago. Here are the ways I think I have grown up the most.

1. I am a feminist. As a child, I was only too happy to believe people when they told me a man's job is to protect his family. I'm sure I would have thought of Eleanor Roosevelt (one of my biggest role-models) as a sort of extremist. I believed it was men who belonged as the heads of the households. I believed women would never really be happy unless they were married. With a man. Now, I refuse to listen to anybody that tells me men are in any way superior to women. I refuse to take part in teaching young girls they will never achieve happiness in the future, unless they consider marriage. I know women are capable of just as much as men, if not more. 
2. I question everything. I think I was a rather gullible little kid. I simply accepted other's opinions and points of view. Now not so much. I like to argue a lot, and I am quite opinionated. Word of the Wise: don't even get me started on Bones, Harry Potter or anything even remotely related.
3. Disney Channel just doesn't cut it anymore. I do admit I was obsessed with Hannah Montana and High School Musical and the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus used to be my idol (much like Zooey D. is right now. Only Zo is a million times better.) and Zac Efron was going to be my future husband. Nick Jonas was going to be my super-sweet BFF. Whenever I hear any of those songs a wave of self-loathing washes over me. WHAT THE HECK WAS WRONG WITH ME? HOW DID I SUDDENLY DEVELOP GOOD TASTE?  I listen to actual music now: Regina Spektor, Adele, M. Ward, She & Him, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, The Script, occasionally The Beatles, as well as Elvis and Frank Sinatra. A lot of The Smiths and Cyndi Lauper, Feist, Florence + the Machine, JUDY GARLAND, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald The Killers, The Script, and of course, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.  I also watch actual TV: Bones, White Collar, Coldcase, 60 Minutes, Nightline, World News, 20/20, Sunday Morning, What would You Do? and Saturday Night Live among others. And either Daniel Radcliffe or Joseph Gordon-Levitt are my future husbys. 

It is really late right now, and since I'm tired I think I'll just leave you with cool vids.

 Like my friend Lily's Original Bones Song. (She's such an awesome fan!! yaay!!)

She's fantastic!

And ColdPlay's "Clocks"

This is an awesome song. Shame my English teacher ruined it by likening it to the Epic of Gilgamesh...

And um... let's see...

How about a video of  Zooey being awesome? 

This song was featured in her movie (also starring Joe Gordon-Levitt) (500) Days of Summer. I love it. And I promise to make a post about it soon... when I don't have Midterms or anything.

Judy Garland being fantabulous!

LOVE HER!!!

and last but certainly not least

DAYPLAYER.

(aka John Francis Daley's Band)

Aah, JFD <3

MOST AMAZING FRENCH PROJECT. EVER.

  I even added Victoire AND Teddy!! And Crookshanks. And Arnold, Ginny's Pigmy Puffskein. 

Oh. My. Goodness.

(Totally random, but that's what my face looked like when I finished. And when I watched #Bones)

Kathy Reichs is literally The Best Writer Ever.

I just recently noticed all my obsessions are inter-connected in one way or another. For example, my Bones obsession started after I realized Emily Deschanel was Zooey Deschanel's sister. And my obsession with (someday) becoming an anthropologist was fueled by the show and my long-time fascination with Egyptian mummies and Ancient Greeks, and of course Kathy Reichs.

I had been watching the show for about two years (actually we watched several episodes a night almost every single night!!) before my parents finally agreed to let me read her novels. I think they worried I would begin to identify with Brennan more than I already did, which was a lot. So, I went to the public library and asked the librarian to help me find Deja Dead, and she looked at me like I was crazy. I'm sure she thought I was crazy. She looked at me asking silently "Why would a middle school kid want to read books about murder?" and "Wouldn't you much rather read something mindless like Twilight?" frankly, (this might make me sound both psycho and weird) I find books and shows about murders quite fascinating. Bones, Cold Case, Forensic Files, 20/20 and Nightline are my favourite shows.  Also,  I'm a bit of a science nerd, and I had read that Kathy's books went a bit further into the scientific stuff than Bones or any of the  other shows  did. So, obviously I just had to read her books.

I finished Deja Dead in a little less than a week, and then Death du Jour  and the rest of the novels in the following weeks.  I honestly loved them. I loved the fact that the characters are realistic. And that Temperance Brennan is a tough cookie. And I also loved the fact that she has a cat.(Everyone knows Awesome people + awesome cats (like Birdie)= Extreme Awesomeness.) And even my parents loved them (despite the fact that my dad has only read a couple of chapters on Flash and Bones) because I learned a lot of things I wouldn't have learned otherwise.  For example, where else would I have found out about kerf marks and false starts on bones? I don't think we're even going all that in-depth into bones in Bio class. And where else would I have learned about NASCAR? probably from my dad, but even after whatever explanation he might have given me I still would have thought of it as the "sport where all they do is make left turns."  And perhaps the best parts of the books are the "Notes from the files of Dr. Kathy Reichs" which I love reading. As I mentioned above, I am a bit of a news junkie, so looking at those is a good deal of fun.

[If you haven't read any of her books you most definetly should. If you like things along the lines of Mary Higgins Clark and I guess Agatha Christie then you will probably love her Temperance Brennan novels. If you're fonder of the whole YA SCI/FAN thing, then Virals and Seizure will be great for you!!]

I <3 Dr. Kathy Reichs. and don't forget to check out her awesome website.