• Old Navy's Sweetheart and Dreamer jeans
• UniBall pens
• Moleskine notebooks
• Jansport backpacks
• Adidas Superstars

• What is your favorite word? enamoured
• What is your least favorite word? succulent
• What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]? kindness
• What turns you off? bad breath
• What is your favorite curse word? asshole (it's so multipurpose) with goatfucker in second place
• What sound or noise do you love? radiators coming on
• What sound or noise do you hate? alarm clocks
• What profession other than yo...

Because sometimes people go "I saw [x] and thought about you!

• Daniel Craig
• Topher Grace
• Lost
• Snapples
• *NSYNC
• North Carolina
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• pop culture trivia
• Maroon 5
• Snoopy/Peanuts

Same as before: no stars = this is why people don't buy books anymore; five stars = I LOVE THIS BOOK AND WANT TO HAVE ITS BABIES. My opinion = subjective!

1. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen (January, ****1/2)
2. King of the Screwups, K.L Going (February, ***1/2)
3. Beating Heart: A Ghost Story, A.M. Jenkins (February, ***1/2)
4. How to Steal a Car, Pete Hautman (February, ****)
5. Nailed, Patrick Jones (February, ***)
6. The ...

All of the ones I've written so far.

1. 2004: Burning the Bridge (18,000+ words)
2. 2005: Push Rewind (55,173 words; winner)
3. 2006: Cupidity (or: Love, Arrows, and Other Things That Hurt) (7687 words)
4. 2007: At the Sound of the Beep (51,015 words; winner)
5. 2008: Of Fools and Kings (1509 words)
6. 2009: The Fangirl's Guide to Life (50,858 words; winner)

I grew up in the mid-to-late '90s. That's all I'm sayin'.

• Danny Cooksey (Budnick from Salute Your Shorts)
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas
• Brad Renfro
• Devon Sawa
• Austin O'Brien (Nick from My Girl 2 and Logan in the Baby-Sitters' Club movie)
• Andrew Keegan
• Rider Strong
• Josh Server (from All That)
• Mark McGrath (from Sugar Ray)
• Ben Foster (Tucker from Flash Forward)
• Lee Thompson Young (from The Famous Jett Jackson)
• Howie D...

A few things that the guys I tend to crush on have in common.

• Dark hair/light eyes. I love the contrast. Though I have, on occasion, lusted after blonde haired/blue eyed guys.
• Snarky, sarcastic sense of humor. As early as sixth grade, I appreciated snark.
• Slightly taller than average, if not 6' or taller. There have been a few short ones who were cute, though.
• Somewhat longer hair. Well, as long as it...

Fictional characters I have a thing for.

• Lloyd Dobler, Say Anything
• Jake Ryan, Sixteen Candles
• Josh, Clueless
• Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You
• Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
• James Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean
• Desmond Hume, Lost
• James "Sawyer" Ford, Lost
• Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl (show)
• Rufus Humphrey, Gossip Girl (show)
• Marcus Flutie, the Jessica Darling series (books 1-2 on...

Favorites, and what I remember about seeing them for the first time, etc.

• The Little Mermaid
• I saw it in a theater when I was four, and I remember being terrified of Ursula when she grows at the end.
• Aladdin
• I saw it in second grade on a class trip. We went to a theater in Raleigh to see it, and we stopped at Burger King for lunch and everyone else got to play on the playground, but I had to stay in w...

• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!) (this movie, I think, is the reason why I was a bit of a Francophile. It definitely explains why I wanted to travel to France when I was little.)
• A Little Princess (the 1995 version. GAH. Such a gorgeous movie.)
• Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (this one, along with Salute Your Shorts, made me want to go to summer camp as a kid)
• Little Giants (I liked...

1. Confessions of a Shopaholic (January 9, on DVD)
2. The Brothers Bloom (January 16, on DVD)
3. Shutter Island (February 19, at theater)
4. Zombieland (February 21, on DVD)
5. Zodiac (March 12, on DVD)

1. "Though we have not hit the ground, it doesn't mean we're not still falling."--Maroon 5, Nothing Lasts Forever
2. "I wasn't looking, but somehow you found me."--Carly Simon, Nobody Does it Better
3. "I'll make the most of all the sadness; you'll be a bitch because you can. You'll try to hit me just to hurt me, so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand."--John Mayer, Slow Dancing in a Burni...

I have this thing, where I like the last songs on albums.

1. The Chauffeur, Duran Duran (from Rio)
2. Forever and Ever Amen, 8mm (from Songs to Love and Die By...)
3. 40', Franz Ferdinand (from Franz Ferdinand)
4. Into the Airwaves, Jack's Mannequin (from Everything in Transit)
5. I'm Gonna Find Another You, John Mayer (from Continuum)
6. Take a Bow, Madonna (from Bedtime Stories)
7. Looking In, Mariah Carey (from Daydream)
8. B...

Songs that contributed to major scenes in movies (and TV shows).

1. Nobody Does it Better, Carly Simon (The Spy Who Loved Me)
2. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Judy Garland (The Wizard of Oz)
3. It's Your Thing, The Isley Brothers (Out of Sight)
4. Come What May, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!)
5. You Know My Name, Chris Cornell (Casino Royale)
6. In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel (Say Anything)
7. I Want You to Want ...

1. You Don't Know Me, Michael Bublé
2. I Can't Make You Love Me, Bonnie Raitt
3. My Cherie Amour, Stevie Wonder
4. I Can't Get Next to You, The Temptations
5. Everything You Want, Vertical Horizon
6. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, Rufus Wainwright
7. Everybody Here Wants You, Jeff Buckley
8. The Girl From Ipanema, Frank Sinatra
9. Be Mine!, Robyn
10. I Want the One I Can't Have, The Smiths
11. Cheers Darlin', Damien Rice
12. Teardrops on M...

If I decide to have kids and if I have a daughter, I would consider giving her one of these names:

• Aaliyah
• Alexandria
• Alicia
• Amber
• Amy/Amie
• Anna
• Audrey
• Ava
• Bailey
• Blair
• Blaise
• Brooke
• Bryce
• Caroline
• Claire
• Charlotte
• Cora
• Corinne
• Danielle/Daniele
• Delaney
• Delia
• Diane
• Drew
• Elizabeth/Liz
• Emma
• Emory
• Eve/Eva
• Felicity
• Francesca
• Georgia
• Heather
• Hayley
• Holly
• Isabelle/Isabella/Bella
• Jessica
• Jude
• Juliet
• June
• Katherine/Catherine/Kate
• Kelly
• Kennedy
• Lai...

If I decide to have kids and if I have a son, I would consider giving him one of these names:

• Adam
• Alden
• Alexander/Alex
• Alton
• Andrew/Drew
• Anthony
• August
• Blake
• Bradley
• Bruce
• Charles/Charlie/Chuck
• Chase
• Christian
• Christopher
• Claude
• Cooper
• Cole
• Dalton
• Daniel
• Darren
• David
• Dean
• Dominic
• Edward/Eddie
• Emerson
• Frank
• Frederick
• Gregory/Greg
• Harrison
• Henry
• Jack
• Jacob/Jake
• James
• Jeffrey
• John
• Jonah
• Jonathan/Jon
• Joshua/Josh
• Joseph
• Kenneth/Kenny/Ken
• Kev...

Good Lord, you sure are pretty.

Gentlemen:

1. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
2. Lee Pace
3. Jensen Ackles
4. Simon Baker
5. Nathan Fillion
6. Ian Somerhalder
7. Elijah Kelley
8. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
9. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
10. Jack Davenport
11. Zac Efron
12. Johnny Depp
13. Orlando Bloom
14. Wentworth Miller
15. Paul Newman
16. Gaspard Ulliel
17. Jon Foster
18. Ryan Reynolds
19. Hugh Jackman
20. Alex Kapranos
21. Ewan McGregor
22. Chris Pine
23. Taye Diggs
24. Mos Def
25. Taylor Kitsch
26. Penn Badgley
27. James Marsden
28. Milo Ventimi...

Because that site has eaten my life and because sometimes it has prime funny.

• As far as the Old Testament goes, Moses is the man. The guy was born in rags, rose to riches, then went "FU Egypt!" and ran away to Arabia. Then God comes to him and he is like, "Go to hell, dude", so God begs him to get the Jews outta Egypt. Then Moses says, you know, I was raised as a pharaoh's son so I know rhetorics a...

• Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.—The Wizard, The Wizard of Oz
• Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.—Catherine Drinker Bowen
• Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.—Stephen King
• Deep ...

O hai, random list.

• Jamal and Latika at the end of Slumdog Millionaire
• Kate and Sawyer in "Confidence Man"; Lost, season 1
• And again in "The Glass Ballerina" and "I Do" (season 3) and "There's No Place Like Home" (season 4)
• Christian and Satine in the elephant in Moulin Rouge!
• Jake and Samantha over the birthday cake in Sixteen Candles
• Ned and Chuck with plastic wrap on Pushing Daisies
• Also their first k...

I'm an occasional 'shipper. :|

1. Jessica Darling and Marcus Flutie, Sloppy Firsts
2. Ned and Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Pushing Daisies
3. Kate Austen and James "Sawyer" Ford, Lost
4. Desmond Hume and Penelope Widmore, Lost
5. Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court, Say Anything
6. Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You
7. Jack Foley and Karen Sisko, Out of Sight
8. Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Yo...

• Clarissa Explains it All: my first favorite TV show. I wanted to be Clarissa Darling when I grew up.
• Full House: me and every girl in Mrs. Thompson's third grade class would not stop talking about the series finale for days.
• Family Matters: Steve! I miss TGIF.
• Boy Meets World: Shawn Hunter was fine, k?
• The Secret World of Alex Mack: another character I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote my first eve...

• Magnificent Bastard
• Tsundre
• Crowing Moment of Awesome
• Crowning Moment of Funny
• Perverse Sexual Lust
• Wall Banger
• Shirtless Scene
• Genki Girl
• Deadpan Snarker
• Fetish Fuel
• Chaotic Neutral
• Badass
• I Am Song
• Chekhovs Gun
• Crouching Moron Hidden Badass
• Hey It's That Guy
• Crazy Awesome
• Fallen Creator
• Hey It's That Voice
• Old Shame
• Meaningful Name
• Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel
• Hollywood Nerd
• Reality is Unre...

Tumblr is stupid easy to use, and you can find me over there at viewparadise.

the "fuckyeah"s (and variants of)

• fuckyeahfirstlines
• fuckyeahhollywood
• fuckyeahmarvel
• fuckyeahpaulnewman
• fuckyeahhotboys
• heckyeahgregorypeck
• fuckyeahteenmovies
• fuckyeahthelastframe
• fuckyeahtophergrace

music/movies/pop culture

• movieoftheday
• moviesinframes
• thereal1990s
• notamovieposter
• comicbooks
• copycats
• vktrs
• whytheyrehot
• clicknlick
• sexmusic
• k...

Exactly what it says on the tin.

1. a neuralizer from Men in Black
2. Belle's yellow ball gown from Beauty and the Beast
3. the squeaky Pizza Planet aliens from Toy Story
4. a Buzz Lightyear
5. a Woody
6. Satine's Smoldering Tempstress dress from Moulin Rouge
7. Jack Sparrow's hat
8. Satine's top hat
9. Snoopy's doghouse