Things I Love (Belatedly): December 2011

Hi, December. This post is shamefully late, but I couldn't sleep knowing that I haven't publicly thanked you for everything you gave me, so here's a list of reasons why I love you. 


You gave me...

• cross-cut sweet potato fries, Szechuan style eggplant, and hard cider
• post-vomiting Gatorade that turned my teeth blue for days
• my (secondhand) Betsey Johnson dress
• my new rust-colored tights
• Paris Baguette, which is a gr8000 bakery

Their blueberry and cream cheese pastries and their sweet potato twists are the pastries of THE GODS.

• Will, who (ahahahahaha) tried to help
• sweet French baguettes
• the Vignette Android photo app because it makes everything look ~dramatic
• really good-looking sensible shoes

...and much more (so much more) after the jump, because frankly, these posts are enormous.

I write stuff after the jump.

she was just me mom

I wore this to watch Billy Elliot at the Orpheum. (In July.)

Wow, I look really stiff when other people take my photos. You can even see my smile not reaching my eyes! And usually I find it easy to voluntarily smize without smiling.

...This is why I own the cheapest tripod on Amazon.

(Lex Ishimoto was Billy the night I went. He was phenomenal. I didn't even care for the musical itself all that much (although I do love the movie), but Lex and whoever played his Michael made me all weepy. I think I just like seeing people doing what they love and doing it really well.)


This is one of those outfits that's comprised of individual items I really like but that didn't come together very well. But! On the plus side, I was really comfortable.

Black velvet t-shirt: The Limited, thrifted. Sweater: aunt's, hand-me-down. Pants: aunt's, hand-me-down. Oxfords: Miz Mooz. Socks: probably Target.

Ha-ha. I knew this was coming when I was watching the musical because I'd seen the movie beforehand, but I wasn't expecting to cry as much as I did. But I cry easily.

BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL ABOUT A BOY SAYING "LOVE YOU FOREVER" TO HIS MUM, ESPECIALLY IN A HARD-TO-PLACE NORTHERN ENGLISH ACCENT. # maybe this is why i have a linguistics degree

You know how sometimes when you watch really talented people, it inspires you to go make cool things or do great work, and sometimes it just makes you feel like a total failure?

Yeah, I give up.

(Just kidding. This is definitely one of those things that make me want to Do Great Things. As opposed to The Social Network, which just makes me want to lie on the ground and give up. SPARKS INSIDE OF MEEEEE!)

rings with wings and new beginnings

This is the last outfit I ever photographed at my old (and first ever) apartment, which, I have to admit, I was really happy to leave behind.

Something about this outfit makes me feel like a semiprecious stone. You know, like I'm simultaneously both Romeo and Juliet, checking myself out at a party. "She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear..."

...Maybe it's because this dress makes me feel like A MILLION BUCKS, which is what you would need to get started on buying me every single piece of beautiful, flawless, stunning, &c. jewelry I want from The Three Graces, semiprecious stones or not. (I hope this doesn't look like a sponsored post, because it isn't. Although if you'd like to sponsor my happiness, please feel free to buy me any of these shiny things that make me weak in the knees.)

(Actually, I doubt that adds up to a million bucks, but my dress makes me feel like at least the summed value of the above linked items. Which is a large number. Especially considering the $13,750 earrings.)

 

MULTIPLES OF ME!

Look at me trying to be all twee and bloggery against the dirty wall of my poorly-lit apartment! Don't I look... semiprecious?

Eh? EH? The poor funnification of this post is brought to you by a Sam who has been reading Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby for class, and let me tell you, the deranged writing style rubs off very quickly.

(Funnification is not a word, Moony.)

Rings! With wings! And my face looking bizarrely tan and my hair in a swirling haze of flyaways!

Dress: Goodwill + hemmed. Thermal: some brand at Macy's. Tights: generic. Oxfords: Payless. Rings: Rapunzelsgold on etsy and Forever21.

Speaking of which, this reminds me of a song I listened to for several weeks (or months) straight in high school.

(Miles above and beyond "Hey Juliet", which was sooo 8th grade and which made a resurgence in my life right before college. Because I'm hella classy.)


P. S. Enter my Shabby Apple giveaway before the 23rd to win a dress for the price of a comment!

virgin snow & this is for you

SUBTLETY? What is that?

- Symbolism

Progression of zooms to uncomfortable closeup: amateur night at The Troll's Head. Slip: secondhand Elle MacPherson, gift. T-shirt: Napoleon in War Paint, Threadless. Green leggings: American Apparel, secondhand, gift. Socks: Forever21. Shoes: Kork-Ease. Rekindled fondness for the song below: Doctor Who, Series 5, Episode 10.

I write stuff after the jump.

variations on a trench coat: shiny celebrity skin

This will become apparent as soon as you scroll down, but this outfit has nothing to do with the post title or the name of this variation except that "Marianas Trench" and "trench coat" share a word (unless you're an English major*). (Which is why I put this video for Marianas Trench's "Celebrity Status" here to distract you.)

*by which I mean you can find some obscure connection that was unintended by the writer**

**OOOH, BURRNNNNN***

***Kidding, mostly. I just have a beef with when people insist that a certain meaning was intended by a writer, versus "could be usefully, interestingly, or otherwise productively analogized to domain X."

This is Variations on a Trench Coat...

Variation VI: Pretty Will Swallow You Forever

Trench coat: FoxRun, mother's. Gray longsleeve: Target. Velvet t-shirt: thrifted Express. Floral slip: estate sale. Tights: gift from my brother, from Korea. Lacy slip-shorts: grandmother's. Boots: Steven by Steve Madden. Post-titling prowess: 3 years of Public Ivy education.

Things I Love: April 2011

April's Things I Love is a little on the light side... because it's mostly made up of my newfound love for Doctor Who. But don't you fret, my non-Who children! May's Things I Love will be with us soon, and it - wait, no, it's full of Doctor Who too.

Well anyway. The Doctor says that "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant."

And April definitely added to my pile of good things. Here is a list of good things:

• feeling the tides a-changing
• my mother
• the smell of the cemetery
• my grandmother
• lipstick mixed with clear gloss in the palm of my hand (perfect consistency! perfect coverage/sheerness!)
• breakfast for dinner
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? clips
• a rewatch of Tangled (I have so much love for "When Will My Life Begin?" and both of its reprises!)

SO MANY FEELINGS FOR THIS REPRESSED BAMF PRINCESS AND THIS PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIP.

• Script Frenzy because even though I never did make it to 100 pages in April, I did write around 18 pages of new script, and how's that for a creativity/productivity jump-start?
• Robin's tumblr
• that awkward moment when you have your GSI's number on your phone because your friend went to go pick up your midterm for you but you need to prove that you consent to having your friend pick up your midterm for you and your mind helpfully supplies the lyrics "NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER" while you text your student ID number and you feel the hysterical need to explain all your life choices to your GSI after the friend in question tells your GSI "I was her TA" and your GSI looks surprised and responds with "I thought you were dating" and textual miscommunication ensues so that when you are forced to go to pick up your midterm yourself, the only thing you manage to stutter out by way of explanation is "Maybe I should have used a lot of smileys"
• Pluto's salad with tri-tip steak
• high-speed internet at home
• Catfish because Nev Schulman is beautiful

• emailing Liana, who is a quality human being
• Steven, Bobby, and Josh
• Gossip Girl - all 2 episodes that I could get through, for Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Dan Humphrey, the only character I could get invested in for more than five minutes
  
• the smell of wet concrete
• the lady who gave us her all-day parking pass
  
• Morgane, whose self-proclaimed spirit animal is Allie Brosh's simple dog, for being half of the not-herpingest derpingest partnership in our class with our Zoolander fan site, and for trolling IRL with me
• About A Boy for Hugh Grant, young!Nicholas Hoult, and the fact that I went into this expecting a chick flick and instead got a fun little movie about un-fun things
  

I am a sucker for Hugh Grant - it doesn't matter how bad the movie is (I NEED INSPIRATION, NOT JUST ANOTHER NEGO-TI-A-TIONNNN) - but even the audio of the opening scene is good. (Or I'm a sucker for Hugh Grant's voice YOU GUYS HE WAS 42 WHEN ABOUT A BOY CAME OUT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.)

• paying attention to what makes me sad and what makes me happy
• a photo sesh with Diane
• the way dew sparkles on grass when sunlight hits it
• "I Just Had Sex"
• standing up for myself
• Saturday morning garage and estate sale-ing
• sobbing into my mother's arms
• Bella :)
• Sleepless in Seattle, which I only decided to watch because Jesse Eisenberg said he likes it in his interview with Seventeen, although knowing Jesse Eisenberg, he could well have been trolling because it was sort of a waste of a question... anyway, it was all right. It made me thankful that I don't watch "chick flicks" more often... COME AT ME, BRO
  
• greasy eggplant
• having charcoal and grape seed oil slathered on my tongue and then having the roof of my mouth photographed (GROSS!)

ARE YOU GROSSED OUT YET?

• cancelled discussion sections!
• the freshly-squeezed orange juice and mushroom burgers at Bongo Burger
• settling my housing and academic plans for fall
• my 111th follower because I just really like saying eleventy-one, okay?
• black tea
• The Virgin Suicides, which, now that I've finally seen it, makes me feel like a legit fashion blogger. (Ha. Right.) My immediate thought about the aesthetic feel was actually that the color washes reminded me of The King's Speech, but more feminine and soft and fluttery and delicate. It was nice to look at (and very 1970s, yeah?), but honestly this film had no emotional impact on me because I wasn't interested in the characters or the plot. Whoops.
  

Pathetic Aside: When I was ten or eleven, I found a Livejournal icon of the above scene and used it as my forum avatar for the next couple of years without knowing where it was from or noticing that Cecilia's wrists are wrapped in bandages or gauze or whatever.

• letting my imagination run wild
• snacking like a monster
• my grandmother
• Doctor Who because OMG OMG OMG WHERE HAS THIS SHOW BEEN ALL MY LIFE. AMELIA FUCKING POND. & THE DOCTOR. & MATT SMITH, KAREN GILLAN, Rory Williams, "bow ties are cool," the idea that love is what separates human from non-human because it meshes with my Harry Potter understanding of the world, suspenders, Matt Smith's stupid ridiculous fabulous hair, MATT FUCKING TALL PASTY AND HANDSOME "LIKE A YOUNG MAN BUILT BY OLD MEN FROM MEMORY" SMITH. I blame Eleven for why I watched almost no movies in April, and I will save the Who!spam for the end of this post.
  
• one-woman dance parties
• Spenser
• Glee for the episode entitled "Born This Way" because it reminded me why I fell in love with the show in the first place (someday I will find the willpower to continue watching, but today is not that day... not when there are episodes of Doctor Who with David Tennant to be watched)
  

I actually really like this "I Feel Pretty/Unpretty" mashup in context, even though I found it blasphemous that Glee was having Quinn/Rachel cover TLC at all.



Darren Criss

(That's a sufficient caption, right? I thought this was borderline perfect, although I may be biased because the "Night of Neglect" episode from the week before was so atrocious. It also helps that this song makes me achingly nostalgic the way Maroon5's "She Will Be Loved" does.)



OH KURT YOU WONDERFUL BEAST, +I think this is the way "Born This Way" is meant to be sung, by a group of people flying their freak flags.

• CORALista so much!
• TK
• patching my holey socks with old socks (SO META!)
• the Fringe pilot, which was disgusting, riveting, and thankfully not enough of a hook to get me to start a new TV show
  
• hot soybean milk

What follows is my You Never Forget Your First (Doctor (Especially If That Doctor Is Eleven, Although Since I Am Writing This In May And Am Working On Tennant-Era Who, I Must Admit That If Your First Doctor Was Ten, It Would Be Pretty Hard To Forget David Foxy-As-FFFUUUU Tennant, But In Any Case The Doctor Is My Doctor And Right Now Let's Focus On The Intergalactic Proportions Of Matt Smith's Legs)) media!spam:

MY FIRST DOCTOR WAS ELEVEN AND BOW TIES ARE COOL.

To be fair, Karen Gillan has legs of intergalactic proportions too. (Oh, I see what you did there, Sam. Clever clever.)

Karen Gillan's very round face is simultaneously adorable and sexy, which is a very dangerous combination for someone who has a weakness for redheads.

I don't care if this photo is overedited. Karen's face is priceless.

KAREN GILLAN, TO ME YOU ARE PERFECT.

Okay, I had to include this one because River Song is a badass and Arthur Darvill + glasses = swag of the century.



RORY: (leaving a message on AMY's phone) Hey! It’s me. Hello! How are you? Um, the reason for this call is because I haven’t told you for seven hours that I love you, which is a scandal! An even if we weren’t getting married tomorrow I’d ask you to marry me anyway. Yes I would! Because you are smashing.

Actually, a Weeping Angel isn't a Looker like Matt Smith or Karen Gillan (or Arthur Darvill), but it's something I definitely recommend you look at... and look at... and whatever you do, don't blink.

Matt Fabulous Hair Fabulous Socks And Fabulous Shoes Smith

The Doctor is in an unfinished ugly sweater. Your argument is invalid. (Actually, it's a pretty awesome sweater, and not just because Matt Smith is inside it.)



#elevenshrug

Matt I Cause Sex Riots Smith

Basically, my misguided ovaries

have a crush on a 907-year-old alien, but instead of shipping him with one of his brilliant and beautiful companions, I ship him with a blue box.

THANK YOU, APRIL!

link roundup: chapter the second, 2011

Forewarning: this installment is bigger on the inside very, very large because I haven't cleaned out my links in a while, and in an attempt to space out the items for easier scanning, I may have sabotaged myself and made this post even longer than it originally was.

READING MATERIAL

• The Secret Lives of Artists: eight local artists tell us how they pay the bills, because I know it's something about life as a creative that I've wondered about. Spoiler alert: there are quite a few bartenders in there.


• You Can Put Your Clothes On Now, a guest post at Rachel Rabbit White, in which the author of Vagina Drum auditions for porn.


• Tiny Beautiful Things, probably the best "letter to your 20-year-old self" that I've ever read. [via [via]]


• My hand-picked articles from The Bold Italic, because I am such a connoisseur of... San Francisco? Not really, but anyway:


• The Royal Family, on San Francisco's eccentrics, not William and Kate.


• Kid Stays in the Picture, on auditioning to be an extra.


• Loaf Lessons, on baking. "PROTIP: MAKE SURE THE OVEN IS ON."


• Rye Humor, on the Wise Sons deli, founded by one Beckerman and one Bloom whose mission is to "bring Jews together."
  


• My hand-picked articles from Thought Catalog, because I am such a connoisseur of truth:


• How To Be Alone, for "Go to the movies by yourself and pick one that starts in 15 minutes because it starts in 15 minutes. Buy an ice cream bar from the concession stand. See your roommates. All of you have tickets for the same movie. Bite your ice cream and grin at them."
  

• 50 Things University Taught Me: First Year, for truth and insight.


• On Loneliness, for "Note, if you sit next to a stranger on a bus and smile in just the right manner, they will tell you their life story."


• What It Feels Like To Be Eaten Out, because this is rather entertaining.


• How To Write A Company Manifesto, which is genius and reminds me why I love language.


• Delusional Expectations of an Aging Millennial, because oh my God I don't even have enough faith in myself to hope for a future that looks this Nice and un-tumultuous.


• An Open Letter To Birth Control, because it is a little heartbreaking, a little horrific, and a little funny.
  


• Anarchy in the UK, from Aha Shake Heartbreaker's Sunday Morning Sophisticate (n.), because I'm thinking "illogical brilliance" should be the header to my style statement for the coming seasons.


• THERE IS GOING TO BE A DISCWORLD TV SERIES?! This is even more exciting than when I read that there's going to be an Ender's Game movie! (Maybe because I think there's less potential to ruin Discworld than to ruin the delicacy of Ender's Game.)


• On Emma Watson's appalling lack of concealer. I have nothing to say.
  


• Probability, from xkcd, in case you feel the need to get watery-eyed.


• On that green dress from Atonement, from Sunday Couture, in exquisite detail for the costume-curious.

• This Tech Bubble Is Different, from BusinessWeek.

Any generation of smart people will be drawn to where the money is, and right now it's the ad generation.

Facebook is not the kind of technology that will stop us from having dropped cell phone calls, and neither is Groupon or any of these advertising things. We need them. Okay, great. But they are building on top of old technology, and at some point you exhaust the fuel of the underpinnings.

• Deep Thought and Immaturity, from My Edit. "Nobody does overdone like a fashion student."


• We Make the Sun Ourselves, from Song of the Exile. "But dressing up is not dressing for men, and vanity (because sure, I'm vain) is not the same as sexuality." SING IT, WOMAN.


• On the Importance of Having a Good Support Network, from Musings of an Inappropriate Woman.

Every time I’ve attempted to do something remotely interesting in my life - running an awesome project that earns me close to zilch dollars, quitting my job to freelance fulltime, or flying to the United States on the probably-never-intended-to-go-through-with promise of a cocktail with Maureen Dowd - I have encountered naysayers. People who say things like, “Why would you want to do that?”, “Are you sure that’s safe?” or “Erm, okay, good luck with that.” Or as I’ll explore in another post later this week, “Who does she think she is?”

In many cases, these people have been my friends, which adds a nice dose of salt to the wound. But I’m sure we’ve all been there at one point.

• The Best Time I Got a Bikini Wax, from The Hairpin because I'll bet you a poppyseed muffin that you will laugh while reading this. (Geez, that sounded like a euphemism. I swear it wasn't. I'm just craving a poppyseed muffin right now. Non-euphemistically.)


• What Your Favorite Kids Book Then Says About You Now, because I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH OF MY CHILDHOOD JUST FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES. Geeking out commence: Ender's Game! Goosebumps! Harry Potter! REDWALL! FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER!!! MATILDA!!! THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH.

• 7 basic things you won't believe you're all doing wrong, because it is hilarious.


• The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck, because if your writing is even moderately good and you start your article with a picture of a horse leaping off a balcony with the caption "fuck this shit," I will definitely keep reading.


• Die on Purpose, from Raptitude, because the little mental exercise this article suggests is fantastic advice and it makes me feel so at peace.


• Dreams Do Come True: A Journal Excerpt from 2005. From Gala Darling, who is in every way a shooting star in the shape of a girl.


• The Love That Dare Not Speaks Its Name, a webcomic from the ever-golden Books of Adam, based on the contents of a spam comment.


• THIS IS SHOW TIME because I like advice that goes like "Suck less, today."


• On washable cloth menstrual pads because I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING THIS AND I KNOW YOU WERE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT THE STATE OF MY UTERINE LINING.


• How to Get a Real Education by Scott Adams of Dilbert. On B-students, adequacy, and entrepreneurship.


• A glorious little 2011 mantra from little chief honeybee.


• A DIY'd Doctor Who Weeping Angel costume - just WOW.


• Fashion blogger + TARDIS tattoo = bow ties are cool


• A word about comment signatures, from Wendy Brandes because HOMG I cannot tell you how much self-promotional comments peeve me. (I guess I'm old-school when it comes to leaving your URL. Which is to say, "don't; it's not like I don't know how to click through.")


• Dear Sartorialist, Let's Chat About Fashion Blogs because REALLY, SCOTT SCHUMANN, IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU. (I'd throw in a "YOU FUCKER" for good measure, but I don't know what I'd do if I ever met him in person.)
  

JUST FOR FUN

• Nyan Cat, ad infinitum. I literally did not stop smiling for the seven minutes straight the first time I watched this. I then proceeded to Nyan for two hours while writing a paper. [via]


• QWOP, which is both insanely frustrating and hilarious, and worth the maybe fifteen seconds it will take before you fall flat on your ass (or face, or left kneecap) if only because it will probably make you giggle.


• Possibly wildly inappropriate, but this Nedroid comic made me laugh really hard the first time I read it.


• So did YouTerus from Hejibits.


• For the tumblr trolls: Y U NO INCLUDE ME?


• Big Ben is on Twitter. It's almost like the real thing!


• Harry Potter nail polish names. (I'll take Fenrir Greyback, Noble & Most Ancient House of Black, Lockheart, and Half-Blood Princess.)


• LOLING TO KINGDOM COME OVER HOW ACCURATE THIS CHINESE CHARACTER IS:
  

• In case you were curious about digital fabric printing, one blogger's experience with several different online services.


• This book carving is incredible.


• My cousin made me look up Tuscan Whole Milk so I could read the ridiculous reviews. A few days later I accidentally stumbled upon the Elegant Moments Leather Kilt, which also has some priceless reviews.


• Lateral, the addictive word association game I still cannot finish.


• Second photo down in this post from Disheveled Trend - RADDEST PHOTO EVER. Roma is a badass.
  


• Remember Legends of the Hidden Temple?


• For the LotR movie geeks out there, I PROMISE LULZ.


• This is a texturally and color...ically beautiful outfit from a smile & a shoeshine.


• Abby from My Yellow Sandbox has fabulous hair-styling ideas and the tutorials to go with them.


• And finally, for some reason, I have a huge collection of DIY tutorials this time around, so here goes. Starting with...

• a reusable snack bag tutorial, if you have a bunch of potato chip bags lying around.


• CASCARONES!!! because there is nothing more fun than confetti- and glitter-filled eggs.


• Glazed magnets made from old maps


• Glazed magnets made from Pantone color chips


• Balenciaga-style metal-tipped collars from Honestly... WTF


• a transparent clutch from Honestly... WTF (I must admit that against all aesthetic sense, I love me a good transparent product. Especially clutches and raincoats.)


• Anthropologie's Party Animal necklaces cost $38.
  


• Coastal Curtsy Skirt because HNNNGHHHH! I don't care if you can't sew for beans - just click through and look at that texture! It makes me want to frolic barefoot on the beach and collect sand dollars.
  


• delicate and kind of eerie leaf skeletons


• beautiful DIY fabric flowers... that involve burning fabric (AWESOME!)


• fabric-covered notebooks: simple genius


• washi-covered pencils! Also simple genius (and would make a fun and classy gift OH JUST IMAGINE IT: handcrafted fabric-covered notebooks and washi-covered pencils wrapped in brown paper and tied up with white string SIMPLE. GENIUS.)


• Friendship bracelets + rhinestones


• Friendship bracelets + chains one and two
  

SONGS AND VIDEOS

Here is my oversized personal earworm playlist from the past many weeks:

1. "Never Let You Go (acoustic)" - Justin Bieber (come at me bro i dare you to judge me)
   
2. "Home" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
3. "Shine On" - Seth Bernard & Daisy May
4. "God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi" - The Thin Red Line (WEEPING)
   
5. "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele (who hasn't had this stuck in their head at some point?)
   
6. "American Dream" - Sky Ferreira (I think everyone should try listening to some Sky) [via]
7. "Sex Rules" - Sky Ferreira
   
8. "In My Head" - Jason Derulo
9. "A Comet On Its Way" - Spring Awakening (Will I ever get over this musical?)
   
10. "Mama Said" - The Shirelles, covered by Jordan Corey
11. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" - The Shirelles, covered by The Like (They are so cute! Also I'm having a bit of a Shirelles moment, I guess)
    
12. "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" - The Shirelles, covered by Amy Winehouse
13. "Nobody" - Wondergirls, covered by Jayesslee
    
14. "Nobody" - Wondergirls, covered by Manny Garcia (where did my pants go?)
    
15. "Misery" - Maroon5, covered by Lindsey Lee
16. "Misery" - Maroon5, covered by ...ScooterMctiny, apparently
17. "I Am The Doctor" - Murray Gold, for my fellow Doctor Who fans (I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AND IT IS THE HEART OF THE TARDIS GOOD)
    
18. "Amy's Theme" - Murray Gold, for fans of The Legs
    

Things I recommend you watch:

1. The best cover of "Airplanes" I have ever heard. (I was in tears by the end of the video.)


2. This extremely long recording of Darren Criss's livestream wherein he says, in response to a (wildly inappropriate) fan calling in to tell him "I'm 18 and legal too, by the way," "I don't even know what that means. So you're saying you can vote? So you can vote, that's great. Awesome. That's great. Maybe we'll vote together sometime."


3. Advanced Style (thanks Shelby!) and yes, I know the whole world has seen this already but it makes me feel less like a freak and more like a badass, which is usually a good thing.


4. This TED talk by Brene Brown, on the power of vulnerability. (Thanks, Jess!)
   

An epic UBC LipDub (for "Raise Your Glass" and "Celebrity Status") because IT ENGENDERS JOY IN MY COLD, COLD HEART.



Dormtertainment's version of "Baby" because I don't usually like videos of people dancing in front of their webcams, but I couldn't help grinning at this (and then dissolving into giggles).



DARREN CRISS SINGING "HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME" HNNNGHHHHFFFFF WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS NOW EH? EH?! (Confession: I haven't watched Glee since "Born This Way.")



Some Whose Line Is It Anyway?, just for fun. Because I like laughing.



It's been so long since it came out, and I bet you've seen this, but this cracks me up every time: the Inception trailer, a capella. BRRRRRMMMMMMM!!!



The making of the Seven Potters scene in Deathly Hallows: Part I. (DanRad is a fabulous human being.)



Craig Ferguson interviews Matt Smith. Reasons you should hit play: Matt Smith's hair, Matt Smith's accent, Matt Smith's 20,000 leagues of leg, Matt Smith's socks, and Matt Smith's reaction to "Oh, Doctor! I'm bigger on the inside!"