Appearances or otherwise.

Just like last week, I'm back with very little to offer. Lots of memes, all from king_duncan, and far too few movie updates. AFI 100 in February is just not happening, folks. I'm too busy a little bee. It is my cross to bear.

Memes first!

TV meme:
Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.

1. Sports Night
2. Veronica Mars
3. Doctor Who
4. Wonderfalls
5. Torchwood



1. Which is your favorite series from your list? And why?
Sports Night, without question.

2. If you were to pair two characters from 1 and 4, who would they be?
Casey and Jaye. She's a bit too young for him, but they'd have fun driving each other crazy. I was thinking Jeremy, but she'd probably just put him in a mental hospital.

3. What is one thing you'd like to change about 3's plotline?
Well, I'd have made the Doctor actually catch on to what he was missing in S3. Also, Martha would get to smack the crap out of Rose at some point.

4. If both main characters of 2 and 5 were falling off a cliff, which one would you save?
Well, Jack wouldn't die even if he did hit the bottom... but I still think I'd save him over Veronica. S1 Vee would get saved, S2 I'd let fall a little longer but I'd eventually grab her, S3 Vee can make a big mess and I'd do a little dance when I heard the splat.

5. Which event was the most horrible for you in 1?
When it got cancelled. Oh, you mean within the show? Dana pushing Casey to date in S2 and the subsequent Casey + Pixley torture. Heartbreaking.

6. Which is your least favorite character of 2?
HELLO? VERONICA. Well, Donut if we're talking entire series, but as for focus of rage, S3 Veronica for the win.

7. If the antagonist of 3 were to rape the main character of 1, what would you do?
Wow, the Master and Dana. That's just evil. Um, help Casey and the Doctor hunt him down and devise a fate worse than death for him.

8. What song reminds you of 5?
"Dancing With Myself" by Billy Idol. Jack would so love that song, don't you think?

9. Of 1, 3, and 5, which is the easiest to think about?
Doctor Who! At least right now.

10. Are the protagonists of 2 and 4 similar?
Well, they're both young, supposedly intellingent, mouthy, smarmy, skinny, pretty girls with very little respect for the law. I suppose so, but Jaye uses her powers for good more than evil, unlike some others I could name.

And similar music meme:
Pick your top 10 bands and answer the questions.

1. The Old 97s
2. Spoon
3. Paul Simon
4. Iggy Pop
5. Neko Case
6. Liz Phair
7. The Pretenders
8. The Rolling Stones
9. The Beatles
10. Elvis Costello



1. What is your favourite album of 2?
That one that has "Anything You Want" on it. I think that's Girls Can Tell?

2. What is your favourite lyric that 5 has ever sung?
I didn't make it to your funeral
I didn't want ritual nor resign
I just wanted to hold hands with
J.P. and Mary-Jo

3. How many times have you seen 4 live?
ONCE. AND IT WAS AWESOME.

4. What is your favourite song by 7?
"Don't Get Me Wrong"

5. What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
"Pump it Up" came on the radio randomly one day when I was a runner and stuck in traffic in Hollywood. By stuck I mean sitting still at Hollywood & Highland for about 20 minutes. The A/C was off and my windows were open cause my car was on the verge of overheating and I was sweaty and pissy and miserable. As soon as that song came on a breeze blew through my car and I was instantly so much happier. I danced in my seat and sang along loudly despite the windows being open and being surrounded by everyone on the planet squeezed into that tiny street. Refreshing.

6. Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
"Night Game"

7. What is your favourite lyric that 2 has sung?
If there's anything you want
Come on back cause it's all still here
I'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer

8. How did you get into 3?
My mother got Graceland when I was five and I can probably still sing that entire album by heart right now.

9. What was the first song you heard by 1?
I don't remember what the first song was at the show, but the one I remember most is "Barrier Reef." Not a bad start, gentlemen.

10. What is your favourite song by 4?
"The Passenger"

11. How many times have you seen 9 live?
Well, they broke up eight years before I was born, so never. :(

12. What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Being the car with my boys from college and one of them was playing my grad mixtape he had just finished and "Anything You Want" came on and the other one was a bit miffed cause he hadn't given me my tape yet and he was going to put that song on it, too. So that song always makes me think of them both.

13. Is there a song of 9 that makes you sad?
"For No One"

14. What is your favourite album of 5?
Furnace Room Lullaby

15. What is your favourite lyric that 3 has sung?
The first thing I remember, I was lying in my bed
I couldn't've been no more than one or two
And I remember there's a radio, coming from the room next door
My mother laughed the way some ladies' do

16. What is your favourite song of 1?
"Doreen"

17. What is your favourite song of 10?
"I Want You"

18. How many times have you seen 8 live?
Never. Man, those old dudes are expensive.

19. What is your favourite album of 1?
Too Far to Care

20. What is a great memory you have concerning 9?
Listening to them constantly in my dad's truck when I was little. That's almost all he played, with a little folk music thrown in occasionally.

21. What was the first song you heard by 8?
No idea. Probably my least favorite by them, "Satisfaction," though the first time I really loved them was "Ruby Tuesday."

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AFI movie reviews... um... later. I need a cup of tea like wow.