A book called Dawn of the Vampire. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve read this book. The book itself isn’t all that bad. The story is fairly original - as far as vampire stories go.
But, the editing is atrocious. It’s bad to the point that two characters swap names about 3/4 of the way through the book.
Og help me. That VH1. I can’t stand I Love Money or Charm School, but I have to admit that not only will I re-watch reruns of all the “decade” shows even though I’ve seen them all … and not only did I watch that “Tough Love/Bootcamp” show … but that I (oh, man) RECORDED the Bootcamp show, so I wouldn’t miss an episode.
(buries head in shame)
Also, I watched the first season of “Rock of Love.” It was hysterical.
(more shame)
But I can’t watch the subsequent seasons, and I can’t even sit through commercials for the “Tour Bus” version of it without cringing and squirming. Brett just seems so … dirty. In the not-fun way. Makes me think of the Family Guy line about “you like like, if I touched you, you’d be sticky.”
In the food realm … FunYuns.
They give me a very slightly queasy feeling if I eat too many of them at once. They’re weird. They’re unholy approximations of a pseudo-vegetable. I don’t blame anyone who recoils at the sight of them.
But, sweet Jeebus, I love those things. The bubbly-crispy texture, the varied sizes, the way they taste of straight-up glutamates. Nothing handles a craving for salt better … except possibly for a big spoonful of Maggi seasoning - straight from the bottle to my mouth - the smell of which alone makes Mr. Horseshoe turn green and leave the room.
Also, popcorn - specifically, the kind you get at the movies or sporting events, covered in salty yellow chemical fake-butter goo. I’m a nibbler, eat numerous small meals a day, am useless at Thanksgiving or all-you-can-eat buffets … but movie popcorn is the one single thing on this Earth I will continue to eat until either it’s all gone or I’ve thrown up, whichever comes first.
Meg Cabot’s Mediator series of YA books. It’s about a teenage girl who talks about the boys she likes, her step-brothers, and what designers she’s wearing… oh, and she sees and helps out ghosts. But that’s really secondary to the more important stuff.
Also, almost anything by Mercedes Lackey. Especially her Elemental Masters series.
I must admit I tuned in for the new show, but only to see Brenda and Kelly reunited at the Peach Pit. The rest of the show is total crap and not in a good way.
They got Shannon Doherty to come back?! I thought she was all, “Over my dead body.” Brenda was always my favorite part of that show. I just never felt the Valerie as an instigator–had to be Brenda for me.
The movie “Volcano”. Yes, I know the science is iffy at best. There is overacting and poor acting all over the place. But there’s LAVA! In LOS ANGELES! Stuff blows up!!
Can’t help it, just love the movie. (And I don’t like “Dante’s Peak” nearly as well, either - and usually I’ll watch Pierce Brosnan over Tommy Lee Jones any day.)
I didn’t miss a single episode of The OC. I miss Seth, the li’l wisenheimer. Oh, I also watched that shitty movie Seth (Adrian Brody) was in with Meg Ryan and found myself enjoying it.
I used to wach MTV’s Undressed. Most people I’ve mentioned it to have never heard of it. It was a soap-opera-ish very cheesy show about young people getting laid. It was really bad. For some reason I really liked it. A while back I looked around online to see if I could find it on DVD, or even a torrent or something, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Anything written by James Rollins. His work is essentially the same basic bad adventure novel over and over again with a few name/character changes and a different setting. It’s poorly written crap, but I still read everything the man writes; it has the appeal of a really cheesy, midnight-on-cable TV ‘B’ movie.
Yep, it was oddly addicting. I may have to start hunting for it again. Hard to believe it’s not on the internet somewhere. Everything’s on the internet.
Oh, I’ve got a ton of these… I really have terrible taste, when I stop to think about it.
Silly historical romances: I love me a brooding handsome lord rescuing an attractive damsel from evil relatives/a life of poverty/an inappropriate suitor/a marriage of convenience/a murderous villain/whatever else have you.
Not just once in a while, either… I probably polish off two to three of them a week, on top of the non-romances I read (yes, I read ridiculously fast). Thankfully, they’re cheap and plentiful in thrift shops and used bookstores.
Crap reality TV: I don’t specifically sit down to watch any particular show, but if I happen to be channel surfing and come across an episode of America’s Next Top Model or Ru Paul’s Drag Race, I’ll happily watch (much to The Boy’s dismay, because he hates trash TV).
Don’t even get me started on So You Think You Can Dance, either. That one I actually do specifically sit down to watch.
Grilled cheese: no, not the fancy kind. I’m taking cheap white bread and processed cheese slices, baby. I’m a big food snob most of the time, so normally I wouldn’t touch either ingredient with a ten foot pole. However, the only reason a grilled cheese exists is to be smothered in ketchup anyways, so the quality of the ingredients is a purely secondary concern. IMO, it’s just a ketchup delivery mechanism.