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jacob. 14. texas. sometimes things happen in my life, and then there's TV; i much prefer the latter. i eat a lot of roughage, use too many semicolons, prefer winter to summer, and change my blog title way too often. i'm sure you're a very nice person, even if you like nickelback.

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a playlist, just because i feel like it. 

1. Placebo - “Running Up That Hill.”
2. Vanessa Carlton - “Fools Like Me.”
3. Neil Diamond - “Sweet Caroline.”
4. Sara Bareilles - “Gravity.”
5. Queen - “Somebody to Love.”
6. Erin McCarley - “Pony (It’s Okay)”
7. Ludwig Goransson - “If I Die Before You.”
8. Joan Jett - “Bad Reputation.”
9. Dexys Midnight Runners - “Come On Eileen.”
10. Maniac Garage - “This Time.”
11. The Solids - “Hey Beautiful.”
12. Esperanza Spalding - “Precious.”

three fun facts 

• I have never seen an episode of Doctor Who and I don’t really want to. I think after the 27,000,000 GIFs and gratuitous pictures of the cast that have been on my dash in the last month, I’ve just about seen everything at one point or another. (I do watch Torchwood, but for now it’s mostly a cheesy guilty pleasure type thing, because it doesn’t get great until Series 3, or so I’m told).
• I love Harry Potter, but there are some things I will never get about the fandom. Wrock annoys me a little. Quidditch leagues seem vaguely pointless. (Half of Tumblr would call me “not a real fan” if they saw this—if they actually cared—especially if I also mentioned that I haven’t seen HP7.2. THAT LAST PART IS NOT BY MY CHOICE THOUGH. There were extenuating circumstances.)
• I think the Glee actors, not just the show, are a little overrated. Either that or the material is a new level of bad.

“fuck”s in Deadwood: varying opinions 

• # of ‘fuck’s I counted in the first episode of Deadwood: 52
• # of ‘fuck’s that http://thewvsr.com/deadwood.htm counted in the first episode of Deadwood: 55
• # of ‘fuck’s in entire series run of Scrubs: 0

17 books I am going to try to read in 6 weeks 

School starts in six weeks. I want to read 15 books before then and know that realistically I won’t finish at least two. *end exposition*

The list:

1. Tamar by Mal Peet [finish]
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
4. The Piper’s Son by Melina Marchetta [finish]
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (a re-read, but it’ll be an in-depth one as it’s for a school assignment that I actually kind of care about [!])
6. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [finish]
7. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen [finish]
8. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan [finish]
9. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
10. Little Children by Tom Perotta [finish]
11. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
12. I Know It’s Over by C. K. Kelly Martin [finish]
13. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
14. Crash Into Me by Albert Borris
15. Mostly Good Girls by Leila Sales
16. Beloved by Toni Morrison
17. Where She Went by Gayle Forman [finish]

Ideally I’d finish these with time to spare for others, but if you know me you know that that notion is ha hah haha hahaha oh my god laughing hahahahahahaha *wipes tear* crazy.

So there you go. *reads, except not really because shiny thing!*

Note: [finish] means that I’ve already read a healthy amount of the book. I’ve read a chapter or so of most of these but not enough for it to count, in my opinion. You’ll discover in the next few weeks if you actually decide to read this damn thing that my opinion can be… a thing.

five things I have heard recently that struck me as stupid (originally 5/3/11) 

• “WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? i don’t remember.”
• “I just don’t think you can be born gay.”
• “We believe the high quality of this H-E-B product makes it an outstanding value.”
• “I love this school; everyone here is so nice.”
• “Glee is so great. I can’t think of any show that’s ever been better.”