1. Nerdist podcast
Chris Hardwick, host of Web Soup, and his friends Matt Mira and Jonah Ray talk about nerdy things and interview awesome people. And when I say "nerdy things" I mean everything from video games to to stand-up to television to movies to crappy jobs and everything in between. I really don't know anything about comics and video games so that stuff loses me but I'm always entertained. My favorites are of course the podcasts with celebrity guests because they go above and beyond what you normally hear in celebrity interviews. The best in my opinion are are Joel McHale's (he tells hilarious stories about his kids, Donald Glover's (they joke about writing a Back to the Future musical based on Mayor Goldie Wilson and Donald describes the Simpson's Spec script that landed him his 30 Rock writing job), Rainn Wilson's (they have a fascinating conversation about religion and philosophy) and Damon Lindelof's (they discuss Lost and the different ways one can watch and enjoy a television show). But other awesome guests include Wil Wheaton, Ed Helms, Matt Smith, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson, Alison Brie and Danny Pudi. It's highly entertaining stuff and I'm pretty sure that listening to these podcasts is the only thing that kept me sane when I got stuck in traffic for 10 hours on I-5 the other day. Blech.
Also, if I can afford it I'm going to try to see their live podcast show in San Diego during ComiCon in July.
2. This video.
What was that you just heard? Oh yeah, it was the sound of my soul SQUEEING in delight. That one minute of video just made a top five list of CUTEST THINGS I'VE EVER LAID EYES ON. EVER.
3. The new Fleet Foxes album
Holy crapsicles. How did it take me so long to download this album? It's is in one word, CRA-MAZING-ALICIOUS. That's not a word? Whatever. This album makes me stupidly incoherent. Favorite songs right now: Lorelai, Battery Kinzie, Sim Sala Bim and Grown Ocean.
4. Coconut Frappucuinos from Starbucks
Chocolate is awesome. Coconut is awesome. Put them together and what do you get? A new addiction for Shannon.
5. Greendale Texts from Last Night
I find the website Texts From Last Night to be hilarious because I will always love crazy drunk people. And now there's Greendale Texts from Last Night which superimposes these amazing texts over screencaps from Community. Again, it's simple math. Add two already great things together and you get something that gives me irrepressible happiness.
One of my favorites.
I just spent a half an hour on that site looking for the best ones to post here. So pretty much it's just one big time suck for me. FYI, there's a Texts from Pawnee too.
Oh internet, I give up. You win.
Showing posts with label Things That Are Awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Things That Are Awesome. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Things I'm Loving
1. Reading
Seems strange to write this here; it's always been a part of who I am. Shannon likes reading. Everyone knows this. But last year I didn't read much of anything besides Anna Karenina and The Hunger
Games series and then maybe the 7th Harry Potter book for the upteenth time in order to prepare for the move. But this year, in accordance with # 1 on The 2011 List, I have been reading. And loving it. There's really nothing like getting so swept up in a book that you cannot put it down. I've missed that.
2. This tumblr.
Community quotes + random photography = AWESOME.
3. Dove Dark Chocolates
I have a crazy sweet tooth. If there are sweets in the house I will eat them. I'm not the kind of person that can have a couple cookies and then forget about them and come back and have some a couple days later. No, if I know they're in the house they will be gone by the next day. It's horrible, really and I'm trying not to do that. So, I bought myself a bag of dark chocolates because even my sweet tooth cravings can't handle too much dark chocolate. I have two pieces and that's enough. It helps curb the cravings, it tastes yummy and it makes me happy because then I'm not filled with holy crap what did I eat feelings of guilt afterward. So there.
4. Bejeweled
Ugh. It's such a time suck. But I can't stop playing.
5. Cougar Town
When this show started last year I pretty quickly wrote it off as being a "Monica Geller as Real Housewife" pile of of crap. Oh, but how wrong I was. This show is quirky and fun and about so much more than some 40's single mom trying to hook-up with younger men. All the characters are delightful including Busy Phillip's Laurie (who is probably my favorite character) and Dan Byrd's Travis (how horrible is it that I first recognized him as being from that Cinderella-esque Hilary Duff movie?). Courtney Cox might be the star but at heart it's an ensemble show and some of the best moments come from the group hanging out and drinking wine and playing silly games like Penny Can or "truth gun." Everyone gets a chance to shine and just as in Community, the different relationships within the group are all unique (Andy and Bobby's "bromance," Laurie and Ellie's frenemies, Jules and Travis and their hyper-close mother/son dynamic, etc).
A few weeks ago I was sick in bed and spent the entire day mainlining the first season and now I am completely on board. (And Scott Foley appears in the first season! Noel Crane! How can that be a bad thing?)
Check it out if you haven't already!
Seems strange to write this here; it's always been a part of who I am. Shannon likes reading. Everyone knows this. But last year I didn't read much of anything besides Anna Karenina and The Hunger
Games series and then maybe the 7th Harry Potter book for the upteenth time in order to prepare for the move. But this year, in accordance with # 1 on The 2011 List, I have been reading. And loving it. There's really nothing like getting so swept up in a book that you cannot put it down. I've missed that.
2. This tumblr.
Community quotes + random photography = AWESOME.
3. Dove Dark Chocolates
I have a crazy sweet tooth. If there are sweets in the house I will eat them. I'm not the kind of person that can have a couple cookies and then forget about them and come back and have some a couple days later. No, if I know they're in the house they will be gone by the next day. It's horrible, really and I'm trying not to do that. So, I bought myself a bag of dark chocolates because even my sweet tooth cravings can't handle too much dark chocolate. I have two pieces and that's enough. It helps curb the cravings, it tastes yummy and it makes me happy because then I'm not filled with holy crap what did I eat feelings of guilt afterward. So there.
4. Bejeweled
Ugh. It's such a time suck. But I can't stop playing.
5. Cougar Town
When this show started last year I pretty quickly wrote it off as being a "Monica Geller as Real Housewife" pile of of crap. Oh, but how wrong I was. This show is quirky and fun and about so much more than some 40's single mom trying to hook-up with younger men. All the characters are delightful including Busy Phillip's Laurie (who is probably my favorite character) and Dan Byrd's Travis (how horrible is it that I first recognized him as being from that Cinderella-esque Hilary Duff movie?). Courtney Cox might be the star but at heart it's an ensemble show and some of the best moments come from the group hanging out and drinking wine and playing silly games like Penny Can or "truth gun." Everyone gets a chance to shine and just as in Community, the different relationships within the group are all unique (Andy and Bobby's "bromance," Laurie and Ellie's frenemies, Jules and Travis and their hyper-close mother/son dynamic, etc).
A few weeks ago I was sick in bed and spent the entire day mainlining the first season and now I am completely on board. (And Scott Foley appears in the first season! Noel Crane! How can that be a bad thing?)
Check it out if you haven't already!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I don't want to wait for my life to be over
I'm pretty vocal about the fact that Dawson Leery is one of my least favorite television characters of all time. Somewhere in the middle of Dawson's Creek's third season his overindulged whininess because to much to handle and suddenly EVERYTHING he did made me want to throw heavy things at my television screen. And I was in high school at the time. So my parents would not have appreciated this.
Unfortunately for James Van Der Beek, like he even cares what I think, I somehow dragged him down with my anti-Dawson vendetta so that ever since the Creek days I've always had a negative response to anything he does. I laugh at his accent in Varsity Blues(I. Don't. Want. Your. Laihf!), I was meh about his appearance in How I Met Your Mother. I... I actually can't, off the top of my head, name anything else he's done since then. But you get the point.
But THIS! How can I hate THIS guy?!
Holy crap. That crying face has been the best thing in the entire world ever since he made it in the season three premiere. The fact that he's able to make have a sense of humor about it automatically bumps him up about eighty billion awesome points.
Well played Mr. Van Der Beek. You've earned my respect. Like you give a crap.
Unfortunately for James Van Der Beek, like he even cares what I think, I somehow dragged him down with my anti-Dawson vendetta so that ever since the Creek days I've always had a negative response to anything he does. I laugh at his accent in Varsity Blues(I. Don't. Want. Your. Laihf!), I was meh about his appearance in How I Met Your Mother. I... I actually can't, off the top of my head, name anything else he's done since then. But you get the point.
But THIS! How can I hate THIS guy?!
Holy crap. That crying face has been the best thing in the entire world ever since he made it in the season three premiere. The fact that he's able to make have a sense of humor about it automatically bumps him up about eighty billion awesome points.
Well played Mr. Van Der Beek. You've earned my respect. Like you give a crap.
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