Thursday, January 10, 2013

2012, i am not impressed

Favorite tv show:  Amazing Race, Downton Abbey, Sherlock
Favorite song:  Ho Hey by the Lumineers (runner up Home by Phillip Phillips) - it's been a folksy sort of year
Favorite concert & album:  MDNA (runner up Fiona Apple) - y'all missing out if you don't love Love Spent
Favorite female artist:  Madonna (runner up Fiona Apple)
Favorite male artist:  Ed Sheeran (runner up Frank Ocean)
Favorite band:  Green Day (runner up Blur)
Favorite movie:  The Dark Knight Rises
Most underrated:  John Carter
Most overrated:  Anne Hathaway (I really, really don't get it) and Taylor Swift
Most gorgeous:  Kiera Knightley in Anna Karenina trailer
Most charismatic:  Garrett Hedlund in On The Road trailer
Best actress:  Naomi Watts in The Impossible
Best actor: Tom Holland in The Impossible
Least favorite Joss Whedon:  Avengers
New Joss Whedon:  Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Doctor Who)
City:  Dublin
Favorite color:  Orange (yay, Giants!)
Most used third party app on iPad:  Sketchbook and PenUltimate
New favorite clothing retailer:  Uniqlo
Least favorite name:  Sandy (as in Sandy Hook and Hurricane Sandy)
Most unexpected unfortunate turn of events:  My health
Second most unexpected unfortunate turn of events:  Getting rear-ended during Chinese New Year's (I mean my car)
Disappointing new gadget:  iPhone 5 (I don't think it's that different from my iPhone 4, not to mention the mapping mess and Siri - another girl who fails to understand me)
Meme:  McKayla Maroney is not impressed
Olympic Douchbag:  Ryan Lochte
Olympic hero:  Oscar Pistorius
Favorite familiar thing:  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Blur
Favorite strange thing:  Joseph Gordon Levitt as Bruce Willis in Looper
Things that make me laugh:  Happy Endings, Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey (she can act circles around everyone just with her eyebrow)
Things that make me cry:  The reuniting scene in The Impossible
Best mode of transportation:  Tardis
Personal failure:  1Q84 unfinished
But all is not lost:  I did finish reading Perks Of Being A Wallflower instead
Most hated phrase:  "Basically..."
Favorite quote:  "If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation." from 1Q84
Things I don't understand:  Fiscal cliff; why it is necessary to kill of *** in Skyfall ending when the whole movie (which is damn good) is about keeping *** alive
Another reason NBC sucks egg:  the booting of Ann Curry from Today show
Good riddance:  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan ticket
Farewell, sweet dreams, good night, my sweet prince:  The victims of Sandy Hook; victims of Aurora, CO Dark Knight Rises theater shooting; MCA (Adam Yauch); Trayvon Martin

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