{"id":144,"date":"2009-03-03T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-03-03T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T21:02:38","slug":"day-20-my-favorite-things-a-few-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Day 20: my favorite things, a few of"},"content":{"rendered":"

Random question: has anyone played Eternal Sonata<\/a>?  Is it fun?  Worth playing?  I\u2019m usually not a huge fan of J-RPGs but any game that has Frederick Chopin in a deathbed dreamland fighting monsters with his baton alongside a girl named Polka is intriguing<\/em> to say the least.<\/p>\n

\"Actually<\/a> \"Eternal<\/a> <\/p>\n

Now, here are a few of my favorite things.<\/p>\n

Movie: Moulin Rouge!<\/strong>
Honorable Mention: Juno
\"moulinrouge\"<\/strong>I didn\u2019t love Moulin Rouge! right away.  I remember seeing it in college in our campus auditorium with several people a few years older than me (Matt Heap, Clare, and Darren maybe?) and feeling like it was a pretty solid movie.  Then, I watched it again.  And a few more times, with the commentary.  I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the perfect sad love story, the musical numbers, or the frenetic acting through most of the first half of the film, but this is a movie I\u2019ll never turn down.  It makes my lips quiver and my eyes water every time.  In a very different way, Juno makes me laugh and cry and want to have a baby with Michael Cera.  I mean, my wife.<\/p>\n

 \"rockin-the-suburbs\"<\/strong>Album: Ben Folds, Rockin\u2019 the Suburbs
<\/em><\/strong>Honorable Mention: They Might Be Giants, The Spine<\/em>
Although I might not qualify Ben Folds as my favorite artist, Rockin\u2019 the Suburbs<\/em> is an album that is full of tracks I like and I don\u2019t have to be \u201cin the mood\u201d to listen to it.  And you know, \u201cThe Luckiest\u201d holds a bit of sentimental value for me.  Alternatively, The Spine<\/em> is a really fun album and the only songs I don\u2019t thoroughly enjoy are ironically the two title tracks.<\/p>\n

\"lost-logo\"TV Show (active): Lost
<\/strong>Honorable Mention: 30 Rock
Lost is nothing short of an amazing show, which has managed to evolve without becoming too pretentious or too silly.  Even through commonly-perceived-weakest season 3, I was engrossed.  It\u2019s an epic story and the fact that there\u2019s a definitive ending date makes it unlike most episodic content we get from our TV.  On the other side of the continuity spectrum is weekly LOLfest 30 Rock.  Any show that makes me regularly laugh on average once every 3 minutes is a qualified success in my book.<\/p>\n

TV Show (inactive): Slings and Arrows
<\/strong>Honorable Mention: Arrested Development
\"slings\" Two years ago, I had never heard of a Canadian show called Slings and Arrows.  Now, it\u2019s probably my favorite show ever.  Clocking in at only 18 hours of television across three 6-episode seasons, it\u2019s something that can be watched in its entirety in a single weekend.  At times funny and touching, all three seasons are constructed masterfully without a wasted minute on screen.  There\u2019s nothing to do when the final half hour of the series plays other than weep.  All<\/a> three<\/a> seasons<\/a> are on Netflix, so you have no excuse not to watch this show.  I\u2019m also obligated to mention Arrested Development on any list of favorites so I don\u2019t lose my cred.<\/p>\n

More tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Random question: has anyone played Eternal Sonata?  Is it fun?  Worth playing?  I\u2019m usually not a huge fan of J-RPGs but any game that has Frederick Chopin in a deathbed dreamland fighting monsters with his baton alongside a girl named Polka is intriguing to say the least. Now, here are a few of my favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58,56,34,30,57],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-chopin","tag-favorite","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-tv","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}