I has a sad. I finished watching Dawson’s Creek season 1 yesterday (well, I finished the actual episodes the day before yesterday but there was still the final episode commentary version to watch lol). I am now seriously considering buying season 2. You know how sometimes you forget how much you love something, and then you see/hear/whatever it again and it just brings everything back? Yup! It’s quite funny how nostalgic I felt watching it; I was never really a teenager like the DC characters, I guess I just got attached to the characters themselves lol. *lives vicariously* Also, I was hard-out Dawson/Joey the first time around, and didn’t really like Jen, but as the seasons went on I started disliking Joey a bit, or at least not caring about who she ended up with, and ended up as a hard-out Dawson/Jen fan, with Jen as my favourite character. So now, back at the beginning, I can’t choose who I want Dawson to end up with lol. *has become slightly obsessed* At least my extreme crush on James van der Beek has not resurfaced! Did you ever watch Dawson’s Creek? Who was your favourite character? Fave couple?
I was mildly surprised the other week to discover that a character with my name had appeared on Shortland Street (for non-Kiwis, this is a night-time soap with about 30% national viewership that I’ve been watching for a good 12 years of my life). I knew it was going to happen eventually, I just hoped that it would be a character that I liked. Sadly, so far she seems to be a bit of a gold-digger. My brother watched a bit of it with me last night and we worked out that the names in our immediate family had all turned up at one point or another, most of them not very nice. First there was Guy (my brother’s name): a drug-addicted prat who relied on his teenage daughter to be the parent in their relationship. Then Mark (my father’s name): a serial cheat who ended up fathering his wife’s gay sister’s baby (he was also not-so-secretly in love with the gay sister). Then Beth (my mum’s name): a reasonably sweet, if slightly traitorous, nurse, who was mainly brought into the show to be the fourth victim of the Ferndale Strangler 
Maybe Brooke will turn out to be nice. And also preferably not be murdered! Ever shared a name with a TV/movie/book character? Were they anything like you?
I am currently trying not to become hooked on any new TV shows (major FAIL on that one recently; I have become sort of attached to Medium, which causes me great internal conflict, since it’s based on the life of a real-life ‘psychic’ (something that I don’t believe in). My current reasoning is that it’s only a fictional representation, and, hey, I’m happy to suspend disbelief while watching Buffy! Also I’ve become quite fond of some of the characters lol). Grey’s finished, as did Bones and Desperate Housewives (which I only watched half the time anyway), and now I’m just waiting for the final season of McLeod’s Daughters to start here (not really attached to it so much anymore, but I feel a certain sense of loyalty to it since I’ve watched it from the beginning). It sounds like my life is ruled by TV doesn’t it? Lol it’s really not!
OFF the subject of TV then: I bought the EP of a NZ singer called Gin the other day. I was in an airport music store and realised I hadn’t really bought anything by a new artist in forever, and I’m in love with her song ‘Under My Skin’ at the moment, so I decided to buy the EP. If you haven’t heard her, she sounds like a cross between Macy Grey and that new Welsh singer Duffy. But cooler. I’m really liking it so far, but have yet to sit down and listen through the whole thing while reading the lyrics. I do this with almost every new CD that I buy, because the lyrics are usually my favourite thing about a singer. I can love a song without really knowing the lyrics, or what it’s about, just because it’s catchy and makes me want to dance, but an artist can’t become a favourite until I know what their songs are about. Also, I love to be able to sing along to a whole album! What makes you love a song or an artist?
I learnt an awesome new word the other day in Ling: ’schwar’. It describes the phonetic symbol that represents a rhoticised unstressed vowel, like the one at the end of ‘water’ as pronounced by a North American English speaker. Pretty much the whole class started laughing when the American lecturer used that term for the symbol, which probably only makes sense if you’re a Ling nerd *snorts* lol. ‘Schwa’ is the name of the phonetic symbol that represents an unstressed vowel /ə/. This is the vowel in the first and third syllables of the word ‘banana’ (IPA /bənanə/). So ’schwar’ is the unstressed vowel with the ‘r’ on the end *giggles* You know you’re a nerd when…..!
In further Ling nerdiness: In a future post I plan on presenting my argument for the standardisation of the second person plural pronoun ‘youse’.
Yours nerdily, Brooke
You have Dawson Creek on DVD you are a lucky duck .
Other then reruns of Home Improvement and the Simpsons Dawsons Creek was the last TV show that I watched regularly.
: Diggs into memory banks: I guess my favourite character was Jack . I was always or am a Dawson/Joey fan . That explains why I both enjoyed and was annoyed by the final episode. As for the second question Star Wars enough said . lol As for the last question I guess the emotion conveyed and what I judge to be the quality of his or her singing voice .
Even thou he died when I was four and I never got to see him live Roy Orbison remains “the voice ” to my ears so to speak . Some what on the strangely a good percentage of the songs in my modest music collection pre date my life time .
No, I was never really a fan of Dawson’s Creek, lol, I think that craze went over my head.
As for sharing names with characters, yup, Audrey Hepburn’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (a much, much crappier movie than you’d expect, sadly!) is named Holly, and I’m sure there are other ones too, which I just can’t think of right now.
Oh! I just remembered there was that random baby on Coronation Street also named Holly, although, considering she was a baby, it’s not like she had much personality to make her likable or not!
I’ve picked up more than one book purely because my name was the main character’s, or in the title. I can’t think of many tv characters though… There are a ton of actresses called Jennifer but it doesn’t seem to be that common for characters. =( There was Jenny in Forrest Gump of course, lol, but with the accent it doesn’t sound anything like my name anyway!
What’s making me like songs atm is the associations with other stuff, usually from being in the soundtrack of something. I think it happens cos then the song comes with some emotion ‘built-in’ before I even know the tune. Problem is, I’m ending up liking some really random stuff that I probably wouldn’t have been interested in otherwise!
Hehe ‘rhoticised’ is a funny word too. Rhoticised rhoticised rhoticised.
Ok. So I FAIL for having to leave you 3 comments to answer all the questions!
What makes me love a song or an artist…ummm…my answer’s probably similar to Jenny’s, only more in terms of people and things I have experienced personally, as opposed to it being part of a soundtrack or something.
As for Gin Wigmore, yes, she is full of WIN, lots of WIN. I liked her AGES ago, when she was like, 17, and wrote a song called Hallelujah about her father dying from cancer. I don’t know if it’s on that album, probably not, but it’s awesome.
Yes. Duffy. OMG. Never listen to Mercy before you’re going to try to sleep. Ever. It will go around and around in your head and you will not!
@Holly: Yep Hallelujah is on the album, it’s awesome. Is that the one you played me on your iPod that time? I didn’t know that was what the song was about – that’s sad. *reads lyrics with new understanding* All of the songs are awesome though, I can’t pick a favourite!
Haha I’m not a huge fan of that Mercy song, for the exact reason you state lol.
@Jenny: Rhoticised IS a great word lol. So is nictitating. And loom
@Luke: I know what you mean about music predating your life – ABBA, Cat Stevens, 10000 Maniacs, Blondie…. the list goes on for me!
Brooke its a bummer that Cat Stevens stopped singing when he did . When he tried to make something of a comeback he was barred from entering the US .
^ Why was he barred from entering the US? I heard somewhere that is was because he was an alleged terrorist/security hazard, but surely that can’t be right, right?
Holly: yup apparently so. It’s coz he converted to Islam and changed him name to Yusuf Islam, and looks middle Eastern. Apparently that means that he constitutes a terrorist threat.
What!? That’s ridiculous! There must be more to it than that!? Don’t they have to have like, proven grounds that the person has actually DONE/PLANNED something before they’re able to detain them and stop them entering a country!? o.O
@ Brooke going by memory Yusuf was alleged to have given money to a Palestinian terrorist organisation .
@ Holly the absurd thing was that Yusuf was already on the plane when somebody clued on that is was on the No Fly List . Had he been a genuine terrorist threat the plane would have been blown up already .