make fun of me, please
The following is a list of the most awful things I have ever owned:
- “Northern Star” (By Melanie C)
- “Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch” (by Our Lady Peace)
- “Jesus Freak” (by DC Talk)
- An completely unread copy of “The Two Towers” (by JRR Tolkien)
- A completely read copy of “Fall on Your Knees”, an Oprah Book club book (by Ann Marie McDonald)
- A VHS copy of “Ever After”
- A VHS copy of “Steven Curtis Chapman: LIVE”
- At least 3 clown themed music boxes (one of which played “Send in the Clowns”, another which played “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head”)
- A year long subscription to Focus on the Family’s magazine for teen girls: “Brio”
- Two pleather skirts. One pair of pleather pants. One pleather jacket.
- Psychadelic Daffy Duck Keds
- Fake Doc Martens
- Navy blue, yellow, lime green, pearly blue, black and at least 4 varieties of sparkly (multi, silver, purple, red, etc) nail polish. Often worn all at once.
- A logo t-shirt from American Eagle
- A fuzzy Elmo shaped backback.
I just thought you should know what you’re getting yourself into.
P.S. I also watch Grey’s Anatomy religiously.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I’m a strong believer in the fact that as long as you admit that all the terrible things you like are awful, then it’s okay to love them.
For instance, I definitely owned (still own?) all those shades of nail polish and more; I had two fuzzy animal-shaped backpacks- one a duck, one a leopard- and I definitely had more than my fair share of AE logo t-shirts.
However, I have since seen the error of my ways (in everything but the nail polish) and reserve that only as a guilty pleasure. Well that, and watching House of Carters like it’s the oxygen I breathe.
Don’t worry, I still like you. Not even in spite of this list but *because* of it!
February 21st, 2007 at 12:38 am
It would be funny if I used this post as a reason to start letting out all the reasons I don’t like you that aren’t listed here (ie. lack of talent, gender, haircut, boyfriend, etc.). Too bad, a) I’m not a jerk, and b) there actually aren’t any. I lied.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:11 am
I own a pleather mini skirt, pants and coat.
‘Cause I was like, totally goth, man.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am
You guys are sweet.
BUT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE MAKING FUN OF ME!
It says so right up there in the title.
By the way, I highly reccomend you all do this. It’s pretty cathartic.
But: it is of the upmost importance that you don’t try to explain away the awful things. Just put it out there. No excuses.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
RE: Oprah Book Club… I know I’m supposed to make fun of you, and while I haven’t read that particular one, I’ve always liked every Oprah Book Club book I’ve ever read. They’re high quality usually… In fact, I think she has a crazy staff of grad students who pick the books out. Some of my favorites: The Sound and the Fury by Falkner (in fact, I think she had a whole summer of Falkner), One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, East of Eden by Steinbeck and We Were the Mulvaneys by Oates. Those are just the books I own that have the Oprah’s Book Club label on it.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Hrrrmmm.
I’ve actually read One Hundred Years of Solitude. I’m in the midst of reading Love in the Time of Cholera right now actually. Love myself the Magic Realism, I do.
Now that Oprahs’s moved to classices, she’s made the bookclub pretty classy - but Fall On Your knee’s was classic only in that it was weepy, liberal, housewifey, drivel - early-era Oprah crap. But I read it.
March 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I love Northern Star. It’s a brilliant album!