meme > earworm

[healingmirth]

Because I have listened to "Love Wins" approximately five times an hour for the past several hours, and I desperately need to be distracted, and because just scrolled past this a ton of times on Latest Things:

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books I might get around to writing one day, women in my fandoms, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures

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Does anyone else find memes with examples like that to be rather like, "don't think of elephants"?

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Off to have dinner at my parents' house. Chicken ceasar salad, because it's that or my dad ruining steaks, and today is apparently a lucky day both for me and for beef.

Comments

[scaramouche]

Hi! Top Five Films That Cheer You Up.

[healingmirth]

- Ocean's Eleven (you can probably substitute any number of team-y heist movies for this in a pinch, like The Italian Job, but Ocean's Eleven is my *favorite*)

- Ever After - actually, I haven't seen this one in several years, but it's been on my mind a lot since Yuletide produced The Flight of the Queen this year. It is probably more correct to say that the *idea* of this film cheers me up.

- First Daughter - that's the one with Katie Holmes and that guy who played Buffy's boyfriend at some point, not the one with Mandy Moore and...some guy, and Jeremy Piven. IDEK, I just love Forest Whitaker's sort-of-fairy-tale thing.

- Some Kind of Wonderful - Not my favorite John Hughes movie, but certainly the one that makes me happiest, because I'm not left worrying about anyone when the credits roll. Also, bonus points for Elias Koteas, AKA Casey Jones in the live-action TMNT movies.

- A Cinderella Story. Yes, the one with Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. Mostly it's that I am a sucker for Cinderella retellings, I think. Even when there is voice-over text messaging.

There are probably some more recent films that could elbow their way in, but until I've seen them 20 or 30 times, I don't like to mess with what works.

[scaramouche]

Wow, you like them really fluffy. XD I don't know why this surprises me.

[healingmirth]

I have a deep and abiding love for unironic teen movies, forged in the fires of US basic cable television in the early 90s.

I also like clever things, and things where stuff blows up, and things about adults learning to be grown-ups, and the occasional thing where people cheat on their significant others or someone dies tragically, but you did ask about the happy-making things, and my brain, it is often a simple place.

[scaramouche]

No, no, I get it, it's just like most memes, the answers you get aren't always the ones you expect.

[kitewithfish]

*delurks* Hi! So, Top Five: Favorite books that were already made into films, and your brief opinion of the films.

*relurks*

[healingmirth]

Ooh, that's a good one. I have to think!