this post + this icon = MY CHILDHOOD POP CULTURE. i miss being 4.

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So maybe a week ago captaincatapult came up with this lovely litte meme thing that went like this:

Think of your favorite celebrity, the one who makes music sound better, movies and television brighter, the one you'd dash to the ends of the earth for if it meant you could save yourself from ever having to go a second without their magic. Then post your favorite 15ish photos of him/her! Your favorites of your favorite!

DELIGHTFUL, RIGHT???? The problem is I am not sure I have a celebrity like that. I have pervasive fondnesses for a long list of people, where I sort of smile when their name pops up (BY THE WAY, why didn't I know unti this week that Kate Mulgrew was in Equus with Danrad in NYC??? God, now I want to goooooooooo) but I don't think there's a single celebrity who could draw me to a movie theater with their name alone (although, tbf, I AM SO BAD AT SEEING MOVIES? The year is almost over and I'm pretty sure I've only seen four films in theaters), whose photo repretoire I know by heart (except I am actually inimately familiar with Rachel Bilson pictures??? I... don't even know.). I tend to obsess over my characters, and having a nice, funny actor who plays them is more icing than cake for me.

EXCEPT THEN I REMEMBERED !

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I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS DRESS, it makes me so sad that I would look ridic if I wore it like, anywhere, now :(

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I do not think I would jump in the pool if my hair looked that nice.

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I wiiiiiiiiiiiish they still did promo photos like these. The way they're wrapped around each other! GENE KELLY AND THE FACT THAT HE EXISTS!

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I am going to stare at her pretty, smiling face for awhile and pretend her life was actually as nice as it looks in these photos.

I'm actually kind of glad Thanksgiving break is over, everyone I like from college went home and no one I like came home. I meant to do so much, though, and I did... pretty much none of it. STORY OF MY LIFE. I did discover the best yogurt brand at Whole Foods, though, it's called Rachel's and apparently it's British and they make flavors like Peach Green Tea and Berry Jasmine and Pink Grapefruit Lychee. YUM. And apparently Bones is moving to Thursdays in the spring, BLERG, of course they'd do that after Pushing Daisies is gone.

BUT I'M PRETTY SURE I DIDN'T SPRAIN MY KNEE? *\o/*?

Oh and happy birthday to both thecolorbetween and ofadoration! YOU TWOOOO. I'm almost too late as always, but I hope you had lovely days.

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This photo meme is the greatest in the history of all things great. JUDY GARLAND! Your love of the golden age of Hollywood makes me inexplicably happy. I think I'd choose Katherine Hepburn or Jimmy Stewart? BLERG, I'M SO OBVIOUS AND NOT AT ALL INTERESTING.

Thanksgiving break is always like that, and it sucks because I always tell myself I'll get ahead of things so I'm not utterly screwed in the push to finals BUT I NEVER DO. And I'm inevitably left reading 100+ pages a night and doing writing assignments hours before they're do and UGH, SCHOOL.

I CLEARLY NEED TO GO TO WHOLE FOODS IMMEDIATELY. Thanks for the rec, friend. Anything with lychee is made of DELICIOUS.

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I WOULD TOTALLY JOIN YOU IN THAT :(

I WAS ACTUALLY HOPING REALLY HARD LATELY FOR GARY OLDMAN TO GET HIS OWN TV SHOW, THOUGH, AND THEN TIM ROTH GOT ONE! SO THERE IS STILL HOPE :D?

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OH MY GAH GENE KELLY. We watched Singing in the Rain in my Lit&Film class and I fell in love with that man omg. I really, really need to watch more of his movies. Maybe I'll make that my christmas break goal lol.

Also need to see more Garland films, since Wizard of Oz is it. We did watch a clip of her in class though! Our teacher forgot to tell us which movie it was from, but it was where she was singing You Made Me Love You to her pictures of Clark Gable. I LOLed :P

I think I might have two celebs that I could do this meme for. Oooh, three if I take it back old school like you did. I'll have to see what I can come up with :D

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I THINK HE WOULD MAKE A FUN DOCTOR, ACTUALLY, BUT I'M HOPING TOO HARD FOR THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR TO BE BLACK. HE SHOULD DO A FANTASY-TYPE SHOW ON SCIFI,THOUGH. WITH GHOSTS OR SOMETHING.

IDK, I'VE JUST BEEN SMALLFONTING FOR CONSISTENCY'S SAKE.

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

pssst I love that icon can I steal it :D?

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OH PLEASE, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart are TOTALLY not obvious and uninteresting. THEY ARE WONDERFUL. Obvious and uninteresting is Audrey Hepburn.

Yeah, it is always like this. AND IT ALWAYS GOES SO FAST? I had a whole week off and it's over and it feels like I was in school three days ago. Only a couple more weeks, though, I guess.

IT'S SUCH GOOD YOGURT, you will see! The only one I didn't love (that I tried) was Kiwi Passion Fruit Lime? And idk why I bought that one in the first place, kiwi is one of the few fruits I don't like that much.

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Haha, sure. I got it years ago from carla_t but her journal's gone now :)

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I LOVE HIM TOO, HIS AGILITY AND HIS BIG DAMN SMILE? Have you seen more than Singing in the Rain? IF NOT START WITH AMERICAN IN PARIS AND, um, On the Town. And For Me and My Gal. SOOOOOOOO GOOD.

I think that's from the Broadway Melody of 1940? (I might have the year wrong). She didn't star or anything, it was a ~medley~. I LOVE THAT SONG, THOUGH.

I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAIT TO SEE!

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OMG. OMG I KNOW. THERE NEEDS TO BE A PARANORMAL SITCOM WHERE GARY OLDMAN MOVES INTO A HAUNTED HOUSE AND TIM ROTH IS THE GHOST HAUNTING IT.

. . . ACTUALLY, SCREW TV, I JUST WANT RPS OF THAT. AND WOULD WRITE IT IF I DIDN'T FAIL AT RPF AND THERE WEREN'T A MILLION AND FIVE AU FICS WITH THAT EXACT PLOT ANYWAY.

[heylabodega.livejournal.com]

GENE KELLY AND THE WAY THAT HE EXISTS

You have no idea how much I am going to do this meme about Gene Kelly. I am going to SO MUCH.

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MAYBE NEXT YEAR :O WTF CATEGORY WOULD THEY EVEN GO IN?

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THERE PROBABLY IS :/ BUT IT'D BE A RISKY THING TO SIGN UP FOR OR REQUEST.

THIS IS GOING ON MY ~*~LIST~*~ OF THINGS I SHOULD WRITE BUT PROBABLY NEVER WILL, THOUGH. :D

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OH MY GOD DOOOOOOOOOO! I am so excited now, I LOVE HIM TO BITS AND PIECES.

By the way, if I haven't replied to your Christmas music meme by like, Wednesday, hit me or something? There are a couple of albums I want to upload on top of the mixy stuff I had in my last post, but I keep forgetting :(

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I think #16 is my favourite!

Buttttt what?! Mulgrew is in Equus? God, dare I even?

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That is actually extremely true. GOOD CALL. I kind of wanted to marry Jimmy Stewart when I was ten? And by kind of I mean really.

I'm actually a fan of kiwi, but lime, not so much. Berry Jasmine also sound ridiculously incredible!

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Thank yooou for the birthday wishes! Also, okay, so I'm irrationally glad I'm not the only person who is bad at seeing movies. I've seen exactly five in theatres this year. /o\

Judy Garland was so pretty! I've sadly only seen a couple of her movies (my dad is alllll about the golden age of Hollywood so I probably should have seen more, but I suck), but she is so lovely. And that picture with Gene Kelly! Whyyyyy don't they make them like that any more? :( That picture and the first are my favourites.

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You like baby Judy!

Oh my godddd, J, GO. I will live vicariously through you.

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He is lanky and adorable and so sweet and so goooooood (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington!) and who wouldn't want to be married to that? (Tracy Lord, obviously, is the mostly exception to this rule because C.K. Dexter Haaaaaaven.)

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Of course! AND SERIOUSLY, two hours is neeeeeeever enough time with characters I like? Books and TV are so much more my style. And less expensive. And easier to keep up with.

Wasn't sheeeeee? She has such an interesting look about her. And honestly, the thing about her films is that only a few are true classics-- those are probably the ones you've seen-- she made a lot of really delightful ones that you have to like cheesy musicals a lot to truly enjoy. Every movie she's done with Mickey Rooney is pretty much EXACTLY THE SAME, storyline wise. But the musical numbers are AWESOME.

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Hitting you. As requested.