This week's Weekly Geeks idea is from the lovely Maree at 'just add books'ust add books. She wants us all to talk about our outside interests away from reading, specifically our guilty pleasures.
Honestly I have so many guilty pleasures that sometimes I feel like my life is most made up of shameful entertainment decisions. This week I'll unlock the closet door and let some of my little secrets out into the air:
Pop divas: My music taste is mostly all about rock, indie, folk, old school ska and country but recently a couple of pop divas have grabbed a tiny corner of centre stage to perform on. Britters life just breaks my heart, then her music gets me all excited, Kelly Clarkson has a massive belt on her and I still maintain that the Pussycat Dolls first album breaks away from the skankification most girl groups are working ('If it's not love it just ain't enough to leave a happy home').
80s Dance Movies: I'm not just talking about Footloose and Dirty Dancing. I've seen some of the most awful dance movies ever made (and I include Coyote Ugly in this category) many, many times. Give me a late night movie with an uplifting song, a moment of immense realisation expressed in dance and a hunky man (not including Coyote Ugly in this category) and I will abandon all hope of sleep. If you have any recommendations please leave them in the comments :)
Life-time style movies: I want to see kids having kids, women having more babies than a cat, baby swapping mix ups and anything based on a Danielle Steel book, all shot in a terrible, grainy way. If possible they should have been filmed during the era of rolled up sleeves.
Australian or American soaps: Do you see a pattern? I'm a big fan of tv, especially films. I love Home and Away and was gutted when Sunset Beach) ended. When will Channel Five bring 'Days of Our Lives' back to the UK?
Chocolate, pizza and chips: Chocolate is not to be mentioned right now, as I'm on a big health kick (although there will be M&S pizza for dinner tonight). When I was a sick, crazy student one of my favourite treats was cold pizza topped with the free peanut M&Ms Dominoes used to give away. Now my tastes are more refined (let's all drool shall we):
So what guilty pleasures have you bound, gagged and locked away from sight?
13 comments:
As I've already mentioned, chocolate is NOT a guilty pleasure, but a necessity. Life without chocolate is just...... wrooong!
I love pizzas. Left to me, they'd be my breakfast, lunch and dinner. While I've never tried (and might even refrain from trying) M&Ms on them, cold pizza for breakfast is one of those things I really look forward to.
PS: Dirty Dancing and Grease are two of my all-time favorite movies!
Oh. My. God. I think we were separated at birth! Apart from the US/Aussie soap opera thing, although I do watch Home and Away sometimes. Of course, New Zealand has its own ridiculous soap in Shortland Street that I'm madly hooked on at the moment.
Um. I mean, happy weekly geeks!
I don't lock up my guilty pleasures but you can see what DVDs I own here. Happy Weekly Geeks.
Jodie: Yes, Shortland Street still exists. www.tvnz.co.nz runs episodes online but I'm not sure whether you can watch them outside of New Zealand. Worth a try _ go to the site and click on OnDemand :)
How funny that you're hooked on American soaps, which I can't stand, while I was so sad when I left England as a college student because I could no longer keep up with Eastenders!
Yay possible Shortland Street binge - I'll try it later.
pussreboots you're post has me singing the Kim Possible theme tune.
Ali I'm taking a Brit soap break right now (you might remember Phil Mitchell, well he is involved in a very depressing storyline at the moment) but I used to watch them all the time.
This is a lovely list - in fact I want to watch a made for TV movie based on a soap that was once a Danielle Steel novel in which the main character is a dancer while eating chocolate
I'm right there with you on the Chips and the Lifetime Movies!!! Great list!
Never really been into soaps - that is, one of my guilty pleasures is DOCU-soaps and reality tv, which I find it hard to overdose on ;-)
I like pop divas, and just about all of the pop bands popular in the late 1990s. I'm such a dork!
Kim
Krusten - if you find such a film let me know ;) I think the Family Album (? possibly not quite the right title) is my favourited Danielle Steel adaptation but I keep seeing this film on five about a 16 year old who can't decide whether to give up her baby (her teacher is Elaine from Ally McBeal) which is just lovely and idealistic.
Yay Kristina a fellow chip addict!
Louise - docu-soaps oo yes I quite like those too. I'm also very into Louis Theroux's series of American documentaries (the family America hates etc)
I have a big Backstreet Boys things going on Kim - way more excited about all their possible reunions than Take That - also Spandeau Ballet!
I'm a fan of 80's dance movies too. I enjoyed Ugly Coyote. I loved Fame, the movie and television show.
Oh I love pop divas and 80's dance movies. Very cool choices.
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