About Me

Name: Heather
Location: California
Birthday: August 1st
Age: Twentysomething
Gender: Female
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel. Glasses.
Weaknesses: Allergies and sass

This is the stuff you’ll probably see in abundance here:

TV: Doctor Who, Mad Men, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Sherlock, Being Human, Veronica Mars, Downton Abbey, almost any BBC period drama really, Luther, The Hour, Silk, QI, Daria, Lost, Deadwood, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Dexter, Fringe, Modern Family, Community, The Office, Buffy, Angel, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, John Adams, Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, Black Books, Miranda, Spaced, Misfits, Battlestar Galactica, Leverage, Friday Night Lights, White Collar, Dead Like Me, Firefly, Supernatural, The Middleman, Pushing Daisies, Merlin, Joan of Arcadia, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Everwood, Clone High, Ugly Betty, Stewart/Colbert/Conan/Ferguson, etc.

FILMS: The Sound of Music, The Red Curtain Trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, Bringing Up Baby, East of Eden, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Bells Are Ringing, Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Star Wars, 12 Angry Men, The Iron Giant, Evil Dead, Mary Poppins, Inception, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, His Girl Friday, The Narrow Margin (1952), Spirited Away, The Social Network, 10 Things I Hate About You, Clueless, Singin’ In the Rain, Brick, The Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Trilogy, It Happened One Night, Fight Club, 25th Hour, Zoolander, Anchorman, Shop Around the Corner, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, A Little Princess (1995), Zodiac, A Knight’s Tale, Zombieland, Casablanca, Anne of Green Gables, Batman, most of Disney/Pixar’s output, + 5 million more.

BOOKS: Mrs. Dalloway, Jane Austen’s entire oevure, The Remains of the Day, Harry Potter, The Sound and the Fury, His Dark Materials, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Atonement, Beloved, Never Let Me Go, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Flaubert’s Parrot, Austerlitz, The Professor’s House, Waiting For the Barbarians, The Beast in the Jungle, High Fidelity, About a Boy, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Wrinkle in Time, Assassination Vacation, The Shadow of the Wind, North & South, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Regeneration Trilogy, Pygmalion, Sideways Stories from Wayside School and tons more.

MUSIC: Judy Garland, Rufus Wainwright, Broadway/Musical/Film soundtracks, The National, Beirut, The Antlers, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Florence + the Machine, Mumford & Sons, Patsy Cline, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Slow Club, Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Modest Mouse, David Bowie, Queen, the list goes on for days.

So as you can see, my tastes are fairly pretentious.

KINDRED SPIRITS: Peggy Olson, Liz Lemon, Donna Noble, Martha Jones, Hermione Granger, Mitchell Pritchett, Bernard Black, Daisy Steiner, Anne Shirley

I make mediocre things in Photoshop on occasion.

* If I don’t follow you back, it’s definitely nothing personal; I’m just following way too many people already.

My askbox is always open. I don’t bite. Much.

See the “ABOUT ME” and “GPOY” tags for more unnecessary info. Also: 100 Facts Meme