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Relationship status: Single and having fun with ‘close by’ and ‘long distance’

Favourite color: Lilac Purple, I love the color and also saying the word Lilac so that’s a bonus. 

Lipstick or chapstick: Chapstick easily. It’s always with me. I like to wear lipstick occasionally, but wearing it everyday is way too much hassle and really not that practical for someone like me who even forgets to reapply chapstick.

Last song I listened to: “I Put a Spell on You” by Nina Simone. I was working on some Bonkai stuff based around that song, specifically her rendition, so it’s been stuck in my head for while which is why I constantly listen to it, but I’m not complaining. You can really never get tired of listening to Nina Simone.

Last movie watched: Honestly don’t know, I don’t really watch movies often. I do know the last movie I saw in theaters was Wonder Woman almost a year ago and I think the last movie I watched on TV was Psych: The Movie on Christmas, but don’t hold me to that. I current don’t watch that much TV but I do watch a lot of YoutTube and that’s mainly why.

Top three TV shows: So these won’t really be based on Quality, but rather way back in 2007 when we didn’t have cable but I had TV series on DVD that I watched over and over again so they’ve left an impression.

1. Friends: I have the entire boxet on DVD is probably the only gift from my Dad (his wife) that I actually value, but not sentimentally. The sentiment comes from when I would watch Supernatural (The first two seasons when they were actually scary) and want to go to bed but was too scared so I would pop in Friends and it would calm me down enough to go to sleep. I of course would watch it independently from that but that’s what loved about it most an also the fact that I laugh at the same exact jokes (usually from Chandler or Phoebe) every time.

2. Supernatural: As I mentioned above was all I had to watch for quite some time and only the first two seasons. It’s something I’ve watched religiously since the pilot back in 2005, and I still continue to watch it. I used to watch it with my mother, who for every year on my birthday gets me the new season on DVD so I own every available episode on DVD. It’s just something that’s been with me for literally half my life and continues to be.

3. Community: The one that actually breaks the pattern as I did not start watching it until 2014 and did get any of them on DVD until a year after that, but it elicited the same feeling of comfort those two above did as well. It’s something I frequently watch to fall asleep to because of that sense of comfort, not to mention it’s just actually fun to watch. Much like Friends, the same jokes get me every time and it probably has one of the best series finale of all time that left me with this quote I continue to use when explaining why I watch the same thing on TV over and over again:  

 "There is skill to it. More importantly, it has to be joyful, effortless, fun. TV defeats its own purpose when it’s pushing an agenda, or trying to defeat other TV or being proud or ashamed of itself for existing. It’s TV; it’s comfort. It’s a friend you’ve known so well, and for so long you just let it be with you, and it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day or phone in a day, and it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with Levar Burton and never come back. Because eventually, it all will.”

Before I never actually knew why I continued to the same TV series over and over, but when Abed gave this speech everything kinda clicked into place. I watch them because their comfort and each of those were there for me during a time when I was at my most depressed and were the small bit of light in my life, so whenever I’m feeling that need for comfort (which weirdly often) I just pop one of those DVDs in and get comfortable.

Honorable Mention: Charmed, it was my favorite TV show as a kid and I have the trinity symbol from the book of shadows tattooed on my wrist. However it didn’t make the list because I don’t actually watch it that often or get the same feeling of comfort. It honestly for me was TVD before TVD in that it got frustrating often yet I continued to watch.

Anyways, that was way too elaborate for a question about my top three television shows. 

Top three bands/artists: 

1. Nina Simone: Listening to her is always a spiritual experience. I remember reading a tidbit about her and how much work she put into making sure her music conveyed the right emotion and thinking that made so much sense. She never wanted to be a singer, but a pianist, so when she was essentially made to to keep her job she made sure of that one thing that makes her so unique as an artist.

2. Arcade Fire: You know I don’t actually know that much about them, just that they sing my favorite song “The Suburbs” and a bunch more that I love. I can’t really explain my love for than other than the feeling I get when I listen to them, something that really resonates with me.

3. Oh Land: I discovered through her song “White Nights” and then listening to her other music, but the thing that really caught my attention was he album “Fauna” where essentially just uses animal noises for the music and while it sounds a little weird none of it’s bad. My favorite one is “Frostbite” because 1. I very much relate to the apathy she’s talking about and 2. how effectively the song uses whale sounds, the concept is just so ridiculous to me and yet in the song it works so perfectly. 

Honorable Mentions: SZA,Kendrick Lamar, Wale, Kid Cudi, Lykke Li, Angus and Julia Stone, Warpaint, Yuna, HAIM, Lumineers, The Shins, Modest Mouse, The Pixies, and if I mention anymore what was the entire point of having a top three but I really love a lot of artist but depends on the mood I’m in.

What is one thing you want to accomplish this year? I hate this question and questions like this because the answer is always the same. I don’t know, let’s see how I feel tomorrow. I’m not really goal oriented or great on any deadline even if given an entire year which isn’t something anyone wants to hear from someone else so that’s mainly why I hate this question.

Who is your greatest role model? I haven’t really had a role model since I was like 10 and that was my older cousin Crystal, the closest thing I have to an older sister (I’m an only child). When I was a kid anything she liked I liked by proxy. When she got boobs I really wished for boobs (and sadly that happened despite her being 5 years older than me  and I was 9). She was the most beautiful person I had ever know and I wanted to be just as beautiful. For a good portion of my childhood I modeled my life after hers. I eventually grew out of it either by gaining more independence or just already had it because me following what people do has never been something that lasted long with me. I’m the type to get bored, give up, and then move on to something else. But I guess I do still admire her today, not as a role model but more as a beautiful person. 

If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Oregon, it’s where most of my family moved to and I miss them.  When I was little we were really poor, so we spent a good portion of my life living with these family members actually we all were poor which is why we ended up living together and kinda sporadically (I moved 17 times before I turned 6). When everyone got their life together my aunt when her husband died and my uncle following his girlfriend, both moved to Oregon. We used to visit during the summer and a couple of Christmas’. I actually spent an entire month with my Aunt, Crystal, and Vanessa. We haven’t been back for almost a decade. I miss them, so if I could live anywhere I’d live near them. I’d love to take my mom with me but she hates rain. I hope one day to live up there.