Top Ten Tuesday (37)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because they are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. They'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of their bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All they ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on their post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share.  If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

The topic this week is: 

Top Five Books I Would Love to See as a TV Show/Movie
(set in a perfect world...in which the media doesn't butcher the books we love)

TV Shows:

1. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz - Um, hello?  This is Gossip Girl meets Dracula, but so much more awesome!  Vampires from the Upper East Side!  True Blue Bloods (do you get it?  because they're rich and privileged?).  I want it so bad I can't even explain.
2. I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga - It's Dexter for the teen crowd.  Such a creeptastic book, but so enthralling at the same time.  Jazz is my favorite messed-up, potential serial killer and I'd love to have him on my tv every week.
3. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry - Zombies and bounty hunters?  Samurai swords and guns? Please say yes to this!  The way Maberry writes lends itself so well a an action packed episode every week.  And it has a niche audience already with all the lovers of The Walking Dead (I know this is already being made into a movie, but a girl can dream).
4. Mothership by Martin Leitch and Isla Neal - A school for pregnant teens set in OUTER SPACE!  What more could you ask for?  Extremely funny, but chock-a-block full of action, pregnancy has never been more intense.  And your Teen Mom fans would love it; BAM, instant cult hit! 
5. The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer - A book full of fairy tales come to life; defintie kid show success story.  It is a book full of whimsy, imagination, and just a little bit of fear, resulting in the perfect combination for a tv show.  Every kid would want to pick up Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm after watching this show.

Those are my picks for my books to tv show must-haves!  If only a dream could come true (and not be screwed up in the process).  What are some of your wishlist books to tv shows/movies? Leave me a comment below!

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September Recommendations!

Where I talk about the books, movies, tv, music, and little extras 

that I was loving in September and recommend to all of you!

Let me know your recommendations in the comments!

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Books!

Ashes by Ilsa Bick

Flesh and Bone by Jonathan Maberry

Movies!

ParaNorman

The Bourne Legacy

Tv!

The New Normal

Revolution

Music!

Ho Hey - The Lumineers

Home - Phillip Phillips

Etc!

For Audrey - China Glaze

Almost Famous - Color Club

Mustache - This one is different from mine but I want it!

Paris Amour - Bath & Body Works Candle

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Song: Incoherent by Josh Woodward

Check out the full length versions: http://bit.ly/tGneIs

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FTC Disclaimer:

All the items shown I have either bought or gotten as a gift.  None of the companies/producers/brands mentioned are paying me for this video or even know their items may be shown.  All opinions are my own and this is a 100% non-sponsored video.

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May Recommendations

My monthly recommendations of books, movies, tv, music, and misc. that I've been loving!

Goodreads:

Bittersweet

S.A.S.S. series

Movies IMDb:

The Avengers

Battleship

Television IMDb:

Community

Teen Wolf

iTunes Pages:

Back in Time by Pitbull

It's Time by Imagine Dragons

Love Interruption by Jack White

Etc:

Twistbands

Ramune Soda

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April Recommendations!

Here are my recommendations for books, movies, tv, music, and etc 

for the month of April.  

If you want to participate, leave a link to your post in the comments!

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Books Goodreads:
Pink Smog by Francesca Lia Block
The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze - My Review 
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

Movies IMDb:
Iron Man
Iron Man 2 
The Incredible Hulk 
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger

Television IMDb:
2 Broke Girls
Million Dollar Listing NY

Music iTunes:
Everybody Talks by Neon Trees
Some Nights by Fun. 
Payphone by Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Kalifa

Etc Links:
Minnie Mouse Ears
Yes to Blueberries Facial Towelettes
Nail Polish Palettes (ummm get some plastic?)
Scarf (From The Avenue, but out of season)

FTC Disclaimer:
All the items shown I have either bought or gotten as a gift. None of the companies/producers/brands mentioned are paying me for this video or even know their items may be shown. All opinions are my own and this is a 100% non-sponsored video.

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March Recommendations

I thought I'd start doing a recommendation video at the end of each month.
I know I like watching other rec. videos, so I hope you all enjoy this one!
Let me now any recommendations you have in the comments!

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Follow Friday (11)

Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee at Parajunkee's View.  It is an awesome opportunity to network other book blogs.  Here's a blurb about it from her site!

Hi, welcome to Follow Friday! Let me tell you what is going on today.

• First PJV will be featuring one blogger from this great community each Friday along with having the Follow My Book Blog feature. 

• Each week one blogger will be selected as a feature, so sign up for the Follow Feature. Future features are picked randomly.

This week's question is:

Q: ACK! Your favorite book/movie character (ex. Hermione Granger played by Emma Watson) just walked into the room!  Who is it and what would be your first reaction? You get extra points if you include visual stimulation.


Who would it be?

What is my reaction? Eric Northman...oh man.  I mean he is awesome in the Sookie Stackhouse books, but Alexander Skarsgard plays him so very very well.  If I met him in real life, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to talk at all!

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Follow Friday (06)

Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee at Parajunkee's View.  It is an awesome opportunity to network other book blogs.  Here's a blurb about it from her site!

Hi, welcome to Follow Friday! Let me tell you what is going on today. First PJV will be featuring one blogger from this great community each Friday along with having the Follow My Book Blog feature. Each week one blogger will be selected as a feature, so sign up for the Follow Feature. Future features are picked randomly.

This week's question is:

Share your current fav. television show! Tell us a bit about it...

 

I answered this just a couple posts ago and I'll link it here:
Community for the WIN!

It is an awesome comedy on NBC starring Joel Mchale from The Soup and Chevy Chase from everything (lol), plus some other outstanding comedians including Ken Jeong, that's right, the naked Asian man from The Hangover!  CHECK IT OUT!!!

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On the Screen (02)

On the Screen covers everything on both the big and small screens.  I will feature anything from a trailer to a synopsis of a movie/episode, or a simple gushing over a hot character/actor.  Pretty much whatever I damn well feel like that has to do with television or movies.

This week I'm talking about the NBC show Community.

"The student body at Greendale Community College is made up of high-school losers, newly divorced housewives, and old people who want to keep their minds active. The ensemble cast centers on Jeff, Britta, Troy, Abed, Pierce, Annie, and Shirley, members of a Spanish-class study group:  Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a suspended lawyer who was forced back into school after his college degree is deemed invalid by the state bar association because his degree is from Colombia, not Columbia University, Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), a film student; Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), a recently divorced mother attending college for the first time; former high school quarterback Troy Barnes (Donald Glover); and straight-laced nerd Annie Edison (Alison Brie), who has had an unrequited crush on Troy since high school, Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), a student trying to get her life back on track, and Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), an elderly, bigoted moist-towelette tycoon who has been married seven times. Also recurring are unbalanced former Spanish instructor Señor Ben Chang (Ken Jeong), psychology professor Ian Duncan (John Oliver), whom Jeff once represented for a DUI, and the overwhelmed Dean Pelton (Jim Rash), who desperately wants his school to be more like a real university and goes to strenuous and excessive lengths to seem politically correct."

It is amazing.  Heartwarming.  Ridiculous.  Pee in your pants hilarious!  Seriously, I have never laughed as much at a TV show as I do in the 30-minutes watching Community.  The series starts out focusing mostly on McHale's character Jeff, but as it has progressed it has become a solid ensemble giving focus to each character both individually and within the group.  A really awesome thing about Community is the writing.  It is quick and funny, throwing jokes left and right.  Much of the plot is made up of meta-humor and pop culture references.  Also, they often parody film and TV clichés.  You might be skeptical and think that would get old, but it really really doesn't.

While I love all the characters, even the periphery ones, my favorites are Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi).  The chemistry these two have is great.  good comedic timing and they are seriously BFF for life!  Below is evidence to their awesome.

In addition, there are tons of hidden awesome things throughout the episodes.  Sometimes they're funny sub-plots, like the one in season 2, episode 3: "The Psychology of Letting Go", where Abed helps deliver a baby, to a re-worked poster of Amy Poehler as a candystriper in season 2, episode 16: "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking".  The soundtrack is also amazing, each music entranced used to enhance, not distract from the episode.  I especially like the theme song.

Okay so I've talked enough, and now I' going to allow Community to speak for itself.  I'm going to leave you guys with some more funny footage and screencaps from the series to try and entice you to tune in.  Don't worry that you haven't started from the very beginning, you'll catch on quick!

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What I Like Saturday

SATURDAY!

•  "Oz" is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional maximum-security prison. Set in "Emerald City" ("Em City"), an experimental unit of the prison in which the unit manager, Tim McManus, attempts to emphasize rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration, as opposed to pure punishment. Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment in which there is a controlled number of members of each racial and social group, with the hope of easing tensions among these various groups.
       I am falling in love with this intensely inappropriate show.  It is gritty, and dirty, and full of racism and murder, as well as a lot of sex.  BUT the writing is tight and, I can only assume, true to life.  This show makes me love then really hate each of the characters in turn.  My favorite prisoner has to be Beecher.  He is pretty crazy this season and I don't know what to expect next.

 

• Snap photos of friends, family and pets with this digital camera that features face detection technology that recognizes up to 32 faces and pet detection technology that detects your pet's face and optimizes conditions for stunning pictures.
  14.0-megapixel 1/2.3" CCD - Captures high-resolution images up to 4288 x 3216 pixels.
  10x optical/6.7x digital/67x total zoom - Through a Pentax zoom lens for precise zooming and accuracy.
       I got this camera to replace my old Pentax Optio M10.  That camera bit the dust January 2010.  JANUARY!  Almost an entire year.  I spilled water on it.  I know, I know, it's my fault, but it's been hard because I've had to use my Pentax K1000, which I love but is not a digital camera, and my Pentax ist DS, which is only a 6.5 megapixel!!!  (OLD). 
  

   

• The weekend you’ve been waiting for is here! No, not the Superbowl. The Gleekend is here! That’s right! Oxygen is bringing you a 12-hour marathon of your favorite Glee episodes.
       I am in Gleek heaven!!!  I love love love this show, and even auditioned (just for fun) for it.  Got one call back but...ultimately no.  Damn!  So I just get to bask in the awesome second hand.  I do have some problems with the writing, mostly how they represent specific characters, but still love it!
  

 

• You know you're from Florida if....
       This is all so very true.  I found this in my college newspaper (that's why the quality is so crap), and I just laughed super hard.  Especially wearing flip-flops everywhere, even to church, thing.  Let me know if any of these apply to you!

• iPod nano has been completely redesigned with Multi-Touch — the same technology that makes iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch so amazing. Now it’s half the size and even easier to play. And everything you want to hear is just a tap or swipe away.
     Love my new iPod (I have the pink one!!!)  The only problem is there aren't many accessories for it yet.  I'm anxiously waiting for a new radio receiver which works for 6th gen nanos.  Come on Apple, work with me!
  

 

So what do you like this Saturday?

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