I was sucked into watching a terribly written but strangely compelling Disney movie (Starstruck – do yourself a favor and do not go near it. If you lose two hours of your life, you can’t blame me) and it got me thinking about crack. I know we’ve talked about this before but what is it that makes some books, movies, or tv shows utterly cracktastic so you cannot put them down? Sometimes its the train wreck factor, like Toddlers and Tiaras. I have met more than one person who has encountered the show and has not been able to look away. I have movies, too, that, if I flip past them, I will stop to watch, no matter where in the movie I encounter the plot. Varsity Blues is one example (I Don’t Want Your Life!) of clicker-stopping crack movies. Goonies too – and even if I OWN the movie on DVD, I’ll still tune in to watch if I see if on tv when I’m on the couch. (What is with that, anyway?! I think I own Varsity Blues, now that I think about it).
Sometimes it’s some indefinable quality that keeps me hooked to whatever I’m enjoying… and it’s not always a good quality. I think there needs to be a word for when you’re balanced between horrified and enjoyment. I’ve had this experience with JR Ward bhoohks, Stephanie Laurens books, many, many things on Food Network and QVC (The “q” in QVC, I’m convinced, is for Qrack). I can’t stop observing and watching, waiting to see what happens next. I also have this problem more with first-person perspective books than third-person, as if I can’t be rude and turn away from this person confiding in me for pages and pages. Do I care personally about blow drying serums that prevent frizz, chest-pounding men who say things like, “I’m outtie,” or some random kitchen staffed entirely by lunatics? Nope. Am I still tuning in? Yup. Why?! Why do I do that?!
I’ve been pondering the topic some over the weekend, too, since today I’m going to find out what supah-sekrit plans are in the works for the Sweet Valley High sequels – and I get to meet the geniuses behind 1BRUCE1, the LiveJournal group that is itself cracktastic. Sweet Valley, for me, was crackalicious. I would spend my hard-earned allowance on two of them, and read them both within 45 minutes. The tv show never did it for me. Something about the Daniels’ sister’s heads freaked me out. Generally speaking, I like the images of characters in my own head more than any film production versions – especially when the characters look like 34 year-olds pretending to be in high school.
What books are crack-o-matic for you? What do you think it is that makes a tv show or movie or book un-put-down-able?
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
Anything with Sean Bean (I can watch Sharpe’s Anything for hours)
Dianna Palmer—the badness is awesome
Lora Leigh because I know she can write a book without a butt plug
Say crack again.
crack.
there is this one book that i keep coming back to (“If Looks Could Kill” by Heather Graham)…i have to read it once a year, and i honestly don’t know why. there are so many mistakes (research wise and in the editing), but i just have to read it. I’ve probably read it about 5 times since i ordered it, and each time i just get sucked in! (actually, i just finished re-reading it on Saturday).
The plotting is just so bad! This last time I even created a drinking game: Each time the heroine thinks that the hero sees her as a witch (the hocus pocus kind) take a shot. Each time the hero thinks he wants to fuck the heroine, take 2 shots. Everytime the title is mentioned, take 3 shots. Every time heroine refers to the …hero as her stepbrother, drink the whole damn bottle.
Most of the crack comes in musical form. Whenever I hear “Mmmbop” i am sucked in and there is no way you can pull me out. Do not ask me why because i do not know. Then there is “Wannabe,” “Escape (The Pina Coloda Song),” and “the Thong Song”.
Movie crack: coming-of-age, highschool romances. Anything Amanda Bynes. It doesn’t matter that they’re teenagers who’ll fall out of love next week, I love ‘em. I hide those DVDs in my room, so the roomie can’t mock me for them. Also S.W.A.T., which I DO NOT understand why I like. Although I did start to understand what the fuss around Colin Farrell was all about.
TV crack: Destroyed in Seconds and Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. Guy Fi-something is a little trying, but that show just pulls me in. And makes me want to road-trip all over the US, eating and eating.
Book crack: Shoujo manga. Yaoi manga. “Gosh, ordinary little me, my life is so boring, I’m so plain and clumsy, and yet the rich, powerful, handsome, popular guy is MADLY in love with me!” I’m too old to be buying that shit, and I CANNOT stop. The more saccharine, the better.
Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels. I re-read the whole, original trilogy every time I pick one up (although the later additions don’t suck me in as much).
I’m pretty much over the BDB. I’m vaguely interested in John Matthew & Xhex’s relationship, but not enough to buy the books anymore. I think she lost me when Vishous turned out to be the Scribe Virgin’s son. In fact, it was the fact that in the last one I read, she kept switching between Scribe Virgin and Virgin Scribe. I think that’s what did me in. The creator of your race, and you can’t even keep her title right? Feh. Her world-building was always weak, but she keeps changing her own rules in every book for the convenience of the plot (I think there’s a plot in there somewhere), and now she’s got a net of inconsistencies and stupidity and deus ex machina galore. Feh, again.
Internet crack: political websites like buzzflash.com and rabble.ca – except the articles can make me kind of crazy. I avoided politics fairly successfully until GWB was elected in 2000, and then the WTFery was just too overwhelming to look away. The polarization of politics in N.Am. in the last decade has been a slow-moving, horrific, mesmerizing plane wreck.
Also mah jongg at freegames.ws – I play until I can’t see anymore. And freerice.com until I start to get too many wrong and feel stupid.
For anyone looking for the Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews on DVD, I found it at Barnes & Noble about a year and a half ago. It just makes me so absurdly happy.
Also, yes to Sweet Valley High. I used to be addicted to those books in middle and high school. I think my favourites, though, were the ‘historical’ ones where they traced the ancestry of each of the main characters (the twins, Lila, Bruce, etc). It was so utterly far-fetched and I couldn’t put it down.
My dirty secret tv crack is Dog The Bounty Hunter. How can you not be riveted by an open shirted, middle-aged man with a bleached mullet running around Hawaii and Colorado with his extended family while hunting down bail jumpers? I love when they catch somebody and start screaming things like “on the ground you “MF”er” and other assorted obscenities and five minutes later they have a prayer circle going on and are asking Jesus to help the criminal choose the righteous path. It is so lame but, like a car crash, I can’t seem to stop watching.
Another random show that is totally addictive is Parking Wars – Philly is my favorite location – the people the parking authority has to deal with down there are crazy!
TV: Dante’s Cove and The Lair. Complete and utter CRACK! They’re not just crack, they’re CRACK! No matter how crazy things get, they’ll always take a turn for the crazier. I think my love for these two can be summed up with one scene from Dante’s Cove. The owner of the local bar gets angry about people selling drugs in his bar, so he goes over to the drug dealing sex club and says, “This is a nice cover, but I know what’s really going on here!” The first time I saw that, I was with a group of friends, and we all looked at each other, very puzzled. Something else us usually a cover for the drug dealing sex club, not drug deal sex club as a cover for something else. And then we discovered The Lair and found the answer. Total CRACK!
Books: Matthew Reilly – OMG the crackiest books EVER! I read every one of them. And track down the Australian audiobook versions because Sean Mangan rocks the audio books.
area52 No actually the Reilly book is Area 7.
I have no guilty pleasures, for I am not ashamed. My crack is Lord of the Rings… book, movies, fanfiction. All of it.
If I have to spend three days sewing sequins on saddle pads or other major time consuming projects where my eyes and hands have to be paying attention but my mind needs distraction, I listen to the commentary on the LotR extended editions. I have heard them all about six times each. Do you know how many hours that is? And it has never become boring (well, for me anyway).
My copies of Sayers, Heyer, Gellis, Dick Francis (great to read when I am sick; someone in the book is bound to feel worse than I do), Elsie Lee (jeez, does that date me!) are all tattered.
I keep wanting to defend books other people have listed. I mean, crack is not the same as self-indulgent reading, though there’s an overlap. I consider all the romance I read somewhat self indulgent, but authors like Loretta Chase, Lisa Kleypas and Connie Brockway are also well written and intelligent. In the period romance genre everything by Jennifer Ashley EXCEPT The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie is crack to me. That book surprised the hell out of me.
My most recent crack is J. R. Wharrd. I can’t stop reading the Brotherhood books, though I’m constantly cringing at the writing, and, leaving aside the embarrassing names all the vampires have, are there seriously people in the US called ‘Butch’? Seriously? Still, I’ve read four in the last week. Also Janet Evanovich, all Meg Cabot’s books other then The Princess Diaries (yes the movies sucked but I have quite a lot of respect for the books) and the Modesty Blaise books.
Sorry, inadequate proofing. Books by author such as Loretta Chase, Lisa Kleypas and Connie Brockway are also well written and intelligent.
Book crack: J.D. Robb, even though it’s beginning to get a little tired by now (holodecks are so 90’s, don’t you think?). But still must have…Jill Paton Walsh’s Lord Peter Wimsey books (Stupid Sayers, died when I was two years old…how dare she!). Want to steal Peter and Harriet and turn them into a Regency farce, heh. Little Beau Peep, you heard it here first! Amanda Quick—yes, they’re always the same two people. Deal with it, just let me borrow the Fabulous Faringdons and we’ll call it square. Lindsey Davis, Falco rules!
TV: I’m old enough to be a Dynasty fanatic (Alexis also rules!). Major Trekkie since junior high (the original Kirk, Spock, etc. I blame Spock for making me take calculus, frankly). Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, So You Think You Can Dance (though the third time that one judge screams till my ear wax falls off, I’m gone), and House.
Movies: Police Academy, any time, anywhere. (still mourn the actor who played Tackleberry, he was cute!). Anything made by Mel Brooks. Galaxy Quest.
Well, that does it for me…for now.
The movie Clue is my kind of crack. So is General Hospital, for that matter. And 19 Kids and Counting. (I might admit that whenever “From Justin to Kelly” is on TV I’ll tune in. Maybe.)
Has anyone here heard of/read the Love Stories young adult romance series? Because those, those are so cracktastic. Every now and then I’ll go back to them and read them just for the hell of it. I was so sad when they were put out of print!
And, of course, I can’t forget the Sweet Valley Sagas. Twins! Betrayal! Circus acts! The Hindenberg Distaster! This is crack in its most pure form.
My husband’s Movie Crack was THE MUMMY and the three Star Wars prequels: PHANTOM MENACE and whatever the other two are called. He’d watch them every time they were on, although he agreed that they were not very good. In fact, they sucked – but he was hooked. Spamword is square85m which probably the number of times he watched.
Movie: My husband was the original pusher. He saw Cruel Intentions on his own in a hotel room and rented it for us: “It’s SO HORRIBLE. You HAVE to see it.” It was awful and I loved it. And we’ve probably seen it 10 more times by now. It’s not on cable as often as it used to be, sadly.
TV: Ugh. Almost any reality TV you can name, I will be sucked in. I don’t usually seek them out, but once I see The Millionaire Matchmaker or ANTM—my Sunday afternoon is spoken for.
Books: Anita Blake/ Merry Gentry. Even though I know not a whole lot will happen and it will be riddled with “soliders” instead of “soldiers” and the occasional “your” when it should be “you’re.”
But speaking of SVH and other jr. high crack—did anyone ever read the Caitlin books? I think I realized even at the time that they were trashy, but boy, I loved them.
And in the guilty pleasure column—I collect Sunfire romances. Mostly I gloat over them, but occasionally I re-read them, too.
your23: See? Even the spambot checker doesn’t know how to use “you’re.”
I’ve just found my latest crack book, Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. It has everything an addict is looking for; quick fix, long high.
Books: Used to be Laurell K. Hamilton, but we broke up. Also Diana Palmer is hilariously bad. I prefer the ones with biscuits and dance-offs. Mercenaries optional.
Movies: Victory is one of the best bad movies ever made. Who doesn’t love a combination of Nazis, Pele, and Sylvester Stallone? The “plot” makes no sense, the “acting” is ridiculous, and I don’t care. Am also a big fan of “The Women” (1939), which is delightfully over-the-top.
TV: Where do I begin? Dynasty, Dr. Who (since 1974), What Not to Wear (US and UK), So You Think You Can Dance (Mary “Hot Tamale Train” Murphy is not a permanent judge this year! WOOOOOOOOO!), America’s Next Top Model, Say Yes to the Dress (the dresses are mind-boggling, and Randy! rules), ‘80s General Hospital (during a writer’s strike they hired comic book writers and it just got cracktastically fantastic for about a decade), Hell’s Kitchen, Hotel Inspector, How Clean Is Your House? (UK version only, can’t stand the Americans who are filthy, for some reason)…
Oh, I forgot:
Politics: Local TV. I live in South Carolina.
Um, I had an uncle Butch (in Canada). But to be fair to him, he was a teenager in a podunk Prairie town in the 50’s, and he died before he could grow out of it.
There was a Butch on Survivor about 5 or 6 years ago. In private life he’s a school principal; on the show he was best known for inadvertently burning down the camp.
i have to say that i am weaning myself off of that crack, which is probably the unhealthiest crack other than the real thing. I do think that it is interesting that comic book writers were writing during GH’s heyday. Maybe we could get Fronz to fire Guza (the current head writer) and replace him with comic book writers—they could not do any worse than the dreck that is on now (18 yr-old being raped Oz style, James Franco boring us every few months, Sonny—‘nuff said—).
If you tell me that those writers were the ones that came up with the Ice Princess, I’ll probably faint. Today’s writers couldn’t come up with anything as cool as a weather machine!
I can’t believe only one person said “Legend of the Seeker”!!
Every single person on this thread should watch that show right now. Serious, serious krack. Based on the Terry Goodkind novels, with some serious manly ab action and sword wielding.
Also, so glad there are others out there who can’t look away from QVC, Real Houswives, etc.
I must also contribute, WE TV. Just the whole channel. Especially wedding Sundays. I just can’t stop watching.
since first posting i have realized that there is more crack in my life than i thought.
Television:
NCIS (watched every episode from the middle of the 2nd season to the middle of the just finished season in 1.5 months)
Buffy (especially Once More With Feeling)
Supernatural (all 104 episodes between 5/11/10-6/6/10 and started all over again)
General Hospital (i’ve been watching since Jason’s accident in ‘95, and each time i try to stop it pulls me back in)
M*A*S*H (especially the episodes post Trapper—i could not stand him—and the series finale—i wasn’t even born yet when it aired, but thanks to tvland i must watch it whenever it is on tv)
Bones (especially the first Gravedigger episode and the one where Bones sings and Booth gets shot)
Gilmore Girls (especially the 3rd season and excluding the 6th)
Movies:
Grease
The Sound of Music (my original crack—i even brought the VHS to kindergarten with me)
Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Brandi edition)
RENT Filmed Live on Broadway
Get Over It
Dick
Independence Day
Bring It On
Books:
anything Nora Roberts
recently anything Karen Rose (i finish one and i need to find another)
The Francesca Cahill novels (including the train wreck that was the last book—i need to know if Evan and Maggie will end up together and if Bragg and his wife work things out…i don’t care so much about Francesca and Hart, but i need those two couples to have a HEA.)
Candace Camp (my biggest guilty pleasure!)
Suze: I won’t buy Ward’s hardbacks anymore, but I got her newest from the library and it is MUCH better than the last
two
three
four
. She still has me for Blay and Qhuinn, but not enough to buy, and then I’m gone. (She really should have just gone into m/m romance, she does much better with the male-male sexual tension.)
Sycorax: I agree, there’s a difference between crack and self-indulgence. And I love Cabot’s 1-800 series (I was so happy she got her new publisher to print her last book.)
Oh, this post sooooooooo hits home.
I love craptastic stuff. My husband is forever asking why I watch what he considers crap and boring beyond means. (But his tastes are pretty limited, so get over it. LOL)
I’ve attributed my tendencies as a thirst to learn something—anything really—different from my own little world. Open my horizons. Show me stuff I never really thought on before.
And sometimes…just show me pure crap cuz I can numb out and fall asleep. Though in books of any genre, I’d prefer to be so caught up—be it crapilicious or not—that I can’t put the book down.
The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, BBC’s Pride & Prejudice miniseries, Pride & Prejudice (2005), and Meet the Robinsons are (mostly) warm-fuzzy crack for me. I’m a little embarrassed by how often I watch these movies, and either P&P is my default “I want to watch a movie but I don’t know what” movie (and I have a feeling How to Train Your Dragon will join these movies once it comes out on DVD).
I’m really guilty of returning to books I love for the comfort-food value. I think it’s because I know the ending so I don’t have to stress about whether or not the protagonist will make it past that huge hurdle the writer threw at them (a bit abashed to admit that I got really nervous and heart-thumpy as I was nearing the end of Slow Hands recently, which made me think to myself that I am just not cut out to expose myself to new things). The biggest comfort food books for me are the Boys series by Meg Cabot, A Girl’s Best Friend and Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young, and Meg by Steve Alten (what? Is that unusual? There’s something comforting about prehistoric sharks surfacing and terrorizing humanity…)
And add me to the list: I just can’t resist those Bridezillas!
Boys 46 – Yes, I’d say I’ve read the Boys series about this many times…each. And that’s a modest estimate.
There are comfort things that I repeat endlessly – Georgette Heyer, Jennifer Crusie, Jayne Anne Krentz, Stephanie Plum (not any of the other work that I have picked up by Evanovich – just Stephanie). They don’t feel like crack, just like a ritual that will make me feel better. On page 148, the same thing will happen and I will have the same reaction and it will be good.
There is another step to Crack – The feeling that you shouldn’t like this so much as you are watching or reading. LKH and JR Ward are the Queens of Crack – and I have to reread the whole darn series each time a new book is out.
Crack Movies for me?
Musical Comedy and Doris Day movies – especially if you can get some overlap going there. I love watching Doris with Rock Hudson or Cary Grant, the movies were absurd and strikingly similar but I would watch anyone of them at this moment. I like musical comedy, especially with lyrics that pack in the huge number of syllables. I want to see Busby Berkley dancers and stupid costumes.
I don’t have TV, just computer with streaming video. The last time I had broadcast TV in my home, I found myself watching Dharma and Greg. Because it was a convenient time? Because it was cute and safe? (Jenna Elfman may be a Doris Day character) This made me realize I cannot trust myself alone with a TV. I know that if I had one and all it played was Gilligan’s Island 24-hours a day, I would be watching Gilligan’s Island a lot every day.
Now I watch TV at other people’s houses or online. I found the new Battlestar Galactica amazingly compelling. The site that was showing it streamed episode after episode, for the entire first three season’s worth of shows. It was very hard to make myself stop watching in between episodes – as each one was ended with cliffhangers and open questions with so much punch, I had to see the beginning of the next. Finally I found I could turn them off 15 or 20 minutes in and get some sleep. (Or stay up watching 5 in a row until I was totally unable to focus my eyes.)
Supernatural has taken over my life. And my crack is the cracktastic supernatural fanfiction. This is the first time I have ever admitted it. I feel….lighter 🙂
and tv shows? Toddlers and Tiaras, and the english real estate shows, Location, Location, Location
I’m with the posters who define crack as something not very good for you but compelling nonetheless. Therefore, I wouldn’t include Jenny Crusie, Laura Kinsale, Lisa Kleypas or Julia Quinn in my book crack list, as they’re not bad. I certainly wouldn’t include Jacqueline Carey’s books or the tv show House, which I think are excellent.
As to what I would include…
online:
tvtropes.org
and my secret shame, perezhilton.com (which is more like smack than crack – eventually his misogyny and spite will kill you).
TV:
Grand Designs – a british tv show about people buying and revamping their dream properties. OMG my boyfriend and I consumed this show compulsively every night for a year. We were especially addicted due to the host one Kevin McCloud, who could teach the bitchery a thing or two about snark.
Grey’s Anatomy – I actually hired season one and started from the beginning a few weeks ago when I ran out of current episodes.
Movies:
27 dresses… I’ve watched that movie way more times than I’ll admit, even on an anonymous forum.
Books:
Thanks to the bitches I don’t read really horrible romances anymore (back in the day it was like, “I got this from the library so I’ll read it dammit”).
Once a Princess by Johanna Lindsey. This book is so cracktastic to me, I’ll reread certain sections of it when I’ve just waxed my lip or have PMS cramps in order to distract myself.
Terry Goodkind
As an addendum to what I posted earlier –
To me crack isn’t necessarily crap. It can be something good. To me, it’s definition is something that I have no control over. If the book is there and I haven’t read it yet, I MUST read it NOW.
That said, it just dawned on me what my biggest TV crack is because its season hasn’t started yet – Big Brother. Not just the show, but also the 24/7 live feeds. And yes, this is crack in its most literal form. Cheap and bad for you and addictive and embarrassing and I kind of hate myself for it, but can not stop.
They made Legend Of The Seeker into a TV show? Right, I’m off to download that right now.
My crack; TV wise, Hercules and Xena, Buffy, Dollhouse and Glee.
Books: Sherrilyn Kenyon – especially the Lords of Avalon
Anne Herries – all of her Regencies have essentially the same plot but I can’t stop myself.
And movies – wow, I’m going to sound like a doofus now, but old musicals – Oklahoma, West Side Story, and the most cracktastic of all Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
keyword: feeling42 – when I am feeling blue it is time to watch 7BF7B for the 42nd time
Let’s see now…Book crack:
Anything by Terry Pratchett. He’s really way too good to be mentioned in the same breath as “crack”, but he’s certainly addictive.
Movies: The Evil Dead trilogy (true, the later ones are deliberately bad, but the whole thing is hilariously addicitve.) Also, second the vote for Kate and Leopold; the time travel doesn’t make any sense if you really stop and think about it, but it’s one of the blessedly few rom-coms in which the heroine’s ex isn’t a dick. And the Dragnet spoof with Tom Hanks and Dan Ayckroyd—the “goat dance” makes me grin every time I think about it.
TV: Supernatural. This one really has it all, including really pretty leads, awesome acting and writing, and one of the most batshit insane online fandoms ever. And Doctor Who. And Chuck. And Firefly and Fringe and….come to think of it, those are really too good to qualify as crack, except that they’re so addictive.
Other media: TV Tropes. This site can suck an entire evening away without my noticing. And the other day I innocently followed a link to a Harry Potter “fanfic” titled My Immortal…oh my freaking God. It’s like a train wreck. I honestly have a heard time believing it’s not some kind of elaborate spoof, its so….wow. Just wow.
SB Sarah, don’t feel bad about watching that Disney movie. I have a tween and have seen ‘em all. They suck you in and suck out part of your brain. But that kid sure is cute, if only I were 12! He’s in another craptastic show that my kid likes called Sonny With A Chance. It’s awful but I’m compelled to watch with her.
Books: Most of what I read lately is crack but I’m good with that. M/M and lots of it, shifters, cheesy horror novels by Richard Laymon. Life could not be better 🙂
TV: Big Brother, god what huge time suck but I won’t miss a show when it starts. And Supernatural. Love those guys.
Books; Im 14 and still read the Magic Tree House books….(oh well better than the twilight shit everyone else is still gaga over).. and the “in death” series by Nora – excuse me JD Robb, its pretty much the same thing over and over again now eve gest case case comes slightly between eve and hubby, eve solves case and sex thrown in there somwhere… and M/M/F romances…
Movies; The old disney movie Cadet Kelly, and the thriteenth birthday. Van Helsing but im not asshamed of that one 😀
Television; Nope, i gave up all hope once they got rid of “so Weird” and the other 90’s good ones (Doug, Recess, Pepper Ann) though i will watch reality TV (wife swap, those weight losing shows) and Big Brother that on is such a fucked up reality TV that i just watch to see what happens next
Other Media; Dear lord, i’ve given up completly on Fanfics to be any good i’ve found maybe 4 that were worth the endless hours of clicking to the writers page, than to the chapter list, then finding the next chapter (if i cna remeber which one im on) and reading very tiny little “chapters”… actually make that one the otehr three don’t count come to think of it >.<
It was indeed the comic book writers who came up with the Ice Princess and the Weather Machine.
I see crack as any form of content I have an unhealthy relationship with. My crack isn’t a book or TV series, it’s a computer game. Civilization.
There are other computer games I wholeheartedly love, but Civilization is in its own category because I love it and I HATE it. Every game is full of wonderful possibilities. There’s a whole world to be explored and civilized, technologies to be developed, railroads to be built! But wait, I don’t have the world all to myself… and the Roman Empire just took that prime spot on the river I was going to build a city on. Damn them! And what’s with the Dutch encroaching on my borders? Why are the Germans massing forces in that city right next to mine?
Then Queen Isabella tells me if I don’t convert to Buddhism, she’ll declare war on me. But if I do convert, both my southern neighbors will be furious.
Then the Romans invade, and the Germans pile on. Damn it, there goes my best city! I HATE THIS GAME. HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT!
Abandon this game, go back to the main menu, start a new one. I just know this time it will be perfect…
Love this post!
TV: Glee, Project Runway, Top Chef, Re-runs of America’s Next Top Model, any Joss Whedon show (buffy, Angel).
Movies: Twister, Steel Magnolias, Princess Bride, Center Stage. Those are just a few!
Books: Harry Potter, I could read those over and over again. I really loved the Anita Blake books, but now I cannot read them. The Blue Blood Books by Melissa De La Cruz. The Pink Carnation books by Lauren Willig, they are not a guilty pleasure, I just love them! Outlander books, those are sooo good. Too many to name.
Right now, my big TV time-suck is the soccer World Cup. Can’t help myself, I try to watch all the games and leave the TV on even when both teams play REALLY badly. And it doesn’t help AT ALL that it takes place in the same time zone I’m in…
Can a classic be in this category? I have to read Dracula at the moment and I don’t like it but I have to keep reading it because now I want to know how they kill him. Don’t know why I don’t like it – I do like vampire romance. And that is my book crack – although I have mostly weaned myself of it. I read Feehan’s Carpathians but stopped when the new books came out because they were too expensive (the old ones were really cheap). Same goes for BDB: got them as soon as they came out so long as they were paperbacks. Then, I didn’t want to spend so much money on the new book and now so much time has passed, that I am pretty much over it. The one habit I still might have to kick is Sherrilyn Kenyon’s DarkHunter series… I even got the HCs – although I do not regret those. Hmm, I guess they will continue to be my crack. Oh, and those dang Harlequins.
I love Cadet Kelly (despite the fact that I can’t stand Hillary Duff. Do you mean The Thirteenth Year (the one about the kid that turns into a mermaid)? That was another of my favorite Disney movies as a kid. Then of course there was the Halloweentown movies (1,2, and 4…3 sucked). The Luck of the Irish is another that i watch every year for St. Patty’s Day (it is such post-9/11 saccharine). Smart House was a good one too (Peg Bundy at her scariest). Let’s not forget ABC Family movies, like Au Per (I like to pretend that they never made a sequel).
I’m with those who define crack as something you cant put down – whether it is good or bad! 🙂
books – (like others have said) – Eve and Roarke (but i’m only on the 8th book), anything Steph Plum (might have to go with going to school near where the books are set), Stephanie Laurens (i really like the new ‘bride’ set, but then i haven’t yet read many of the others and personally I like all the cross chracters), Stephanie Bond, and JoAnn Ross, esp the ‘high risk’ series. oh and Harry Potter, all of them!
As you can tell, i am not always the most discriminating, but I am also limited to what i can get at the library many times.
movies – Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, harry Potter and Cars (disney)
TV – Bones, Grey’s Anatomy, and ER (even the post Anthony Edwards ones)
Thank you, thank you, Fifi Trixibelle,
I hadn’t thought of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in decades. Now I will have to hunt it down. God, I loved that movie. I was absolutely going to be a nun in 5th & 6th grade and have adventures! and doomed love.
I hope I can find it. I’ve been looking for a copy of Disney’s Thomasina off and on for years and haven’t had any luck with that either.
Both movies are far too wonderful to be crack, but addictive nonetheless.