Orphan Black / Game of Thrones / Hannibal
The personal likes of a music loving, book reading, film watching obsessive geek who spends way too much time watching TV and getting emotionally attached to fictional characters.
• Aaron Paul • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.• The Americans • Arrested Development• The Avengers • Bat For Lashes • Being Human • Ben Wyatt • Boyd Crowder • Breaking Bad • British Sea Power • Bruce Banner • Bryan Fuller shows • Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers • Documentaries • Elementary • Enlightened • Fringe • Game Of Thrones • Gwendoline Christie • Hannibal • Happy Endings • Iron & Wine• Jaime/Brienne • Jesse Pinkman • Joss Whedon • Justified • Leslie Knope • Lone Wolf • Mark Ruffalo • Marvel movies • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau • Orphan Black • Parks & Recreation • Raylan Givens • Rectify• Scarlett Johansson • Science Bros • Sons of Anarchy • Southland • Spartacus • Spider-man •Star Trek • The Strokes • Tatiana Maslany • Timothy Olyphant • Walton Goggins • Yeah Yeah Yeahs • Zachary Quinto
30 Days Of The Strokes
Day 30 - How They’ve Changed You
The Strokes changed me in a different way than I guess they did for most. As I got into them in my early 20s rather than at I time I was first discovering music they didn’t change my music taste or change the way I thought about things like say The Manics or Radiohead did but what they did do was introduce me to some of my closest and dearest friends.
Without The Strokes I would not have met so many fantastic people of which I call many my best friends, people like Bobby (we bonded over Nick Valensi being a Jeff Buckley clone), people like Michelle, Julie and Lu. I love these girls to pieces and how did we met? On messages boards and communities dedicated to The Strokes.
The Strokes opened up that idea to me of searching out other fans to talk to, before 2001 the Internet was a place I checked emails on and that was about it. But then I discovered Yahoo clubs and Livejournal communities and with that I started realising there were other people like me out there. People that not only loved The Strokes but often thought about things the way I did, shared the same problems and love.
The Strokes also helped me through some rough periods in my life, specifically the year of awful unemployment I went through post-University. I really don’t know where I would have been if it wasn’t for Room On Fire and that band. I was severely depressed, not for the first time in my life and certainly not for the last but it was a horrendous period in my life that mid-2003 to mid-2004 era but because I had connected with people like Bobby, etc they helped me through it. Also spending a ridiculous amount of time fangirling The Strokes and creating websites for them took my mind of things, because there is nothing more damaging than allowing me time to over think things when I’m depressed.
So The Strokes they changed my life, they brought beautiful lovely human beings into it, they let me drift away and lose myself in music instead of my mind. If I ever met the band all I would say to them is thank you, thank you for uniting a bunch of girls from across the world in a shared love.
