“Everything in life influences my music. I’ve always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.” – Jason Mraz Based on a true story . . . We met like any other couple might. I was still in High School and he was the cool, older bad-boy with a cocky smirk…
Author: Kim the FanGirl
Press Play Friday: Fresh Music (8/30/13)
Dog Days Are Over The final days of summer are upon us, fading and fleeting, threatening to dilute that sticky, sweet, dreamy haze of residual sunshine and warmth. Arriving without warning, lying hidden amongst the slowly dying flower beds and sun-kissed smiles, it waits. Wanting. You know it’s there, desperate to steal away the last…
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
For Doctor Who fans, welcoming a new Doctor is like a rite of passage. In the days following the Doctor’s announcement of departure, you become overly emotional, sad to the point where you’re consistently contemplating and succeeding in writing long-form Facebook posts declaring your everlasting, incomparable love for the British actor and his portrayal. After…
Trailer Talk: Fassbender Edition
Seeing Double If there’s one thing I like more than sparkly vampires and fanfiction, it’s hunky actors with adorable accents, but I guess you already knew that about me. So, really, this edition of Trailer Talk shouldn’t be a surprise. After all, why wouldn’t I dedicate an entire post to our favorite Irish-German import, Michael…
Trailer Talk: Saving Mr. Banks
A Spoonful of Sugar It took Walt Disney almost twenty years to convince Marry Poppins author, P. L. Travers, to agree to translate her beloved series into a major motion picture. Even then, the road to practically perfect was anything but steady. Travers was meticulous when it came to the adaptation, voicing her specifications without…
Album Review: Sara Bareilles – The Blessed Unrest
“The very first words of a life-long love letter” We’ve had a long-standing crush on Sara Bareilles since the precise moment she sweetly serenaded us with a little voice and a love song. She is the mother of heartbreaking hymns and upbeat first-love confessions, compositions that mold themselves into the exact shape of our souls. She…
Comic Con Wrap-Up Super-Spectacular 2013
This past weekend, our fellow nerds gathered together in elaborate costumes and stylish geek-chic shirts to pay tribute to all the wonderful people and things that they love. The rest of us, on the other hand, sat comfortably in front of our computers and patiently waited until the internet oh-so graciously provided us with hours…
The Ultimate Rivalry: The Writer vs. The Writer’s Block
It’s an all too common problem, one that resembles a kind of spontaneous disease, slaughtering any sort of imaginative concept or thought. It waits in the shadows, striking at the most inopportune moment, unashamed of its nefarious villainy. It laughs manically at your pain, depositing chaos with flawless frequency like a child would with a…
BLOGAVERSARY 3.0!!!
Three years. Three years of obsessions, pop culture addictions, and enough lengthy librettos about English songstress’ and fictional characters to launch the expression “fangirl” onto an entirely different level. What can I say, other than, thank you. Thank you all for your support and your friendship, for coming back again and again, encouraging me and…
First Impressions: Orphan Black
Identity Theft Addictive. Award winning. Absolutely fantastic. A must watch. These are all words that have been, in recent weeks, associated with season one of BBC America’s hit, Orphan Black. It’s everywhere you go, in every conversation you have. It’s quite impossible to avoid. I guarantee someone, somewhere is saying: Have you seen it? Oh,…
Trailer Talk: The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug
That’s right, nerds. The teaser trailer for the second installment of The Hobbit has arrived. Here are some things we learned: Legolas still doesn’t like dwarfs. Bears, spiders, and dragons. Oh, my! Evangeline Lilly seems to have all the attributes of a pretty exemplary elf. The verdict still is out on Lee Pace. Whoever said…
Dreaming With the Television On
He waited until the opportune moment to step out of the bright blue box, cautiously examining the surrounding thingamabobs and thingamajigs, before extracting the sonic screwdriver from his top left pocket. The mechanism was his favorite little watchamacallit and proved to be the most reliable. At least, most of the time. Curiously, it seemed to…
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