The Content That Isn't Mine

Hello!

  I've been cooped up in the apartment all day sleeping and watching YouTube videos. My dad has been back and forth between the hospital and his job, and we have ordered out for both breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

  I hate this. I really hate it.

I watched the Growing Up Granger series that Nanalew made on YouTube (Granger, as in Hermione Granger, as in Harry Potter). It's really great, and her british accent's resemblance to Emma Watson is scarily alike and really impeccable. Only 6 episodes long though:(

I'm just going to post all of the videos I watched today, because I feel really brainless, and these made me happy.

The 10th Doctor (David Tennant) and his previous companion Donna (Catharine Tate) on The Graham Norton Show:

Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill, and Karen Gillan sing Bohemian Rhapsody (MORE DOCTOR WHO)
It's so geeky.

This one is called "Frost" and it was posted my Meekakitty (Tessa Violet), featuring Nanalew (Shawna Howson). I think that it's really beautiful. Gracie should like this one.

This is a cover of the song "Kids" by MGMT, by Poppy. Her voice is really unique, and I think that I really love it. I think. The band is HeyHiHello. Hinthint, she's friends with Tessa and Shawna. Anyways, I love this video a lot. 

My two favorite bands are Florence + the Machine and Of Monsters and Men (which is NOT a reference to Of Mice and Men, I'm a stupid 15 year-old-girl, but I think that it could be drawing a comparison between monsters and people. A lot of their lovely lyrics tend to do that as well, and that doesn't necessarily mean in a negative way. Monsters are highly complex creatures). This song by Florence is really chilling and wonderful, and I've been listening to it  a lot today. You know, I understand that her music is a little crazy sometimes (and crazy is an understatement), but I just love her so much. Her sounds have so much depth. She's brilliant. The song is "Blinding".

These are two videos by Meekakitty that Ella and I like to reference a whole lot. They're really funny (to me). 

Even More Doctor Who: Karen and Matt sing the theme song!

Even Even More Doctor Who: 11th Doctor's speech in the episode "The Pandorica Opens". This is a little embarresing and weird but Tulsi, Grace, and I have it memorized. That goes to show how AWESOME it is. Doctor Who quotes are amazing. Just epic. The safari on my phone has one page that is contantly on wikiquotes so that I can read them when I'm bored. Yeesh. Anyways, speech, yeah?

  I've also spent my day watching CrashCourse, which is basically school on YouTube with John and Hank Green as your teachers. It's amazing. You don't even realize that you're learning. I don't watch the science ones though, just the Literature and US History episodes. They're really good. I just realized how weird it is that I would beg to go to the internet cafe that was across the street from us in Istanbul, just so that I could watch those. That's strange. However, I am content with myself in an entirely egotistical way. I also re-watched Squaresville, which is my favorite Web-Show. I love it a lot. Actually, it's tied with the Lizzie Bennet Diaries (yeah, Pride and Prejudice YO). You should watch it. You should seriously watch it. It sort of reminds me of My So-Called Life. It's honest in the way that that show is. This is the first episode. It's not the best one, but it's pretty good. 

Anyway, I suppose that this was my page of distractions. In all honesty, I really look up to these people in a way. Besides people who are physically in my life, in the last 2-3 years, this content on YouTube, did sort of act as a model for me. I watch these videos and I just hope that one day I'll be a part of these sorts of amazing projects, or that I'll be interesting enough for people to actually want to listen to me speak. When I made this blog, a part of me wanted to get out of the rut of just being a consumer. I know that it's really silly of me to write a whole post about the YouTube videos that I watched today, but they're sort of my inspiration. 

On a random note, I should watch more films. I really lack a lot on that front. I'm guessing Ella and her theatre-junkieness can help? 

Bye!

-D.F.T.B.A.-

Mina;)