anna genoese

Salt and Silver is now listed on the Ultimate Guide to Goth: Gothic Reading Material. How awesome is that? My inner 17 yr old goth girl is crossing her legs, rolling her eyes, and taking puffs off her clove cigarette to disguise her excitement, I swear. Here, check out this picture -- I had just turned 18 and was visiting a friend of mine in Ohio. We spent a ridiculous amount of time hanging out in a cemetery, taking pictures of each other draped over headstones and looking gothic-ly off into the distance surrounded by plumes of smoke. (Here's another picture, this one of us together -- we're sitting in a hotel the month before, accidentally wearing matching outfits. You're LOLing forever, amirite?)

Moving on: Day 13 of the TV meme! I am still working on putting together a similar book meme that I'll be doing when I'm finished with this one. I'm thinking about waiting until the beginning of August, and doing "30 Days of Books in August" or something. Maybe a more catchy title? Anyway, I'll post the book meme when I'm finished putting it together -- I hope some of you will join me in doing it!

Day 13 - Favorite childhood show

Oooh. When I was five, my favorite show of all time was Thundercats, an animated series about humanoid cat aliens fighting totally bizarre-o enemies for the right to exist on "Third Earth," as their home planet, Thundera, was somehow destroyed. When I was in the first grade, I actually managed to convince a few of my classmates that I was a Thundercat who was undercover (helped, of course, by the fact that I was a gymnast who could do a lot of things with my body that they couldn't -- and, of course, a lot of them were total idiots). A few months ago I actually watched a bunch of episodes with my dad and sister and WOW. Wow, what a terrible show! And yet I still remember being a kid and desperate to watch it.

Around the same time, I was also really into Jem and the Holograms, which was about sisters whose dad dies and leaves them a supercomputer that can generate holograms. The dad was the head of a big recording label, partners with a bad guy, and when he dies, the bad guy makes his pet project -- The Misfits! -- the label's focus. The sisters are pissed off about this and want their dad's share of the record label money to help fund an orphanage, so they use the supercomputer to generate holograms of themselves, but super cool looking, and they form a rock band with their friends. It is a big secret that the older sister is the lead singer of the rock band -- she doesn't even tell her (total loser of a) boyfriend! Even when I was six, this show didn't make any sense while at the same time making total sense. After all, if I had a supercomputer that could generate holograms, I would totally use it to become a rock star!!

Thankfully, Jem and the Holograms is actually not that bad, which means I sometimes happily watch the DVDs, and often my baby sister and I will have cheerful singalongs in the car and sing every single Jem and Misfits song we've ever heard. Which is all of them. Yeah, I know all the words. Wanna make something of it?

(By the time I was seven, we were living in a small town in rural New Hampshire and our 10" black and white tv only got ABC, so mostly we just watched Father Dowling and Jeopardy! and, like, the stuff my grandpa taped for us. So I watched a lot of Jake and the Fat Man and Simon and Simon and Matlock.)



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