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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

All the Things

Last week was a momentous occasion for me - my 800th movie (for the record, it was Mario Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve). I keep track of every new film I watch on an IMDb list, and I am overjoyed to have reached this fabulous milestone. If you'll allow me to indulge myself (and if you won't, you can switch tabs over to Facebook now), here is a brief* list of 800 things I love in no particular order.

Note: This is more of an exercise in happiness. To find 800 things, you have to plumb deep into your life and it's actually a really satisfying experience. You should try it!


  1.  Cassidy
  2.  Ke$ha
  3.  Television Tropes
  4.  Mrs. Hahn
  5.  Chapstick
  6.  My birthday
  7.  The fact that my blog is inexplicably popular with my friends' parents
  8.  Committing to ridiculous challenges (like this one)
  9.  Cameos
  10.  Pokémon Puzzle League
  11. The letter "zed"
  12. Ice cold water in a giant glass
  13. Weird superstitions
  14. Winnie the Pooh
  15. Cinnabon
  16. Pop culture
  17. Anything that isn't bees
  18. Proper formatting
  19. My lucky number
  20. Trogdor
  21. The Sprinkles Cupcake ATM
  22. Seeing the security cameras that nobody else notices
  23. Terrible gay comedies
  24. Felicia Day
  25. Quips
  26. Neopolitan milkshakes at In N Out
  27. Gimmicks
  28. Ke$ha's "Gold Trans Am"
  29. "Tu No Eres Para Mí"
  30. Animal Crossing
  31. Classic literature
  32. Slasher movies
  33. Uncensored art
  34. Weird Al polka medleys
  35. Fog
  36. Successfully restraining myself from commenting on stupid Facebook statuses
  37. La persistencia de la memoria
  38. Running song lyrics through Google Translate 900 times to see what comes out
  39. Google Translate
  40. Krispy Kreme
  41. One hit wonders
  42. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  43. "I Won't Say I'm In Love" from Hercules
  44. Madeleines
  45. The Whedonverse
  46. Llamas With Hats
  47. Rapier wit
  48. The word "rapier"
  49. Bread
  50. When TV shows try to hide pregnancies 
  51. Wahoo's Fish Tacos
  52. My cats
  53. Widgets
  54. People who dye their eyebrows when they get their hair colored so they match
  55. Danceathon
  56. Yearbook signatures
  57. Writing
  58. Putting people on the spot
  59. Foley
  60. Making mix tapes
  61. IZZE soda
  62. Being a role model
  63. Amazon
  64. The fact that I don't get periods
  65. The feeling I got the first time I listened to "Die Young"
  66. Talking with Callie about Shania Twain
  67. Being able to watch R-rated movies
  68. Harvest Moon
  69. Inappropriate jokes
  70. Pontificating
  71. Shannon
  72. Failbook
  73. Absurdist comedy
  74. Weekly World News
  75. Intelligent people who aren't pretentious
  76. People who stick it to the Westboro Baptist Church
  77. Getting enough sleep
  78. Cartons of milk
  79. The giant milk cartons full of Goldfish
  80. "Tee-iff." 
  81. "How does pizza happen?"
  82. Schadenfreude
  83. Scavenger hunts
  84. Fanny Lú
  85. Dining hall pudding
  86. Anna Kendrick
  87. Being informed
  88. Walking
  89. Finales
  90. Cold Prey
  91. The Exploding Actresses Tumblr
  92. The Wilhelm Scream
  93. The Internet
  94. Orangina
  95. Pokémon Snap
  96. Les Misérables
  97. Cher
  98. Christmas cookies
  99. Pears
  100. Shawn Ashmore 
  101. Satire
  102. Pearls Before Swine
  103. Roger Corman
  104. Greek mythology
  105. Midnight premieres
  106. Raspberries
  107. Surprises
  108. Bathroom Readers
  109. Christmas crackers
  110. Alphabetizing things
  111. The fact that my school was built on a Native American burial ground
  112. Guilty pleasures
  113. The Human Rights Campaign
  114. Putting a lot of effort into a project and getting an "A+"
  115. Puns
  116. Truth or Dare
  117. Foreign languages
  118. The Pike
  119. The goat remix of "I Knew You Were Trouble"
  120. Band-Aids
  121. Coincidences
  122. Fry's
  123. Homestar Runner
  124. Stanley Tucci
  125. Laughing at comments on Anaheim Hills Buzz
  126. Australian accents
  127. Spanish covers of pop songs
  128. Umlauts
  129. Detailed fictional universes
  130. Breakfast
  131. Kristen Wiig
  132. Telling somebody news before they read it on Tumblr
  133. HowToBasic
  134. Participating in research surveys
  135. "Nobody asked you, Patrice!"
  136. Trying on high heels at Buffalo Exchange
  137. Panda Express
  138. My Robyn sweater
  139. The Brea Mall
  140. "Call Your Girlfriend"
  141. They Might Be Giants
  142. Humor essays
  143. Evil Dead: The Musical
  144. Tom Lenk
  145. Pizookies
  146. Cranberry sauce
  147. Mashed potatoes
  148. Waking up on a holiday
  149. BriTANick
  150. Johnny Depp's midriff shirt from A Nightmare on Elm Street 
  151. DVD extras
  152. Jaume Belagueró
  153. Airplane!
  154. Hearing about other people's dreams
  155. Almond milk tea
  156. Panda
  157. Bowling For Soup
  158. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  159. The moment laundry is finally done
  160. Seinfeld
  161. Biscuits
  162. When two characters I ship get together
  163. Hyperbole
  164. Henri
  165. Pokémon XD
  166. Baking
  167. Meryl Streep
  168. Foxtrot
  169. Cornbread
  170. A Nightmare on Elm Street
  171. People who don't care for Citizen Kane
  172. The Movie Game
  173. Movie stubs
  174. Mario Bava
  175. Adele remixes
  176. Making fun of things
  177. Singing a different song on top of the one playing on the radio
  178. Rotten Tomatoes
  179. Walking into a new hotel room for the first time
  180. Cult movies
  181. Double features
  182. Equality
  183. The Ruins
  184. Crumbling cookies and dropping them into my milk
  185. Snapple caps
  186. Evil Dead
  187. Colors
  188. Scary German words
  189. Backpfeifengesicht
  190. The Far Side
  191. Electronic drums
  192. Sneezing
  193. Facebook
  194. Ke$ha's cover of the song her mom wrote for Dolly Parton
  195. Ghostface
  196. David Levithan
  197. My mom's cooking
  198. Paul Rudd
  199. Rewriting the words to songs
  200. The wasp comic 
  201. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
  202. The weird parts of the Bible nobody talks about
  203. Once More With Feeling
  204. Calvin & Hobbes
  205. Passion
  206. Cheyda
  207. Photo albums
  208. Cinespia
  209. Anybody who can hold a conversation about Friday the 13th: Parts V-VIII
  210. The Rubik's Cube-like process of registering for classes
  211. Really weird customer requests
  212. Duran Duran
  213. Procrastinating
  214. Harmonies
  215. Giving fantastic presents
  216. Apple slushies
  217. People who don't complain when I can't shut up about a movie I love
  218. Film festivals
  219. Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons
  220. Selena Gomez
  221. Coming up with a great title for a blog post
  222. Ghost Town
  223. Pocky
  224. Robyn
  225. Out magazine
  226. Change (monetary)
  227. Change (societal)
  228. Awesome Asian Bad Guys
  229. Curtain calls
  230. Next to Normal
  231. Flash mobs
  232. Dario Argento
  233. Unexpected mail
  234. Writing notes during a movie and feeling important
  235. Other people's Google search histories
  236. Richard Matheson
  237. The Shining
  238. Andy Mientus
  239. The Big Gay Musical
  240. Sam Raimi
  241. Tacabro
  242. When my new posts finally go up on CinemaBeach
  243. Horror fans
  244. Kathy Griffin
  245. Pokémon cards
  246. People who see the value in my favorite possessions
  247. Libraries
  248. The Onion
  249. Nena
  250. Stealing Sergio's hat 
  251. Online quizzes
  252. Converse
  253. Catching movie mistakes
  254. Retconning
  255. Dole Whip
  256. Secret passages
  257. Pretending CSU Dominguez Hills exists
  258. Blogging
  259. IKEA
  260. Concerts
  261. My Glee one act
  262. Drusilla
  263. Hyperbole and a Half
  264. Adding new movies to my Index page
  265. Eddie Izzard
  266. Manuela Velasco
  267. The shark emoticon on Facebook
  268. The Slumber Party Massacre
  269. The Single Ladies dance
  270. Luden's cough drops
  271. Brave New World
  272. How I Met Your Mother
  273. The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
  274. GSA
  275. Alex Goot
  276. SMASH
  277. Pushing Daisies
  278. College
  279. Minions
  280. Alyson Hannigan
  281. Louis Tomlinson
  282. Surf City Squeeze
  283. Madonnna
  284. Were the World Mine
  285. It's Debra Messing, You Gays!
  286. Liz Lemon
  287. PSY
  288. Basshunter
  289. Halloween the movie
  290. Halloween the holiday
  291. Polite customers
  292. Neil Patrick Harris
  293. Lawrence v. Texas
  294. Individuals
  295. Alan Smithee
  296. Set dressing
  297. Nicole
  298. Canyon Drama
  299. Blümchen
  300. Ambigrams 
  301. Little Shop of Horrors
  302. Lauren
  303. The Beatles
  304. X-Men
  305. The Hollywood Bowl
  306. Confessions of a Rock Lobster
  307. Having a checkbook (no more money orders!)
  308. Giallo films
  309. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
  310. Hilary Duff
  311. Jennifer Aniston
  312. David Boreanaz
  313. Dave Barry
  314. Slaughterhouse Five
  315. "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield
  316. Adam Wingard
  317. Undeclared
  318. The Carpenters
  319. John Carpenter
  320. [REC]
  321. Cassette tapes
  322. Mean Girls
  323. The Supreme Court Decision on Prop 8
  324. The lollipops you get after a haircut
  325. Portia de Rossi
  326. Sticky notes
  327. Terror Train
  328. Anjelica Huston
  329. Rainbow Boys
  330. Waking up before 9:30
  331. First Aid kits
  332. Blogspot
  333. Ice cubes
  334. Tapioca
  335. Movie stars coming out of the closet
  336. I'm not a model I swear
  337. My family
  338. The freckle on my eyelid
  339. RENT
  340. Celia Rivenbark
  341. Wondercon
  342. Dead Snow
  343. Long Beach
  344. TomSka
  345. The Muppets
  346. Bacon
  347. Animorphs
  348. The word "defibrillator"
  349. Sweden
  350. The poopie emoji 
  351. Having enough time in the day
  352. Christmas horror movies
  353. The 80's
  354. Whatever course of events allowed Freddy vs. Jason to happen
  355. Queen
  356. Kevin
  357. The Little Mermaid
  358. Corner Bakery french toast
  359. Final Girls
  360. Bad Lip Reading
  361. Tommy Jarvis
  362. Electric candles
  363. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  364. Hand sanitizer
  365. H&M
  366. Hot showers
  367. Posters
  368. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
  369. The Sixth Sense
  370. Knowing a secret
  371. Browsing Redbox
  372. Michael Myers
  373. My toucan refrigerator magnet
  374. La Roux
  375. Fortune cookies
  376. Weirdly phrasing things
  377. Recognizing actors in bit parts
  378. David Burtka
  379. asdf movies
  380. Fricke vs. Lynch
  381. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  382. True crime novels
  383. Amy Adams
  384. Joss Whedon
  385. Exploring
  386. "Closer to Fine" by The Indigo Girls
  387. Jay Brannan
  388. Jodie Foster
  389. When horrible movies don't make money
  390. One Direction
  391. Karaoke
  392. Bubblegum pop music
  393. Everclear
  394. Bridgit Mendler
  395. Zombies
  396. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  397. Ringu 2
  398. Found footage
  399. England
  400. Lee Pace 
  401. You're Next
  402. The Pyramid
  403. Kickstarter
  404. Bill Bryson
  405. Reading
  406. The Cube series
  407. Kyla
  408. Phantoms
  409. Canada
  410. Ellen Greene
  411. Key of Awesome
  412. Arrested Development
  413. The Sounds
  414. The Burning
  415. Choreography
  416. Solving mind puzzles with no help
  417. Sequels
  418. Helping Shannon develop scripts
  419. 30 Rock
  420. Google
  421. Lists
  422. Dancing
  423. Sleeping in my own bed
  424. Feminism
  425. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
  426. Lady Gaga
  427. Glee
  428. Hi-Chew
  429. Freddy Krueger
  430. Movie trivia
  431. The fact that nobody writes in cursive anymore
  432. David Arquette
  433. Emma Caulfield
  434. German Siri
  435. The tree pose
  436. Smartphones
  437. The Descent
  438. Owl City
  439. Not having to go to the bathroom
  440. Discovering a new friend in an acquaintance
  441. People who read my blog
  442. CinemaBeach
  443. American Pie
  444. Laura
  445. The end of road construction
  446. Leslie Vernon
  447. Movie reviews
  448. Friday the 13th
  449. Alarm clocks that play music
  450. "Super Bass" as performed by Jane Lynch 
  451. DJ Earworm
  452. "Let's Have a Kiki"
  453. Lucille Bluth
  454. Filmmaking
  455. Willow and Tara
  456. Texting
  457. Scotch tape
  458. No longer having to sweep up popcorn
  459. David Sedaris
  460. Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccinos 
  461. åccént shørtcüts oñ Maç Ke¥boar∂s
  462. Shakespeare
  463. Charlie the Unicorn
  464. Camp Crystal Lake
  465. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
  466. Five Second Films
  467. Winning
  468. Netflix
  469. Making a capella songs
  470. Obscure pop culture references
  471. The Chapman Avenue exit on the 55
  472. Using "the" when describing freeways
  473. Web Therapy
  474. Paperbacks
  475. Box Canyon Park
  476. Dance remixes of musical theatre songs
  477. Making up games
  478. Having a different opinion naturally, not just for the sake of disagreeing
  479. High School Musical
  480. Yôichi Asakawa
  481. IKEA instructions
  482. Shannon's incredible skill at interpreting IKEA instructions
  483. Being gay
  484. "Bad Romance"
  485. Red candy (not cinnamon)
  486. Production design
  487. Claddagh rings
  488. Mamma Mia!
  489. Run Lola Run
  490. Cracked
  491. Guster
  492. The Room
  493. Making somebody crack up
  494. J-Horror
  495. Al Leong
  496. Self-esteem
  497. Otter pops
  498. Flash drives full of music
  499. Frosted sugar cookies
  500. Toshio Saeki 
  501. Harry Potter
  502. Jamie Lee Curtis
  503. Douglas Adams
  504. Instrumental tracks
  505. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  506. Gay weddings
  507. Driving
  508. Buying underwear
  509. Joe Iconis
  510. Movie dates
  511. Time capsules
  512. Sarah Michelle Gellar
  513. Movies that actually scare me
  514. Taking a trip on a whim
  515. A Clockwork Orange
  516. Imagination
  517. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch train station
  518. The Prom Night series
  519. Inside jokes
  520. Planet High School
  521. Waking up of my own volition
  522. My terrible impressions
  523. The burping ghost from The Grudge
  524. No longer being a freshman
  525. Milestones
  526. "Lollipop" by The Chordettes
  527. That I have Type O+ blood
  528. Not being sick
  529. Knowing what I'm talking about
  530. Haircuts
  531. The Yorba Linda Library
  532. MIKA
  533. Jukeboxes
  534. Talking
  535. Let the Right One In
  536. When my stomach rumbles
  537. Indie horror
  538. iTunes
  539. Pitch Perfect
  540. Katy Perry
  541. Musicals
  542. Jason Voorhees
  543. Eurodance
  544. Tina Fey
  545. Driving the golf cart at work
  546. Tara Reid (go figure)
  547. Knowing I don't have to wake up early in the morning
  548. The moment immediately after a brain freeze
  549. Asialani
  550. Undercuts 
  551. April Fool's Day pranks
  552. Trying something new and loving it
  553. Singing
  554. Cinnamon raisin toast
  555. Hardcore dubstep
  556. People who are secretly Canadian
  557. Good movie remakes
  558. Stephen King
  559. IMDb
  560. Being ahead of schedule
  561. Kane Hodder
  562. People who don't talk down to children
  563. Questioning authority
  564. Mystery Science Theater 3000
  565. Midnight movies
  566. Efficiency
  567. Friends
  568. Finals week
  569. Chipotle quesadillas
  570. Weird local landmarks
  571. Breathless
  572. Ryan James Yezak
  573. Amoeba Records
  574. Performing
  575. $3 DVDs
  576. Jiffy Pop
  577. Dude Bro Party Massacre III
  578. My German teachers
  579. Using Facebook set to UK English
  580. Starbucks baristas
  581. The first day of school
  582. Rotary phones
  583. ABBA
  584. People who I click with immediately
  585. German
  586. Noomi Rapace
  587. Roger Ebert
  588. Volunteering
  589. Sparkly things
  590. Going under budget
  591. Shadowcat
  592. Mashups
  593. Looking for Alaska
  594. Successful parallel parking
  595. Free parking
  596. Chris Hemsworth with short hair
  597. Tim Brayton
  598. Good hair days
  599. Denny's at 2 AM
  600. Photos with horror icons 
  601. Jacaranda trees
  602. Eva Ibbotson
  603. Novelty ringtones
  604. Tommy Wiseau
  605. John Cleese
  606. Walking to class
  607. Victor Crowley
  608. San Francisco
  609. Writing a really great sentence
  610. Twist endings
  611. K. A. Applegate
  612. Forgetting an assignment and having the teacher forget to collect it
  613. White chocolate chip pancakes
  614. The time that barista wrote "Brando" on my Starbucks cup
  615. Meeting new people
  616. Untucking my shirt after a long day of being fancy
  617. Westwood
  618. Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  619. Film people who don't make friends just for networking purposes
  620. Confidence
  621. Hatchet
  622. Seeing old movies in theaters
  623. Suspenders
  624. Alex Reads Twilight
  625. Movie marathons
  626. Stubble
  627. Having so much fun I forget how late it is
  628. Ensemble comedies
  629. Sneaking into classrooms to watch movies
  630. Hayao Miyazaki
  631. Beto
  632. Extra credit
  633. The Gone series
  634. Guillermo del Toro
  635. The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
  636. Teachers who remember my name
  637. Buzzfeed
  638. Colorful pants
  639. Cereal
  640. Portlandia
  641. Adam Green
  642. The cliffhangers at the end of every three page chapter of Goosebumps
  643. Marilyn Monroe
  644. Stalking people on the internet
  645. Marco Beltrami
  646. The Emperor's New Groove
  647. My green El Rancho gym shorts
  648. Merch
  649. Korean water ghosts
  650. The opening scene of Scream 
  651. Memorizing the rap part to a song
  652. Cold weather
  653. Drag queens
  654. Sincerity
  655. Miki Nakatani
  656. Scream
  657. Down to Earth celebrities
  658. Troll 2
  659. Adrienne King
  660. Rachel McAdams
  661. The Bartimaeus trilogy
  662. Waterbenders
  663. Cold pizza
  664. The Exorcist (book)
  665. The Exorcist (movie)
  666. The Exorcist (stage play)
  667. Fast zombies
  668. Boba
  669. Scrubs
  670. Stains that come right out
  671. Boy bands
  672. Banberry pie
  673. Having my own room
  674. Suspiria
  675. Anyone who cares enough about me that they're mad I forgot to include them on this list (sorry!)
  676. Open-minded religious people
  677. Pokémon Colosseum
  678. The CSULB Library's movie section
  679. Takashi Shimizu's unwavering commitment to the Grudge series
  680. Strawberry cream cheese
  681. Fangirling
  682. One-Liners
  683. Dean Koontz
  684. Irony
  685. Seattle
  686. Britney Spears
  687. Buono's Pizzeria
  688. Organizing my iTunes
  689. Dave
  690. Radio commercials
  691. Latin phrases
  692. Friday the 13th: Part VII - The New Blood
  693. Rachel Bloom
  694. Cheez-Its
  695. Cookie bars
  696. Playbills
  697. School campuses at night
  698. Rube Goldberg
  699. How gay the Internet is
  700. Drawing terrible portraits of people 
  701. Improv
  702. Wok N Roll
  703. Hero by Perry Moore
  704. People who don't cheat
  705. Tom Savini
  706. Glen Coco
  707. The Target Lady
  708. Pokémon
  709. Pikachu
  710. The Casual Vacancy
  711. Monty Python
  712. Avatar: The Last Airbender
  713. Pride events
  714. ICEEs
  715. Rainbow flags
  716. Production numbers
  717. Aaron Tveit
  718. Blueberry muffins
  719. Stacking jellies at restaurants
  720. Ice cream sandwich cake
  721. Vivian Vande Velde
  722. Meta humor
  723. Pokémon Stadium
  724. The Office
  725. Scars
  726. Honey Bunches of Oats
  727. This semester's higher unit cap
  728. Bruce Campbell
  729. Getting autographs
  730. Red Swingline staplers
  731. Ricky Gervais
  732. The apple juice that comes in the glass container shaped like an apple
  733. Little victories
  734. Patrick Warburton
  735. Wes Craven
  736. Pink Lemonade Peace Tea
  737. Strongbad emails
  738. Kingdom Hearts
  739. Garlic bread
  740. Jean Grey
  741. Bookoff
  742. Rain
  743. Silence of the Lambs
  744. Edward Eager
  745. The Pendragon series
  746. The guitar solo in Weezer's "Buddy Holly"
  747. Bacon and egg sandwiches
  748. Swiveling my hips like Beyoncé
  749. Crazy Sponge Lady
  750. 1428 Genesee Avenue 
  751. Using the same pen long enough for it to run out of ink
  752. Jayma Mays
  753. Courteney Cox
  754. Introducing a friend to something they'll love
  755. The Pipettes
  756. Exiting the freeway on Hollywood Boulevard
  757. Sleepovers
  758. Stripes
  759. Cookies and cream ice cream
  760. "Don't Stop Believin' "
  761. Being able to check grades online
  762. Kafe Neo
  763. That Facebook does not have a dislike button
  764. The fact that "California Gurls" and "TiK ToK" are the same song
  765. Foreign exchange students
  766. "Keep the change"
  767. Heated pools
  768. Vincent Price
  769. Being put in charge of the party playlist
  770. Zac Efron
  771. Portland
  772. White butterflies
  773. The Pantages
  774. Leap Day
  775. The Charlize Theron story arc on Arrested Development
  776. Final Destination
  777. Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
  778. Fearlessness
  779. Twin Peaks
  780. Water cups
  781. Spanish
  782. Oreo milkshakes
  783. Impromptu philosophical debates
  784. The Leprechaun series
  785. Bad movies
  786. Juxtaposition
  787. Obvious foreshadowing
  788. Fig Newtons
  789. Hawkeye
  790. Harry Manfredini
  791. Strawberry Fanta
  792. Shirts with different colored pockets
  793. Random acts of kindness
  794. My lucky Eiffel Tower
  795. Swedish Fish
  796. Burning Clem
  797. Captain EO
  798. Beards
  799. Writing terrible things about Pitbull
  800. Whoever made it to the end of this list 
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