hi!!! hope you are well! if not wishing you better times ahead ☺️ here’s some questions for the sleepover weekend:
1. what do you like about hockey?
2. favorite fall out boy song? favorite lyric?
3. do you have any book recs?
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! hi ali nice to have you here <3
I like that it's on ice, that's a fun change from the strict running of all the other sports. I like The Narratives, there's a particular vibe with hockey is just really interesting from a cultural standpoint for me. My friends got into it which gives me other people to have fun with it. and also i'm minnesotan and we are The State of Hockey, so I figured it was time for me to take somewhat of an interest in it and i think it makes me a more well-rounded teacher who can connect easier with my students if there's at least one sport that i somewhat pay attention to
2. Okay I could name SO MANY different things for favorite fall out boy song/lyric so I'll go for a few:
"Alone Together" was my first favorite Fall Out Boy song and it will always be one of my absolute favorites because of it. "I don't know where you're going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?" is one of my favorite lyrcis of theirs
Lately I've been repeating "The Kids Aren't Alright" a lot, beautiful song. Favorite lyric from this one is "In the end, I'd do it all again/ I think you're my best friend" but specifically the version of it in the final chorus because the way patrick sings it is so incredibly sweet and tender. I also like "It's our time now if you want it to be/ Maul the world like a carnival bear set free"
I really really absolutely love "you were the sunshine of my lifetime" from both "So Much (For) Stardust" and "Love From the Other Side". The fact that they used that lyric in the first and last song of the album gave me such a strong visceral reaction the first time i heard it
a shout out must also be given to "baby you were my picket fence" from "Miss Missing You" and i especially love the parallels between those two lyrics
from "Fourth of July": "in between being young and being right, you were my Versailles at night" that's a CRAZY lyric. YOU WERE MY VERSAILLES AT NIGHT. but only for this particular time, when i was too old to be considered young but still too young to know better.
can I say all of the lyrics for "GINASFS"? i love that one. #gay rights
i do also want to give a shout out to "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" i had A Moment with that song last year
3. I am trying desperately to get back into reading books because I really have fallen off there, but here are a few of my tried and true recs:
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater - I adore this series so much. My best friend began reading it recently and I was so scared but she liked it too, which is great because we don't always have the same taste in books! I love the characters and I adore Maggie's writing style, lots of imagery. Wonderful magical/supernatural elements. This series also benefits rereads, I love picking up on foreshadowing that I didn't notice the first time around!
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib - I do think that everyone should read this book. One thing that I love about this collection of narrative essays is that you don't need to be fully in the know with the topic in order to get something out of the chapter, as this is a collection of narrative essays about music (and life, and race, and grief, and love) and I wasn't fully familiar with every artist included. The Fall Out Boy essay DID make me cry. I always felt like Hanif was gently speaking directly to my heart. I've also read A Little Devil in America: in Praise of Black Performance by him and I want to read There's Always This Year at some point. Also shout out to Hanif for being a Timberwolves fan despite being from Ohio
Discworld series by Terry Pratchett - such a funny, smart fantasy series! The books are also super episodic and absolutely do not need to be read in order, although that can be helpful for the mini-serieses included in the larger one. I'm working through the books that focus on the city watch of the capital city of the Discworld, but I do also enjoy the books that focus on Death (the character). Hogfather is my sister's favorite, where Death needs to temporary replace their santa-esq character when the Hogfather disappears, while Death's granddaughter tries to track him down. Find one that sounds interesting and go from there! The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness (aka the Boots Theory) was coined in a Discworld book and has since been used in economic academic discussions.
Ask me anything for a sleepover weekend!
