I’ve been busy updating my facebook. It’s a lot funner than I thought it’d be, and I especially like all the applications we can add. I’ll be all set once Shutterfly adds an app. One of the applications is Movies, where you add your favorite movies. Immediately I added about 50. After that I looked at my friends’ favorite movies, and none of them had more than 3. Then I realized that ‘favorite movies’ means ‘all-time favorite movies’, as one that you would watch over and over again, and should probably be your favorite movie for years to come. For example, many characters in romantic comedies claim that they LOVE Casablanca, and they would watch it and quote it throughout the movie. I never thought those people exist in real life. But I wonder if they do and I’m the oddball. I’m simply incapable of having a favorite anything. When people ask me what movies i like, I immediately access the region of my brain which is set up like Blockbuster. "Well, in action category, i like… for dramas, i like…, new releases, i like…" is my typical response. Same thing about my favorite color. I was watching "Stomp Yard" and the girl rejected a marriage proposal because her boyfriend didn’t know her favorite color. Hell, I don’t have a favorite color! It depends, right? Are you talking about a car (white, but depends on the model), clothes (depends on the style, and the color of eyeshadow I want to match at the moment, etc.), ipod (they’re all cute!)….? Not only does it depends on the subject, it really depends on my mood at the moment. Wait, I take it back, I do have some real favorites. My favorite sitcom - Seinfeld, favorite food - chicken legs, and favorite classic composer - mozart. The funny thing is most people I talked to don’t have a favorite food. That’s when they say, it depends on what category, the mood, etc. I love chicken legs so much that if I have to choose one food and give up everything else forever in my life, I’ll pick chicken legs (with skin) with no hesitation. Somebody should do a poll what category of "favorites" that most people have fixed answers to.
What’s your favorite?
