I've been here for a couple of years now, and there are some things I see people doing (mainly in the forums) that just bugs the hell out of me. NOT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO IT, it just annoys me that's all.

1. When they write in huge, brightly coloured letters (even more so, when it's in capitals)

2. When they bold, or italicise something for no real reason (doesn't bother me that much when it's normal sized, but when it's HUGE...)

3. When they don't use puncuation. Here's a tip; capital at the beginning of a sentence, full stop at the end (in most circumstances).

4. When they don't use capitalisation, and write entirely in lower case.

5. When they use text spelling of any kind.

6. When they use & instead of "and" (unless it has to do with Will & Grace, or any other show like that (Hope & Faith?)). Or @ instead of "at", or randomly using numbers...

7. When they list all the shows they edit/contribute to or every show they watch in their signature. I don't care what shows you edit/contribute to/watch, I really don't. And having to scroll past it every single post is annoying as hell (which I hear is very annoying).

8. When they self censor. Crap, for instance, isn't censored by TV.com, and when people censor it, it makes it look like they're saying something a lot (when I see c***, crap isn't the first word I think of), and if you don't want to use the word crap, why don't you use another word, like "darn", or "oh, dear", or even "parp"?

9. Threads intitled "Hey, *insert user name*! I need/want something from you/PM me!" Haven't you heard of PMs (obviously, because you ask the other person to PM you)?

10. Rants complaining about what other people are doing.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (I'm not sure if I've read all of it, but I've read enough of it enough times)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Do I count it if my mum read it to me?)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I inten to read it again!)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Ergh... I don't WANT to read it, but I will)
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*giggles*)

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 20!

You know how some songs you can describe as pretty? Well, these are the ones I consider pretty...

1. Creeks - The Panics

"I made my plans for the rest of my days,
I made my plans for everyday,
I made my plans for yesterday,
Thinking of you"

2. Live Without - The Panics

"I'm living here alone and this is still a crowd,
I'll never work you out,
But how can I forgive,
Now I have to live without"

3. No One's Gonna to Love You - Band of Horses

"It's looking like a limb torn off,
Or althohether just taken apart,
We are the ever living ghost of what once was"

4. Sprout and the Bean - Joanna Newsom

"The difference between,
The sprount and the bean,
Is a golden ring,
It is a twisted string"

5. Beautiful to Me - Little Birdy

"Oh, look the afternoon,
It's the only place where you and I belong,
You're mine,
Forever and a day"

6. Forever Song - Josh Pyke

"I want the song I can sing forever,
I don't care for structure,
Just to know it's mine.
I'd hate to see,
This thing we've developed,
Become your burden or my waste of time"

7. Memories and Dust

"First I was a hatchling waiting for my little bones to form,
Next I was a fledging leaping from the nest despite the fall,
Oh, they fall, how we fall,
But if I speak to you of days upon the ocean,
I can speak to you of memories and dust"

8. So Nice So Smart - Kimya Dawson

"You're so nice and you're so smart,
You're such a good friend, I have to break your heart,
I'll tell you that I love you then I'll tear your world apart,
Just pretend I didn't tear your world apart"

9. Tire Swing - Kimya Dawson

"I took the Polaroid down in my room,
I'm pretty sure you have a new girlfriend,
It's not as if I don't like you,
It just makes me sad whenever I see it"

10. Ghosts/Ghosts That Broke My Heart - Laura Marling

"Stood at the table where she sat,
And removed his hat,
In respect of her presence"

11. Recently - Polaris

"'Cause recently I kissed you,
It's like a dream come true,
And recently you're liking me,
And I'm really liking you"

12. On the Radio - Regina Spektor

"This is how it works;
You're young until you're not,
You love until you don't,
You try until you can't,
You laugh until you cry,
You cry until you laugh,
And everyone must breathe,
Until their dying breath"

13. I'll Follow the Sun - The Beatles

"But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun"

14. From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) - The Decemberists

"Four score years,
Living down in this rain swept town,
Sea salt tears,
Swimming around as the rain comes down"

15. Gone for Good - The Shins

"I find a fatal flaw,
In the logic of love"

16. Pink Bullets - The Shins

"When our kite lines first crossed,
We tied them into knots,
And to finally fly apart,
We had to cut them off"

17. A Minor Incident - Badly Drawn Boy

"Theres nothing I could say to make you try to feel okay,
And nothing you could do to stop me feeling the way I do,
And if the chance should happen,
That I never see you again,
Just remember that I'll always love you"

18. Phantom Limb - The Shins

"To keep some hope alive,
That a girl like I could ever try,
Could ever try"

19. A Comet Appears - The Shins

"We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
But the lonely is such delicate things,
The wind from a wasp could blow them,
Into the sea,
With stones on their feet,
Lost to the light and the loving we need"

20. Monsters - Something For Kate

"I was hanging upside down from the overpass,
Waiting to discover something about the world"

Jen

(Lover, please, do not fall to your knees, it's not like I believe in ever-lasting love...)