Attraction

What makes someone attractive?  Well, beats me.  You could ask me if I think someone is attractive but, if so, I couldn't possibly tell you why.

I was sitting with my mum last night looking at pictures of attractive guys, from the classically attractive like Robert Redford, Paul Newman, River Phoenix, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, to people like Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and Mark Ronson.  I decided at one point to throw some (for want of a better word) wild card into the equation, so I found pictures of Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin and showed her a picture of the fabulous Gideon Graves, aka Jason Schwartzman.  The reaction to Anton Yelchin was acceptable, but when I googled Zachary Quinto I discovered that "he doesn't do it for [her]" (by the way, I love those square brackets when quoting; you can make the quote fit what you're saying), and when I showed her the picture of Gideon I said that I was going to show her a picture of someone looking good wearing a suit that isn't technically a suit.  She looked at the picture and said that he didn't actually look that good.  Well, I wasn't impressed, but it made me think, what does make someone attractive because lets face it, he isn't; he's short (no offense to short  people, there is nothing wring with being short, I just have a "weird thing about guys' heights").  There has to be something attractive about him, but I can't think what it is, I mean, he has a tendency to play really nerdy characters, and occasionally somewhat creepy ones (note: Ethan in Slackers *shudder*).  So what is it?  And Zachary Quinto, other than being 6'1, I can't actually find anything attractive about him.  So why do I find him attractive?  At least with most people I can find one or two reasons for finding them attractive, but for some of them, I can't.

Oh, and then there's the whole Spock thing.  Yes, again, don't ask me why, but for some reason I have a thing for (Zachary Quinto as) Spock.  But, Spock, why do I have a thing for Spock?  Weird.

Another weird thing, my thing for serial killers.  Okay, not real serial killers, but serial killers in films and books.  People like Tom Hanniger, Patrick Bateman, Sylar from Heroes (again, Zachary Quinto), and Mickey from Scream 2.  Why is it, that when I found out that two of those people were the people killing everyone in their respective films, that I found them so much more attractive.  Surely that can't be normal, or healthy.

I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Why is it that I can hear a single word and get a completely unrelated song stuck in my head?  Okay, I admit that the songs aren't all unrelated, but they sometimes feel like it at the time.

For example:  How annoying is it if you are sitting, trying to complete a French reading NAB, and get tons of songs stuck in your head?  Answer: quite.  To begin with, I was looking for something in the dictionary and saw the word 'peuple', this got the song "A La Volonte Du Peuple" stuck in my head.  Fair enough.  Then I saw the translation for Prince Charming.  As you can probably guess, I got "Prince Charming" by Adam and The Ants stuck in my head.  Ther were a couple of others but these were the most annoying.  These songs also get stuck in my head if I hear or see the word 'malgré' or if somebody says they are adamant about something, well no prizes for guessing which song that gets stuck in my head.

The other day, I was sitting in English and we were doing some Close Reading.  Our teacher was trying to explain to us what a word meant and he told us that it meant, essentially, 'nuclear fall-out'.  Well, thanks to my head, I got "American Pie" (do not listen if you are in a rush or busy: the song is about 8 and a half minutes long) by Don McLean stuck in my head.  No matter how unrelated that seems, I still got it stuck in my head.

This just keeps happening to me!  I hear or see a word and I get a song stuck in my head.  No matter what the word is, no matter where I am and no matter what I'm doing.  It is especially irritating when you get "Yellow Submarine" stuck in your head while doing an art exam, but this is coming from the person who, in her head might I add, randomly shouted 'alpaca' during a Geography exam.

It can't just be me that does this.  Is it?  Or do other people get songs stuck in their head for good reasons?

Angelic

So, there's a song that I seem to be obsessed with right now.  Angels on The Moon by Thriving Ivory.  It may be because I have a similar range and so can sing along to it.  I don't want to be big headed, but I'm rather good at it.  It's not just that though, after I hear it I always put Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls on.  It may be because of the similar topics, but it seems like the perfect companion. 

I seem to be going through a couple of obsessions right now though.  I've been sitting watching Supernatural videos all morning and for the last couple of days, I don't seem to be able to get enough of Coconut Records and other related things *wink wink*, namely Ethan's Song from Slackers and various clips from Rushmore and Scott Pilgrim vs The World...

I didn't think I had an addictive personality, but I seem to see or hear something and need to see or hear it again about five thousand times in the next hour, and then every day after that hundreds of times.  This would be a bad time to pick up any unfortunate habits.