Weekly Geeks - 20, 2009

[bookgazing]

This week's Weekly Geeks idea is from the lovely Maree at 'just add books'ust add books. She wants us all to talk about our outside interests away from reading, specifically our guilty pleasures.

Honestly I have so many guilty pleasures that sometimes I feel like my life is most made up of shameful entertainment decisions. This week I'll unlock the closet door and let some of my little secrets out into the air:

Pop divas: My music taste is mostly all about rock, indie, folk, old school ska and country but recently a couple of pop divas have grabbed a tiny corner of centre stage to perform on. Britters life just breaks my heart, then her music gets me all excited, Kelly Clarkson has a massive belt on her and I still maintain that the Pussycat Dolls first album breaks away from the skankification most girl groups are working ('If it's not love it just ain't enough to leave a happy home').

80s Dance Movies: I'm not just talking about Footloose and Dirty Dancing. I've seen some of the most awful dance movies ever made (and I include Coyote Ugly in this category) many, many times. Give me a late night movie with an uplifting song, a moment of immense realisation expressed in dance and a hunky man (not including Coyote Ugly in this category) and I will abandon all hope of sleep. If you have any recommendations please leave them in the comments :)

Life-time style movies: I want to see kids having kids, women having more babies than a cat, baby swapping mix ups and anything based on a Danielle Steel book, all shot in a terrible, grainy way. If possible they should have been filmed during the era of rolled up sleeves.

Australian or American soaps: Do you see a pattern? I'm a big fan of tv, especially films. I love Home and Away and was gutted when Sunset Beach) ended. When will Channel Five bring 'Days of Our Lives' back to the UK?

Chocolate, pizza and chips: Chocolate is not to be mentioned right now, as I'm on a big health kick (although there will be M&S pizza for dinner tonight). When I was a sick, crazy student one of my favourite treats was cold pizza topped with the free peanut M&Ms Dominoes used to give away. Now my tastes are more refined (let's all drool shall we):

So what guilty pleasures have you bound, gagged and locked away from sight?