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Top 7 Cheesy Songs That I'm Totally Not Embarrassed to Love
"Eternal Flame,” The Bangles
“Ice, Ice Baby,” Vanilla Ice
“The Right Stuff,” New Kids on the Block
“Blame It on the Rain,” Milli Vanilli
“American Pie,” Don McLean
“Material Girl,” Madonna
“I Think We’re Alone Now,” Tiffany
7 YA Books You Should Definitely Read
Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusack
The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks, by E. Lockhart
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card
Be More Chill, by Ned Vizzini
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
7 TV Shows I would put back on the air if I ran the world
My So-Called Life
Freaks and Geeks
Sex and the City
Seinfeld
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Alias
The Smurfs
Favorite 7 Songs From My Favorite Mix Tape, Circa 1995 (That I Can’t Listen to Anymore Because I Broke My Tape Player)
“American Pie,” Don McLean
“Birdhouse In Your Soul,” They Might Be Giants
“Istanbul, Not Constantinople,” They Might Be Giants
“I Want to Be Sedated,” The Ramones
“Brown-Eyed Girl,” Van Morrison*
“It’s the End of the World As We Know It,” REM
“I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” The Proclaimers
*This is also the song that was playing in the background of my first kiss. Although I was not listening to my mix tape at the time.
Books I Have Read at Least 7 Times and Still Love
It, by Stephen King
The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
My 7 Favorite Scientists
Johannes Kepler
Albert Einstein
René Descartes
Richard Feynman
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tycho Brahe
William Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin)
*Favorite scientific principle: pv=nrt. Close runners up: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics (which is actually two principles and sort of includes the uncertainty principle, but close enough)
The 7 Videos on My Bookshelf That I Love But Haven’t Watched Since I Got a DVD Player
Can’t Hardly Wait
Sneakers
The Princess Bride
Dead Poets’ Society
Shakespeare in Love
The Anniversary Party
The Last Days of Disco
The 7 Best Teen Movies, If You Ask Me
Heathers*
Say Anything
The Breakfast Club
The Last American Virgin
Can’t Hardly Wait
Bring It On
Sixteen Candles
*There has never been and will never be a teen movie more perfect than Heathers. Trust me.
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