Hi, I haven't been around and I don't really know why, think I'm sorta burnt out on everything. Which is why I've been indulging in some guilty pleasures before my summer semester begins, where I will be forced to think critically more, and subsequently I'll probably be around here again.
So today's gp is Mario Kart 8 and a tub of Bluebell Ice Ccream.
Well, not a tub. Tub and a bit.
Eww, how blurry. Anyways, what do you guys do when you just want to shut down and indulge. Something tells me it'll be more sophisticated than what I have pulled. Probably involves fancy wine.
I don't consider Hubski a guilt pleasure I guess, because all I have to do is hit up Kleinbro's profile and I'll probably learn something. I like what hodge said, about nothing being a guilty pleasure, which I would say is mostly true. Something becomes a guilt pleasure for me for two reasons: It takes up all of my time and I don't really care about doing something else, or I'd be embarrassed to tell other people I enjoy it, which does happen sometimes, haha...
While I normally abhor the idea of guilty pleasures on the basis that everyone should fully embrace what they enjoy and treat them simply as pleasures instead, I do wholeheartedly love Pop and R&B music and am admittedly reluctant to express this love with most people. Whether it's a songs like "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer, "Love Fool" by The Cardigans, or more recent tunes like Private's "My Secret Lover" and "We Got Some Breaking Up To Do" I cannot help but (poorly and with great heart) sing and dance as though no one is watching. And don't even get me started on R. Kelly, Ginuwine, Usher...the list goes on. So really my takeaway is that everybody's got a thing, and we should all do our best to not yuck on anyone else's yum. EDIT: Added Youtube links for the songs listed.
Oh thank you I'm so glad you named "Usher" on that list. Every once in a while I get in a really great, sort of weird R&B mood which consists of listening to a little R. Kelly, Biz Markie, Sean Kingston (is he really R&B?), and a few assorted others, but mostly a lot of Usher. In fact I finally knuckled down this week and I bought two of his albums, Confessions and 8701, and now "Burn" is playing on repeat in my head. Old Usher is just So. Damn. Good.
same here but definitely with a very special place in my heart for bad radio music.
I'm with ghostoffuffle, if it's "fancy" it's somehow less guilt ridden. My guilty pleasure (and I am fully aware of how disgusting this is) are McDonalds Chicken Nuggets with Sweet and Sour Sauce. -Maybe twice a year I indulge in this disgusting "food" stuff. A more common indulgence is pepperoni and extra cheese pizza. I love pizza. I've been counting my calories of late thanks to a nifty app called myfitnesspal that someone turned me on to. That said, I indulged tonight in some steamed pork buns and bi-bim-bop. -Way too much food for one sitting. I need to go running tomorrow. Enjoy the ice-cream!
Is it still a guilty pleasure if it's fancy? Isn't that kind of just a pleasure? There's a Krispy Kreme on the way to work, and sometimes I accidentally- accidentally- miss breakfast at home and just have to pick something up on the way to work. They have this creme filled chocolate cake thing? And what makes it extra guilty is that it's not even one of the classic Krispy Kreme doughnuts. It's absolutely vile. I can taste it in my arteries.
Witnessing or creating hilarious social situations involving the NPC's in Grand Theft Auto Five. A fleeing pedestrian, trapped in a flowerbed, runs face first into a cactus for ~36 hours of game time. A woman stops to watch for ~18 hours, but has to leave now, as it just started raining. See? Now you can all feel better.
Indulging in hours of anime while smoking hookah. My roommate and I powered through Attack on Titan and Death Note this week and plan to start Cowboy Bebop tonight. We're of the few people in our friends group that enjoy anime so at least among us its a guilty pleasure.
I really enjoyed it, thought it was absolutely fantastic. The theme or mood of the whole story definitely shifts from the beginning; it lost its dark and horrific feel later in the story. However, watching it convinced me to go pick up the manga and wait excitedly for the next season.
Confession time. Haven't read the manga (Can't do the style. Something about the way that I read, I struggle with graphic novels of any description) but I have read most of the wiki, so I have the gist of what's going on later in the series, and I CANNOT WAIT for the anime. Also if you've never watched it before, enjoy Cowboy Bebop. Seriously one of those things I wish I could completely forget so I could watch it fresh again.
Make sure to listen to the soundtrack too Or at least the intro.
Sleep. I could sleep all day and it'd be fine. Woke up at 1130 today and felt kind of bad that the day was already half over. Oh well.
Why do people feel guilty about pleasure? I rarely do feel guilty about enjoying things, though I'd bet I get judged for that sometimes. Sometimes I just want to eat a terrible fast food breakfast. Maybe two of them. Followed by a bloody mary or two, y'know . . . for nutrition.
My bed, a book and a bottle of wine. Most preferred on a day when I've got a billion other things I should be doing. Makes it all the sweeter.