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Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television programme
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobbie of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

This one was a bit trickier for me, and I'm still not certain that I'm happy with my answer. The automatic and obvious answer I had was "I <3 Huckabees," followed closely by "wait, what about 'Inception!'" I'm still going to have to give it to Huckabees, tho, for a lot of reasons. In my mind anyway, the basic themes of the movies are, though on the surface they might seem radically different. They have to do with questioning one's reality, and Dom's journey could be viewed as an existential one, especially considering that it's his guilt that's keeping Mal, and himself, trapped, similar to the way that Albert allows the shame his mother taught him, and his relationship with Brad cause him to unknowingly sabotage his own objectives.

What I love about Huckabees is difficult to put into words. Yeah it's really fucking funny, and I love all the actors and they all play their roles beautifully, but it also makes me think a lot about the meaning of existence. If I ever were to believe in something--religion or school of philosophy, I think existentialism would be it, and the discussions had in the movie, particularly between Bernard, Vivian, and Albert. Even though I don't really buy into Nihilism, I do love Tommy's point of view, which really makes sense in context with his character (and which is played just superbly by Marky Mark).

I don't know, I'm not going to bale to explain it to my satisfaction, so I'm going to get annoyed if I keep trying, but yes--funny, thinking, irreverent but *touching*, and there's a lot of truth in it, moments that actually make my chest burn and ache because they're so familiar--particularly Brad's realisation about himself after hearing the tape with his story repeated again and again; the scene with Albert and his parents where Caterine reads his diary from when he was a child (the story about his cat brings tears to my eyes as I type this); and the entire dinner scene with Albert, Tommy and the Hootens, which is simultaneously hilarious and just depressingly heart-breaking because of how representative of reality it is.

Again, there are lots of second-placers here, including "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "V for Vendetta," "Serenity," the new Batman movies (are you seeing a theme here? What, I like rooting for the underdog in dystopian societies...), but this one is just the obvious winner.

Now my best friend is going to make me watch some mob movies, so who knows, I might have a new favourite soon...but I doubt it.