Fresh episodes of X-Files and Star Trek: TNG every week.
Just that whole experience of something on television being a cultural zeitgeist because everyone had to watch it at the exact same time because that was the only time it existed. Sure, you could record it on VHS and watch later, but it wasn't the same. Even being at home watching alone felt like participating in a social event.
Well There's Your Problem
Black Box Down
This Podcast Will Kill You
Apparently, I like listening to stories about death and disaster
This was very much my experience with the trans girl I grew up with 35 years ago. From the instant she was able to express preferences (I'm talking like age 18 months to 2 years), it was all princesses and dolls and makeup and trying on mom's high heels. We all just assumed she was a gay boy because we had never heard of a transgender person before.
We encouraged her to just keep that behavior at home because she was bullied mercilessly for appearing to be an effeminate boy. But nothing would stop her; she was completely irrepressible.
When in high school, she told us she was really a girl, it was like the most face-palmingly obvious thing. Of COURSE that's what we'd been seeing her entire life. It just made sense. That's just who she is.
NIN - The Fragile
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
RATM - Battle of Los Angeles
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites
MY PEOPLE. God she's amazing.
Naomi from The Expanse. Hence my username, if you know you know. Fleeing from a relationship with a narcissist landed me where I am now in my life, so I feel that episode (called Hard Vacuum).
Book of Eli (2010) with Denzel Washington is my favorite post-apocalyptic movie.
War of the Worlds (2005) with Tom Cruise is easily one of the most stressful movies I've ever seen, and I love it.
Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)
May I ask you about the nature of your heart problems exactly?
Because a "heart attack" is not actually a medical thing. What people usually mean when they say "heart attack" is what we call a myocardial infarction (lack of blood flow to the heart muscle caused by a blockage or constriction in a coronary artery.) And less commonly people use the term "heart attack" to refer to cardiac arrest where the heart just stops beating for some reason. (Myocardial infarction can turn into cardiac arrest, but cardiac arrest can happen because of any number of other things as well.)
So do you have a confirmed occlusion of a coronary artery? Or do you have a diagnosed cardiac arrhythmia of some kind? What are they planning to do to treat you? Because "don't get excited" isn't a long term management strategy. It's usually just to get you through until you find a successful treatment.
(I'm a cardiac critical care nurse. AMA)