(OT) 30 day challenge - Day One - Guility Pleasure

This begs an interesting question for me, actually. Where do I draw the line between "guilty pleasure" and just a regular "thing I like"? I'm a whore for a lot of things that aren't necesscarily typical interests for a 22 year old straight male - bad 90s pop music, John Hughes movies (I have seen Sixteen Candles more times that I would care to admit), PBS kids shows, The Killers, and probably a whole bunch of stuff that would make for a much better list that isn't coming to mind offhand. For that matter, there are a lot of other things that I like to do that could be considered a guily pleasure - buying breakfast on my way to work, indulging my insatiable gadgetlust, etc.

Actually, now that I'm forcing myself to think about it, I suppose my real guilty pleasure is pop culture. Like a lot of geeks, I have a penchant for references. My roommates and another good friend recently put an ad on Craigslist to try to recruit some additional people for their pen and paper roleplaying group. When a couple of respondents to the ad came by our apartment to hang out and get to know everyone better, one of them commented on how it was like my friends and I were speaking a different language, because we communicated so much in references. Which is completely true. We have all known each other since midway through high school and have been hanging out on a regular basis for much of that time. Anyway, a lot of those references are not just to things that happens to us as a group, but things that we have seen or watched together. Rarely does a day go by when somebody doesn't reference Futurama or Avatar: The Last Airbender or some other such thing.

Anyway, I have always felt vaugely guilty about liking things that everyone else likes. After a good few years going through school trying to fit in, I eventually stopped caring and started doing my own thing. A couple of years after that, I ended up with a pretty strong anti-establishment streak. I always have a hard time embracing things that are popular or even mainstream. Example: I recently started listening to The Killers. I had always avoided them because they often got lumped in with groups like The Strokes and Velvent Revolver, which were supposed to bring some kind of new age of rock and roll and completely remake the genere. Which is bullcrap. Particularly The Strokes...they are just terrible. Terrible. So I had always avoided The Killers, but a month or so ago had occasion to listen to Hot Fuss in it's entirety...and to my chagrin, I liked it. I liked it a lot, actually. Which was a good lesson - sometimes, things are popular because they're *good*, not because mainstream society is being stupid (although a lot of the time, it is).

That was a lot of words to come up with this: TL;DR - my guilty pleasure is mainstream popular culture (or at least the parts of it that don't suck).