Captain_Random

Meme, because I'm a sheep.

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:08:48 GMT

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Interesting...but

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:59:34 GMT

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2009-01-06-force-trainer-toy_N.htm

Tell me when they invent Angelic Layer.

On abilites and skills quite odd.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:48:55 GMT

So...yeah,

I've been making balloon animals/sculptures for about 15 years now, about half of my life.

It's still one of those crazy hobbies I've taken up and put down time after time. I find it quite satisfying, if a bit tiring on my fingers.

I've always called it my back-up career, after all, if the whole I.T. job thing falls though I can march over to a couple of party decorator stores in the area and ask them if they'd be willing to try me out. I'd likely bring a batch of balloons and demonstrate, just to show them what I'm capable of.

After doing it for awhile, I've determined a few simple facts about balloon sculpture.

#1. It is physically impossible to frown with a balloon hat on your head.

#2. If I made it a career, I could make good money doing this, but as it's a hobby, I often wind up losing money when I hire myself out for any reason.

#3. Everyone has seen a balloon dog, that one is easy, but make them a wacky hat or a large flower or something oddly ornate and they'll be praising your skills up and down.

#4. Whenever I go to any seminars on twisting balloons, I usually wind up being one of the most knowledgeable amateurs there, which is to say, I do well compared to others who do it as a hobby and not for a living.

Still, it's always fun to do.

Meditations

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:51:15 GMT

I now have watched enough Anime to make it all run together in my head, almost.

Meditations on Nadia: Secret of Blue Water.

Hideki Ano sure loves penguins.

Current Status:

Shounen Onmyouji: Watching complete, basic sheets finished.
Gad Guard: Watching complete, basic sheets finished.
Nadia: Secret of blue Water: 20 episodes done, sheets in progress.
Last Exile: 4 episodes in, compiling sheet data

Still to watch: Lost Universe.

NaTekkoLaChaSheeMo

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:07:57 GMT

Or, National Tekkoshocon LARP Character Sheet Writing Month.

Wait, LARP is an acronym too.

So... NaTekkoLivAcRoPlaChaSheeMo?

Naw,

Anyways, since everyone else set goals for November, I decided to do the same. I need to write sheets for a few animes as fast as possible, after all.

So, let's see

Shounen Onmyouji ~ Finished watching, written base stats for numerous characters, need to write up special abilites.

Gad Guard ~ 4 DVD's in, need to wait for Netflix for DVD #5, base stats for the main five characters is in place, but may be revised as the show progresses.

Nadia: Secret of Blue Water ~ 4 Eps. in, am shocked by how weird the eyecatch is.

Still on tap for writing: Lost Universe

Adendum: Last Exile also needs sheets.

My meditations on the election.

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:52:23 GMT

You know, oddly enough, I recall quite clearly back in 2004, talking to my future wife at the time about this guy who I'd never heard of before who gave the keynote address at the Democratic national convention when Kerry accepted his nomination for president. He just blew me away with his demeanor, his charisma, and his intellect. The guy's name was, of course, Barack Obama, and in the back of my head I wondered, why isn't THIS guy running for president!? I told my wife, "Hon, if there's EVER going to be a first black president, this guy's the one who'll do it."

Oddly enough, if the me from now said to the me from then that he does become president, I would laugh and say, "I knew it!"

If the me from now THEN said, "Oh yeah, by the way, he does it in only 4 years by becoming a senator ~~in 2006~~ later this year, then running for president in 2008." I'd likely call myself nuts and not believe a word of it.

Just food for thought.

Book Meme

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:09:14 GMT

Okay, time for you all to point and laugh at me for what I have and haven't read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible ~ Gets hard once you get to numbers.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ~ Like the Bible, it gets muddy in the histories
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ~ Got up to Dawn Treader.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ~ See above
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 ~~The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown~~ ~ I weep for all the trees wasted to print copies of this book.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~ For some reson I pick it up, read a couple of chapters, then set it back down all the time. By now I've probably read it all just not in order.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Thanks for a great idea, Adam

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:26:52 GMT

Set To: This.

I love my wife, Jen
I love the anime
I love weird trivia
But who cares anyway?
I love my good friends,
And all the things we do

Boom de ya da x 8

I love to bather on
Because I'm such a geek
About the TV
That I watch every week!
It's like a ritual,
I'll take you day by day

Boom de ya da x 8

So first on Mondays
I watch the show, Heroes
So many plot threads
Can't tell you where it goes
I love the characters,
Though most are idiots

Boom de ya da x 8

On Fox, on Teusdays
There is this show called Fringe
It's like the X-files,
But more to make you cringe
It's so chalk full of squick
Yet somehow, still I watch

Boom de ya da x 8

Then there's this great show
About a guy named Ned
He loves to bake pies
And also wakes the dead
Can't touch his girlfriend,
But with her, THEY FIGHT CRIME!

Boom de ya da x 8

Though it's not back yet
The show Lost sure is swell
I make my theories
But then shout, "What the HELL!?"
It keeps me guessing
Do you think Claire is dead?

Boom de ya da x 8

No shows on Fridays
But I think that's alright
Because there's great fun
whenever it's games night!
I get to see my friends
Then talk their ears off

Boom de ya da x 8

I work on Saturdays,
And there's not much to see,
So I've got Netflixs
To send out DVDs
Catch up on movies
That's more to talk about!

Boom de ya da x 8

Sometimes on Sundays
I GM 7th Sea
I get to write the plot
And play the NPCs
I love my players
They make the effort fun

Boom de ya da x 8

So that's my whole week
I hope you liked this song
This is the final verse
Won't let it go too long
But still you gotta love
The rousing chorus

Boom de ya da

Brian Loves Crappy Movies with a Vengence

Sat, 05 May 2007 16:40:17 GMT

It's that time again.

Time to sum up the latest in my cinema experiences.

Blades of Glory : I actually should have posted about this one with the last batch, but it slipped my mind entirely. This movie is funny, mostly from the standpoint that it doesn't go with the obvious premise that one of the two main characters will be forced into a dress, which would only churn out the same old schlock that's been done to death since Tootsie. Instead, they decide to play the "Air Bud" clause of sports. I'm still waiting for a movie with a meercat playing rugby.

John Heder plays a good childish foil to Will Ferrell's brand of of college-aged antics. Overall it's a satisfying mashup between the brands of humor that make Achorman and Napoleon Dynamite such good comedies. It's not going to win any awards, or even become a "classic" of comedy, but it hit the right level of belly laughs at the right points.

The chase scene between Will Ferrell's character and the villian ranks as perhaps one of the best slapstick routines I've seen in awhile though.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters : What can I say? This movie utterly defies all forms of description openly. In order to "get" this movie, you'll need to have watched at least more than 3 episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on [adult swim]. Preferably, the three episodes should have had the cybernetic ghost of christmas past from the future, the mooninites, and the plutonians as the enemies. I chose those three specifically for the fact that all of them show up in the movie, and absolutely no amount of explanation is given as to how any of the characters know each other.

Walking into the movie, I was worried that 90 minutes of something that I'm used to getting in only 15 minute doses would be "too much of a good thing." Luckily the writers chose to let the plot ebb and flow into 15 minute chunks, letting the insanity quickly jump cut to something else before the current scene drags on too long. The plot really COULD HAVE made sense, but the writers chose instead to make things logically confusing just to toy with the audience. Anyways, to sum it all up, the plot involves the Auqa Teens' origins, excercise equipment from space, an evil overlord who is a slice of watermelon named "Walter Mellon," his assistant who plays a huge set of drums, and constant star wipes over flashbacks accompanied by Phil Collins' "in the Air Tonight"

Oh and Bruce Campbell is a guest voice, that's pretty much the best part.

The Invisible : Well, since it probably would have been a good idea to buy the Spider Man 3 tickets in advance... and I didn't, Jen and I went to "Plan B" and watched this movie, which was still on our lists anyway. No harm done, Spider Man will still be web-slinging every half hour for about a week or two. To be sure.

This was a movie which the trailers definitely could have cut back on the plot reveals a bit to keep some suspense, but the information given in the trailers were given up in the first half hour of the movie anyway, so the "secrets" revealed really weren't secrets.

This is a tightly made movie. Very little of it is really "wasted" in any way as every scene either moves the plot forward, gives us more information into the psychology of the characters, or both. The meat of the movie isn't so much with the plot as it is which the characters. We never really get to know the full stories of any of them, but the audience can infer enough from the interactions between them. This allows for the writers to start with seemingly stock characters and situations and slowly twist our expectations about how they'll act or react to a situation. Another good thing about it is that it has supernatural elements, but was made with almost no special effects whatsoever. Instead of trying anything that could wind up looking laughable, the director went with only doing things that looked real and practical. Overall, not a bad decision when put into a "plan B" situation.

Brian Loves Crappy Movies Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:50:24 GMT

Okay, Again lots of movies since the last post so let's run them down, shall we?

TMNT : Wow, They really kept to the fomula that works on this one. The Turtles were definitely themselves. I've only a few points to sum up with this movie as nit-picks.

#1 They mixed up the turtles various incarnations for this one, as The turtles reference defeating Shredder as if it were following the movies previous plotlines. The Female ninja who was the head of the Foot Clan was from the comics and April was acting like the way she was written in the latest cartoon incarnation. It left me a bit confused as to what should be considered the previous canon for this movie.

#2 Apparently 6 ton stone statues can round up about a dozen huge rampaging monsters in New York with only a few new reports being made about them. Kinda lessens my faith in the media altogether.

#3 Donatello got to show very little of his "stuff" when it came to being a techie. While the Raph vs. Leo plot was VERY well done I with they would have given Don more than just deducing something from information April had already gathered, and rightfully could have figured out on her own.

Meet the Robinsons : Huh, guess Disney's finally learned a few things about making watchable cartoons in the here and now. Only took them, what? FIVE movies or so after Lilo and Stitch should have taught them a thing or two?

I liked this movie for several reasons, one of which being that it allows the audience to be smart and be rewarded for being so. Secondly, the jokes are actually kinda funny, though rapidly fired in a very stand-up-comedian sort of way. Thirdly, it actually reminds me of thoughts I had when I was younger; of having a time machine in the future, then coming back to meet myself in the past to say how my life will be fine and not to worry. Makes me feel like I should have a time machine now to accomplish that goal.

BTW: Did anyone else thing the dystopian future that occured looked like Rene Magrite had built the matrix?

Nitpick: I wish they'd have spent more time with the family, as only about 3 or 4 of the members of the extended family got ANY development whatsoever. Still, you've got to compact a story somewhere, and the tight package they wound up with does have a good pacing to it.

Grindhouse : Wow, what a crazy use of three hours, eh?

Part 1: Planet Terror : I probably should hand in my Pittsburgher badge for saying this, but I have never liked zombie movies. I think it's just my dislike for the entire horror genre in general that made this movie a bit of a drag to me. Now granted, I likes me some fun with having a machine gun for a leg, but watching Akira-inspired zombies plague the world isn't my idea of great movie. Still, there are a couple parts I liked, such as where the filmstrip breaks, obviously caused by people requesting to watch that reel over and over and over again. The scratches in the film were a perfect touch to give the movie that 70's feel, despite the use of cell phones, which grounded the movie totally in the modern day. Rodriguez obviously knew the real meaning of explotation film when he wrote this as he manages to put tons of gross stuff on screen, then he excuses it by giving it a "medical" context. The ONLY thing that was really missing was that Cherry's last words in the movie should have been "Hail to the queen, baby!"

Oh yes, and the nurse TOTALLY should have died, period.

Part 2: Death Proof : I know I'm going against the grain when I say this, but I liked this movie better than Planet Terror, if only for the fact that Terintino rewards a geek like myself with tons of in-jokes and references to TV and movies that fly over most people's heads. I loved the way the movie was (badly) cut together, with abrupt smash cuts that drop the music entirely, hard jumps in the dialogue, and having a missing reel that probably got destroyed in the same fashion the dead reel from Planet Terror got toasted. Kurt Russell plays his character to a T, and holds the whole film on his shoulders. Of course I expected as much from the man who made Snake Pliskin the icon of B cinema that he is. The chase scenes were utterly wonderful in execution, every last thing being done practically with barely a trace of computer graphics anywhere. I'm certain the only things that were touched up were a couple of the stunt rigs for the first chase between Stuntman Mike and the girls in the Dodge Challenger, as well as the slow motion effects during the crash that ends the first half of the movie.

Another thing I just about twitched myself to death over in joy was the fact that Death Proof occurs in the same world as the "Kill Bill" movies.

So, till more movies come out, I'll be in the balcony, waiting.

Brian Loves Crappy Movies.

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:35:21 GMT

Well maybe not as much as Joe.

Anyways.

Lots of movies this summer, why oh WHY did the studios have to put out such a wonderful looking crop this year? May alone is probably going to break all sorts of records with the trilogy of 3rd movies; Spider Man 3, Shrek the 3rd, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

So far I have seen three movies on my list and I'll sum them all up here.

I'll give future installments as the movies are viewed.

300

Seen this movie twice now. It's a spectacle and a half. Sure there's lots of crazy blood on the screen, but at the core there's a solid story of duty and honor. It's the sort of story that praises all that's good about loyalty and freedom. For me, there are two high points in this movie. The first is when the Captain's son and another of the Spartans are fighting back-to-back and are simply mowing down all of the Persians who come at them. To me, this is the greatest expression of trust any two people can have, utter trust with each other's lives. The second point is when all of the Spartans lay dying and one turns to King Leonidas, remarking, "It is an honor to die by your side." Leonidas simply replies "It was a pleasure to have lived by yours." A wonderfully equalizing thing to say as a king.

Bridge to Terabithia

I had not read the book going in to this movie, and to be honest I think I'm better for it. I'll keep spoilers to a minimum for anyone who hasn't read the book, but needless to say this is NOT the movie that was advertised on movie trailers and on TV. This is one of those movies which you should really be prepared to see as it pretty much grips you by the heart and doesn't let go for a good last third of the movie.

Interesting actor note for this movie: Robert Patrick, the T-1000 himself, plays the father in this movie. He plays the father with such a forceful personality that I was sure at one point we was going to yell, "Jess! Find me my keys else I won't be able to go into town and find that John Connor boy!"

The Last Mimsy

This is a movie which I liked more for its concepts and less for its execution. This fact that there was an underlying unity to time and space and sound and motion and thought which is brought up in the movie definitely has my metaphysical gears turning a bit. Plus I was nearly twitching with joy when they implied a few things that linked the title of the movie to the poem "Jabberwocky." the story i Sadly though I found the movie to be oddly made, with an odd standpoint of how it is being told, and with threads through the movie that can only be figured out once you've gone home and stewed about it for awhile. Now things like that I'm all for, at times, but seeing as the movie is being pitched at kids, it creates a weird clash of priorities. This is by far NOT the worst movie ever. I can't call it a BAD movie either, from the fact that there were parts that stand out as great ideas.

Interesting actor note: Michael Clarke Duncan is pretty much the only "star power" in this whole movie, as everyone else is pretty much lesser names. Needless to say, he stands out pretty well as an FBI agent thrust into the land of weirdness and trying to figure out what's going on. I find it nice that he's playing an antagonist that could hardly be considered "bad" as he's only doing his job and he can't figure out how an average family living in Seattle could be doing anything truly wrong or malicious.

Well, those are the movies thus far.

Oh wait, forgot Ghost Rider. All I can say is, I got what I wanted to see. A man, with a skull for a head, that is on FIRE, riding a motorcycle, that is likewise on fire.

Finally:

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:11:24 GMT

Kingdom Hearts II down.

Next up: Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.

I now own Guitar Hero II

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:01:03 GMT

Ow... my wrists.

Can't believe I left this out..

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:18:47 GMT

So, yeah I was looking over my old post from over a week ago about super powers and I realize I'd left out one power that while it isn't really "super," it's still a mainstay of comic book worlds.

Magic!

or Magick, or Sorcery, or Wizardry, or whatever else you which to call it.

I've always had a bit of a liking of magic and wizard, which only seems to have grown as I've gotten older, though my favorite images of magic users are still those who swing a sword first and either move to magic as a secondary ability or augment their physical ability with magic, example of which include Link of the Legend of Zelda or any Jedi you can name.

Course that's my choice if I'm going to be playing the central character of the story, if I'm to be more of a font of wisdom to be relied upon, I'll just take full phenomenal cosmic power and leave the sword swinging to others. I guess the best example of this would be people like Merlin, Abe no Seimei, or Dr. Strange.

Anyways, tis nearing the Hallow's Eve, which always makes me think of all the outfits I could wear if I actually had the ability and drive to make a costume. I keep on thinking of great costume ideas then fail to get them together, ah well. Hopefully i'll actually be able to sneak into a Halloween store and buy a few items for use at this years Otakon, and possibly Tekoshokon if I can actually get around to putting it all together.

So when do I get super powers?

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:25:03 GMT

Lately I've been watching the show Heroes, and doing more reading in Exalted, and watching more anime, and watching Avatar: the Last Airbender. Lately this has led me to as the all encompassing question as stated above.

When do I get super powers?

I've often pondered over the concept of my own super powers, and what they might be if they manifested.

So far the front runners for me include:

Teleportation (damned useful)
Instant conjuring of any basic item needed from thin air (also useful)
Elemental manipulation (either air, water, or possibly fire)
Super genius (best when combined with infinite amounts of cash)
Time manipulation (best if I know what will and won't destroy the universe with its uses)
Super speed (The poor man's teleportation and time manipulation)

Ah well, maybe I should move to North Korea and stand in the remnants of the radioactive test site there, and just try my luck or something.

Anyways, life has been pretty good for me, can't complain about much of anything, other than the fact that I hardly get to see people that much anymore, well other than my wife, and she's the one who counts, right?

I'm happy to at least have a couple of things to still geek out over, too. what with Guitar Hero II (hmm there's a super hero! The Guitar Hero! Able to send Pterodactyls screaming in terror! (my that was an obscure leap in logic, 10 points to he who identifies the reference!)) coming out in November and Heroes having me tune in like a drooling fanboy each week.

Still to everyone who hasn't seen me in a bit, I say a friendly hello!

OMG I post!

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:34:20 GMT

Yes, I post, for I wish to record the day I saw the stirrings of a new form of entertainment which is an innovation on a classic formula.

You see some years ago, there was a little show called MST3K, and if you don't know what that is, mainly by me bringing it uup in any conversation I have, how did you find my livejournal??

Sadly due to lack of funding the show ended.

However one man, Michael J. Nelson, has returned to roast bad movies. But not just the old and forgotten, no, no, he's now doing the ones on your very DVD rack!

Which is useful since you'll need a copy of the DVD to watch Rifftrax!

At RiffTrax.com, you can now procure for a pittance of $1.99, an MP3 color commentary for movies that had it comming. Since this is a new service, only two movie Rifftrax are available, Road House, staring a very shirtless Patrick Swayse, And The Fifth Element, starring a very orange haired Milla Jovovich.

I bought the Fifth Element and got me $1.99 worth in five minutes.

Now you may ask why I plug this so... well I'm hoping for more of these suckers, that's why.

Yes, at heart I'm quite selfish.

Yup.

'Nother Meme Time!

Sun, 28 May 2006 16:34:44 GMT

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

1. Favorite video game of all time - what is it, and why?

That's an exceedingly tough one to answer for me, but I will most likely have to go with Chrono Trigger, as I utterly DEMOLISHED that game, collecting every single thing i could to create the ultra-party that could kill anything. This is rare as i normally don't play too many RPG's to begin with.

2. If you were a member of a generic ancient pantheon of gods, what would you be the god of?

Wisdom, not necessarily knowlege, but but definitely the god of things learned with experience, possibly leading me to be the god of longevity and the unknown as well.

3. What's your favorite season?

Fall, Spring is too wonky, Summer's too hot, and Winter's too cold.

4. Recommend an alcoholic drink I've never had before.

Raspberry Stoli's and 7-up. Delicious! (though expensive as hell if you buy a bottle of the stuff)

5. What is the philosophy by which you live your life?

Attempt to leave every person you meet a little better than the way you found them.

Meme stuff!

Thu, 18 May 2006 05:09:20 GMT

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and and I will assign you a letter. Choose ten words beginning with that letter, and include an explanation of what the word means to you and why. I got "G"!

1. Gonzo - My favorite muppet, also a good way to describe my state of being.

2. Gravity - It's the LAW

3. Greyskull - I have the power of it.

4. Groom - What I'll be in about 6 or so weeks!

5. Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Cristo anime I'm currecntly watching, it's good!

6. Galvinize - probably one of the coolest sounding words i know.

7. Gir - The representation of "robot" in my "Pirate, Ninja, Monkey, Robot" collection at work.

8. Guitar Hero! - What I am...sort of...3 more songs to go!!!

9. Gamecube - My answer to the question of "Xbox or Playstation 2?"

10. Gaiaonline - home of so much fun.

Story time!

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:35:46 GMT

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want -good or bad- BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

might as well.

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:56:46 GMT

You are the Sun card. The light of the Sun reveals
all. The Sun is joyful and bright, without fear
or reservation. The childish nature of the Sun
allows you to play and feel free. Exploration
can truly take place in the light of day when
nothing is hidden. The Sun's rays fill you with
energy so that you may live life to its
fullest, milking pleasure out of each day. Such
joy and energy can bring wealth and physical
pleasure. To shine in the light of day is to
have confidence, to soak up its rays is to feel
the freedom of a child. Image from: Stevee
Postman. http://www.stevee.com/

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Memeing with honor!

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:46:58 GMT

01. Reply with your name and I will write something I like about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie/icon reminds me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, I'll tell you what it would be.
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.

Revenge of the sith

Fri, 20 May 2005 05:23:16 GMT

There were Sith, they got revenge...that just about sums it up.

WOO-HOOO!!!!!!!

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:46:37 GMT

dear Brian,

The registration has gone through and you are pre-reged for Otakon.

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The Otakon 2004 Preregistration Department

Please.

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:24:07 GMT

Someone just end the pain, please, please.

Wait a minute.... I have a live journal?

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:07:19 GMT

I also have a stack of about 20 fansubs I need to plaugh through eventually.

Right now i'm watching Witch Hunter Robin,

CSI meets the Inqusition, with a tad of the X-men for flavoring.

It's delicious...like coffee.

I only say that cause coffee seems to be for this anime as doughnuts are for Trigun.

Except this is drama, not comedy,

Ah well, it's good anyways.