dammit... I was tagged by Argonautgod to write this stupid "20 Things You Don't Know About Me" thing.
thanks asshole.
1) I have never had a broken bone. I've dislocated both shoulders twice, but never broken anything. The dislocations happened twice by falling on slippery ice (fucking alaska,) once while snowboarding (2nd and LAST time I've ever been) and once while playing badmitton... that's right... badmitton.
2) My favorite videogame of all time is Super Mario Bros. 3. Not because it's a fantastic game (which it is,) but because of the way I first got my hands on it. My father left home when I was six, and during the first few years he was away I usually only got to see him one or two days out of the year. After one of my yearly visits, right before I was to board a plane headed back to Alaska, he handed the game that was giftwrapped, hugged me goodbye, and told me to behave. I cried that whole flight home.
3) I am obsessed with David Bowie. I have almost all of his albums, and some I have duplicate copies (vinyl and CD). I had a poster of him hung up in my room for the last 3 years of highschool. It was one of 2 posters. I have watched the last Ziggy Stardust concert 40 times. I can't help it... and it shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.
4) My favorite film of all time is Lawrence of Arabia, though like Argonautgod, the first film I remember seeing is Star Wars (Return of the Jedi). Lawrence of Arabia is one of the films that made me want to study film. The cinematography in it is the most stunning I have ever seen... the scene with Omar Shariff coming out of the desert to the watering hole is probably my favorite scene of all time.
5) I love to study religion, but I'm not religious. I'm reading The New Jerusalem Bible right now, and supplementing it with Wikipedia entries on catholicism and demonology. People say religion is all about faith, but I am a faithless person, and I can't forsee anything changing that.
6) When I was much younger, a friend of mine told me that during the night, china dolls come to life and rip out your heart. Rather than tell anyone about this fear, and have them rationalize it away, I developed a habit of sleeping on my stomach with my arms securely tucked in at my sides. I figured that way they'd have to go through my shoulder blade to rip out my heart. I slept like that in fear for 3 years.
7) I haven't been on a "date" since my senior year of highschool. She was a Japanese exchange student, and we both went to each other's proms. However, since I forgot to sign her up as a guest at my prom, we weren't allowed in, so instead we went back to my house and watched Life is Beautiful and had dinner. She was a very sweet girl, but I was too shy to really open up to her. She emailed me once while I was in college, but my email account was crazy and I couldn't email her back. Shortly after that my account was deleted and that web service shut down. Ah well.
8) The summer before my senior year of highschool I was selected to go to Japan for the Sony Student Project Abroad. My family is friends with Senator Stevens and he was the one to select the students for that year. I spent 2 weeks in Japan, and stayed with an awesome host family for 3 days. I saw Tokyo and Kyoto, took the bullet train, checked out Mt. Fuji, and stayed at a traditional Japanese inn... ALL ON SONY'S DIME! HAHAHAHA SUCKERS!
When I returned home the local newspaper had written that I was selected because of my "intense interest in Japan, and my superior math skills" or some such shit.... little did they know I was failing Geometry, but who's counting when you know the senator.
9) My only rival growing up was a kid named Thomas Obermeyer. We were both really tall, only I was the funny one and he was the jock. We hated each other from kindergarten, I think it started with one of us stealing the other's fingerpaint or something. From there it was a competition, who had the best grades (I was a straight A student back then), who was more popular, blah blah blah. He always wanted to fight me after school, but I never did. I figured it wasn't worth my time or effort, so I avoided him as much as possible. After elementary we went to different junior and senior highs, so I never heard that much about him after that.. until my senior year of highschool. I read an article about how some dumbass was cought downloading porn on a school computer... crazy porn too, and who would dare sully our educational system with such trash?... THOMAS OBERMEYER! After that he wasn't allowed to graduate with the rest of his class, but had to graduate after summer session. I won that day... It doesn't matter what anyone said about us before or since, that day I was a fucking champion.
10) It's taken me 2 hours to write up to this point. (yeah it's a cop out answer, but hey.. i got stuff to do.)
11) by my calculations I have smoked approximately 22,000 cigarettes in my life thus far. If every cigarette takes 4 minutes off your life I have smoked away 61.1 days of my life. Almost two months. Am I gonna stop?.... no. Do I care?... no.
12) My favorite color is Orange. Next to that is Black. I think this is because I was born on October 5th. The first holiday after my birthday is Halloween, traditionally orange and black. I think it's some crazy holdover from my first experiences. It could also explain my facination with horror movies, anything zombie related, and dressing up.
13) I like anthropomorphic porn... it's wierd, but I can't help it... the people who dress up in bunny outfits and have sex, however.. I am not down with. A little too freaky for me... unless it's a cat girl costume... rawr.
14) The first guitar I ever owned was a "Goya" spanish style guitar. My mother bought it from a guy who worked at a music shop, she met him at the airport cargo center and paid for it in cash. It cost her $100. She used money she had saved from clipping coupons for 6 months to buy it. On the anniversary of my tenth year of playing I sent her a dozen roses. I wouldn't be alive if she hadn't.
15) I've owned 3 dogs in my life, but only one of them I ever concidered my own. Daffy was the first, but I was too little to remember her. Heidi was next, and she was awesome. When she was a puppy she broke her paw and was forced to stay inside for a couple months. She never trusted strangers after that, and would bark at anything that moved. She was loyal though. Whenever I was feeling down she'd come over and lay down beside me. I could fall asleep hugging her and she never left. When we nameing her, we had a family meeting about it. I adamently tried to name her "Clover", but as she was a Norweigian Elkhound, my family decided on something a little more ethnic. Man I loved that dog.
The other dog was my father's Ellie the beagle. She was cool, but I hate beagles... so that was that.
16) I have a bad habbit of getting the giggles at the most inappropriate times. Church, school, on set. The worst time however was once while my brother was in a discussion with my cousins, my mind wandered off and I ended up busting out laughing, only to be snapped back into reality by my cousins staring at me furiously. Apparently they had been talking about their mother's recent passing. I don't think they talked to me for the rest of the night.
17) I'm extremely ticklish, and will actually turn purple from laughing too much if exposed to tickles for an extended period of time...
18) I have a gigantic scar on my ass from butt-surgery... yeah.
19) When I get drunk, I have a habit of pushing shopping carts around and destroying them. I have rolled them off cliffs, thrown them off bridges, stuck them in trees, pushed them down flights of stairs, and so on. It's just fun dammit.
20) I'm really a black woman.
there.
happy now?
now:
I choose YOU violently!
GO!
USE SPECIAL ATTACK!
WE'LL WIN THAT LA CITY GYM BADGE FOR SURE!
thanks asshole.
1) I have never had a broken bone. I've dislocated both shoulders twice, but never broken anything. The dislocations happened twice by falling on slippery ice (fucking alaska,) once while snowboarding (2nd and LAST time I've ever been) and once while playing badmitton... that's right... badmitton.
2) My favorite videogame of all time is Super Mario Bros. 3. Not because it's a fantastic game (which it is,) but because of the way I first got my hands on it. My father left home when I was six, and during the first few years he was away I usually only got to see him one or two days out of the year. After one of my yearly visits, right before I was to board a plane headed back to Alaska, he handed the game that was giftwrapped, hugged me goodbye, and told me to behave. I cried that whole flight home.
3) I am obsessed with David Bowie. I have almost all of his albums, and some I have duplicate copies (vinyl and CD). I had a poster of him hung up in my room for the last 3 years of highschool. It was one of 2 posters. I have watched the last Ziggy Stardust concert 40 times. I can't help it... and it shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.
4) My favorite film of all time is Lawrence of Arabia, though like Argonautgod, the first film I remember seeing is Star Wars (Return of the Jedi). Lawrence of Arabia is one of the films that made me want to study film. The cinematography in it is the most stunning I have ever seen... the scene with Omar Shariff coming out of the desert to the watering hole is probably my favorite scene of all time.
5) I love to study religion, but I'm not religious. I'm reading The New Jerusalem Bible right now, and supplementing it with Wikipedia entries on catholicism and demonology. People say religion is all about faith, but I am a faithless person, and I can't forsee anything changing that.
6) When I was much younger, a friend of mine told me that during the night, china dolls come to life and rip out your heart. Rather than tell anyone about this fear, and have them rationalize it away, I developed a habit of sleeping on my stomach with my arms securely tucked in at my sides. I figured that way they'd have to go through my shoulder blade to rip out my heart. I slept like that in fear for 3 years.
7) I haven't been on a "date" since my senior year of highschool. She was a Japanese exchange student, and we both went to each other's proms. However, since I forgot to sign her up as a guest at my prom, we weren't allowed in, so instead we went back to my house and watched Life is Beautiful and had dinner. She was a very sweet girl, but I was too shy to really open up to her. She emailed me once while I was in college, but my email account was crazy and I couldn't email her back. Shortly after that my account was deleted and that web service shut down. Ah well.
8) The summer before my senior year of highschool I was selected to go to Japan for the Sony Student Project Abroad. My family is friends with Senator Stevens and he was the one to select the students for that year. I spent 2 weeks in Japan, and stayed with an awesome host family for 3 days. I saw Tokyo and Kyoto, took the bullet train, checked out Mt. Fuji, and stayed at a traditional Japanese inn... ALL ON SONY'S DIME! HAHAHAHA SUCKERS!
When I returned home the local newspaper had written that I was selected because of my "intense interest in Japan, and my superior math skills" or some such shit.... little did they know I was failing Geometry, but who's counting when you know the senator.
9) My only rival growing up was a kid named Thomas Obermeyer. We were both really tall, only I was the funny one and he was the jock. We hated each other from kindergarten, I think it started with one of us stealing the other's fingerpaint or something. From there it was a competition, who had the best grades (I was a straight A student back then), who was more popular, blah blah blah. He always wanted to fight me after school, but I never did. I figured it wasn't worth my time or effort, so I avoided him as much as possible. After elementary we went to different junior and senior highs, so I never heard that much about him after that.. until my senior year of highschool. I read an article about how some dumbass was cought downloading porn on a school computer... crazy porn too, and who would dare sully our educational system with such trash?... THOMAS OBERMEYER! After that he wasn't allowed to graduate with the rest of his class, but had to graduate after summer session. I won that day... It doesn't matter what anyone said about us before or since, that day I was a fucking champion.
10) It's taken me 2 hours to write up to this point. (yeah it's a cop out answer, but hey.. i got stuff to do.)
11) by my calculations I have smoked approximately 22,000 cigarettes in my life thus far. If every cigarette takes 4 minutes off your life I have smoked away 61.1 days of my life. Almost two months. Am I gonna stop?.... no. Do I care?... no.
12) My favorite color is Orange. Next to that is Black. I think this is because I was born on October 5th. The first holiday after my birthday is Halloween, traditionally orange and black. I think it's some crazy holdover from my first experiences. It could also explain my facination with horror movies, anything zombie related, and dressing up.
13) I like anthropomorphic porn... it's wierd, but I can't help it... the people who dress up in bunny outfits and have sex, however.. I am not down with. A little too freaky for me... unless it's a cat girl costume... rawr.
14) The first guitar I ever owned was a "Goya" spanish style guitar. My mother bought it from a guy who worked at a music shop, she met him at the airport cargo center and paid for it in cash. It cost her $100. She used money she had saved from clipping coupons for 6 months to buy it. On the anniversary of my tenth year of playing I sent her a dozen roses. I wouldn't be alive if she hadn't.
15) I've owned 3 dogs in my life, but only one of them I ever concidered my own. Daffy was the first, but I was too little to remember her. Heidi was next, and she was awesome. When she was a puppy she broke her paw and was forced to stay inside for a couple months. She never trusted strangers after that, and would bark at anything that moved. She was loyal though. Whenever I was feeling down she'd come over and lay down beside me. I could fall asleep hugging her and she never left. When we nameing her, we had a family meeting about it. I adamently tried to name her "Clover", but as she was a Norweigian Elkhound, my family decided on something a little more ethnic. Man I loved that dog.
The other dog was my father's Ellie the beagle. She was cool, but I hate beagles... so that was that.
16) I have a bad habbit of getting the giggles at the most inappropriate times. Church, school, on set. The worst time however was once while my brother was in a discussion with my cousins, my mind wandered off and I ended up busting out laughing, only to be snapped back into reality by my cousins staring at me furiously. Apparently they had been talking about their mother's recent passing. I don't think they talked to me for the rest of the night.
17) I'm extremely ticklish, and will actually turn purple from laughing too much if exposed to tickles for an extended period of time...
18) I have a gigantic scar on my ass from butt-surgery... yeah.
19) When I get drunk, I have a habit of pushing shopping carts around and destroying them. I have rolled them off cliffs, thrown them off bridges, stuck them in trees, pushed them down flights of stairs, and so on. It's just fun dammit.
20) I'm really a black woman.
there.
happy now?
now:
I choose YOU violently!
GO!
USE SPECIAL ATTACK!
WE'LL WIN THAT LA CITY GYM BADGE FOR SURE!
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And 61.1 days is the time you took to simply do the smoking. If you factor in the health impact (there are probably sites for that), you're somewhere between years and decades, I'm guessing. Awesome...
I used to do cart jousting as a kid... oh so fun!
Damn, that was a long read...
~Trilo~
Now I shall read this... when I can see straight.