Six

I've been feeling in the mood to do a bit of meming lately, so it must be fate that I've been tagged awarded with one - even if it is our old enemy the Random Six Things Meme. I've dodged so many of those in the two and half-ish years that I've had this blog, I suppose it won't hurt to tackle one head on every so often.

This particular strain comes with a little awardy badge, like so:


And some rules, like so:

The Kreativ Blog award rules are: Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on your blog:Write 6 random things about yourself. Tag 6 people and let each of them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. Go back to the awarder and let them know that your entry is up.

Let's take a crack at this, then.

1. I'm not really watching TV at the moment, since the last season of Ugly Betty finished. I just buy boxed sets of TV shows on DVD so I have something to watch while eating. Currently watching Season 4 of Mission: Impossible.

2. I always rest my head on two pillows when I sleep, one stacked on top of the other.

3. My favourite First World War plane is the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane. Not an original choice, to be sure, but one that's hard to argue with.

5. I currently have about a dozen games and a half a dozen books that I'm working through. It takes a lot less time to buy them than it does to finish them.

6. I really, really struggle to think of six random things.

Bloody hell that was hard.

Everyone in my blogroll is creative in some way, so I'm going to tag six people with eclectic blogs conducive to random memage: Lulubunny, Chiya, Michelle, Geosomin, Didd- no, you've done about a hundred of these. How many's that? Okay, anyone else who wants to take part, grab a badge.

Six Word Memoir

I woz tagged. Your life in six words, photo optional but encouraged. After, tag some victims - suggested number: six.

Hokay, here goes... Drum roll please... Really need to pad this post out, as it all revolves around those aforementioned six words... Gotta pick just the right ones as well... Almost out of time... This is it... No turning back now... Hold onto something...

Introverted dreamer makes strange little things.

Oh man, that really took it out of me. I'm gonna go have a lie down now...

Diddums, Geosomin, Lulubunny, Michelle, Bobby, I tag you up good. Chiya, you get a time-delayed tag, not valid before 16th April. Anyone who wants to join the party, you're welcome too.

Meme-o-Dump

In the absence of genuine content, here's a text dump of meme questions via Diddums. Feel free to pilfer and/or purloin.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
To be loved and appreciated, to be able to create, to feel safe and secure.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Dying horribly in some fashion.

3. Which living person do you most admire?
Aung San Suu Kyi leaps to mind. Most of my biggest heroes seem to be dead.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
It would be a very long list.

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Lack of empathy, impatience.

6. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Faith.

7. On what occasion do you lie?
When I want to hide something about myself.

8. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My hair, I suppose.

9. What is your greatest regret?
Being so sucky.

10. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
A little robot called Cassini.

11. Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to write publishable novels.

12. What is your current state of mind?
Surprisingly positive.

13. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I'd be more outgoing and confident.

14. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Placing 9th in the TIGSource B-Game competition. Also, I got a degree of some sort or something.

15. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
What do I think it would be (as opposed to, in question 35, what I would like it to be)? Something on another planet. A Lovecraftian fungus, drifting in the clouds of a gas giant, contemplating the strange, the beautiful and the horrifying.

16. What is your most treasured possession?
My books and DVDs, I suppose. Or my computer.

17. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Udge had a quote on his sidebar a while back about how there's no worse feeling than the realisation that you are the cause of all your own problems. That sounds about right. And dying a slow, lingering, painful, scary death would be probably be pretty bad too.

18. Where would you like to live?
In a nearby town, which shall remain nameless. It has a castle.

19. What is your most marked characteristic?
Personally, probably diffidence. In conversation or writing, I guess it's, um, I don't know?

20. Who are your favourite writers?
Virginia Woolf, Steph Swainston, Alistair Reynolds, William Gibson, Haruki Murakami, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka. If you can see a pattern here, let me know...

21. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Oh man, tough one. Exactly how heroic do they have to be? Oh wait, Nausicaa from Hayao Miyazaki's comic book epic Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. A great portrait of a strong and compassionate heroine striving to do what's right in a complicated and strange fantasy world.

22. Who are your heroes in real life?
Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Mahatma Ghandi and Aung San Suu Kyi.

23. What is it that you most dislike?
A large umbrella of habits and behaviours that I like to think of as 'lack of imagination'.

24. What is your motto?
You know, I should really get a motto. Okay, Asimov once said something like, “I'll believe anything, however crazy, as long as there's evidence for it.” That'll do.

25. Favourite journey?
Train from here, heading away from London.

26. What do you value most in your friends?
Their tolerance of my many negative qualities.

27. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
'Seem'. Whenever I write anything, fiction or non-fiction, I have to go back and delete about a million 'seems', 'seemed', 'seemingly' and other variations. It obviously stems from a lack of confidence - I can't just say, “This is so.” but have to phrase it, “This seems so.” It's a great quality for a scientist, but not so useful in a writer.

28. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Jesus. No, wait, Adolf Hitler. Oh, I can't decide, there are so many. Actually, I've always been surprised by how similar a life H.P. Lovecraft lead to mine. When I die unrecognised and poor, it will be in the certainty that my fiction will go on to just as great a posthumous legacy.

29. What is your greatest extravagance?
I can't believe how much money I've spent on the DVDs of the various incarnations of Ghost in the Shell. I guess I'm also an extravagant time waster.

30. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
I'd make them both exceedingly rich and exceedingly generous.

31. What is your favourite occupation?
Being creative.

32. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Sensitivity, kindness, understanding.

33. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Sensitivity, kindness, understanding, glasses.

34. How would you like to die?
Old and happy.

35. If you could chose what to come back as, what would it be?
Someone just like me, only better.

Meme-o-Book

Tagged by Udge.

Total number of books owned

I guess I'll have to count won't I? About 125, not including graphic novels and manga. My excuse is that I have limited space and, lately, limited reading energy. I'll do better! I promise!

Last book bought

Volumes 2-4 of One Piece in a 3 for 2 sale. This was at the same time as I debated whether I was crazy or not with this young woman. Her opening sales pitch, on seeing my shopping bag was, “Are you a man of literature?” Well, obviously!

Last book read

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H.P. Lovecraft, which I finally finished late last night. As to what I'm reading next, well I'm not sure. I do have a heap of books to get through, so I guess I'll start there. Dickens' David Copperfield, Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale and the aforementioned One Piece books are all likely candidates. And as I mentioned here, there are quite a few recently released books that I want to read, but are still in hardback.

Five books that mean a lot to you

Um... Mean a lot to me, you say, rather than me just liking them? Let's have a think.

Carl Sagan Cosmos
Obviously, I'm a huge fan of Sagan. The knowledge of space and the solar system in this book is a little outdated, but the philosophy of science and humanism as Sagan relates it is as important now as ever.

Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun
A tragic love story between two childhood sweethearts who meet again in middle age. Always makes me a cry.

Steph Swainston The Year of Our War
This is how you write fantasy. I aspire to this level of greatness.

Alistair Reynolds Revelation Space
And this is how you write science fiction. Ditto.

Virginia Woolf The Waves
The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Orlando are all books that I find deeply touching, but The Waves wins out because I don't want Woolf to hog too much of the list. Rhoda was my favourite narrator, as she reminds me of both myself and the girl that broke my heart (and umbrella).

Do I have to tag some people now? I always balk at this bit, because I hate telling other people what to do with their blogs. But...

Diddums, Geosomin, Michelle, Lulubunny and also YOU (assuming that 'you' are not one or more of the preceding people).

888

It seems you can't get away from these random facts memes. Tagged by Diddums.

I guess I should reproduce the rules, because it's so damn complicated:

The rules:

1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.

Eight! And to think I felt good for dodging 'six random things' memes.

1. Films posters on my walls: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Apocalypse Now, Aliens, Leon.
2. My hair is no more than 3cm long.
3. I graduated a year ago today.
4. I am about to finally watch Pan's Labyrinth.
5. My favourite crisps are the 'salt and shake' variety.
6. I am over a quarter Irish.
7. I have never been outside Europe.
8. I find it really hard to think of random facts about myself.

I am tagging the numbers 1-8, as seen on Sesame Street.

Cubed

Tagged by Diddums. Found this one strangely difficult.

"The rules are simple. There are 9 questions (3²), each of which has 3 answers, to give a total of 27, or 3³. The whole point is that the questions are somewhere between eclectic, banal and downright bizarre, so that you can answer completely truthfully without actually giving much away. Just put down the first three answers that come to mind if you can’t work out the 'most appropriate' three."

Objects Within One Metre Of You

1. An octopus playing a guitar.

2. A scientific calculator.

3. A watch with no strap.

First Names of People You Sat Next To At School

1. Alex.

2. Jessica

3. Richard

TV Programmes You Won’t Watch

1. Richard and Judy (insipid).

2. Eastenders ('ACTING' IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR 'SHOUTING').

3. NCIS (A creepy brand of American conservatism to be found here).

Favourite Trivial Pursuit Categories

I've never played the game. But based on what the internet says, the categories I'd choose are...

1. Science.

2. Literature.

3. Entertainment.

Superpowers You’d Like To Have

1. Flight.

2. Invisibility.

3. One of those 'gun arms' from Ghost in the Shell. I wouldn't shoot anyone with it, I just think they look cool.


Newspapers, Magazines or Periodicals Read Regularly

1. Retro Gamer

2. The Radio Times

3. New Scientist (Or I do when I'm not as drained as I am lately...)

Songs You Dislike

1. Um...

2. You know...

3. That really annoying one.

Blog Posts of Your Own That You’d Recommend.

1. Inspiration

2. A Story about Wings

3. 5 Filmmakers

People You’d Like To See Answer These Same Stupid Questions

1. Anyone

2. who

3. wants to.

Heteronormative Memetics

Borrowed from Jemima. A nice meme, strangely gendered.

* Your most marked characteristic?
I dunno. I'd have to ask other people what they thought. But I might not want to know...

* The quality you most like in a man?
Gentleness.

* The quality you most like in a woman?
Um, gentleness? For romantic purposes, the answer is: glasses.

* What do you most value in your friends?
That they tolerate how fucked up I am.

* What is your principle defect?
Cripplingly low self esteem. Which leads to the urge to list another hundred or so defects for this question.

* What is your favourite occupation?
Day-dreaming.

* What is your dream of happiness?
Love and acceptance.

* What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Something horrible and painful and slow and personality-destroying, perhaps at the bottom of a deep, dark, smelly hole.

* What would you like to be?
Loved and accepted.

* In what country would you like to live?
England. Or, if they decide to deport me for my radical views (they can do that now, I think), New Zealand or Canada.

* What is your favourite colour?
Yellow.

* What is your favourite flower?
The humble rose.

* What is your favourite bird?
I can't choose between the hoopoe and the cassowary.

* Who are your favourite prose writers?
William Gibson, Virginia Woolf, Haruki Murakami, Steph Swainston, H.P. Lovecraft, Alistair Reynolds, and a bunch of other people.

* Who are your favourite poets?
I'm sorry, what?

* Who are your favourite heroes of fiction?
Jant in Steph Swainston's Fourlands novels. Oh, but he's more of an anti-hero. You know, I don't think any of the guys I like are really heroes. The eponymous Lord Jim from Conrad's novel, for example, is so great because he stands as a nice example of how weird our concepts of heroism and honour are.

* Who are your favourite heroines of fiction?
I guess since we're being all high-brow here, I can't say Samus Aran. I both identified with and fell head over heels for Rhoda in Viriginia Woolf's The Waves - but then, I don't know if she qualifies as a heroine, as she's only one of six main characters.

* Who are your favourite composers?
Beethoven and Yoko Kanno.

* Who are your favourite painters/photographers?
Picasso and Dali.

* Who are your heroes in real life?
Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman. I'd add Aung San Suu Kyi, but she's a heroine not a hero. o_O

* Who are your favourite heroines of history?
Hypatia, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

* What are your favourite names?
I really like the name 'Pacian', but I can't use it for anything now, because I identify with it too strongly. Also: female names beginning with 'A'.

* What is it you most dislike?
Insensitivity, lack of imagination and the crossroads between the two.

* What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Wings.

* How would you like to die?
Old and happy.

* What is your present state of mind?
Foggy.

* What is your motto?
"Think for yourself: don't have a motto."

More Memage from the Meme Soup

(Via)

1. My 'ex' is still - emailing me from time to time.

2. I am listening to - cars drive past.

3. Maybe I should - finish this letter I'm writing.

4. I love - gals who wear glasses.

Jemima continues her moth-eaten meme trend. Question 5 is lost in transit.

6. I don't understand - how some people can be so unkind, can seem to lack the smallest shred of empathy.

7. I lost my respect for - myself, years ago.

8. I last ate - a twix.

9. The meaning of my display name is - 'man of peace'.

10. Love is - all you need?

11. Someday - I will be okay, I hope.

12. I will always - be a daydreamer.

13. I never ever want to lose - my few redeeming qualities.

14. When I woke up this morning - I stopped being asleep.

15. I get annoyed at - arrogance.

16. Parties - are fun, full of drunken hugs.

17. My pet - is better than you.

18. Kisses - are like butterflies.

19. Today I - muddled through.

20. I wish - I could cope with things.

21. I really want - contentment.

Wikimemia

Tagged by Roadchick.

1. Go to wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.
2. List 3 events that occurred on that day.
3. List 2 important birthdays.
4. List 1 death.
5. List a holiday or observance. (if any)
6. Tag 5 other bloggers.

21st November:

-Events

1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc².

1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.

-Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher

1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer

-Deaths

496 - Pope Gelasius I

-Holidays

World Hello Day

-Tags

Tag yourselves, I'm not doing it.

Meme-o-List

(via)

1. Do you like cheese?
Yes. I really like cheese.

2. Have you ever smoked heroin?
I didn't even know you could smoke it.

3. Do you own a gun?
I'm English.

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
I get nervous before everything.

6. What do you think of hot dogs?
I think of the poor pigs who lost their lips and testicles to go into them. I expect they all live in some special farm for lip-less, castrated pigs and have a support group with hugs.

7. What's your favourite Christmas song?
"I wish it could be Christmas every day…" which I hum on and off throughout the year, much as I might disagree with the sentiment.

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Tea. With milk. No sugar.

9. Can you do push ups?
I could. I've been wasting away of late, so I may not be able to anymore.

10. Is your bathroom clean?
All things must always been clean at all times.

11. What's your favourite piece of jewellery?
I would say my watch, but it broke.

Where's 12?
I don't know.

13. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
I don't think I have one.

14. Do you have friends?
There are people I know and ask things of. I don't like to ask for clarification of our status in case it turns out they don't actually like me.

15. Do you miss someone?
I do miss my friend Emily. She has a car. Now I'm stuck walking.

16. Middle Name?
I have two. You can know neither.

17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment?
i. I wonder what I will think of.
ii. Perhaps I will think of Mars?
iii. I doubt it will be anything profound, though.

19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink:
i. water
ii. tea
iii. John Smith's

20. Current worry?:
Myself.

21. Current hate?
People who make offensive jokes and then complain that those offended lack a sense of humour. Specifically, men making jokes about rape.

22. Favourite place to be?
Inside my imagination.

23. How did you bring in the New Year?
Feeling remorse that I didn't have a pen-and-paper diary to write in.

24. Where would you like to go?
Towards good things.

27. Do you own slippers?
No.

28. What shirt are you wearing?
A black polo-neck sweater.

29. Do you burn or tan?
Neither.

30. Favourite colour?
Yellow. Since forever.

31. Would you be a pirate?
I would marry a piratess, but I am not much of one for stealing and plundering myself.

32. What songs do you sing in the shower?
I am really not a musically minded person. If I sing anything, it is usually just humming part of Beethoven's 9th.

35. What's in your pocket right now?
Tissues. I might have a cold.

36. Last thing that made you laugh?
Buster Keaton's Seven Chances, which I watched over dinner.


37. Best bed sheets as a child?
Stripy like a zebra.

38. Worst injury you've ever had?
I broke my mind.

39. What is your biggest pet peeve?
Astrology. No. NO!

40. How many TVs do you have in your house?
Two, each with half-functionality.

41. Who is your loudest friend?
Will, who probably won't read this. I don't yet know if she really did change her name by deed poll.

42. Who is your most silent friend?
My cat. He still meows loud enough when he's lonely though.

43. Does someone have a crush on you?
No, because nobody notices me. Boo. Hoo.

44. Do you wish on shooting stars?
I never see shooting stars. Light pollution.

45. What is your favourite book?
I CAN'T PICK JUST ONE.

46. What is your favourite sweet?
The humble Jaffa cake.

47. What song do/did you want played at your wedding?
You have to play a song?! I'm not really musically minded, as I mentioned above. Wife's choice, methinks.

48. What song do you want played at your funeral?
I once asked this question of my mp3 player's random-shuffle and it came up with the plinky-plonk tune* from the end of the Tachikomatic Days shorts. As good as any, I guess. But I think there should be no music, just the wailing of all the people who had wronged me and then felt bad about it when they heard I was dead.

49. What were you doing at 12 AM last night?
I think I was sort of getting ready for bed, and sort of following my cat around wondering what he was up to.

50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
I was thinking about how I had to get up in half an hour and did not want to because I was so comfy. I resolved to make the best of the time I had, but it went too quickly.

*There are samples from the album here. It is about 5 seconds long and is called, 'ciao!'

My Namelian

Via Tinker comes this nifty little creative activity: Namelians. It's the kind of thing that you only need the slightest nudge to try out for yourself, I think, especially if you're in a whimsical mood. I tried it with 'Pacian' and came up with the following otherworldly little creature:


As you might expect, I've thought this through too much. This fellow is a filter feeder, drifting through an alien ocean, or perhaps even on the breezes of a denser atmosphere than Earth's. The curly hair-like bits sift for little morsels of food, while the creature hangs suspended from its large orange paddles. The smaller paddles provide stability and fine control. With its big compound eyes, it's able to spot predators coming from quite a way away, which is where the funnels and pointy bulge at the bottom come into play: it can suck water in through the funnels and shoot it out of its tail in a short burst to make a quick escape.

This one is called Bobby.

Movie meme

(Via)

1. Popcorn or sweets?
Neither. A drink would be nice, though.

2. Name a movie you have been meaning to see forever.
I would say Seventh Seal, but I saw that last year. Um... Oh! Bambi. Sorry video store, I am not paying £22 to bawl my eyes out. Put it on sale, already.

3. You are given the power to recall one Oscar: Who loses theirs and to whom?
Just ONE? Fernando Meirelles gets best director instead of the Lord of the Rings guy, perhaps? Bill Murray gets best actor for Lost in Translation? On that subject, Sofia Coppola gets best director instead of... that Lord of the Rings guy again. Huh. I think, actually, I'd just give best movie to Citizen Kane instead of that other film that no-one's heard of. Also, all those people are dead, so none of them could beat me up over it (Peter Jackson is a big man).

4. Steal one costume from a movie for your wardrobe. Which will it be?
A spacesuit from 2001. Walk around saying, "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." That would never get old!

5. Your favorite film franchise is?
The Alien movies. But mostly just the first two.

6. Invite five movie people over for dinner. Who are they? Why’d you invite them? What do you feed them?
Excluding dead people (who could turn down Chaplin?), George Clooney because I love him to bits. Hilary Swank as the only truly good American actress of her generation. Jean-Pierre Jeunet for being cuddly and imaginative. Hayao Miyazaki, same reason. And... James Cameron. I'd get him to orchestrate the whole thing, and we could be pretty certain that it would all go smoothly, even if he'd probably shout and make me cry in the process. Jim Cameron would select the menu, of course, and woe betide anyone who got in his way. He's king of the world!

7. What is the appropriate punishment for people who answer cell phones in the cinema?
Ejection. Through the ceiling. By rocket chair.

8. Choose a female bodyguard:
Michelle Rodriguez. Contract requires her to do the whole Kevin Costner. Whitney Housten soundtrack optional.

9. What’s the scariest thing you have ever seen in a movie?
Tough one. There are some movies I avoid because I'm certain they'll completely freak me out, eg. The Exorcist, or anything by Takashi Miike* or Eli Roth. Of the ones I've seen, it must be Anthony Hopkins eating that guy's brain while he was still alive in Hannibal. Then again, I'm not sure if that really counts as scary, just very disturbing. I stopped watching once I realised what was going to happen, btw.

10. Your favorite genre (excluding comedy and drama) is?
I guess... existentialist, strange, off-beat, thoughtful? Are those genres? If not, then I'll just cheat a bit and say animation.

11. You are given the power to greenlight movies at a major studio for one year. How do you wield this power?
I go George Clooney/Steven Soderbergh, greenlighting enough sure-fire hits to fund the production of movies that are actually good.

12. Bonnie or Clyde?
I haven't seen the film, but I'll take whichever one was Warren Beatty. Do I get to keep him? I hope he doesn't mind sleeping on the sofa.

*Okay, I bought The Happiness of the Katakuris the other day. Horror musical with zombies? How could I resist?!

Weirdness O' Six

Via Roadchick:

Here are the rules: Each player of this game starts with the "6 Weird Things about You." People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says 'you are tagged' in their comments and tell them to read your blog!"

Six Weird Things About Me:

I actually found this very hard to write. My weirdness is too diffuse and profound to narrow down like this.

1. I’m a mild hypochondriac. I expect to drop dead of twenty different things any day now.

2. When cats meow at me, I can’t help but meow back.

3. According to this ruler, my wrists are about 5cm wide at the narrowest point. That can’t be right!

4. I hated playing tag as a kid, because I always got tagged and then couldn’t tag anyone else.

5. I also hated making things from papier mache. It made me cry.

6. I am painfully shy and you scare me.

I have decided to tag... Um, well, I know that Diddums has already done this meme twice or more. In fact, I think that I am probably one of the last bloggers in the world to catch this meme. If there is anyone else out there who has missed it, I have six of them to send your way - but no more!

FIVE!

Courtesy of Diddums: a meme of five. Five what? I dunno. Make it up.

So, here are five computer game heroes with dry, gravelly voices and a cynical, wisecracking outlook. Quotes have been provided. Please say them aloud in a suitably Clint Eastwood-esque fashion, and try not to laugh.

1. Master Chief - "I need a weapon."
   
2. Garrett - "Bafford, like most of his kind, probably keeps his treasures on the top floor of the place. Close to his heart...and far from his servants."
   
3. Solid Snake - "Liar! I know that Metal Gear is nothing but a nuclear-equipped walking death-mobile!"
4. JC Denton - "When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror."
5. Any of Bruce Campbell's handful of roles. Eg. - "Next time you pass by and drop in, keep passing by until you get to the river... and then drop in."

Master Chief is the most famous - at least to Western gamers - and, apparently, the least witty. That really was the best quote I could find. Solid Snake wins the award for being the most unintentionally funny. What else can you do but laugh when faced with a line like this, delivered with absolute gravity:

They call mercenaries like us "Dogs of War." It's true; we're all for sale at some price or another. But you're different. Untamed, solitary. You're no dog. You're a wolf.

JC Denton deserves an award of a higher calibre - for what, I don't know. Being able to discuss in-depth philosophical and political points in such a deadpan monotone is definitely a skill in itself, but when that same voice also pulls out lines like this, you realise that Denton is in a class of his own:

Walton Simons: "You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection in a hall of mirrors."
JC Denton: "That makes me one ugly son of a bitch."

Friday

Via Zhoen of One Word.

You can only answer one word. No explanations.
1. Yourself
sucks
2. Your spouse
none
3. Your hair
shit
4. Your mother
nice
5. Your Father
no
6. Your Favorite Item
invisibility
7. Your dream last night:
zombies
8. Your Favourite drink
water
9. Your Dream Car
tachikoma
10. The room you are in
bedroom
11. Your Ex
butterfly
12. Your fear
worthlessness
13. What you want to be in 10 years
worthy
14. Who you hung out with last night
Lovecraft.
15. What You're Not
fearless
16. Muffins
scroodledoo
17: One of Your Wish List Items
confidence
18: Time
inexorable
19. The Last Thing You Did
sit
20. What You Are Wearing
clothes
21. Your Favorite Weather
rain
22. Your Favorite Book
unanswerable
23. The Last Thing You Ate
cereal
24. Your Life
pending
25. Your Mood
melancholy
26. Your best friend
who
27. What you're thinking about right now
meme
28. Your car
bus
29. What you are doing at the moment
procrastinating
30. Your summer
graduated
31. Your relationship status
failed
32. What is on your tv
darkness
33. What is the weather like
chilly
34. When is the last time you laughed
forgot