The TMI thing!

[eliyes]

Silly alba! You should never have tagged... TMI LASS!!! *pose*

Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts. If you're tagged it's your turn.


1. I will tell my life story to nearly anyone who asks.
2. I have auburn hair past me waist. Woot! Trying to grow it to my knees.
3. I have lived in 5 provinces.
4. I love feta cheese like nobody's business.
5. I have a stuffed, purple, rainbow haired My Little Pony plushie! :D
6. ...and a collection of stuffed penguins. And penguin ornaments. etc.
7. I may never breed. It's partly a medical thing. I wrote a poem about it.
8. I want to be a published writer. I have actually had a poem published twice (the same one), and worked on my high school and university papers (under many names and also in editing and computer layout), but it just ain't the same.
9. Virgin. No, really.
10. Twenty-three next month! :D
11. I don't smoke, do drugs, or drink. Okay, I'll sip champagne and grimace at it and then give it to Kat on New Year's eve.
12. My godfather became a Zen Buddhist before I was confirmed; I'm told this means it's his fault I'm going to hell. Yay!
13. I go through phases of being keen on something. Love it, leave it, love it again. But I also have long-standing obsessions.
14. I think guys that crossdress are attractive. Also lefties. I have no idea why.
15. I'm an only child.
16. I have written a will, which instructs my best friend to go through my diary and take out any bits worth keeping, then burn the rest. However, I stopped keeping a diary years ago.
17. I plan to go to Japan after I graduate university, on the JET program. But, I have stopped going to the JET hopefuls message board because someone launched a campaign to make me feel unwelcome. :(
18. I do honestly believe in the sort of supernatural, spiritual, and parapsychological things that might get me thrown in the nuthouse.
19. I'm way too opinionated for my own good.
20. I like to make stuff. :D Like doll clothes, jewelry, clothing designs, carved things, furniture, and such. I also like to take stuff apart.


7 minutes! Granted, all rather vague, but I was trying to be quick because I have such a short friends list to pick from, especially after who alba_aulbath and edward_hyde picked! If you want to know more about me, see #1.

Hmm... I tag:

teriyakibroth
tattoo_pixie
taichara
fallenangelamy
ladymoondancer
cats_n_crying
smuadam

Apologies to those already tagged. If you don't want to, you don't have to, of course. But it's fun 'cause there's a time limit!

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I posted this in my LJ some time back, so rather than burden it by redoing it all over again, I'll post it here, plus with some brand-new additions just for you, you lucky dog you!

I've had a comic book story published.
I've been to the Playboy Mansion and met Hugh Hefner (because I'm family, naturally)
I've had a beef-jerky-fueled road trip in my brother’s mosaic-tiled Volkswagen
I work at a comic shop
My favorite Shakespeare play is King Lear
I've acted in nearly 20 plays
I went full-frontal naked in a play (Blue Surge)
I've won two door prizes from Ian McKellen
I've een the cast of A MIGHTY WIND perform live
I accidentally spat on legendary SANDMAN artist Charles Vess
I've seen the movies FINAL, SPARTAN, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, THE PASSING, PATTI ROCKS! DUCK YOU SUCKER! (aka FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE), PANIC, NIGHT ON EARTH, DEAD MAN, MY FIRST MISTER, ALFIE, SLEUTH, THE LIMEY, SCARECROW (starring Pacino and Hackman), CUTTER’S WAY, WITHNAIL AND I, ROMERO IS BLEEDING, RAVENOUS, FIREWORKS (HABA-BI), THE EXORCIST III, and THE NINTH CONFIGURATION
I nearly got suspended from high school for sneaking out of class to get a cheesesteak.
I write and perform a series of one-man-show-style monologues called The Hefner Monologues, which I am posting in my LJ as I write them
I've written one novel, yet to be published
I am obsessed with a novel series I want to write about a madman swinger named Johnny Go and Bub the Zombie from "Day of the Dead" having a road trip to the mystical land of Vegas in post-zombie-apocalypse America.
I love this idea so much I drove to NJ to see Howard Sherman, the actor whom played Bub, in a production of "Galileo"
I love Bill the Butcher from "Gangs of New York." Seriously love.
My favorite comic characters are Hal Jordan Green Lantern, Harvey Dent/Two-Face, and Doctor Octopus (from his badass white suit days).
As a little kid, I was obsessed with Egon Spengler.
In fifth grade, I was obsessed with Muldoon from Jurassic Park. He survived, damn it!

I think that's all I got.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

^_^

I think yours are more interesting than mine. For example, I haven't heard of half those movies, or seen any. (I haven't even seen Gangs of New York.)
And there's nothing wrong with being obsessed with Egon. Why, my friend Janine --
Perhaps that's a story for another time.

I'd be interested to know why King Lear is your favourite, though. It's not mine. But I'd be interested nonetheless.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That's why I posted those movies. Most people haven't seen ANY. I try to track down great obscure movies and then try to spread the word to get others to see 'em. Try to keep 'em alive in consciousness, y'know?

As for Lear, the reason I posted that there is because NO ONE likes Lear. At least, no one young. I don't understand why. Is it because they can't relate to it was easily as the power lust of Mac, the passion of Othello, or the youthful indecisiveness of Hamlet?

I love Lear because it's the darkest of his plays and it has some of his utterly finest poetry. It's pure rage put to words. It's utterly vicious emotionally and then physically. I think Edgar is the true hero, and he goes through utter hell. It's also a play about redemption, and the reunion scenes between Lear and Cordelia and Edgar and Gloucester are just... done right, they are heartbreaking. There is nothing more heartbreaking that realising that you've wasted your life, that you've fucked up and as much as you want to nothing you can do can turn back the horrible chain of events that led to this point, which will very soon lead to more death.

Only through this does Lear gain his love and humanity, all too late. He finally grows a heart and then Cordelia is killed, and the scene where he is carrying her body brings me to tears every time. The scene with Edgar leading Gloucester to the "cliff" is the only funny scene in the whole play, and it's also so beautiful and sad.

Add to that, the violence and utter viciousness of the sisters is chilling, and Edmund is so gleefully wonderfully evil to behold.

Even though it's generally considered a masterpiece, Lear is always given the short hand of the stick. In that context, I think it's the most underrated of the great tragedies, and within it, I think the Edgar/Edmund subplot it seriously underrated as well. That's as much the play as Lear and his daughters to me. King Lear is the most underrated compared to Romeo, Othello, Mac, and Hamlet. And that's a real shame.

I hope that helped.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It did help.

I dislike Lear because of all the reasons you like it. It's dark and depressing and heartbreaking and violent. There's no reprieve. It makes me unhappy. Which means it's a success, yes, and it's a powerful and obviously moving play, but the way it moves me makes me avoid it like the plague.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Well, the simplest response to "it makes me unhappy" is, well, it's a tragedy. I find Othello far more upsetting and hard to watch, honestly. As someone who hasn't seen it in awhile, is there a reprive there? What about Hamlet? As for Lear, there are several reprives- the reunions, and Lear's "we will sing like two cages birds" speech. He and Cordelia don't care they're to be imprisoned, since all that matters is that they're together finally and they love each other. I think that's beautiful.

It should probably be said that I generally dislike the comedies. Except for Twelfth Night, which interestingly is almost a tragedy in its subplot.

I have to wonder now, what did you think of Titus? Or have you seen it yet?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Titus or Othello. In fact, I haven't seen Lear in it's entirety.

Yes, I realise it's a tragedy. I actually prefer Hamlet to Lear, because it's so surreal. I find Macbeth genuinely funny in places. I just feel so badly for Lear and Cordelia. I don't know. I think I empathize too strongly with them.

I do like the comedies, though. They are what I grew up having at hand, so I'm sure that had an impact on my tastes in regards to the plays.

I just don't do especially well with tragedy in general, unless it strikes a certain cord.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ok, I gotcha. I just didn't realize that such an empathy could be a bad thing. I find such feeling cathartic. Othello is just... well, it has a reputation for really stirring up an audience's passions, sometimes in a bad way. There are some great stories there. Now I'm very curious as to what you'd think of that play!

If the surrealness of Hamlet appeals to you, I hope that you can track down a good production of Lear in its entireity (which is hard, if only because it's hard to find ANY good Shakespeare productions on film. There are only 2 perfect ones to my mind, Henry V and Titus. Both are must-sees!). As Lear goes crazy, he seems to take the entire world with him. By the second half, everything goes cuckoo-bananas and bizarre. Which I of course love. I'm not saying you will, but I'm of the firm belief that there's no Shakespeare play that can't be potentially done brilliantly. Well, except Timon of Athens. Bleech.

I really hope I didn't come off as condescending about the tragedy thing. If I was, I am sorry. If tragedy's not your bag that's cool, but I just find it so... fulfilling and satisfying to be moved that way.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I understand how tragedy can be cathartic. Sometimes it is for me. But the issue being family in Lear, for the msot part. Family and madness ... these things strike too, too close to home.

Sometimes that kind of empathy sucks.

Hrm... you did sound a bit condescending, but I forgive you.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The innocent tone was lost over LJ. I've actually lost friendships over AIM and LJ due to that loss of tone. Sorry! It was meant not in a snobby way. Even though I am a snob. In good ways! Sorta. *makes big puss eyes ala icon*

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

...I'm not going to read you as having an innocent tone if your icon makes me envision Antonia Banderas' voice, you realise.

Nah, it's okay. I've gotten into fights because teasing was taken literally, etc.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ah, but how can you not? The innocent tone, eet is so... how you say? Ah yes. SEXY. *strums spanish guitar*

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I saw Four Rooms. No. Not innocent. Often funny, but not innocent.

Gah! Now I'm trying to picture Antonio as George of the Jungle! *scrubs mental eye*

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Watch out for that... how you say? Ah y-WHUMP!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*snicker*
Okay, maybe it's just because I had to get up around 5am, but that was funny.

...I wish Mark Frankel were still alive. In general, but also because I'd love to see him and Banderas work together. Alas.

[edward-hyde.livejournal.com]

11: 'sup nonintoxicated buddy? :D I took a few tiny sips of champagne over the summer and promptly got extremely woozy and feverish and had to stop. Apparently alchohol not-fun-intolerance runs in my dad's side of the family. XD I don't mind it though, it makes for an excellent backup when people refuse to believe that I'm just not interested in the drinking.

18: Hey, me too! Let's be friends! :)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

11: Champagne tastes blechy to me. I'm actually not easily intoxicated. My friend fallenangelamy poured somehting like, what? $60 worth of rum, vodka, and shooters into me one night (she'd suddenly realised that I'd been legal for almost a whole year and not once gone to a bar). It didn't have much effect. I got a little chattier, which I always do when I'm silmultaneously relaxed (hangingout with friend) and hyper (hanging out with friend. also, dancing!). And then I apparently fell asleep in the hallway. That's the only part I don't remember.

Before then and since, I generally drink only a very little, and not frequently at all. Mostly a sip at New Year's, like I said. But when I was 11 I watched my uncle puke into his older sister's kitchen sink and thought, "I'm never doing that."

18: :D

[teriyakibroth.livejournal.com]

20 facts about me you may or may not know:
1. I taste like sweet, sweet candy to fleas.
2. My right boob is bigger than my left.
3. I’m addicted to Naruto.
4. My apartment burned to the ground five days before Christmas last year.
5. I have already started buying christmas presents. I hope I actually get to deliver them this year.
6. I love fanfiction. I consider this more shameful than the fact that I watch Gilmore girls.
7. I am unofficially engaged.
8. I love guys kissing other guys.
9. My cat loves to play with saran wrap.
10. I hate the word lurve. Hate it.
11. I use a blush called sweet nutmeg.
12. I really like watching Gilmore girls, and I don’t know why.
13. I am extremely afraid of junebugs, any other bug and I’m fine.
14. I used to chew on plastic when I was younger.
15. I like painting my fingernails bright purple.
16. I look good in silver, I make gold look dirty/ cheap when I wear it. that's skintone for you.
17. I hate my haircut right now.
18. I once considered taking up smoking, just so I would have something to do. I was extremely bored and almost bought a pack.
19. I have a really good knack at remembering animation history. I have considered writing a non-boring history book about animation.
20. I don’t know what to do with my life, career wise.

This took 19 minutes, far too long I think. I will not be tagging anyone.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

2. Mine, too! I think that's normal for righthanders.
6. I also love fanfiction. Which is a fine example of you influencing me, since you are theone who introduced me to it. :) Thank you! As you can see, I've recently gotten back intoit after long absence.
7. Congrats! Unofficially, of course.
8. Who doesn't? ;)
10. ...oh. I'm sorry. I'll try to keep that in mind.
18. Silly goose.
19. You should. I mean that.
20. Neither do I.

[taichara]

Posting here, just because. And I'm not tagging anyone because there's no point really *eyes potential list. neh*

- I am only one inch away from being a legal midget.
- I am in my 10th year of university, for I am rediculous that way.
- When I was in grade school I planned to marry Optimus Prime.
- These days, I think Prowl is more sexy than Prime ;)
- My old fandoms can and will re-attack me without warning.
- I have a mental quirk that associates touch, feel and color with almost any object, impression, etc etc.
- I write almost incomprehensible fanfiction because of this. :)
- My ex thinks if I was male I would be a queen. ( ..?)
- I bewail the atrocity that is the current DCU on an annoyingly regular basis.
- I am a horrible information junkie.
- I am obsessed with fictional artifical life of many different cyber-/robotic varieties.
- I will still admit I am a part of Sailormoon fandom :)
- I am currently working on my third undergrad.
- I am unabashedly a "child of the 80s".
- I keep creating fictional worlds, and then don't know what to do with them. :P
- I am a fearsomely contrary person. (rabid hamster!)
- I am an amoeba :)
- I also have a fairly stylized preference in body-types.
- I have a strange fascination for shell-shapes, flowing lines and shining things.
- I chase butterflies and small moving objects randomly.
- I am prone to only giving out random (and mostly useless?) information online :)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I knew all of that! I WIN! *victoly pose*

[taichara]

Winnah is YOU! You are teh King of Fightahs!!


*is bricked by KUSANAGI*



... ehehehehe

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*dances*
o/`
It's gotta be
Rising Taco, it's gotta be
Rising Taco
o/`

[taichara]

Ah YEW WEDDY?!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*bounces*

Let's fight, Terry!

20 tasty facts to chew

[tattoo-pixie.livejournal.com]

20:I'm streching my ears up a gauge this month.
19:I'm "unofficaly engaged" ;)
18:I have a stuffed animal I still play with (an uglydolltm)-Wage).
17:My hair color and cut changes all the time(red, pink, black ect. You name it.)
16:I make my own lingere out of bondage tape.
15:When I first saw SuicideGirls, I wanted to be one.
14: I was 14 when "I lost it".
13:I'm apparently the rodent whisper. They and me click!
12:I have an healthy love for the supernatural.
11:I'm good at using runes and am learning more about Tarot and pendulem.
10:I elbowed a guy in the stomach for being too "friendly" in a mosh pit.
9:I like girls...naked!
8:I have no rythm, really none at all.
7:My current back tattoo is a cover of an old one.
6:My favorite endless character is Deliurium.
5:If any decade.. I'm a child of the early, like '95, down 90's.
4:I eat way too much candy.
3:I paint my fingernails black to hide the filth underneath.
2:During car trips home, I plan how I will some day meet and impress Anne Rice.
1:I can't spell. (Read my livejournal, you'll see, oh you'll see!)

All my friends list is pretty much here, so no passing on until I meet some more people.

Re: 20 tasty facts to chew

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Countdown style! Mixing it up. (; I approve!

20: Really? Does that hurt much? *needs more holes in her ears*
16: I was momentarily surprised, adn then thought "No, I'd sort of expect that of her."
10: I dragged a boy up a set of stairs with full intentions of swirlies in the ladies room, but then spotted by bus outside and quickly dragged ghim back down. ALl because he came up behind me and grabbed my breasts. The little weasel.
9: Most people do. Especially boobies. Although I think clothing adds mystery and appeal.

Thanks for playing! *grin*

[covenhouse-cat.livejournal.com]

1. I must ask sometime.
2. I love long hair! Mine is long, maybe low-middle back, but not particularly thick.
7. I will probably never breed, either. I'd be a really lousy parent.
11. "I don't smoke, do drugs, or drink. Okay, I'll sip champagne and grimace at it and then give it to Kat on New Year's eve."
Different Cat, I figure, but that's about the only time I ever drink, is at New Year's, Samhain, or when I'm at Pennsic. And I've had to smoke a few times for roles, but aside from that I don't smoke. I've tried a few drugs of the tamer sorts, but none of them interest me aside from caffeine.
15. I'm an only child, too.
18. I do, too. Looks like we aren't alone.
20. "I like to make stuff. :D Like doll clothes, jewelry, clothing designs, carved things, furniture, and such. I also like to take stuff apart."
Me too! Well, not so much the doll clothes, but everything else.

Damn, this is really cool.
I like this meme as it has let me find out a lot of things I have in common with this LJ community, aside from DC comics, of course.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

1. :D
2. I love long hair, too! On girls and boys. But I also like short hair. Mine is heavy. :/ Sometimes I mentally threaten to shave it all off if it doens't stop giving me headaches when I put it back.
7. I may adopt. Someday. Once I'm sure I won't become my mother.
11. Different Kat. Spelt with a K, for one. A longtime friend of mine, not to be confused with Kate. I'm not s'posed to have caffeine. *le sigh* Figures that happened when I finally found a city where Jolt! is available.
18. I know we aren't.
20. I wish I had more time to make stuff. :( I have all this cool beading stuff I haven't touched since I bought it.

That's why I like this sort of thing.