Okay, so I was supposed to do this meme a few months ago, but I kept procrastinating. But now it's 2010 and I'm drunk, so hell, with Excel Saga on in the background, some Devin Townsend playing on Youtube, a cat on my lap and some drink in mah belly, I feel like doing this shit right now.
- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
My questions from![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
alice_weatherby
1. You can choose your method of dying and the place in which you will die. Where would you like to die and how?
All I can think of is that one Monty Python sketch with the guy who chooses to die by being chased off a cliff by topless chicks in crash helmets.
Anyway, I guess I'd like to die in a hospital bed surrounded by friends. If it was a particular painful death I'd like it to happen under anesthetic. Yes, I haven't really thought about this and I'm not terribly imaginative.
2. Would you rather be incredibly attractive or incredibly wise?
Wise. I've never felt like my rugged good looks have gotten me much in life (well, an awesome girlfriend, but besides that) whereas maybe if I was wiser the rest of my life wouldn't be in so much hell right now.
3. If you could have any job you wanted, what would you choose?
Videogame scenario writer. It sounds lame, but I'd love to do this. I like coming up with lame stories, and trying to do so while keeping in mind that something ultimately has to be a fun gaming experience (I sometimes feel like game developers such as Hideo Kojima forget about this part) seems like a fun challenge to the job.
4. What experience has most changed your outlook on life?
Probably reading Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. I generally roll with the punches when it comes to life, and not a lot of things have really changed my perspective, except in minute ways that build on each other gradually, but that book pretty much showed me that really complicated things like the life can be explained with fairly simple natural processes, and as a result I began to see no reason to believe in God, which got me to thinking that ultimately the meaning of life is whatever we make of it, and other such shit.
5. If you could have sex with any character from any book, movie, game, or tv show, which would you choose?
Is it cheating if I just say any character played by Zooey Deschanel? Yes? In that case Batman. Think of all the awesome things he must have in his utility belt!
Aaaand my questions fromgr0tesque
1. if you could meet any one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Douglas Adams, I think. He was a rational thinker, a really funny guy, an excellent writer when he was on form (I'm not a big Hitchhiker's fan, but holy shit is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency an awesome book), and to top it all off he was intimidatingly tall.
2. if the world were going to end tomorrow, what would you want to do before then?
Get some vodka. But that's probably the alcohol talking.
3. what's the best dream you've ever had?
This one time I had a lucid dream. I was half asleep and in the dream I was in a train station or something, and I didn't have complete control over myself, but every time I tried to move I moved the scenery around me instead, which was both annoying and awesome. I also had Deadwing in head (from the album of the same name by Porcupine Tree - you should totallyy listen to it, and then listen to Arriving Somewhere But Not Here).
I also had that dream I mentioned in my last journal, but screw that. Lucid dreaming is better.
4. what one thing do you most want to accomplish in your life?
Oh god, you had to get revenge for that, didn't you? Okay, I'd have to say getting a novel published. I've wanted to write for something like the last ten years. These days I'm not as bothered about becoming a career author - I've come to terms with the fact thatit's basically impossible to accomplish, and I just don't have the discipline to do it. But getting one book published would mean the world to me.
5. what's your favorite memory from your childhood?
I honestly cannot think of anything right now. What an awesome way to ring in the new year. "Hey, the past was boring! Let's make this shit count now!"
- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
My questions from
alice_weatherby1. You can choose your method of dying and the place in which you will die. Where would you like to die and how?
All I can think of is that one Monty Python sketch with the guy who chooses to die by being chased off a cliff by topless chicks in crash helmets.
Anyway, I guess I'd like to die in a hospital bed surrounded by friends. If it was a particular painful death I'd like it to happen under anesthetic. Yes, I haven't really thought about this and I'm not terribly imaginative.
2. Would you rather be incredibly attractive or incredibly wise?
Wise. I've never felt like my rugged good looks have gotten me much in life (well, an awesome girlfriend, but besides that) whereas maybe if I was wiser the rest of my life wouldn't be in so much hell right now.
3. If you could have any job you wanted, what would you choose?
Videogame scenario writer. It sounds lame, but I'd love to do this. I like coming up with lame stories, and trying to do so while keeping in mind that something ultimately has to be a fun gaming experience (I sometimes feel like game developers such as Hideo Kojima forget about this part) seems like a fun challenge to the job.
4. What experience has most changed your outlook on life?
Probably reading Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. I generally roll with the punches when it comes to life, and not a lot of things have really changed my perspective, except in minute ways that build on each other gradually, but that book pretty much showed me that really complicated things like the life can be explained with fairly simple natural processes, and as a result I began to see no reason to believe in God, which got me to thinking that ultimately the meaning of life is whatever we make of it, and other such shit.
5. If you could have sex with any character from any book, movie, game, or tv show, which would you choose?
Is it cheating if I just say any character played by Zooey Deschanel? Yes? In that case Batman. Think of all the awesome things he must have in his utility belt!
Aaaand my questions from
gr0tesque 1. if you could meet any one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Douglas Adams, I think. He was a rational thinker, a really funny guy, an excellent writer when he was on form (I'm not a big Hitchhiker's fan, but holy shit is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency an awesome book), and to top it all off he was intimidatingly tall.
2. if the world were going to end tomorrow, what would you want to do before then?
Get some vodka. But that's probably the alcohol talking.
3. what's the best dream you've ever had?
This one time I had a lucid dream. I was half asleep and in the dream I was in a train station or something, and I didn't have complete control over myself, but every time I tried to move I moved the scenery around me instead, which was both annoying and awesome. I also had Deadwing in head (from the album of the same name by Porcupine Tree - you should totallyy listen to it, and then listen to Arriving Somewhere But Not Here).
I also had that dream I mentioned in my last journal, but screw that. Lucid dreaming is better.
4. what one thing do you most want to accomplish in your life?
Oh god, you had to get revenge for that, didn't you? Okay, I'd have to say getting a novel published. I've wanted to write for something like the last ten years. These days I'm not as bothered about becoming a career author - I've come to terms with the fact thatit's basically impossible to accomplish, and I just don't have the discipline to do it. But getting one book published would mean the world to me.
5. what's your favorite memory from your childhood?
I honestly cannot think of anything right now. What an awesome way to ring in the new year. "Hey, the past was boring! Let's make this shit count now!"
