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You Are a Sex Freak!
While your antics haven’t landed you in jail… they have probably landed you in some relationship hot water. So you like sex… love it in fact. Isn’t that how we’re built?
You’ve done it standing, sitting, but never shitting. And you always have a vibe in your pocket. You’re most likely to be the biggest flirt… not freak.
Advice? Stay away from those who give you guilt trips. Monogamy is probably not for you. Find some other free spirits. When the rules are thrown away, the sex will be that much better.
What’s Your Freak Factor?
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You are like abs!
Strong and hardcore – with a wild side that drives the opposite sex crazy. You know what you want in the bedroom and how to get it. Your friends appreciate your creativity and spunky personality.
People love you for your spontaneous ways and high sexual energy. You offer a ton of excitement in relationships…
That is, if someone is able to catch up with you.
What Body Part Are You Most Like?
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1. If your life were a movie, what would the title be?
The Truth in Shadows
2. What songs would be on the soundtrack?
“Bring Me to Life” performed by Evanescence
“Cross My Heart” performed by Eighth Wonder
“The Distance” performed by Cake
“Hazy Shade of Winter” performed by the Bangles
“I Touch Myself” performed by Divinyls
“In the Car” performed by Barenaked Ladies
“Kiss Me” performed by Sixpence None the Richer
“Magic” performed by Olivia Newton-John
“One Caress” performed by Depeche Mode
“One Night in Bangkok” performed by Murray Head
“Particle Man” performed by They Might Be Giants
“Skin” performed by Oingo Boingo
“Thankyou” performed by Dido
“Walk on the Ocean” performed by Toad the Wet Sprocket
“When You’re Strange” performed by Echo and the Bunnymen
And a special bonus track:
“Particle Man [Disneyland tram version]” by Kevin and Scott
3. Would it be a live-action film or animated? Why?
Since it’d be a dialogue-heavy, special effects-light flick, it would be better constructed as a live-action picture.
4. Casting: who would play you, members of your family, friends, etc?
Difficult. Difficult at best.
Me: Zach Braff or Jerry O’Connell
Mom: Angelica Huston
Dad: Rob Reiner
Sister: Anna Paquin
The Ex: never seen, just referred to (à la Maris on “Frasier”)
Jason: John Cusack
Kris: Robin Wright Penn
Amber: herself!
Troll: Horatio Sanz
Noelle: Julia Stiles
Scott: Tobey Maguire
Amy: Gillian Anderson
5. Describe the movie preview/trailer.
It’ll probably have two trailers, one serious, one silly. Here’s what might pass for the silly one (if you’re drunk enough):
ANNOUNCER (v.o) IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH...
SFX
BIG FLASH OF LIGHT!
Reveal the Earth,
lush,
floating in space.
ANNOUNCER (v.o) ...AND SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
The camera ZOOMS IN to the Earth, stopping at the GARDEN OF EDEN.
ANNOUNCER (v.o) ON THE SIXTH DAY, GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE...
SFX POOF! ADAM pops into being.
ANNOUNCER (v.o) ...AND WAS PLEASED.
ANNOUNCER (v.o, cont.) SOME TIME LATER...
Cut to KEVIN,
headphones on,
eyes closed,
head bopping,
dancing/flailing to music
that we can't hear.
KEVIN (singing) CROSS MY HEART, HOPE TO DIE, MAY LIGHTNING STRIKE ME IF I'M TELLIN' A LIE...
ANNOUNCER (v.o) ...HE WAS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.
Rapid cuts between scenes from the movie as the voiceover continues.
ANNOUNCER (v.o) FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY, TROLL 2, AND MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE COMES A COMING OF AGE STORY... (beat) ...WITH A FEW SCREWS LOOSE.
And now, the money shot: show the title: "THE TRUTH IN SHADOWS"
I stand in the garden courtyard,
the moon, bright and full,
sharing her light with me,
casts shadows
about the plaza.
The winter air, sweet and crisp,
changes my breaths into
beautiful clouds of crystal and ice.
It is a night when I should
want to be inside,
secure under a mountain of down and fabric.
But this is the night when I could
be nowhere else.
And then the shadow parts
and You are there.
Selene’s light dances upon Your skin,
pale and smooth,
soft porcelain.
You glide,
wordlessly,
across the courtyard,
Your ebon gown dancing
on a spectral breeze.
It takes but a slight nod of Your head
for me to shed my nightdress
and be cloaked in
naught but moonlight
and Your gaze.
You circle me,
tracing the contours of my flesh,
Your cool touch electric.
Your eyes,
piercing emeralds ringed in kohl,
mirror the hunger that
burns within me.
I want You.
And You know it.
I endure an eternity of lustful anticipation
until You come to rest
behind me.
You gently sweep aside my curls,
baring my nape and shoulder.
And then You lick,
playfully,
tormenting me by denying me
Your embrace
for that much longer.
I struggle not to tremble
in abject lasciviousness, but
Your hand strays down my body,
a dark-tipped talon
darting into me,
the wet inferno You find there
betraying me further.
One caress.
That’s all I can think of.
You turn me to face You
and I lose myself
as I have so many times in
Your eyes,
Your lips,
Your scent.
You bring your finger to my lips
and I suck,
wantonly,
cleaning your hand of my juices.
Then, cradling my hair,
You tilt my head slightly.
As You lean in close
Your hair tumbles onto my neck,
unexpectedly tickling.
My eyes close of their own volition.
My breathing, ragged and hot now.
I want it.
I want You.
Please.
Please.
Please!
And then You do.
It is fierce and brutal
as You lose Yourself
in my sanguinary delights.
But the pain is a trivial concern next to
the rapturous sensual ecstacy
that Your caress brings.
A gentle warmth
flows down my shoulder,
my chest,
and the chill of the evening air
doesn’t bother me any more.
And as my heart stills
and I surrender to the shadow
I know that I am Yours completely
now and for all time.
And I smile.
