1. Compulsion :: obsession
2. Spiritual :: calling
3. Spray :: paint
4. Compatibility :: partner
5. Pursuit :: happiness
6. Fake :: credentials
7. Mobile :: phone
8. Ceremony :: cake
9. Ribbons :: banners
10. Mozart :: Beethoven

I am, apparently.

The Libertine

Okay. We didn’t want to get into this, but, you’re a lazy, perverted… rockstar. Everything about you is idealistic and romantic, with that sassy hint of danger. It’s the hint of danger that makes things so damn spicy. Oh, there will be exposés, and films and biographies, all about you and your fabulous excesses. Even though you’re selfish and greedy… we’re charmed.

You’re equally susceptible to seduction, because you’re a sucker for fantasy. You fall in love at the drop of a hat, as long as the hat is stylish and nice to you. We want to be your hat.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert *
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card *
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling *
27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams *
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut *
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

[via John Wick]

I haven’t done much of anything with my account, but one of the really neat things Vox has done to promote regular participation is develop a Question of the Day.

Today’s is, “What’s on your Top 5 video games list?”

In no particular order:

• The Legend of Zelda (NES)
• Sid Meier’s Civilization II (PC)
• Tron (arcade)
• Gyruss (arcade)
  (just beats out Galaga in my book, but good luck finding it around any more…)
• Doom (PC)

1) If you had to move 100 miles or more to the north, east, west, or south, which would you choose, where would you end up, and what’s so great about there?
Good question, particularly since I’m exactly where I want to be right now. But if the Bay Area was wiped off the map? One of these: NYC, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philly, Seattle.

2) Do you have a favorite stretch of highway or byway for driving, touring, or wandering?
No, but I always get a nice wave of nostalgia as I drive through Orange County on I-5.

3) Are you happier to start a trip or return home?
Those initial hours in which the entire trip is still ahead of you can be quite magical. So, “starting.”

4) Plane, train, automobile, bicycle, or foot?
I like driving quite a lot. For most trips I’m happy to take the car, but when the drive time starts ticking upwards of five hours, I start really wishing I’d flown.

5) Do you overplan or underplan your travels? (Assume that “no” is not a valid answer.)
Underplan. “Here’s what I definitely want to hit; the rest I’ll make up as I go along.”

“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

What American accent do you have?

rmjwell

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press next track for each question.
3. Use the song titles to answer the questions, even if it doesn’t make sense.

NO CHEATING!

Will you get far in life?
“Explosivo” by Tenacious D

How do your friends see you?
“Free Your Mind” by En Vogue

Will you get married?
“Forbidden Zone” by Danny Elfman

What is your best friend’s theme song?
“Smack My Bitch Up” by Prodigy

What is the story of your life?
“Baby Seat” by Barenaked Ladies

What was high school like?
“Violet Beauregarde” by Danny Elfman (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

How can you get ahead in life?
“Number Three” by They Might Be Giants

What is the best thing about your friends?
“Sumiregusa” (“Wild Violet”) by Enya

What is today going to be like?
“In the Shadows (Radio Edit)” by The Rasmus

What is in store for this weekend?
“Basketball” by Lincoln

What song describes you?
“In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins

To describe your grandparents?
“Lovefool” by the Cardigans

How is your life going?
“Box Set” by Barenaked Ladies

What song will they play at your funeral?
“The Skins” by Scissor Sisters

How does the world see you?
“Wheels in Motion” by Danny Elfman (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

What do your friends really think of you?
“Yes U Can” by Jewel

Do people secretly lust after you?
“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by Crash Test Dummies

How can I make myself happy?
“I Fought the Law” by Green Day

What should you do with your life?
“The Underwater Song” by theSTART

Will you ever have children?
“The Mariner’s Revenge Song” by The Decemberists

Blame Cindy for me taking this; I know I do.

Emo Kid You are 42% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.

You are the Emo Kid, best described as a quiet pussy! You tend to be an intuitive rather than a logical thinker, meaning you rely more on your feelings than your thoughts. Not only that, but you are introverted, gentle, and rather humble. You embody all the traits of the perfect emo kid. You are a push-over, an emotional thinker, gentle to the extent of absurdity, and so humble that it even makes Jesus puke. (And Jesus almost never pukes, being immortal and not requiring an act of puke to dispell toxins from his corporeal manifestation.) If you write poetry, you no doubt write angsty, syrupy lines about depression, sadness, and other such redundant states of emo-being that go something like this: life is a spike / upon which i have impaled mysefl / fuck you dad So, your personality is defective because you are too gentle, rather underconfident in yourself, decidely lacking in any rational thought, and also a bit too inhibited. Plus, your poetry really upsets your father. I probably made you cry, didn’t I? Fucking Emo Kid. To put it less negatively: 1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational. 2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted. 3. You are more GENTLE than brutal. 4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Smartass. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hippie, the Televangelist, and the Starving Artist. * * If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 20% on Rationality You scored higher than 46% on Extroversion You scored higher than 46% on Brutality You scored higher than 18% on Arrogance

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

]]> http://www.soulcookie.com/archives/2006/02/07/the-personality-defect-test/feed/ 2 http://www.soulcookie.com/archives/2006/01/17/unconscious-mutterings-2/ http://www.soulcookie.com/archives/2006/01/17/unconscious-mutterings-2/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:36:18 +0000 Kevin http://www.soulcookie.com/archives/2006/01/17/unconscious-mutterings-2/ It’s ’bout time I did one of these again.

1. Paralyzed:: fear
2. Bossy:: demanding
3. Worth:: having
4. Breathing:: barely
5. Uneventful:: day
6. Return:: of the King
7. Splint:: leg
8. Notice:: pink slip
9. Hero:: mythic
10. Vulnerable:: unguarded

• Kevin was killed by enemy fire in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq.
• Kevin was killed by drug-dealers because his brother had failed to pay a debt.
• Kevin was killed by the Chicago police—shot in the back of the leg and head.
• Kevin was killed by an alien that got loose in the facility.

Here’s the proof.

Grab the first sentence of your first post in each month of 2005. Paste them together into a single paragraph: there is your year in miniature.

Glad to see my request of ABC and J.J. Abrams for an especially kick-butt “Alias” premiere (it was Noelle’s birthday, after all) was more than met: I hate sporks. Ladies and gents, I present Kyle Wagner, one year old today. Recently, if you were a Jew suffering through ED at Passover, you were pretty much screwed (no pun intended). Life imitates art yet again. Dear Asshat, Check it out: I am a shell / hollow, / walking and talking as if I were a real boy. The editors of the papers in my company decided today to stop using the term “refugees” and instead stick with just “evacuees” and “victims.” Happy birthday to you, / Happy birthday to you. I’ve got a couple of photos up on Flickr of my Extreme Makeover: Goth Edition. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.

1. If you had all the money in the world and could choose to own anything, what you would get and why?

My own amusement park, a kickass one with:

• roller coasters
• immersive, state-of-the-art video games
• the world’s best (and craziest) mini-golf courses
• go-karts
• a reconfigurable human-scale maze
• an IMAX-sized cineplex
• a world-class performance hall/venue

Why would I want my own amusement park?

For my own amusement, of course.

Skydiving.

As I discovered earlier this year when I did the bungee swing thing at Great America, I still have a healthy respect for gravity and the solidness of terra firma.

Nonetheless, I still intend to throw myself “out of a perfectly good airplane,” as my mom has put it, at some point.

I could mention Chien and Shanna, the dachshunds my parents had had since before I was born, but they were never really mine.

That honor went to Kinky, a cat we found in the park one day when I was four or five. He was so named because of a double ninety-degree bend in the end of his tail.

He was, definitively, my cat. I could get away with so much with him, far more than anyone else in my family could, stuff like wearing him as a shawl. (Kitties, as it turns out, don’t really dig that sort of activity.)

He was a good cat. I miss him.

Scotland.

I would be summer: Not as light and bouncy as springtime, nor as crisp and waning as autumn, nor as cold and still as winter, summer is the season of heat, of activity, of joie de vivre.

Poe’s “Haunted” (from her album of the same name) is a song of stirring, beautiful complexity, both lyrically and musically. It reminisces and it looks forward. Regret and hope and earnest examination all cavort about its stanzas.

It is, in short, a good approximation of what I would be as a song.

“Haunted”
by Poe

Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa…

Come here
Pretty please
Can you tell me where I am
You won’t you say something
I need to get my bearings
I’m lost
And the shadows keep on changing

And I’m haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I’m haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head

Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa…

Don’t cry,
There’s always a way
Here in November in this house of leaves
We’ll pray
Please, I know it’s hard to believe
To see a perfect forest
Through so many splintered trees
You and me
And these shadows keep on changing

And I’m haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
I’m haunted
By the promises I’ve made
And others I have broken
I’m haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head

Hallways… always

I’ll always want you
I’ll always need you
I’ll always love you

And I will always miss you

Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa…

Come here
No I won’t say please
One more look at the ghost
Before I’m gonna make it leave
Come here
I’ve got the pieces here
Time to gather up the splinters
Build a casket for my tears

I’m haunted
(By the lives that I have loved)
I’m haunted
(By the promises I’ve made)
I’m haunted
By the hallways in this tiny room
The echos there of me and you
The voices that are carrying this tune

Ba da pa pa…

Father: What is it Annie?

Daughter: You think I’ll cry? I won’t cry!
My heart will break before I cry!
I will go mad.

Your Birthdate: February 27

Your birth on the 27th day of the month (9 energy) adds a tone of selflessness and humanitarianism to your life path.

Certainly, you are one who can work very well with people, but at the same time you need a good bit of time to be by yourself to rest and meditate.

There is a very humanistic and philanthropic approach in most of things that you do.

This birthday helps you be broadminded, tolerant, generous and very cooperative.

You are the type of person who uses persuasion rather than force to achieve your ends.

You tend to be very sensitive to others’ needs and feelings, and you able to give much in the way of friendship without expecting a lot in return.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

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You scored as Capt. Mal Reynolds. The Captain. You are the captain of the ship, so the crew are your responsibility. You just want to do the job, get paid and keep flying. Why is that always so hard?

Which Serenity character are you?
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And in other news, I have my ticket to the midnight show of Serenity!

You Are Absinthe!

You have a unique personality. Although most like you, sometimes you take some getting used to. You can be a bit strong. You are full of energy and sometimes flamboyant. You are the life of the party but if people are not careful you can knock them on their ass.

What Naughty My Little Pony Are You?

I’m not sure I’d call myself “the life of the party,” and at this point in my life, about the only knocking-them-on-their-asses I do is when I try to bust a move on the dance floor.

(bump) “Oops, excuse me.” (bump)

[via Puppy's blog]

You are Kip!

You love technology,
have an insane craving for nachos,
and can live it up gangsta style.

Peace out!

Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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1. Perfect Gift:: for the man who has everything
2. Santa:: Claus
3. Lucy:: and Linus
4. Buckets:: of coffee
5. Recital:: rehearsal
6. Stamp:: of approval
7. Teacher:: …’s pet
8. Matchbox:: Twenty
9. Spit:: loogey
10. Feeling:: Flashdance

Your Sexual Lucky Charm: Pink Hearts
You’re a true romantic who prefers sweet whispers to whips and chains
Foreplay for you boils down to “I love you” and a bottle of red
You won’t give it up for anyone, just the prince or princess of yoru dreams.

What’s Your Sexual Lucky Charm?
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Ummm… Y’know, it’s not a whispers XOR whips world…