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A friend of mine has recently started a website called "Telling of Tales", where he reads a 500-800 word short story in the form of a podcast every week. Sadly, submissions have only trickled in in short supply and he has had to turn his threat of reading from "The Eye of Argon" into reality.

So if you have a 500-800 word story you would like to hear read aloud by somebody whom at least I consider to be a good semi-professional, consider sending it in at http://tellingoftales.wordpress.com/ Help us make the hurt of The Eye of Argon stop!

Here are the submission guidelines: http://tellingoftales.wordpress.com/contribute/ So as you can see, it's really not that hard, and I think it's a great service that he's doing it for free. He deserves some advertising :)

Wow, so I've been to England for what, almost 2 weeks now? And I haven't even posted in LiveJournal? Sacrilege! (Or so thinks Moeshas, queen of nag. Ahem... You know, I really shouldn't say stuff like that about the person I miss the most... Sorry!)

Yeah... I'm in Manchester. I'm attending a language school here so I can prepare for doing my proficiency exam in English. I thought it might've been a mistake at first, but judging from the classes I had and the exercises I did, I do need a bit of preparation after all, even if 3 months here might be a bit much. There are some grammar problems from hell I'll have to wade through before all this is over.

But enough of the boring school bit. Manchester... aaahh... Manchester... city of dreams. The holy grounds. The El Dorado of England. Well, the outskirts of it (where I live) are a bit of a dirty shithole with lots of gangs and stuff like that (As you may guess, I don't get out at night around these parts) but the city itself is amazing. It's big, with a population of about 500'000 people, and even in the city centre there is a lot of stuff to explore. People are friendly (well, the shop clerks aren't, they're some of the most unfriendly people I've ever met, which is strange, since it's their job to be nice...) and the weather was actually quite good. I only got rained on once and I was carrying an umbrella at the time. It only seems to rain whenever I am inside.

I live at a host family in Salford, and despite the rough neighbourhood, it is really nice here. We've got a park right next to the house (not that I'd make use of it much :P ), bus stop is close and the house itself is cozy and big enough, even if my room is a bit small. My host mother's name is Sue, and she lives with a nice but weird French guy who doesn't speak English. We live together with four other students. This is nice because that way there's always lots of conversation, especially at dinner. Our dinners usually last from one and a half to two hours, and I think everyone here is having fun.

A small list of things I did here in the last two weeks: I

Went shopping for games (games are about half as expensive as in Switzerland, so I definitely overindulged... my poor wallet...)
Went walking around the city
Went to buy a ticket to Leeds (I'll visit a friend of mine there this weekend, can't wait)
Went shopping for more games (What do you call it if you overindulge after already having overindulged?)
Went to play Laser Quest with people at school (Kind of like paintball but with lasers. I won by the way! I WON! I'm really proud ^^)
Went climbing (A crappy little wall next to the Laser Quest thing... all of us thought there'd be an actual climbing hall, but no such luck...)
Went to the pub with some students
Went to see Manchester stadium
Went to the Imperial War Museum
Went home to play games a lot
Went to eat astoundingly well prepared Asian food
Went to do some more stuff I can't remember right now

All in all, I'm having fun here and I really like the people. Only thing I miss from Switzerland right now is Moeshas, and she'll be visiting me in the middle of July, can't wait for that! (She might be able to take some of the things I bought home so I won't have to put them all into my hand luggage. Err... and no, that's not the only reason why I'm missing her :) )

Have fun at your meet tomorrow, you NaNo guys! Wish I was with you all!

Cheers from Manchester, mates!

This shows you it is always possible to achieve your dreams!

http://www.maxgames.com/play/learn-to-fly.html

Note: The two franchises in the title of this topic are mentioned in alphabetical order, not in order of my preference. This needs to be said, as the issue seems to be a very sensitive one amongst certain groups of fans. I am fan of both of the franchises and can see merits and faults in both of them, and I want it said here that I am not taking sides. I stand on neutral ground, overlooking both fields. So please don't hit me, or hack my LJ, or anything like that! PLEASE!

Nerd politics out of the way, let's get to my post. It seems like I haven't posted in forever, huh? So I decided not to go into the boring details of my life and instead discuss a topic of vital importance: The upcoming Star Trek Online and Star Wars Online games! So, what do I know about them? Next to nothing in fact. I know the Star Wars one is going to be a sequel to the extraordinary (or so I hear. I'm sad to say I haven't managed to get my compy to play them yet... Don't like Windows XP and Vista, the bastards...) Knights of the Old Republic series. And that bodes well. I'll probably end up playing this.

Here the latest controversy surrounding this game: Link
Here the trailer/developer's commentary to it:           Link
Here another cool trailer/developer's commentary:  Link

About the Star Trek game I know that you'll be allowed to control a starship along with your friends, beam down on planets and solve missions. The basic, succesful scheme that made Star Trek so awesome back in its day, when it was... well... still awesome. (I'm looking at you, Voyager and Enterprise! *glare*)

Links here are sparse, but still, I try. Screenshots:     Link
Spock talking about some things, including game:   Link
Interview with the developers:                                       Link

So, both of these games seem amazing, though not much of the Star Trek game is known. Not much of the Star Wars game is known either, but at least we have some video footage. I'll probably end up playing both, in any case.

So, I'll end this atypical post now. Just wanted to share something that provides me with a bit of excitement. May you live long and prosper. And I am your father.

Edit: Just found that there IS a Star Trek Online Trailer!  Still doesn't tell us what the actual game will be like, but boy does it bring a tear to my eyes ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32K0nq0u0f0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-BfrdUeBI&feature=related

I love this guy ^^ The first one is pretty much self explanatory, the second one is in-jokey nerd humor and the last one kind of as well. I guess I am now a fan of nerdcore music :P

I found this: http://www.cracked.com/article_16554_5-most-baffling-sex-scenes-in-history-fanfiction.html

Which is full of awesome creepy stuff.

And Laura sent me this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbn9F32TaA0&feature=email

Which is awesome by the mere fact of it being some more Twilight hate.

( Evil Meme )

*Insert some emo crap about how I'm feeling a bit down but want you to think that I'm in excrutiating emotional pain*

- And that would explain why I went out to go on a frustration-relief book shopping spree today. I got: The last two books of the Farseer Trilogy (almost finished reading the first one today. Awesome book. Damn you Robin Hobb for being so awesome I now need to read all your stuff!) Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and another one - a rather unusual buy for me:

"In Bed With" - Unashamedly sexy stories by your favourite women novelists

It's a collection of short stories. I thought this would be a good book to read if I wanted to learn more about what good sex descriptions were like, since Laura's Vicky Lewis Thompson ones were basically the only ones I've ever read. (Which is probably why "Crashing Into Fate" turned out to be a bit... vanilla :P) Well... turns our this wasn't the book for me after all, at least judging from the first two stories (as hard as it is, I'll try to give the other stories a fair shot too). The first one is about a guy and a girl taking turns whipping each other. Only neither of them seems to be enjoying this and it's all very cold and boring. And then they have sex for a sentence or two. And then the story is over and the ending is boring.
The climax of the second's story's story arc comes when (the climax comes... ha - ha! Get it? The climax comes ^^) the protagonist girl breaks her ribs, vomits and falls into a dumpster, and is fished out by an ugly old guy. He pushes a morphine pill up her ass and kind of half rapes her with his fingers as he is reading erotic poetry to her. I say "half-rapes" only because the author describes it in a way that makes it seem enjoyable and as if the protagonist were willing. Though how one could be willing with broken ribs and an unconsented-to morphine pill up one's ass is beyond me. The "enjoyable" description also only lasts for one paragraph, which makes it useless for me even when it would just be about learning good descriptions...
Groan... seriously, I hope the other stories are better... Also, to show you how "unashamed" these "unashamedly sexy stories" are: All the authors are using pseudonyms. Which is now making me facepalm. Why oh why did I buy this you ask?

I only got this one because it was on the "recommended" shelf of my favorite bookstore. It's the shelf that led me to discover "The End of Mr. Y," which is why I sometimes give it a shot. Didn't work out this time, obviously. They also put Twilight on there a month or so ago. Thankfully, it's gone now, so I still trust them at least a little bit, though their "FTH's favorite bookstore" title will be forfeited if they allow themselves any more lapses like this one.

Books I couldn't/didn't buy today: 

PopCo by Scarlett Thomas: I saw it after I'd already paid for the other books and felt it would be too embarrassing to go grab it and pay for it too. I'll just buy it some other time since I have enough to read.

Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb: I am such a fucking moron for losing the other copy of this I bought. Aaagh! What was wrong with me?! How can you lose a book as big as that? It's just like me, though... Anyway, they didn't have it at the bookstore :( *sob sob*

Books I'd like to borrow from Elsa (Just making sure you don't forget. Ahem. I NEED MORE TALTOS! RAAGH!):

Vlad Taltos books. I can not live without these books. I CAN NOT!

Something by Ursula K. Le Guin, just because you keep harping on about her and our tastes really seem to match up otherwise. Just gimme one you like and I'll probably harp on about it along with you :P

No porn books, thanks. I already asked Moeshas for those after finding out what a failure my attempt at finding these was. She says she has plenty ^^

Books Elsa might want to borrow from me if she hasn't already read them (which is probably unlikely, but I can try...):

Paint Your Dragon by Tom Holt (Has a kind of Douglas Adamsy vibe to it)
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams (Also has a kind of Douglas Adamsy vibe to it. He used to call it the best book he ever wrote. I tend to agree. It's the book I always buy multiple copies of so I can always spare one when people inevitably don't give me back the one I "lent" them :P ... okay, so I tell them they can keep it from the beginning, whatever, it sounds like a more enticing book the other way :P)
Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (if I can find it. Right now it's on my "misplaced books" list)

Books I never ever let people borrow:

The Absolute Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Moeshas has this right now, but I trust her not to damage or mistreat it in any way. *hint hint*

And why am I making all these categories again? Aaanyway... other news about me: Went with Laura to the Lord of the Rings concert thing which she already told you about. It was super awesome and such, obviously. We also tried to matchmake one of her best friends with this cute guy who also went to the concertfilmthing. That didn't work out so well since said friend is very shy. Oh well, she'll get over it :P *HINT HINT*

What else? Oh, yes. Watchmen movie. It was very good.

Otherwise... schoooool. "Shakespeare Today" is the most boring crap course I've ever had the displeasure of participating in. It's about modern Shakespeare mise-en-scènes. Which sounds super interesting and awesome, but actually just has you watch 3 hour plays about naked people flinging mud at one another trying to be offensive by having gay sex in the dirt. Most other courses I have are bearable. Historical Climatology continues to be awesome but has me reading 40 page texts about statistics. A bit of a bummer with my atrophied maths skills.

About my long absence from writing Livejournal entries: I'm wavering between "sorry guys" and "suck it up". Pick and choose which of those two fits your current mood better I guess. (Hey, some of you might need somebody to be angry at right about now, I'm just trying to be considerate here)

About my writing: Almost zero progress. Imposing limited internet ban on self to try and change this. Also: am talking like Rorschach too much.

And now I guess I'll give another one of those porn stories a shot... see you guys soon and such!

Edit: Next story begins with "This happened two years ago. We are all wiser now - except perhaps Laura. She was a very pretty twenty-two-year-old." -- Moeshas, I really hope this won't destroy out perfectly fine relationship...

So, yeah, as the title says, school is being a bit stressy. Oh well. I'll just ignore it, it'll go away. *puts fingers in the ears and goes lalala*

I've become slightly obsessed with the Vlad Taltos novels Elsa gave me, been reading them in every bout of free time I could get my hands on. I've finished Jhereg and am about halfway through Yendi. If you know how slow a reader I am you'll see that that's quite an achievement :P

I also feel as if I've got a story in me today. I usually get the ideas a few months in advance, write them down and let them simmer. At some point I'll just wake up one day and the story idea comes back into my head, only now it feels more real and fleshed out, little details begin to add themselves... and this time I think there might even be characters with... *gasp*... actual characteristics. Oh what fun!

It will be another thing I'll try to send to Nocturne Bites. (I don't know why I'm obsessed with getting published by Harlequin, so don't ask...) called "Songs of Earth." There shall be less cliché this time, though I might not be able to stop myself from reveling in it anyway :P

Now... *goes to type up story outline*

Yesterday we had another NaNo meetup and it was awesome! I love you guys. All of you. Deeply. In an as sexually disturbed way as anybody could ever think of! Ahem. I mean platonically!

We got to meet Tobias, who will grow up to be one hell of a lot of work for Sandra as far as I can tell. Kudos to you for being such a great mom, Sandra, keeping such a bundle of joy in check has to be one of the most exhausting things in the world. Go you!

We talked a lot, exchanged books (I got Jhereg, which I already got started on. It's refreshing to see a fantasy book with as light a tone as this these days, I like it.), talked some more, watched parts of the movie "Space Buddies" (Which is bloody ridiculous), wrote Ally crackfic and played the Eye of Argon party game. For anyone who's interested in the game, here's some links:

Full text:                    http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm
Rules of the game: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/argnrule.htm
Wikipedia Entry:      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Argon

Also, a transcriber's note that might bring a smile to the faces of those who were present yesterday:

"No mere transcription can give the true flavor of the original printing of The Eye of Argon. It was mimeographed with stencils cut on an elite manual typewriter. Many letters were so faint as to be barely readable, others were overstruck, and some that were to be removed never got painted out with correction fluid. Usually, only one space separated sentences, while paragraphs were separated by a blank line and were indented ten spaces. Many words were grotesquely hyphenated. And there were illustrations -- I cannot do them justice in mere words, but they were a match for the text. These are the major losses of this version (#02) of TEoA.

Otherwise, all effort has been made to retain the full and correct text, preserving even mis-spellings and dropped spaces. An excellent proofreader has checked it for errors both ommitted and committed. What mis-matches remain are mine."

It's undoubtedly the worst book ever written. Have fun with them wenches!


Also, thanks go to Sandra for supplying us with a location and for feeding us the royal goodness of a meal that is cheese filled pasta. (No, I take that back. Royalty probably wish they were allowed to eat this kind of stuff, so it's even better than that!)

Yay me! Here's a stolen information template:

Title: Sue vs. Stu
Summary: Bella Swan has just decided to leave her mother to live with her father. What will await her in the small town of Forks?

Pairing: ???
Rating: R (Don't think there's anything actually R-rated in there, but I didn't try to avoid it, so...)
Genre: AU Retelling
Words: 2636

Betas: None (sorry! I tried my best, though)

Thanks go to: The many, many Twilight fanfics that I have read and that have inspired me greatly. Okay, okay. I mean that I have stolen from liberally. So there. 

Edit: Made easier to read on LJ

( Sue vs. Stu )

Oh god, oh god, oh god!

I just sent off Crashing Into Fate to Harlequin... I sent them a short synopsis along with the manuscript as well, though I didn't have to. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have done that. After all, what I came up with was so cringeworthy I can't bear to as much as look at it again... Though I did read that it was a good thing to send a synopsis along with your manuscript. (They didn't want any queries or partials or long synopses, though)

They won't accept the submission, obviously, as it is my first ever, which is probably why I'm so nervous about it. I can't bear the waiting in the next three months... (Which they say is the longest that authors have to wait) All that time it'll take only so they can come up with a form rejection letter... It's really frustrating, writing, isn't it?

Thanks again for all the amazing suggestions you guys gave me! I took almost all of them to heart, though sorry, Elsa, I didn't do a complete rewrite of the story (Way too lazy for that and too much work I already put in... I'm so sick of this story...) Also: No sex-change for the characters and still the same crappy plot point in the beginning. (Though I did give her a pepper spray, which I think makes her slightly less stupid for following the guy to the hotel room...)

Also: We watched the Oscars yester... this morning. Hugh Jackman was okayish and such. When Rpatz came on the screen, though, I wanted to throw popcorn - only we'd already eaten all of it... sigh...

Yeah, so, all in all, that was fun too :P Read moeshas 's post if you want any more info and such!

That's all for now, bye folks, see some of you on Saturday! (Which will be awesome! Yay for post-NaNo NaNo meetings!)

Edit: And sorries go to enibash  for not waiting on her suggestions, you just kind of fell off my radar in my wild "I have to submit this NOW" frenzy. Apologies!

So, school started again and I've got some interesting courses. (Historical climatology, Dreams in literature, Shakespeare in today's theater, Smut in literature, Creative Writing, and Biographies... and some boring ones :P) Looks like there's lots of work ahead of me again... Once more into the fray I say!

Also, there was Valentine's Day. Uck. So stupid, can't stand it. All that commercialitude and then that secret admirer of Moeshas's who hid stuff in her room. Ack!  Here's the truth about Valentine's Day: http://www.cracked.com/video_17060_terrifying-truth-behind-valentines-day.html

Also, I found an article which is a fun read: http://www.cracked.com/article_17061_5-things-you-think-will-make-you-happy-but-wont.html . Makes you think, doesn't it? And laugh. I'd say there is about equal balance between think-making and laughing. What do you guys think?

About the promised novel chapter you guys should have gotten already... I'm in the act of revising it. I just can't seem to be happy with it... sigh... Anyway, to tease a bit about the book the chapter should eventually become: It's about dreams. What we think of them, what they mean, how we realize them, how dangerous they can be, and, of course, what the dreams think of us. The cover of the book would be some sort of rusty old lock and you'd find it in the sci-fi and fantasy section of your local book shop if it ever were to be published.

There, that's it for me today. Have a nice rest of the week you guys!

Went into a huge editing frenzy today to get the "but"s out of the Crashing Into Fate story. I counted them and before this there were 130 buts in the story. Now the count has gone down to 60, which I deem to be acceptable. Sending the manuscript out now to those of you who volunteered, thanks a lot for putting up with reading my work!

Edit: Story has been sent out. The #'s seperate chapters from each other. The chapters have no titles and aren't otherwise marked, just so you don't get confused. Take your time reading, no need to rush ^^

Okay, I'll be honest, it's more like alpha readers. Well, even more honest: pre-alpha readers... Anyway, here's the mutton:

I recently started this novel project (modern day fantasy thingie idea that's been haunting me for about a year now) and I remembered all my other old novel projects. Well... to keep it simple: They all died, even though they were close to completion (of the first draft that is, so no real completion). So now I thought it might be a good idea to change the way I go about writing things. Instead of jumping in with fervor and petering out shortly before the end of the first draft, I'll try to churn out one chapter (maybe more if I feel like it) a week. I'll polish it up to be at least semi-readable and send it to all people who comment here and ask me to send them chapters. That way it'll be in nice bits so you guys wouldn't have to read the big epic tome it's supposed to become in its unfinished form (don't worry, not that big and epic, I try to keep my unreasonably big ambitions small :P) And I'd have a small stream of feedback that would keep me writing and on my toes, which I think I need. Chapters should range anything from around 1500 to 4000 words.

(Er... don't know how I'd contact you... private message over LJ if that's possible? It's a bit weird... you guys think I should give out my e-mail? I don't really know if I should post the chapters on the webs since I'm a bit scared. After all, I do harbor misguided and arrogant notions of maybe publishing it someday...)

Oh, I also have this short steamy romance story I wrote to be submitted to Harlequin's Silhouette Nocturne Bites e-series. It's currently hovering between second and third draft stage (I don't keep count, I just edit stuff into the original document while making infrequent backups. Yes, I'm a bit chaotic like that :P Second-third draft to me means more polished than anything else I've ever done, but yet not good enough to be sent out...) and I'm in need of feedback for it as well. It's called "Crashing Into Fate", is supposed to be as campy as its title and might give those of you who want to read it a laugh or two. And hey, maybe you'll actually like it! So yeah, I'm looking for critique on that as well. Moeshas has already read the story (and found it to be relatively okay at places, though I don't think she liked it all that much, even if she tried to be nice about it :P)

On the novel chapters: I regret that I have to say that Moeshas has first reading rights (she has those on everything I write), so I'll have to get  her permission first before sending them out to other people, even though chapter 1 just went through its polishing up phase and is ready to be sent out in theory :P (Yeah, she's a crafty one... how did she convince me of this anyway?)

Anyway, comment if you feel like critiquing some of my work. I promise to try and make it as painless for you as possible by making my stuff as good as I can. Also, tell me if you want to have a look at the Harlequin story (a bit less than 14'000 words. I wouldn't rate this one PG exactly :P) or if you want to sign up for weekly chapter updates to my fledgeling modern day fantasy novel (1500-4000 words thereabouts. I'll try to keep this one PG) or if you're interested in both. I'd be super duper awesometastic grateful to anyone who'd be willing to take a look at my stuff!

Aaand that's it for now. Sigh... I hate begging for readers, but what can you do? My writing still needs lots of work and feedback is the only thing that can get me anywhere :P

Mmmh... had an awesome weekend with moeshas  again. (Our weekends are always awesome ^^) We were both lazy as bricks and stayed inside Saturday and Sunday. On Monday I got taken out to a mystery location in Zurich that turned out to be a geek shop (Comics, manga, anime, plastic figurines, Warhammer equipment, roleplaying books... you know geek stuff) and we had lots of fun shopping around in there.

Yes, I love my girlfriend ^^

I got a cheap softcover version of Watchmen. Yes, all the issues! I'm already halfway through and it's awesome as all hell. Rorschach is probably the coolest character ever invented. I also got "From Hell", about which I know nothing, but which was also written by Alan Moore. From what I've seen in Watchmen, I can only assume that I'm gonna love that one as well. For now I only know that it's about Jack the Ripper, which could be interesting. Despite all his cameos in Star Trek, I know next to nothing about good ol' Jackie.

We also went to Subway and I had a life changing sandwich experience. Must... locate... Subway... in... Bern...

So, yeah, that's it for now, back to reading the Watchmen. Toodles

Edit: I almost forgot to mention this. I  found this website: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/ It has some of the most disgusting looking yet most likely very tasty food on it I've ever seen.
 

Stolen from moeshas , who stole it from somebody else. Anyway, here goes:

1. Put your iTunes on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!


 

1.IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Truth 

2.WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
What planet is this?!

3.WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Uninstall

4.HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Everybody Wants To Rule The World

5.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Jurassic Park Concerto for Velociraptor OC ReMix

6.WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Kanpaku no Elegie (Kurapika's theme)

7.WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
The Egg and I 

8.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Knights Of Cydonia 

9.WHAT IS 2+2?
Doti Doti Doti

10.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Little Busters

11.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Skies of Arcadia Horteka Stomp OC ReMix

12.WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Raasu, Wakuku

13.WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Minna no Peace 

14.WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
All I Want Is You

15.WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
contst 1

16.WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR WEDDING?
Dance

17.WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Sprinting Spirits

18.WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
The Sore Feet Song

19.WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
102 Katamari on the Funk   

20.WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Gekko-Go

21.HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Karate

22.WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Sigi no Ikari 

23.WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
MONKEY MAN (MONKEY monkey MAN)

24.WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Ano Yume no Mukou he    

25.WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Don't Worry Be Happy

26. WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
AudioTrack01

27.DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Gran Turismo Stupid Damn Vehicle OC ReMix  

28.IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
READY STEADY GO    

29.WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Saimincho   

30.WHERE WILL YOU TRAVEL TO?
Metroid Kraid's Hideout OC ReMix  

31.WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Revived Power ~Battle With the Colossus~   

32.WHAT DO YOU OFTEN FIND YOURSELF WANTING TO YELL AT PEOPLE?
Naruto OST - 21 Naruto Main Theme 

33.WHAT DO YOU CALL YOURSELF?
Sorairo Days  

34. WHAT DOES THE PERSON YOU LIKE THINK OF YOU?
Opening Theme

35. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
222458_0_wing_rhapsody-1




There. I guess number 14 and number 21 are the most enjoyable ones. Most of them don't really make sense :p   

Yes,  moeshas  and I got the exact same result on #14, which is awesome :P

Youtube Video

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...

Questions by belenustenebrae  

1. Speculative fiction is filled with the good and the very bad; which subgenre or author gets on your nerves? (can’t choose Twilight or Eragon)

Hmmm... Interesting. This does go under speculative fiction, but maybe it's more into the direction of philosophy, I'm not really sure. I'm thinking of Ayn Rand's novels "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" here. I read them maybe two years ago and thought they were brilliant back then. They have a kind of uplifting way of thinking to them. I even tried to make Moeshas read them, though she didn't get very far :P In any case, the longer I knew the books, the less I liked them. They're full of pretty sounding words, but in the end I think the truth is that they try to make you believe in a philosophy of egoism that is full of holes that just doesn't work, that has lost all belief in humanity and that in the end is just plain sad. And so I don't like the books anymore, though I'd still say they're worth a read. They just rub me the wrong way these days :P Maybe that's why I'm disliking them the most, that I actually believed what they said at some point, and that I now really, really don't.

2. Cynic, skeptic, optimist, pessimist or realist (or other)? Try to convert me.

Optimist - that's the easy part. Now to convert you... I don't usually try to do that, after all, people are more fun to talk to when they're pessimists, cynics or skeptics. (Realists... hell, I actually consider myself a realist as well. Things just always turn out for the awesome in the end :P )

So... reasons for being an optimist...

I: You can easily get on people's nerves, which is fun
II: A positive outlook on life changes your internal chemistry, grants you motivation and gives you abilities you wouldn't otherwise have. People unconsciously react to you differently and you automatically influence them in your favor without even having to do something.
III: You try to do more stuff. As a pessimist, you might not try to do something even if you had nothing to lose (like with picking up girls (or boys) because you think you wouldn't get said girl (or boy)). As an optimist, you'd just be like "why the hell not" and you'd get Moeshas (or enter boy's pseudonym) and everything would be awesome.
IV: Optimists don't jump off high cliffs. (Unless they build themselves wings and are morons)
V: Smiling feels nice on my facial muscles

Convinced yet? :P


3. Imagine you’re in a parallel universe, faced with a duel you must choose your weapon: light saber or magic wand ? Explain your choice.

Magic wand. I'd just cut my dick off by mistake if I had a lightsaber. If that happened with a wand at least I'd have a chance to put it back on.

4. If you had to put more on your profile (currently one sentence long), what would you put? :P

Something witty that would show off important yet subtle parts of my personality without giving away too much of its mystery. It would be something that would make people who read it think "Woah, what a guy," like with Rimmer's alter ego on Red Dwarf. I would also put on there that I like Red Dwarf.

5. You are forced to read cheap romance books (those 3-dollar wallmart things) for the rest of your life; and no other reading is allowed (be it news or whatnot. You can still read cereal boxes and ingredient labels, etc.). What is your reaction?

I would get a lot of audiobooks or pay people to read me stuff in video format. Now if loopholes weren't allowed, I'd begin to wonder why. What mysterious force could this be, forcing me to read only cheap romance books? And for what possible reason? I would set out on a quests to find these reasons, which in and of itself would be interesting, considering I wouldn't be allowed to use the internet for research. I would meet a lot of people and my life would change fundamentally. I'd probably become a lot more interesting, too. I'd also start wearing my fedora again.

Now if I were actually forced to sit down and read for all my life. (Yeah, I'm not actually evading the question :P) I'd be horrified at first... then I'd probably be masturbating a lot more... I mean, I do enjoy reading porn and all. Otherwise I'd probably set out to find the pearls in the dung heap that is bad romance novels. I mean, I have to read something. I'd try to go into subgenres, probably, maybe there are some that go more into plot than others. Jane Austen probably wouldn't count as 3-dollar wallmart crap, but there might be other interesting things, who knows? It would be a lot of work and effort, but I'm sure there'd be something I could find that I'd enjoy. In any case, I wouldn't be happy about it, but I'd manage.

Well, actually I'd hate to be forced to read all the time, I'd like to write stuff as well. Would I be allowed to write stuff other than romance? If so, would I be allowed to re-read it to correct mistakes? :P


So, yeah, that's it for my sometimes evasive answers :P Anybody like to be interviewed? :P

Okay, more questions by moeshas :

 1. What are your favourite sweets and why? Try to convince me to buy them.

For one there's those "Shock" chewing gums you buy at the kiosk (don't know if they still exist, though I think they do) They're awesome. Like the name says, the first thing you notice is how shockingly sour the thing is. Then you bite into it, it gets worse. I love sour stuff, but this is a lot to take even for me. But then, the brilliant part of this chewing gum comes into play: the sweet and gooey filling inside. After the first two or three bites of pure sourness, the sweetness of the filling starts to offset the initial shock. It mixes in with the sourness and becomes one of the most pleasant tastes you'll ever experience. As a bonus, the sweetness of the chewing gum stays for a long time after the initial burst of taste, not like your crappy chewing gum that loses taste after 15 minutes. This is one awesome chewing gum if you like sour stuff, but it's awesome even if you don't.

Then there are the Cola Fröschli, you know, the brownish blackish frog shaped drops they also sell at the kiosk. Unlike most of the cola tasting sweets, these actually taste good. Very good. Even if you don't like cola that much. There's a bit of sourness, but not enough to offset the delicious sweetness of it, in fact, it complements it enormously well.

So, those are two very awesome sweets, and you should buy them because they're only 10 Rappen a piece, which is amazing. I mean, what can you get these days that only costs 10 Rappen?


2. If your life would be made into a movie, who would play your role?

Terence Hill. He likes hats, has a winning smile, a vicious right hook and is just all out awesome - exactly like me. He'd need bigger hair to play me, but otherwise he could play every part of my personality quite well. Of course, he'd be a bit too old, but then, there's CGI for everything, right?

3. If you whould be in a movie, what movie would that be and why and what character would you play?

Movie... makes it tough...Oh, wait, duh, I'd be Colonel Hyrum Graff from the upcoming Ender's Game movie. He's all around awesome. Though IIRC he's black, but then, CGI, CGI...

4. Imagine a world where soap buckets rule. How would that change your life?

It depends on if the soap buckets were benevolent or not. The way we're treating them, they probably wouldn't be. They'd be oppressing us, using our hair and saliva to clean their floors, which wouldn't be nice. But I wouldn't take this lying down. I would join the rebellion (DO THEY THINK PUTTING US IN BROOM CUPBOARDS SILENCES US?!) And we'd topple those bastards, oh yes, we'd take the power away from them again. Who the hell do they think they are?!

5. If you could switch with a person of public interest, who would it be and why? Who wouldn't you switch with for all the money in the world?

I'd horrendously enjoy being David Tennant. There'd be lots of people on the streets making jokes about me being the Doctor, and I would pretend to hate it, but secretly, I'd love it. I'd also get to have this expression that makes me look special, a bit crazy, just how I like it. I'd stare at people all day long and have a blast.

As for who I wouldn't switch with... Let's go out on a limb here and say president Obama. I hate responsibility, and responsibility for such a fucked up country... jeez, no thanks. Also, assassination attempts. Also, racist assholes. Also, being accused for everything that is wrong with the world. I can't believe anybody would want that job... and there people go and wonder why the republicans couldn't find a better candidate...

So... short answers, I know, but gotta run, GOTTA RUN!

So I'm sitting in Bern not doing enough for school, but that's nothing new. I've been reading a lot, finished the last Mistborn book in only two days (which is very quick for me since I'm a slooow reader) And just started on the first book of the Dresden Files. (Sorry moeshas , Your Urs Widmer books would've come first but I didn't take them to Bern. They're the next in queue, though, honest!) It's a really fun book for now, but all I could think of while reading it was "this is cool, but I've read much better". And you know where that was? It was on the interwebs, a free story! I had never finished that one for unknown reasons, so I went back to its website only to find IT'S BEEN REMOVED! It's called "John Dies at the End" and now I'm never gonna find out how it... well... ends... Or am I? 

Of course I am. I'm gonna buy the book once it comes out, which should be pretty soon. Here's its website: http://www.johndiesattheend.com/ . And belenustenebrae , you'd love it, trust me. You'd love it to bits and beyond, this guy really can write, hoo-boy. You can borrow it from me once I have it since you were so awesome to lend me the Dresden File book. (Storm Front it is called. I just went to check since I felt ignorant calling it only by the series name...) I'm not far enough into it yet to give an informed opinion on it, though. As I said, slow reader. (I still dont' know if this is a good thing. I love books to bits and this way they last longer, but it also means I can read less books... what a conundrum wrapped in an enigma on the pointy end of the cliché stick... Wait, what?!)

I'm actually reading the blog on http://www.johndiesasttheend.com now, it's awesome. So... what else can I say? Right, the Nano meetup, how could I forget?! Yeah. So. We had a nano meetup.

That's all for now!