This chain letter-esk flotsom has been circling around on facebook and thought that it would share nicely here on the blog, I encourage other sifters to jump in and add their own 25 in the comments.
25 Random things about Randy
1. I loved performing magic tricks as a child and actually performed at birthday parties
2. I have flat feet, Fred Flintstone flat feet
3. I once appeared as a voice actor on the radio in the 70s
4. I have held Cecil B. Demiles Best Picture Oscar statue for "The Greatest Show On Earth" in my hands
5. I was born in Naples, Italy and held Italian citizenship till the age of 16
6. I studied as an actor in college for 2 years at The North Carolina School Of The Arts
7. I graduated from The North Carolina School Of The Arts with a BFA in Design And Production
8. I was voted "Best All Around Boy" as a senior in High School
9. I stole comic books as a child, because I was pressured to do so by my "so called" friends
10. I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day from the age of 20 till the age of 30
11. I was named after my mother’s brother, James
12. I was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006
13. I didn’t win a Grammy Award In 2006
14. I moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to work on the pilot of David Lynch’s TV show “Twin Peaks”
15. I am the first person in my family to attain a college level degree
16. I learned to tie my shoes from a Ronald McDonald clown in Miami, Florida
17. I think clowns are creepy
18. My first car was a 1977 Ford Maverick
19. I am a member of The International Thespian Society since 1980
20. I love being a father
21. I wish I had followed through on my guitar lessons
22. I shave while I shower
23. I have visited Camp David on several occasions
24. I was a RA (Resident Assistant) in college
25. I once sold used cars for a living
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2. I have a EEE shoe size.
3. I am close friends with some of the smartest people on the planet.
4. I love to cook for others (and do it very well).
5. I hate to cook for myself (and do it very poorly).
6. I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot.
7. I am red/green color blind.
8. I was a D&D geek.
9. I believe in Strong AI.
10. I can't get around Gödel's theorem.
11. I can stay awake longer than anyone I've ever met.
12. I can sleep longer than anyone I've ever met.
13. According to the DSM-IV, I qualify as an alcoholic.
14. I have never felt withdrawal symptoms from alcohol.
15. I am the only person in my family to attain a college degree.
16. I think internal combustion engines suck.
17. I love high performance cars.
18. My first car was a CRX. (damn that thing was fun.)
19. I have no first cousins.
20. I will never be a father.
21. I can't dance (see #2).
22. I shave dry.
23. I like to go camping, occasionally with people named David.
24. I once had sex with an RA.
25. I have sold nearly everything except for cars.
2. I started opening bottles with my teeth because I read GIJoe's Barbecue could do it.
3. I was in the US Navy from 1991-1994.
4. The bassist for the Psychedelic Furs took a picture of me at a Swatch party in NY back in 1993 or 94.
5. My favorite number is 9.
6. One of my first jobs in LA was working for Jan De Bont and Lucas Foster.
7. I once got to drive Maria Grazia Cucinotta to her hotel and fell in love instantly!
8. I used to draw my own comics on folded and stapled notebook paper when I was young.
9. My nickname as a child was Bozo.
10. My nickname in the military was Skip because I wore down my knee muscles and limped about.
11. I graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking.
12. I used to be a Christian.
13. I worked as a Special Effects crew member for my internship and made bombs and blew up cars. It was rad.
14. I used to have a thick southern accent.
15. My first car was a 1979 dookie brown Camaro with hubcaps and whitewalls affectionately labeled the brown turd.
16. I wish I would've stayed in the abusive Hollywood machine instead of switching careers to the interactive industry.
17. My bootcamp company made hall of fame.
18. I graduated with a 99.39 average from Naval Training School.
19. I graduated fifteen from the bottom of my class in high school.
20. My buddy and I once conned a chick at a bar in NY into buying us drinks all night because we told her we were talent scouts from Reprise Records.
21. I still have my first skateboard: a hot pink Powell & Peralta Sword and Skull.
22. I own a signed copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15) in pretty shitty quality.
23. I've worked in textile mills off and on from high school through college.
24. I was once an RA, a Head RA and a Summer Counselor in college.
25. I once asked John Ritter if I could call him Jack Tripper. His response, "As long as you don't call me Janet or Crissy."
2. Had a ten speed when everyone else had a BMX, and thus never learned to tail slap.
3. Was an accomplice to deathcow stealing a LadyBug and Cosmic Adventure Colecovision cartridges from Art's Video Mart in 1984.
4. Bought my first 300 bps modem in 1985 for the Apple IIe.
5. Wore a spangly sequined vest in my high school's swing choir - and sang bass.
6. Attended Chaminade University of Honolulu for 2 years.
7. Attended Universidad de Salamanca in Spain for 1 year.
9. Worked in Osaka Japan for 3 years - probably for the Yakuza.
10. Married by a catholic priest to my Aussie wife in Japan.
11. Have acted in several community theater productions
12. Would like to have my head frozen at Alcor.
13. Can do good Sterling Holloway and Neil Diamond impressions
14. Founded best online community ever.
>> ^dag:
4. Bought my first 300 bps modem in 1985 for the Apple IIe.
auld skool. [edit - actually, if you were really old school, you'd have used 'baud' instead of bps.]
10. Married a catholic priest to my Aussie wife in Japan.
The Vatican is still trying to figure this one out.
I guess 25 is actually 14 using the Australian metric system.
10. My nickname in the military was Skip because I wore down my knee muscles and limped about.
Did you spend a great deal of time on your knees in the Navy?
2. My mom was a homecoming queen
3. I spent most of my childhood on a farm
4. As a child, I had a Shetland Pony named "Kong"
5. I started driving when I was twelve
6. My high school graduating class had 33 people in it
7. I'm pretty handy with a gun
8. I shot my first deer with my first shot through the heart
9. I used to be a very good pool player
10. My first car was a '67 Chevy Impala
11. I've performed in three plays
12. I wrote, directed, and edited a 30-minute movie called “Sotto Voce” about teen pregnancy
13. I've written three novels (never published)
14. I'm a college drop-out
15. I'm a Lamda Chi Alpha
16. I once had a spike haircut with a pink and purple stripe on the side
17. I over-dosed and nearly died once
18. I've tripped on LSD over 250 times
19. I once bought a quarter pound of weed to resell and deal
20. I never sold any of it and smoked it all myself
21. I taught myself how to type (70 wpm)
22. I'm a trivia buff and love NTN
23. I study Buddhism and the I Ching
24. I was once an alter boy in the Catholic church
25. In grade school my teachers were Irish Nuns
2. My wiggling fingers holding up a scenery panel were once the star of a “Grease” production in high school.
3. I have had a severed chicken foot thrown through my bedroom window by Gypsies living next door to me in Brasil.
4. I love being a mother.
5. My first car was a government auction white ‘80s-ish Ford pickup with a nice bright reflective stripe down the side which could 0-45 in two minutes.
6. I got slapped awake in math class once by a guy who bragged about having shaken the hands of each person as they boarded the Challenger before it blew up.
7. Whatever ironical force controls destiny has shown me that I am NOT going to medical school.
8. I’ve had reconstructive surgery on the left side of my face due to an unprovoked fist.
9. My exact birthday is listed on my husband’s discharge papers from the Army when he retired and I didn’t know it until a year into our marriage.
10. My husband’s ex-wife dated a guy who also dated Stevie Nicks.
11. All of the most interesting things about me are things I don’t have the guts to share on video sift.
12. I have a bright red “V” birthmark between my eyes on my forehead that turns purple when I‘m mad.
13. From second grade through 9th grade I went to school with the same 8 people in my class, 200 in the whole school K-12 and my closest friends are still them, almost 20 years later.
14. When I’m dead, you can visit me in Scottsdale, AZ any time…I will be there in a Dewar chamber, signed and done.
15. I have walked away from every material thing I owned at least three times.
16. I once assembled Nokia keypads in a factory and got to know some interesting people there.
17. I have many open opportunities to visit/do some awesome things that some people would die for, yet I prefer to stay at home.
18. My secret alternative “paths my life could have taken” includes having no ties to anyone and being a stripper.
19. I have no idea how big a size EEE shoe is, I’ve never seen one.
20. My ancestors were Vikings.
21. One of my best childhood friends was a girl who lived in a “cardboard box” down the hill from the seminary I lived in, who I used to play Barbies with.
22. I am addicted to understanding other people’s realities.
23. I will hug anyone.
24. My first conscious memory is noticing the wind.
25. I love the people on VideoSift.
2. Sang in a cathedral boychoir for several years .
2.5 Was never molested.
3. Ran/run sound for numerous plays, live shows, and recordings.
4. Got bored and dropped out of college.
5. Shelved books in a library for a few years.
6. My pops used to own a recording studio and currently owns his own music store.
7. Never broken a bone or needed stitches.
8. Worked as a telemarketer for 6 months despite rarely ever selling anything.
9. Found lots of pot (etc.) hookups working as a telemarketer.
10. My house is filled with instruments that I don't play enough.
11. I've driven 8 cars into the ground.
12. Worked as a pizza guy and again found lots of hookups.
13. Play here and there with an improv band with a revolving cast.
14. Was once caught doing naughty things in a park.
15. Had a rat tail when I was 7.
16. Had a mullet when I was 13.
17. Had my hand slammed in the hatch of an 80's Honda Civic when I was a kid.
18. Believed in Santa till I realized he used the exact same wrapping paper as my parents.
19. Built a few awesome cornfield hideouts.
20. Lost my glasses in the snow one winter only to find them 3 months later unharmed.
21. Had my entire CD collection stolen, twice.
22. Listen to NPR all the time, though have never donated.
23. Terrible bowler.
24. Dreamed of being an architect and drew house and building designs in notebooks for years.
25. Went to caucus for Kucinich, but instead sat for Obama in Iowa after no one else showed up.
When you're Dag, muthafucka.Blogs have always been promoteable just like Sift Talks.
2. I flew in a plane for the first time when I was two and remember the air steward taking my unfinished glass of juice, because it was almost time to land.
3. I have been in close contact with dozens of venomous snakes, but never been hurt.
4. I fell in love with Persephone and her story, listening to an audio cassette in my school library at the age of 9.
5. I wasn't satisfied with my parent's explanation for the word 'rape' when I heard it on the news at the age of 6. I could tell they were lying.
6. I was the cultural representative of my school in senior year.
7. I was the first in my family to go to University.
8. I was the first woman in my family to delay marrying until after the age of 17.
9. I climbed Uluru not long after Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo.
10. I used to sail 12ft Thorpes on the Brisbane River. My crew was a beautiful transvestite called Alison.
11. I dreamed of being multi-lingual as a child.
12. I love foreign languages and wish I could have kept up my German and Spanish as well as I have my Japanese.
13. I was a hostess in a Yakuza bar in Osaka for one night only.
14. I love being pregnant, giving birth and being a mother.
15. I wish I had had a lesbian relationship at least once.
16. I let my art lecturer sleep with me once because I believed it was an honour to be in his bed.
17. I drove solo across Australia once, never getting a flat or hitting a roo.
18. I meditate and am learning Chi Gung.
19. I sometimes talk to the dead and they tell me helpful stuff only they and their relatives know.
20. I know that our limited perception of reality is the reason we experience fear, anger and hatred.
21. I keep dream journals for my children. I have recorded their dreams since they first learned to talk about them.
22. My daughter reads my mind and lets me know she can do it, by bringing up whatever subject I am silently thinking about at the time.
23. I know that people I encounter are really me in another form.
24. I don't read/listen to the news/t.v. any more.
25. I will walk across Australia next time.
2. I hate having a father.
3. I love having a father.
4. I'm overweight and wear glasses.
5. I don't believe in mysticism, supernatural or paranormal phenomena.
6. I do believe that our minds are "hackable" and readable like reading a computer's software from hardware.
7. I don't own a TV anymore (thank you, videosift).
8. I've met people on Videosift that I am proud to call my friends, even if they don't consider me that.
9. I think I have too much of a sarcastic distance to everything.
10. I wish I could shake my growing cynicism.
11. I have never broken a bone.
12. The farthest away from Denmark that I've been is Ireland.
13. I've played many nerd-games such as Warhammer Fantasy Battles and lately Magic the Gathering (which I still play).
14. I like to drink, but I like to still be in control.
15. I don't smoke and never has regularly.
16. I don't do drugs, not even medicine unless I'm really ill.
17. I'm rarely sick.
18. I'm better at writing than talking.
19. I used to be insanely shy, and now I'm just reserved.
20. I love to perform.
21. I've played guitar for about ten years now. (I sing too, like and angel with throat cancer)
22. I love making people laugh, and I snicker about my own jokes.
23. I hate people who are full of themselves.
24. I have little patience for incompetence, but am generally un-confrontational.
25. You all enrich my life.
1. I pee on my girlfriend in the shower
2. I haven't read a book for leisure in over 2 years
3. I'm a math nerd
4. When I was a little boy I remember playing a game with my mom's friend's daughter of the same age as me that involved her standing naked in a closet
5. I don't think I've ever had a "wet dream"
6. I used to believe in god in a non-denominational, talking to the voices in your head type of way
7. I was raised an only child
8. My mother wasn't married when she had me, I don't know my biological father
9. I used to suffer from OCD, after I realized the correlations between religion and OCD is when I stopped being religious and obsessive compulsive
10. Sometimes I go through a whole day at work without doing a thing
11. I'm a hypocrite, although I claim to hate hypocrites
12. I fall in love very easily
13. I've cheated once on an ex-girlfriend, but I've decided that cheating is not for me
14. I've never cheated in school, ever.
15. I graduated from high school with below a 2.5 gpa
16. I was part of an MLM when I was young and stupid. Then I went to this convention and realized the mass brainwashing and I filed it under "things as stupid as religion"
17. I tried to pretend like I was Buddhist when I was in my early 20s
18. There were 2 years of my life when all I listened to was Bob Marley
19. I have to shower after taking a shit
20. I'm self-conscious about my appearance, more so than a male should be
21. I'm always broke
22. I owned a condo with a buddy when I was 22, but we fell behind on payments and trashed the place then it foreclosed
23. I don't like having anal sex (giving for sure, and I don't really wanna try receiving)
24. Sometimes I prefer masturbation over sex because it's less work I don't have to worry about pleasuring anybody else
25. I divulge way too much information on the internets
2) I will never buy a Harley Davidson
3) I don't like automobiles
4) I don't have cable- thanks to the internet and Videosift
5) The University of Hanoi hired me to do the voices on their English language instruction tapes
6) I am an acitve member of a suspected cult
7) I'm turning 40 in February
8) I played Tuba in high school- wish I still did
9) I have a huge lust-on for Salma Hayek
10) I have high hopes for the Obama presidency
11) I am positive about the future.
12) I give money to homeless people and beggars
13) My office is located in the poorest neighborhood in Canada
14) I despise hypocrisy, yet realize that we are all hypocrites in our own way
15) I use language in a very deliberate and considered manner, but find that people sometimes cut me off while speaking
16) I do not believe in legislating morality
17) I was once a born-again Christian, but then I grew a brain
18) The Big Lebowski just might be my favorite movie
19) I have a 10" long scar on my leg due to a symphony orchestra related injury
20) I used to sing opera and show-tunes professionally
21) I've never been to Europe but really want to go
22) I like smelly soaps
23) I've had 4 pet cats disappear in the last 5 or 6 years
24) I miss them terribly and won't get another
25) I don't like empty platitudes
2. Named after a relative who was killed in the Civil War, fighting for the North.
3. Ronald McDonald was my godfather.
4. Was in many musicals, commercials, radio spots, TV shows as a kid and had a small but visible part in a well known feature film. Notable non-imdb-able credit: You can hear me singing and laughing with other kids during the credits to Poltergeist. Shannon Doherty and Chad Allen were two of my childhood friends (no, I don't keep in touch).
5. Was elected president of my elementary school. My only presidential duty was to raise the flag every morning, which I passed off to my veep.
6. Used to write 'Weird Al' style parody songs. Unfortunately, the tape on which I recorded all of these songs was lost long ago.
7. Have wide feet.
8. My first car was a used 1988 Toyota truck which I kept until 2007. It was twice broken into and thrice stolen.
9. Studied percussion and composition at USC.
10. Was in the Disneyland Christmas Toy Soldier band for two holiday seasons.
11. Did not try drugs or alcohol until I was 20.
12. Used to sell my sperm for extra income.
13. Though atheist since high school, I've twice participated in a nude pagan ritual with strippers on an isolated beach under a full moon.
14. Sleep disorders. I get night terror when I'm extremely stressed. I also occasionally sleepwalk, talk in my sleep and get sleep paralysis.
15. Hiked to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite twice.
16. Own a fully signed Mr. Bungle New Years 2000 poster.
17. Play Theremin.
18. I've performed at Carnagie Hall, Disney Hall, The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, among other famous venues.
19. Went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 with a film that I scored.
20. Scored my first (and hopefully not last) commercial feature film in 2007.
21. Played in the pit for over 100 musicals. (wonder if I've worked with guessandcheck?)
22. Haven't had cable or shopped at a Wal*Mart in a decade.
23. If I had billions of dollars, I would design video games and theme parks.
24. VS is the only online community I've ever become a part of.
25. Six inches, but girthy.
2) There's a 90% chance that I can kill you from 500 yards.
3) I have very little patience for stupid people on the road.
4) I have what are probably the world's flattest feet.
5) I can make farting noises with my neck/shoulder.
6) I can puff my neck out like a bull frog.
7) I can grab my uvula and pull it to the front of my mouth. It grosses people out.
8) When car alarms go off, I often fantasize about taking my rifle and shooting them.
9) PTSD is a bitch.
10) I'm only 23 and have owned four vehicles.
11) Two of them were/is a Volvo.
12) Children annoy me.
13) Except for my nieces and nephews.
14) I hate big cities.
15) I graduated in the bottom 12 percent of my High School class.
16) I was #9 in my MOS school in the Marine Corps. (Suck on that, Blankfist
17) I love video games.
18) I'm a huge fan of Star Trek TNG and Voyager.
19) The first internet connection I had in my house as a kid was through freei.net, and I had to hide it from my parents and drag a phone line across the house to use it.
20) I'm a firm believer that all people who regularly buy bottles of water need to be punched in the face.
21) Won 2nd place in a NASA/Nat'l Science teacher's assc. "Design a spacecraft" contest when I was in grade school.
22) Got pissed that I didn't win first to get that trip to space camp.
23) People thought I was going to shoot up the school in High School. It worked to my advantage because the assholes that congregated in the middle of the hallway would part like the Red Sea when I walked down the hall.
24) I often get irritated at people and proclaim that I should be Supreme Chancellor of the World so that I could outlaw fat girls in belly shirts, guys in skin-tight pants with white plastic sunglasses, Emo, cheap beer, bottled water, cigarettes, slow drivers, people that don't pay attention to cyclists and anyone/thing else I am currently pissed at.
25) I didn't know I could count this high.
2. At age four was almost killed from a dog attack
3. Bit my tongue off in a car accident. Doctors sewed it back together.
4. Quit my job as an electrician to travel the world for a year.
5. Worked as a carny in Australia.
6. Peanut butter/ jelly sandwiches and Cracker Jacks made me throw up as a child.
7. Had a very successful business buying and selling used video games.
8. Consider myself a very good table tennis player
9. Think my family and friends are the best in the world.
10 Addicted to meth for ten years.
11. I've been clean for about a year.
12. Made a shit load of money trading stock.
13. Lost a shit load of money trading stock when the dot coms crashed.
14. I love roller coasters
15. Accepted christ as my savior at age 14.
16. Became an agnostic at age 23.
17. Spiders and bugs in general don't bother me.
18. I have a high thresh hold for pain (I think).
19. I had three MRIs last year due to a mountain bike accident and a skateboard accident
20. Favorite countries Ive visited are New Zealand and Nepal.
21. Shot and killed a bird with a BB gun and was traumatized by the experience.
22. I was fascinated by fire as a kid, and I'm fascinated by explosions as an adult.
23. My love for nature grows exponentially as the years pass.
24. I smoke a pack and a half a day.
25. I love to dance.
2. I grew up on the West, but not quite the West Coast (hooray Nevada and Idaho).
3. Speaking of Idaho, I don't like potatoes as much as people assume I would.
4. The only non-Republican in my immediate family, but I wouldn't consider myself a Democrat, either. Rather, I decline from choosing a party and prefer to focus on who would be a better candidate overall, as best as I can tell.
5. I used to sing in choir all the way from sixth grade up until the end of Freshman year in college.
6. I actually missed a chance to sing at Carnegie hall with the choir here because I quit it, as well as the opportunity to go to Europe.
7. My sort-of-secret dream is to become a musician, but I'm nowhere close to good enough for that yet.
8. I play guitar and sing, and while my guitaring is starting to get decent, the lack of formal practice with singing since quitting choir has caused my technical abilities in singing to go down.
9. I own a DS and play Pokemon sometimes. Because that game series never really stopped rocking.
10. My favorite video game ever is Chrono Trigger.
11. I am a cat-lover, but am fine with dogs as well.
12. I prefer physical CDs to digital purchases, and currently own over 120 CDs, which I didn't really start purchasing until about three years ago.
13. I only buy CDs without checking them out by downloading first if it's one of my favorite artists and I'm convinced that it's going to be good.
14. I study Japanese, and recently received a rating of "Advanced-low" on the ACTFL Proficiency scale, mostly due to not having devoted any time to studying vocabulary this past semester.
15. My goal is to achieve "Advanced-high" by the end of the year and "Superior" by the time I graduate.
16. My parents see me as a bad influence on my siblings.
17. I drink a lot, and good Belgian ale and German hefeweizen.
18. I don't really smoke, though I have tried it a few times.
19. JAPR are actually my initials.
20. The "A," which is the name I go by, was my Great-Grandfather's middle name, which he went by as well.
21. I have yet to own a car.
22. I spend more money on guitar equipment and CDs than I do on books for classes.
23. I am a habitual procrastinator.
24. I love VideoSift even when it is exactly what I should avoid when I have a deadline for a paper.
25. I still have absolutely no clue what I want to do with my life.
"Anus"? A proud family legacy, eh?
2. I have lived through Gulf War 2 in March of 2003. Everyone assumed we would die in Kuwait because Iraq was going to use chemical, biological and possibly nuclear SCUD warheads. I felt sorry for all the troops forced to put on their MOPP suits every time there was an alarm. It was surreal.
3. I nearly got kidnapped in a car in Lusaka, a car thief was trying to break into our car while I was sleeping in the back. I stopped him by locking down the doors fully before his hanger wire could decouple it. He looked at me with accusing eyes like I just took candy from a child.
4. I learnt English entirely by sound and watching American movies. My entire grammar structure is based around what sounds right. As such I used to have a very American accent.
5. I was born Muslim but only ever practiced it culturally. I went to the mosque only once before realizing I could not be a servant to any god because am simply too lazy to give a shit either way.
6. I spent most of my early childhood on my uncle's farm, raising chickens, doing masonry work and harvesting potatoes. This experience has made me humble.
7. I cannot live in comfort in my country because I have severe life threatening allergies to its environment.
8. I nearly drowned as a child at a water park when I got sucked in the water intake for the slipping slide ride. I vividly remember how it felt looking up through the water up at big African man who was drying himself near the pool. He jumped in and saved me. I was so scared I never got to look at his face or thank him. I regret this.
9. Africa was the best place I have lived in. Its more beautiful then most people realize. The people are in desperate poverty but are gentle and kind. You will never see more beautiful clouds anywhere else.
10. I have a purple belt in Karate that I got as a kid. I think it's totally useless and has no baring on any combat ability I have.
11. I used to stay up late at night in high school watching MTV Europe, MTVChillout and MTVAlternative nation, back when it was good.
12. Kuwait proved to me that money does not buy happiness nor does wealth make people better individuals.
13. My favourite city will always be Montreal. I had the best and worst of times there.
14. I do alot of drugs. Most of the time I don't look for a high. I look for relief. Its quite healthy for my psyche. I like psychedelics and exploring the limits of my psyche. I like to disassociate.
15. I have a heart problem and in all likely hood will die prematurely. This doesn't bother me that much.
16. I have been arrested while being high on mushrooms, the experience was surreal and hilarious and depressing all at once. My arresting officer was the splitting image of Spud from Trainspotting.
17. Deja vus scare and confuse me.
18. I been to more countries then I care to mention. People are really all the same all over.
19. I love music, I have music collection I have maintaining since middle school. I will be very sad to lose it. I love only particular songs and moments, its hard for me to say I like any particular artist. The question what is your favourite genre of music always troubles me, its hard to pick one. Alot of my music I listen to in particular moods. I would be the first person to implant a music player into my brain.
20. I love cinema, I think cinema is humanity reflected, our dreams, desires, hopes, fears and experiences.
21. I wish I could stop being so cynical.
22. I don't know what to do with my life.
23. I used to go to the roof of my building in Africa and sleep under a full starry sky. Trying to pick out the satellites.
24. Life is hard to take seriously, I feel like I have been here before, and did all this before. I expect to wake up any minute now.
25. I feel like I shared too much.
"20. The "A," which is the name I go by, was my Great-Grandfather's middle name, which he went by as well."
"Anus"? A proud family legacy, eh?
How ever did you guess?
2. i spent ages 12-19 being thrown out of my house, tossed around to relatives and eventually just running away
3. it gave me a righteous love of travel and the desert
4. every single person in my family (extended too) is mentally ill, or has a personality disorder, excluding my children, seriously.
5. rush limbaugh is my cousin
6. i have ridden freight trains across the american west
7. i have hitchhiked in 15 states
8. i dont really like female authors
9. i almost aborted both of my children
10. i have a nephew with cri du chat, agenesis of the corpus collosum and cerebal palsy
11.i am very disappointed in the videos on cri du chat available on youtube, all those little pricks should have failed their biology projects
12. it annoys me when holistic wellness ignores or misrepresents science, but i fall for it sometimes, and also when science disregards the importance of taking care of yourself holistically, there is balance in the middle.
13. my brother is working on a phd in cosmology, 15 years ago he was addicted to crack, im proud of him
14. i spent 4 years married to an alcholic who beat me.
15. my kids have an imaginery dad that they made up, he likes dinosaurs, science, playing candy land, and bob the builder, at night he goes to his own house because we are divorced
16. men have shit their pants to be near me, yeah im that fucking charming videosift
17. arguments do not hold my attention very long
18. i will not talk to people who scream
19. im completely fascintated by the human body, and both of my careers are centered around it.
20. im completely fascinated by the evolution of culture. baking bread gets me going on a hardcore cultural evolution tangent FOR HOURS, my friends are sick of hearing it
21. i have lived and been sustained with zero material posessions (except, the clothes on my back and the shank in my boot) for an extended amount of time
22. all i really want to be when i grow up is a mom
23. my tubes have been tied for almost 4 years, i still take pregnancy tests regularly
24. i only post this shit so i can read what i wrote about me later
25. as a child of abuse, im a little more narcisistic than id like to be
2. I had my first real kiss while on a boat in a lake in Canada. She couldn't speak English. I couldn't speak French.
3. Some of my ancestors were pirates in Ireland.
4. I've wrecked 3 cars.
5. I fractured my neck (see #4).
6. I'm planning to be frozen by Alcor when I die.
7. I'm a formerly recovered sift addict who has fallen off the wagon.
8. I was a level 80 warlock in EQ2
9. I like cigars.
10. I grew several pounds of fantastic weed in a small closet.
11. I have an electric guitar that I've never played.
12. My first words were "wow" and "no".
13. I've seen a UFO.
14. I'm part Blackfoot Indian.
15. My first computer was a C-64 w/ a cassette tape drive.
16. I love the ocean. The salt air .. sound of the sea gulls ..
17. I sing like shit but do it loudly anyway.
18. I was on a first name basis at the emergency room when I was a kid.
19. The beauty of the sky at night and the expanse of space leaves me struck with awe every time I look up.
20. I'm terrified of bees and I think they know it.
21. If I could only ever have one video game, it would be Morrowind.
22. The only movie I've ever been to with my father was Star Wars. It's also the only time I remember an audience standing up and cheering at the end.
23. I sleep with the TV on so I don't have to hear myself think.
24. I procrastinate finishing things.
25.
20. I'm terrified of bees and I think they know it.
You and me, brother. You and me.
2. I am a realist by mind and an optimist by heart.
3. I have a brown spot in one of my otherwise blue eyes.
4. I have flown a Vomit Comet.
5. I didn't vomit.
6. I played euphonium in the Norwegian military's Royal Guard's marching band.
7. I performed with them in front of several thousand spectators in a hockey venue in Halifax.
8. I have later switched to the jazz trombone.
9. I started singing in choirs when I was 20.
10. I was once mistaken for a girl at an airport in India, and got searched behind a curtain by two female customs officers instead of the burly male officer.
11. I have been humiliated in basketball in front of several million indian TV viewers.
12. I have never taken painkillers against a hangover, no matter how terrible.
13. I am very skinny, in spite of my exercise-free lifestyle.
14. I have two brothers who are remarkably similar to me in every conceivable way.
15. I wore braces into high school.
16. I consider myself a competent and safe driver.
17. I nearly crashed the car on the same day I got my driver's license.
18. I have never used a spellchecker.
19. I know a lot about quantum mechanics.
20. I have tried to learn string theory and failed miserably.
21. I have no idea what kind of job I want to make a living of.
22. I think I would be a good father.
23. I talk a more high class norwegian than my background should suggest.
24. When watching a movie, I am frequently the only person laughing. (Except if my brothers are there too.)
25. VideoSift is the internet community I have invested most emotionally in.
2. I have ben on a plane when it was struck by lightning
3. I shook Bill Clintons hand when he was president
4. I smuggled a machete onto a commercial flight as a kid
5. I did not get my drivers license until the age of 28
6. I have a ten inch scar on my belly from having my spleen removed
7. I had no idea how long the scar was until I measured it for this post
8. I went on a pilgrimage to Kurt Cobains house in Seattle a few months after his death
9. I once went to a school protest dressed as Frank N. Furter
10. I have climbed Mt. Warning for sunset on three different occasions
11. I have touched a dead person
12. I once threw confetti in Dieter Bohlens face at a party
13. I once jumped out of a cab because I couldn´t pay the fare
14. I had a backstage pass for a Michael Jackson concert, but was too young to know what it meant
15. I clung to a fence for three hours in the pouring rain at the same Michael Jackson concert so I could see better
16. I once applied for a boy band, but the application was returned unopened because of insufficient postage
17. I can´t sing
18. I can juggle
19. I design my own t-shirts
20. My mom drove me 400 miles to see Bruce Springsteen, interrupting my summer camp stay
21. My mom and I jumped a fence in 1987 to go see David Bowie at an open air concert in Hamburg
22. I have a cool mom
23. I skipped school once to go to a Garth Brooks concert in Frankfurt dressed as a cowboy
24. I don´t have a middle name
25. I registered an email account for my son on the day of his birth
26. I never know when to stop
Edit: Just thought another thing that really belong in this list (Just tells you 26. is really true!):
27. During my lifetime I have found three messages in a bottle.
2. I have a deep love for diners.
3. My military records show me as 5'10" 98lbs when I entered boot camp.
4. My first dog was named Breezer because of his long hair in the breeze.
5. I once saw the northern lights from a helicopter off the coast of Norway.
6. My youngest brother's favorite memory of me is when I beat up a bully for him at an HS football game.
7. My favorite memory of my younger brother is when he confronted a guy in a bar who wanted to hit me and poked him in the chest until he left.
8. My first car was a Rover 2000.
9. I lived on the streets in Orange County CA for 3 years.
10. I bought a bike while in Shanghai China, rode it for a week then gave it to a poor bicycle repairman.
11. My worst job ever was cleaning the bottoms of boats.
12. I bought a hooker in Den Helder Netherlands when I was 19.
13. I once dated the daughter of the guy who invented Astroturf.
14. I'm not a huge music fan and despise people who can't function without it.
15. I've been to the desert and feel that the silence has changed me.
16. I had a professor once call me a melodrama junkie.
17. I am the only member of my family that likes both lima beans and liver.
18. My dad died as a hermit living in a tool shed in Alabama.
19. I've been truly in love twice.
20. I once shared a beer with Kathy Valentine of the Go Go's.
21. My sister blames me for 2 of my 4 nephews being atheists.
22. I had a military trainer once tell me I had great flexibility and no balance.
>> ^maatc:
14. I had a backstage pass for a Michael Jackson concert, but was too young to know what it meant
2. I dated a girl because she owned a 69 Corvette Stingray.
3. I am teaching myself Trigonometry and Calculus.
4. I ate 30 packets of Smarties candy today.
5. My teeth hurt.
6. I really hate living in Boise, Idaho.
7. I refuse to move because I fear change.
8. I wrote a letter to President Clinton when I was 10 years old, asking him to make abortion illegal.
9. I've never been outside of the United States.
10. My roommate got me hooked on Sudoku.
11. I think of Timothy McVeigh as a war hero.
12. I am not racist against people who don't fit stereotypes.
13. I am an excelent speler.
14. I am a virgin.
15. I've never been to Virginia.
16. I am fascinated by the etymology of words.
17. I can say the alphabet backwards while drunk...flawlessly.
18. I am a boring person.
19. I love wearing Hawaiian shirts.
20. My first memory is of my neighbor's dog, Oscar, trying to bite my left index finger off. Apparently they don't like to be poked in the eye by a toddler.
21. I've never broken a bone.
22. I have been known to troll chat rooms disguised as an ultra-conservative Christian.
23. I have a picture of Jessica Tandy in my wallet...don't ask.
24. My seventh birthday party was at McDonald's. I haven't been back since then.
25. I am a vegetarian.
2. I stopped doing homework after seventh grade, though somehow managed to stay in the school system until my senior year.
3. I'm a pack-a-day smoker.
4. My favorite food is Burgerville double cheeseburgers.
5. I have been to Australia.
6. I once rolled an ounce of weed into a single joint.
7. I have no wisdom teeth. They'll never grow in.
8. I used to be allergic to dairy products but grew out of it. (thank fucking god)
9. I've never been in a fight, though I started taking martial arts at 5 years old.
10. I read Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy in one night.
11. I've broken almost every bone in both of my arms, up to and including both collar bones.
12. Whiskey is the only thing that makes me black-out.
13. I've always had a major fear of zombie's.
14. I won the Clark County Sheriff's poster contest when I was 6. Don't play with matches.
15. I've lived in Washington, Oregon, Texas and New York City.
16. I voted for Nader in 2000.
17. I carpeted Jean-Claude Van Damme's sister in law's living room.
18 The only celebrities I've seen in New York are Uma Thurman and Peter Dinklage.
19. George Carlin is my one and only hero.
20. I had a ticket to the last Greatful Dead show that Jerry Garcia played but I didn't go and never saw them live.
21. I own the entire "Elfquest" collection.
22. I love the rain.
23. I once peed shoulder-to-shoulder with Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi.
24. I DESPISE the word poop. It makes me sick just to type it. Why can't we just call it shit?
25. I could've put some really embarassing shit on this list.
1. I dislike narcissistic threads which send the sift into mutual upvote frenzy
Well if it was a sift talk post I might a agree. But since this is my blog, piss off.
2. I'm pretty good at video games, but I don't play fighters.
3. Our "break" room has nothing but fighters: Street Fighter 3, 4 and Marvel Versus Capcom. We have a Wii, but it's always occupied with people playing Smash Bros. Brawl.
4. I once lived on someone's couch and went by the name Guitar Matt, because my name is Matt and all I did was play Guitar Hero.
5. I'll probably work at the same company for the rest of my life.
6. I skate pools.
7. I did not choose my handle because of skateboarding.
8. I just started doing indoor rock climbing, because I'm tired of weight lifting. Ugh.
9. I spend a lot of time with PK Cali (Parkour California) and have met David Belle. On weekends you may see me crawling, climbing and jumping around UCLA, Fullterton college, or various California parks with old walls.
10. My body is always sore.
11. I probably have ADD.
12. Despite probably having ADD, I read a lot of books.
13. I cannot read one book for more than an hour, so I'm usually reading 5 to 10 books at a time.
14. I can't bring myself to study for anything. As such, I'll never finish college.
15. I did a lot of extracurricular activites in high school, despite having a C average -- or maybe that's why I had a C average.
16. Doing drugs has been the only way for me to concentrate. Unfortunatley it does not help me study. (I did not do drugs in high school, nor in college.)
17. I was in academic decathelon in high school because they needed a smart person with a C average. I won a lot of medals.
18. I was in drama and have written, directed and starred in several plays.
19. I was a film major until I realized the reality of filmmaking, namely the spending and aquiring of large sums of money.
20. The man who wrote and directed The Stewardesses, Allan Silliphant, is a family friend. His brother was Sterling Silliphant, who is best known for winning an Academy Award for In the Heat of the Night and being close friends with Bruce Lee.
21. Like my father, I am a jack of all trades and a master of none.
22. My grandfather was in the Navy and worked for General Dynamics during the Cold War, investigating missle silos. He told my father freaky stories about nuclear isotopes and communists hiding in closests. My uncle described my grandfather as being to the right of Archie Bunker. All in the Family was his favortie show, he said nigger a lot, owned a German Shepard and had several guns nearby at all times. He was also an atheist. Oddly enough, it was his atheism that my parents were scared of the most. "Grandpa's going to hell, son." If there's a hell, he'll probably be there, but not for being an atheist.
23. I'm not quite white trash, but I wouldn't be entirely uncomfortable living off the land in a shack full of automatic weapons, distrustful of the government, waiting for the revolution.
24. I'm neither religious nor rascist, nor am I an atheist. I just don't care.
25. I'm writing a book. My screenplays have never sold. One of my professors suggested I write a book, then write the screenplay for the book. Only problem is, I can't concentrate (which is why I wrote screenplays to begin with) so it's taking me forever. Ugh.
26. I have been drawing since conception and have been doing life drawing off and on for 8 years, but I don't see myself pursuing a career in it. It's just for fun -- which pretty much sums up my life.
Then you are by definition an atheist.
2. i've had strong feelings for a lot of girls, but it's hard for me to say i love anyone. last time i said that, something bad happened.
3. my dog shares a death-day with heath ledger.
4. i have a few shows that i watch religiously, 24 and LOST spring to mind.
5. i'm friends with my own mother on facebook. is that weird?
6. I got accepted to two different colleges by the grace of God, and i have no idea which one i want to go to.
7. I'm more religious than i let on. i go to church every sunday.
8. i have done e-brake turns in my car, and it's sooo much fun.
9. Ricky Jay is my idol.
10. I think everyone should know at least one card trick.
11. I have a twin brother, and we're really close. we do almost everything together.
12. I'm not a vegetarian, nor could i ever be. but somehow, every time i've ever made a vegetarian joke, there's been one in the room.
13. i have a lot of good friends, but i feel like i don't have any "best" friends.
14. btw, my friends are as varied as my music.
15. I'll try anything once, whether it be food or activity.
16. i plan on becoming an english teacher, so i'm a grammar nazi. i will correct your grammar, all the time.
17. Top 5 movies: Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, Sin City.
18. i consider myself lucky, compared to others. my house is a nice size, my parents are still together, i have my own computer and tv, and a ps2 and xbox, not to mention a ton of books, movies, and misc. games.
19. I love ska. I’m kind of in a ska band, but we need to practice soon. We haven’t practiced since November.
20. I’m friendly and nice and not ugly at least. But for god’s sake, I can’t hold onto a girlfriend to save my life. Idk what it is.
21. Sometimes I feel like the only reason I’m here is to help other people. So that’s what I say. “I’m here to help.”
22. If I find a song I like, I will generally play it until I’m sick of it. This happens a lot.
23. I broke my hand in 4th grade after getting hit by a car. Worst pain I’ve ever felt.
24. I have the strangest friends. I will openly admit to hating one of my friend’s guts. With a straight face. He’s probably my best friend.
25. i once shot a man, just to watch him die.
26. One of the above statements is a lie.
24. I'm neither religious nor rascist, nor am I an atheist. I just don't care. "
Then you are by definition and atheist. (As in without any particular faith)
If I said I believed we're all the observational apparatuses of an undetermined god and that I speak with trees on a regular basis, would you say I'm an atheist?
>> ^poolcleaner:
>> ^gwiz665:
24. I'm neither religious nor rascist, nor am I an atheist. I just don't care. "
Then you are by definition and atheist. (As in without any particular faith)
If I said I believed we're all the observational apparatuses of an undetermined god and that I speak with trees on a regular basis, would you say I'm an atheist?
2. one day I saw this blog about writing 25 random things about oneself
3. and no one but me had this mark next to the name that noted my marginal status to the community posting on that blog.
4.It felt awkward,
5. maybe 1/6000000 part of what's like to have a star on a vest...
6. i've felt compelled to participate in a community inside my monitor
7. it's happened when i started reading comments on youtu...
8. on videosift in fact.
9. the more i read on this site throughout several years the less reticent i felt about joining,
10. but at the same time, i knew the secret services were stalking.
11. so it made me realize something
12. yeah, never write stuff about myslef anywhere
13. and when i wrote #12 i realized something else
14. you're paranoid, mister (oops, can be Miss, it can, ah believe this, it can be anything)
15. somehow this guitar riff from a 60's heavymetal band popped in my head
16. where i come from heavymetal bears the dicotomy of boring wannabeism and when foreign heavymetal comes to town it is profusely examined before being applauded or thrown rocks and bottles at ON STAGE fuk yeah
17. i used to like heavy metal when i was a kid and an innocent victim of the anglosaxonic music industry
18. but one day i became a none victim and started listening to coltrane, faaaantaaastic . . .
19. then i saw my father enjoying traditional music from our country so i formed a real band with the best people in the world and we started doing our music, it's not industrialized (yet) and non anglosaxonic so we're pretty much satisfied
20. people consider the band's product qualifiable as artistic (not "Kanye West is an artist" or "best artist of the year mtv award" kind of artistic)
21. but we know better, i'm an art student and what people mean it's that the band's product is aesthetically touching
22. but welcome to the present time, you sell you art, you appear you famous you artist (not verbs i know)
23. I noticed my brain functions in english when i write or speak english
24. I speak several languages.
25. I think that the english language is becoming a global dialect, a tool to global communication and aknowledges less and less its cultural origins since what the globe knows about english in its majority are memes and sterile things as such
2- The same day, Zsa Zsa spilled her hommade soup on a white shirt I was wearing
3- I've never impregnated a girl
4- A song I wrote has been banned in Thailand (1 woman, 2 men...google it)
5- I've been a non-theist since the age of 8
6- I don't like any of the tattoos that I have
7- When I was ten years old, I killed a turtle with a rock and felt horrible ever since.
8- As a kid, I cried at the end of the M*A*S*H series
9- My band was the in-house band for the 2000 AVN (porn) awards ceremony
10- I once sang a song with Ween on stage (up on the hill)
11- I've never been in a car accident nor received a traffic ticket, yet I've been driving for 25 years
12- I never graduated from high school and don't really care about a GED or whatever, also
13- My band gigged regularly from 1982-1988
14- When I was 7, I pooped in my pants at a playground, then ran into a local bar, removed my underwear and left them in a bathroom stall (little kids undies in a bar's bathroom?!)
15- I can't remember a couple of my past girlfriends' names
16- My first animation gig was working on a Bjork video in 1996
17- I collect matchbooks from around the world (for reasons unknown to me)
18- I am consciously and happily addicted to the internets and aware of all of its traditions
19- My best friend in Jr. High was caught by the FBI for phreaking (1984)
20- I was given a 22 revolver for my 4th birthday
21- My family has owned most farm animals, except a cow
22- I had a spinal tap at age 17
23- I've never broken a bone
24- There are unwritten symphonies constantly playing in my head
25- I once gave John Draper (Captain Crunch) a ride home from an outdoor rave
26- The only goals I have in life are to have as many peak experiences as possible, and try to be a nice and smart person
26- The only goals I have in life are to have as many peak experiences as possible, and try to be a nice and smart person
Double fail.
2. I have a political science BA even though I'm completely apathetic when it comes to politics.
3. I am (was) related to Edward Said.
4. I hate the word "foodie."
5. I am a foodie (for lack of a better word).
6. I slept with the lights on until my first year of university.
7. I once played a racing game in an arcade with John Tesh.
8. I went to film school.
9. I'm abandoning my dreams of becoming a filmmaker and going into law school in September (assuming one will accept me).
10. One of the highlights of my life (recently at least) was actually hiring a steadicam operator for a recent short film I made (which will probably end up being the last film I ever make).
11. The most times I've ever seen a film theatrically was Punch Drunk Love (seven times).
12. I've been playing videogames since the Atari, and would definitely call myself a gamer, though I've probably only finished maybe 20 or so games all the way through.
13. I am way more of an introvert than I'd like to be (ie. I'm distressingly shy).
14. Stanley Kubrick is a god to me.
15. I cannot stand people who use the word "guesstimate".
16. I've only watched three movies at home in the last two months thanks to the humongous time-sink that is World of Warcraft.
17. The first thing I ever downloaded was a picture of Andrew Dice Clay from a BBS. It was mind-blowing.
18. I made my first website, a Duke Nukem 3D fansite, in 1996. You can still see it at the internet archive (http://web.archive.org/web/19981205233542/http://members.aol.com/knusair/duke3d/duke3d.htm).
19. When I first heard about 3D cards, I thought "a card just for 3D graphics? What a ridiculous idea, that'll never fly." I bought my first 3D card (a Monster 3D) a couple of years later.
20. I can't stand watching or playing sports of any kind (even hockey, which means I can never truly be a Canadian, despite being born here and living here all my life).
21. I can't stand the taste of beer (see above, RE: not a real Canadian).
22. My family is Palestinian on both sides, though I rarely tell people that to avoid the inevitable discussions/conflict.
23. I wear a Mickey Mouse watch.
24. I've never been in a fight.
25. I would like to one day travel to every country in the world, with the exception of the super-poor and/or scary ones (ie. I have no real desire to go to, say, Afghanistan).
2: when speaking i can sustain a single sentence for so long, that people glaze over, loosing focus on the words that im saying and become facinated by the fact that i am not breathing. they often feel forced to inturpt me to demand that i breath.
3: I have come to learn reacently that i place enourmouse value on respect. being respected by others, and in my giving it (more slack on that). this insight has come from my realising so many relationships (esp family) had not included it, and i had acepted this, without realising what was absent.
4: I often find that other people are facinating when i shutup and let them speak about themselves. doing so enriches me, and i feel my life events are so less interesting in comparison. There is a balance to be ahd here, which i have not achived
5: I am dislexic. i'm also lazy. i could spellcheck this, but i've chosen not to for ilisturtive purpoises. i often misspell phoneticaly. where i have not its probably a typeo. these are not the same thing. i've correct a few of those or this would be genuinly ilegiable.
6: I feel that the human mind is incredible. it can re-peace together information from a single with a lot of noise in. like typos/misspellings, or a crowded room/party. the mind is so good at this that we can stop listening to people, thinking we've heard them and understood, when actualy we havent. listening is a pasive act, not an active one.
7: i have insights that are not original and get me nowhere either.
8: I once had my right testicle swell from about walnut size to bigger than a tenis ball in a mater of minuits. my left was unchanged. they injected morphine into my leg to calm me down. this was good.
9: one of my middle names is Kevern. It is after a cornish town near where i was born.
10: my mother was one of the last débutantes, introduced to the queen. my father was working class, and became an anglican vicar. This has left me with mild class confusion. i can be neither upper, nor working class, as i lack the inside information both would have. so i must be a variation of middle. about as mild and irelivant an identity crissis as one can have. very british.
11: i consider myself both british and cornish, but not enlgish.
12: I am a geek. i read alot, would have collected comics had there been a shop near when growing up (and had i had money), played warhamer 40k/bloobowl, RPGs etc. still do. only reacently played DnD. wasnt keen. want to play a game with a few friends to a system im making up myself.
13: I dont belive women like men. This is not a logical feeling, but its clear i feel it deep down. I get symanticaly hung up on things, and feel the term "men" is to broad. "women tend to like some men" is perfectly true. this is only important because i consider myself a member of "men" but, not of "some men". this is deeply unoriginal i'm sure, but influences how i interact with people, and is so likely to be one of the many factors that maintain my singleness. I mention it because its something about myself i'd like to change, but about which i feel powerless to do so.
14: I have 1 older brother. I always wanted to have a daughter, but I now dislike my own genes so strongly, i would not like to be a genetic father. as i am 31, this may not matter. I would hope i could be a good father. I would be determined to not make the mistakes my own father did, but would likely faily in atelast part as well as making my own new ones. joy.
15: I am thin, but not fit. i'd like to be strong. but i play video games for hourse. I like dance, freestyle, and almost joined a dance group as a child, but was peer preasured out of it. i like to sing, but am not good. I have reacently started Capoeira. this seems to be a wonderfull balance of all those thigns for me.
16: I grew up always imaging i would go to university and get a degree because that was what you did. discovering that this was not an expectation/aspiration/the norm for some people shocked me, because it made me realise how much i'd taken that path for granted.
17: I wanted to be an astrophysicist. i longed for space but the UK has no space program and im not that bright.
18: i have changed academic course in my life several times, at alive, degree, and then quit my PHD after 18months of it due to realising i had a violent hatred towards it and was depressed.
19: I once had to ask a friend in class how to spell the word "the" because i had forgotten. this was a foolish move.
20: As a young child, my bowels did not tell me when they needed to be evacuated. they just did their own thing. This was socially disastrous. 2 years ago i had 1/3rd of my large intestine removed due to cancer, and now im just glad they work atall. perspectives change.
21: I have great respect for the military, but dislike that we need one. I understand their need for discipline, but had i joined, would likely have passively resisted it untill i had gone insane. i am contridictions.
22: I can hold long converastions with myself, often considering what i would say to people, going overthings and yet once did not speak to a person for almost a week. i was brushing amdness, had breakdowns, and have had a panic attack in a restaurant. the human condition can be frustraighting.
23: I've gone over 24hrs without eating more than once, because i've been busy/distracted. i dont always take good care of myself. i dont always care.
24: I have things i need to be doing. I barely watch any videos on VS any more, due to time. maybe 1 or 2 every 2 weeks. and yet i check sift-talk/blogs page daily. the people matter.
25: as i keep mentioning, my new belife system is atheist. It seems that lossing christianity is very common, but as when someone is first converted, the point of change can be a profund period internaly. I have a strong science background, and a respect for holistic things. i dont reject things i dont understand, but i dont integrate them either. i belive in chaos. belife is not worship. i dont worship anythign.
26: i found others lists very interesting. i doubt mine has been, but found value in typing it. theres in isight in the selections i chose, from many for the 25, and i apologise that being of interest to others is not the primary criteria i chose by
18: i have changed academic course in my life several times, at alive, degree, and then quit my PHD after 18months of it due to realising i had a violent hatred towards it and was depressed.
Sounds like me and my 4 year long stint in a Economics program.
2. Consider myself the best husband/partner ever
3. Been recently told by some tests I'm in the IQ top 1-2%, am planning to join Mensa
4. Am pretentious
5. Think I have a very very very high pain threshold
6. Once broke both arms' ulnae and radii and went on with my daily activities for a week until family finally persuaded me to have an X-ray
7. Told not a single lie for approx. 4 years (2001-2005)
8. Talked very little for approx. 4 years (2001-2005)
9. Am an extremely efficient lie-spotter; am a lousy liar
10. Lost my sky-high narcissistic ambitions some 3 years ago
11. Am becoming too altruistic for my own good
12. Am becoming too cynical for my social status' good
13. Have been assured I WILL be (no confusion with might be/could be) the president by more than 20 adults outside family who actually meant it
14. Don't want to hold no political power; strong desire to possess/command extreme scientific power
15. Dislike all kinds of stupid shit, want to help the world get rid of it
16. Nowadays am thinking of ways to
makehelp humanity give up indoctrination whenever I have a moment of leisure17. Love bunnies ever since wife nicknamed me "Rabbit"; turns out last name is actually literally French for "Rabbit"
18. Have had greying hair since age of 18
19. Heart has occasionally raced well over 200 beats per minute since at least the age of 8; did so at one point while writing this
20. In a perfect world would be an astrophysicist
21. Saved a couple of girls from gang rapes on two separate occasions
22. Had/still kind of have an obsessive desire to save a drowning person's life; actually stalked people on city canal ice in winter a couple of times
23. Have no idea what to specifically do with my life other than knowing I should/could make my wife and some 6,8bn other folks happy
24. Never ever smoked a cigarette/did any drugs
25. Feel grateful to this amazing one of a kind community for providing quality entertainment and enlightenment.
That's cool for soldiers and killers, but I think fussiness is the cornerstone of civilization.
What if....
Daddy, what's wrong with this cave?
Mommy, I don't want to wear clothes!
Hey, you! Put out that fire!
1) I was once ranked in the top 150 ExpertCTF for Quake2 players in the world by TheCLQ.com, and I did it on dial-up.
2) I am only a few credits shy of getting an AA. I don't consider myself a drop-out, but it has been a very long time since I was in school.
3) Every girl I've been with ranks me somewhere between "really awesome" and "the best they ever had" in bed.
4) I once got my car stuck in the middle of Tahoe National Forest.
5) I used to be a boy scout.
6) Both my girlfriend and I have an aversion to using firearms.
7) I sleep with a very sharp 18" black ninja sword next to my bed.
8) I once did security for a Taj Mahal concert. I got him and his band to sign my badge.
9) Like many other sifters I've also worked in community theater, mostly backstage work.
10) I've studied martial arts off and on, since I was 8. I have 4 years of experience in American Kempo Karate (the stuff Ed Parker taught Elvis), and 4 years of Aikido training. Aikido had a bigger impact on my life.
11) When I was in 8th grade, my Odyssey of the Mind team came in Second place in regional competition. Only our teacher's team did better than us in our category. I wore a tiger costume (an orange jumpsuit I made, and then drew stripes on).
12) For about 4 years, I worked in a place Mark Twain, and two presidents once slept.
13) My parents own a Yellow-naped Green Amazon parrot. I'll likely inherit him. He's been in the family since I was in 4th grade.
14) I have never had any urge to join the military.
15) I've walked through the red light district in Amsterdam.
16) As a waiter, I once served the author of Schindler's List.
17) I've had long hair for most of my life.
18) I enjoy dueling friends using a Shinai - a traditional bamboo training sword.
19) I'm addicted to Yahoo! Answers. It's sad, but there's so many noobs who need schooling. I got to level 6 answering a bunch of the same questions in the Wii category.
20) I used to have a pet Goose.
21) I didn't sleep at all last night.
22) I was told many times growing up I could have been a model. I would rather be known for contributing something more to the world than just my looks, though, so I never pursued it.
23) I have mastered the head-stall footbag technique.
24) I don't kick footbag as much since rolling my ankle a couple years ago.
25) When I was in 1st grade, my dad would sometimes guest host for a friend's late night community radio program. The couple times he took me along were awesome.
1) my feet stink.
2) i have a high IQ - can't remember what is because my memory's fucking awful.
3) i swear like a bastard.
4) i know next to nothing about politics.
5) i've only owned a car once. i paid for it to be scrapped after a week.
6) my brother is one of gordon ramsay's chefs, i'm extremely jealous.
7) i'm horrific at paying bills, through sheer disorganisation and laziness.
8) i stopped growing vertically when i was approx. 16yrs old.
9) i can't get enough marmite down my throat.
10) i can go days without showering.
11) i have a weak bladder.
12) i often find it hard to have conversations with non-friends. it's not that i'm shy - it's just the part of my brain responsible for storytelling is inactive/missing.
13) all of my socks have holes in them.
14) asparagus affects the smell of my urine within minutes of its consumption. literally.
15) i wish i'd studied architecture at university rather than a course which woulod ultimately get me nowhere in life.
16) even though i never use uppercase letters and realise the hypocrisy, the incorrect application of apostrophes riles me.
17) i really really want a pet chimpanzee.
18) water makes me sneeze.
19) it deeply saddens me to witness the now widespread incorrect usage of the word 'literally'.
20) hair growth on my body is extremely sporadic.
21) i can sleep standing up.
22) i love going for a shit.
23) i'm utterly addicted to the world wide tubes.
24) going out and getting drunk is the best thing on earth. and also the worst.
25) i fucking hate smoking and cannot stop.
1. Nice how you let the whole world read your deepest secrets. You can never know who will be reading. And yes, this is directed to one of you
Your veiled threat will surely embrace you into the arms of this loving community.
2. I get really good grades.
3. Like my brother Haldaug, I play the jazz saxophone. As he actually studies music, I can't really compare myself to him.
4. I also play the clarinet and the piano.
5. I got much better grades in nynorsk than bokmål, even though bokmål is the language I use.
6. I've had socialist democrat leanings for most of my life (gasp!)
7. I'm being torn in a liberal direction by my brothers and a persuasive right-wing extremist friend (by Norwegian standards).
8. Hanging on videosift doesn't help.
9. While i've never really believed in any god, I didn't call myself an atheist until about a year ago.
10. Despite this I was baptized and confirmed a Lutheran Christian. Hey, it's a cultural thing!
11. I read a lot of popular science, and like to pretend I know something just because i've read a book about it.
12. At around 8 years of age, I had a philosophy discussion club with two friends.
13. My favourite philosopher is Daniel Dennett.
14. I learned programming in High School on a Casio 9850GC+ calculator. Among the programs I wrote was a drawing program and a Mandelbrot fractal generator (which used over an hour to draw a single frame!)
15. Since that i've learned real computer languages, but have never really finished a programming project.
16. Since I moved out, I've usually gone to bed two o'clock in the morning.
17. I still do not drink that much coffee...
18. I own a Flower Stick (a kind of Devil Stick for newbs). I am good enough at it to impress people who have never seen one before.
People who have seen one is another matter...
19. Despite my grass pollen allergy, I haven't taken more than about three packs of antihistamines in my life.
20. I am a slow writer. I'll be back with a few more!
2. I used to be a trance DJ... I still have my decks and a crate of vinyl.
3. My first rave was Hullabaloo.
4. I've never broken a bone or needed a stitch.
5. I have a tatoo. Yes, they hurt.
6. In college, I ran the radio station.
7. I was only ever in two car accidents... they were both on the same day.
8. I got pulled over at 12:15am, January 1st, 2000.
9. I eat entirely too much popcorn.
10. I also love cheese.
11. I was a terror in elementary school, a teacher's pet in middle school, and an apathetic BQ in high school.
12. I love caving.
13. I love golfing.
14. Little things don't annoy me.
15. I have a rather acute sense of smell.
16. I once had a dog named Fudge. I didn't name him.
17. I haven't been sick in years.
18. I never get the hiccups. I only get one.
19. I love spicy food.
20. I like yellow... and that's just weird.
21. I was not impressed by Susan Boyle.
22. I'm a decent mimic, but I cannot for the life of me do the British accent.
23. I once had a curry dish with mill worms as the main ingredient. It was fantastic.
24. I've stopped noticing the helicopters.
25. I often have lucid dreams.
2. I have never before felt compelled to write one of these things to strangers, but my love of the Sift has been growing by the week.
3. I am passionate about uncomfortable comedy.
4. My mum once accidentally ran over my leg in the family car when I was little. When I rushed to show and tell at school, no one believed me.
5. One of my major life goals is to become practical with my hands. I think my generation missed out on life skills, and I’m determined to learn them.
6. I miss my daughter every single day.
7. Most of my sifts never make it.
8. I have lived in Oz (my home country), France and Vietnam. While I can speak fluent French, I never took to Vietnamese.
9. I have ridden a motorbike every day since I lived in Vietnam, but I’m planning on trading down to a pushbike for exercise, sustainability and safety reasons. I’ve never had a serious accident, but I think it’s only a matter of time.
10. I’ve had a blessed life, filled with opportunity.
11. I would quite fancy a career in politics at some point, but I’ve had too much fun with too many people to survive the moral hypocrisy blowtorch of modern political life.
12. Alice Cooper ate at a restaurant I worked in once. He had sausages with maple syrup.
13. I consider myself a pragmatist.
14. I cannot cope with liars. They confuse me.
15. I’m not into guns, but I would like to shoot a feral pig one day to see what it feels like.
16. My personal hero is Paul Keating.
17. I once held open the door to Parliament House for Gough Whitlam – he didn’t thank me.
18. I’m not scared of heights, but I am in my dreams.
19. My favourite place in the world is Stradbroke Island
20. I was passing through the Philippines during an attempted military coup in the 1980s. There were pre-teen kids my age carrying automatic guns.
21. I’m not into computer games, but I’m very competitive and get short term addictions to internet games. I’m currently into Blast Billiards
22. I regularly play lawn bowls
23. I would love to build a sustainable house one day, like those ‘Earth Ships’ designed by the Garbage Warrior.
24. I’m neither religious nor superstitious
25. This list took me my entire lunch time to write, and it's so long since this blog was posted few will ever read it.
1. I've killed at least 250 birds
2. and I don't feel bad about it
3. As a kid I was a talented chess player
4. I used to be a member of MENSA, but it was too geeky and self-indulgent for me
5. My first car was a Seat Leon
6. I loved that car and still miss it
7. I've been involved in a serious car crash and was the only one to walk away unharmed
8. The only code I know is html
9. In school I made a fansite about Wesley Willis
10. I've dislocated both shoulders numerous times
11. I haven't been in a fight for over 6 years now (and I don't plan to)
12. I'm a big fan of Liverpool FC
13. I've never been to Liverpool
14. I own a 12 gauge shotgun and a .30-06 rifle
15. I'm not a big fan of handguns, but I used to have a Desert Eagle .45 (the kickback was fun and frightening at the same time)
16. I suffer from an autoimmune disease (it's not lupus
17. Growing up, 3 different teachers encouraged me to see a therapist
18. I never did
19. I own a perfect replica of a Picasso self portrait. I love that picture.
20. I'm a terrible dancer
21. I love vintage clothing like hats and vests
22. I competed in the British national athletics championship final when I was 12 yrs old (100m hurdles and 4x100m relay)
23. I didn't win, but it was a a lot of fun
24. My favourite number is 46
25. I've never shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
1. Sometimes I say things innocently that end up sounding creepy... if I say "You're so cute " etc. so on... it doesn't mean I want to fuck you. Promise.
2. I am back in school now for the first time in a long time. I am really excited.
3. I am probably the most innocent person I know.
4. Deep down I think that everyone is good, but misunderstood.
5. I feel things very deeply. Probably too much.
6. I like pasta. Love it actually. I would marry it.
7. Almost all the guys I am attracted to look the same.
8. I don't really count my first time as my first time. Everyone else does.
9. I use algebra to solve problems in my life all day.
10.I still have problems.
11.I have a daughter who is stunningly beautiful. People stop us all the time to look at her.
12.I sometimes act like an asshole just so people don't know how nice I am.
13.Even though I haven't ever done it, I have decided that accupuncture is bullshit.
14.I am in a constant state of chaos.
15.I have a terrible memory... so much that it scares me.
16.I make my family 3 meals a day at least. It hurts my feelings when they don't eat it.
17.Sometimes I think my life is one giant mistake.
18.Birth control commercials annoy me.
19.Everyone I know who has gotten pregnant has done it while on birth control.
20.I am so addicted to SciAm.
21.I love math.
22.I know so much about mitigating water damages and have never done it.
23.I love lube.
24.I have a giant red couch.
25.I want to know all about everyone and I have got to know what all of you look like. It's killing me.
2. I also have an ex-boyfriend who is on death row and he's been there for 8 years. He killed some police officers and when they were fleeing, my friend Allen was gunned down.
3. I had a boyfriend who drowned in a lake. I don't like to call him an ex because we never broke up. He died. It's been almost ten years and I still go to his old LiveJournal and read all the entries and cry.
4. I had a terrifying experience in New Orleans when I was 16. It never showed itself to me, but made awful tapping noises all over my hotel room. Whenever I tried to wake up my parents, it would stop. I was so very very scared.. Even typing this now, I have to repress the urge to cry and turn on all my lights. I'm sweating. When I went to sleep that night, I curled against the headboard, with my back out towards the room. I woke up in the morning and took a hot shower and when I turned around, the hot water stung on my back. I looked at my back in the mirror and there were three long scratches spanning diagonally from the tops of my shoulders to my waist. Even though they had obviously bled and scabbed, there was no blood on my shirt or on the bra I had been wearing. That experience really fucked up my religious beliefs. I like to say that I'm a complete atheist, but whenever I say that, I think back to that night and I'm afraid of what an afterlife is and who or what exists in it.
5. I'm leaking breast milk all over my legs right now, but I'm ignoring the mess.
6. Mensa tried to recruit me as a little girl and it freaked me out. They sent so many letters and called to speak to me all the time. They tried to talk to me at school but I was convinced they were some kind of cult. Plus, they wanted me to spend my summer taking classes and doing homework. Crazy fuckers.
7. I had some rare kind of nerve cancer as a teenager and they cut the tumor from my chin when I was 16. The tumor and the consequent surgery left the lower part of my face numb and my lower lip a bit unresponsive. I drool on myself sometimes and when it's pointed out, I vehemently tell them I had cancer. It makes me laugh at how they scramble to apologize.
8. I used to be really into music and I've played with several bands, ranging from rock to jazz to blues to just jamming. I was really into it and I loved performing at dives and all the free beer. No one cards you when you're the band. But after my ex tried to kill himself, I fell out of that world, too. I regret that more than anything. I love music.. Now I just play for me and somehow it's not the same.
9. I play piano, clarinet, alto and soprano recorders[Hey, those are real instruments, too!], cello, violin, guitar, bass, any stringed instrument really, drum kit, hand drums, etc etc. I haven't really found an instrument I couldn't play. I like to sing a lot. My baby loves it when I sing. That pleases me greatly!! He's my number on fan.
10. I was expelled the last semester of my senior year from high school for doodling in my notebook a stick figure with a crude gun pointed at its head. It was accompanied by the sentence "I hate chemistry." The teacher walked by and saw it, seized it and dragged me to the principal. I was arrested for threatening students with a handgun. [My drawing wasn't specific, I mean, it could have been a sawed-off shotgun?? It was more of a sideways L..] I got 9 months of probation and had to get my diploma by correspondence. It was hilarious and fucked up all at the same time.
11. I had a neighbor freak out on cocaine and whatever else that guy was on. He came over and kept my roommates and I hostage and screamed at us about "sounding out" at night. He also put my roommate's Diamonda Galas CD on and played it full volume. That's what got the police there. Thank God for Diamonda's screeching voice or my other neighbor's wouldn't have called the cops. He also tried to strangle our cat. When the police finally busted down the back door, he was screaming about how he would kill us all. The cops took him to the ground and he told them he was the mayor and they would be fired. Heh.
12. I've been the victim of rape many times. I wonder sometimes if I have an aura that tells people it's ok to hurt me like that..
13. When my baby cried for almost 7 hours straight, I honestly contemplated smothering him. I feel evil because of that.
14. I had a college reading level by fourth grade and teachers would get upset that I wanted to read during recess. I read the same books as my mother and father and of course, some had "questionable" content. Whenever they confiscated one of my books, my dad would get royally pissed and scream at them over the phone. I still love to read. I read compulsively. I read all the labels of everything I buy just because. When I take a shit, if there's nothing to read, I read the back of the shampoo or whatever is close by. To my utter shame, I have read harlequin romance novels. I'll read anything within arms reach, even if it's utter shite. I really love a good book, though. Don't get me wrong!
15. I won a national short story contest for children when I was 12. The story was about a demon who disemboweled hapless victims during one cold winter night. I only really remember one part where the entrails steamed in the snow. What the fuck was wrong with those judges??
16. I talk way, way too much.
17. I have CPS involved in my life because I tested positive in my urine for marijuana when I went to the hospital to deliver my son. I hadn't smoked pot in almost six months. The CPS people call me a liar, but I'm not fucking lying. I read that pot can sometimes be detected up to 90 days after, but it had been twice that. Now I have to go to counseling twice a week for 6 months and they randomly drop by and drug test. They assess my whole house each time and write it up when I don't do the goddamn dishes. I hate CPS. Where were they when I was being abused as a child? Why didn't they care about rape and physical abuse? They ignored me when I begged for help..
18. I'm often way too candid.
19. I hold a grudge like a mother fucker. I try very very hard not to hate certain people. But I often fail.
20. I really love VideoSift. I used to be really into IRC. I have a long history of communicating and making friends over the internet. But the Sift is my favorite. I stopped for a long time and it was really hard not to come here and browse. I would find myself absent-mindedly typing the url. Oi.
21. I'm really into Facebook. It's the only way I talk to my estranged family and friends.
22. I love music, if you can't tell by the stuff I sift. Any and all types of music, except for bad music. Har har. Farhad's queue is one of my favorite places to peruse.
23. When I bare my soul to people, it never ever turns out right.
24. I tend to over-punctuate!!@!!!@1!!11!1!@!111one
25. I love to smile and be cheerful. I find humor in even the most dire of tragedies and I often get flack from that. People don't understand it, I guess.
2. I lived in Corvallis, Oregon for about 2 years when I was 3 years old. I don't remember speaking English at the time, but the language came very naturally to me in school and I still have a somewhat American accent. I even catch myself thinking in English when speaking Hebrew.
3. In grade school I used to read ahead of the class and interrupt the teachers with questions so much that the school wanted to transfer me to a special (retarded) class. My mother insisted on a psychological evaluation that determined I was bored.
4. I'm addicted to an online game that takes almost all of my free time (guess which). I've quit and relapsed three times already. I'm also becoming addicted to an online video sharing community, but that's neither as time-consuming nor a problem IMO.
5. I lost touch with almost all of my high-school friends other than two. Other than family, those are the only people I talk to.
6. I have never finished anything that I wasn't forced to finish in my entire life. This includes university studies, projects at work and silly things like cleaning up my own apartment.
7. I am constantly tired. Have been since I can remember. After 3 cups of coffee I feel like a curtain that covers my eyes normally is gone.
8. I have no sense of self worth. That is to say, I believe that I am less than every other person, whether I know them or not. It makes me very persuadable and very vulnerable to criticism, which I usually take very personally, even if it's not meant that way.
9. I berate myself all the time. I'm doing it right now, telling myself to stop writing this pathetic post about what a pathetic person I am (considering how my imaginary problems are dwarfed by the post above mine).
10. I went to a therapy session once, but was very uncooperative.
11. I can't tell anybody else pretty much all of what I've written here already. The only reason I can do it here is because what's staring back at me is a LCD monitor.
12. I think about ending my life pretty much constantly. It's usually strongest before I go to sleep. It's been like this since I was 16 or so. I have never attempted suicide, I'm not suicidal as far as I know, and this isn't a cry for help.
13. I have never taken any kind of drug, aside for antibiotics and other common medicine. As far as I know, I've never been high.
14. I was in a scooter vs. scooter accident exactly three months ago. The other guy ran a red light and smashed into my vehicle at about 50 mph. I walked away with a slight pain in my right hand, he had several injuries as a result. In a related note, I also own a car now, and am attempting to sell my scooter.
15. I work as the sole IT guy for a tiny web hosting / site building company. It's barely enough work to keep me occupied during the day.
16. I have an American private pilot license from 2006 (single engine land). I haven't flown since, but that's because of the nature of recreational flight in Israel.
17. I am afraid of heights. Happens when I rappel or stand on high places without a safety rail. Doesn't affect me at all when flying.
18. I commonly engage in software/music/video piracy, but as a leecher, not a seeder.
19. I think about relocating to a different country a lot, but it's closer to my random thing #12 than it is an actual desire to move.
20. I am one of those people that ruin the movie-going experience for other people. I constantly find silly things wrong with movies or tv shows and point them out. I do this in a very hypocritical way, since I ignore such flaws in movies I like.
21. I suspect I have hypothyroidism, but my blood tests disagree.
22. I have no items that I would miss specifically if I had to part with them suddenly.
23. I wake up with two separate alarms, both on the other side of the room to force me to get out of bed to turn them off, but I still go back to sleep most of the time and end up being late for work. I sometimes even have no memory of turning off either alarm.
24. I have never been in a fight.
25. My favorite food is a pizza with green olives.
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I really don't want to click submit (#9) but I am going to anyway.
2. I thrive to be the kindest person I know but still end up being an ass without even trying.
3. I'm Socially retarded. I have trouble talking to friends I've known for years.
4. When I was 19 I had an affair with a twenty year old woman. I felt guilty about her husband but I was in love.
5. I often feel my social awkwardness is the #1 contributer to feeling that my life has been kind of dull.
6. I work in the IT industry and I'm building a web site for my dads company which I still have no confidence in.
7. I love everything French and wish there was a French channel. Although I cannot speak French fluently even after studying three years of it.
8. I play piano and guitar.
9. I adore women.
10. When I was young I told my brother that there was a twenty dollar bill behind a fence in a coke can so I could steal the front seat of my moms car. He came back with a twenty dollar bill and a coke can.
11. I used to work security for a event arena. I sat next to Lars Ulrich all night and did not recognize him. I've also said hi to Phil Collins, Eddie Van Halen, Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Ericah Bahdu, and the guy from Matchbox 20.
12. ^ I've also been back stage and watched Metallica warm up for the show and was the sole reason a popular disc jockey was thrown out of the same concert.
13. I have celebrity crushes on Drew Berrymore, Dolores O rirden (I know I did not spell that right), Kelly Osborne, Audrey Tautou, Natalie Portman, and Lisa Loeb.
14. I always stick up for Jewish people when the chance arises.
15. When I was young I cried because a younger man was picking on and beating up an older man in an old western movie.
16. I always wanted to be famous but only because I wanted people to like me.
17. I did not have sex until I was 19. (and it was the affair 4.)
18. I married the second person I had sex with.
19. I once had a beagle named Snoopy. (I know so original)
20. I wish I worked for a gaming company.
21. I still feel like a kid.
22. I spent two weeks in France.
23. I kissed a girl I barley knew in Paris, she was from Richmond Virginia. I also was became lost there with two others who did not speak French and between the three of us had to find our way to the hotel. Luckily I know how to say where is the Metro?
24. I just recently purchased a house.
25. I cannot seem to be able to turn off love. Once I've fallen in love with someone I always love them.
2. Can’t sing.
3. Loves pizza.
4. Hates pasta.
5. Likes the frigid cold.
6. Is missing Montana.
7. Resents Central Tennessee.
8. Has a crush on Canada (Alberta and BC I’m looking at you…)
9. Grew up around boys.
10. Strangers talk to me more often than my family does.
11. Rescues animals.
12. I Have killed animals.
13. I Have killed animals against my will.
14. Doesn’t like pork.
15. Eats turkey bacon.
16. Was almost married at 19 (dodged a bullet).
17. At one point was probably the only person in eastern Montana to have blue hair.
18. Used to play the flute and piccolo.
19. Got my training license at 14 (my real one at 15)
20. Once forgot my own birthday. (My sweet 16)
21. Used to be able to bench my own body weight but now I’m a wimp/heavier.
22. My mother was very artistic (she could draw or sculpt anything from her head). She didn’t do anything productive with her talent. She also has paranoid schizophrenia.
23. My dad worked for the railroad he was bipolar and “went crazy”. Living on the streets until he was ironically mugged, left on the train tracks to die (being ran over by a train).
24. My dad’s father also worked for the railroad…he's my real dad..(not in a biological sense)
25. My redneck neighbors really are that loud.
so do you just shower everyday...or just try to shit less?
1. I convinced my 6 year old self that Sonic the Hedgehog was my boyfriend
2. I actually liked Knuckles more, but figured he was out of my league
3. I thought I was in loved with my parents' friends' son, who was much older than me. I was about 12.
4. Then at 14 I contacted him, because I thought it would be romantic to lose my virginity to him, my first "love"
5. We hung out, I realized it was all fake, and kicked him out of my house before we did anything serious. He was not happy.
6. I went through all of middle school hung up on wanting a boyfriend and liking boys. No I do not have an absent father figure.
7. I became confident and found my true personality in the second year of high school, from then on, I got anyone I perused and started doing extremely well in school.
8. I almost lost my virginity drunk at a party on the backyard lawn. We were interrupted.
9. I almost lost my virginity in a bathroom in Cuba, with a Cuban model. We were interrupted.
10. I lost my virginity on a forest floor, with a British man whom I dearly loved and who dearly loved me. We had a long wonderful relationship. I am very glad it happened that way, and I feel very stupid reflecting on how it could have happened.
11. In middle school I fell in love with a bat. He was a character in the "Silverwing" book series. I told my friend and she laughed at me and made me cry.
12. I was my best gay friend's straight love (every gay guy has a girl love). I rejected him, he guilt tripped me and we didn't speak for 2 years. We have been amazing friends since then for about 6 years now.
13.I have had my heart broken once. He later fixed it.
14. I have never been in a "bad" relationship.
15. I am exactly like my mother when it comes to love.
16. I was in love with my high school art teacher. He was an ugly British man. He knew I wanted to fuck him in the dark room. He was a very innocent guy and it made him feel somehow guilty. We are friends still, and we email each other and I visit him at school. He is proud of me artistically and that makes me happy.
17. I have had a sex dream about the guy from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Except he wasn't all overly concerned and happy, but was bad ass, to match his sexy exterior
18. I had a sex dream about House (Hugh Laurie)
19. I had a sex dream about Chase (the Aussie) from House
20. I had a sex dream about a young version of Marilyn Manson
21. I enjoyed all of the above
22. I watch porn at least once a week
23. Although I have used the word "love" loosely, I have only actually truly loved two men.
24. I feel like I am an extremely lucky person and that nothing horrible has every happened to me...especially after reading some of these.
25. The only things that matter to me in life is creative fulfillment and mutually loving the people who deserve it, hopefully that is your family, your current partner, your children, and probably only half your friends.
2. I can make anyone laugh IRL. Anyone.
3. I wet the bed until I was 11.
4. I almost drowned in Hudson Bay when I was 3. My mother tells me she's never seen anyone run as fast as my father did that day.
5. I am supposed to have an older sister named Stephanie. She died 3 hours after birth.
6. After Stephanie, my parents tried to conceive for over 3 years, gave up, adopted my older sister, then found out they were pregnant a week later.
7. I have 13 siblings (most are adopted or fostered, 3 half-siblings, including 1 I've never met). I have no full siblings.
8. I am not fluent in my native tongue, and this has been a source of shame for me my entire life.
9. My wife is teaching me more of my native tongue living in southern Canada than I ever learned back home.
10. I tested (twice) in the 97th percentile for IQ in all of Canada. I took "enrichment" classes until high school, when we moved back north (no enrichment classes there).
11. I used to play D&D and Magic the Gathering, but was always on at least 1 sports team throughout school.
12. I had my first child when I was far too young.
13. I am overweight (but losing weight).
14. My wife tells me my best feature is my forehead (I'm not kidding).
15. I am going into Law School next year.
16. I smoke.
17. I take a certain pleasure in making people look like fools if I think they feel superior to me.
18. I am very self-conscious and I may try too hard.
19. My Inuktitut name is Nuliajuk, after my grandfather.
20. I make friends easily but rarely maintain relationships. I only have 5 'buddies'.
21. I have a very high tolerance for cold. My skin gets cold, but I don't feel cold.
22. People have guessed I am: Native American, Mexican, Phillipino, Samoan, Hawaaiin, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean.
23. I have very little cartilage in my nose.
24. I procrastinate (thanks videosift).
25. I have abnormally strong legs. (I once maxed out a leg-press machine with 1 leg).