Fortress of Perpetual Midnight

Here's a meme with no instructions. I've just put down what comes to mind and ignored the rest.

1. Where is your cell? Breast pocket
2. Your significant other? Inconceivable!
3. Your hair? Sloppy
4. Your skin? Mottled
5. Your mother? Unlucky
6. Your favorite thing? Hate
7. Your dream last night? Forgotten
8. Your favorite drink? Strawberry shake, sweet
9. Your dream/goal? Become being
10. The room you're in? Study
11. Your ex? N/A
12. Your fear? Which?
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Alone
14. Where were you last night? Work
15. What you're not? Honorable
16. Muffins? Depends
17. One of your wish list items? Locked
18. Where you grew up? Here
19. The last thing you did? Surf
20. What are you wearing? The usual
21. Your TV? N/A
22. Your pets? N/A
23. Your computer? Wrongfully mine
24. Your life? Pathetic
25. Your mood? Bored
26. Missing someone? N/A
27. Your car? Hated
28. Something you're not wearing? Necktie
29. Favorite Store? Undecided
30. Your summer? Indiana
31. Like someone? God†
32. Your favorite color? Black
33. When is the last time you laughed? Forgotten
34. Last time you cried? Work
35. Who will respond to this? Probably no one
36. Whose answers are you anxious to see? Ms. mizuno_youko‡

†This one will be easily misconstrued by those who don't know me. Remember my name.
‡Just because she's the only one here with whom I have anything in common

I'm too lazy to italicize them as is proper, so I'll use that for the ones I've seen to differentiate them from the title bar. I'm sure you can guess how this works as easily as I did.

Best Picture Winners:
1928—Wings/Sunrise
1929—The Broadway Melody
1930—All Quiet on the Western Front
1931—Cimarron
1932—Grand Hotel
1933—Cavalcade
1934—It Happened One Night
1935—Mutiny on the Bounty
1936—The Great Ziegfield
1937—The Life of Emile Zola
1938—You Can't Take It with You
1939—Gone with The Wind
1940—Rebecca
1941—How Green Was My Valley
1942—Mrs. Miniver
1943—Casablanca
1944—Going My Way
1945—The Lost Weekend
1946—The Best Years of Our Lives
1947—A Gentleman's Agreement
1948—Hamlet
1949—All the King's Men
1950—All about Eve
1951—An American in Paris
1952—The Greatest Show on Earth
1953—From Here to Eternity
1954—On the Waterfront
1955—Marty
1956—The King and I
1957—Bridge on the River Kwai
1958—Gigi
1959—Ben Hur
1960—The Apartment
1961—West Side Story
1962—Lawrence of Arabia
1963—Tom Jones
1964—My Fair Lady
1965—The Sound of Music
1966—A Man for All Seasons
1967—In the Heat of the Night
1968—Oliver
1969—Midnight Cowboy
1970—Patton
1971—The French Connection
1972—The Godfather
1973—The Sting
1974—The Godfather Part 2
1975—One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976—Rocky
1977—Annie Hall
1978—The Deer Hunter
1979—Kramer vs. Kramer
1980—Ordinary People
1981—Chariots of Fire
1982—Gandhi
1983—Terms of Endearment
1984—Amadeus (a good proportion, but audio only to avoid having to get another actor to play the freighter captain)
1985—Out of Africa
1986—Platoon (×2)
1987—The Last Emperor
1988—Rain Man
1989—Driving Miss Daisy
1990—Dances with Wolves
1991—Silence of the Lambs
1992—Unforgiven
1993—Schindler's List
1994—Forrest Gump
1995—Braveheart
1996—The English Patient
1997—Titanic
1998—Shakespeare in Love
1999—American Beauty
2000—Gladiator (×!)
2001—A Beautiful Mind (×2)
2002—Chicago
2003—Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (×3)
2004—Million Dollar Baby
2005—Crash
2006—The Departed
2007—No Country for Old Men

Total: 10/81 (altered from 79 because there are supposedly 80 of them, and one had two awards that were later rolled into one)

Incidentally, the two oldest movies that I've seen in full (as far as I know) were also nominees for '39. I'm sure you can guess which those were.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies [TV shows]
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie [TV show].
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

I've altered this as little as possible to make it viable; it also includes shows that I used to like, to fill out the numbers. (I wanted quotes that I remembered, so that narrowed the list quite a bit.) I also randomized the order by a method that's a tribute to one of the shows. Also, one was from an episode that I just saw the other day.

1. "Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! Ha ha ha ha!" ( blitzcon )

2. "I've spent my whole life stickin' it to the man. If I do this, I'll be the man. I don't think I can be the man." ( phoenix_talon )

3. "IT'S ALIVE, ALIVE! I've always wanted to say that." ( phoenix_talon )

4. "Don't touch that dial. And, if your TV has a dial, go buy a new one."

5. "What's the matter? Teacher's pet got cold feet? Anytime, pretty boy!"

6. "This oven door has run off with your wife, so you decide to gear-up and get even."

7. "Urge to kill... fading... fading... fading - rising! Fading... fading... gone." ( phoenix_talon )

8. "I let him think for a while 'cause I knew he had the answer. I knew it was a good answer, and he was going to tell it to me. 'Cause when you ask a question, you expect an answer. That's the way it works... question, answer, answer, question. If he gave the answer, I'd have to come up with the question. That would be Jeopardy[!]. That's wrong."

9. "Now calm down son, listen to daddy. It's just a bad dream. I promise you, Senator Thurmond is not in your closet. That's a good boy. Yes, okay you go back to bed now."

10. "There are over 13,000 cabs in New York City, but there is only one that pays you." ( Ms. mizuno_youko )

I looked at cast roll for the new Lord of the Rings movies. For some reason, it was separated in two sections: one for characters who were played by only one actor each, and one for those who were played by more than one each. The first section had only five characters listed: the Nine Walkers, minus the four hobbits.

Edit (2007.02.26): Also, Figwit was on the second list.

This is of course not consistent with the waking world, as almost everyone, even Sméagol, was played by a single actor, excepting stunt and size doubles. The only exceptions that come to mind are the Nazgûl, who were voiced by Andy Serkis.

On the topic of movies, I've just run across another meme, which is also a quiz. Sadly, I hardly watch movies, and the few that I've bothered to rewatch tend to be the geek "bibles," so any quotes from them would be easily identified, so I don't know whether I can make it have a point.

Edit (2008.06.20): I've taken a stab.

( No surprises here )

As noted before, I don't have a good position on issues that aren't easily comprehensible, which resulted in picking middle-ground or arbitrary answers and minimum importance on the first nine and maximum importance on the last two.

Meanwhile, I've been hearing recently about Ms. Clinton's problem dubbed the "dynasty" issue. I may talk about her later.

I've done some cleaning up on this one.

Rules:
- Bold each of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD.

The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Alias
America’s Next Top Model
The Andy Griffith Show
Angel
The Apprentice
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Being Served?
Arrested Development
The A-Team
The Avengers
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
The Beverly Hillbillies
Beverly Hills 90210
The Bionic Woman
Blackadder
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
The Brady Bunch
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains It All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
The Cosby Show
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Daily Show
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Dead like Me
Deadwood
The Dead Zone
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dinosaurs
Diff'rent Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963)
Doctor Who (2005)
Doctor Who (2006)
Dragnet
The Dresden Files
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
The Famous Jet Jackson
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
The Flintstones
Forever Knight
The 4400
Fraggle Rock
Frasier*
Freaks and Geeks
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
The Golden Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Greek
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hardcastle & McCormick
Heroes
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
The Honeymooners
Hill Street Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House M.D.
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
The Invisible Man
JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
Joey
John Doe
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
Knight Rider
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life with Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The L Word
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married . . . with Children
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Name Is Earl
My So-Called Life
My Super Sweet 16
Mythbusters
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
The Nanny
News Radio
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Pokémon
Power Rangers
The Pretender
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
The Real World
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rocko’s Modern Life
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robotech
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
The Sentinel
Sex and the City
The Shield
The Simpsons
Six Feet Under
The Six Million Dollar Man
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
The Sopranos
South Park
So Weird
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor (Nope, but I have seen every episode of Born Survivor. . . .)
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
3rd Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Torchwood
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
The Vicar of Dibley
The Waltons
The West Wing
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (US)
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Xena: Warrior Princess

That was quite a variety (although perhaps a bit heavy on the Nickelodeon)—It took me back to when I didn't have anything worth doing, so I watched sitcoms. Also, my copies of the L word aren't on any such mainstream media. I don't remember precisely which ones broke the three-episode barrier, so this is only a rough approximation.

Alphabetized to avoid having to rate them even more precisely

4 Movies You Can Always Watch:
1. STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE
2. STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE
3. STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
4. STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI
I rarely rewatch movies (even the ones I watch in the first place) anymore. There's just too much else to see. However, I've listed a few classics that I wouldn't mind watching again, since I'm interested in the setting. I guess I picked EPISODE I as my fourth because it has Ms. Portman in it, and she's not making out with Hayden Christensen. Capt. Tarpals is cool too, for all the five minutes of screen time he gets. UTENA is probably complicated enough to be worth watching again, as well.

4 Bands/Singers You Can't Get Enough of:
None. Even if you take it figuratively, there aren't any of either about which I care. My favorite composer is Uematsu Nobuo, but I don't care much about him, either.

4 Books You Can Read Over and Over:
1. CODEX: DAEMONHUNTERS
2. CODEX: WITCH HUNTERS
3. INQUISITOR ANNUAL 2004: vol. 2 The EXTERMINATUS Files
4. INQUISITOR: THE BATTLE FOR THE EMPEROR'S SOUL
As you may remember, I no longer have the patience to read large blocks of prose, and I get tired of reading the same story comics repeatedly. (Even most volumes of HAYATE CROSS BLADE and Yuri Shimai I've only read about a half-dozen times.) Most of the stuff I reread is reference material, for which I don't have many big ones at the moment, now that I'm not bothering with D&D anymore.

4 Towns You've Lived In:
1. Northfield, MN
2. Norwich, Norfolk
3. Redwood City, CA
4. West Lafayette, IN
I'm counting everywhere I've stayed on a regular basis (including sabbatical and school, but not other trips).

4 Shows You're Watching:
1. BLUE DROP: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku
2. JEOPARDY!
3. Minami-ke
4. MYTHBUSTERS
I'm far too lazy to catch TV shows consistently, and I don't give a damn about enough shows to bother getting TiVo. I've got a couple of new ones due to this meme's occurrence at the beginning of a season.

4 Shows You Like to Watch (not necessarily current):
1. CA$H CAB
2. THE COLBERT REPORT
3. THE DAILYSHOW WITH JON STEWART
4. MAIL CALL
Since this is in the present tense, I'm listing ones that I would continue to watch, not ones that I've already seen in full and thus probably will never watch again. I've also omitted the ones from the previous item, since you already know those. The two fake news shows are about the only way I'm willing to spend time actually using my eyes to find out about news. Too bad I'm too lazy to watch them when my brother isn't here. UTENA might fit into this category, too (and I still haven't seen a couple of the filler episodes).

4 Websites You Visit Daily:
1. Allies
2. The Animal Rescue Site, etc.
3. Ecology Fund
4. PRIVATEER PRESS
Yes, I still click on all these donations for causes about which I don't give a damn, as long as they're free. The other two I only visit regularly because they don't have RSS feeds.

4 Favorite Foods:
1. Cheesecake (on principle)
2. Hawaiian bread
3. Milk chocolate
4. Rainbow sherbet
I don't have much interest in food now that I'm restricting myself so much, so these are pretty arbitrary choices. There are plenty of foods that I would enjoy eating more, but I don't count them because I don't eat them.

4 Places You'd Like to Be Now:
1. Darfur, the Sudan
2. Madison, WI
3. Nottingham, Notts
4. Tucson, AZ
I really hate Japan. Even back when I was willing to kill and eat innocents for my own enjoyment, I still had to put up with people smoking everywhere and having to be polite to men. I may post about the Darfur part later. (This seems an odd way to release that information, but whatever.)

Very generic. There's no mention of games played, or miniatures converted, or anything interesting like that.

. . . to whose post I still can't reply. It also appears to be abridged, judging by the numbering.

RED; anger:

lordjubatus

ORANGE; excitement:

gardenprophet

brewergnome

caelia

YELLOW; self discovery:

GREEN; opinions:

BLUE; dreams:

PURPLE; love:

Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life. Then have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item. It's nice to know that, as usual, "anime" is a separate form of media from movies and TV shows. Anyway, I don't know if I've been that obsessive about 20, but I've tried to list some of the big ones. (In the case of books and video games, I've listed series or subjects rather than individuals because I've never really cared about single books.) I'll add links when I can get my IME back.


Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon
BLEACH
Blood Bowl rulebooks
Bunnicula series
The Death Gate Cycle
Dragonlance Chronicles, Legends, et cetera
Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks
FINAL FANTASY series
Gargoyles
MY HiME Project
Necromunda rulebooks
"Samurai Pizza Cats" (the English dub of Cat Ninden Teyande~! [sic])
Shōjo Kakumei Utena
Shining Force series
Slayers
SUPER MARIO BROTHERS series
The Tales from Redwall
Warhammer rulebooks
Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks
The Wheel of Time


I don't have any analogue to phoenix_talon's last question, so I'll leave you with this thought:

Translation of the Day: [Something in Cantonese] > "I'm not a missionary. I'm the No. 1 man of Russian!"

Edit (2008.06.20): Why do I bother? The answers are posted.

1.) When showering, do you start the water and then get in or get in and start the water? The latter.

2.) Do you read the labels on your shampoo bottle? I don't own a shampoo bottle, but if I were to buy one, I might read the label.

3.) Do you moan in the shower like the people on the herbal essence commercial? No.

4.) What kind of shampoo and conditioner do you use? A combined Pert thing.

5.) Have you almost drowned in your bathtub? Not as far back as I remember.

6.) Have you ever brushed your teeth in the shower? Probably not.

7.) Body Wash or Soap? I don't care which. I use soap, personally.

8.) How old do you look? How should I know?

9.) How old do you act? 13 years. It is my mental age, after all.

10.) What's the last song you sang? Don't remember.

11.) Have you recently become a member of anything? Yes.

12.) What are your plans for the weekend? Other than D&D, nothing in particular. If you count Friday night, I'm going to be playing D&D Minis.

14.) Have you ever ridden a mechanical bull? Not to my memory.

16.) If you were on a pirate ship, what would you most likely be? That depends on a lot of factors, not the least of which being the gender of the captain. (Hey, I'm a fantasy nerd, all right? Who cares about historical accuracy?)

17.) Have you ever called anyone a slut? Not that I recall.

18.) Have you ever been called a slut? Not that I recall.

20.) Does playing the guitar make a girl/guy more attractive? Not to me. Ick.

21.) Do you live in a city with a good sports team? You're asking me?

22.) Have you ever finished off the popcorn? What else am I supposed to do? Leave it for later?

23.) How many people would come to your funeral? The term "people" technically refers to only humans. According to my auguries, humanity will be extinct by the time I die.

24). How many of them would come just to make sure you're dead? Unsurprisingly, none.

25). Do you have more enemies or more friends? Friends. Who the hell do you think would pay any attention to me unless I were some sort of ally?

26.) Have you ever sent an anonymous letter? Probably.

27.) Can you fix your own car? Anything's possible, but it's not broken anyway.

28.) Have you ever turned someone down when they asked you to go out with them? There are limits to what you can ask hypothetically, I'm afraid. And will you quit with the singular "they"?

29.) Are you smarter than your friends? Hello? Wisdom 3 here.

30.) What's your favourite kind of cheese? Nothing in particular.

31.) Have you ever been to jail? Yes, several times.

32.) Should you have? In a cosmic sense? I don't think it really makes much difference.

32.) Do you like the taste of beer? Hell no. I despise it because it's a stupid idea in the first place. If it tastes anything like it reeks, then I would hate it because it tastes bad too.

34.) Have you ever died or killed someone in a dream? The former, don't remember. The latter, many many times.

35.) Have you ever given to charity? Yes. Chump change, but yes.

36.) Would you kill a dog for $10000? That's very theoretical. I'd like to claim that I wouldn't based on just the information given here, but I probably would. I'd hardly be surprised if I killed a dog, or a human for that matter, just for the fun of it.

37.) Do you have plans for your future? Yes. Not realistic ones, but I have them nonetheless.