from Elbie, plus X-Men quiz
From Elbie:
Look at your LJ interests list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
acting
The first time I acted in a play was in fourth grade (so I think I was nine years old). I played Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I have loved acting ever since. I had an impulse, back then, that I would like it, but playing Veruca confirmed it. Some favorite roles played: Comrade Parsons in a play rendition of 1984, high school theater, age 16. The Narrator in Boise, Idaho, community theater, age 20. (For a script of this really funny play, in which I acted like a schizophrenic, go here.) The role of Grandma in The American Dream by Edward Albee, community theater, age 21. There are quite a few others (though it's only been a hobby), but those are the ones that stick in my mind as the most satisfying, when I reminisce. :) (Looking back at past roles, I seem to have had a great many roles as the character who supplies the comic relief with a straight (or anguished) face - in other words, the psychotic one. Hmm.)
babylon 5
I am currently in the middle of rewatching all of the first season of this amazing television series, which I believe to be pretty much the best series that ever was released on tv. If you have not seen it and you are a fan of science fiction, or anthropology, or philosophy, or sociology, or religion, or...just watch it, will ya? :P I love it. :D
My favorite race is the Narn race, and so naturally my favorite character is G'Kar. And yes, I have a G'Kar action figure. I ordered him off of ebay.
(This surprised Chad because he figured I wouldn't love such an aggressive race, but would go for the more spiritual Minbari or quixotic Vorlons. No, I am sorry; it is the Narns I love the most. The background of their race was so very well written; it pulls at the soul.)
(Ah, and I also quite love the Drazi - mostly because of the episode "The Geometry of Shadows," in which they have their completely random war between Green and Purple. It cracks me up to no end.)
(Don't get me wrong; I also adore the Minbari, and many other races are quite excellent. But it's just something about the Narns that does it for me every time. *shrug* )
I have many, many, many favorite episodes; really, it is almost impossible to pick one specific episode that does *not* have a character, a plot, a line, a concept that you want to cherish or that you need to let ruminate in your mind. It is my favorite television series, and I hope to someday have all the seasons on DVD. :)
(Currently, I have only the first season.)
cicero
Cicero is my favorite thing about Latin, except perhaps for the word res, rei, which means 'thing,' and is undoubtedly beautiful, being in the fifth declension. :D But there's something about Marcus Tullius Cicero that gets the blood flowing to the brain. He amuses me; he makes me laugh out loud when he's being dead serious. Ah, Marcus Tullius, I adore you! You were so pompous! So pretentious! So self-righteous! Maybe you were right, maybe you were wrong. You were brilliant. Your grammar was delectable; I could eat it up in a five-course meal.
hebrew
I learned the Hebrew alphabet song at the same time I learned the English alphabet song, around age two or so. Maybe beforehand. I went to a Jewish kindergarten (age five), so I learned what the Hebrew letters looked like at the same time I learned to read the English letters. From a young age, I could recite the prayers in Hebrew, though I didn't know what most of them meant, of course. Recitation in song is different from translation. At age eight, I started Hebrew School, twice a week, to supplement the Sunday School I'd been going to since I was four years old, in which we had indeed learned some Hebrew beforehand. I went to Hebrew School from age eight to about thirteen or fourteen. I learned some Modern Hebrew here and there as well. (Hebrew School focuses mainly on Biblical Hebrew.) In college two years ago, I took a semester of Biblical Hebrew, and I plan on continuing it, hopefully next semester. I taught Biblical Hebrew to fourth graders when I was nineteen (the same year I taught Sunday School to sixth graders). Sometimes I wish I still had time to do that; it was a very gratifying experience.
lauren bacall
I enjoy watching older, black & white movies. She's one of my favorites from the Golden Era. I especially love her in "How to Marry a Millionaire," which she did with Marilyn Monroe. She's smooth. She has style. I love her voice, so low and sultry. I love her acting, the characters she so often played, so straight-forward and sharp-witted.
mozart
The world has perhaps never had a more genius composer. Le Nozze di Figaro is perfection in operatic form. His requiem is faaantaaaastic. I could wax poetic about this and that written by him and it would take hours, and I would be moaning and gasping for nearly the whole entire time, in that way that I do when I encounter beauty and want to wrap my soul around it.
plato
I am rather less enthusiastic about Plato now that I have had to translate some of his work. :| This is all that I will say for now. lol
the princess bride
One of my favorite books ever. One of the most hilarious things ever written. Ten times better than the movie, and I adore the movie. I read this book as a young teenager, and said to myself, "I want to write like that."
and also...
(How can one resist when it is *X-Men*? Not if you're a true and proper geek, you can't. :| )
You scored as Jean Grey. Jean Grey is likely the most powerful X-Man. She loves Cyclops very much but she has a soft spot for Wolverine. She's psychic so she can sense how others are feeling and tries to help them. She also has to control her amazing powers or the malevolent Phoenix entity could take control of her and wreak havok. Powers: Telekinetic, Telepathic
Jean Grey
95%
Nightcrawler
75%
Storm
60%
Gambit
60%
Cyclops
60%
Beast
55%
Rogue
55%
Emma Frost
50%
Colossus
40%
Wolverine
35%
Iceman
35%
Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0
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Well, I wanted to be Nightcrawler, but ok. :)
Look at your LJ interests list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
acting
The first time I acted in a play was in fourth grade (so I think I was nine years old). I played Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I have loved acting ever since. I had an impulse, back then, that I would like it, but playing Veruca confirmed it. Some favorite roles played: Comrade Parsons in a play rendition of 1984, high school theater, age 16. The Narrator in Boise, Idaho, community theater, age 20. (For a script of this really funny play, in which I acted like a schizophrenic, go here.) The role of Grandma in The American Dream by Edward Albee, community theater, age 21. There are quite a few others (though it's only been a hobby), but those are the ones that stick in my mind as the most satisfying, when I reminisce. :) (Looking back at past roles, I seem to have had a great many roles as the character who supplies the comic relief with a straight (or anguished) face - in other words, the psychotic one. Hmm.)
babylon 5
I am currently in the middle of rewatching all of the first season of this amazing television series, which I believe to be pretty much the best series that ever was released on tv. If you have not seen it and you are a fan of science fiction, or anthropology, or philosophy, or sociology, or religion, or...just watch it, will ya? :P I love it. :D
My favorite race is the Narn race, and so naturally my favorite character is G'Kar. And yes, I have a G'Kar action figure. I ordered him off of ebay.
(This surprised Chad because he figured I wouldn't love such an aggressive race, but would go for the more spiritual Minbari or quixotic Vorlons. No, I am sorry; it is the Narns I love the most. The background of their race was so very well written; it pulls at the soul.)
(Ah, and I also quite love the Drazi - mostly because of the episode "The Geometry of Shadows," in which they have their completely random war between Green and Purple. It cracks me up to no end.)
(Don't get me wrong; I also adore the Minbari, and many other races are quite excellent. But it's just something about the Narns that does it for me every time. *shrug* )
I have many, many, many favorite episodes; really, it is almost impossible to pick one specific episode that does *not* have a character, a plot, a line, a concept that you want to cherish or that you need to let ruminate in your mind. It is my favorite television series, and I hope to someday have all the seasons on DVD. :)
(Currently, I have only the first season.)
cicero
Cicero is my favorite thing about Latin, except perhaps for the word res, rei, which means 'thing,' and is undoubtedly beautiful, being in the fifth declension. :D But there's something about Marcus Tullius Cicero that gets the blood flowing to the brain. He amuses me; he makes me laugh out loud when he's being dead serious. Ah, Marcus Tullius, I adore you! You were so pompous! So pretentious! So self-righteous! Maybe you were right, maybe you were wrong. You were brilliant. Your grammar was delectable; I could eat it up in a five-course meal.
hebrew
I learned the Hebrew alphabet song at the same time I learned the English alphabet song, around age two or so. Maybe beforehand. I went to a Jewish kindergarten (age five), so I learned what the Hebrew letters looked like at the same time I learned to read the English letters. From a young age, I could recite the prayers in Hebrew, though I didn't know what most of them meant, of course. Recitation in song is different from translation. At age eight, I started Hebrew School, twice a week, to supplement the Sunday School I'd been going to since I was four years old, in which we had indeed learned some Hebrew beforehand. I went to Hebrew School from age eight to about thirteen or fourteen. I learned some Modern Hebrew here and there as well. (Hebrew School focuses mainly on Biblical Hebrew.) In college two years ago, I took a semester of Biblical Hebrew, and I plan on continuing it, hopefully next semester. I taught Biblical Hebrew to fourth graders when I was nineteen (the same year I taught Sunday School to sixth graders). Sometimes I wish I still had time to do that; it was a very gratifying experience.
lauren bacall
I enjoy watching older, black & white movies. She's one of my favorites from the Golden Era. I especially love her in "How to Marry a Millionaire," which she did with Marilyn Monroe. She's smooth. She has style. I love her voice, so low and sultry. I love her acting, the characters she so often played, so straight-forward and sharp-witted.
mozart
The world has perhaps never had a more genius composer. Le Nozze di Figaro is perfection in operatic form. His requiem is faaantaaaastic. I could wax poetic about this and that written by him and it would take hours, and I would be moaning and gasping for nearly the whole entire time, in that way that I do when I encounter beauty and want to wrap my soul around it.
plato
I am rather less enthusiastic about Plato now that I have had to translate some of his work. :| This is all that I will say for now. lol
the princess bride
One of my favorite books ever. One of the most hilarious things ever written. Ten times better than the movie, and I adore the movie. I read this book as a young teenager, and said to myself, "I want to write like that."
and also...
(How can one resist when it is *X-Men*? Not if you're a true and proper geek, you can't. :| )
You scored as Jean Grey. Jean Grey is likely the most powerful X-Man. She loves Cyclops very much but she has a soft spot for Wolverine. She's psychic so she can sense how others are feeling and tries to help them. She also has to control her amazing powers or the malevolent Phoenix entity could take control of her and wreak havok. Powers: Telekinetic, Telepathic
Jean Grey
95%
Nightcrawler
75%
Storm
60%
Gambit
60%
Cyclops
60%
Beast
55%
Rogue
55%
Emma Frost
50%
Colossus
40%
Wolverine
35%
Iceman
35%
Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0
created with QuizFarm.com
Well, I wanted to be Nightcrawler, but ok. :)