Happy thoughts, happy thoughts...
I'm sad about Orlando losing tonight's game with Boston and digging themselves into a conference finals 0-2 hole -- and how I stuffed myself with chocolate cake afterward, orz -- so I'm going to write about happy things instead like awesome authors and memes.
I should've written about this sooner after it happened, but I got to meet Amy Tan at The Big Read event two and a half weeks back. Which was pretty awesome because holy crap, one of my favorite authors ever! She was supposed to discuss The Joy Luck Club at the event, which she did a little, but it kind of turned into a talk about how her experiences and relationship with her mother inspired her work, as well as how she believes at anything is possible. She's really down-to-earth and finds cute humor in life, like how she had a existential experience skimming the Cliff Notes for TJLC. "Oh, so that's the secret hidden meaning I was hinting at when I wrote the book, and I had no idea I based that character on myself the most! I'm so smart!" I got my copies of Saving Fish from Drowning and The Hundred Secret Senses signed, but I couldn't find my TJLC book in time for the event. Too bad, since that was the book that introduced me to her work.
So yeah, here's me with Amy Tan! Yay!
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds, and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
01) A Celt loses her head, a kid decides to become Anonymous, and another guy decides to play them both for fools. Durarara!!, xlunar_cry
02) In a world with an alternate history, a group of people who by all means should be fighting for justice instead take on odd jobs to pay their rent. Gintama, xlunar_cry
03) Titular character continually gets screwed over by "best friend", an emo with an utter lack of sense and commitment. The Big Bad looks like a mix between Voldemort and Michael Jackson. China invades.
04) A Mc Guffin carrying boy who sees strange beings goes on a quest of namecalling with his animal sidekick. Natsume Yuujinchou, xlunar_cry
05) Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.
06) Large Ham teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, xlunar_cry
07) A goth, an orange-skinned space babe, a shapeshifter, a robot, and a guy in spandex hang out in a giant "T" and argue over who gets the last slice of pizza. They Fight Crime.
08) A Chinese teen becomes a transvestite and runs away from home for unselfish reasons.
09) A working-class stiff who beats people up with a shovel, a Fake Brit who throws forks around, and a hot-headed jerk accidentally kill their hometown's greatest superhero. They decide to save the day in his stead with the help of an annoying black teenager, a girl who carries her late father's skull around in a bowling bag, and a flatulent Pee-Wee Herman.
10) Teenager teams up with a dragon and an old guy to get revenge on some strangers and rescue an elf.
11) The X Men minus the tights, and with somewhat better dialogue. Heroes, edgyauthor
12) A directionless twentysomething takes on a second job to pay off a debt his parents incurred. His friends help. Reaper, edgyauthor
13) A dorky white guy with an overactive imagination's adventures in a hospital full of doctors who must've bribed their way through med school. Scrubs, edgyauthor
14) The government opens up relations with a foreign power, and our heroes respond by blowing up buildings. Also, there's a kid who wants to bang did bang a lizard. V (2009), edgyauthor
15) A fat, diabetic man wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a baseball cap kills animals and eats lots of fruit in order to rescue his girlfriend.
16) You and your friends are trapped in a house surrounded by slow Nazi zombies. And other WWII events happen before that but no one cares about those.
17) Magic dolphin travels through time to heal an ancient being by going to the past and smacking it in the balls, and fights aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.
And its sequel: Magic dolphin follows flying magic dolphin to a time that doesn't exist yet to get orders from slain ancient being to reconstruct it in the present from body parts that have been scattered to a different time that doesn't exist yet. Then a dolphin army fights aliens. And you vanish. Maybe.
18) A shameless anime otaku wins a Laser Blade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild.
With its sequel: Shameless anime otaku, now hellbent for revenge, carves his way up another leaderboard of an assassins' guild. Along the way, he's helped by his Irish twin brother and a female Afro Samurai. No More Heroes and No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, xlunar_cry
19) The President's daughter has been kidnapped by Spaniards! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President's daughter?
Have another entry in the series: The first recipient of a gorilla-human arm transplant punches his way through Africa with the support of a local in order to stop Neo from controlling worms. In the end, he fistfights a boulder in a volcano. Resident Evil 4 and 5, xlunar_cry
20) Children are sucked into the Internet and are assisted by advanced artificial intelligences while coming out of various states of denial.
Plus its sequel: A child genius takes online roleplaying way too seriously, so his peers take it upon themselves to kick his ass for it.
Oh! If any of you guys are on Plurk, I'm tehashface over there. Got the darn thing recently. Whoot.
I should've written about this sooner after it happened, but I got to meet Amy Tan at The Big Read event two and a half weeks back. Which was pretty awesome because holy crap, one of my favorite authors ever! She was supposed to discuss The Joy Luck Club at the event, which she did a little, but it kind of turned into a talk about how her experiences and relationship with her mother inspired her work, as well as how she believes at anything is possible. She's really down-to-earth and finds cute humor in life, like how she had a existential experience skimming the Cliff Notes for TJLC. "Oh, so that's the secret hidden meaning I was hinting at when I wrote the book, and I had no idea I based that character on myself the most! I'm so smart!" I got my copies of Saving Fish from Drowning and The Hundred Secret Senses signed, but I couldn't find my TJLC book in time for the event. Too bad, since that was the book that introduced me to her work.
So yeah, here's me with Amy Tan! Yay!
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds, and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
01) A Celt loses her head, a kid decides to become Anonymous, and another guy decides to play them both for fools. Durarara!!, xlunar_cry
02) In a world with an alternate history, a group of people who by all means should be fighting for justice instead take on odd jobs to pay their rent. Gintama, xlunar_cry
03) Titular character continually gets screwed over by "best friend", an emo with an utter lack of sense and commitment. The Big Bad looks like a mix between Voldemort and Michael Jackson. China invades.
04) A Mc Guffin carrying boy who sees strange beings goes on a quest of namecalling with his animal sidekick. Natsume Yuujinchou, xlunar_cry
05) Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.
06) Large Ham teacher is suicidally depressed. His entire class falls for him. He's the sane one. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, xlunar_cry
07) A goth, an orange-skinned space babe, a shapeshifter, a robot, and a guy in spandex hang out in a giant "T" and argue over who gets the last slice of pizza. They Fight Crime.
08) A Chinese teen becomes a transvestite and runs away from home for unselfish reasons.
09) A working-class stiff who beats people up with a shovel, a Fake Brit who throws forks around, and a hot-headed jerk accidentally kill their hometown's greatest superhero. They decide to save the day in his stead with the help of an annoying black teenager, a girl who carries her late father's skull around in a bowling bag, and a flatulent Pee-Wee Herman.
10) Teenager teams up with a dragon and an old guy to get revenge on some strangers and rescue an elf.
11) The X Men minus the tights, and with somewhat better dialogue. Heroes, edgyauthor
12) A directionless twentysomething takes on a second job to pay off a debt his parents incurred. His friends help. Reaper, edgyauthor
13) A dorky white guy with an overactive imagination's adventures in a hospital full of doctors who must've bribed their way through med school. Scrubs, edgyauthor
14) The government opens up relations with a foreign power, and our heroes respond by blowing up buildings. Also, there's a kid who wants to bang did bang a lizard. V (2009), edgyauthor
15) A fat, diabetic man wearing nothing but a grass skirt and a baseball cap kills animals and eats lots of fruit in order to rescue his girlfriend.
16) You and your friends are trapped in a house surrounded by slow Nazi zombies. And other WWII events happen before that but no one cares about those.
17) Magic dolphin travels through time to heal an ancient being by going to the past and smacking it in the balls, and fights aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.
And its sequel: Magic dolphin follows flying magic dolphin to a time that doesn't exist yet to get orders from slain ancient being to reconstruct it in the present from body parts that have been scattered to a different time that doesn't exist yet. Then a dolphin army fights aliens. And you vanish. Maybe.
18) A shameless anime otaku wins a Laser Blade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild.
With its sequel: Shameless anime otaku, now hellbent for revenge, carves his way up another leaderboard of an assassins' guild. Along the way, he's helped by his Irish twin brother and a female Afro Samurai. No More Heroes and No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, xlunar_cry
19) The President's daughter has been kidnapped by Spaniards! Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President's daughter?
Have another entry in the series: The first recipient of a gorilla-human arm transplant punches his way through Africa with the support of a local in order to stop Neo from controlling worms. In the end, he fistfights a boulder in a volcano. Resident Evil 4 and 5, xlunar_cry
20) Children are sucked into the Internet and are assisted by advanced artificial intelligences while coming out of various states of denial.
Plus its sequel: A child genius takes online roleplaying way too seriously, so his peers take it upon themselves to kick his ass for it.
Oh! If any of you guys are on Plurk, I'm tehashface over there. Got the darn thing recently. Whoot.