Yet Another Saturday Night Wasted...
...On one of these silly epic memes. Here goes...
STEP ONE:
Spell your name with songs.
W---"When I Get To the Border", Richard & Linda Thompson
R---"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", Warren Zevon
Y---"Yarmouth Town", Great Big Sea
B---"Big Me", Foo Fighters
R---"Red River Rising", James Keelaghan
E---"Everything Zen", Bush
A---"All Along the Watchtower", Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix/Bear McCreary
D---"Dare to be Stupid", Weird Al Yankovic
STEP TWO:
-- Name: Brendan J. Newton
-- Birth date: 02/15/83
-- Nickname: Cornelius Fairchild III, Ready-Made Goth, Wrybread, Little B, Spaceboy, Captain Shakespeare, various others over the years.
-- Eye Color: Electric Blue
-- Hair Color: blond/brown
-- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius *Western*, Pig *Chinese*
STEP THREE:
-- The shoes you wore today: Dressy black shoes for work that I've managed to break in.
-- Your weaknesses: Mixing drinks, self-doubt, fear, frustration, presumably bullets
-- Your fear(s): Being mad/captivity/getting to the point where death is the only attractive option, ending up in a boring "typical" life with wife, kids, mortgage, and minivan. Not for me.
-- Your perfect pizza: cheese, olives, pineapple, lotsa garlic, and Meat. Just slaughter one cow, one pig, and one chicken and then cook 'em up in various ways as toppings.
-- Goal you'd like to achieve: A Blue Cord in Fencing (next rank up at Academie Duello), a full-time Leadership/Senior position at work.
STEP FOUR:
-- Your best physical feature: My strong jawline and well-proportioned nose, given that my dad's family all have big grotesque Semitic-type noses. Glad I doged that bullet. Oh, and another physical feature that I'm proud of is *censored*...you can ask one of my exes for more information.
-- Your bedtime? 1am, sometimes later
-- Most missed memory? Chatting away on ICQ & MSN Messenger while downloading music on Napster when I first had Internet access. Sure, Web 2.0's great and I still love wasting evenings on the 'net, but it's somehow not the same as it was.
STEP FIVE:
This Or That...
-- Pepsi or Coke? Pepsi, although I don't have *that* much of a preference one way or another
-- McDonald's or Burger King: McDonald's. Once in a while, preferably while drunk.
-- Adidas or Nike: Adidas
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton. If it's iced tea it's love...
-- Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate! Vanilla's way too...Vanilla.
-- Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee. Regular, normal, coffee.
STEP SIX:
Do You...
-- Smoke: Nope
-- Curse: Fuck yeah!
-- Sing: Yes. Badly.
-- Dance: Yes. Worse than I sing.
-- Do you think you've been in love? Mayhaps
-- Want to go to college: Been there, done that.
-- Like high school: There were parts of it that I liked, but part of it may just be my tendency to look back through rose-coloured glasses.
-- Want to get married: Only if the right person comes along.
-- Get motion sickness: From cars, planes, buses, trains, boats? No, I'm fine, I can play video games and read while traveling without any ill effects, unlike a lot of people. From Cloverfield? Yes. A lot.
-- Think you're attractive: Sometimes
-- Think you're a health freak: No. I try to live as healthily and moderately as I can, but I'm just not intense enough to go all out diet-and-exercise freak.
-- Get along with your parent(s): Hmm, pretty much.
STEP SEVEN:
In the past month...
-- Gone to the mall: Only to watch a movie and cutting through on the way to work.
-- Kissed someone: Nope, just over a month ago for last kiss.
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No. Haven't even eaten one. Although at the PNE they were advertising deep-fried Oreos. Presumably they were served with a complementary defibrillation.
-- Eaten Sushi: I'm getting to be a weekly Sushi addict.
-- Been on stage: Actually yes, swordplay demo at the PNE.
-- Been dumped: Nope, got to be the dumper-more or less-at the end of July, although it was more just us drifting apart and me realizing I didn't see anything serious happening with anyone for a while.
-- Gone skating: Don't skate even if it's the right season for it.
-- Made homemade cookies: Nope
-- Gone Skinny dipping: Not recently
-- Stolen anything: No
STEP EIGHT:
Ever...
-- Played a game that required removal of clothing: Yup.
-- If so, was it mixed company: Yes
-- Been beaten up: Couple of times in school, once I was mugged on Halloween as a kid.
-- Shoplifted: When I was a kid.
STEP NINE:
-- Age you hope to be married: If/when I've met the right person, stupid.
-- Numbers of Children: None, possibly one.
-- Describe your Dream Wedding: Something with an open bar, a big group of friends and select family members (non-crazy ones), or maybe something in a more natural setting, by the ocean.
-- What country would you most like to visit? Tie between Ireland and Italy.
STEP TEN:
In the opposite sex..
-- Best eye color? Brown I guess...I really don't notice eye colour, couldn't tell you it for most of my exes.
-- Best hair color? Honestly don't care.
-- Short hair or long hair? As long as it's not too short...
--Height? Above 4'11, dating a midget would be weird.
STEP ELEVEN:
-- Number of people I could trust with my life: A handful, I guess...only me when I get right down to it though...your life's never going to be as important to others as it is to you.
-- Number of CDs that I own: 30 or so
-- Number of tattoos: 0!
-- Number of piercings: 0!
Personal Quiz:
Who were you with yesterday? Co-workers and a whole swack of customers, then fencing classmates.
What woke you up this morning? My alarm clock and the realization that I had work at noon.
Where are you? In the "computer nook" just outside of my room.
Is tomorrow going to be a good day? I'll have the day to sleep in and lounge around before my closing shift at work, so that should be okay. Although I think I'm working with Annoying Vaguely Bitchy Supervisore tomorrow, so we'll see.
Did you kiss someone today? No
Do you like anybody? Yes. Me. No one really romantically at the moment.
THE PAST
Ever thrown up in public? Multiple times, both as a kid (childhood stomach flus and the like) and as an adult (alcohol)
Passed out because of alcohol? Puked all over myself, then threw up.
What's on your mind RIGHT NOW? This meme. And bed once I've posted this meme.
THE FUTURE
What kind of home would you like? Reasonably spacious, decent apartment, nothing too austentacious. Wish me luck finding a place like that in Vancouver. *crickets chirping*
What do you want to be when you grow up? A fireman/policeman/astronaut/cowboy/ninja/pirate! All at the same time.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Still at Chapters if I can move up in the company a bit, working at another (preferably smaller) bookstore if I can't, in much better shape physically than I am now, hopefully having gotten some more traveling/dating/living under my belt.
IN GENERAL
Do you like candy necklaces? I've never actually tried one. Kind of a bizarre gimmick to get kids to eat candy, it's not as though they need any extra incentive.
When was the last time you fell over or ran into something? Last night, wrestling at Academie Duello, ended up on my back a few times.
Do you listen to music every day? Always
What was the last thing you ate? Blueberries
Are you a fast typer? 65 WPM or so
About how many people have you liked/had a crush on? Too many, hopefully I won't fall quite as hard as I used to in the future.
Have you ever moved? Once as a kid when we went back to the UK for a year.
Have you ever won an award? Several academic awards in late high school-early university, couple of awards and a day off with pay for sales at work this year.
What do you want to do right now? Waste some more time on TV Tropes, then go to bed.
Are you listening to music right now? Nope
How long till your birthday? 5 and a half months or so
When were you the saddest in your whole life? Not sure really...maybe during Junior High when I had few friends and was the entire school's Butt Monkey. Or so it felt.
What time is it? 1:30 am or so
Do you use ebay to buy or sell? No
What makes you mad? People who try to force their views on others and who expect others to agree with them. Anyone who unduly tries to interfere with another person's life.
Have you ever heard a song written about you? My ex, a very talented musician/singer, wrote a song shortly before we broke up that I think might well have been about me. Wasn't flattering.
Something you want to happen in 2008? The aforementioned Blue Cord in fencing and bona fide Full-Time hours at Chapters.
Summer 2008? Have a good week, September's approaching.
Honestly, do you miss 2007? Not really, that year was boring and angsty. This one's been a bit more exciting. Not great, but better.
HONESTY SECTION
1. Honestly, what color is your underwear? N/A
2. Honestly, what's on your mind? *tired*
3. Honestly, what are you doing right now? Meme-ing
6. Honestly, have you done something bad today? Not on the grand scale of things.
8. Honestly, who is the last person you talked to on the phone? I honestly forget, it's been days since I talked on the phone.
9. Honestly, are you jealous of someone right now? Yes
10. Honestly, what makes you mad most of the time? The general obnoxious stupidity of such a large percentage of the human race.
11. Honestly, do you bite your nails? No
12. Honestly, have you had an eating disorder? I used to eat too much junky crap when I was depressed, I guess that counts.
13. Honestly, do you want to see someone this very moment? Depends who.
14. Honestly, are you keeping a big secret now? We all have secrets...mine are just a bunch of small ones though, nothing earth-shattering.
15. Honestly, do you have a friend you don't actually like? Not really, some old acquaintances that I don't get on with any more and can't seem to take the hint that they annoy the hell out of me and therefore still occasionally pop up and say we must get together sometimes, but that's it.
17. Honestly, are you in denial? No, I'm not! Although of course that's exactly what I'd say if I *was* in denial, so yeah.
18. Honestly, do you get up in the middle of the night and eat? No
19. Honestly, do you like anyone? Yes
20. Honestly, does anyone like you? That would be nice, if it was the right sort of person.
ANGER SECTION
1. What do you do when you're mad? Seethe, twitch, wait till I get to take it out on a punching bag or someone wearing a fencing mask.
2. What's the worst thing you've done when you were mad? Hauled off and decked someone, threatened to kill someone.
3. Ever made anyone cry when you were mad? Yes
4. Do you swear when you're mad? Yep
5. What always makes you mad no matter what? The aforementioned people who like to inflict their rules/ways of living on others. They might be perfectly good rules, but everyone has to discover them for themselves.
CRYING SECTION
1.When was the last time you actually cried? It's been a little while.
2. Ever cried yourself to sleep? No
3. Do certain songs make you cry? Too many to count, assuming I'm in the right mood. Even the really glurge-y stuff will get to me.
4. What usually makes you cry? Any extreme, powerful emotion, be it happy or sad.
HAPPY SECTION
1. Are you usually a happy person? Not really
2. What makes you the happiest? Books, Food, Drink, Exercise, Friends. Call those the Big Five.
3. Do you believe in yourself? Who else will? Ooh, good line from Stotes, I'll have to steal it.
4. When people say they think you are good looking/pretty, do you get happy? Yes. Now if I can just learn not to get unhappy when people say/imply that I'm not good looking/pretty, I'll be set.
STEP ONE:
Spell your name with songs.
W---"When I Get To the Border", Richard & Linda Thompson
R---"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner", Warren Zevon
Y---"Yarmouth Town", Great Big Sea
B---"Big Me", Foo Fighters
R---"Red River Rising", James Keelaghan
E---"Everything Zen", Bush
A---"All Along the Watchtower", Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix/Bear McCreary
D---"Dare to be Stupid", Weird Al Yankovic
STEP TWO:
-- Name: Brendan J. Newton
-- Birth date: 02/15/83
-- Nickname: Cornelius Fairchild III, Ready-Made Goth, Wrybread, Little B, Spaceboy, Captain Shakespeare, various others over the years.
-- Eye Color: Electric Blue
-- Hair Color: blond/brown
-- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius *Western*, Pig *Chinese*
STEP THREE:
-- The shoes you wore today: Dressy black shoes for work that I've managed to break in.
-- Your weaknesses: Mixing drinks, self-doubt, fear, frustration, presumably bullets
-- Your fear(s): Being mad/captivity/getting to the point where death is the only attractive option, ending up in a boring "typical" life with wife, kids, mortgage, and minivan. Not for me.
-- Your perfect pizza: cheese, olives, pineapple, lotsa garlic, and Meat. Just slaughter one cow, one pig, and one chicken and then cook 'em up in various ways as toppings.
-- Goal you'd like to achieve: A Blue Cord in Fencing (next rank up at Academie Duello), a full-time Leadership/Senior position at work.
STEP FOUR:
-- Your best physical feature: My strong jawline and well-proportioned nose, given that my dad's family all have big grotesque Semitic-type noses. Glad I doged that bullet. Oh, and another physical feature that I'm proud of is *censored*...you can ask one of my exes for more information.
-- Your bedtime? 1am, sometimes later
-- Most missed memory? Chatting away on ICQ & MSN Messenger while downloading music on Napster when I first had Internet access. Sure, Web 2.0's great and I still love wasting evenings on the 'net, but it's somehow not the same as it was.
STEP FIVE:
This Or That...
-- Pepsi or Coke? Pepsi, although I don't have *that* much of a preference one way or another
-- McDonald's or Burger King: McDonald's. Once in a while, preferably while drunk.
-- Adidas or Nike: Adidas
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton. If it's iced tea it's love...
-- Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate! Vanilla's way too...Vanilla.
-- Cappuccino or coffee: Coffee. Regular, normal, coffee.
STEP SIX:
Do You...
-- Smoke: Nope
-- Curse: Fuck yeah!
-- Sing: Yes. Badly.
-- Dance: Yes. Worse than I sing.
-- Do you think you've been in love? Mayhaps
-- Want to go to college: Been there, done that.
-- Like high school: There were parts of it that I liked, but part of it may just be my tendency to look back through rose-coloured glasses.
-- Want to get married: Only if the right person comes along.
-- Get motion sickness: From cars, planes, buses, trains, boats? No, I'm fine, I can play video games and read while traveling without any ill effects, unlike a lot of people. From Cloverfield? Yes. A lot.
-- Think you're attractive: Sometimes
-- Think you're a health freak: No. I try to live as healthily and moderately as I can, but I'm just not intense enough to go all out diet-and-exercise freak.
-- Get along with your parent(s): Hmm, pretty much.
STEP SEVEN:
In the past month...
-- Gone to the mall: Only to watch a movie and cutting through on the way to work.
-- Kissed someone: Nope, just over a month ago for last kiss.
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No. Haven't even eaten one. Although at the PNE they were advertising deep-fried Oreos. Presumably they were served with a complementary defibrillation.
-- Eaten Sushi: I'm getting to be a weekly Sushi addict.
-- Been on stage: Actually yes, swordplay demo at the PNE.
-- Been dumped: Nope, got to be the dumper-more or less-at the end of July, although it was more just us drifting apart and me realizing I didn't see anything serious happening with anyone for a while.
-- Gone skating: Don't skate even if it's the right season for it.
-- Made homemade cookies: Nope
-- Gone Skinny dipping: Not recently
-- Stolen anything: No
STEP EIGHT:
Ever...
-- Played a game that required removal of clothing: Yup.
-- If so, was it mixed company: Yes
-- Been beaten up: Couple of times in school, once I was mugged on Halloween as a kid.
-- Shoplifted: When I was a kid.
STEP NINE:
-- Age you hope to be married: If/when I've met the right person, stupid.
-- Numbers of Children: None, possibly one.
-- Describe your Dream Wedding: Something with an open bar, a big group of friends and select family members (non-crazy ones), or maybe something in a more natural setting, by the ocean.
-- What country would you most like to visit? Tie between Ireland and Italy.
STEP TEN:
In the opposite sex..
-- Best eye color? Brown I guess...I really don't notice eye colour, couldn't tell you it for most of my exes.
-- Best hair color? Honestly don't care.
-- Short hair or long hair? As long as it's not too short...
--Height? Above 4'11, dating a midget would be weird.
STEP ELEVEN:
-- Number of people I could trust with my life: A handful, I guess...only me when I get right down to it though...your life's never going to be as important to others as it is to you.
-- Number of CDs that I own: 30 or so
-- Number of tattoos: 0!
-- Number of piercings: 0!
Personal Quiz:
Who were you with yesterday? Co-workers and a whole swack of customers, then fencing classmates.
What woke you up this morning? My alarm clock and the realization that I had work at noon.
Where are you? In the "computer nook" just outside of my room.
Is tomorrow going to be a good day? I'll have the day to sleep in and lounge around before my closing shift at work, so that should be okay. Although I think I'm working with Annoying Vaguely Bitchy Supervisore tomorrow, so we'll see.
Did you kiss someone today? No
Do you like anybody? Yes. Me. No one really romantically at the moment.
THE PAST
Ever thrown up in public? Multiple times, both as a kid (childhood stomach flus and the like) and as an adult (alcohol)
Passed out because of alcohol? Puked all over myself, then threw up.
What's on your mind RIGHT NOW? This meme. And bed once I've posted this meme.
THE FUTURE
What kind of home would you like? Reasonably spacious, decent apartment, nothing too austentacious. Wish me luck finding a place like that in Vancouver. *crickets chirping*
What do you want to be when you grow up? A fireman/policeman/astronaut/cowboy/ninja/pirate! All at the same time.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Still at Chapters if I can move up in the company a bit, working at another (preferably smaller) bookstore if I can't, in much better shape physically than I am now, hopefully having gotten some more traveling/dating/living under my belt.
IN GENERAL
Do you like candy necklaces? I've never actually tried one. Kind of a bizarre gimmick to get kids to eat candy, it's not as though they need any extra incentive.
When was the last time you fell over or ran into something? Last night, wrestling at Academie Duello, ended up on my back a few times.
Do you listen to music every day? Always
What was the last thing you ate? Blueberries
Are you a fast typer? 65 WPM or so
About how many people have you liked/had a crush on? Too many, hopefully I won't fall quite as hard as I used to in the future.
Have you ever moved? Once as a kid when we went back to the UK for a year.
Have you ever won an award? Several academic awards in late high school-early university, couple of awards and a day off with pay for sales at work this year.
What do you want to do right now? Waste some more time on TV Tropes, then go to bed.
Are you listening to music right now? Nope
How long till your birthday? 5 and a half months or so
When were you the saddest in your whole life? Not sure really...maybe during Junior High when I had few friends and was the entire school's Butt Monkey. Or so it felt.
What time is it? 1:30 am or so
Do you use ebay to buy or sell? No
What makes you mad? People who try to force their views on others and who expect others to agree with them. Anyone who unduly tries to interfere with another person's life.
Have you ever heard a song written about you? My ex, a very talented musician/singer, wrote a song shortly before we broke up that I think might well have been about me. Wasn't flattering.
Something you want to happen in 2008? The aforementioned Blue Cord in fencing and bona fide Full-Time hours at Chapters.
Summer 2008? Have a good week, September's approaching.
Honestly, do you miss 2007? Not really, that year was boring and angsty. This one's been a bit more exciting. Not great, but better.
HONESTY SECTION
1. Honestly, what color is your underwear? N/A
2. Honestly, what's on your mind? *tired*
3. Honestly, what are you doing right now? Meme-ing
6. Honestly, have you done something bad today? Not on the grand scale of things.
8. Honestly, who is the last person you talked to on the phone? I honestly forget, it's been days since I talked on the phone.
9. Honestly, are you jealous of someone right now? Yes
10. Honestly, what makes you mad most of the time? The general obnoxious stupidity of such a large percentage of the human race.
11. Honestly, do you bite your nails? No
12. Honestly, have you had an eating disorder? I used to eat too much junky crap when I was depressed, I guess that counts.
13. Honestly, do you want to see someone this very moment? Depends who.
14. Honestly, are you keeping a big secret now? We all have secrets...mine are just a bunch of small ones though, nothing earth-shattering.
15. Honestly, do you have a friend you don't actually like? Not really, some old acquaintances that I don't get on with any more and can't seem to take the hint that they annoy the hell out of me and therefore still occasionally pop up and say we must get together sometimes, but that's it.
17. Honestly, are you in denial? No, I'm not! Although of course that's exactly what I'd say if I *was* in denial, so yeah.
18. Honestly, do you get up in the middle of the night and eat? No
19. Honestly, do you like anyone? Yes
20. Honestly, does anyone like you? That would be nice, if it was the right sort of person.
ANGER SECTION
1. What do you do when you're mad? Seethe, twitch, wait till I get to take it out on a punching bag or someone wearing a fencing mask.
2. What's the worst thing you've done when you were mad? Hauled off and decked someone, threatened to kill someone.
3. Ever made anyone cry when you were mad? Yes
4. Do you swear when you're mad? Yep
5. What always makes you mad no matter what? The aforementioned people who like to inflict their rules/ways of living on others. They might be perfectly good rules, but everyone has to discover them for themselves.
CRYING SECTION
1.When was the last time you actually cried? It's been a little while.
2. Ever cried yourself to sleep? No
3. Do certain songs make you cry? Too many to count, assuming I'm in the right mood. Even the really glurge-y stuff will get to me.
4. What usually makes you cry? Any extreme, powerful emotion, be it happy or sad.
HAPPY SECTION
1. Are you usually a happy person? Not really
2. What makes you the happiest? Books, Food, Drink, Exercise, Friends. Call those the Big Five.
3. Do you believe in yourself? Who else will? Ooh, good line from Stotes, I'll have to steal it.
4. When people say they think you are good looking/pretty, do you get happy? Yes. Now if I can just learn not to get unhappy when people say/imply that I'm not good looking/pretty, I'll be set.