About You
POSTED BY: misbehaven
UPDATED: Monday, August 28, 2006 02:41
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Just a quick survey to learn a little more about each other. I'll go first.
1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Serenity, Contact, Shaun of the Dead
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Real Time with Bill Maher
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, The Grateful Dead
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
I'm an avid backpacker, and I've backpacked in: US, Canada, Mexico, France, Belgium, Netherlands. Hoping to head to Australia and New Zealand in the future.
5. What gives you hope?
Humanity.
6. What or who changed your life and why?
Jack Kerouac. I got a copy of The Dharma Bums when I was in high school, and after graduation, I spent the next two years backpacking everywhere before going on to college. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
Jack Kerouac, Thich Nhat Hanh, Henry David Thoreau, my family and friends.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
9. What are your favorite foods?
I'm a vegetarian so I eat the standard veggie stuff, and when I go out it's usually for Indian, Vietnamese, or Chinese food.
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
My Hiking Boots, Books, Music, Family and Friends.
Edit: I should have posted this in a GD thread, but I was in RWED and didn't even think about it.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
-Bertrand Russell
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Serenity, Blade, Monty Pythons Meaning of life
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Firefly, Scrubs, CSI
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Jack Johnson, Queen, Arctic Monkeys
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
Im studying Chemistry with biological and medicinal chemistry. Not wild enuf?? I once smoked a teabag
5. What gives you hope?
People who dont believe everything the media says
6. What or who changed your life and why?
Sixth form. I found my place in the world whereas before id been completely lost.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
Dylan Moran, Ben Wood, Ross Fellows, Joseph Heller
8. What is your favorite quotation?
Inter emin arma Silent Legis
or
You should always talk to yourself, your the only person who really listens
9. What are your favorite foods?
Yorkshire Pudding
Eggy Bread and spaghetti
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
MP3, Laptop, Dogtags, Flying jacket, Friends
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Serenity, Underworld, Father of the Bride(tied with Pride and Predjudice)
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Firefly, Roswell, Mash
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Pachelbel, GooGoo Dolls, Aerosmith
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
My father made me wear a T-shirt that said Jailbait across the front one whole summer in Naples. I was 13 and the fleet was in. The wild part - I had NO IDEA what the shirt meant til I was about 19
5. What gives you hope?
My children and their font of compasion for others
6. What or who changed your life and why?
ExMrFMF. Learned that broken hearts just heal stronger
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
My mom, my grandma, my dad, Mrs Lee my 4th grade teacher, Mr Boran 12th grade government
8. What is your favorite quotation?
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
or
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
9. What are your favorite foods?
Italian
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
my kids,my mom, music, books,diet coke
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I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Groundhog Day, Spy Game, Red Corner, The Power of One, Schindler's List, Serenity, oh sorry, did you say 3?
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Firefly, Angel, Dark Angel, Yes Prime Minister, Red Dwarf... oh darn. I did it again.
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Hans Zimmer, Basil Poledouris, Mark Mancina (all film composers). And Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, etc. And Bon Jovi.
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
I grew up in Taiwan, Singapore, Iran, and Paraguay before coming to the US for college at age 16, alone with a one-way ticket and 2 little suitcases.
5. What gives you hope?
Kindness.
6. What or who changed your life and why?
My husband and my kids. Obvious reasons.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
Jesus, Thoreau, Anthony de Mello SJ, Robert Mendelsohn MD, Robert O. Becker MD.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
"You can't take the sky from me." -- Firefly
9. What are your favorite foods?
Chelo Kebab (Iranian)
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
My husband, my 2 kids, my mind, and God.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky 
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Of recent repute? (Movies that have come out recently, which have become particular favorites.)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Serenity
Underworld
Of all time? (Movies which have remained endearing through the years)
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Princess Bride
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Recent?
Firefly
Rome
BSG.
Dark Angel
Of all time?
The Land of the Lost.
The Greatest American Hero
The X-Files
Incidentally, they are coming with a new V. Does anyone remember V? That was an awesome miniseries, but the subsequent TV show sucked. Anyhow, does Mike Donavan look like Frankenstein now?
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Frank Sinatra.
Billy Joel.
Aerosmith.
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
I am trained as a Nuclear Physicist, and was originally planning on a career in medicine. I got as far as an internship in oncology before making a radical change in path to my current career. It occurred to me that medicine requires a degree of nerve that I simply lack.
Also I’m an avid backpacker too. I’ve backpacked in Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming and Italy.
5. What gives you hope?
Not making any big mistakes before lunch.
6. What or who changed your life and why?
Audrey. Because.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
My father, a blue-collar conservative democrat, who taught me that a successful life depends on identifying the fruitcakes.
And some others too, probably.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
“… there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.”
--Ronald Reagan
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last”
--Winston Churchill
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
9. What are your favorite foods?
Anchovy pizza. White beans and Cornbread. Sauerkraut and sausage.
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
Oxygen.
A heat source.
Water.
Food.
A light source.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Hmm. sorry joss. Honestly, it's hard to tell. Bladerunner, Nikita, 12 Monkeys are up there. Brazil. There are a lot. Some lighter stuff too. Labyrinth, et al.
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Current or all time?
Firefly, Farscape, Buffy. Probably the best show ever is Twighlight Zone.
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
again, current or ever?
I'm a big fan of Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nine Inch Nails is good, anything alt 80s,90s or 70s underground. Anything by danny elfman.
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
Hmm. Nothing comes to mind
5. What gives you hope?
Stupidity. I think stupidity and incompetence prevent evil from triumphing. Evolution, the Earth, eventually gets the upper hand.
6. What or who changed your life and why?
Probalby the Tao te ching. Eastern philosophy in general. Walking out of western religion and into oriental faith is like walking out of the dark and into the light.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
Lao Tse, Nietzsche, William Blake, Dale Carnegie, I think this should be two questions to include people other than writers.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
I didn't see your blake quote until after I pencilled Blake in above. That's just eerie.
I have a few, here's one:
All that is necessary for evil to flourish is that good men do nothing.
9. What are your favorite foods?
Tofu, tomato soup, pb&j
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
Internet, nature, my health, people I care about, freedom
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Serenity, Star Wars:The Empire Strikes Back, Jay and Silent Bob strike Back
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who (w/ Chris Eccleston) This was just off the top of my head, if you must know, I would put Buffy and Angel before Battlestar Galactica including Firefly, I've really got too many to list.
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
Green Day, Pink, Blink 182
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
I use a Wheelchair, and, I'm an avid bi-skier.
5. What gives you hope?
Belief.
6. What or who changed your life and why?
I can't really pick a single meaningful life changing experience.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
My family.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
"We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
-Malcolm Reynolds
9. What are your favorite foods?
Chinese, Pizza, Hot dogs and hamburgers.
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
My Firefly DVDs, My Star Wars New Jedi Order Books, My entire Music selection, My Family and Friends.
JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD
Self appointed Forsaken! Been on the list for a while now!
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"Look at me, I'm STUPID!" The Doctor.
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Quote:When and where? I LOOOVE V. Well, the first part. I would love to see a remake that isn't so cheesy in design. The concept is brilliant.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
Incidentally, they are coming with a new V. Does anyone remember V? That was an awesome miniseries, but the subsequent TV show sucked. Anyhow, does Mike Donavan look like Frankenstein now?
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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1. What are your 3 favorite movies?
Hard to limit it to three, so I'll go with the 3 latest obsessions: Serenity, V for Vendetta, Collateral
2. What are your 3 favorite TV shows?
Again wit the hard...Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Lost
3. What are your 3 favorite bands/musicians/composers etc.?
The Smashing Pumpkins, Grateful Dead, anything Swing/Big Band
4. Give a wild fact about yourself.
I've broken exactly two bones, twice each.
5. What gives you hope?
Faith
6. What or who changed your life and why?
Jesus. Given the sensitivity some people seem to have with regards to anything Theist (and particularly Christian), that's tough to say, but it's true. I'm a different person thanks to God's grace.
7. List the people who have influenced you the most?
Again, Jesus (though that's a thorny theological question), Charlie Jewett, Doug Shiplett, and my Dad.
8. What is your favorite quotation?
"Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy."
--1 Peter 2:10
9. What are your favorite foods?
Sushi!
10. What 5 things could you not live without?
Air, water, food, clothing and shelter.
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Quote:After some googling, it turns out that it may not be a new series, but a new miniseries coming in 07.
Originally posted by canttakesky:
When and where? I LOOOVE V. Well, the first part. I would love to see a remake that isn't so cheesy in design. The concept is brilliant.
Here’s the imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366112/
EW reports it as appearing in 04 however. Since no such miniseries aired on US TV to my knowledge in 04, I’m guess it’s old information, or just wrong. It seems to be consistently reported that it is not a remake, but a sequel. It appears that Singer, Grant, Badler and Englund will be reprising their roles.
I actually thought the miniseries was well done, and the series would probably have worked, were it not for the second miniseries. The series seemed contrived because too many conflicts had been resolved in the second miniseries leading to manufactured excuses to bring the show back to air. A typical example of execs skewing things up due to a lack of connection with their audience.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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