Slow But Steady
I took a crack at Bekah over on her livejournal a week ago over her failure to fully complete a meme she'd picked up, where you get assigned a letter and have to post 10 words that start with that letter and talk about why those words are important to you. At the same time, I volunteered to carry the meme on. So naturally Bekah hit me with the letter "Q" as her revenge.
Stupid fucking revenge.
It took me a week, a whole fucking week, but I finally came up with my 10. I spent a week thinking it over, but the best I could do, while being honest and not resorting to picking a word out of the dictionary, was 9. I'm okay with that. That Here you go:
1. Queen: One of the first two bands I ever considered myself a fan of (the other being Pink Floyd). Also, one of the awesomest bands ever, very influential, and (by all accounts) still huge in Japan. I own all of their studio albums.
2. Q: The dude that makes all of Bond's gadgets. I want a pen grenade and a garotte wristwatch and a car with an ejector seat, dammit!
3. Quantity: One of the variables I'm using a lot in my stats class and my cost-benefit analysis class this quarter. Yay!
4. Q*Bert: Early 80's video game which I was never any good at, no matter how much I tried. Video games were much more difficult when I was young than they are today. I miss that challenge.
5. Qin: First dynasty of a unified China. Up-sides included standardization of laws, coins, bureaucracies, roads and (most importantly) writing systems. Down-sides included banishment and death of dissenting scholars. The first emperor, Shi Huangdi, is one of the main characters in the awesome movie Hero. Also, he was buried with a killer terracotta army.
6. Qin: A major race of aliens in the old White Wolf science fiction game Trinity, which is my third favorite rpg ever (after Adventure! and Mage). Props to The Ogre™ for introducing me to the game.
7. Quixote: Titular hero of one of the first novels written in Europe. I like the book, the musical and the attitude. Tilting at windmills is definitely for me.
8. Quentin Tarantino: Writer/Director of Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (vol. 1 &2) and other films. I like him for his dialogue, for his pacing, for his serious homage to movies that are mostly silly and for bringing Samuel L. Jackson to the attention of a wider world. I dislike him for (temporarily) reviving the career of John Travolta.
9. The Question: DC superhero/detective. He wears a mask that looks like flesh with no face and is a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theories are cool. The Question's particularly hilarious on the JLU cartoon.
10. Questionable Content: Relationship-based, music-loving webcomic. It's my favoritist webcomic out there. I consistently read it last among my picks to heighten anticipation, I almost always find it funny, I marvel at the improvements in the art, I sometimes find about new music from it and I own two of the t-shirts.
There you go. 10. I am teh winnar!
If anyone else wants to play this game, I promise to give you an easier letter than Q. Unless I hate you.