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.
Comments (4)
I don't think multiple definitions for the same word count. At any rate, I double the bet that you can't do that with "X".
Posted by Doug | May 1, 2006 7:19 PM
Posted on May 1, 2006 19:19
Xenomorph. The aliens from the Alien series. Freaking awesome. Acidy spit...I want that!
Xerxes. Duh, he's Xerxes. I often use him as my avatar in the Civ series.
Xylophone. Something I can't play even if I did own a small brightly colored one I was quite fond of as a child.
Xybots. An old-school arcade game. (I had it for Atari Lynx!)
X-Men. Need I say more?
X3: Reunion. Something I spent a great portion of my time playing yesterday.
X Games. Go Bob Burnquist, you are the man.
Xevius. One of the first vertical scrolling shooters I every played. Why did I love it? You had targets on the ground to bomb with a secondary attack as well as things to kill in the air with your primary.
Xu Huang. One of my favorite Three Kingdoms personalities. He was potrayed in Dynasty Warriors 3 as the warrior poet of the Wei army.
Xuchang. My boy Cao Cao's capital during his reign of Wei during the Three Kingdoms. The place I'd like to visit most in China (tied with Red Cliffs and the Wu Zhang Plains).
Posted by The Last Oni | May 3, 2006 10:34 AM
Posted on May 3, 2006 10:34
By the way, thanks for the mad props, yo. Ahhh...I remember the days you said you'd hate Aeon...
Posted by The Last Oni | May 3, 2006 10:35 AM
Posted on May 3, 2006 10:35
That's cold, Obi Wan...
Posted by The Last Oni | May 6, 2006 2:55 PM
Posted on May 6, 2006 14:55