Thursday, October 13, 2005

A boy has a right to dream.

Comments! Kei: Having never eaten myself, I wouldn't know ^_~ John: It wasn't anything much, just an offhand comment. I'm pretty sure it was who I thought it was, but I'm scared to go back in case I'm wrong, heh ^_^; I wouldn't want to be on a feeding tube. It sounds rather horrible. I don't think I'll ever get that bad, though. Pyro: No. Losing weight = bad, especially in the context this is. I was perfectly happy with my weight- I had nothing wrong with my figure (aside from wanting a few more muscles). The fact that I'm losing weight in this state means I'm losing both fat and muscle (with musce being four times as dense as fat). If I continue losing it at this rate there's a chance I could become seriously ill. Losing weight is only good if you've excess weight to lose, and the amount you should carry to be healthy is dependant on your height. People get very hung up on weighing less as being healthy, but that isn't the case until you actually become overweight. It's your overall level of physical fitness that's more important. I'll stop there, cause this is something I feel very strongly about and I don't want to make it sound like I'm having a go at you, heh. I'm not, but I do get concerned over things like this. Googlism for the day: "solo is lying across in fertile plain terrain along the longest river in java" Serenity is a really good movie- I'd suggest everyone go and watch it, heh. I don't know much about Joss Wheadon (spelling?), but aside from the beginning of the film looking a lot like the pilot to a TV series, it was incredibly refreshing, and suitably non-Hollywood to prevent it from being another generic space adventure flick. I think that's probably in my top ten favourite live-action films now. There are some really fantastic comedy moments in it- the characters all have a decently human side to them, and some of the comments you just wouldn't expect from a film of this calibur. The dramatic moments aren't quite as high-tension as perhaps they should be, but it's really enjoyable all the same. And the music's cool, too ^_^ Mewants the soundtrack. Love in Isolation I spent today at home, because I felt dreadful when i woke up. It didn't help that I got back at about 11:15 last night, but all the same I think my body clock's completely out of whack. I dread to think what I'l be like coming back from Anime Expo '06, but it's something I'm more than willing to put up with, hehe ^_^ Busy weekend ahead. Looking forward to Saturday and Monday, not so much tomorrow or Sunday. More on those as and when they happen. Interviews! Questions from Pyro (seeing as I asked her to interview me firsties): 1. Have you ever turned water into wine? I can't say I have, no. Although I'd never take advantage of it for my own use, if I could I could make a damn good killing bottling and selling the stuff. It'd be interesting to see if different flavoured waters produced different flavoured wines. I'd also use it to help people in Third World countries. We survived the Middle Ages drinking small ale and wine instead of water to prevent cholera; why not there? 2. Who are your favourite comedians? I really like watching Eddie Izzard, because I find something about the way he delivers his comedy absolutely hilarious. Jack dee's another one I like watching on TV. Live, though, it would have to be Alistair McGowan. I don't like his sketch shows very much, but seeing him with no frills doing his impressions was easily one of the best shows I've ever been to. 3. What one thing would you leave behind to remind the world that you existed? I don't know, to be honest. I could spend ages trying to find an item of mine that symbolises everything I stand for and what was important to me, but I don't think one thing sums it up enough. In which case, it'd have to be my blog. That way people can find out what I was like, rather than just know that I was there. I suppose children are the best way of leaving a legacy, if you love and respect them enough to let them grow as they want with your own guidance. But right now I don't have children, so it'd have to be this. 4. What is your honest opinion on Wolverine's hair in the X-Men films? It works for him, but I wouldn't have it myself ^_^; 5. What's your take on the contentious issue of ... having children? Ah, I've shot myself in the foot by answering a bit of this question above. I've seen a lot of people around the reenactment group who have kids, and there's a big difference between the ways they all interact with them. Some parents treat their children as kids, in a really harsh and patronising way, and others treat them as adults when they're possibly too young to be reacted to in that way. I think you need to be able to show real love and respect towards your children if you're ever going to have them. One woman in particular, whenever she's with the group, seems to have a tendency to want the child to be completely quiet and not say anything, but yet still do exactly what she asks of her. And whenever the child asks for something, having been virtually ignored the whole way through whatever event it is we're doing, the mother reacts as if she's being pestered constantly. As far as I see it, there's very little of a bond between them aside from the fact that they live in the same house. The child loves her mother because she provides food, shelter and (I should imagine) a certain degree of comfort. The mother, on the other hand, tends to react towards her as if she's a continuous nuisance, even if she's being entirely inobjectionable. This is even to the point of refusing to give her food if she's hungry because it;d get in the way of what she has planned to do. Granted, I've not had a child so I can't fully understand the pressures put on you by such a situation, but considering I can read emotions pretty well, I'd do my damndest to make sure they always felt loved and respected, even if they'd done something genuinely wrong. I'm not ready for kids right now, though, thanks for asking ^_^; EDIT: I think I probably went off at a tangent, there. It's a big subject and I have a lot of opinions on ost of its aspects. I think that the government's policy of sex education is absolutely rubbish, which is why so many people are having underage sex and having children when they're not physically or emotionally ready for it. How the hell are you supposed to discourage underage sex by handing out f****ing condoms? It's so bloody stupid you wonder where the hell the government's power to control the country has actually gone. Kei's Questions: 1. If you were to compare your best memory to a fruit, which one would it be and why? Goodness ^_^; My best memory... I can't think what that'd be, heh. I may have to come back to this one, but I think the fruit'd be a strawvberry. 2. What's been your best experience in your acting career thus far? Definitely The Epic of Gilgamesh. I enjoyed that so much in so many different ways. I'd be hard-pushed to enjoy playing a part as much as I did Enkidu, and to get as good a reaction that I did from the people I was working with and the audience. 3. Will you ever get over your liking of furry things? Echh... There are two facets to this question. One is my own personal taste, and the other is the wider view of 'furries' by everyone else. I've read over quite a few different articles about furry fandom, and while I'm very much on the outside of it all (I don't talk to anyone else and don't belong to any communities) and don't consider myself a furry, trying to write my Nazreal stories and making them popular is going to be a hard slog because of the subject matter. They're met with derision from absolutely everyone because a minority of the community is, frankly, sickeningly disturbing. But that's the same with any other section of fandom you can look at; the problem with furry fandom is that most of it revolves around the artwork, at least 50% of which I'd estimate as being pornographic. Apparently, the vast majority of furries are either gay or bisexual, too, which may explain a little more about why there are so many clashes between them and the rest. There've been many times when I've thought of packing my stories in because I get to think they wouldn't be appreciated in the way I wanted them to, and the subsequent places my characters would end up in on the internet. But whether I released it widely or not, the stories are still something I want to write regardless, for my own sake. As for myself, I think they're really cool. It doesn't go much beyond that, and if I wanted I could easily re-write Nazreal to star Elves, Dwarves and those oh-so-overused stereotypes that flood every single fantasy epic you could ever think of. But I don't want to. I expect furry things, werewolves, Starfox and everything in between will hang with me as long as I have an appreciation for them. And it's still part of who I am; I don't want to just throw it away because it's not considered normal. Stuff that. 4. If you had free access to any means of travel for an entire year, where would you go? To all of my friends who lived in other countries. I want to be able to meet them, heh. And there's a big list- I'd need a year at the very least ^_^; 5. What's the worst possible thing you can imagine happening to any given person in the world? From my own perspective, the worst thing I can ever imagine happening to anyone to have an affect on my life would be my little sister being abducted. And I don't really want to say any more about that, heh. Tha's it fer today. Take care ^_^

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