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Vitals

Birthday
• 1983-08-05
Gender
• Male
Location
• Vancouver, BC
Member Since
• 2003-08-02
Occupation
• Writer; Part-Time Hero
Real Name
• James

Personal

Achievements
• Visiting eight different myO friends in person thus far
Anime Fan Since
• Winter 2001
Favorite Anime
• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
Goals
• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
Hobbies
• Writing, Gaming, Kung Fu, Movies, Acting somewhat strange in general
Talents
• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory

myOtaku.com: SomeGuy

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

SomeGuy Alpha: Rant of June 28, 2002
(The following is the transcript of a hand-written thing made the night of the above date . . . it was very late, and I was very bored . . .)

From the way I live - from the way I do my hair, figure things on the fly, or half-look for work - most people would undoubtedly figure me to be a pretty chaotic guy . . . and they'd be right. Still, amidst all this chaos lies a very strong and distinct line of order. I'll give an example: I got the inspiration to write this when I sat up in bed, twisted my torso left to crack my back, twisted right, then did the same with my neck - first to the right with help from my right palm, then to the left with the backs of my fingers. As I did that, I realised strangely that I had done that in that order for quite some time now. I can remember doing it in Bi 12 because this other guy in that class would crack his neck no-hands and freak out this other girl.

While on the topic of Biology 12, I recall one day when Mr. Miller the teacher said something about "concrete-sequential" people. In his example, he stated, "a concrete-sequential person would have all his bills in his wallet in order of lowest value to highest . . ." I smirked at this. ". . . and they would all be face-up and right-side up." I dropped my head in personal embarassment in conjunction with the smirk. Sure enough, my wallet read: 2 Laurier's, 1 MacDonald, all heads facing up. In fact, quite a few people did that that day. I mean, it's not like I consider it odd or anything. I just see it as something I do to keep track of things.

I believe it was Tom Clancy who once said, "the difference between fiction and non-fiction? Fiction has to make sense." I'll be honest, I probably make the strangest connections in my head; still, to me, they all make sense. I think a part of that is that I think very militaristically (how did I jump to that? I was talking about Tom Clancy earlier). Hell, whenever I call out to a group of people I'm a part of, I'll refer to it as a "platoon". Ooh, mental note: I have to rant about things I say some day. But yeah, I think order is pretty nice. That's probably why I hate it so much when the flatware gets messed up in the drawer . . . oh well . . .

I'm looking around my room right now. Sure the desk is completely covered with stuff, and there's a pile of clothes on the floor, but the fact remains that there's a subtle order to this chaos. For instance, the pile of clothes. Keep it in mind that it is indeed a single pile of clothes; all the dirty clothing is dropped next to the bed, cornered with the dresser. You will not find dirty clothing anywhere else on the floor. The posters on the wall were played with as well. They may not be uniform due to the fact that you can't predict what you'll get 5 Christmases into the future, but they do fit together well. Really, they're more like brickwork than anything else. As for the desk, it's really not my fault. If I decide to clean it up, it will be completely ordered. However, a couple things get moved during cleaning and it all goes to hell. And then I feel sad (but really, who DOESN'T hate it when other people move their stuff?).

The basement was pretty much completely ordered by me. I don't say that to praise myself; I say it to belittle the effort of others. As I recall, I had pretty much single-handedly sorted the tapes on the shelves: Top 2 shelves are of the movies, all in alphabetical order. 3rd shelf is of "commercial special interest" tapes and taped movies. The next shelf is the DVD's and VCD's (also alphabetically, of course). The next shelf is kinda weird, with piano books and other stuff. However, I still made it all fit nicely in a Tetrisy sort of way. The bottom shelf is of boxes. It's lined mostly by game boxes and other computer stuff (it's themed, get it?), with the N64 games rowed in the front.

Oh yeah, I remembered another "militaristic" thing: I assign my self-made soundtracks as "mark 1" & "mark 2" & such.

Okay, I'm done.

(Wow, things have changed a lot in that basement shelf now . . . all me, in any case . . . . .)
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