As I am a hopeless plaigarist, (and that isn't the name of a Fall album, what is), and today has consisted of sleeping, napping, hiding under the duvet listening to Ellen's CD's, and bugger all else, I present to you, as roadtested by Di and Graham...

QUIZ#1:-

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Mark
2. Er...
3. Er.....

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. mark-reed
2. thedomesticterrorist*
3. terrorist_faction*
*these last two are embarassing, and if I could Stalinify history, I would.

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My good taste
2. My friends
3. My life

THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My eyes
2. My bad memories
3. My ever-growing facial hair

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. English (unknown, though possibly US - my dad was adopted)
2. I really really really don't care, it ain't where you're from, it's where you at

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. the future
2. anything with more than two eyes
3. people who don't think about other people

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. food
2. sleep
3. the news

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Fluffy grey top that Elvis likes
2. trousers from Old Navy in Chicago
3. black socks. I never have any socks that aren't black. Colour matching is easy.

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS/ARTISTS (at the moment):
1. new order
2. leonard cohen
3. rem
(this list changes every five minutes)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday - Morrissey
2. The Next Life - Suede
3. Regret - New Order

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Be a good dad
2. buy less stuff
3. find what is important in life

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. respect
2. honesty
3. fun

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE*
1. my life keeps getting better and better
2. reality television is exploitative cruelty
3. chavs are the pinnacle of human evolution

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. oh come on, i don't kiss and tell.

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. commuting
2. speak my mind the way I want to sometimes
3. respect bureauracy

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. writing. my ex-wife always used to take the piss and say "tap tap tap" because I typed so much. she was full of shit.
2. herding cats
3. hoovering

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. ice cream
2. get the cheque for £500,000
3. find out why my hair always looks rubbish

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. if you do anything long enough it becomes a career

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. heaven
2. more america
3. mainland europe

THREE KID'S NAMES
1. we've already chosen ours

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. be the best person I can
2. see our child grow up
3. conquer the world's problems.

I did not answer the last one "someone who accepts me as I truly am" for a reason. Love isn't about remaining stubbornly the same. Love is about change. It's about the compromise of one person as an island becoming part of two people who are working together. Which is why I hated the end of "High Fidelity", because at the end of it, He hasn't changed at all. He got dumped because he was emotionally constipated and loved his records, and then she came back, even though he was still the same stuckup emotionally blocked twat he always was, and she came back because she started going out with a crap Kung Fu Wanker, so he looked great by comparison. Maybe he wasn't so bad by comparison. But what was the point of the movie then? His character had no arc, and was all about having a girlfriend as a trophy, not as a person.

So there you go : I don't want someone to accept me as I truly am : after all, even Hitler wanted to be loved. And if one person was able to call him up an dsay "Hang on. wtf are you going on about" things could've been different. I want to be the best person I can. And being the best person you can makes the world a better place. Goodnight.
- posted by Mark @ 10:48 pm