Question of the Day

If you could fight any American president in history, who would it be, and why?

(For the sake of things, I'd prefer it if we excluded Bush, just for obvious reasons.)

I said Jackson, just because of that whole Indian genocide thing, but it was generally agreed that he'd thoroughly kick my ass. So would Teddy. Nixon would fight dirty. LBJ would sweet-talk me into being friends, take me out drinking, rape and discard me, probably. Lincoln would use one hand to hold me at bay. Fighting Taft would be like fighting the Kingpin. Carter and I would just start crying, hug each other, and say "So this is what it feels like when doves cry."

If it were a tag-team match with political figures, I'd want Aaron Burr in my corner, I'll tell you that much.

Survey Meme Thingie

TWELVE GREAT MOVIES
1. The Ninth Configuration (you will NEVER see anything like it, I promise you)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. Date Move Double Feature: My First Mister/Leon: The Professional (the uncut version)
4. The Limey
5. Ravenous
6. Dead Man/Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch double feature)
7. L.A. Story
8. L.A. Confidential
9. Paperhouse (freaky ass movie)
10. Unbreakable
11. Scarface (original 1933 version)
12. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)

ELEVEN GOOD BANDS/ARTISTS
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Michael Nyman
3. Loudon Wainwright III
4. Leonard Cohen
5. Ennio Morricone
6. Angelo Badalamenti
7. Mark Snow
8. The Cottars
9. Hefner
10. Rufus Wainwright
11. William Shatner (really, I’m as shocked as you are)

TEN THINGS ABOUT YOU
1. I used to dream about being an illustrator
2. I have an excellent ear for music, but never had the discipline to learn an instrument
3. I’m completely ticklish around the torso area, thus making foreplay awkward.
4. If I have a son, I want to name him Lex
5. Roles I want to play before I die: Hamlet, Edgar from Lear, Prince Myshkin from The Idiot, Cyrano de Bergerac, Charolette (as well as everyone else) from I Am My Own Wife, Hickey from the Iceman Cometh
6. For some reason, I think it’s really, really important to expose as many people as I can to what I consider to be important or at least great films, books, and comics
7. Yes, I am related to him, and yes, I have been to the mansion, and no, I get no money so I’m allowed to say the first two
8. I am a virgin, and kind of proud of it in a strange way
9. Acting pushes me to the brink of insanity; writing is what pulls me back again
10. I’m so straight, I once made out with a guy just to turn a girl on

NINE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE
1. Self-righteousness
2. Arrogance
3. Ignorance
4. Obnoxiousness
5. Any combination of the above
6. Drama people who forget it's called a "play" for a reason
7. Drug use in others
8. People enjoying movies and comics that are total crap, even if I’m the only one who can see it (I don’t mean me just not liking something; I mean that gut reaction that says, “No, there is no possible way I can respect other people liking this when it is obviously total tripe hackery!”)
9. The need to update old concepts, usually superheroes, to make them more “hip” (for example: the new Batman animated series… dear God, did we really need hip-hop re-imaginings of the Joker and Scarface?)

EIGHT FAVORITE FOODS/DRINKS
1. A good burger (harder to find than you might think)
2. Philly Cheesesteaks from Philly street vendors
3. My mashed potatoes
4. My homemade Bangers and Mash, w/ peas
5. Good chicken pot pie chock fulla good stuff
6. Coca-Cola
7. Soft-baked cookies (y’know, juuuust undercooked)
8. The West Hall (a grilled cheese sandwich with a BURGER in the center… auughhh)

SEVEN THINGS YOU WEAR DAILY
(this was written for a girl, wasn’t it? Well, I only have three)
1. My black shoes
2. My jeans (you know how hard it is to find a good pair that’ll show off my butt??)
3. My heart on my sleeve

SIX THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY
1. Good, interesting movies
2. Well-written superhero stories
3. Writing my characters
4. Acting before an audience
5. Snuggling up in blankets on a lazy afternoon with nothing else to do
6. Sharing any and all of the above with the right person

FIVE IMPORTANT PEOPLE
1. My mother
2. Edd, my brother
3. Dave
4. Misty
5. She whom I may be over, but I am a better man for having known her

FOUR THINGS YOU TOUCH EVERYDAY
1. Computer keyboard
2. Computer mouse
3. My retainers
4. My lips (don’t ask me why)

THREE MEMORIES
1. My mother and father arguing when I was four, my only memory of them together
2. My grandfather, Bob Davids, singing “You Are My Sunshine,” manually clicking a lamp on and off at the appropriate moments
3. Birthday Ball- a personal triumph I wonder how I shall ever top

TWO ALTER EGOS YOU HAVE
1. Captain Buzzkill
2. Heffie (i.e., me around the Rudes and other friends- lively, crazy, loud)

ONE PERSON YOU CAN SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH
1. Outcome uncertain; ask again later