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Smaragdus Gehenna

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{BTW, chances are if you have a friend list of 500+ or such, or you are a band struggling to make PR, I'll not add you as a friend. But, never say never... you simply have to work a bit to impress me. Get 10 free bonus points if you qualify as a "Friend Whore" and mention this ad!!!} From The Earth Scroll, Book of Five Rings -Miyamoto Musashi1. Think of what is right and true.
2. Practise and cultivate the science.
3. Become acquinted with the arts.
4. Know the principles of the crafts.
5. Understand the harm and benefit of everything.
6. Learn to see everything accurately.
7. Become aware of what is not obvious.
8. Be careful even in small matters.
9. Do not do anything useless.

I'm a LAUPE!!!! .. Some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime, or that it's confined mostly to large cities. Juvenile delinqueny is on the rise...something has gone wrong with the environment. Adults create the world children live in. Juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult deliquency, and in this process parents play the key role...
Gimme some sugar baby.
Which B-Movie Badass Are You?
I'm the eternal gemini child, heavy on the taurus so don't try to rush me about anything. People say I'm tough and so forth, but consider the dragonfly... it'll bite yer head off with it's mighty mandibles but only if you put yer head there. Otherwise it's all gossamer fragility . Yeah, that's me. Artistic to a fault. My profession is Silversmith. We are a mighty people, Zeus would have been so much lecherous hot air without Hephaestus. I am also a shepherd and mother of 2 leuitenants. When I take over the world , salvage it from the twisted burning remnants more like, you can call them 'master'. My dream job is Evil Vizier or Tibetan Lama. Intergalactic hip shooting amazon would also be acceptable, but only if the benefits are good {ed note: Interesting that I wanted this job Before seeing Firefly and Zoe}.
I'm First Mate Zoe Warren! I am a strong and capable veteran, loyal first to my captain, and then to my husband, the pilot. It makes for some messy shipboard dynamics sometimes, but it's comrades like me that make a crew like this work. I will do whatever it takes to get everybody out of a jam in as few pieces as possible. I'm never afraid to say what I think, but I are very aware of the responsibilities of rank. Still, when I want something, I don't intend to let anything stand in my way.
Which Firefly Character Are You?

.. Decadence is it's own reward
Do not scoff at age. While there may be Child Emperors... there are no Child Viziers. Tell me, who usually survives revolution? My gaming characters are always theives or assassains or a blend. In reality, I'm much more monkish and despise stealing.... I fully believe that there is a force, of something, [metaclurians can bite me] that can be maintained and we are all responsible for creating the world, for good or bad. Me, I much more prefer the good as it allows for more time in school, in bed, and outside. I like lucid dreaming. I was once in a convienence store, in a dream, and I tried to figure out my personal limits. I tried to blatently steal a candy bar from the store.... just couldn't do it. Sorta freaky b/c I can fly and do all sorts of stuff... mind bullets and all. But stealing? DAMN YOU PAPPA SMURF!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!! I don't like to 'self medicate' when I feel bad. Heh, call me an abberation. Why waste good chemicals on bad brains? Better to push through it, live it, get the tee-shirt, and evade it tomorrow all better and stronger. Only the kind hippie shit for me, nothing that would resemble a High Times cover from the '80's, if you know what I mean. Hard drugs, never tried them, never want to.
I am the cute but psycho happy bunny. I am adorable, but a little out there.
which happy bunny are you?
Yeah, monkish... mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I agree with Stilgar and don't usually go for unthinking sweaty wrigglies much either, at least not usually, nothin like random sex to needlessly complicate a great relationship... deliberate sex though... pppppurrrrrrrrr....humm. I firmly believe that no one should get hitched before 30 but mostly cause folks usually don't know what they want to be before then. Although about chemicals, I have to say, nothing like baroque fuges [don't fix em!] or something suitably loud, a dark night {with a K!}, and a bottle of volumptuous red [Italian & low tannin, valpochellia is good. I am, however, learning to appreciate Pinot Noir.] for a maudlin heart.
Indeed, I am a romantic, but a cynical one. Add a fist full of Buddast with a dollop of Spiritseer [any will do, just depends on which one happens to be in the room, damn native upbringing. Some are bad, some are good, but all are] and a good portion of stoic, mix well and eat with dry humor. There's much left of me that I'll not share here tho'
I will go to jail for...
Quoting the Marquis de Sade to some school children
'What sexual activity will you go to jail for?' at QuizUniverse.com
I am a Pegasus
I am a perfectionist, with an eye for beauty. I know how to live a good life and I rarely deviate from good taste. While I'm not outgoing I do have excellent social skills. People admire or want to capture me, and often feel very comfortable around me. What Mythological Creature Are You? My Daddy Is Ozzy Osbourne
What I Call Him: Big Daddy-o
Why I Love Him: He gives good spankings Who's Your Daddy? .. I'm gonna be a race car driver, and a scientist, and a writer, and a robot, and a super villain, and an angel, and a monkey, and an artist, and OUR NAME IS LEGION! YOU WILL GIVE US CANDY!
** Patience is the 4th dimension **
You're Lili St. Cyr!
What Classic Pin-Up Are You?
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Smaragdus Gehenna realizes that sobriety is an arcane pluralism oftimes bandied about by amatuers that needn't be subscribed too
I'm a bad splr but love the language. I was fluent in Russian at one point, been there 2x, pre and post commie. I do need to refresh, I have dreams in Russian though and walking around campus I've discovered that I'm still fluent at a frat boy level. I love language, even German sounds very pretty to me. I plan to be a polyglot before I move on. In my free time I love fencing, epee or SCA recreational schlager. I need to find more fencers, if yer a blade and by me... excellent. If I could be doing anything right now, it'd be touring the world with an unlimited expense account and my cohort.... or stomping round the Oregon backwoods. Yes, Oregon. All ya'll can just wish you were here, but we thank the FSM yer not. I'm a proud 2nd gen. native born in Springfield [I've already bitched at my mom 'bout that, "why couldn't you have walked across the river to Sacred Heart!!! Labor pains, bah."]. I might look like a long haired hippie fuk, but don't make that mistake twice. Gun loving, meat eating, solid libertarian with a hankerin' for Ragnarok. Aww yeah, baby, look for me there... I'll be spattered and laughing with all the rest. No choice, really.
Okok. I can't say I don't like tofu, happynekkidpagandancing, and tree hugging {glow}. I'd trade much of America today for a clean and healthy wilderness environment tomorrow, even if I have to push the jolly red candy-like button... or wield the Halberd of Uncanny Justice.
I am a Samurai.
I value respect, honour, and aesthetic. I am not the stereotypical hero, but I do fight for good in my own way. It is most certainly ok to kill an evil person. I don't believe in mourning all the time and I think that once I've hit a bad stage in life I simply need to heal and get up again. It's really pointless to concentrate on emotional pain, much better to just get on with everything. I am also a down to earth type of person and I try very hard to think before I act. Life is the path I walk.
Main weapon: Sword
Quote: "Always do the right thing.
This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest" -Mark Twain
Facial expression: Small smile
What Type of Killer Are You? [cool pictures]
brought to you by QuizillaAside from scheming to take over the world for your own good, I read and revel and navel gaze, dance and make foodies for my beloved cohort. They Will have proper nutrition as they are no use to me otherwise... damn nerdy Mt.Dew diets!!! I did once discover though, that ultimate power goes Dark once you remove yourself from the people. But survivors must abandon the people. How do you spell bullet sponge? Ask Jesus, Ghandi, Romero, Lincoln, Tosh, JFK, Lennon [got our eyes on you, Yoko!], anyone who loved and gave a damn. See, you make good rules, kill the Big Bad, pet the babies... then you learn some fukz0r nut is trying to kill you and you're no good dead unless yer a Lama or something. So you get a pope mobile [Ratzenburger won't need it, the Dark side knows it's own] and start using doubles for balcony issued edits. Meanwhile you plan and play games deep in your citidel. Uhhuh. Then more body doubles are needed and you begin looking into cloning. And then one night *SPUNG*, paranoia skips in like a drunken 5 year old and you begin thinking that it's better your doubles are dead cause they just siphon power... and all the little people are just wasting their milk rations and jerkin off to Vanna White and bombs were made for huggin' and the Beach Boys are the pinnacle of music... and... and... You see, it's definitly a 'foot shall slide' issue. Bodies make more bodies and you've few friends left to bury them deep in your rock floored citadel. Shoulda went for the volcano fortress! Damn the PR naysayers!!! Though I bet the closet space in here is nice.....ugh, then where would I keep my shoes and cabana boys?!?!
Evil Vizier, more better than Supreme Dictator. I don't need the people, they don't need to see me. I can help or ignore. But that damn taoist instinct of mine, CN Vizier just doesn't sound as cool. The higher your charisma, the less bodies you have to deal with. Ahhhh, for the fun of a good ol' fashion puppet king I'd give his left nut.
You're Ripley. Believe it or not.
Which Drive-in Damsel Are You?
If you were on a battlefield right now, versus everything...
Name
Gender
Age
Lover or a Fighter?
Fight for good or evil?
Battle Cry
Weapon of Choice Shotgun
Appearance Leather Jacket, flanking from the sides on foot
Your Battle Cry... Is a reason for them to surrender
Foes slain upon first strike: - 80%
What you fight The Invading Hordes
You fight.... So you have an excuse to dress up and look fancy
This QuickKwiz by Ferggs - Taken 108610 Times. Gemini: The Twins
by Baron Samadhi von Coppockalypse, PhD
Cartographer. You are an abstract network of connections between all known points. Heaven, Hell, here and there are all equidistant points on the map of your soul. You explore so that you might one day find a home, but it is not dwelling that lives inside you. It's motion. You are the signal. Between existent points you are the coded electrical impulse translated to and from, back and forth eternally. Manifestation is merely proof of your translation, and removal from place equally so. Traveler in transit, encoded and bunkered between all realms, ravens and doves both find a place on your shoulders, and in the midst of movement you are unceasing. Your movement eternal, places and people buzz around you. It is they who move, and a backdrop of the world which provides the illusion of movement. Perhaps you will see that it is you who are still. I am 66% evil.
I'm getting there. I haven't done all the damage I could do but I've done quite a bit. I'm just over the border into the Evil Zone.
Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com
current motto, realized one eve before fencing:
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You can fake an orgasm, but you can't fake bloodlust


Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?


Your
Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score

Category Your Score Average
Hacklust 48.11%
Will kill for XP 53.5%
Sensitive Roleplaying 35.44%
All the game's your stage 54.6%
GM Experience 100%
The power of the GM's screen compels you! 69.4%
Systems Knowledge 94.92%
Played in a couple of campaigns 90.3%
Livin' La Vida Dorka 48.28%
Has interesting conversations in public 63.2%
You are 72.45% pure
Average Score: 68.8%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test
and see how you match up!


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com {for the record}Fuk Hitler! Fuk him right in the ear!
I just answered honestly.... we're fingering all sorts of social mores and taboos here, interesting in the Chinese sense of the word. I really don't want a personal body count... at least not if I don't Have too, paperwork and all that... and definitly not based on religious or social class! How bland. Land war in Russia...in the Winter! Good grief! I'm definitly not paranoid, simply ignore the oak bolt on my front door and my habit of scoping out clocktowers and rooftops before entering main plazas. I'm just hyperaware and have 2 smalls to protect. Just 'cause I'm aware of the worst case scenario doesn't mean I dwell on it. I know how to parry the big bad when it appears and can spend the rest of the time lounging in preparedness. Wisdom a la Spanish style: Rule 1-Don't be there and you won't get hit! I'm actually rather calm and pleasent even if I'm a tad Binkley excitable but calm comes from knowing I have Plan A-Z [and plan Z is the best one yet!] and the willingness to try it. We'll have to look into this....more testing...
My political compass Economic Left/Right: -7.50Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56 Which puts me down there about an 1/4in to the left of the Dali Lama.... REDEMPTION!!!!! Something about gemini {Ed. note:} You know what's really funny. This page is jelling up pretty dark afa character traits go. I was thinking about it today and it would seem that I'm composed of death and pain and fighting and Eevvilll. I considered making a nice gillyflower or Rococo background, to lighten the tone up a bit... maybe rainbows and unicorns even. But really, I'll just let you wonder... It's raining today. My state is placed back on it's green magic, things grow and cover the senses with multiple textures of alive. The sky, velvet angora grey, cold and stimulating. I begin to lose faith in the sun, it's deserted me for so many years. Better to turn coat and collar and forget it ever existed, it's the only way to persevere, thrive even, in these glooms which will soon be more. Some folks can't enjoy it. They waste all their summer reserve trying to claw their way back through the clouds to suckle that fickle orb. I love these clouds, so low, rich, and pregnant in a steryotypically barren season. And I'd not want to exist in a perpetually young year, slight on seasoning but with so much hot life kicking to get inside me. Yes, the other others have glorious crackling winter, but I get froudian terrarium sanctuary. And I can go out to see the other white and brown cold places or liquidly frolic in the mango groves and I still have this soular bath awashing my mind when I return. Sure the sodden nightcrawlers are miserable, but there is a point when even they cease to churn up, so it's not that bad. The meditative mosses and sly ferns do their delicate happy dance while I smile and join in.
Which Elemental Faerie are You?

I am an Earth Faerie! I love the wilderness and kind people. I have quite a few pets at home too! I can be caring but mostly to those I love and always for nature. I'm softspoken and I'm not that outgoing, especially around people I don't know, which is why I only have a few excellent friends and animal companions. It's ok! It's who I am.
My Element is Fire
My power color: red
My energy: hot
My season: spring
Like a fire, I am full of power and light. I'm a born leader and useful so I easily draw people toward me. I am full of courage and usually up for anything. I can have a huge ego and am comfortable as the center of attention but I also comfort and soothe my dearest friends. What Element Are You? Your results:
You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 85% Robin 77% Superman 75% Batman 75% Supergirl 70% Iron Man 65% The Flash 65% Catwoman 60% Hulk 60% Wonder Woman 55% Spider-Man 55% Hot-headed. I have strong will power and a good imagination. ===================================
In brightest day, in darkest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
In forest dark or glade beferned
No blade of grass shall go unturned
Let those who have the daylight spurned
Tread not where this green lamp has burned.
You who are wicked, evil and mean
I'm the nastiest creep you've ever seen!
Come one, come all, put up a fight
I'll pound your butts with Green Lantern's light!
Yowza!!!!! Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test


You're The Guns of August!
by Barbara Tuchman
Though I'm interested in war, what I really want to know is what causes war. I'm out to expose imperialism, militarism, and nationalism for what they really are. Nevertheless, I'm always living in the past and have a hard time dealing with what's going on today. I'm also far more focused on Europe than anywhere else in the world. A fitting motto for me might be "Guns do kill, but so can diplomats."
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .


You're the Juilliard School!
With a fantastic reputation and a flair for physical performance,I am one of the most envied of people in my peer group. It could even be said that I am without peer. At the same time, I'm rather overly dramatic, and this causes many to find me emotionally exhausting and rather full of myself. No matter what I end up doing with my time, people will want to watch.
Take the University Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .

Which major arcana of the thoth tarot deck are you?
ADJUSTMENT"the mediator, adjuster, arbitrator"I have a deep love for simplicity, clarity, fairness, and balance. I also have a great ability to edit, synthesize, and research ideas. My sites are turned inwards, as shown on the card by the masked eyes. Alpha and Omega are symbolic of my need to complete that which I begin. I have high tolerance for complexity, as shown by the webbing in the background.
Take this quiz !

My Interests

Plastic
Stumbleupon me

What's Gonna Happen to us?

I Love.....
Education, education, education
The smell of a full wooden apple basket glowing in the sunlight
Drooling over a Benelli, "Performance Worth The Price"
Sultry decadence
Fencing all day
Well bred German Shepards
Silk, linen, & hemp
Fine wine and finger food
Auld weapons
Intricate studded leather armor or articulated Gothic plate
Gadgets and gizmos to befuddle and amaze
Excellence in all fields
The smell of cedar, ponderosa, sweetgrass, and sage
Good plans
Better maps
World Cup football {so beautiful}
F.U.N.
Rock hounding and spelunking
High bounce balls
Owls and ospreys and oak leaves
Delicate semantics
Singing to myself {esp. w/ Jar of Flies}
Smith Family and Powell's bookstores
Fruits and berries
Intreague of all sorts
Doing things with my hands {pppppfth! I'm a smith, you!;}
Playing in my fabulous state
Caramel apples and sweet potato pie [not together though]
Collecting physicists
Foredom flexi-shafts always get me revved!
Social phenomenon
Nude housecleaning
Sushi
Measuring tapes, utility knives, great stuff, duct tape, leveling rulers, compasses, rulers in general, caliphers, calculators, grid paper, transparency paper, etc.
Dancing & moshing for 5 hours
You... possibly
Kumquats, dates, and cashews
Excellent coffee
Perfect timing
Gransfors Bruks
Seed Saving
The Wilderness and it's preservation & rehabilitaion
Trail running/skipping/dancing/loping in my Montrail sneakers, technology is wicked
Using all my senses
Drinking out of Mason jars
Fine crystal
Getting away from the city glow
Divers geeking
Fire
Growing things
Moss
Betta fish
Reading
Theories
Bong hit physics and politics
Salmon and salted brown rice + pick any veggie
Breaded or spicy prawns
Elegant solutions
Making more problems to solve
Enamelling, b/c it blends fire, light, and color with my metal
Warm blankets & snuggling
Planning for an apocalypse. 100 year cycle then *BAM* the world goes apeshit
Tea
The perfect food
Real beer
New experiences
Well made movies, wow Netflix!
Edible and 'edible' mushrooms
Hunting for faeries
Reading military strategy classics
Grand rhetoric
Sparkily things
That one boy... Prrrow!!
Fine metals
Low lit dens of comfort and quiet delight
Animation
Rewards of patience
Philosophic debate
Pomagranites and ruby grapefruit
Writing [all sorts]
Talking, it's a Gemini thing
Mind expansion
Sushi
Fast cars
Slow food
Discovering my inner succubus
Dreaming and sleeping
Waterfalls and the beautiful green creeks I have to crawl up to find 'em
Cloud watching
Weaving and sewing
BBQs
uhhh.... huhhuh Lounging!!!!!

And getting myself off this fuckin computer and out into the SUNSHINE!!!!



I Am An Old Soul

I am an experienced soul who appreciates tradition. Mellow and wise, I like to be with others but I also appreciate being alone. I'm down to earth and sensible... sometimes impatient. I'm a creature of habit, it takes me a while to warm up to new people. I hate injustice, and am very protective of family and friends. I'm a bit demanding as I expect proper behavior from others. I'm extremely independent so I don't mind living or being alone. When I find Love I want it to be for marriage.
Souls I am most compatible with: Warrior Soul and Visionary Soul What Kind of Soul Are You?" And nearer fast and nearer doth the red whirlwind come;
And louder still and still more loud, from underneath that whirling cloud,
Is heard the trumpet's war-note proud, the trampling and the hum.
And plainly and more plainly now through the gloom appears,
Far to left and far to right, in broken gleams of dark-blue light,
The long array of helmets bright, the long array of spears. "
from Horatius at the Bridge, Lord Thomas Babbington McCauly

Not that I endorse hitting people, but that thar is important information to consider


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Things Which Make Me Reach For My BFG:
Neil Young [to use on myself, he's one depressing muthafuker]
Abusers
Traffic Jams [bad on toast]
Forced sterilization and genital alteration
Idiots who refuse to learn
Being sick
Bad Parents
Mice
Bad dogs and the owners who create them
Missionaries
Liars who insist they are right in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence
Turgid chick flicks
Selfishly insecure people who want things at other's expense
Failing my 'cook well' check
Yes men
People who choose profit over lives and the environment
Diamond mines
Child Labor
Sexual slavery
Running out of Time



I scored as One Intellectual Individual. I'm a thinker. I see things from a very different prospective than the rest of the world, and find release and self-expression in music, painting, sculpting, or any other form of art. People see me as a deep person, full of knowledge that they won't often understand. Some people are attracted to that, but there's a good chance I don't care.
What type of hippie are you?



"I find this work oddly menacing because the formal post-modern iconicity and the disjunctive perturbation of the painterly biomorphic neo-tribal gestures spatially undermine the subtle yet distinctive Magrittian semiotic juxtapositioning. I like it."

What Mythological Creature are you?
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I scored as a Faerie

Faerie: Aren't I a cute little flying person? Faeries are earth spirits. I live among each element completely hidden. I've got cousins called Pixies. Pixies however, are very mischevious. They enjoy tormenting other creatures for fun. Little pranksters.. I hope you never meet one. Pixies have a bad reputation for finding a creature and clinging to them until death. Faeries can be somewhat close to a Pixie, but mostly we are loving, playful, and maintain a child-like enthusiasm for life. Hide among the pedals of a rose with me...

Faerie


75%

Dragon


67%

Demon


58%

Angel


42%

Mermaid


42%

WereWolf


34% ..

I'd like to meet:

Me.

Huh... funny. I just noticed that those strapping manly men(above)kinda look alike in a rugged, adventuresome, toothsome {Toothsome- (adj.)TASTY, delicious, luscious, mouthwatering, delectable, succulent; tempting, appetizing, inviting, scrumptious, yummy, nummy, finger-licking, melt-in-your-mouth, lipsmacking} brunette sort of way... er. *ahem* Right! On to... uh... *blinkblink* I'd like to meet the Dali Lama, and give him a hug. I'd like to meet Toshiro Mifune , because he brought so much 'badass' to life, tho' he passed on to Valhalla in '97. I'd like to meet Frank Herbet and give him a big fat bong hit, but I'd have to die again and I need to live a lot more first.I'd like to party with the winning World Cup '06 team, after I've sat through all the cherriest games in my plush skybox surrounded by the people and ingestables that I love.
I think I'd like to meet most anyone with a spark in their eye, so much kelp I have to swim through before I find the sparklies....

My score on The Alignment Test True Neutral (You are -5 Good and +5 Lawful!)
Some people see me as wishy-washy, but I prefer to consider myself open and unbiased.

Music:


My Pandora Music Genome Stations:
Shpongle, Cat Stevens, Duke Ellington/Hawkins, House of Cypress, Tool, Beethoven, Peter Tosh

And to listen too in no particular order:
Zepplin
Tool
Primus [or anything Claypol tries]
Ministry
Floyd
AIC
Cake
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Apocolyptica
Infected Mushroom
Agatsuma
Violent Femmes
4 NonBlondes
Shpongle
Talking Heads
BeeGees
Critter's Buggin
earlier Metallica
Cat Stevens
Jim Croce
Afroman
good bagpipes
Cypress Hill
Concrete Blonde
Aesop Rock
Duke Ellington
Mr. Bungle
Younger Brother
Squirril Nut Zippers
Baaba Maal
Nirvana
Joplin
Control Machete
P-Funk!
Dick Dale
Ween
Black Sabbath
Jethro Tull
Billie Holiday
Hendrix
baroque
Jimmy Buffet
SOAD
Anthony B
Gregorian chants
Big Night Music by Shreikback
Ali Farka Toure
Peter Tosh
Beethoven
pow-wow tunes
Godsmack
Lightnin Hopkins
They Might Be Giants
Ofra Haza
Hank Williams Sr.
metal
ska
punk
tribal/bass/trance
swing
that hippie shit
industrial
alt.
world
hardcore krautrock
funk
jam sound + reggae [only the primo though]
..... so many more.... but these would be sorely missed if not listed. Pretty much anything that gets me moving or actively navel gazing is good! Bass is always nice.

Movies:


Dune
Lone Wolf and Cub series
Lady Snowblood
Kirosawa flicks
Light Years
Ichi the Killer
Boondock Saints
Narnia
Troll
Samurai Jack series
Samurai Champloo
The Court Jester
Transformers
Clockwork Orange
The Life Aquatic
Platoon
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
any fantastic animation
Vampire Hunter D
Samurai Fiction
Hanzo: Razor Sword of Justice {silken rice, anyone? It's a series!}
Evil Dead series, and pretty much any Sam Raimi creation cause he does the spurting...
ExistenZ
Most any Satan movie
Yojimbo & Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Dr. Who series
The Duellists
Orlando
The Bad Leiutenant
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Constantine
Rocky
Hellraiser series
Anything with Tim Curry
High Plains Drifter
Fire and Ice saw it in theatres in '83, really made me sit up and take note
Uritsukidoji, Legend of Overfiend
Alien Series
Queen Margot
most any Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet pic
Willow
Gallipoli
The Big Lebowski
AEon Flux toons
Hacker slasher barbarian flicks [the more spurting, the better]
Buckaroo Bonzaiiiiii!!!!!!
Logan's Run
Tron
Krull
Beastmaster
MST3K
Blind Swordman Zatouchi [2003]
Studio Gibli flicks
Chick flicks soggy with gut-wrenching emotion and torrid drama. Hahaha! Just kidding.
Legend
Troll
Labrinth
Eastwood spaghetti westerns [thank you, Toshirô Mifune]
Cemetary Man
Audry Hepburn
Shaun of the Dead
Trainspotting
Angel & Buffy & Firefly [what, watch them on TV?! Kidding, right?]
Those big bug 50's flicks
Kung fu flicks
Pitch Black and Riddick
Sword and sandal flicks [less plot, more killing]
R. Harryhausen monster flicks
Princess Bride
The Firm
V is for Vendetta
Matrix Series [Keeanu's best acting before Constantine {can't count Bill&Ted}, and a solid savior mythos. H. Weaving is the bomb diggity!]
Willem Dafoe

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Television:

KILL YOUR TELEVISION

Books:

"I like deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" -Douglas Adams
The Last Flower
by James Thurber
{My mother gave me this to read when I was about 6-7. She bought it at the Dartmouth bookstore, we always frequented bookstores, still do. It had nice illustrations, she thought it was a kids book. It made me cry, horribly. Sneaking up and watching "The Day After" didn't help. Seeing the Klan march on DC and then get explainations of what they wanted didn't help. My parents taking me to see "Twilight Zone" in the theatres didn't help much either. But this poignant essay made me firmly resolved to find and love that flower. I read it over and over again. Needless to say, it left a huge impact on my life so this should explain much about me....}
World War XII, as everyone knows, brought about the collapse of civilization. Towns cities, and villages disappeared. All the groves and forest were destroyed, and all the gardens, and all the works of art. Men, women, and children became lower than the animals. Discouraged and disillusioned, dogs deserted their fallen masters. Books Paintings, and music disappeared from the earth, and human beings just sat around doing nothing. Years and years went by. Even the few generals who were left forgot what the last war had decided. Boys and girls grew up to stare at each other blankly. Love had passed from earth.
One day, a young girl who had never seen a flower chanced to come upon the last one in the world. She told the other human beings that the last flower was dying. The only one who paid attention to her was a young man. Together, the young man and the girl nurtured the flower and it began to live again. One day, a bee visited the flower, and a humming bird. Before long, there were two flowers, and then a great many. Groves and forests flourished again. The young girl began to take interest in how she looked. The young man discovered that touching the girl was pleasurable. Love was reborn into the world.
The children of the young man and the girl grew up strong and healthy. They learned to run and laugh. Dogs came out of their exile. The young man discovered how to build a shelter. Pretty soon everybody was building shelters. Towns, cities, and villages sprung up. Song came back into the world, and troubadours and jugglers, tailors and cobblers, painters and poets, and sculptors, and soldiers and Lieutenants and Captains, and Generals and Major-Generals, and liberators. Some people went to one place to live, and some to another. Before long, those who went to live in the valleys wished they had gone to live in the hills. And those who had to live in the hills wished they had gone down to live in valleys. The liberators, under the guidance of God, set fire to the discontented. So presently, the world was at war again. This time, the destruction was so complete that nothing at all was left in the world, except one man, one woman, and a flower.
The Monet gallery in Paris also made me cry...
Project Gutenburg
Dune, Frank Herbert [all of them... not so much Bribri's childish recreative attempts]
Jim and Judy, 1939 primer, the first book I ever read, I was 4
Walden, Thoreau [a quote for anything in there]
Oppi Untracht, Margaret Seeler, & Tim McCright's jewelry resorce books
The Art and History of Japanese Cloisonne
Fafhrd and Mouser saga, Fritz Leiber [ultimate uberbarbarian-thief classic]
Vlad Taltos books,Stephen Brust[fabulous guy]
Art of War, Sun Tzu [should be required elementary school reading]
News from Nowhere, William Morris
Any faerie book by Jones and Froud Most any pre-industrial classic
Lone Wolf and Cub series, Kazuo Koike, anything he touches is fantastic {ie:Kill Bill and Lady Snowblood} bur be sure to get the older, square spine versions, eBay works well. The new smallish ones suck putrid shaven gerbils!!!
The Courtier
Tao of Pooh
Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Chalker [I was quite young, they struck me, too afraid to reread]
The dictionary
Steve Perry's 'Man Who Never Missed' saga
A lot of stuff by Heinlein
Poe and Lovecraft, anything gothic/victorian really
Horatio at the Bridge, Lord T.B. McCauly [great piece to memorize]
Merton, Bullfinch, Campbell, and Russel
Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner
Bullfinch's Mythology
Oz Series, F. L. Baum
Calvin and Hobbes
Tale of Genji and related lit
Books with pretty pictures
Bloom County
Burroughs [read em all]
Andrew Lang's fairy tale series
D. Drake and M. Lackey [someone's gotta read the pulp]
Hobbit and LOTR, common, I know, but still great
Borges
The Onion, collections
Pretty much anything decent in print [ie: not romance or populist drivel] will entertain me....
Monk
51% Combativeness, 53% Sneakiness, 76% Intellect, 63% Spirituality
Pretty much good at everything: I'm a Monk!
No, not a monk like those bald medieval guys. The Monk in D&D is a martial artist. They're smart, they're capable, they're spiritual,they're sneaky when they want to be, and they're damn dangerous in a fight. What to say? I scored high on all four categories, which means that I'm probably a well rounded and capable person. Either that or I'm an overly smart and dangerous psychopath.

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Heroes:

Is that the Milk of Human Kindness or just the coffee in my veins?
my lieutenants
Diagoro &; Ogami Itto
Samurai Jack
Duncan Idaho
The Grey Mouser
Jai Williams
Steve Irwin
Optimus Prime
Flash Gordon
Marc Adamus
Ubersmith Torgul
Spock
Danny Kaye
Ash
Jayne the Box Dropping Man-Ape Gone Wrong Thing

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