I don't really believe in reincarnation, but I do love how people who claim to have this funny tendency to claim they were Charlemagne or Cleopatra. If I did believe in past lives, I'd say most people who be reincarnations of people who were pretty damn average.

That being said, if I did believe in past lives, I would imagine I would have been a starving artist at some point.

The '3' Quiz

Rules
1- Copy and paste these rules into your journal
2- Answer ALL questions as truthfully as possible.
3- Tag people

Questions:
1. Top 3 favourite nicknames for yourself:
- Teacake (Chris' pet name for me)
- Zombiecakes
- Raven

2. Top 3 favourite boys names:
- Erasmus
- Julian
- Silas (Not gonna lie.)

3. Top 3 favourite girls names:
- Mina
- Alice
- Lenora

4. Top 3 favourite numbers:
- 23
- 11
- 97

5. Top 3 favourite colours:
- Grey
- Lavender
- Burgundy

6. Top 3 favourite movie villains:
- Dracula (as played by Bela Lugosi)
- Patrick Bateman from American Psycho
- That creepy-ass kid played by Elijah Wood in Sin City

7. Top 3 favourite movie good guys:
- Milo fricking Thatch </nerdom>
- Valentine from MirrorMask
- Sylvia from Brotherhood of the Wolf

8. Top 3 favourite video game villains:
- Dormin from Shadow of the Colossus
- The Queen from Ico
- Sanctus from DMC4

9. Top 3 favourite video game good guys:
- The Wanderer from Shadow of the Colossus
- Ico
- Princess Yorda from Ico, despite the fact that she is completely useless

10. Top 3 favourite animated movies:
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- The Road to El Dorado
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

11. Top 3 favourite live action movies:
- Edward Scissorhands
- Dracula (1931)
- Brotherhood of the Wolf

12. 3 movies you haven't seen but want to see:
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Wolfman (looks like it might actually be an awesome remake)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman... I've heard it's supposed to be really good)

13. 3 movies you feel like watching now:
- Dracula
- Psycho
- Dementia 13 (I'm on a Horror kick...)

14. Top 3 video games at the momemt:
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Ico
- Prince of Persia

15. Top 3 games you want to buy right now:
- DMC4
- Call of Duty World at War
- Starcraft II

16. 3 favourite songs at the moment:
- Walk Without Limbs by Virgin Black
- A Sequel of Decay by Tristania
- The Hero by Amon Amarth

17. Top 3 original characters at the moment (yours or anyones):
- Anthony Ashford and Vadim Valerius (because they go together like explosives and vodka)
- Isador Abendroth (Chris' clockwork god)
- Maurice Thorn

18. Top 3 hobbies:
- Writing and reading poetry
- Drawing
- Drinking tea

19. 3 least favourite things to do:
- Stoichiometry
- Sit ups
- Analytical essays

20. Top 3 favourite accents:
- Romanian
- British
- Finnish

21. Main 3 reasons why you did this quiz:
- Was bored
- Saw friends had done it
- And I wanted to make my LJ less empty

22. 3 people to tag:
- You
- You
- You

Stolen from flamingsc0rpion because I have nothing better to do.

( Questions and Answers behind the cut. )

About politics, which I normally don't do, but since I did end up watching a little of the inauguration coverage I kind of got thinking about politics and I realized why I hate them so much. It's totally because of the party system. I hate it because it makes it that much easier for people to go vote without taking the time to actually do research on the party platform ("I've always voted Democratic/Republican/Green/Bull Moose Party, so I might as well just vote for them again without bothering to inform myself!") and that's just a mark of laziness and utter stupidity. I also hate that it basically just sticks you with only two options (hate to say it, but voting third party is basically throwing a vote away), and those two options are often stuck with their party's agenda instead of what would really be good for the people, and those two options never seem to leave enough middle ground.

This is a really big problem for people like me who, even though I am not old enough to vote yet, are all over the place on the political spectrum, varying issue to issue. For example, I'm liberal when it comes to gay marriage. They ought to have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples, imo. I don't care what genders the people in a couple are as long as they are faithful and truly love each other. It's really just ignorant to deny them something as simple as a legal state wedding (Church/religious weddings are where it gets a little tricky, so I won't even go there. I guess it should be up to the individual church/place of worship to decide.) On the other hand, I'm totally conservative when it comes to things like gun control laws. I know people make the argument that selling more guns would cause more crime, but if you were an armed robber, let's say, and you knew there was a good chance that the guy you were about to rob could be packing, you'd probably think twice about it.

Those are just a couple examples, but I know my friends are more than intelligent enough to get the picture. =)

tl;dr version: Partisan politics blows.

Which is really a funny thing, considering how much I hate politics.

I mostly just like using them as an excuse for playing hooky. Don't tell my teachers. xD "LOL, no, I wasn't skipping, I stayed home to watch the inauguration!" I know it's probably a horrible thing to do, especially since I really couldn't care less about listening to another political speech. (Got enough of those in government last semester.) I mean, maybe I'll flip on the TV for a few minutes and watch the speech, but I'm fairly certain that it will just be a clever re-hash of things Mr. Obama has already said in speeches I've already heard.

I guess this makes me a naughty, naughty non-political person.

But it also gets me out of Alg. II/Trig for a day.

So I just deleted all my old entries because they were the fail and maybe I'll actually start posting and stuff now.

Maybe.

If I feel like it.

Which is slightly doubtful, but I'll try and make it work.