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Q: Please Introduce Yourself
Hi everyone. Lovely to meet you all. If you have 10 minutes to spare, please respond to the questions below. Please stick to the same format, but feel free to add explanations!
1. List three movies or TV shows you love (preferably of different genres).
2. List three pieces of music you love (preferably of different styles).
3. List three books or three writers you love.
4. Describe yourself in three words.
5. List something you are particularly interested in.
6. Say something nice about the poster above you.
Movies/shows: Conan the barbarian, fight club, ugly betty (oh come on she's awesome)
Muzak: spin spin sugar by sneakerpimps, fur elise by beethoven, jeremy by pearljam
Books: CJ Cherryh, Michael moorcock, a wizard in a far-away land
Describe: Honest, odd, fat
Interest: the look on a woman's face who is truly happy, solving a complex problem, exercise that nearly hurts
Post above: Mentioned vikings, he da man!
I'll go first...
1. Children of Men (I like dystopia, and generally like dark or uncertain endings); Game of Thrones (typically I am heterosexual, but my alignment wavers somewhat when Khal Drogo is on screen); Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series 1995 (typically I am heterosexual, but my alignment also wavers somewhat when Mr Darcy is on screen)
2. The Lady of Shalott by Loreena McKennitt (possibly the most tasteful thing ever); Aphelion by Tristania; 3rd movement (not the famous one) of Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
3. Robin Hobb (in particular Royal Assassin); Christopher Hitchens (in particular everything he ever wrote); Camille Paglia (very intelligent discussion about ancient biological forces vs modern perceptions about sex)
4. Lazy, disorganised, argumentative
5. I consider myself to be the world's foremost authority on creme caramels.
6. There is no poster above me, but I can with complete honesty say this about the next poster: He/she has the body of Achilles/Aphrodite, the intellect of Socrates, and is said to have invented love.
wow,, this is difficult for me.....
1. Roman Holiday, Lolita, Upstairs,Downstairs (the old one)
2. Amazing Grace - E. Presley, Come as You Are - K. Cobain, Heart of Gold - N. Young
3. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Hardy, War & Peace - Tolstoi, Sun Also Rises -Hemingway
4. lazy, dumb, drunk
5. the mechanics behind the propagation of sound. what becomes of matter as it is transformed through the nuclear fusion process.
6. the poster above me listed one of my favorite novels.... Ignatius Rules !! all others drool ! especially that sub-human mongoloid Patrolman Mancuso!
1. The Last Emperor, The Hours, Apocalypse Now! (only 3?)
2. Chopin's Nocturne #1, Opus 48. Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion. Maroon 5 - Harder to Breathe.
3. Isaac Asimov (Especially the Foundation Series). Jane Austen (favorite is Pursuasion). The Good Earth.
4. a bit neurotic
5. cinema, music, design, and the taste of chocolate.
6. the poster above hasn't ticked me off recently... (sorry, i don't know riverdude).
1 Big Bang Theory, Elementary, Hogan's heroes
2 rolling in the deep Adele, What Ive done Linkin Park, Sexy back JT
3 Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole ,
4 Smart Ass , Talkative , Flirt
5 Finding the answers
6 Only spoken to Xinyuren a couple of times
however what I have red he sounds like a straight shooter and has had a lot of good information to share
One of the more normal people here
1. The Expendables 1, The Expendables 2, 三国 (2010)
2. Silence, silence, pucking silence.
3. I don't generally like books, but... The Bible.
4. Shen Jing Bing (神经病)
5. Video games
6. I love philbravery, he's awesome.
LOL
1.Oceans,The Motorcycle Diaries,Central Station.
2. Original scenery of hometown,Somewhere I Belong,Out of Africa.
3. The story of stone,Gone with the wind,Fortress Besieged.
4. Positive,lazy,quiet.
5. Backpacking,South America,Central Asia,Arctic,Ocean.
6. Hulk,how the hell do you forget to take the toilet paper again?
1. The walking dead, Fight club, Mad max beyond thunderdome.
2. Metallica, Dmx, Hank Williams junior.
3.Stephen King, Anne Rice, J.R.R, Tolkien.
4. Drunk,Angry, and don't give a f...
5. Girls
6. I love Conan the barbarian, I watched that movie at least 100 times when I was 16, we have one of the same favorite movies.,..
mArtiAn:
Sorry but 'Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdrome'? I think the question was, which movies do you love? Not, which movies suck elephant ass? You've made up for it with your taste in writers though.
Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Vikings
"Titanium" - Alesso, "Sonne" - Rammstein, "Don't Speak" - No Doubt
As I am illiterate, I will instead list movies: Limitless, Brick, Looper
Bad at counting things
Girls
We have similar interests 
Movies/shows: Conan the barbarian, fight club, ugly betty (oh come on she's awesome)
Muzak: spin spin sugar by sneakerpimps, fur elise by beethoven, jeremy by pearljam
Books: CJ Cherryh, Michael moorcock, a wizard in a far-away land
Describe: Honest, odd, fat
Interest: the look on a woman's face who is truly happy, solving a complex problem, exercise that nearly hurts
Post above: Mentioned vikings, he da man!
1) Brazil / Louie (on FX) / Seom (aka The Isle)
2) Killing Joke - 'Love Like Blood' / Aphex Twin - 'Come To Daddy' / Tom Waits - 'The Piano Has Been Drinking'
3) Kurt Vonnegut / Irvine Welsch / Boris Vian
4) electro music terrorist
5) underground music and rare / low budget films (from any country)
6) Sneaker Pimps were alright...
1) The Remains of the Day, The Sunset Limited, Pulp Fiction (TV sucks)
2) Lucille (BB King), Bang Bang (Wil.I.Am), Sweet Dreams (Marilyn Manson)
3) Orhan Pamuk (all books), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The idiot), Khushwant Singh (Delhi: A Novel)
4) Soulless, Selfish, Introvert
5) Mountains, Run till I am gone
6) posters! don't see it
1. Shawshank Redemption, The Beach, New Girl
2. Snuff (Slipknot), Holoscene (Bon Iver), The road (Frank Turner)
3. Five quarters of the orange, Seven deadly sins, The hundred year old man that climbed out the window and disappeared
4. Insane tea drinker
5. People, they interest me to no end. Also travel.
6. Pulp Fiction! Hell yeah 
I.Kichen nightmare, Malcolm X, Lords of War
II. Kiuss, Joe Hisaishi, Smashing Pumpings
III.Charles Bukosky, Banana Yoshimoto, Zhuangzi
IV Insane coffee drinker
V. wing chun, visual art, music
VI. Carpe diem
Blues Brothers, Do the Right Thing, On the Waterfront, Taxi Driver (pretty much anything by Scorsese), Clockwork Orange (pretty much anything by Kubrick), The Pawnbroker (big fan of Sidney Lumet too), Pulp Fiction (again). No stopping me at 3. TV just doesn't compare.
All 1960s-1970s tunes here; Heroin - Velvet Revolver (its not even about the subject matter. Its that passion with which he sings about it), Message of Love - Band of Gypsies (The best track on Hendrix's last album), Time - Chamber Brothers (The ultimate one-hit wonder)
Not a big reader but Jack Kerouac's Road books became Easy Rider, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness became Apocalypse Now & a ton of Hemingway's stuff went to the big screen. (see what I did there)
up side down
I do art; painting, drawing, sculpture, etc
I've never noticed Nicholas Ba before but I'm sure he's a great guy. I'd click on his post history to find out something else to say but I'm not sure if that would make me have to type all of this over.
1, the good wife, seinfeld, friends
2, Siempre Me Quedara , Sail--Awolnation, let's face the music and dance
3, gone with the wind, pride and prejudice, 撒哈拉的故事/ the story of sahara
4，the magical, magnificent, motherf**king manimal
5, music, painting, drawing, fashion, sport, chinese calligraphy, psychology, philosophy, history, politics
6, don't know markferrer, but we have similar interests
1. No Country For Old Men, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The King's Speech.
2. Thunderstruck, Spirit of Radio, Hey Oh
3. Francis Bacon, Jack London, Paul Krugman
4. smart, fun, ummmm I dunno, leave me alone! Got it: anti-social!
5. Economics, guitar, calculus of variations, etc.
6. Nice picture!
1) Scott Pilgrim VS The World, Adventure Time, The Venture Bros. (I like cartoons...)
2) Barbara Ann, Roll Over Beethoven as performed by Status Quo, and polka in general. Polka rocks.
3) Stephen King, Alexandre Dumas, Homer's Odyssey
4) (Too) trusting, geeky, shy
5) Video games, playing the guitar, eating.
6) Good tastes (except for the "calculus" part 
)
1) Tank Girl, Married with Children, The Matrix,,reminds me of China, the first time I stopped a bus with my hand,, priceless
2) Pet peeve, music died in 1985, nothing but oldies, my iPod is set to random.
3) I haven't read a book in so long. I think the last one was rebuilding GM transmissions.
4) tall, dark and 2 out of 3s not bad
5) building, breaking, beer, cats & dogs & women
6) has a sense of humour,glad its not silva, so is he
1. List three movies or TV shows you love (preferably of different genres).
MST3K, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and historical documentaries
2. List three pieces of music you love (preferably of different styles).
Classical, rock, and oldies
3. List three books or three writers you love.
I'll just put "Pillars of the Earth" if it's ok
4. Describe yourself in three words.
Laowai, laowai, laowai 
5. List something you are particularly interested in.
History
6. Say something nice about the poster above you.
TedDBear has a cool icon?
