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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
10:43 pm	The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicise those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ 5) Put a star next to those you've only partially read. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre  - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations  - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment  - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows  - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens * 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma  - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (didn't we already mention this?) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown  Will NEVER read this tripe 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist  - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses  - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad* 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers  - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo* OK, well I finished the list, and got 41.  What I'd like to know is what the fuck was the criteria for which the damn thing was listed.  The DaVinci Code does not belong on the same shelf, store nor any other list or category with works like Hamlet, nor anything by most of the other authors here.  One should also note that this list includes both the Bible and young adult's lit. That said, I'm too much of a lazy fuck to come up with one myself... but still... who's idea of a comprehensive list of literature by which to judge your level or literacy, intellect or culture is this?  Have they gone through puberty?  Do they know that George Carlin was anyone but a bloody conductor on a ridiculous railroad? A good third of these books are contemporary trendy coffee table books, NOT what will actually still be called literature in twenty years time, so I sincerely hope that NO ONE takes this list seriously or feels intellectually inadequate because they've read less than fifty of them.  That's kind of like judging your literacy rate based on the Oprah you-should-read-this list... or basing your knowledge of American or Western culture on how well your life conforms to the Jerry Springer Show!  So basically... who the fuck is the Big Read? Current Mood: cold (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 17th, 2007
9:25 am	hmmm I Am A: Neutral Good Human Druid (5th Level) Ability Scores: Strength-15 Dexterity-17 Constitution-15 Intelligence-13 Wisdom-16 Charisma-14 Alignment: Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable. Race: Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like. Class: Druids gain power not by ruling nature but by being at one with it. They hate the unnatural, including aberrations or undead, and destroy them where possible. Druids receive divine spells from nature, not the gods, and can gain an array of powers as they gain experience, including the ability to take the shapes of animals. The weapons and armor of a druid are restricted by their traditional oaths, not simply training. A druid's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that they can cast. Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus</a></b> (e-mail) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
10:33 pm	Tarot I think I did this one not long ago, but I did it again... You are The Magician Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity. Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive. The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil. What Tarot Card are You? Take the Test to Find Out. (Comment on this)
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
2:05 am	gakked from Kim... go figure... You scored as Wolverine, Wolverine is a loner, and a skilled fighter. He's got the hots for Jean Grey but a better fit for him would be Storm. He doesn't like to follow orders which pisses Cyclops off. He has terrible memories from the experimentation done on him at Weapon X. Even though he doesn't show it, he loves the X-Men. Powers: Fast healing and adamantium skeleton and claws. </td> Emma Frost 65% Storm 65% Jean Grey 65% Wolverine 65% Rogue 65% Gambit 60% Nightcrawler 60% Colossus 55% Iceman 55% Beast 40% Cyclops 40% Most Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com Current Mood: amused (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
4:09 pm	Birthdays I just noticed that I have 2 friends with birthdays today and 1 tomorrow... Happy Birthday Jenn and Erica!! Happy Birthday Justin!! (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 8th, 2007
2:49 am	Huh... My score on The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test: Androgynous (You scored 53 masculinity and 63 femininity!) You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles. Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test (OkCupid Free Online Dating) (Comment on this)
2:30 am	Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score Category Your Score Average Hacklust 25.47% Has conversations in between massacres 53.5% Sensitive Roleplaying 49.37% "But what's my motivation for this scene?" 54.7% GM Experience 67.39% Ran a module once or twice 69.4% Systems Knowledge 77.54% Local rules guru 90.4% Livin' La Vida Dorka 31.03% Carries dice in pocket 'just in case' 63.3% You are 53.61% pure Average Score: 68.8% Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up! (By The Ferrett) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
1:24 pm	gacked from beerhorse I guess this makes sense... my mom's family is from Detroit originally, then Utica NY... and I know I speak differently than most of the people I grew up with in PA. I'm just SO happy I didn't pick up my maternal grandmother's NJ accent! </form> What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland North accent of the Great Lakes area, or the radio-friendly sound of upstate NY and western New England, your accent is what used to set the standard for American English pronunciation (not much anymore now that the Inland North sounds like it does). Take this quiz now - it's easy! We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different? Different Same Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
4:35 am	*sigh* , you're now logged in! Below you'll find your test result. After, continue on to your homescreen to discover what we're about. continue to OkCupid homescreen > Hamlet Hark, Ye scored 50! Ahh, You are Hamlet, the protagonist from, duh, Shakespeare's Hamlet. You have an inherent need to wax philosophical and figure out everything... no matter how painstaking that process may be. You need to plow through all sorts of thoughts before you make a decision, and normally, you waste way too much energy in doing so. My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on SC Link: The Shakespearian Character Test written by LoudmouthLee on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
2:06 pm	Huh You are The Magician Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity. Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive. The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil. What Tarot Card are You? Take the Test to Find Out. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
11:44 pm	new photos Finally got some new work posted! http://davidmvanness.deviantart.com/ let me know what you think! Also, on a similar note, I finally got the membership that allows me to sell prints through the site. The little stuff is pretty cheap... hint hint.... Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Monday, February 12th, 2007
7:14 pm	New Photo I think a lot of you will like this one: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48653322/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
7:22 pm	supervillain Your results:<BR><B>You are <FONT SIZE=6>The Joker</FONT></B> <TABLE><TR><TD><TABLE><TR><TD>The Joker</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=61></TD><TD> 61%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Apocalypse</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=61></TD><TD> 61%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Venom</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=57></TD><TD> 57%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Dark Phoenix</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=55></TD><TD> 55%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Magneto</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=53></TD><TD> 53%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Mystique</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=47></TD><TD> 47%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Catwoman</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=46></TD><TD> 46%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Lex Luthor</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=46></TD><TD> 46%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Dr. Doom</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=44></TD><TD> 44%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Riddler</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=44></TD><TD> 44%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Poison Ivy</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=39></TD><TD> 39%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Juggernaut</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=39></TD><TD> 39%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Two-Face</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=39></TD><TD> 39%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Mr. Freeze</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=37></TD><TD> 37%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Green Goblin</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=35></TD><TD> 35%</TD> </TR><TR><TD>Kingpin</TD> <TD><HR ALIGN=LEFT NOSHADE SIZE=4 WIDTH=34></TD><TD> 34%</TD> </TR></TABLE></TD> <TD WIDTH="250">The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane.  You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand.<BR> <IMG SRC="http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/villain/pics/joker.jpg"></TD> </TR></TABLE><A HREF="http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/villain"> Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test</A><BR> Current Mood: mellow (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
7:32 pm	Somehow I doubt this will surprise anyone (Meme) Freak- INFJ 33% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 46% Thinking, 66% Judging Well, well, well. How did someone like you end up with the least common personality type of them all? In a group of 100 Americans, only 0.5 others would be just like you. You really are one of a kind... In fact, I do believe that that's one of the definitions for the word "FREAK." Freak's not such a bad word to describe you actually. You are deep, complex, secretive and extremely difficult to understand. If that doesn't scream "Freak!" I don't know what does. No-one actually knows the REAL you, do they? You probably have deep interests in creative expression as well as issues of spirituality and human development. You've probably even been called a "psychic" before, because of your uncanny knack to understand and "read" people without quite knowing how you do it. Don't fret. You're not actually psychic. That would make you special and you'll never accomplish that. You're also quite possible the most emotional of them all, so don't take this all too hard. Nevertheless you most definitely have the strangest personality type and that's not necessarily a good thing. ***************** If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this. ***************** The other personality types are as follows... Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Extraversion You scored higher than 99% on Intuition You scored higher than 99% on Thinking You scored higher than 99% on Judging Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
7:26 pm	Tarot Not sure HOW I feel about this... You scored as XIII: Death. Death is probably the most well known Tarot card - and also the most misunderstood. Most Tarot novices would consider Death to be a bad card, especially given its connection with the number thirteen. In fact this card rarely indicates literal death.Without "death" there can be no change, only eventual stagnation. The "death" of the child allows for the "birth" of the adult. This change is not always easy. The appearance of Death in a Tarot reading can indicate pain and short term loss, however it also represents hope for a new future. </td> XIII: Death 94% XI: Justice 81% II - The High Priestess 75% XVI: The Tower 69% IV - The Emperor 69% 0 - The Fool 63% VIII - Strength 56% III - The Empress 56% VI: The Lovers 56% X - Wheel of Fortune 44% I - Magician 38% XV: The Devil 38% XIX: The Sun 25% Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You? created with QuizFarm.com (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
8:35 pm	more new pictures!! I know this is what most of my posts are these days... I'll try to get a real update posted soon. http://davidmvanness.deviantart.com/gallery/ (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
12:00 pm	more new photos At least I've been using the camera the last couple of weeks, even if I haven't painted! http://davidmvanness.deviantart.com/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
6:57 am	new photos! http://davidmvanness.deviantart.com/gallery/ (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 11th, 2006
9:40 pm	how messed up is this? Those of you who've read Lovecraft and/or play Call of Cthulu will be deeply disturbed by the clip at this link.. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/81337 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
3:09 am	OK... I apparently have an infected tooth or an absess or something... enough that the pain put me in the hospital today and I'm now on vicodin and pennicillin. I have dislocated both shoulders, a kneecap and had a torn rotator cuff, among a bunch of other things and none of them even compaired to this. I've never curled up in a ball screaming before. I was lucky enough to be at my parents' house when the pain got out of control... I don't know what I would have done if I'd been home alone. So now that the house is quiet with everyone else asleep (I'm still in PA, will be until sometime Monday after I see the dentist) the vicodin is knocking me out but I'm cooling off from trying not to be terrified. I've never experienced that kind of pain before... and that brought on a terror I've only ever experienced while being abused by the ex psycho. In the hospital I was whimpering and asking it to stop, and I don't think I've ever done that before. So yeah... I think I'm going to go try to sleep now, after getting a drink of water... but if anyone needs me for the next couple of days I'll be heavily medicated at my parents' place. (10 Comments |Comment on this)