Well... as I'm celebrating ye olde' Bday... I thought it might be fun to talk about my life...

"I was born in the ol' country... I came across the sea in a leaking boat whipped by the cold-hearted crew who put me to work as soon as my feet touched American soil! The good folks at PR say I can "Buy my freedom" in a couple more years of writing..."

Wait a minute... I'm from Los Angeles... NEVERMIND!

Let's just go with the followin' stuff... if ya wanna submit your own list of YOUR top ten stuff, please do so!

DARK'S TOP TEN:

BOOKS:

Fiction:

1. Dark Rivers of the Heart: Dean Koontz
2. Needful Things: Stephen King
3. The Redemption of Althalas: David Eddings
4. The Crystal Shard: R.A. Salvatore
5. His Codename was "The Fox" (Foxtrot): Bill Amend

Non-Fiction:
1. The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
2. Bushido: The Warrior's Code: Nitobe Inazo
3. Death Investigator's Handbook: Louis Eliopulos
4. Windows XP Resource Kit: Microsoft Press
5. Windows 2000 4-in-1 Requirements (Sybex)

MUSIC:

1. Don't Fear the Reaper: Blue Oyster Cult
2. Where-ever I may Roam -Metallica
3. Shot in the Dark: Ozzy Osbourne
4.Tango in the Night: Fleetwood Mac
5. Golgatha Tenament Blues: Machines of Loving Grace
6. Love You to Death: Type O Negative
7. Something I Can Never Have: Nine Inch Nails
8. Holy Wars: Megadeth
9. Who Made Who: AC/DC
10. Crawling: Linkin Park

GAMES/MOVIES:

1. Darklands
2. GTA 3
3. The Legend of Zelda (the first one)
4. Zork 1: The Underground Empire
5. No One Live Forever 1

Movies:

1. In The Mouth of Madness
2. Manhunter (The original "Red Dragon"... not that crappy remake)
3. Ghost Dog
4. The Watcher
5. The Crow


Anyway... I'll be back to regular postin' tomorrow!

"Very very very good tastes... but might I suggest reading the Hagakure if you haven't already? Considering you have seen Ghost Dog you likely got curious and read it but thought I would suggest anyway." (And once again happy b-day.)

Kit

Kit, yep... I've read it several times.

Ya might try Budoshoshinshu by Daidoji Yuzan.

LA dark??? what part?
im from Bell,ca.

Speaking of movies, I just opened up an old movie cabinet at my aunt's house and saw the movie "The 13th Warrior" sitting in there.

Am I the only one that has seen that movie or thought it was a good movie?

"Thank you Dark I'll definately look into it... And IronSerif... 13th warrior... personally I believe it is not a half bad movie but not something that really kept my personal interests. Although I must admit the basis was very good, and the norsemen were well cast... That is if we are thinking of the same movie, since it has been quite some time since I saw it."

Kit

Quote: Originally posted by Kitlarak "Thank you Dark I'll definately look into it... And IronSerif... 13th warrior... personally I believe it is not a half bad movie but not something that really kept my personal interests. Although I must admit the basis was very good, and the norsemen were well cast... That is if we are thinking of the same movie, since it has been quite some time since I saw it." Kit

I think we're talking about the same one...the one with Antonio Banderas in it right?

I thought it was decent, there's a lot of stuff I'd change (can't think of any right now), but it was decent

Raf, I still have relatives in Orange. I haven't lived in California in years... I did go back for about 9 months when my uncle (my aunt's husband technically) and my grandfather died (My uncle had cancer, my grandfather had complications due to his age)... Oh, and I went back when my grandmother got really sick and later died on my Mom's side... if I'm back in CA... it usually means there's a death in the family, or someone is headin' that way...

I keep thinkin' of doing some traveling... got a friend who's wife is Japanese... he said he goes back every couple years to visit his in-laws. Offered to let me tag along... I might take him up on it... (nothin' like getting all off topic, no?)

Quote: Originally posted by IronSerif I think we're talking about the same one...the one with Antonio Banderas in it right? I thought it was decent, there's a lot of stuff I'd change (can't think of any right now), but it was decent

"...I believe so... not sure though, not exactly the best with names... he kinda looks like someone that could be whooped with ease? He plays an arabian guy? If so I believe we're thinking of the same one... although the section where he makes the scimitar then first uses it I definately believe was well done... really don't remember much of the movie though, as I have said it has been a long time."

Kit

the thirteenth warrior was a book that was a fictional acount of the beowulf saga set up as if it were a real set of found scrolls writen by an arabic fellow who witnessed it all put together by a professer to actually teach his class about something (i cant remember the authers name or the name of the book or what class or school he taught at )

Yeah! And the dude was stoned from licking frogs. I remember him from school!

I may be confused but I believe you are taling about Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crighton. The movie was just an adaptation renamed to The 13th Warrior.

I just found a link... http://www.geocities.com/darkdaze18/info.html

Kit - Yeah, we're talking about the same movie bro

Quote: Originally posted by The_Lost_Monkey the thirteenth warrior was a book that was a fictional acount of the beowulf saga ...)

Yeah, when I watched the movie I was relating it to Beowulf...and of course none of my friends knew what I was talking about back then