Name: Greg
Gender: Male
Sex: No thank you, I'm waiting for marriage. (yeah right!)
Am I popular? No, not really. I hang out with a motley crew of friends, and for the most part, they're ok.
Right now I have finished my Opus, "The Hero's Tears." Or should that have been italicized? I don't care. I have also completed the first two parts of the "Our Generation" series. I will put part three up as soon as I figure out what it'll be about.
Of course reviews are appreciated, as long as you don't leave one liners.
Likes: Anime (Evangelion mostly), Calvin and Hobbes, John Grisham books, football, Bill O'Reilly, any movie with Don Cheadle in it, Thoreau.
Dislikes: Facists, Nazis, and school.
Music: Well, I'll give you a top eleven:
11. Another Irish Drinking Song, by DaVinci's Notebook
10. Imagine, by John Lennon
9. Here I go Again, White Snake
8. Down on the Corner, by CCR
7. Desperado, by the Eagles (their version is better, even if it is a cover)
6. Only the Good Die Young, by Billy Joel
5. The Angry American, by Toby Keith
4. Whiskey for my Men, Beer for My Horses, by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson
3. Jump, by Van Halen
2. Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain, by Willie Nelson
1. Simple Man, by Lynard Skynard.
Beliefs: Straightedgeism or sXe, which is refraining from doing drugs or alcohol, at least until I'm twenty-one for alcohol.
Transcendentalism, which is the belief that the divine spirit is reflected in nature and that one's mind can transcend only by meditating on nature. It also has an optimistic view on human kind.
Quotes:
"I'll respect your opinion; no matter how far up your ass you had to shove your head to get it."-Me
"The only difference between a hooker and a lawyer is that a hooker will stop screwing you once you've died."-The Rainmaker
"I hate people that 'keep up with the Joneses. I prefer to stay about a mile behind, just to remain safe."-Me
"My only addiction is competition."-C.M. Punk.
"I enjoy Kitten Huffing."-My friend Steve.
"Damn it Steve, if you call my girlfriend that one more time, I swear to your God..."-Me
"Ow, you got glass in my eye!"-T.V. Executive
"And my foot in your balls. CAPTAINNNNNN PLANET!"-Ted Turner.
"It is better to keep silent and look like an idiot than open your mouth and remove all doubt."-Mark Twain
"He who knows nothing will doubt nothing."-Confucius.
"If someone does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let each of us keep with our own beat."-Henry David Thoreau.
"You seem to be forgetting that I am a lyrical gangster. If we get caught, I will entrance him with some colorful vernacular and if that fails I will engage him in fisticuffs."-Psych
"If the founding fathers saw people calling the president a Nazi and burning the flag, they would roll over in their graves, push themselves up and kick their granola eating asses."-Me
"Those people...early stricken of God, intellectually--the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington...can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it."-Mark Twain.
"What's more powerful than God and more evil than Satan? The ACLU."-A joke written by me on the ACLU's attacks on Christmas.
"When in doubt, duct it. If you can't fix it, fake it."-Me
"But I cannot forgive the world that your side has created. We all risked our lives for our ideals, our beliefs were different but not our ardor. Yet look at how our victors behave. Their former passions are now perverted by wealth and they wield their strength toward greater fortune. They've made a mockery of our efforts. They traded the bravery of soldiers for impurity, and by doing so they trample the memories of such soldiers every day."-Shigure Takimi, Samurai X: The Motion Picture.
"Dark clouds may withhold the blue sky from our eyes, but the heavens will shine down on those brave enough to pierce those clouds"-Gentatsu Takatsuki and Shigure Takimi.
FAQ:
I was really hoping it wouldn't come to this...but a few of my readers keep asking me questions, so I'll answer them all one by one.
1. How come your piece doesn't have the qualities that most Japanese writing does?
Simple, I live in and was born and raised in America. I have never been to Japan, and I don't know much about their culture except what I see in the animes I do watch. With all due respect to some people on fictionpress, I don't have time with school and a job to look at 100 different animes each day. The only ones I watch are the ones on adult swim, so I am far out of the loop in those terms. I don't know how to use the suffixes -sama -san -teme or whatever they have now. The only one I use is -kun, and that is only in Mitzuki's nickname for Kenji.
In conclusion, I don't know about how they write, or care, to be frank.
2. Why did you use a reference to Shaq in the first chapter?/Is this staged in the real world or in Japan or what?
This is the most common question I get. The people whose stories I narrate don't live in our world, but the people who READ my stories about said people do. Most people have at least a vague idea who Shaq is, so I used him as a reference as an example of tallness. I often use references like that in my writing, but I never have the characters making references to those things, because they don't know about them, because they don't live in our world. The only exception is when I tried, unsuccessfully, to integrate the music into the plot. And also, in The Hero's Tears: LOG, I use a lot of references to Macbeth. Got it?
In conclusion, I do it for my reader's benefit, so stop being ungrateful. And if you don't get a reference, use wikipedia.
3. Where do you get your names?
Behind the name.com. But there were a few that I chose for other reasons. Just for example, Sixer's name is derived from Android 8 in Dragon Ball, who was commonly referred to as Eighter. Also, Timoteo got his name from the guy who sits next to me in German.
In conclusion, Behind the name.com
4. You steal a lot of ideas from animes like Naruto. You are nothing more than a plagiarist.
Fuck you.
Got it? Fuck you!
5. Ok, that was a bit harsh. But you do have a lot in common with the shows at least. Do you get your ideas from there?
Ah, ok. I get inspiration in so many forms, some of which you would probably never expect, that I might get some ideas from anime. I remember though, what has been called my "cutest" scene was the one where Kenji is calling Mitzuki and Sophitia picks up the phone. I got the inspiration from that one, oddly enough, in my German class while we were going over the dialog in the book.
But I do want to say one thing for my conclusion: I have often cut what I thought were awesome ideas from my story because of the problem you are addressing. I always thought that people would say stupid things like this if I added some of them. So, story ideas you missed:
-The "demon" inside Kenji.
-The attack on the village with no name.
-Hitokiri on trial for murdering Timoteo. I didn't even write the intro to that one before it got tossed aside.
That is just for some of you to know that I don't steal(intentionally) ideas from other people. Inspiration hits us in various ways. Thats all.
6. What happened to those chapters that were deleted?
I had an account on freewebs, where I would write most of my stuff before uploading it to fictionpress. During the saving process, my work was lost and I didn't realize it. But now I have fixed that problem by simply uploading blank wordpad documents to fictionpress and writing them there on the editing pad.
7. You shouldn't have put that one comment about teenage girls in your first chapter.
What comment? ;-)
I finally removed the comment about teenage girls after much controversy. I decided that I could do without it if it meant less flames from feminists and idiots.
FictionPress.com - let the words flow
Poll: Have I been too harsh, not hard enough or just right on the Darker Hershey business. Vote Now!
