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Your Famous Last Words Will Be:

"So, you're a cannibal."

What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?

1. DO YOU SNORE?
No.

2.ARE YOU A LOVER OR A FIGHTER?
Fighter.

3. WHAT'S YOUR WORST FEAR?
Crawling ghosts.

4. AS A KID, WERE YOU A LEGO MANIAC?
Yes. Lego Paradisa.

5. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF "REALITY" TV?
It's entertaining. I was going to say "but only the professional shows" but that's a damn lie because I enjoyed the hell out of Age of Love.

6. DO YOU CHEW ON YOUR STRAWS?
Yes.

7. WERE YOU A CUTE BABY?
Yes.

8. IS THE SINGLE LIFE FOR YOU?
No.

9. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR KEYBOARD?
Slate.

10. DO YOU SING IN THE SHOWER?
No.

11. HAVE YOU EVER BUNGEE JUMPED?
No.

12. ANY SECRET TALENTS?
No.

13. WHAT'S YOUR IDEAL VACATION SPOT?
I don't know.

14. CAN YOU SWIM?
Yes.

16. HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE "DONNIE DARKO"?
Yes. It's horrible.

17. DO YOU GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE OZONE?
Eh.

18. HOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP?
Just bite it off the stick and chew it.

19. CAN YOU SING THE ALPHABET BACKWARDS?
Yes.

20. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE?
LOL.

21. ARE YOU A SINGLE CHILD?
Yes. I am single. And I am an only child.

22. DO YOU PREFER ELECTRIC OR MANUAL PENCIL SHARPENERS?
Manual.

23. WHAT'S YOUR STAND ON HUNTING?
No.

24. IS MARRIAGE IN YOUR FUTURE?
Hopefully.

25. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
Yes.

26. WHAT ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO?
Officially, nothing.

27. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAID 'I LOVE YOU?'
Last night, to my mother.

28. IS TUPAC STILL ALIVE?
No.

29. DO YOU CRY AT WEDDINGS?
No.

30. HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
Sunny-side up.

31. ARE BLONDES DUMB?
No.

32. WHERE DOES THE OTHER SOCK END UP?
In your laundry basket.

33. WHAT TIME IS IT?
12:02

34. DO YOU HAVE A NICKNAME?
Here and there, sometimes.

35. IS MCDONALD'S DISGUSTING?
Yes.

36. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE IN A CAR?
Two months ago.

37. DO YOU PREFER BATHS OR SHOWERS?
Showers.

38. IS SANTA CLAUS REAL?
No.

39. DO YOU LIKE HAVING YOUR NECK KISSED?
No.

40. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?
Less than I used to be.

41. WHAT ARE YOU ADDICTED TO?
Coffee.

42. CRUNCHY OR CREAMY PEANUT BUTTER?
Creamy.

43. CAN YOU CRACK YOUR NECK?
Yes.

44. HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN IN AN AMBULANCE?
No.

45. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH TODAY?
Once.

46. IS DRUG FREE THE WAY TO BE?
Yes.

47. ARE YOU A HEAVY SLEEPER?
Yes.

48. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?
Dark brown.

50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR LIFE?
Eh.

51. WHO'S BETTER: STONE COLD OR THE ROCK?
The Rock.

52. ARE U Psychic??
No.

53. HAVE YOU READ "CATCHER IN THE RYE"?
No.

54. DO YOU PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS?
Not really.

55. HAVE U EVER STOLEN MONEY?
No.

56. CAN YOU SNOWBOARD?
No.

57. DO YOU LIKE CAMPING?
Yes.

58. DO YOU SNORT WHEN YOU LAUGH?
No.

59. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?
Maybe.

60. ARE DOGS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND?
No.

61. YOU BELIEVE IN DIVORCE?
I believe it should be legal.

62. CAN YOU DO THE MOONWALK?
No.

63. DO YOU MAKE A LOT OF MISTAKES?
What kind of mistakes?

64. IS IT COLD OUTSIDE TODAY?
No.

65. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
Mayan coffee.

66. DO YOU WEAR NAIL POLISH??
No.

67. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN KISSED?
Yes.

68. WHAT'S THE MOST ANNOYING TV COMMERCIAL?
The Venus commercials; anything advertising movies such as Sex and the City or Made of Honor; fuck, most commercials targeted to girls or women suck. Oh, and the "I want it all and I want it now!" commercials make me want to vomit. Cheap beer tends to have crap commercials too. Oh, and that one with Kate Walsh driving a sleek SUV talking about gossip magazines.

69. DO YOU SHOP AT AMERICAN EAGLE?
No.

70. FAVORITE SONG AT THE MOMENT?
"Soilbleed Version 3.0" - Grendel

71. When was the last time you had sex?
Never.

72. Do you like your job?
It's okay.

73. Do you like your classes in school?
Eh.

74. How do you like your meat cooked?
Just cooked enough to kill bacteria. I want it freakin' bloody.

75. Do you like these survey's?
Eh.

You Are Punk Music

You've thought long and hard about what mainstream society has to offer... And you've pretty much decided that most normal things aren't for you. You're creative, expressive, and likely to do things yourself. You are a rebel and a fighter. You'll defend your point of view to anyone.

What Kind of Music Are You?

Strangely, most of these are sadly appropriate. Well, except for the favorite saying. I definitely don't ever say that.

1) Put your music player on shuffle
2) Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense.


1) How do you feel today?
Kick My Ass - Garbage

2) What's your outlook on life?
Clubbed to Death - Rob Dougan

3) What does your family think of you?
Weak and Powerless - A Perfect Circle

4) What do your friends think of you?
Down (Lords of Acid Power Remix) - Gravity Kills

5) What do strangers think of you?
Nothing But You - Kim Ferron

6) What do your ex(s) think of you?
You Look So Fine - Garbage

7) How is your love life?
Technologic (Radio Edit) - Daft Punk

8) How will your love life be in the future?
Politik - Coldplay

9) Will you get married?
Paranoid Android - Radiohead

10) Will you have kids?
Mein Teil - Rammstein

11) Will you be successful in life?
No Way - Korn

12) What song should they play on your birthday?
Beg For Me - Korn

13) What song should they play at your funeral?
The City Lights - the Umbrellas

14) The soundtrack of your life?
The Beginning - John Murphy (28 Days Later OST)

15) You and your best friend are?
Flugufrelsarinn (The Fly Freer) - Sigur Ros

16) Happy times?
The New Workout Plan - Kanye West

17) Sad times?
To Drown a Rose - Death in June

18) Everyday?
Run Baby Run - Garbage

19) For tomorrow?
Metal Heart - Garbage

20) For you?
Hooker with a Penis - Tool

21) What does next year have in store for me?
We Won't Need Legs to Stand - Sufjan Stevens

22) What do I say when life gets too hard?
Black Session 08 - Interpol

23) What will I sing at my wedding?
The Arrest - Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jesus Christ Superstar OST)

24) What do you want as a career?
And He Shall Smite the Wicked (Chorus) - Hunchback of Notre Dame OST

25) Your favorite feeling?
Master of the House - Les Miserables OST

26) Your favorite saying?
"Traditional" Beleganjur Style, Ngaben Procession - Banjar Belaluan Semerta

27) How will I die?
A Pain That I'm Used To - Depeche Mode

28) The song that you'll put as your subject?
Street Urchins - Aladdin OST

You Belong in the Baby Boomer Generation

You fit in best with people born between 1943 and 1960. You are optimistic, rebellious, and even a little self centered. You still believe that you will change the world. You detest authority and rules. Deep down, you're a non conformist.

What Generation Do You Belong In?

Rules: Bold the following that are true about you, italicize things you wish were true, add one true thing about you*.

· I miss somebody right now.
· I don’t watch much TV these days.
· I love olives.
· I own lots of books. Now if I just read them.
· I wear glasses or contact lenses.
· I love to play video games.
· I’ve tried marijuana.
· I’ve watched porn movies.
· I have been in a threesome.
· I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
· I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
· I curse sometimes.
· I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
· I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
· I’m TOTALLY smart.
· I’ve broken someone’s bones.
· I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.
· I hate the rain.
· I’m paranoid at times.
· I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
· I need money right now. (always)
· I love sushi.
· I talk really, really fast.
· I have fresh breath in the morning.
· I have long hair.
· I have lost money in Las Vegas.
· I have at least one sibling.
· I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
· I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
· I couldn’t survive without Caller I.D.
· I like the way that I look.
· I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.
· I know how to cornrow.
· I am usually pessimistic.
· I have a lot of mood swings.
· I think prostitution should be legalized.
· I think Britney Spears is pretty.
· I slept with a Suitemate.
· I have a hidden talent.
· I’m always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
· I have a lot of friends.
· I am currently single.
· I have pecked someone of the same sex.
· I enjoy talking on the phone.
· I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
· I love to shop.
· I enjoy window shopping.
· I would rather shop than eat.
· I would classify myself as ghetto.
· I’m bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders. (YOU FUCKING FAIL AT SPELLING BOURGEOIS)
· I’m obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.
· I don’t hate anyone. I dislike them.
· I’m a pretty good dancer.
· I’m completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
· I have a cell phone.
· I believe in God.
· I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
· I’ve rejected someone before.
· I currently like someone.
· I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.
· I want to have children in the future.
· I have changed a diaper before.
· I’ve called the cops on a friend before.
· I am a member of the Tom Green fan club.
· I’m not allergic to anything.
· I have a lot to learn.
· I have been with someone at least 10 years older or younger.
· I am shy around the opposite sex.
· I’m online 24/7, even as an away message.
· I have at least 5 away messages saved.
· I have tried alcohol before.
· I have made a move on a friend’s significant other or crush in the past.
· I own the "South Park" movie.
· I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.
· When I was a kid I played "the birds and the bees" with a neighbor or chum.
· I enjoy some country music.
· I would die for my best friends. (sorry, guyz.  I'd do other things.)
· I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
· I watch soap operas whenever I can.
· I’m obsessive, and often a perfectionist.
· I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
· I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
· I know all the words to Slick Rick’s "Children’s Story".
· Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
· I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it.
· I have dated a close friend’s ex.
· I like surveys/memes.
· I am happy at this moment.
· I’m obsessed with guys.
· Democrat.
· Conservative Republican.
· I am punk rockish.
· I am preppy.
· I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
· I study for tests most of the time.
· I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I’ve ever met.
· I can work on a car.
· I love my job.
· I am comfortable with who I am right now.
· I have more than just my ears pierced.
· I walk barefoot wherever I can.
· I have jumped off a bridge.
· I love sea turtles.
· I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.
· I believe in prophetic dreams.
· I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
· I am proficient on a musical instrument.
· I worked at McDonald’s restaurant.
· I hate office jobs.
· I love sci-fi movies.
· I think water rules.
· I went to college out of state.
· I am adopted.
· I like sausage.
· I am a pyro.
· I love the Red Sox.
· I have thrown up from crying too much.
· I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
· I love kisses.
· I fall for the worst people and have been hurt every time.
· I adore bright colors.
· I love Dear Abby.
· I can’t live without black(ish) eyeliner.
· I think school is awesome.
· I think pigtails serve a purpose.
· I don’t know why the hell I just did this stupid thing.
· I usually like covers better than originals.
· I don’t like multi-textured ice cream.
· I think John Cusack is adorable.
· I fucking hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays
· I watch Food Network way too much.
· I love coaching youth sports.
· I can pick up things with my toes.
· I can’t whistle.
· I can move my tongue in waves, much like a snakes’ slither.
· I have ridden/owned a horse.
· I still have every journal I’ve ever written in.
· I can’t stick to a diet.
· I talk in my sleep.
· I’ve often thought that I was born in the wrong century.
· I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.
· Climbing trees is a brilliant past-time.
· I have jazz in my blood. (but I hate it!)
· I wear a toe ring.
· I have a tattoo.
· I love vaginas.
· I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.
· I am a caffeine junkie.
· I know who Santos L. Halper is.
· I read trashy romance novels and I am ashamed.
· I love wrestling.
· I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.
· If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.
· I cosplay or know what cosplaying is. (know what it is!  would never do it except in one extreme circumstance!)
· I have been to over 15 conventions.
· I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
· I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.
· I'm an artist.
· I have a goal to collect every Johnny Depp movie ever made.
. I am ambidexterous.
. I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.
. My computer has a name.
. If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.
. I have terrible teeth.
. I hate my toes.
. I did this Meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.
. I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
. I have lived in either three different states or countries.  (LOL, I love how states = countries)
· I am extremely flexible
· I love hugs more than kisses.
· I want to own my own business.
. I smoke or tried cigarettes.
. I lied on one of these.

You Are 40% Normal

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

So I had a dream about AC again last night. After oh so many months of "sobriety". This one involved eighteenth century France, because I looked at stills of the movie Dangerous Liaisons last night before going to bed (fuck that movie). I won't go into gory details but the dream definitely complicated our non-existent relationship, which is bad because it means my mind has lost itself. Usually I am able to maintain a sort of decorum in my dreams, more than in my waking life at least.

It also involved: a) me breaking and entering into various buildings; b) me trying to climb down a fire escape, which I realized I have never done; c) the cold and lonely beach, which I think was because of Narnia (fuck that movie); and d) other students writing notes on a white board on his door asking him to have coffee with them. Written in pink dry-erase marker, in a heart.

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

"I can pass this guy"

1 - country music
You are friendly, down to earth, and fairly conservative.
You are true to your friends and your upbringing. Change is hard for you.
But beneath your old fashioned attitude, you are expressive and artistic in your own way.
Very few people can express pain and pleasure as eloquently as you can.

2 - electronic music
You are energetic and expressive. You love feeling alive.
You never get sick of your favorite things - they're what makes life special.
You don't take tradition or conventions too seriously. You live for the future.
You enjoy remixes and re-interpretations of things. Life is about making improvements.

I belong in the baby boomer generation.

I am 50% normal.
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You seem sorta sad...you doing okay?

I am sick and delusional and stressed, but alive.

I love Steve. I am being less angsty about it by acting more normal (sometimes feeling comes as a consequence of doing...I also trick myself into relationships that way, but that's not what i'm talking about of course). He seems to respond well to normal. I mean, normal in the sense of wanting to talk about semiotics and papers and not being needy and emotional, which he clearly can't or doesn't want to handle. Not normal in the sense of acting at all what would normally pass for normal, heh. Learned today that he likes maple syrup.

i am sorry for certain dreams. they dredge shit up and make waking life weird. my dreams let out everything i keep repressed. like that school one i wrote here a while back? don't be fooled by the fact that the teacher was a girl. it was still steve. which explains the weird sexual element. and the, uh, killing him. they go together. i have to resent the fact that i love him, you know, resent the dependency, which is so silly, because i don't have to be dependent on him. also, 'her' name was Susan, and the only susan I know (of) is his adviser. And he was wearing my colors, so in a way i was also killing myself. this is all clear to me, even if it makes no sense to anyone else--i dreamed it, damn it. this is all my own repressed and convoluted mess, i guarantee it.

uhh, so i don't know what to say about your dream, but don't let it fuck up your real life. actually, w/ my dreams, i tend to, if i pay attention, learn something from them. like i felt really guilty for killing steve and tried to fix the whole resentment-creating situation eventually. first the wrong way, but i am wrong a lot.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not that bad. Sorry if I came across that way, I'm okay, a little bit in a weird place emotionally/psychologically, but okay.

I guess I learned that my dream left me feeling really uncomfortable about everything. Which is something I actually learned from a previous dream where he was trying to buy me alcohol. I mean, the meaning is obvious - I was stalking him and being jealous of other students, but it was all fun and games in the sense of climbing down fire escapes and such, and I didn't want it to actually become physical. Etc.

I'm glad that you're alive.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

weird place?

despite uncomfortable, i feel like that's a good dream-meaning. mine get kinda twisted...

well, it's good someone is. i feel kinda dead.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

of course, though, this is a PUBLIC POST.

because i am a genius.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i've got it--i'll delete it and then it will be as if i emailed you instead...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

You sound so cunning.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

without even trying

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

well, I understand your deleted comment. Really. I'm not taking any classes with him this semester and it's been much less teacher-student and that's probably why I'm jumbled up, because it's almost like we just get along as friends.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

oh, man, i was the monkey king in our chinese movie project. you have to see A Chinese Odyssey w/ Stephen Chow, parts 1 and 2.

that was totally unrelated, sorry. we just finished. technical difficulties and general insanity, had to RERECORD EVERYTHING this morning, jesus fuck, but we finished, and it wasn't complete shit. i got to beat my partner up for 'stealing' my grapes (...but she was the grapes. long story.) and wear a fake bone beard and things in my hair. it was special.

as for me and steve, yeah, that's kinda how it is, sometimes i think it jumbles him up too, but it's probably wishful thinking. it's just so weird to interact w/ someone who is so much like me. i don't think i've understood myself nearly so well until now. 'cause we're both so easily distracted and passive and in our own heads and have little regard for social norms but are easily embarrassed or flattered. it leads to both long silences and interrupting each other talking at like 3x speed, and totally and completely disjointed conversations. and plenty of weird looks, which seem to need no explanation. it's like telepathy.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

i figure you're also the only person i know who knows who the monkey king is.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

untrue! you know my mom! she's the one I watched the original Monkey King series with... she finds it hilarious/unbelievable that DBZ is based on it.

Have you seen The Forbidden Kingdom? Noteworthy only for the Monkey King scenes, Jet Li PLAYING the Monkey King and thus having to be goofy... Jackie Chan single-handedly saving every scene he's in...

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

yeah, i s'pose i do sort of know your mom. and of course our prof was familiar w/ it. and no, i haven't seen the original Monkey King series or The Forbidden Kingdom. This was like my introduction to the whole thing (unless DBZ counts), and as such was really weird/confusing, because Part 1 starts when he's (Monkey King = Sun Wukong) reincarnated or whatever 500 years in the 'future' as a robber, and two demon sisters are coming to visit him, one of whom wants to marry him, and he doesn't know he's the Monkey King (or will be, once he gets his birthmarks 500 years in the past) or that they're demons and the subtitles do not do the Chinese justice. At all. Because Chinese puns are untranslatable. And we were just like 'wtf why is there a giant spider and this dude with hairy feet?', but eventually the Buddhist dude came and made it make a little bit more sense. We had to look up the Journey to the West on Wikipedia to make it make more sense. And Alexei explained more when we were presenting. Part 2 has what happens 500 years in the past. Go figure. My partner didn't even think he was the Monkey King until the very end (when he gets his birthmarks and such), but that much, at least, I did get pretty early on.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

ok, apparently he's Mei Houwang until he meets Subhuti (="the Buddist dude"), and then he's Sun Wukong. Fine.

sorry for much copying. i am obsessive.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

or rather, he has a shitton of names:

Sun Wukong is known as Syun Ng Hung in Cantonese, Son Oh Gong in Korean, Tôn Ngộ Không in Vietnamese, Son Gokū in Japanese and Sun Go Kong in Indonesian (derived from Hakka).

Listed in the order that they were acquired:

Shí Hóu (石猴)
"The Mountain-Rock Monkey" or the "Stone monkey". This refers to his physical birth after millennia of spiritual incubation of his soul inside a rock in Bloom Mountains/Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Měi Hóuwáng (美猴王)
Meaning "Handsome Monkey-King", or Houwang for short. The surname Měi means "beautiful, handsome, pretty", as well as "satisfactory"; it also means "self-satisfied" and "to be pleased with oneself", connecting it to his ego. Hóu ("monkey") also means "clever boy, smart chap", as well as describing someone as "naughty and impish".
Sūn Wùkōng (孫悟空)
The name given to him by his first master, Subhuti. The surname Sūn, "grandchild" (sūnzǐ for "grandson", sūnnǚ for "granddaughter"), was given as an in-joke about Houwang. Another form of "monkey-king" is húsūnwáng, húsūn meaning a literal or figurative "monkey" (or "macaque"); a "king of monkeys" is a term for a teacher of small children, and a "monkey entering a cloth bag" (húsūn rù bùdài) means someone submitting to discipline reluctantly (both of which could easily apply to Wukong). "Grandchild"-sūn and "monkey"-sūn are pronounced the same, and would look the same except for the latter having the radical "dog" (quǎn) in it to denote the character's animal form. The given name Wùkōng means "awakened to emptiness". This is translated into Japanese as Son Gokū.
Bìmǎwēn (弼馬溫)
The title of the keeper of the Heavenly Horses, a punning of bìmǎwēn (辟馬瘟; lit. "avoiding the horses' plague"). A monkey was often put in a stable as people believed its presence could prevent the horses from catching illness. Sun Wukong was given this position by the Jade Emperor after his first intrusion into Heaven. He was promised that it was a good position to have, and that he, at least in this section, would be in the highest position. After discovering it was, in actuality, one of the lowest jobs in Heaven, he became angry, smashed the entire stable, set the horses free, and then quit. From then on, the title bìmǎwēn was used by his enemies and opponents to mock him.
Qítiān Dàshèng (齊天大聖)
Meaning "Equal of Heaven, Great Sage". Sun Wukong demanded this title from the Jade Emperor and was eventually granted it. This is translated into Japanese as seiten-taisei ("great sage", dàshèng and taisei, is a Chinese and Japanese honorific). The title originally holds no power, though it is officially a high rank. Later the title was granted the responsibility to guard the Heavenly Peach Garden, due to that many Heavenly Officials noticed that Sun Wukong had nothing to do.
Xíngzhě (行者)
Meaning "ascetic", it refers to a wandering monk, a priest's servant, or a person engaged in performing religious austerities. Xuanzang calls Wukong Sūn-xíngzhě when he accepts him as his companion. This is translated into Japanese as gyōja (making him Son-gyōja).
Dòu-zhànshèng-fó (鬥戰聖佛)
"Fight-victorious-buddha". Wukong was given this name once he ascended to buddhahood at the end of the Journey to the West. This name is mentioned during the Chinese Buddhist evening services, specifically during the eighty-eight Buddhas repentance.

In addition to the names used in the novel, the Monkey King has other names in different languages:

* Kâu-chê-thian (猴齊天) in Taiwanese (Taiwan): "Monkey, Equal of Heaven".
* Maa5 lau1 zing1 (馬騮精) in Cantonese (Hong Kong and Guangdong): "Monkey Imp" (called by his enemies)

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

WTF? Is that in the original?

I think DB counts more... but I think Toriyama gave up within like an hour, even there, all he's really got are the cloud and the stick. It's still funny when you consider how many people did not know that's why tails were even part of the story, though, and they're just like, "wow! bestial!/werewolf!"

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He defeated the Army of Heaven's 100,000 soldiers, then Nezha and the Four Heavenly Kings, and finally even Erlang Shen. Eventually, through the efforts and teamwork of the Heavenly forces, including the contributions of many famous deities, Wukong was captured. After several execution attempts failed, Wukong was locked into Lord Lao Zi's eight-way trigram cauldron to be distilled into an elixir by the cauldron's sacred flames, which were thought to be hot enough to consume him. However, after cooking for 49 days, the cauldron exploded and Wukong jumped out, stronger than ever. He now had the ability to recognize evil in any form, through his huǒyǎn-jīnjīng (火眼金睛), or "fiery-eyes golden-gaze ".

With all their other options exhausted, the Jade Emperor and the authorities of Heaven appealed to the Buddha himself, who arrived in an instant from his temple in the West. The Buddha made a bet with Wukong that he could not jump out of his palm. Wukong, knowing that he could cover 108,000 li in one leap, smugly agreed. He took a great leap and landed in what seemed to be a desolate section of Heaven. Nothing was visible except five pillars, and Wukong surmised that he had reached the ends of Heaven. To prove he'd been there, he wrote "The Great Sage, Equal of Heaven, was here" on the middle pillar, and marked the space between the first and second with his urine. Afterwards, he leaped back and landed in Buddha's palm. Smiling, Buddha asked him to turn around. Wukong did, and saw that the five "pillars" he had jumped to before were actually the five fingers of the Buddha's hand, therefore, lost the bet. Immediately, he tried to escape, but Buddha turned over his palm and dropped a mountain on Wukong. There, Wukong remained imprisoned for five centuries until he offered to serve Xuanzang, the Tang Dynasty Priest, who was destined to make the journey to the West to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures for Tang. The bodhisattva Guanyin helped the priest by giving him a magical headband which, when Wukong was tricked into putting it on, could not be taken off by anyone, and with a special chant from the priest, the band would tighten and cause unbearable pain to Wukong. Under Xuanzang's supervision, Wukong was allowed to journey to the West.

Disciple to Xuanzang

Throughout the epic Journey to the West, Sun Wukong faithfully helps Xuanzang on his journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras in (India). They are joined by "Pigsy" (猪八戒 Zhu Bajie) and "Sandy" (沙悟浄 Sha Wujing), both of whom were ordered to accompany the priest to atone for their crimes. The priest's horse is actually a dragon prince who had been defeated by Wukong and tamed by Guanyin. Xuanzang's safety is constantly threatened by supernatural beings, and Wukong often acts as a bodyguard. The group encounters a series of eighty-one tribulations before accomplishing their mission and returning safely to China. Wukong is granted Buddhahood, for his service and strength.

and the beginning of the plot for the movie

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The two films start off with an introduction scene based somewhere in the midst of the classic Journey to the West. On the journey to find holy Scriptures, the Monkey King, Sun Wukong (Stephen Chow), finding his master, the Longevity Monk (Law Kar-ying), too talkative and annoying, rebels and tries to get rid of him by giving him to the Bull King in exchange for marrying the Bull King's sister. As punishment, Guanyin captures and decides to lock unrepentant Wukong away for eternity. Yet, she is stopped by Sun Wukong's master, who maintains that he should receive some of the blame for his disciple's faults. He willingly takes Wukong's place by sacrificing himself to give Wukong a second chance – a life for a life.

The film properly starts 500 years later, when Wukong has been reincarnated as the leader of a troupe of desert bandits named Joker, who has no memories about is previous live as Wukong. Joker gets involved with different demons and women. Through the course of the movie, Joker is in love with a demon woman, Pak Gwut-Jing (Karen Mok), who also loves him in return. Joker while having a quarrel with her sister, the Spider Woman (Lam Kit Ying), accidentally locks himself in a cave. He tries to dig a tunnel to get out, but instead he finds Pandora's Box. He was also teleported to the Water Curtain Cave, where he saw Sun Wukong's gold ring and golden rod. When he opens up a scroll beside the ring, Guanyin speaks through the scroll to tell Joker of his fate as Sun Wukong; he won't become the Monkey King however, until meets the person who'll give him the three dots on the sole of his feet. Meanwhile Jing returns to find that her partner just gave birth to a child which was fathered by Joker's assistant, but she says it was by Joker to spite her, and because of this, Jing commits suicide. Joker returns to find her dead. Thinking someone has killed her, he uses Pandora's Box to try to find the killer, but he is one step too late. Thus he repeats this process for a few times until he manages to find the truth and stop Jing by explaining to her. Meanwhile, the Bull King arrives and engages in combat with the two sisters. In the fight, Jing is killed in the process of protecting Joker. Using Pandora's Box, Joker goes back in time to save her again, but accidentally transports himself 500 years into the past, the time that Sun Wukong came from.

In this time period, Joker meets a female spirit named Lin Zixia (Athena Chu) who confiscates Pandora's Box and gives Joker the three dots on the sole, thus enabling him to become Sun Wukong. She and her sister where punished by Buddha for being too quarrelsome and are now cursed to share the same body; one of them has control during the day, the other during the night.

the demon he's in love with

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non-movie version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Gu_Jing

Re: the demon he's in love with

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but the scene where they don't have sex because they can't untie the knot holding his clothes on is pretty much hilarious.

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anyway, alexei seemed to recognize the characters. i feel like it's a pretty rich myth, that has had chapter upon chapter added and changed and modified w/ time, even though i don't know much of the story yet myself

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Well, I know the part that happened 500 years in the past... I didn't think he was reborn as a bandit leader...

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i'm not sure how much of it is directly from the myth (which has itself changed w/ time, apparently). no idea, really, and i'm going to stop finding things online now.

except, the first part of this (after the grapes fall) is what our scene was

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i find this funny, though

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"During Mao Zedong's reign in China, he consistently used Sūn Wǔkōng as a role model. Mao Zedong often talked about the good example of the Monkey King, citing “his fearlessness in thinking, doing work, striving for the objective and extricating China from poverty.”"

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and part of it is he responded to something i wrote, talking about what he saw my problem of discussing ideas in class or w/ him was, and i was ridiculously hurt by this email and said something that made that clear, and he said it wasn't his intention and he was sorry and he thought it was obvious that he didn't think i was a shitty person but just in case it wasn't obvious he doesn't, but he wished it wasn't so easy for me to think so, and he'd try to make it less easy. uhhh sorry for run-on sentence. but i think he actually did try, and that, you know, makes me feel loved (=cared about). i think he's been trying also to email me back more even though he's insanely busy, esp. after i failed the qual. so it's utterly ridulous now for me to think he doesn't care.

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*ridiculous

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Of course he cares! Gosh.
^ sorry, really all I could say, because it is obvious he does.

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i'm insane right now with just-finished-project energy. what can i say?

also, i got my period this morning, but apparently instead of PMS i had "omg i love steve" days. sweet.

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I can't believe I'm more normal than you, lol.

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and by more I mean less.
brain dead.

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i understand. I am more normal and more weird than you, i think, by some other quiz we took.

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LOL. You're a magic person.

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today i am classical music. i will collect them all. they all fit some part of me, it seems.

You are a somewhat serious person who enjoys studying subjects deeply.
Art of all kinds interests you, and a good piece of art can really effect you emotionally.
You are inspired by human achievement, and you appreciate work that takes years to accomplish.
For you, the finer things in life are not about snobbery - they're about quality.

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Gotta catch 'em all!

Pokemon Pikachu!