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Merry Monday

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Favorite Video Game Characters (Part 3/?) — Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)

"I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams… they were my lullabies.  Hunted like dogs, day after day, driven from our ragged shelters.  That was my life. Each morning, I’d wake up and find a few more of my family or friends dead beside me. I’d stare at the morning sun and pray to make it through the day. The governments of the world turned a blind eye to our misery. But then… he appeared. My hero.  Saladin.  He took me away from all that.

"I became a sniper.  Hidden, watching everything through a rifle scope.  Now I could see war.  Not from the inside, but from the outside, as an observer.  I watched the brutality, the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rife.  I joined this group of revolutionaries to take my revenge on the world.  But, I have shamed myself and my people.  I am no longer the wolf I was born to be.  In the name of vengeance, I sold my body and my soul.  Now, I am nothing more than a dog.”

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“When the Japanese repair broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”

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tea, chips and tax

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20th Century Fox and George Lucas, the man who brought you American Graffiti, now bring you an adventure unlike anything on your planet. 

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Huge news out of Comic-Con this past week. And I mean huge. First, a recap: if you didn’t already know, Chuck made an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con this past Thursday and Friday. He signed advanced reader’s copies of his upcoming novel Doomed, met with fans, and also spoke on a panel…

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Possibly the greatest line in anime history. 

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Pacific Rim + the change in fighting stance when Mako becomes copilot of Gipsy Danger

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"A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I’m a thick kind of guy. But I’m never described in attractive ways. I’m waiting for somebody to say I’m at least cute. But nobody has." "To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head. And I don’t think that should get any easier." "Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I’m unhappy. Then it’s a miserable existence. I’m putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn’t do anything, I feel so ashamed. I’m afraid I’ll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn’t. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference." Happy 46th Birthday, Phil! July 23, 2013

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