If you're a fan of Buffy, you should watch this youtube video. Anthony Stewart Head sings a very special song.

From Andy and Jason:

001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. 

Questions are courtesy of pretzelcoatl.

1.) If you could create your own religious conspiracy (LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THE DAVINCI CODE LOLOLOLOLOL), what would it be?
I've actually already done something like this while I was researching my thesis. My idea was that when the Knights Templar were destroyed in Europe, the remaining Templars fled across Asia to Japan, where they became the true power behind the Tokugawa shogunate. This was in order to control the Japanese Imperial family, which is a branch of what is called the Merovingian bloodline. Rather that being descended from Jesus, all 'Merovingian' bloodlines are actually the descendants of prehuman civilizations which were the children or creations of ancient and powerful entities from beyond the stars and other dimensions, essentially Lovecraft's 'Old Ones.' Jesus and other prophets, heroes, and holy men from around the world were merely aware enough of  their lineage enough to use their supernatural abilities. The Templars interbred with the samurai and their descendants carried on the conspiracy, even to this day. And the current head Templar in Japan is Takeshi Kitano, who is at constant shadow war with SMAP, who are a rogue faction of Japanese Templars with their own agenda. And Hard Gay is far more than he appears...He may be the Merovingian 'messiah' they have all sought for so long.

2) Generic superpower question. What would your superpower be?
I'd want to be able to travel back in time without any danger of damaging causality or creating dangerous time paradoxes. I'd like to see history first-hand.

3) Chinese food, Japanese food, or Thai food. In your opinion, which is the best?
Japanese food, definitely. Although there's a good Thai restaurant here in Morioka that I've been to a few times. I've never had real Chinese food, I think, just the stuff they pass off as Chinese food in the US.

4) Think of three of your favorite villains and your least favorite one (as far as lameness
goes). Who did you pick, and why? 
Favorite:
1. Orochimaru - because I like the character design and all his bizarre and creative jutsus. 
2. The Mayor from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - I like how his genuinely sincere relationship with Faith fleshes out his character, even though he's an amoral bastard. Also, the whole clean-cut 'fifties dad' persona is great. "And boys, let's watch the swearing."
3. Mr. Morden, from Babylon 5. Because he's so sinister and ominous in a subtle and disconcerting way. "What do you want?" But really, in the end, maybe all he wanted to do was to make people happy.

Least Favorite:
1. The First Evil from the seventh season of Buffy. So much potential there, but ultimately such a lame and ineffectual villain. It's plans and motivations weren't fleshed out nearly enough.

5) Do you think it's time for a revolution? (How big of a scale, of course, is your opinion.)

Well, I tend to be wary of politics that focus on revolution. I'm more of a 'try to reform the system from within' guy than 'tear it all down and rebuild everything' guy. A violent revolution has just as much of a chance of creating anarchy and chaos that will be exploited by the power-hungry and ambitious. I'd favor a gradual and subtle revolution of thought accomplished through respectful and rational debate and discussion. Of course, that's highly unlikely. Still, barring that:

If the chick cannot crack the egg's shell, it will die without being born.
We are the chick, the world is our shell.
If we do not crack the world's shell, we will die without ever being born.
Crack the world's shell! For the Revolution of the World!

So basically, I want a revolution that involves teenage bishounen and gender-confused young girls with multi-colored hair fighting duels to rock opera with cryptic lyrics. And there should be lots of freaky romantic relationships and insane symbology.