Day 15: Write 15 interesting Things About Yourself

Yet again, I find myself apologising, but I had to use the last of my data on an assignment and I literally only got my 5gigs today, so yet again, I will post all of the missing days, I definitely can't promise that I will write them concurrently but I can promise that I will write them, and finish day 30 on the 30th day.

Anyway, let's jump right into it.

1. I am a multi-instrumental musician

I play drums, bass and guitar, and I guess I dabble in some piano but mostly just to appease my own ego and pretend for the people who don't know too much about music. I am self taught in drums and bass but have had formal instruction for electric guitar, earning my grade 5 in the practical examinations

2. I am actually NOT American

Wow. You might be annoyed with it but... You can't imagine how it is for me. I'm not going to change the way I speak. I actually happen to like my accent and a lot of people around me do as well. But for the love of Dawkins, I am coloured. Now, some people find that a racist term ,or whatever, but it is a huge part of my identity. I was born in Joburg, raised in the Cape, and I like to think I started become an adult in Harties. That's what I consider home now. Well, second home, Hatfield is home now.

3. I speak fluent Afrikaans

Yet again, yes. I just don't speak Afrikaans often because of my western accent. It influences the way I pronounce things and I can hear myself when it sounds wrong and I get extremely self-conscious. Maar ja, ek praat vlot Afrikaans en dit is omdat ek in vier verskillende Afrikaanse laerkole was, my beste vriend van toe ek klein was is 'n wit Afrikaanse ou en tot my klueterskool was Afrikaans.

4. I'm a metalhead

But I also don't get along with a vast majority of metalheads. I also don't only listen to to metal. I also enjoy musicals and punk and pop rock and folk and even some pop and orchestral. Metalcore is also one of my favourite genres of metal, and it is also one of the most hated. Which I will never understate but okie dokes, whatevs.

5. I have a face on my thumb

You read that correctly. What actually happened is that I injured myself in my childhood and the scar tissue that grew on my thumb actually creates the shape of a recognizable face. I like to think I'm the chosen one. Or that I'm cooler than you muggles.

6. I am pathologically connected to my wristbands

I literally NEVER take them off. From the first time I start wearing them, they stay on. They're all rubber so they're waterproof and I can shower with them and whatnot. But they literally stay on my wrist until they die.

7. I am pathologically connected to my cellphone

But aren't we all? No, I'm bad though. I literally cannot go anywhere without my phone. I need it with me. I get fidgety. I get anxious. I basically leave my comfort zone when my phone is dead or not with me. There are probably different reasons for that but I am very attached to my cellphone. And that's okay, sometimes we need material objects to create and maintain homeostasis.

8. I am a binge person

I binge watch series, binge game, binge read but unless I go out with the goal to binge drink I do so moderately. I also binge sleep.

9. I am weirdly attracted to white girls

I wanna say this is because as a child I was in an Afrikaans aftercare slash pre-prep and my "mother figures" were white Afrikaans women, so I guess I do look for similar features in the women I date, but... I dunno. I'm also weirdly attracted to horse riders and dancers. Just my type. Not saying I'm put off by other women, I just am really attracted to white girls.

10. I have three teddy bears

One I have named Chuckles that I won at Sun City, and my friend has a matching one called Truffles, I have another, a bunny, that was given to me as a valentine's present but his name always changes. The gift I got the girl I nicknamed Gnarles Barkley. But I don't think she took to it. And the third is a Yoohoo... Lemur? I don't know what it really is. It's damn cute though. This was an inside joke of sorts between myself and a friend of mine.

11. Despite being the biggest Batman fan of all my friends, I never got that nickname

I own comics, I own OVAs, I have a Batman wristband, two pairs of Batman Converse All Stars, a Batman Onesie, Arkham City, Asylum and Origins... But no one wants to nickname me Batman. I even do the Christian Bale voice as often as possible.

Out of some cruel irony, the least Batman-like of all of us was nicknamed as such. Thanks Brian.

12. I got stuck with the nickname Obama instead

Sigh... I don't know if my highschool had just never seen a coloured person before, but... One day, my seniors took a look at me and were like "Where are you from?" so I responded "Well I was born in Johannesburg but I was raised in Vredenburg, a bit away from Cape Town" which promptly gave someone the idea to nickname me Cape Town. Which is diet racism in itself, but then, and... I dunno. Someone looked at me and said "He looks like Obama!" who I look absolutely nothing like, whatsoever, but... White people...

13. I am more DC than Marvel

Yeah, you guys have a cool cinematic universe but... Your heroes are pretty whitebread. Vanilla. Boring.

There.

I said it.

I'm not going to say DC doesn't have it's fair share of Plastic Man or Aquaman, or... I don't need to complete that list. But I often don't find Marvel's stories as compelling as the DC ones. Yes, Superman is OP AF, but he's also.. Different. A god among men, a stranger, an alien. Like Bill said, and to not intentionally paraphrase, but "When Superman goes to bed, he goes to bed as Superman. Clark Kent is his real disguise. Clark Kent is what he sees humans as."

And also, he's OP AF. Come at me bros, but sorry, Superman alone could murder 70% of the Avengers and maybe break a sweat on the remaining 30%. Add The Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern and Batman to... Cheerlead? Jokes, where would the JLA be without their strategist? They... Win... But it's because the Justice League is also a completely different narrative. It's more about the politics of saving the world, of being superheroes, of actually facing world threatening danger than giant aliens conveniently all shutting down when the mothership is destroyed.

Also, don't fuck with Aquaman. He'll fuck your shit up. Underwater, he can bitchslap even Superman into submission.

And Young Justice!


14. I watch anime

But you already knew that, didn't you?

15. I write

A lot. As you probably might have guessed. Or not. I write lyrics and poetry and novels and short stories because that's what I do. And I blog. But yeah.