Super-green! version 13.0 The Doctor and Rose

Yours truly:
Renny-Alexander, Rei-Alex or Rei for short.
I am often asked how did I get to have my nickname. Years ago I was 'casted' as a writer/director of this amateur horror film (none of us had any experience!) and since Renny Harlin was pop at the time, one of the wiseguys said I was to be Renny Harlin II. So, Rika heard this, ditched Harlin II and replaced it with Alexander. And the name stuck like superglue.

Rei is Japanese and can be translated as a bow, a ghost or nil. At this point I closed the dictionary and thought that, concerning me and kendo, the nil definitely describes me. Two years back, on the very first 'kendo lesson', I had no idea of the above and when the order came to bow your opponent (rei!), I was standing on the line looking around and wondering how do they know my nickname? The full command is 'otagai ni rei', but 'rei' for short and I am sorry if I misspelt it. This is why I'd like to have the kanji-character 'rei' on all my bogu, and I do have it written on a piece of paper. Why I haven't already done so is a question of promise to Teh Boogieman that I'd not use it. Darn! It'd've been a good joke.

Reason(s) for cracking up
Most definately, the name Hathor. Every time, no matter the context. Always, say the name and you get one writer grinning madly. 'We are Hathor.' 'Of course we are.' Oh, thank you ever much, lads.
Arlo Guhtrie's Alice's Restaurant, the full 18+ minutes version.
Kimmo and his "I-don't-want-to-hear-another-möö" (You sound like a herd of bulls) ...looks like a poor song title...
Mac's sarcarsm.
(out in the cold) To Pete, about the spin dryer: "I wouldn't let them do that to you, you might shrink."

Obsessions
As books already written.
Most historical novels, Clavell's Tai-Pan, Follett's The Pillars of the Earth and the sequel, World Without End. Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Clive Cussler and especially Dirk Pitt -novels, 'tho with my vivid imagination and dislike of dead bodies, I should not read them.
Sci-fi! Star Wars novels only in English, thank you. Also, Asimov, unfortunately I have misplaced all of which I had. At sixteen, Clarke was pop, I think I read all the books the local lending library had and all the others I could get my hands on. Selene I was the first Clarke I read?

As book on 'production'
This translates as those I write.
Six months ago I finished a fan-fic named Dream and Reality, 16 chapters, about 200 pages of story that needs to be rerwitten before I throw it on the wolves. I was at ch.5/6? when I realised that this is only the first version. *sigh* Now, it's just been sitting and waiting.
Currently I'm working on a love story and Ah! Wonderful freedom! No more frames to restrict me, none but mathematical laws of this world. No more will I say of this, for it is quite possible that it'll never be published, anywhere, not even on the Net.
Sci-fi/fantacy story is brewing, few pages is written, but this need plenty lot of thought.

Saturday tv-series -session
Aye, after kendo, it's get home plenty quick. Just enough time to throw my bogu in the bathroon to dry up and air out and whip up some excuse as a dinner, just in time for Mac. At seven, news (must know if the world is still standing), then NCIS, CSI Miami and Stargate sg-1. This is why I don't work on Saturdays. Unfortunately, I must, sometimes but 'optical media' saves them days.

Motion pictures
The inevitable Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones films and all like, of course. But I find Japanese and Korean films fascinating. It may be because of the fighting scenes, which tend to fantastic to look at. Then again, Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) had none of this, one or two short scenes and still I enjoyed the film. I'm sure that nine out of ten of my friends would have found this particular film boring.
Anyway, give me a good story, swords of any sort and cast Liam Neeson and Sean Connery and I'm sold. In truth, the story need not be very good. Liam with a sword is enough, thank you.