We've all taken them. I like the ones that test my video game knowledge at the back of Game Informer. I've also wondered which Disney villain I am, what color my personality is and what kind of mythological beast I would be.
The answers come out like a newspaper horoscope. However you read it, some parts fit and some don't. Each answer can usually be fit to your personality.
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| Jeffrey Dahmer Picture taken from www.nydailynews.com |
It turns out I would be a centaur if I were mythological. In the afterlife, I would be Death. I am also the third to die in a horror movie. Of all the My Little Ponies, I identify most with Fluttershy.
Yes, I've taken my share of online quizzes.
Today I took a rather interesting one that, I'll freely admit, freaked me out a little bit. This was one from Playbuzz.com called Are You a Psychopath? Click the link to try it out.
According to the test, I am.
While watching Stalker on TV, I got to thinking.
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| Ed Gein, the original and inspiration for Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and inspiration for Norman Bates (Psycho) and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) among others. Photo taken from en.wikipedia.org |
Maybe it's just the fact that Halloween is right around the corner. Fear is in the air. The world is in turmoil. We have ongoing wars with terrorist groups. People are getting killed everyday. Children are being kidnapped. Bodies are being found and identified. And some aren't.
Maybe it is any one of those things. Maybe it's something else.
If someone took a look at what I am interested in, the books I read, the television series I watch... If someone took a look at me and didn't really know who I was, would they see a Psychopath? Would that person think a Serial Killer lived in my house? Could a Sociopath be watching my TV?
I'm not sure I wouldn't be convinced.
For one thing, I do root for the anti-hero. One of my favorites is Lestat, the vampire. Not the one Tom Cruise played in the movie - he was more protagonistic than he should have been. Besides, Interview with the Vampire was more about Louis. I also wasn't a big fan of Queen of the Damned. Yes, it was fun to watch, but not a good representation of the characters.
I liked the Lestat from the books. I enjoyed the Lestat that was mysterious, dark and philosophical. I craved the Lestat that understood the evil in the hearts of men and the darkness within his own.
Our actual bookshelves may not be a good example of my tastes, though you can definitely tell which are mine. You will find Jaws and The Exorcist next to The Cat Who... series. Patricia Cornwell's study on Jack the Ripper sits next to Adam Richman's food bio. Need I say more?
I also tend more toward stories about the chaos of dystopian society than the order and organization of the utopian.
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| Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the infamous Kray twins. Picture from www.telegraph.co.uk |
If one were to take a look at my Netflix listing, they might find some more questionable picks.
Sure, I like my share of Disney movies and comedies. But next to those few peppered into my listing, they are the light amidst a much darker selection. Reefer Madness, Cannibal the Musical, The Ed Gein Story. I like my horror stories. Even better, I like scary fiction based on real life. I really get a kick out of it when they take a horrible real-life story and make fun of it. Do I have a sick sense of humor?
My DVR captures American Horror Story: Freakshow, Stalker, Hannibal, The Following, The Strain, The Walking Dead. All of them have one or a selection of psychopaths to choose from. I love Bates Motel! That's the prequel to the original Psycho! One of my absolute favorites is Doctor Who. Sure, you say. Nothing wrong with that, right? Other than the Doctor is the definition of a Psychopath, albeit one with a more positive agenda: a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
I also have a fascination with documentaries. Not just any documentaries, either. I like the ones about disasters and epidemics through history. I've watched all kinds about Hitler and the Nazis. I could tell you all about H.H.Holmes and the Chicago World's Fair. The stories and ideas presented about Lizzie Borden are all very interesting. When they made a TV movie about Bonnie and Clyde, I couldn't wait to watch it.
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| Lizzie Borden took an axe, Gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Picture from www.crimearchives.net |
Give me a crime solving documentary series and I will eat it up! Not only am I interested in unsolved mysteries, but I find it interesting to see how a crime was committed and what kind of forensics were used to solve it. One episode of a show was about a murder in an area near where I used to live in Pennsylvania. That hit close to home. And then to find out that they proved the guy's alibi was wrong because they were able to prove that the angle of the sun and shadows in the pictures he provided were totally wrong for the time of day he said he was out on the lake. That's pretty cool stuff! He didn't think about that. I doubt I would have in his place, at least not until I saw that show.
Add all of that to my bizarre and maybe somewhat morbid interest in the supernatural, paranormal and all things cryptid and I'm a virtual playground for some psychologist.
Is this normal? Am I a little crazy? A lot crazy?
Or will my neighbor be talking to Pat Collins on NBC News4 saying, "I never would have guessed. He was such a nice quiet man. Kept to himself. Never caused any trouble. I've talked to him a few times - he seemed quite friendly. He'd say hello whenever he saw me. Who would have known?"
Who, indeed?
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| John Wayne Gacy as "Pogo the Clown". Picture taken from www.freeinfosociety.com |
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