I'm going to go back to when I was a kid (and be a little shallow here) and say it was the G.I. Joe 8-foot-long U.S.S. Flagg Aircraft Carrier. When my father pushed that box though the door, I had an idea what it was, but didn't believe it. When I ripped a bit of the paper off and saw that it was, I went crazy. It was the home base for all G.I. Joes and Autobots from then on. I still have it in the attic... I didn't sell it with the rest of my 80's childhood on eBay since I didn't feel like finding a box to pack it off in.

What was the first CD you purchased to replace a cassette or vinyl album (and this may be more interesting to the older amongst us that were alive and cognizant during the CD switch over and actually had "The Joshua Tree" on vinyl).

Honestly, the most enjoyable experience I've ever had with a video game was with Portal 2 earlier this year. We talk about "perfect movies", and this was a "perfect game".

First R-rated movie you saw in the theaters?

The Sixth Sense is PG-13, Teague. You pussy

Since there was no question posed, I'll answer the same question before asking mine.

Intense doesn't equate screaming for me, and with that in mind, Brando's "Look what they've done to my boy." from Godfather is haunting.  There's so much more he wants to say, but can't for a number of reasons.

What was the movie/book/album that truly expanded your taste?  That was different than anything you ever saw/heard and turned you onto a new way of thinking.

Well I was stumbling through the Empire magazine forums and I noticed the link in one of the DiF teams signatures (perhaps Teague?)  I bookmarked it cause I thought the concept was great, but left it till about three months before giving the matrix commentary a try, glad I did!

What's your new years resolution going to be?

argh, beaten to it, answer either one or both I guess

Like empirically or at the time? I was like 13 and on a mountain in Japan I shot some bottle rockets into a tree full of wild monkeys. Which I thought was super awesome at the time but now I think it was just mean.

To be fair though, the elementary school had to close earlier that day due to monkeys (throwing poops etc) so I felt like I was avenging their education.

Most unusual breakup?

That's an awesome story drewjmore.

I can't really remember it, I was something like 8 or 9, and my family and I were driving back home from Paris (my grandmother lives there). And as always, on the highway, we could see truck drivers trying to overtake one another in the most stupid and dangerous ways.
As I said, I don't remember it much, but my father told me that at some point, one truck went to overtake another one... except our car was in the left lane (the highway was two lanes wide at that point). My father had the reflex to slow down very quickly, and it was for the best, because otherwise our car would have been smashed against the guardrail. It seems to me we could have died that day.

Do you still have hobbies some could consider to be childish? (I'm still deeply fond of Lego Star Wars)

Man, that's awesome. I ordered that shuttle a few days ago. I can't wait. It looks so fucking huge.