The G Spot

A letter meme.
Here's how it works: Leave a comment on this post asking for a letter of your own and I'll tag you with a random one. You then have to write 10 words beginning with your letter together with an explanation of what the word means to you and why.
Megan over at Graycastle hit me with a G, so here goes.

Gothic: I'm drawn to most things Gothic, from books to architechture. I like wondering around interesting buildings, ruined castles, anywhere with a bit of history. I much prefer Gothic horror to anything gory. I love atmosphere. Dracula and Frankenstein are obvious books that I can read over and over again. Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite authors.

Ghosts: This kind of links to my above choice. I was fascinated by ghosts when I was younger. Even today I like to hear a good ghost story.

Graveyard: There's a definite theme developing here isn't there...? There's a churchyard at the top of the road where I used to live. In fact I've recently moved back in to the same street. When I was a boy I'd walk through it to school every day. A lot of the children played there, regularly collecting conkers from the trees in the Autumn. Churchyards are just fascinating places to wonder around. You can read the inscriptions on the tombstones and just wonder who these people had been, what sort of lives they led.

Gym: Not planning to go any time soon... although I probably need to. I just find the whole idea of those places horrifying. It's probably just another one of my weird phobias.

"Good Grief": Dangermouse's favourite cuss. I'm probably the only person I know who uses it! I'm not particularly big on swearing so I always get funny looks if I ever use this. Dangermouse was a great cartoon, when I was growing up. Actually it still is. Spider bought me a DM DVD recently and the series really was as good as I remembered. His arch enemy was Baron Silas Greenback. Can I count that?

Graboid: Come on, how can you not like 'Tremors'. Surely one of the greatest B- movies ever.

"Roger that Burt, and congratulations. Be advised, however, that there are two more, repeat, two more motherhumpers."

Glass: Without it my flat would be very drafty.
I wear glasses, partly in the faint hope that they make me look vaguely knowledgable and partly because I can't stand the thought of sticking contact lenses in my eye.

Greedo: Han shot first dammit! Anyone that says otherwise is a liar.

Gryphon: Or 'Griffin', I just prefer the 'y' spelling. Mythology and Cryptozoology is something else I've always been interested in.

Gravity: My favourite 'G' word. Where would we be without it? Gravity is all sorts of weird and fascinating. It's also an amazing album by Our Lady Peace, which I would highly recommend to anyone. In fact the 'Gravity' album was a major inspiration for a comicbook I've been trying to work on with some friends. You can see a picture of our lead character here.

"The pink pills are for your sanity
We are buried in the earth because we can't beat gravity."- Matt Good 'Near Fantastica'

Phew! That's ten! I'm just glad I managed to do it without having to resort to using the names of people I know.