lol That's awesome!

2063: Or calc guy

I think you could achieve the same effect by doing as Loulou showed, where you basically create a whole separate function that uses the gc variable. Such as:

function on.paint(gc)
    method(gc) --is called in on.paint and is passed the gc var
end

function method(gc)
    gc:drawRect(...) --note the gc:
end

you could perhaps try calling the function
gc:method(gc) --pass the gc variable
    --Do stuff here

Though I don't know if that would work.

2036: You are awake

My favorites have to be:

1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell -Excellent, excellent book
Daemon by Daniel Suarez -Interestingly enough, not a "demon" but a "Disc and Execution Monitor"
Dead Space: Martyr -If you've ever played Dead Space you must read this
The Halo series minus Halo: Cryptum -If you ever played Halo you must read these (Ghosts of Onyx is my favorite of these)

Oooh, you should make it omnimaga based.

2012: We're gonna die