Just a bit of info about myself... My Music: With a big thanks to my boyfriend, I have a difficult time listening to American music anymore. Most of the time I'll be listening to J-Rock, J-Pop, K-Rock, a few random German bands, and now World music (usually the epic background music in movie trailers). Only ask me for music recommendations if you're prepared to hear a bunch of obscure or hard-to-pronounce band names. A few of my personal (and fairly well-known) bands include Abingdon Boys School, Anberlin (one of the few American bands I listen to), Chemistry, City of the Fallen, Deluhui, Girugamesh, Miyavi, ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D, Scandal, Thomas Bergersen, Two Steps From Hell, UVERworld, and Yui My Books: If the series is centered around some form of romance, I refuse to read it. I'm alright with The Hunger Games because the action far outweighs the romantic bits, but for the entire story to revolve around the relationship of the two main characters does not suit me. Bring on the action, adventure, fantasy, and paranormal! Favorites include The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy by Frank Beddor, Angels and Demons, and The DaVinci Code (both by Dan Brown), Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth, almost any story from The Brothers Grimm, The Devouring Series by Simon Holt, Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series, The Heroes of Olympus Series, and the Kane Chronicles (all by Rick Riordan). My Movies: Not unlike the previous subject, it's unlikely I'll sit through an entire romantic movie unless there is comedy or action that makes me forget that I'm watching a chick-flick in the first place. Some of my favorites are almost any Marvel or DC Comics movie, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (also a favorite series of books), Fools Gold, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Super 8, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Zombieland. Things I Like to Poke Fun At: Hipsters, "sane" people, any movement hugely popular among tweens/teenage girls (Justin Bieber, Twilight, etc.), and the French. Don't ask why; too long and too strange of a story. Things I Can't Live Without: Sarcasm, caffiene, music, books, comedy, a beating heart, the ozone layer, Panda Express, and anime/manga (preferrably the latter). And now a personal favorite of mine... favorite quotes. WARNING: Most are actually meaningful, but there are a few crack ones added just for giggles. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Gandhi "Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." -John Allen Paulos "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult." -Unknown "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway." -John Wayne "Some people are afraid of heights. Not me; I'm afraid of widths." "When life gives you lemons, you could make lemonade, but it'll be pretty nasty without water and sugar." "It's not the human walk, it's the human race." -Nickleback "This Afternoon" "Make pasta, not war." -Hetalia "I used to partake in activities, but all of a sudden, an arrow had been lodged into my knee cap." -Joseph Decreux "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else." -Edward Elric "If you die, I will kill you to death until you die from it." -My boyfriend "I'm the type of person taht can watch hundreds of horror movies and not get scared, but would scream at the top of my lungs when toast pops out of the toaster." -Random picture on my iPod "Some people wonder if they left on the stove. I worry about the zombie uprising." -Another random picture on my iPod "Time to nut up, or shut up." -Talahassee from "Zombieland" "Light will take a potato chip and eat it, L will take a piece of cake and eat it, and Mellow will take a chocolate bar and eat it. Why is it that out of every character in Death Note, the Shinigami- a god of death- is the only one who eats healthy by eating apples?" -A fabulous YouTube comment |