Asian extreme/cult/horror movies, horror movies in general, music, art, writing (reviews, poetry and fiction), dressing in gothic lolita, classic lolita and erololi, playing with my daughter, reading, painting, Mahayana and Pure Land Buddhism, bondage (especially Japanese rope bondage), lace and ribbon fetish, vampirism, Catholic iconography, walking around my garden naked at night, Guerlain perfume, strange jewellery (especially Suppurate System), tattoos, piercings, being a bit too passionate for my own good sometimes ?
Music
Porcupine Tree, Japan, Jansen/Barbieri/Karn, Hope of the States, Guided By Voices, Sigur Ros, David Sylvian, Interpol, Cardiacs, dEUS, DAAU, Swans, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Sea Nymphs, Sunn O))), Bowery Electric, Zita Swoon, Kiss My Jazz, Bat For Lashes, Mogwai, Fields, Secret Machines, Libertines, Levitation, Beck, Death From Above 1979, The Mystery Jets, The Duke Spirit, Clor, Blondie, Auf der Maur, Bowery Electric, all krautrock (the madder the better, including: Faust, Can, Neu!, Amon Duul II, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Magma, Kraftwerk, etc), Television, Pink Floyd, Tom Verlaine, Acid Mothers Temple, Metric, The Young Knives, Wire, Ghost, The Arcade Fire, The Go! Team, Mansun, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Miranda Sex Garden, Led Zeppelin, The Kills... oh I dunno, bloody loads, more than I can even think of right now XD
Movies
Kairo, Suicide Circle, Acacia, Cure, Charisma, Ring, Loft, Uzumaki, The Wicker Man, the original V-Cinema Ju-on, Strange Circus, Muzan E, Mulholland Drive, Les Yeux Sans Visage, Session 9, Let The Right One In, Fascination, Vampyr, Metropolis, Akira, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Coraline, Freaks, Der Golem, M, Haxan, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, anything Hammer/Amicus, Blair Witch Project, The Woman in Black, anything by Jean Rollin/David Cronenberg/John Carpenter/Kiyoshi Kurosawa/David Lynch etc - our site is a pretty good indicator of what I like <3
Television
I avoid this as much as possible XD But I am addicted to Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Project Catwalk/Runway, Top Gear, Mythbusters, Ray Mears, Ghost Whisperer, Dragons' Den, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, all cookery shows except those with Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson or Gary Rhodes in, anything on the true crime channels, and anything with the fabulous Anthony Bourdain in :D
Books
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is my favourite book EVER; anything by Junji Ito, Jean Genet, Junko Mizuno or Kazuo Umezu; Bizenghast by M. Alice Legrow; poetry - Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Plath, Paul Celan, Owen, e.e. cummings etc etc etc; anything by Neil Gaiman; anything by Angela Carter, but especially The Magic Toyshop; The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Rubaiyyat; The Song of Solomon; loads of art books; the Dhammapada; too many to list, I have about 10 bookcases full to the gunnels -_-
About me: Hi, my name is Mandi Apple, I'm 37 and I juggle my time between being a full-time mom and a movie reviewer at my reasonably well-known Asian extreme/horror movie review site Snowblood Apple ^_^
I have a beautiful daughter, Astrid Yuki, who's five years old now, and she takes up pretty much all my time - writing, sewing, reading, internet, Japanese street fashion, sculpting, Facebook/LJ and listening to music occupies the rest ^_^
I love to make things: drawings and portraits, jewellery, sashiko, embroidery, lacy accessories, stupid things with bells on that only I like, etc XD
I'm also a practicing Mahayana Buddhist and play piano, cello, clarinet, mountain dulcimer (though I am hopelessly out of practice) and bass guitar ^_^
I have a Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mandiapple, where I hang out and normally embarrass myself in front of all my friends XD I have five tattoos and fifteen piercings and will doubtless be getting more :D
Who I'd like to meet: Everybody in the whole world, twice. And the Dalai Lama, three times.
Hi Mandi I was reading some old threads from your site, and I was wondering ... how come you don't like Miho Kanno? Hee, just curious. And also, I rented Coraline today
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I was reading some old threads from your site, and I was wondering ... how come you don't like Miho Kanno? Hee, just curious. And also, I rented Coraline today 
