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Comic Books, Movies, Plays...STORIES
Yoga, Capoeira, Kendo, Kickboxing...martial arts...anything that'll break a sweat! =)
Japan, Australia, Italy, San Francisco...TRAVEL
SUSHI, Bibimbop, Dim Sum, my Mom's chili and beer bread, fish tacos, frozen yogurt, peanut butter...Guilty Pleasures: french fries, chips (I'll take any kind you've got!), popcorn, hot fudge sundaes, mochi ice cream, cookie dough, and chocolate covered strawberries!! ... FOOD! MMMMMMMM!!! =P
Diesel, Bebe Sport, TokiDoki, HardTail, Lululemon, Happy 6, JodiBWise...and Cole Haan shoes (bit of an obsession)!!...SHOPPING
Music
MOSTLY SOUNDTRACKS...The Last Samurai, Hellboy, Gladiator, Good-bye Lenin, Amelie, Edward Scissorhands, Rudy, The Last of the Mohicans, Pan's Labyrinth, The Hours, Unfaithful, just to name a few...
Also...Regina Spektor, Gwen Stefani, Amy Winehouse, Bjork, Radiohead, Tom Yorke, David Cook, India.Arie, Miho Hatori, No Doubt, Coldplay, ES Posthumus, Frou Frou, Garbage, Lion of Panjshir, MIA, Norah Jones, old-school Jewel, The Toadies, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, Enya, Eminem, The Killers, The Beatles, Blackalicious, The Pixies, Nat King Cole, Kings of Convenience, Portishead, Sia, Looner, Oblio
Movies
TOP 11:
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - no explanation needed
THE LAST SAMURAI
(and for anybody who hasn't given this film a chance just because you can't get over Tom Cruise, get over YOURSELF!! And let this powerfully breathtaking story transport you to a space in our humanity that is truly worth living and dying for)
TRUE ROMANCE
(the most romantic movie ever...it's so cool.)
RUDY
(I'm a sucker for sports movies, but seriously, this one turns me into a sobbing mess every single time!)
LEON
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY
UNFAITHFUL
BONNIE & CLYDE
BLADERUNNER
DIE HARD
ALIENS
Other FAVES:
The Abyss
Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Alien
Amelie
Akeelah and the Bee
Beautiful Girls
Beetlejuice
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Bewitched
Black Snake Moan
Blue Crush
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bruce Lee Story
CHOKE (documentary about Rickson Gracie...aaaahhhhhh!)
Cinderella Man
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Hard
Don Juan de Marco
Edward Scissorhands
Elf
Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Enchanted
Enter the Dragon
The Family Stone
Father of the Bride (Steve Martin)
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Frankie and Johnny
Gattaca
Gladiator
Great Expectations
Happy Accidents
Heat
The Hours
I Heart Huckabees
Imagine Me and You
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Interpreter
Invincible
The Italian Job
Jerry Maguire
Karate Kid II (I love Mr. Miyagi, I can't help it!!)
Kicking and Screaming
Ladyhawke
The Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Malice
Man on Fire
Meet Joe Black
Mongol - go see it. NOW.
Moulin Rouge
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Notting Hill
One True Thing
Only You
The Paper
Peter Pan
Ponette
The Princess Bride
Quills
Rambo (the newest one)
Rebel Without A Cause
Romeo and Juliet (Baz's)
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn)
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet)
Shall We Dance
Splendor in the Grass
Terminator
Thirteen Going on Thirty
Thunderheart
To Die For
12 Monkeys
Twilight Samurai
Unbreakable
V for Vendetta
Waking Life
The Warrior
Wedding Crashers
The Wedding Singer
When Harry Met Sally
Willow
Television
Friday Night Lights, The Office, Dexter, ROME, Project Runway, Crocodile Hunter...Sarah Connor Chronicles, Medium, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes (well, Masi Oka at least)...Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah...History Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet...Alias (Seasons 1, 2), Ally McBeal (the ones with Lucy Liu), Friends (yah, yah, I know, SO original), Wonder Years (so sweet!)
Books
COMICS:
Alias
Angry Little Asian Girl
Batman: Year One
Batman: Dark Knight Returns
Battle Angel Alita
The Cobbler's Monster
Courtney Crumrin
DareDevil: Vision Quest
Hazed
Hellboy (the hottest man in comics...in more ways than one!)
Grounded
Kabuki
Fade From Grace
Fortune and Glory
Grounded
NYX/X23
Persepolis
Powers
Pride of Baghdad
Red Warrior
Roninhood
Runaways
The Sandman
Scarab
Sin City
Strangers in Paradise
Teenagers From Mars
Ultra
X-23
Y: The Last Man
OTHER: MAXIM (not a book I know),
The ALCHEMIST, The BOOK of FIVE RINGS, CAPTIVATING, CODE of the SAMURAI: BUSHIDO, The FOUR AGREEMENTS, GEISHA a LIFE, KICKBOXING GEISHAS, LETTERS to a YOUNG POET, The LITTLE ENGINE that COULD, The MANY LIVES and SECRET SORROWS of JOSPHINE BONAPARTE, The MASTERY of LOVE, The MELANCHOLY DEATH of OYSTER BOY, I feel like I shouldn’t due to cultural responsibility, but in truth I am still deeply in love with the story of MEMOIRS of a GEISHA (or perhaps my heart’s attachment is to The Chairman and to my father’s heritage), PETER PAN, SHIBUMI, The WAR of ART, WARRIOR of the LIGHT, WHEN GOD WINKS, WILD at HEART… TRAVEL BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS…and I must admit, I do like to read about astrology for fun from time to time!!
PLAYS:
AMADEUS, The CHILDREN'S HOUR, DRACULA, The ELEPHANT MAN, FRANKIE and JOHNNY in the CLAIRE de LUNE, HAMLET, Les LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, A LIE of the MIND, LIFE and LIMB, The MIRACLE WORKER, Les MISERABLES, PRELUDE to a KISS, PROOF, ROMEO and JULIET, The SEAGULL, The SHAPE of THINGS, SORROWS of STEPHEN, SPLENDOR in the GRASS, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, SUMMER and SMOKE
Heroes
My Papa-san!!
My Mom,
Claire
Joan of Arc, Josephine Bonaparte
Bruce Lee, Rickson Gracie
Steve Irwin
Catwoman, X-23, Alita, Scarab, Tinkerbell, Echo, Miho, Grace, Death
YODA, Hirohawa, Hellboy, Wolverine, Han Solo, Madmartigan, Batman
Marisa Tomei, Diane Lane, Madeleine Stowe, Angella Bassett, Rene Russo, Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Oh, Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Garner, Faye Dunaway, Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, ...also, Michelle Rodriguez kicks ass, Lucy Liu (in Ally McBeal and Lucky # Slevin), Angelina Jolie (in Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Christina Ricci (in Black Snake Moan), and Tea Leoni's legs...Pat Morita, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Peter Berg, John Koyama, Jason Scott Lee, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Jeff Bridges, Johnny Depp, Kyle Chandler, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Tadanobu Asano, Gary Oldman, Michael Biehn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ken Watanabe (in The Last Samurai)...James Cameron, Ed Zwick, Baz Luhrmann, Alfonso Cuaron, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton (old school), Hans Zimmer, Trevor Jones, Philip Glass, Yann Tiersen
About me:
Hi everybody! So it's finally happened -- My turn in the Apple Computer spotlight has come around once again. I had a blast w/ my iTunes commercial and now I'm Macenstein Girl of the Month for June!!! Check it out.
As well, you can always browse around my own website too: Mandy Amano
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Thanks to Justin for his site about me and how it all got started!~ That Pepsi Girl
Thanks to WIZARD Magazine
and all my fans for considering me the "The Hottest Fangirl in comics"
You've asked and now you get! My Maxim video shoot, ENJOY...
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Who I'd like to meet: Rickson Gracie...Hans Zimmer, Yann Tiersen, Trevor Jones, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman...James Cameron, Baz Luhrmann, Ed Zwick, Alfonso Cuaron, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott...Paulo Coelho, Don Miguel Ruiz, Stan Lee, Itzhak Perlman, Kate Moss, Bjork, Gwen Stefani, Neil Gaiman, Billy Tan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jason Scott Lee, Peter Berg, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Faye Dunaway, Sandra Oh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Marisa Tomei, Rachel McAdams, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Garner, Anthony Hopkins...hhhmmmm....these are the first to come to mind...and of course, YODA
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