Art. Music. People. Graphic storytelling (also known as comics, fumetti, manga, bande dessinee, manhwa, etc.) in any form or language, OTR, SF, Horror, Suspense in any shape or form, Philosophy, and Beauty in any shape or form.
Music
80's Eurobeat, Pop music in any language, melodic heavy metal (epic metal?, fantasy metal?) such as Rhapsody, 70's rock, 60's British beat, 50/60's motown, Verdi (especially as performed by Pavarotti), the list goes on and on... I'm up for anything so let me know what u think is cool.
Movies
Mostly "genre" stuff like SF, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, but I love the medium itself and will watch most anything, but most artsy-fartsy flicks gimme a pretention headache.
I'm a sucker for Kevin Smith, but my favorite movie of all time is William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration.
Television
"My Name is Earl" is the bomb! Have to admit that I've recently become addicted to American Idol although most reality shows give me ulcers. Anything Joss Whedon makes stretches the boundaries of what TV can be. That 70's Show is awesome just because it reminds me of my childhood.
Books
Stephen King's The Dark Tower series is awesome, My tastes are varied, but I tend to gravitate toward older stuff. Am reading several books on writing and producing, some Poe and some pulp fiction. For comics, the current Hulk storyline is the most fun comics have been in ages. Umberto Eco also a fave.
Heroes
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, Stephen King, Siegel & Shuster, Bob Kane & Bill FInger, Sanpei Shirato, Osamu Tezuka, Alan Moore, Bruce Timm, Darwyn Cooke, Paperinik, & whoever was the lips for Clutch Cargo. Anyone who does what they love and make a living at it.
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Illustration
Minor: Animation, Philosophy, Art History
Clubs: Japanese Student Organization supporter, Tuesday Newspaper contrbutor (comics)
1987 to 1992
Tucker High School
Tucker, GA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Chinese/Japanese
Minor: Humanities/English
Clubs: Chess, Drama
I live in Japan where I work in the Entertainment industry. I've broken out and gone it alone!
Besides my plans for world domination, I also enjoy expressing myself (for love or money) through illustration and animation. I also put out a fanzine on international pop-culture called "fandomain". Recently I published a Comic Book Sound Effect Dictionary for Japanese.
Current projects:
I'm designing animation and graphics for a concert here with Anna Tsuchiya, Koji Kikkawa, and Thelma Aoyama, I'm setting up an official patokon store in Nippori, I'm working on art for several exhibitions, and I'm trying to publish my American Comics Sound Effect Dictionary.
I speak, read, write Japanese, can read Korean and speak to some extent, and can muddle through Chinese and French.
Give me a week and I can do almost anything. If I can't, I'm pretty sure I can find someone who can!
Who I'd like to meet: Fun, creative and professional people from all over the world. Let's talk about comics, animation, old radio, and the universe.
Also, anyone professionals in the animation field. Flash for broadcast anyone?
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KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.
