movies. comic books. video games. music. pop culture. The Onion. cheetos (crunchy). independent film. trivia board games. asian cinema. old school hip hop. kittens & puppies & reptiles. Stella and The State. silent and classic film.
See my "books" section below for games and comics I like.
Music
Nine Inch Nails
Oingo Boingo
Ministry
Pigface
Tom Waits
Primus
Rasputina
Revolting Cocks
KMFDM
T. Rex/Marc Bolan
Johnny Cash
Mr. Bungle
David Bowie
Cake
The Clash
Depeche Mode
Iggy Pop
Lou Reed
Bjork
The Dresden Dolls
Dead Kennedys
Violent Femmes
Peggy Lee
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Devo
A-Ha
Sex Pistols
Nancy Sinatra
The Cramps
Steve Harley
The Misfits
Men without Hats
Roxy Music
The Beach Boys
Reverend Horton Heat
Beck
Nina Simone
The Cure
Joan Jett
Run-DMC
Bobby Darin
Meat Beat Manifesto
Journey
The Carpenters
VNV Nation
Connie Francis
The Beatles
William Shatner
Nena (that's right, I rock out to 99 Luftballons)
Joy Division
Radiohead
Rob Zombie
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
NWA
Billie Holiday
Pet Shop Boys
Filter
France Gall
Ween
Mott the Hoople
Cocteau Twins
Frank Sinatra
Basement Jaxx
Ozzy Osbourne
Billy Idol
TOOL
Cabaret Voltaire
Patsy Cline
Lords of Acid
Beastie Boys
Elvis
The Sugarcubes
Trucker Up
Skinny Puppy
Velvet Underground
Garbage
Berlin
Alien Sex Fiend
Jane's Addiction
Faith no More
The Specials
Front 242
Revue Noir
Movies
Cannibal! The Musical
Grandma's Boy
Battle Royale
Shaun of the Dead
Old Boy
Nightbreed
Mystery Men
Buffalo '66
Ong-Bak
Dead Man
Velvet Goldmine
Waydowntown
Lewis & Clark & George
Grindhouse
Hellbound/Hellraiser II My Own Private Idaho
Mulholland Dr.
Edward Scissorhands
Fido
Stratosphere Girl
40 Year Old Virgin
Hardboiled
The Saddest Music in the World
Living in Oblivion
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Ghost World
Modern Times
Pieces of April
The Third Man
Lady Vengeance
But I'm a Cheerleader
Titus
In the Mouth of Madness
Layer Cake
Ed Wood
Lost Highway
Chaplin
City of Lost Children
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Hudsucker Proxy
Sin City
Psycho Beach Party
Sunset Blvd.
Team America: World Police
Coffee & Cigarettes
The Royal Tenenbaums
Moulin Rouge
Broken Flowers
Orgazmo
Napoleon Dynamite
Labyrinth
Memento
Being John Malkovich
28 Days Later
Drop Dead Fred
Adaptation
The Neverending Story
Wet Hot American Summer
Clockwork Orange
Office Space
Dawn of the Dead (both)
Xanadu
Four Rooms
Doom Generation
The Wedding Singer
The Heavenly Kid
True Romance
Danger: Diabolik (original & MST3K)
Rushmore
IT (Clara Bow, not the one with clowns)
SNL Best of Christopher Walken
Grease 2
Frankenhooker
Trainspotting
Seven
Basquiat
LA Confidential
Can't Buy Me Love
Reservoir Dogs
Barton Fink
Rocky Horror Picture Show
I [heart] Huckabees
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Leon/The Professional
I like movies.
Chan-Wook Park
David Lynch
Tim Burton
Gus Van Sant
Wes Anderson
Gregg Araki
David Cronenberg
Peter Hedges
Jim Jarmusch
Stanley Kubrick
Coen Brothers
Robert Rodriguez
Joss Whedon
Darren Aronofsky
Alfred Hitchcock
Television
Korean drama's (preferably subtitled. My two favorites are Sassy Girl Chun Hyang, and Sad Love Story) Stella
MST3K
South Park
Arrested Development
The Maxx
Scrubs
Flight of the Conchords
Extras
The Tick
Batman: TAS
Bourdain: No Reservations
Home Movies
Buffy
The State
Family Guy
The 4400
Six Feet Under
X Files
Angel
I Love Lucy
SNL from the early/mid 90's
The Brak Show
The Critic
Perfect Strangers
The Daily Show
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Zoboomafoo
Star Trek (all)
Mythbusters
Saved By The Bell
60% of the shows on Food Network
Not a big reader. Unless you count comic books and graphic novels. If every book was a choose-your-own-adventure or pop-up, I might read more. Here are some comics I like:
Most Batman: Dark Knight Returns. Killing Joke. Year One. I'm pretty loyal to Batman Detective and love Paul Dini. I read random Elseworld's crap for fun.
Green Lantern. Newer. Hal Jordan. Because Geoff Johns fucking rocks. Rebirth is my favorite. I also read Green Lantern Corps.
The Maxx. Hell yeah.
Y: The Last Man. Amazing. Until the end. Which I didn't like at all.
Walking Dead. Although lately it's getting to be way too much of a downer.
Kick Ass. Yes, it's new. But I like it. Bruce Wayne got his ass kicked in Year One, and look where he ended up.
Preacher. Sick, twisted, awesome.
Nightcrawler. I know all of his series' have not been that great, but I still read 'em. And he's my favorite Marvel character.
Sandman. Please someone cast me as Death. Neil? Please?
Lobo. I'm fucking serious. I love Lobo.
Uncanny X-Men. 'Nough said..
A little Hellboy and BPRD, on and off.
Excalibur. Nightcrawler.
I also read a little JLA and Brave & The Bold here and there.
And since there's no "favorite games" section, I'll go ahead and list those here as well. So I'll just call this area my nerd favs (comics and vg's):
Games
MGS4. And the whole Metal Gear series.
Persona 3 (LOVE Shin Megami Tensei)
Bioshock
God of War II
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Soulcalibur IV (also love 2 on xbox)
Oddworld (all. Especially Munch's Odyssey)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Resident Evil 4
Justice League Heroes
Shadow of the Colossus
Marvel vs Capcom
Stubbs the Zombie
House of the Dead 2
Mortal Kombat 2
Puzzle Quest
Street Fighter: The Movie. The Game.
Orange Box (esp. Portal!)
Gears of War 2
Katamari Damacy
Super Puzzle Fighter
Dead Rising
Stranglehold (because of Hardboiled)
Paperboy
Currently playing/re-playing: Gears of War 2, Valkyria Chronicles, House of the Dead. Just finished Persona 4 (Eh).
I am devoted to PS3. But also own (and rock) xbox 360, wii, DS, and various old-school systems: Sega Genesis, Gamecube, SNES. My apartment looks like a shrine to game systems and toys/action figures. Nerd? Perhaps. But I don't mind.
Heroes
They make me smile. And think. And laugh. ...Mainly laugh: Jon Stewart. David Wain. Michael Ian Black. Michael Showalter. Trey Parker. Seth MacFarlane. Stephen Colbert. Norm MacDonald. The Flight of the Conchords guys. Mitch Hedberg.
The Musical Geniuses: Danny Elfman. Tom Waits. Martin Atkins. David Bowie. Charlie Clouser. Steve Harley. Kurt Weill. Al Jourgenson. Melora Creager. Trent Reznor. Les Claypool. Mike Patton. Marc Bolan.
Filmmakers (Or, How I Learned to Cancel My Cable and Love Netflix): Chan-wook Park. Tim Burton. David Lynch. Gus Van Sant. Gregg Araki. Robert Rodriguez. Wait; I've already covered this in my "film" section. Moving on...
The OTHERS. The riff-raff. The Misc "Heroes". Obviously in no particular order: Jack Bauer. Hal Jordan. William Shatner. Barack Obama. Neil Gaiman. Rob Zombie. Don LaFontaine. Dr. Cox (Scrubs). Vivienne Westwood. Al Franken. Clara Bow. Lobo (Yes. Lobo).
I act. I play video games. I write. A watch Travel Channel. Not always in that order.
New news: I am on UGO/1UP. I also occasionally appear as a panelist on Comics on Comics...yep, talking comics (obviously). See my "books" section, below left, for favorite games and comic books.
Old news: Just spent two seasons on Arcade, on maniaTV. You could watch me talk about video games. And play video games. And generally dislike things.
A little about me: Moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, couple of years ago. Originally from small-town Michigan ("Yes! Michigan"). Hmm... I like comic books, video games, Netflix, trampolines, loud music in my car, classic (mainly pre-1972) cars, guitars, nine inch nails, cold soba noodles, pinup girls, Oddworld, cheap beer, Orion Acaba, polaroid cameras, Clive Barker, film noir, drums, Jon Stewart, 50's style diners, vodka, Tim Burton, cheeseburgers, Joss Whedon, lounge music, pinball and ski-ball, bad 80's ballads, good tattoos, bad karaoke, old Nintendo games, MST3K, scrabble, Filipino food, fast food, shoes, American slang from the 20's to the 60's.
I think that bad music gives me an inner ear infection (this means you, Maroon 5 & James Blunt....just stop whining and go away, okay?). I am half asian and half poor white trash. I was a teenage runaway who never went back home. I rarely return phone calls but I [almost] always return texts. I firmly believe there are very few things sexier than a man in all black. Grrr. I say "fuck"...a lot. Fuck. I pick fights, burn bridges, but never hold a grudge. I wish I could sleep more. I believe that dark, biting sarcasm, ill-placed humor, and false confidence make up for almost anything else that life throws out there (is that healthy?). Most of what I say is sarcastic bullshit, so don't take me seriously. Ever.
Who I'd like to meet:
Solid Snake, Luc Van Acker, Trey Parker, Jon Stewart, Christopher Walken, Space Ghost, Oprah Noodlemantra, Kitana (MK) - so that she can teach me her badassery, Pepopo the ferret, small-town folks, and other midwesterners who are way too cool for the midwest. Oh, and I like smart, funny people, m'kay?
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