linguistics, languages, nihon & nihongo (if you know what I mean...wakatta yo?), letting my bass guitar make my fingers bleed, adding (not losing!) by translating, puzzle solving (enigmistica), playing with words, challenging my argumentation skills, riding my bike, driving other ppl's cars at full throttle, playing tennis (it's so stress-relieving!), traveling, biting enemies, writing out my saddest thoughts, j-rock, animation, ICT, nerds & geeks, sushi eating and making (that's my staple food), bubble tea, decaying rock 'n' roll stars, Nendoroids, losers in life, lingerie, furry socks, craft pens, cute Japanese characters, H&M, eBay, Taiko no Tasujin, NintendoDS......
Music
Everybody's list is so long, as there was a pride in not being able to select; mine is rather short, since there aren't many groups that make the music I like, such as Strokes, Notwist, Smashing Pumpkins, Imarobot, Kaiser Chiefs, Pillows, Lunasea, Killers, Interpol, Carpark North, Jimmy Eat World, A Perfect Circle, Jaga Jazzist, Beatles, Yoko Kanno, Bright Eyes, Grandaddy, Postal Service, Mars Volta, JJ72, Pizzicato Five, Van Pelt, and just a very few more.
Movies
Park Chan-wook's old boy and sympathy for lady vengeance (and for mr vengeance too), almost every old B&W movie *** ANIME: Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Death Note, Oruchuban Ebichu, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star.
Television
FurTV, Human Giant, House MD, Lost, Twin Peaks, Spongebob, Malcolm in the Middle, The Big Bang Theory, I Soliti Idioti
Books
It's so difficult to find interesting books well written: c'est pas un livre qui se fait lire! Most bore me, except for: Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim + Métaphysique des tubes at first place. E.A. Poe rocks too. Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon. De Carlo's Due di Due. La vie devant soi by Romain Gary. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Orwell's 1984 (especially for the linguistic content). Brecht's Lebens des Galilei. Barbery's L'élégance du hérisson. Lionni's A Color of His Own.
Heroes
Suzumiya Haruhi, Neon Genesis Evangelion's Asuka, Death Note's Light, FLCL's Haruko, Heroes' Nakamura Hiro, Lucky?Star's Konata , The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon, Russell Brand
About me:
Vacation, alienation, Japanimation, manga, kanga, naked lunch, Hawaiian Punch, fruit juice. It's not funny: I'm gonna kill you!!
I hold a BA and a MA (laurea triennale e specialistica); currently I'm focusing on Japanese and on some bizarre electro-rock-pop music project (which crazily features me as a polyglot singer, not as a bass player, against my will :P), as well as earning my living translating.
I don't know why most of you think I'm quite a manga-anime Otaku; I'm not. I've read just a few manga and have a bunch of fav anime. That's all; my connection with Japanese culture and pop-culture is broader than that. Please check my brief interests section.
Oh come on, Italian dudes! I'm growing tired of this: the "femme" part from my nickname doesn't translate into "femmina". Please look it up in some French dictionary! My nick ("ViolentFemme") is not a homage to the band (Violent Femmes); I liked the mix of semantics (violent woman), phonetics (Anglo-French) and graphics (I like the letters it's written with...).
Please don't ask for my MSN contact in order to chat; I barely use it, and next to never to chat tout court. I'm quite antisocial and won't even bother to reply to those who write "chiacchiere" without i's. That said, feel free to write me in English (you can't go wrong with it), Italiano (my mother tongue), Français (j'aurais besoin de le parler plus fréquemment), 日本語 (日本人が好きので、ようこそ！) or Deutsch (aber nur ein bisschen).
Online Now!
a presto MIK
