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Things I like:<br />
-Cats and dogs alike<br />
-A well-written book<br />
-Queen, particularly Hammer To Fall and It's A Kind Of Magic<br />
-Al Stewart's Year of the Cat<br />
-JAM Project<br />
-Arca's 'Cruel Moon' (or, really, anything Moonlight Lady related)<br />
-Simoun<br />
-The King of Braves GaoGaiGar<br />
-Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (anyone who claims to like anime owes it to him/herself to watch it)<br />
-Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5<br />
-Dune, although Brian Herbert's 'sequels' aren't worth my money.<br />
-Les Misérables, which is quickly becoming the best book I've ever read.<br />
-Stephen King--the man has two Bram Stoker awards, and a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He may have some stinkers, but the man is a writer.<br />
-The sharp contrast between the vivid green of plants and the blinding blue of the sky up in the mountains of my old home. Too bad I can't properly photograph it.<br />
-The smell of damp soil and wet plants after it drizzles just enough.<br />
-Napping under a tree<br />
-The smell of a brand new book<br />
-Books, in general. E-readers are nice and all, but nothing beats printed paper.<br />
-Watching anime with a bowl of popcorn<br />
-Sunflower seeds<br />
-Cam Clarke<br />
-Scott Mcniel, particularly the continuing coincidence where he voices two characters at the same time in one show (see: Ruby-Spears' Megaman, where he voices Protoman and Dr. Wily, and Beast Wars where he voices Rattrap and Dinobot)<br />
-CLAMP's artwork, circa Card Captor Sakura--their characters are too noodle-like for my tastes these days.<br />
-Carnelian<br />
-Naoki Urasawa, quite possibly one of the best mangaka alive today.<br />
-People who can tell the difference between a 'good' book and a 'popular' book<br />
-Treasure--Gunstar Heroes and Astro Boy: Omega Factor are two of the best games I've ever played. Shame about the 'Bleach' games...<br />
-Niel Gaiman; I'd sell my entire video game collection to see him collaborate with Hirohiko Araki on something, anything.<br />
-While I'm at it, Hirohiko Araki.<br />
-Ender's Game<br />
-The kind of dog that has a seizure whenever you start petting it<br />
-The way that cats just slump into your hands when you pick one up<br />
-Strawberry ice cream<br />
-Wearing glasses--you couldn't pay me to wear contact lenses<br />
-Wearing business suits. Too bad I actually have crappy taste in clothes, otherwise...<br />
-Paleontology (huge dinosaur-buff since I was a kid, no lie)<br />
-Come to think of it, The Land Before Time. Shame about the sequels...<br />
-Satyrday. Fun fact: Don Bluth wanted to make an animated adaptation of it. I'd love to see something like that...<br />
-Tim Burton's Batman movies. No offense at all to Christopher Nolan, seriously--Dark Knight is great and all, but for some reason, the camp and Art Deco-styled settings in Batman and Batman Returns appeal to me more.<br />
-The Boktai series<br />
-Certain kinds of insects: praying mantises, dragonflies, bees (I find bees cute), the fuzzy-sort of caterpillars, and cicadas.<br />
-Snails (they're not insects)<br />
-Daddy Long-Leg Spiders<br />
-Squid (also cute--including the majestic GIANT KING SQUID!)<br />
Arina Tanemura (a fellow King Squid enthusiast)<br />
-The Girl From Ipanema<br />
-The Man Your Man Can Smell Like. Look again: the links are now diamonds!<br />
-My shoes. They're not particularly awesome, but I really like 'em. They're broken in.<br />
-Steven Colbert--the actor and the character, although separately.<br />
-Outlanders, along with the mangaka, Johji Manabe. Too bad it's really hard to get a hold on anything from the guy.<br />
-Eat-Man. Too bad that it's also tough to get a hold of. (It's tough, liking old manga....)<br />
-The Megami Tensei series. It's what Final Fantasy could be if it wasn't so stuck-up about graphics these days.<br />
-Dungeon-crawlers like NetHack, the Izuna series, Shiren the Wanderer, and Etrian Odyssey. (The Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon games are a little too simple for me, although the concept of playing as Pokemon is pretty cool).<br />
-H.P. Lovecraft. The concept of evil, incomprehensible terrors terrors beyond the scope of humanity existing in the dark corners of Earth is awesome!<br />
-Japanese Giant Robots, whether Real-type (like Gundams, or Votoms) or Super-type (the aforementioned King of Braves, GaoGaiGar, Getter Robo); because what else is gonna face off against those Elder Gods?<br />
-The artwork of Amazuyu Tatsuki, particularly ToHeart 2 and Utawarerumono, although I really wish ToHeart had a more involving story.<br />
-Phantasy Star. The only female character I like more than Nei is Tomomi Harukawa<br />
-Read Or Die. Yomiko Readman trumps both Nei and Tomomi Harukawa.<br />
-Ice-cold lemonade and cinnamon rolls. Fornication Under Command of the King yeah! Bring on the cavities!<br />
-Pretzels--the baked, thick kind.<br />
-Speaking with someone, anyone, who knows English<br />
-My friends: Jove (a brilliant man), Danny (way fun to be around), Gerald and Luis (hard-working twins with saintly patience), the other Luis (loveably goofy), Eddie (too excitable, but a damn good friend if I ever had one), Rene (my bro), Stephanie (because there has to be a girl), Danny's girlfriend Francis (also fun to be around, and she makes awesome pins!), Delmarie (uniquely hilarious), Raphael (a loveable scamp of a scoundrel) and Eliezer (the only man as nerdy as I am). Those guys have helped me become the person I am in the last four years.<br />
-Stars. They're the ultimate life-form. They're made of the same stuff we are. They last eons. I wonder what they think about...<br />
-Did I mention I think bees are cute? Yeah, bees are cute.<br />
-Funnel cake. My goodness, I haven't had one in over ten years...<br />
-Miyabi Fujieda. His works are yuri-centric, and while they might not be realistic depictions of lesbian relationships, they're heartwarming. The media needs more optimism these days...<br />
-Scorpiomon. All he wanted were some clams. He loved clams...;_;<br />
-Transformers. I'd have my shelves lined with Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, Predacons, and Vehicons if only I didn't feel weird about buying toys...<br />
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Things I don't like:<br />
-People with poor grammar<br />
-Reggeaton<br />
-Kira Yamato and Lacys Clyne.<br />
-People who impose their beliefs on others<br />
-People who are intolerant of other people's cultures<br />
-Racists<br />
-Political pundits<br />
-Ennui<br />
-La Charca (known in the U.S. as 'The Pond'). It's a seminal work of Puerto Rican literature, the first serious Puerto Rican novel, an invaluable piece of my birthplace's history, and I would defend that book even if I had to face all of Nyarlathotep's thousand hideous forms...but, mein Gott, does it make me want to slit my wrists! crying <br />
-People who complain problems, but don't do anything else about them<br />
-People who cut themselves<br />
-Linkin Park<br />
-FOEs. Those terrible, terrible FOEs...<br />
-People who try to defend out-and-out villains like Sephiroth or Draco Malfoy--I don't care how sad their pasts are, there is no justification for inflicting harm on your fellow man or woman.<br />
-'OTP's. I don't care how much homosexual subtext there is, I don't care how much you dislike Relena Peacecraft, I don't care how faaaaaabulous Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell are, they're not gay, and Heero shacked up with Relena. Deal with it. (That's what you get for watching Wing and not G.)<br />
-There's not enough yuri in the U.S. Heck, we didn't even get the second volume of Iono The Fanatic.<br />
-We can't get one more 'regular' Phantasy Star, but there are three Final Fantasy XIIIs.<br />
-People who think that anime is just a lot of violent tentacle porn from Japan<br />
-The old 'Dub/Sub' debate<br />
-The old 'Robotech/Macross' debate<br />
-The old 'Pro-Life'/'Pro-Choice' debate<br />
-Republican/Democrat hatred<br />
-Rush Limbaugh<br />
-Micheal Moore<br />
-My father's unending hypocrisy<br />
-That really bad feeling of nausea I get before seeing the results of a test I took<br />
-Anything that exists for the sake of itself (gore for the sake of gore, rebelliousness for the sake of rebellion, etc)<br />
-I didn't cry at my Uncle's funeral. I don't care about how I might have been support for my mother, et all, but the fact that I couldn't shed a tear for my own uncle is wrong.<br />
-Anti-laborist policies<br />
-Falling asleep in class<br />
-The fact that most anything I like is extremely obscure, and as such, impossible to talk about with anyone, as any conversation about it devolves into a one-sided speech about what it is.<br />
-Kraft cheese<br />
-When my last ship gets kidnapped by aliens in Galaga.<br />
-The fact that I need to explain to people what Galaga is.<br />
-Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is so darn unbalanced....<br />
-Cheese in my hamburgers<br />
-Those people at conventions who carry those gawd-awful 'Free Hugs' signs.<br />
The fact that I want to collect Transformers, but I'm scared of buying toys.<br />
-Bears<br />