Me
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Student |
| Location | Columbia University, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Well, I study premodern Japanese religion at Columbia. That's really all there is to say. If you are reading this blog, odds are you already know mostly everything about me. Or at least everything you need to know... |
| Interests | 1990's console classic and action-adventure RPGs, astronomy, books, cats, chaos theory, Dragostea Din Tei, eschatology, esoterism, exotic pets, fantasy, feng shui, ferrets, fiction, films, folklore, foxes, go, gods of death, Gurdjieffian philosophy, Heian-era Japanese culture, Japanese, languages, legends, magic, modern Japanese pop-culture, Moldovan poetry, music, mythology, onmyodo, physics, quantum mechanics, religion, Russian folk songs, Shinto, Taoism, Tantric Buddhism (chiefly Mantrayana), techno, visual kei, writing |
| Favorite Movies | Advent Children, Blades of Glory, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Butterfly Effect, Casshern, Castle in the Sky, Children of Men, the Clerks films, Clue, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Dark Crystal, Dark Water, The Devil's Advocate, Donnie Darko, Event Horizon, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Fountain, The Happiness of the Katakuris, the Harry Potter films, Howl's Moving Castle, The Illusionist, the Kill Bill films, Knocked Up, The Last Samurai, The Last Unicorn, Legend, the Lord of the Rings films, Lost in Translation, The Machinist, The Masters of the Universe, Moon Child, Murder by Death, The Ninth Gate, the Onmyoji films, Pan's Labyrinth, the Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Prestige, Princess Bride, Princess Mononoke, The Producers, Quills, The Ring, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, the Saw films, She-Devil, Signs, Spaceballs, Spirited Away, the (original) Star Wars films, The Time Machine, The Twilight Samurai, the Vampire Hunter D films, Young Frankenstein |
| Favorite Music | Abe Fuyumi, access, Amuro Namie, angela, Asakura Daisuke, ATTACK HAUS, Banyu Inryoku, Cynthia Harrell, Daler Mehndi, Dan Bălan, DAY-BREAK, Deborah Holland, Do As Infinity, dream, Era, ES CONNEXION, Fayray, the FLARE, Gackt, Guo Mei Mei, Haiducii, Hamasaki Ayumi, Hikita Kaori, HYDE, Iceman, II MIX DELTA, Inugami Circus Dan, Inva Mulla Tchako, Ishida Saori, Ishida Yoko, J.A. Cesar, Jadranka Stojaković, Kajiura Yuki, Karashima Midori, Kim Hyun Jung, Kimura Yuki, Kotani Kinya, Kuroda Michihiro, L'ARC～EN～CIEL, LAREINE, LAZY KNACK, Λucifer, M★TWO ～MinaMiru～, Máire Brennan, MALICE MIZER, Maria Vidal, Matsuoka Hideaki, the Max Rebo Band, m.o.v.e, Mr. Big, Nagai Mariko, Oki Risa, Okui Masami, Onitsuka Chihiro, Onmyoza, O-Zone, Pastiche, RED, ROmantic Mode, Sakai Noriko, Sagisu Shiro, SCARECROW, See-Saw, the Seeker, SHAKKAZOMBIE, Shimokawa Mikuni, Shonen Knife, S.K.I.N., Suzuki Ami, Takahashi Yoko, Takayama Minami, Takekawa Yukihide, T.M.Revolution, TM NETWORK, TO DESTINATION, TRAX, TWO-MIX, Umebayashi Shigeru, V2, Vanessa Mae, Versailles, VIOLET UK, Virys, Weiβ, X JAPAN, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yonekura Chihiro, YOSHIKI, Zwei |
| Favorite Books | The Ai no Kusabi novels, (Yoshihara Rieko), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges), the Arsène Lupin novels (Maurice LeBanc), Carol (Kine Naoto), The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte), The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis), The Complete Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges), Demian (Herman Hesse), The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman), A Fine and Private Place (Peter S. Beagle), the Harry Potter novels (J.K. Rowling), Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones), In Search of the Miraculous (P.D. Ouspensky), In Watermelon Sugar (Richard Brautigan), The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle), Magister Ludi (Herman Hesse), Miss Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Robert C. O'Brien), The Neverending Story (Michael Ende), Norwegian Wood (Murakami Haruki), Onmyoji (Yumemakura Baku), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), Shibumi (Trevanian), A Study in Emerald (Neil Gaiman), A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), The Tao of Pooh books (Benjamin Hoff), Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tze), The Time Machine (H.G. Wells), Tokyo Babylon (Ohkawa Nanase), Two Hearts (Peter S. Beagle), the Vampire Hunter D novels (Kikuchi Hideyuki), V for Vendetta (Alan Moore), The Water Margin (Shi Naian), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami Haruki), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Frank L. Baum), X (Ohkawa Nanase) |