Christopher Porter
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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | student |
| Location | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | Japanese Studies major at the University of Michigan. |
| Interests | Writing and listening to music, studying Japanese, playing guitar and keyboard, reading sci-fi/fantasy and non-fiction, watching movies, spending time with friends, meeting new people. |
| Favorite Movies | All about Lily Chou-Chou; Hana & Alice; Swallowtail Butterfly; April Story; Ghost Soup; PiCNiC; Hula Girls; Nobody Knows; The Last Samurai; tLotR Trilogy; the original Star Wars trilogy; The Neverending Story; The Dark Crystal; Paprika; Tekkonkinkreet; Akira; Princess Mononoke; Spirited Away; Howl's Moving Castle; Ponyo; 5cm per Second; Ong~Bak: The Thai Warrior; Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring; The Dark Knight; Thumbsucker; The Chumscrubber; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Things We Lost in the Fire; Garden State; Superman Returns; Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children; Terminator 2: Judgement Day; Blade Runner; Equilibrium; The Fifth Element; the first Matrix; Minority Report; Gattaca; 12 Monkeys; The Man from Earth; Desperado; Tropic Thunder; Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Smoke Signals; The Darjeeling Limited; Waking Life; E.T.; Jurassic Park; Munich; Saving Private Ryan; SLC Punk; Gladiator; Toy Story; Earthlings (documentary); Patch Adams; No Country for Old Men; Earthlings; Death of a President; My Kid Could Paint That; King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters; The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED; Flock of Dodos; Live, Tonight, Sold Out (Nirvana); Viewphoria (Smashing Pumpkins); Everywhere But Home (Foo Fighter)...come on, can this list even be short? |
| Favorite Music | Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, Michiko Naruke, Motoi Sakuraba, Miki Higashino, Takeshi Kobayashi, Martin O'Donnel, Maurice Ravel (my favorite composer from the past), Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, Wolfgang A. Mozart, Peter Tchaikovsy, Gustav Holst, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Michel Camilo, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, The Format, Nirvana, Sigur Ros, State Radio, Explosions in the Sky, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Band of Horses, The Decemberists, Anathallo, Copeland, Ben Belloli, Safe or Brave. Always looking for anyone that is doing something original and interesting. |
| Favorite Books | The most recent series that I have really enjoyed is "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan. Other favorite books of mine are: "The Waterborn" and "The Black God" by J. Gregory Keys, "Ender's Game", "Speaker for the Dead", "Xenocide", "Children of the Mind", and "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card (I'll get to the rest of the Bean books eventually), "Journey Beyond Tomorrow" by Robert Sheckley, "The Gods Themselves" by Issac Asimov, "Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer, "Dominion" by Mathew Skully, all five of the books in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy by Douglas Adams, also by the late Mr. Adams: "Last Chance to See" (an absolutely incredible, touching book), "The Culture of Make Believe" by Derrick Jenson, "The Republic" by Plato, "The Science of God" by Gerald Schroeder, "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neal Gaiman, "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende, "A Walk to Remember" by Nicholas Sparks, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami, "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown, "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner, "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" by Richard Gott, "The New Time Travelers" by David Toomey; "The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language" by Christine Kenneally; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, "Breakfast of Champions", "Slaughterhouse Five", "God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian", and "Slapstick" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Franny and Zoe" by J.D. Salinger, "Foundation Series" & "Robot Series" by Isaac Asimov |