Passions


Ah, the obligatory favorites list.  What's a personal site without it?  ^_^  Yes, yes, I am a sheep.  I know.  So, here are a few of my favorite things, in no particular order.

 

Favorite Colors - Purple, Blue, Green

Favorite Wild Animal - Fox, wolf, various big cats

Favorite Domestic Animal - Cat, horse

Favorite Mythical Animal - Dragon, unicorn

Favorite Musical Genres - Classic rock.  Mostly 80s, though I also love 60s-70s rock.  Also, I love foreign music.  Mostly stuff in languages I have an interest in, such as Spanish or Japanese.  Hence, I love anime/JPOP music.  To a lesser extent, I also like some 40s-50s music; mostly swing and other similar fast music.  As a rule, I prefer faster paced, upbeat music to slower, pretty music.

Favorite (English) Singer/Group - The Beatles/Their solos/Wings, Pat Benatar, Madonna, Huey Lewis & The News, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Frank Sinatra, Moody Blues, and many more!

Favorite (English) Song - I have way too many to list.  I adore music, so I really wouldn't know where to start!  Basically, songs by my favorite artists and songs in my favorite genres.

Favorite Movies - Both "Star Wars" trilogies (though I like the original trilogy best), "Dragon Heart", "Short Circuit", "The Last Unicorn", "Memoirs of a Geisha", the "Harry Potter" movies, and many more!

Favorite TV Shows - NYPD Blue, M*A*S*H, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed, Grey's Anatomy, Will & Grace, Star Trek DS9, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Voyager, The Sentinel, Mythbusters, House M.D., Boston Legal, Heroes, Firefly, Bones, Good Eats, Dinner: Impossible, Ace of Cakes, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Supernatural, Hell's Kitchen

Favorite Literary Genres - Fantasy is my favorite, hands down.  I typically prefer the medieval, swords-and-sorcery type of fantasy.  Although, I'm really coming to love urban fantasy too, these days.  I will also occasionally read regular fiction or sci-fi.

Favorite Books - Way too many to list here.  Check out my bookshelf for a list!

Favorite Video Games - Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts 2, Xenogears, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, StarFox64, various incarnations of Dance Dance Revolution, Okami

Favorite Sports (To Watch) - Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing, steeplechasing, show jumping, cross-country (equitation), dressage

Favorite Sports (To Play) - English-style horseback riding, dressage

Favorite Anime/Manga Genres - I usually prefer shounen/action titles, though I do like a few shoujo titles.  Along with the shoujo, I'm quite fond of yaoi/yuri titles, as I'm a romantic sap.  ^_^

Favorite Anime - Fullmetal Alchemist, Yuugiou, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin, Slayers, DragonBall, Gundam Wing, Saiyuki, Gravitation, Yami no Matsuei, Inu-Yasha, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Weiß Kreuz, Generator Gawl, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Bubblegum Crisis, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Kodomo no Omocha, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Naruto, Vision of Escaflowne, Magic Knight Rayearth, and more.

Favorite Manga - Bleach, Yami no Matsuei, FAKE, Flame of Rekka, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gravitation, Kodocha, Mars, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Rurouni Kenshin, Saiyuki, Slayers, Yuugiou, Naruto, Death Note, Magic Knight Rayearth

Dubbed or Subbed? - Typically subbed.  I'm kind of a purist...I prefer that the subs leave certain things alone (i.e. I want to see Kenshin's attack subbed as "Ryu Tsui Sen" instead of "Dragon's Hammer Flash")  Also, I'm trying to learn Japanese, so watching it subbed helps.  If I can find a really good dub (like the dub of Slayers or Trigun), then I'm more than happy to watch it.  I always buy dual language DVDs anyway, so I get both versions.

Favorite Manga Artists - Tite Kubo, Yoko Matsushita, Sanami Matoh, Nobuyuki Anzai, Hiromu Arakawa, Maki Murakami, Miho Obana, Fuyumi Soryo, Chiho Saito, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Kazuya Minekura, Kazuki Takahashi, Naoko Takeuchi, CLAMP

Favorite Female Japanese VA - Megumi Hayashibara, Mayo Suzukaze, Rika Matsumoto, Paku Romi, Megumi Ogata, Nana Mizuki

Favorite Male Japanese VA - Hikaru Midorikawa, Toru Ohkawa, Takahashi Hiroki, Tsuda Kenjirou

Favorite Female English VA - Lisa Ortiz

Favorite Male English VA - Crispin Freeman

Favorite Anime/JPOP Artist - Megumi Hayashibara, Hikaru Midorikawa, Two-Mix, Masami Okui, Kageyama Hironobu, Porno Graffiti, Yuki Kimura, and many more.

Favorite Anime/JPOP Song - I have way too many to list here.  Songs by my favorite artists or from my favorite series, usually.

Favorite 'Ships (In fanfic, etc) - Oh, lord.  WAY too many to list here.  But, you can check out Glaring Dream for a list of some of my favorite pairings.

Favorite Snacks - Chocolate, cheddar/pizza flavored Goldfish crackers, Wintergreen flavored LifeSavers, Jolly Rancher jelly beans, popcorn (butter or white cheddar are my favorites)

Favorite Foods - Pasta, chicken (white meat), pizza, garlic bread, cheese, and more.

Favorite Drinks - Dr. Pepper, Coke w/Lime, Cherry Coke, iced tea (sweetened), green tea (sweetened, hot or cold), French Vanilla tea (sweetened, hot, with milk), hot chocolate, raspberry tea (sweetened, cold), chocolate shake, peach tea (sweetened)

Favorite Starbucks Drinks - White chocolate mocha (hot or iced), toffee nut latte (hot), cinnamon dolce latte (hot), hazelnut mocha (hot), toasted marshmallow mocha (hot), breve caramel latte with extra caramel and cinnamon dolce sprinkles (hot), caramel macchiato (iced), shaken green tea (iced), shaken Passion tea (iced), shaken Passion tea lemonade (iced)

 

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