Name:

Mani

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United States

Occupation:

former artist (I sometimes say that)

Hobbies:

Films, videos, editing, music, guitar, piano, art-, anime, building things, modifying-, science-, 'challenging the corners', Sword collecting (European): Hand-and-a Half; Warswords Type XIIa, XIIIa; and that cool sword type classified as the XVa. Um, plays WoW.

Movies:

John Woo's Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and all those movies that came later influenced by John Woo, which is to say all movies with guns thereafter, Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Some Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Liu Chia Liang, and Bruce Lee, David Lynch, Some favorite anime: Initial D, Naruto, Mahoromatic, Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Full Metal Panic, Agent Aika, The Family Guy Musicals: Singing In The Rain, Oklahoma!, several (mostly all) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films, the German film BANDITS, Some random titles: Joe vs the Volcano, Zathura, Mad Max II: The Road Warrior, Hombre, The Core (lol), Sunshine, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Blue Velvet, Flesh + Blood, Altered States, The Matrix, Who Killed The Electric Car?, Charlie's Angels, The Thing from Another World, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The original Solaris, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter.

Music:

Currently listening to music from the 40s. Varied tastes. Classic Rock: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin. Classic Chick Folk-Rock: Joni Mitchell. Not-so-New Chick Rock: Heather Nova, Sarah MacLachlan, Paula Cole. Going a ways back: Janis Joplin. Going further back: Matt Monro. New favorite music - Anime themes from: Mahoromatic, Full Metal Panic, Initial D, Naruto, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue.

Books:

Old: stuff by E.E. Doc Smith other than the Lensman series which I never read. Some Heinlein. That book MACROSCOPE by some guy. I did like The Lord of the Rings once upon a time. Let's not forget Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.