cooking Japanese food, fermented food/pickling, studying language (Japanese and English in particular), reading, studying graphic design, building gundam models, toy collecting, scavenging(dumpster diving/antiquing/yard sales), mushroom hunting, road trips, walking around the city, going to "weird" grocery stores, stickertagging, gaming (tabletop, DS, SNES, boardgames), trying new restaurants, bowling, karaoke, mixology, cyberpunk, steampunk, cthulhu mythos, hard science fiction, sperm whales, Rube Goldberg devices, thunderstorms, rain, overcast skies, snow, fog, wind, bonfires, decora/fruits/egl, Japanese culture, small farms, communal families, education, mass transit, capitalism, Libertarianism, Objectivism, Christmas, locomotives, memetics
Herman Melville, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clark, Isaac Asiimov, William Gibson, H.P. Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, R.A. Salvatore, Ernest Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkein
Bladerunner, Aliens, The Matrix, The Big Lebowski, Resovoir Dogs, Tampopo, Big Trouble In Little China, Repo Man, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Ghost In The Shell, Back To The Future, Ghostbusters, Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, City Of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Moulin Rouge, The Land Before Time
M.A.S.H., Azumanga Dioah, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Firefly, The Prisoner
Music that I like a lot: hip hop, classic country, jazz, new wave, heavy / death / thrash / black / classic / fantasy metal, industrial, some emo, noise/expiremental, idm, drum/drill 'n bass, jungle/dub, breakbeat, Tom Waits, Elton John, Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Squarepusher, bossanova, exotica, lounge, spy jazz, j-pop, Mike Patton, carnival/circus/Wurlitzer music, enka, American Folk/hillbilly, disco, funk, opera, polkas, classical (Philip Glass, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Pachelbel, lots of others)
Music that I am generally uninterested in (But I'll give it a chance): girl w/guitar/piano, riot grrl, most girl-fronted bands, house, prog-rock, zydeco, The Beatles, U2, Radiohead, most 'drug'-themed music, most punk, most nu-metal, hardcore, pop country, new age, slam poetry, Big Band, most emo, showtunes
Music I do not like: most reggae, ska, hate music, anything by the Big Bopper, doo-wop, fusion, Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell