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Rini

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About Me

Likes: People who remember random facts she's mentioned and allude to them unexpectedly, devouring sushi and sashimi, ahi tuna tartare, eating Korean style seasoned seaweed at inappropriate times, driving down Geary while the lights are green, driving down 101 at midnight, corny video game dialogue, sniping, dominating your face, hookah, hard alcohol, the song "El Scorcho," the song "Everlong," unpretentious English majors, piyopiyos, Joey.
Dislikes: Opening presents in front of people, distractions while concentrating on video games, greasy fingerprints, people who try to look "sexy" by not smiling in their Facebook/Myspace pictures, the sound of utensils scratching plates (and each other), being near loud buses/cars/motorcycles, driving near bicyclists, being patronized, people who talk too much in an attempt to sound intelligent, hypocrites, people who speak condescendingly, poor grammar, crappy resumes, girls who wear too much makeup, every guy's obsession with Jessica Alba (or Jessica Biel), boobs, Dan Brown.
By the way, my coolometer reading dangerously exceeds 50 megafonzies. My marketing efforts will dominate your face.

My Interests

Baseball, Bender, Biohazard, boba, Brad Pitt, Bruce Campbell, Captain Planet, Castlevania, Chiaki Kuriyama, crazy movies, Dave Grohl, Devil May Cry, devouring sushi and sashimi, drawing, driving down 101 at midnight, driving down Geary while the lights are green, eating Korean style seasoned seaweed at inappropriate times, Edgar Wright, Edward Norton, Eric Chavez, Eric Gagne, Final Fantasy, first-person shooters, Gamecube, Gears of War, girl talk, God of War, Guitar Hero, Halo, hookah, Jason Bateman, Katamari Damacy, Kururin Squash, Legend of Zelda, making fun of Kierkegaard and Sartre, Metal Gear Solid, Michael Cera, Miguel Tejada, Mike Sweeney, movie-watching, Nintendo, Oakland Athletics, pandas, Penny Arcade, piyopiyos, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, PS2, PS3, Portia de Rossi, reading, Resident Evil, Rivers Cuomo, Robert Downey Jr., Rock Band, Shadow of the Colossus, Simon Pegg, Soul Calibur, Stephen Chow, Steve Nash, Super Smash Bros. Melee, sashimi, survival horror, sushi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thai iced coffee, Thai iced tea, third-person shooters, Tony Leung, VIDEO GAMES, weird movies, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, ETC.

I'd like to meet:

Good people. I don't really use or like Myspace very much, so find me on Facebook instead. :)

Music:

Beck, The White Stripes, Sublime, Radiohead, Muse, Weezer, Foo Fighters, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Gorillaz, Blur, Bjork, The Pixies, The Pillows, Ozma, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Cake, Smashing Pumpkins, The Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, They Might Be Giants, Bloc Party, Badly Drawn Boy, Wilco, Dinosaur Jr., Tsunami Bomb, The Postal Service, Ratatat, The Velvet Teen, Interpol, Thievery Corporation, Jurassic 5, Seu Jorge, Rip Slyme, Dog Panic

Movies:

Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Oldboy, Kamikaze Girls, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Pan's Labyrinth, Punch-Drunk Love, Amelie, The Science of Sleep, Run Lola Run, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Chungking Express, Three... Extremes, Battle Royale, Waterboys (not to be confused with 'The Waterboy'), Being John Malkovich, Suspiria, Deep Red, Opera, Three Colors: White, Three Colors: Red, Iron Man, Sin City, Memento, Seven, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 12 Monkeys, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Army of Darkness, Dogma, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Aladdin, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, Love Actually, The Mexican, The Wedding Singer, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, the Indiana Jones Trilogy, the Back to the Future Trilogy, etc. Also, anything directed by Dario Argento, David Fincher, Michel Gondry, Park Chan-Wook, Wong Kar-Wai, Miike Takashi, or Krzysztof Kieslowski, OR written/directed by Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg.

Television:

Arrested Development, Futurama, South Park, Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Sportscenter, Pardon the Interruption, Baseball Tonight, Iron Chef, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Dragonball Z

Books:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, 1984, A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance, The Tao of Pooh, and probably anything else by Chuck Palahniuk or Haruki Murakami. And yes, it's cliché, but poems by Charles Bukowski.

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell.

My Blog

(05/04/2008) IRON MAN

I watched Iron Man tonight, and it was fucking awesome.Robert Downey Jr. was fantastic as Tony Stark. GOD, I seriously can't get over how good he was.I'll probably be seeing this again sometime in th...
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:13:00 PST

(04/14/2008) ://URLFAN, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Broly, and Ankeeto

Today, I did a Google search on "rinichanraar" and found one of my Livejournal entries on this website, ://URLFAN. I don't know how it got there, but I do know this: I really, really like that, on the...
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:39:00 PST

(04/13/2008) Question:

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:37:00 PST

(03/27/2008) JOURNEY, Heart, and Cheap Trick!

OH GOD OH GOD JOURNEY is starting its US tour in July!They have six dates in California:Tue 7/15 San Diego, CA Coors AmphitheatreWed 7/16 Irvine, CA Verizon AmphitheatreWed 9/24 Concord, CA Sleep Trai...
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:35:00 PST

(03/27/2008) Stuff White People Like

The Stuff White People Like blog got really popular about a month and a half ago in mid-February. I had read some of them around that time (64 Recycling, 69 Mos Def, and 71 Being the Only White Person...
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:34:00 PST

(03/24/2008) Spring Break?

Smash is fun. Hangovers are not. The Pillows were amazing. Noodles was also good. Brie sandwiches are excellent. Los Angeles was enjoyable. Dean Cain as a zombie is ridiculous.
Posted by Rini on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:32:00 PST

(03/13/2008) The Pillows, Noodles, and All Ages

On St. Patrick’s Day, the Pillows will be playing at Slim’s with Noodles and All Ages. I’m really excited about The Pillows and Noodles, but I don’t know how I feel about that ...
Posted by Rini on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:18:00 PST

(03/11/2008) Cranberry Apple Raspberry

I bought a Minute Maid from one of the vending machines in Malloy Hall, and when it came out, it was warm.For the past two weeks, every time I went to the machine, everything was sold out.  I gue...
Posted by Rini on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:57:00 PST

(03/09/2008) The past few weeks...

... have been pretty standard.And by "pretty standard," I mean "somewhat fun, I guess."In February, for our two-year anniversary, Joey and I went to a Peruvian restaurant called Fresca.  I'd give...
Posted by Rini on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:36:00 PST

(02/26/2008) Fucking Ben Affleck

I'm assuming most people who frequent YouTube have seen this by now, but for anyone who hasn't watched this awesome video yet, I suggest you do it RIGHT NOW. If it comes off as slow at first, at least...
Posted by Rini on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:16:00 PST