Studying Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, collecting soundtracks from Japanese films, collecting cool Japanese movie posters from the 70's--that's where all my money goes!!! Hanging out and sometimes going to gigs when time allows, which isn't much these days! I'm obssessed with Japanese "Pinky Violence" movies, and love Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, and of course Meiko Kaji!
NATIVE Californians...Transplants Out! California for the Californians!
Little Runt, Swing Girls, Etsuko "Sue" Shinomi, Kunio Miyauchi, 60's and 70's Tokusatsu TV show themes (i.e. Ultraman, Spectreman, Kikaida, Kamen Rider, Go-Rangers, etc), Nasty Facts, all Blaxploitation soundtracks from the 70's, any political/propaganda music from the Cultural Revolution: songs such as "The East is Red", "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China", "The Sky Over the Liberated Areas", etc., Any songs sung by "Pinky Violence" actresses: Meiko Kaji, Reiko Ike, Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Oshida, etc., I still like punk music too!
Kozure Ookami series, Sukeban ("Female Boss") series, Nora Neko Rock series, Zero Woman, Shurayukihime ("Lady Snowblood"), Goyokiba series, "Soukatsu Rinchi" series, Zebraman, any movie with Meiko Kaji in it, Shogun Assassin, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Halloween I and III, Humanoids from the Deep, Motel Hell, The Howling, Spinal Tap, Texas Chainsaw Massacre I & II, The Mack, Sweet Sweetback's Baaaddddassssss Song, The Apple, The Shining, Zombie, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Django, Godzilla King of the Monsters, Daimajin series, Yokai Daisenso, Attack of the Mushroom People, A Better Tomorrow I & II, A Chinese Ghost Story, Bullet in the Head, The Shining, Friday the 13th (1 only), Invasion of the Saucer men, Enter the Dragon, The Chinese Connection, Desperate Living, Shaolin Soccer, Swing Girls, ...the list is thousands long.
All WWE, and Dora the Explorer!
Favorites: The Invisible Man, A Personal Matter, The Woman in the Dunes, The Trial, The Stranger, 1984, Animal Farm, The Good Earth, Anthem, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, White Noise, We, Animal Farm, On the Road, Kappa, The Wall, Cat's Cradle, Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Go Tell It On The Mountain, short stories by Lu Xun and Ding Ling, Crime and Punishment, Brave New World, Cat Country, and a couple more here and there. But I don't have any time to read anymore...sob!
Tim Yohannon, Ogami Itto, Kurt Angle. I dearly miss my buddies Chris Gambin and Rich "Lucky Dog" Gargano!