One of my first loves in life was art. Second toys.
I love drawing. I use to do painting but I haven't done that in years. I do a lot of colored pencil drawings cause its easy to pack up and go in an instant with very little clean-up. I also enjoy working with inks. I do lots of fantasy, surreal pieces to sci-fi and Transformers. I also enjoy making comics too. Now days mostly short ones due to my time or lack thereof. I hope to be able to plan my time better in the future so I can do more.
I use to collect comic books big time but I've dwindled it down to ones that really get my attention, Transformers or tradepaperbacks. I hate trying to find that next issue or wait for it. Time it gets around I forgot what happened in the last issue. Trades are great. I love TPBs. You can beat them, bend them, sit down and read them like a book. Don't have to worry about keeping them prestine condition. If a page is bent, crease in the cover, whatever, it was meant to read. So what I get for comics is very limited now days.
Toys: I have a really nice collection. I hope to get updated pictures up in the near future. My toy room has changed due to making the most of my space. My main love in toys is Transformers. I guess everything about them won out other toy lines especially playability and durability. Some figures are not durable. Sure the older TFs were not but today's. ...oh ya. Just slap that piece back on and its fixed! I have lots of lines of TFs and I'm always looking out in certain places like toy shows that one piece I don't have. How I get it makes it interesting like is it a gift from someone, where did I find it, so forth. I have a few that are presents from my husband to commerate our anniversary, Valentine's Day or whatever the occassion is. I got a few from my friends too. That is really special I think.
I also collect Spawn, Lord of the Rings, anime and other 6 inch (or about) figures. They don't compete much with TFs cause if I had to choose, TFs. But I still enjoy my figures. Warrior women, monsters, vampires or very handsome men. . .yes among my fave on that section is Ian Nottingham for being shirtless and Sephroth of Final Fantasy for being tall and handsome as well as that really long sword.
I would love to met Michael Bell again. Met him in 2001 at BotCon. Funny and nice guy but then so are all the voice actors I've met at BotCon/OTFCC.
I would also like to met some of my friends here on Myspace as well as met up with other friends who live in others states.
I like soft, medium and hard rock music. Hate country. I'll tolerate it for so long for my coworkers at work but that is it. I also enjoy soundtracks. My favorites are Resident Evil and Underworld. I love the instrumental music Marilyn Manson has on the Resident Evil soundtrack. Lately I've been enjoying Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie's Hellbilly. There is one group that I do have all (or at least most) of their CDs is Midnight Syndicate. If you have never heard of it don't worry, they seem to be a "small press" band but I really like their music. Its horror/macrabe instrumental with an occassional touch of rock thrown in. The best I can describe it.
A short list of bands I have been listening to lately: Marilyn Manson, HIM, Gorillaz, Midnight Syndicate, Nox Arcana.
Like everyone else I have a list! I'll try and keep it a little short. All Aliens movies, Hellraiser series, Lord of the Rings movie series, Austin Powers series, The Thing (1982), Jaws, Nightmare Before Christmas, Scary Movie series, Wrongfully Accused, Robin Hood both Men In Tights and Prince of Thieves. I have more but I figure this is a good start. I enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, comedies and spoof movies most of all.
I love cartoons especially Transformers, Voltron, Sealab 2021 and anime. I also enjoy CSI Miami and Murder She Wrote. I have all of it on DVD and watched it several times. And yes I know: Jessica Fletcher shouldn't be allowed anywhere due to someone always turning up dead. I'll probably come back here and edit this later.
Lately for books: manga and comics. Just haven't had much time for anything longer feels like. I've been reading yaoi manga and Transformers comics.