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Comic Books, Movies, Plays...STORIES
Yoga, Capoeira, Kendo, Kickboxing...martial arts...anything that'll break a sweat! =)
Japan, Australia, Italy, San Francisco...TRAVEL
SUSHI, Bibimbop, Dim Sum, my Mom's chili and beer bread, fish tacos, frozen yogurt, peanut butter...Guilty Pleasures: french fries, chips (I'll take any kind you've got!), popcorn, hot fudge sundaes, mochi ice cream, cookie dough, and chocolate covered strawberries!! ... FOOD! MMMMMMMM!!! =P
TokiDoki, Bebe Sport, HardTail, Lululemon, Happy 6, JodiBWise...and Cole Haan shoes (bit of an obsession)!!...SHOPPING
I'd like to meet:
Rickson Gracie, Hans Zimmer, Yann Tiersen, Trevor Jones, Danny Elfman, Guillermo Del Toro, Baz Luhrmann, Ed Zwick, Tim Burton, Paulo Coelho, Don Miguel Ruiz, Stan Lee, YoYo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Kate Moss, Bjork, Gwen Stefani, Neil Gaiman, Billy Tan, Ken Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jason Scott Lee, Peter Berg, Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Sandra Oh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Marisa Tomei, Rachel McAdams, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Garner, Anthony Hopkins...hhhmmmm....these are the first to come to mind...
Music:
MOSTLY SOUNDTRACKS...The Last Samurai, Hellboy, Gladiator, Good-bye Lenin, Amelie, Edward Scissorhands, Rudy, The Last of the Mohicans, Pan's Labyrinth, The Hours, just to name a few...
Also...Regina Spektor, Gwen Stefani, Amy Winehouse, Bjork, Radiohead, Tom Yorke, David Cook, India.Arie, Miho Hatori, No Doubt, Coldplay, ES Posthumus, Frou Frou, Garbage, Lion of Panjshir, MIA, Norah Jones, old-school Jewel, The Toadies, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, Enya, Eminem, The Beatles, Blackalicious, The Pixies, Nat King Cole, Kings of Convenience, Portishead, Sia, Looner, Oblio
Movies:
TOP 4:
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - no explanation needed
THE LAST SAMURAI
(and for anybody who hasn't given this film a chance just because you can't get over Tom Cruise, get over YOURSELF!! And let this powerfully breathtaking story transport you to a space in our humanity that is truly worth living and dying for)
TRUE ROMANCE
(the most romantic movie ever...it's so cool.)
RUDY
(I'm a sucker for sports movies, but seriously, this one turns me into a sobbing mess every single time!)
LEON
Other FAVES:
Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Amelie
Akeelah and the Bee
Beautiful Girls
Beetlejuice
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Bewitched
Black Snake Moan (Go, Christina!!)
Bladerunner
Blue Crush
Bonnie and Clyde
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bruce Lee Story
CHOKE (..ary about Rickson Gracie...aaaahhhhhh!)
Cinderella Man
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Hard
Don Juan de Marco
Edward Scissorhands
Elf
Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Enter the Dragon
The Family Stone
Father of the Bride (Steve Martin)
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Frankie and Johnny
Gattaca
Gladiator
Great Expectations
Happy Accidents
Heat
The Hours
I Heart Huckabees
Imagine Me and You
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Interpreter
Invincible
The Italian Job
Jerry Maguire
Karate Kid II (I love Mr. Miyagi, I can't help it!!)
Kicking and Screaming
Ladyhawke
The Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Malena
Malice
Man on Fire
Meet Joe Black
Moulin Rouge
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Notting Hill
One True Thing
Only You
Pan's Labyrinth
The Paper
Peter Pan
Ponette
The Princess Bride
Quills
Rebel Without A Cause
Romeo and Juliet
Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn)
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet)
Shall We Dance
Splendor in the Grass
Thirteen Going on Thirty
Thunderheart
To Die For
12 Monkeys
Twilight Samurai
Unbreakable
Unfaithful
V for Vendetta
Waking Life
The Warrior
Wedding Crashers
The Wedding Singer
When Harry Met Sally
Willow
Television:
Friday Night Lights, Dexter, ROME, Project Runway, Crocodile Hunter, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Medium, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes (well, Masi Oka at least)...Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah...History Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet...Alias (Seasons 1, 2), Ally McBeal (the ones with Lucy Liu), Friends (yah, yah, I know, SO original), Wonder Years (so sweet!)
Books:
COMICS:
Alias
Angry Little Asian Girl
Batman: Year One
Batman: Dark Knight Returns
Battle Angel Alita
The Cobbler's Monster
Courtney Crumrin
DareDevil: Vision Quest
Hazed
Hellboy (the hottest man in comics...in more ways than one!)
Grounded
Kabuki
Fade From Grace
Fortune and Glory
Grounded
NYX/X23
Persepolis
Powers
Pride of Baghdad
Red Warrior
Roninhood
Runaways
The Sandman
Scarab
Sin City
Strangers in Paradise
Teenagers From Mars
Ultra
X-23
Y: The Last Man
OTHER:
MAXIM (not a book I know) ,
The ALCHEMIST, The BOOK of FIVE RINGS, CAPTIVATING, CODE of the SAMURAI: BUSHIDO, The FOUR AGREEMENTS, GEISHA a LIFE, KICKBOXING GEISHAS, LETTERS to a YOUNG POET, The LITTLE ENGINE that COULD, The MANY LIVES and SECRET SORROWS of JOSPHINE BONAPARTE, The MASTERY of LOVE, The MELANCHOLY DEATH of OYSTER BOY, I feel like I shouldn’t due to cultural responsibility, but in truth I am still deeply in love with the story of MEMOIRS of a GEISHA (or perhaps my heart’s attachment is to The Chairman and to my father’s heritage), PETER PAN, SHIBUMI, The WAR of ART, WARRIOR of the LIGHT, WHEN GOD WINKS, WILD at HEART… TRAVEL BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS…and I must admit, I do like to read about astrology for fun from time to time!!
PLAYS:
AMADEUS, The CHILDREN'S HOUR, DRACULA, The ELEPHANT MAN, FRANKIE and JOHNNY in the CLAIRE de LUNE, HAMLET, Les LIAISONS DANGEREUSES, A LIE of the MIND, LIFE and LIMB, The MIRACLE WORKER, Les MISERABLES, PRELUDE to a KISS, PROOF, ROMEO and JULIET, The SEAGULL, The SHAPE of THINGS, SORROWS of STEPHEN, SPLENDOR in the GRASS, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, SUMMER and SMOKE
Heroes:
My Papa-san!!
David Mack-alicious
My Mom,
Claire
Joan of Arc, Josephine Bonaparte
Bruce Lee, Rickson Gracie
Steve Irwin
Catwoman, X-23, Alita, Scarab, Tinkerbell, Echo, Miho, Grace, Death, Batman, Wolverine, Han Solo, Madmartigan, and my all time favorite fictional hero who I wish wish wish was real...Yoda =)
Meryl Streep, Marisa Tomei, Sandra Oh, Connie Britton, Audrey Hepburn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel McAdams, Kate Winslet, Natalie Wood, Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler, Michelle Rodriguez, Lucy Liu (in Ally McBeal and Lucky # Slevin), Angelina Jolie (in Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Christina Ricci (in Black Snake Moan), Jennifer Garner (in pretty much anything she does)...Pat Morita, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Peter Berg, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Jeff Bridges, Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Paul Newman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ken Watanabe (in The Last Samurai)...Ed Zwick, Guillermo Del Toro, Baz Luhrmann
