ravings

"Anime's like crack, only more expensive."
-- someone

So I like anime. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Speed Racer, Gigantor, and the ilk which actually built the foundation of Japanese animation, but I do like most of the stuff starting with Ranma 1/2 and moving forward.

My anime top ten (1/2002):

1. Love Hina
2. Trigun
3. Perfect Blue
4. Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
5. Cowboy Bebop
6. Slayers
7. Initial D
8. Macross (Plus and 7)
9. Magic-Users Club
   (a.k.a. Mahou Tsukai Tai)
10. Serial Experiments Lain

"The Internet? What the ____ is the Internet?!"
-- Jay, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

Uh... well, I had to do some section on the Internet, didn't I?

Favorite webcomics:

1. Megatokyo
2. Ozy and Millie
3. Exploitation Now
4. Sinfest
5. Red Meat
6. Penny Arcade
7. Kung Fool!
8. 8-Bit Theatre
9. Diesel Sweeties
10. Angst Technology

Favorite non-comic websites:

1. NodeRunner - our host!
2. LiveJournal
3. Webmonkey
4. Slashdot
5. perlmonks
6. Hotmail
7. kuro5hin

"I don't want the world. I just want your half."
-- Ana Ng, They Might Be Giants)

I like a whole lotta music. I was reared on classic rock, I can stand some country-western and rap (but prefer not to), and surprisingly enough, I like 80s pop and its J-pop derivatives. Hate me later.

The list. can't even begin to order this, since it really depends on my mood, so let's go with alphabetical:

• AC/DC
• Aerosmith
• Alien Ant Farm
• Beastie Boys
• Fire Bomber
• Green Day
• Korn
• L'Arc~en~Ciel
• Linkin Park
• MAX
• Move
• Offspring
• Super Eurobeat
• Roxette
• They Might Be Giants
• Two-Mix
• Vink / Megumi Hayashibara

"We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this!!"
-- Rob Schneider's character, Demolition Man

Movies: the one true twentieth-century artform. I don't think the Internet has reached the level of 'art' yet, though it's getting there, in which case it'll be the twenty-first-century artform.

The list:

1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Demolition Man
4. The Matrix
5. Perfect Blue
6. The New Jersey Chronicles
   (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
7. Back to the Future (I-III)
8. Army of Darkness
9. Brotherhood of the Wolf
10. Ghostbusters (1 and 2)

"Powaaaa up!"
-- Marion, Gunbird

As I mentioned before, I like video games. Just for the record, I'm not a social malcontent just because I like fighting games. It's all in the game, and I have strong aversion to kicking people's asses in real life, regardless of how much some people need their asses kicked.

Some of these titles I will always love, even if I don't play them much any more - I've marked these with an *. That said... my current top ten list (10/2001):

1. Street Fighter Alpha 3*
2. Capcom vs SNK 2
3. Rival Schools / Project Justice
4. Street Fighter III: Third Strike
5. Dead or Alive 2
6. King of Fighters (96-98, mainly)
7. Dance Dance Revolution
8. Gyruss *
9. Spy Hunter *
10. Martial Champions

"Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."
-- Lenina Huxley, Demolition Man

I don't really have any idea what I was originally intending to put here. For now it's restaurants. Next week it may be something different, I dunno.

1. Matsushima (Edgewater, NJ)
2. GoodFellas (Garfield, NJ)
3. Bear Rock Cafe
4. Chili's
5. Bennigan's
6. Arby's
7. Chick Fil-A
8. Burger King
9. MosBurger (Japan)
10. McDonald's
11. Subway
12. Papa John's Pizza