My Favorite Things

I’m not really in the mood to compose anything elaborate, coz, bloody hell, that can be sooo tedious, and I’m trying to let some topics (nothing overly serious, though) marinate for a while.

Instead, I’m gonna state a few of my favorite things. And why is that important? A) So you can know my tastes on various things. B) So you can see what I’m interested at. And C) so you can know where I’m coming from whenever I praise or criticize.

So without further delay, my favorite…

Colors: blue, yellow and green (but not together!)

Music genres: jazz, of course

Musical instruments: piano, saxophone, and trumpet

Writers: Alan Moore, Cole Porter, Truman Capote, Toni Morrison, Philip K Dick, and F Scott Fitzgerald

Musicians: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Stevie Wonder, Thelonious Monk, Gil Scott Heron, The Beatles, and Erykah Badu

Movies: (too many to mention, but on top of my head) A Clockwork Orange, Sin City, Raise the Red Lantern, Dark City, Gattaca, Grave of the Fireflies, Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Heaven, and Hotel Rwanda

Animes: Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Hajime no Ippo, Fullmetal Alchemist and Hikaru no Go

Mangas: Slam Dunk, Ruruoni Kenshin, and GTO

Comics: Batman Year One, Batman The Killing Joke, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Batman The Long Holloween, Gotham Central, Fables, Y The Last Man, and 100 Bullets

Books: In Cold Blood, Black Boy, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Catcher in the Rye, Fight Club, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse Five, A Scanner Darkly, Sci Fi Hall of Fame Volume 2A, Battle Royale, and Fahrenheit 451

Videogames (in terms of gaming mechanics alone): The Lost Vikings, Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario Brothers World, Sly Cooper 3: Honor Among Thieves, Hitman: Blood Money, Monkey Island 2, Fire Emblem, and Uncharted Waters

Videogames (in terms of story): Final Fantasy VI, Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden II, Final Fantasy X, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Final Fantasy Tactics (despite the horrible translation), Metal Gear Solid 3, Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis, Grandia, Chrono Trigger, and Persona 3

Fighting videogames: Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, King of Fighters 2003, Guilty Gear XX, Soul Calibur 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Samurai Shodown 4, The Last Blade 2, and Killer Instinct 

Illustrators: Yoshitaka Amano, Jo Chen, Michael Lark, Eduardo Risso, and Chris Bachalo

This can go on and on, but I’m stopping now.