Hey yo, I'm Matt, or FALLEN101 if you prefer, and I'm 16 years old as well as a host on the ani-dictators podcast. I'm a relatively hardcore anime fan, for about 6 years now, who likes any show which is vaguely fucked up (examples being Neon Genesis and Elfen Lied)
I pretty much hate every anime shown on cartoon network, especially Naruto nad Bleach(and the Narutards and Bleachtards they spawn like rabbits), except for Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, and IGPX. Also, I like shorter series, anything too much over fifty episodes and I just give up. I mean seriously, if a studio can't say everything it needs to say in less than fifty episodes then it ought to find an easier plot to base a series on. ...Sorry, kind of went on a tangent there ... I'll stop now.
Anyway, if you're ever bored and want to hear some relatively random reviews on anime plus get a few laughs along the way check out my podcast called the Ani-Dictators. You won't be disappointed.
...Hopefully.
Also, I am now in a pretty kickass band. We have yet to fully complete a song yet or make a myspace or something but most of the members have a great deal of musical talent (me having the least...sigh). I'm the keyboardist and the main lyricist for it. When we get going I'll post our site and other information somewhere around here.
Quote of the month:
"I don't believe that anyone can ever truly understand themselves, much less anyone else so why do we even try? It's rather pointless don't you think? Tell me, how well do you know your, what do you call them again, 'friends'?"
-Allegro (Do You Love Me?)
Here's a list of some of my favorite things, besides anime of course.
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BOOKS
-House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
-On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
-Rant by Chuck Pahlaniuk
-Others by James Herbert
-Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk
-Haunted by Chuck Pahlaniuk
-Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
-Abarat by Clive Barker
-Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
-A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky
-The Book of Lost Things by John Connely
-Magic the Gathering: Onslaught Saga by J. Robert King
-Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
-World War Z by Max Brooks
-Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
-Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
-Shadows In the Asylum by D.A. Wilson
-The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
MOVIES
-V for Vendetta
-The Creature From the Black Lagoon
-Blue Velvet
-Edward Scissorhands
-Night of the Living Dead (series)
-28 Weeks Later
-My Name is Nobody
-The Crow
-The Faculty
-Once Upon a Time in Mexico
-Across the Universe
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Dune: the mini-series
-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
-Dogma
-Blue Velvet
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
-Rollerball
-Eraserhead
-Across the Univers
-Bickman Schmeckler's Cool Ideas
-Sex and the Teenage Mind
-Sin City
-Donnie Darko
-Fargo
-Not Another Teen Movie
-Fight Club
-Children of Men
-Dr. Strangelove
-The Mouse That Roared
-Blade Runner
-Re-Animator
-The Nightmare Before Christmas
-From Beyond
-And anything starring Vincent Price
GRAPHIC NOVELS
-The Watchmen
-The Dark Knight Returns
-Sin City (Entire Series)
-Black Hole
-Invisable People
-Sandman (Entire Series)
-Steampunk
-Illegal Alien
-Persepolis
-Tales of the Jedi (Entire Series)
BANDS
-Say Anything
-Switches
-Flipsyde
-Brand New
-Something Corporate
-+44
-Armor For Sleep
-Autopilot Off
-Taking Back Sunday
-New Found Glory
-Rise Against
-Boy Hits Car
-Fuel
-Trapt
-Paradise Lost
-P.O.D.
SONGS
-Admit It!!! by Say Anything
-The Need to be Needed by Switches
-The Truth About Heaven by Armor for Sleep
-99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
-Boys of the Summer by The Ataris
-Liar (It Takes One to Know One) by Taking Back Sunday
-No, It Isn't by +44
-Seventy Times Seven by Brand New
-I Woke Up In A Car by Something Corporate
-Alive With the Glory of Love by Say Anything
-Lying is the Best Thing A Girl Can Do Without Taking Her Clothes Off by Panic! at the Disco
-Killing Lights by AFI
-Love Me Dead by Ludo
-Hey, Carrot Juice by Highway Girl
TV SHOWS
-House MD
-Total Drama Island
-House MD
-Psych
-House MD
-Fringe
-House MD
-The Twilight Zone (Original)
-The Outer Limits (Original)
-Fringe
-X-Files
-House MD
-Did I mention House?
VIDEO GAMES
-Dead to Rights
-Max Payne
-Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner
-Dead Rising
-Red Dead Revolver
-Tekken 4
-Resident Evil 4 (And series)
-Powerstone 1 & 2
-Guilty Gear
-Final Fantasy VII
-Jet Set Radio
-ICO
-Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
-Zombies Ate My Neighbors
-Twisted Metal: Black
-Kung Fu Chaos
-Gauntlet: Legends
Oh, and by the way, I'm a huge fan of cult movies, if you can't tell by my movie favorites list. Anyway, if you know some good cult movies or some good movies that just kind of slipped under the radar tell me about them. I would be very thankful.
My friend had it up and I was all ZOMG TIS FALLEN MUST STEAL!
I'm very happy you enjoyed it (knew of would, duh xP) and I shall soon get to replying to our normal conversation thingy. Sadly, I am sick and have homework to do, or I would have done so sooner. TT_TT
Amazon/Ebay are just cheaper, so that's why I use them. Yes, I /do/ care about that 3 dollar difference. <<>> DON'T JUDGE ME. And I buy enough monthlies from them it honestly doesn't matter. xDD
Buffy had disturbing moments-mainly they were just Dru rambling, but she said some freaky stuff. If they had an entire season revolving around /her/ that would be interesting. Angel there were more 'adult themes' which I suppose allowed for darker concepts as well...I just got bored after awhile, to be frank. Once they got Fred and Connor, I was like ALRIGHT GIMME SPIKE NOW KTHX and waited and waited and was going to DIE and then Spike appeared. =D
I don't watch much on cable...my dad does, so I'll watch stuff with him (House, NCIS, CSI, Private Practice [SHUT UP I LOVE THAT REDHEAD xP]) or movies. I used to watch Smallville, but just recently I forgot to record them so I just watch 'em online, even though it has gotten really terrible. I mean, they wrote out Lex Luthor, for pete's sake. C'mon. Aaand I'll watch movies-I just recorded Fight Club and watched it for the first time today. SO EPIC. I'm totally in love with it. -can't wait for blu-ray-
I try to go for short manga, but I usually end up failing. TT_TT Like xxxholic/tsubasa. I've got a bunch of already finished manga I love, but the ongoing series tend to be longer, when I pick them out at least. And, of course, attempting to keep up with the DCU is just hopeless on so many levels as well. -dies-
Haha, Magic the Gathering. -rofl- I dunno, I just always find that funny. I'll definitely google it, though, and see if anyone notices. I sure as hell didn't. ~
The ones in Trade paper Back form should be availible through Amazon, and the comics on Ebay. That's where I go when I miss an issue and they're all gone at my LCS. :/
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The thing was with Buffy was that it hit its peak, then they were all JOSS WHEDON WE WANT ANOTHER THREE SEASONS SO CHYEEAH. So he had to just kinda figure some stuff out, but I /really/ hated Dawn and still do. I liked Angel when Spike came in, but it got kinda slow-especially with the whole Cordy preggers thing and then killing her off. That made me sad, but that character growth on her was SO AMAZING and brilliantly done. But Dark Willow was epic in Buffy and I got excited everytime they brought just Willow into Angel. xP
Figured there was more in the manga. There's always more in the manga. Might go read it, but I'm rather lazy, even with the series I keep up with-mainly 'cause my energy goes to western comics. =D
YOU HAVEN'T READ CRISIS?
Well, neither have I.
/Final/ Crisis, that is.
Because after they did Inifinite Crisis, they needed to do another one, which they call "Final Crisis". I'm really behind on all the crossover stuff-I just stick to the individual series, and just kinda go "Oh. Okay. So for some reason Superboy's dead now...? I'll roll with that."
OMG there are some series you MUST read. I will list them below. (And yes, Vertigo is awesome. You must read the Lucifer series, if you haven't already. It's /wicked/.)
1) The Outsiders -Judd Winick (It's after the Death of Donna Troy, and Nightwing leads the team. It's totally badass. I just continue with the TPBs)
2) Terror Titans (There's a mention of Red X from Titans GO! in there, and possibly cameo/actual character later!!! Ravager pretty much leads the series, too!)
3) The Deathstroke the Terminator Series (it's a 90's thing, but really intense and fascinating, with lots of political and historical ties)
4) Identity Crisis -Brad Meltzer (turning point of the DC Universe-everything literally changes, including how the Justice League is portrayed)
Annnd, at the end that just turned into some stuff I think you should read/must read. xP I could add to that, thinking about it, buuuut I won't. Not right now, at least.
Tsubasa's actually a really good Shonen, mainly because it's done by CLAMP (<3). It's a spin-off of Card Captor Sakura, but you don't need to read CCS at all to understand it. Pretty much, it's another dimension with the same characters, but they're older (like 13 when you start) and it revolves around Syroan trying to retreive Sakura's memories which have disappeared between dimensions. It's also crosses over with xxxHolic sometimes, but you don't need to see xxxHolic to get it, either.
Haha, House is pretty awesome. However, I've just begun to re-watch the Buffy series (best show ever, for realz) and my heart belongs to SPIKE. HE WINS. No one can compete with him. Even Nightwing would have a hard time, and for me, that's /really/ saying something.
Of course I enjoyed Elfen Lied! I was so ssad when Lucy's horns were gone, but she COULDN'T be dead. You don't just /kill/ Lucy. That's failure. That last eppie was so awful! I was waiting and waiting for Kota to open the door, but then they STOPPED IT. -dies-
Anyhow, about Death, I've seen reincarnations-the whole Grimm Reaper/Hooded cloaked thing. But I guess I just haven't considered them as being 'Death'. Just kinda...there, being annoying half the time. xD
Oh yesh, Nightwing is amazing (I was so scared when they said they were gonna kill him off during Crisis-it was a make or break moment there) as is Starfire. As much as I love the Titans GO! (animated stuff) series, it took me the three times of watching the entire series over again to /like/ her character and understand why she was so naive. I just couldn't stand it-she came from a warrior culture, and yet Robin had to catch her every episode? What now?
The comic Starfire is ENTIRELY different. She is just as badass as Nightwing, if not more-after all, she came the closest to tying the knot with him (TAKE THAT BABS, LOLCANO) and she STILLS has him. Kinda. Nightwing claimed he loved her but didn't plan on doing anything /serious/ in the new Titans series, which infuriates me. The entire Titan series infuriates me, until Winick finally got his poop in a group. He's such at great writer, so at first it was a huge disappointment.
FINISHED ELFEN LIED. Don't know if I told you that. Good god, that girl with 37 vectors was annoying as HELL.
And I mean Howl from Howl's Moving Castle, of course. xP But Nightwing, of course, favorite overall. Faye from Tsubasa's pretty awesome, though, and of course the Ouran twins.
Grr, I haven't seen Vampire Hunter D or Outlaw Star, so I have little/no idea who those people are. Dx