I see no point in describing my life story to you, and you can probably pick up on my personality from that, so I see no point in telling you how I am either. For Anime/Manga Berserk and End of Evangelion really made me a big fan of it. Or so I thought, I started on this site's top 30 Anime and Manga, and I think a lot of them are rather crappy. Then again, I probably shouldn't have let popularity decided what I watch, the average rating of Top 30 Anime is 4.6 and Manga is 5.9. Now, to further fill up my about me, I will rank my favorite musicians and films by the genre (using RateYourMusic's genre listing). I am politically left wing, affiliate myself with no religion, and I criminally forget to put in my favorite literature.
Films
Action: Harakiri
Adventure: Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Biopic: Fitzcarraldo
Comedy: The Big Lebowski
Crime: Taxi Driver
Cyberpunk: Videodrome
Documentary: Crumb
Drama: Persona
Dystopian: Brazil
Experimental: Inland Empire
Fantasy: The Spirit of the Beehive or Ugetsu
Noir: Dark City
Horror: Psycho
Mystery: The Exterminating Angel
Philosophical: My Dinner With Andre
Sci-Fi: Solaris
Surrealism: Enter the Void
Thriller: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Tragedy: Sansho the Bailiff
War: Come and See
Western: 3:10 to Yuma
Favorite: The Human Condition Trilogy
Music
Ambient: Brian Eno
Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughn
Country: Townes Van Zandt or Paul Siebel
Classical: Bach
Darkwave: Elend
Drone: Jesu
Electronic: Aphex Twins
Experimental: Coil
Folk: Van Morrison
Funk: James Brown
Hip Hop: The Roots
Industrial: God
Metal: Opeth
New Age: Mike Oldfield
Noise: Keiji Haino
Pop: Serge Gainsbourg
Punk: Talking Heads
R&B: Prince
Reggae: Bob Marley (I know, I know, for the sake of originality I will say Haile I Hymn (Chapter 1) by Ijahman is the best Reggae album)
Rock (vauge, so I'll name a couple): Enchant, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, King Crimson, Neil Young, Tom Waits, John Martyn, Soft Machine, Can, Jeff & Tim Buckley, etc.
Soul: Stevie Wonder
World: Fabrizio De André, Loreena McKennitt, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Manos Hadjidakis, "The Patriot Game", Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Caetano Veloso, Silvio Rodriguez, Ali Farka Toure, and listening to Putumayo World Music.
Literature:
Osamu Dazai, William Gibson, Jules Verne, Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Masuji Ibuse, Gore Vidal, H.P. Lovecraft, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Natsume Sōseki, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Pynchon, Anthony Burgess, Charles Stross, Alexandre Dumas, père, Arthur C. Clarke, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Shusaku Endo, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, William Faulkner, Ken Kesey, Murasaki Shikibu, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kōbō Abe, Yukio Mishima, and George Orwell.
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