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I bet no one noticed that my user name is based on a band, seeing as they are not that famous but still, they're pretty damn good. If you guys are interested in seeing how they cool they really are then,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dO6fXoJg0

Anyway...
As a child, while others played kickball or hopscotch, I blazed my way through the Mega Man and Super Mario Bros. series. Years later I sunk my teeth into the likes of Castlevania and Final Fantasy, ignoring the strange developments in the female members of my age group that seemed to have enraptured many of my male contemporaries.

And in high school, I was the man: the title holder of the Beyblade champion, second Saxophone in the marching band, and a card carrying member of the We-Love-Pokemon Society. Yes sir, I was the full package. But what really drove the ladies wild was my encyclopedic knowledge of anime. I could quote Cowboy Bebop or Tenchi Muyo like no one's business, and if anybody was in need of a long-winded theory about the true meaning of Neon Genesis Evangelion, well he needed only to turn to yours truly. None of this would have been possible, though, if not for my accidentally stumbling upon a little show called Dragon Ball while surfing the channels for cartoons one Saturday morning. It was Dragon Ball and it's plucky, monkey-tailed hero, Goku, that sparked my love of anime, so in a way I owe it for all those great times that I had in high school, from my legion of friends and female admirers to my all around social acceptance and general feelings of happiness. I fear to think what things might have been like if I had never encountered it...

I watch anime's for many reasons. Here is one of them. I want to see wondrous sights not available in the real world, in stories where myth and dreams are set free to play. Animation opens that possibility, because it is freed from gravity and the chains of the possible. Realistic films show the physical world; animation shows its essence. Animated films are not copies of "real movies," are not shadows of reality, but create a new existence in their own right. True, a lot of animation is insipid, and insulting even to the children it is made for. But great animation can make the mind sing.

When I have spare time, aside from drowning myself in an anime/videogame, I love curling up in a blanket, in my sweats, with a cup of coffee and getting absorbed in a book. It's the most relaxing thing I do. It doesn't matter if it's informative or entertaining, I love it. Reading is one of the best therapies I have. I love the state of mind reading gives me. Catcher In The Rye, Catch-22, The Road, Ender's Game, 1984, Brave New World, Dune Trilogy, Foundation Trilogy and Neuromancer are a few of the many books I indulged myself into. Favorite Author? None other than Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov is just right behind him though.

You can check my blog for my random musings. Haphazard ponderings. Sporadic ruminations. Casual cogitations. Blah-blah-blah blah-blah-blahs

I write reviews whenever I catch the drift to do so. They're written out of whim, nothing to write home about.

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