Some favorite writers: Umberto Eco, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Philip K. Dick, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, J.R.R. Tolkien, Albert Camus, Isaac Asimov, T.S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman, Virginia Woolf, John Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Homer Some favorite musicians: The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, The Clash, The Decemberists, Rasputina, Le Tigre, Husker Du, The Capricorns, Joy Division, etc. You get the idea. As for movies- Show me something with robots, superheroes, spaceships, zombies, or whatever, and I'm pretty well entertained.

Interests? You mean, besides "everything?" Well, I study Japanese fairly often and I've been trying to read up on Japanese history and culture while I've been here. More generally, I'm a big social-science nerd. In university I studied Political Science and Philosophy, so I can go on all about stuff of that nature. But I like to think that I'm interested in everything. My brain is a hungry, hungry thing.