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- Hometown:
- Hannan-Shi, Osaka, Japan/Catania, Sicily, Italy
- About Me:
- 22years old. 6 credits stand between me and a BA.
I used to intern for a Japanese film organization in Manhattan and I still (not so)frequently volunteer there for screenings and events. Other than that and a few undergrad courses on film and film criticism, my only experience with movies is just that I love watching them and would love someday to make one.
I am a proud member of the Spill Artists Guild. The Guild are an elite bunch. I'd like to write my own comic book and/or screenplay someday. Actually I have started a comic book, and you can follow my progress here: http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/just-some-doodles
I'm also a member of LEOG, and if I had to choose my favorite graphic novel it would probably be Scud: The Disposable Assassin followed by Watchmen and then probably Kingdom Come.
General Interests:
Bosco, Youtube, Blueberries, Spill.com, drawing and sculpture, graphic novels and comics, sudoku, cars and driving, movies, Kansai, rationality
Favorite TV Shows:
Venture Brothers, South Park, Mr. Show, Seinfeld, 花より男子, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Soup!, 白夜行, Chapelle's Show, Squidbillies, SuperJail, Korgoth, The Maxx, Flight of the Conchords, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Kenny Powers Eastbound Down, Howard Tv, Real Time With Bill Maher
Favorite Music:
The Mars Volta, Muse, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, The Beatles, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mono, Daft Punk, Daddysmilk, Baroque, Vivaldi, Mogwai, Michael Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Godspeed! You Black Emporer, Kasabian, Thom Yorke, Interpol, John Vanderslice, RJD2, Racer X
And some guilty pleasure bands:
30 Seconds to Mars, Opeth, Senses Fail, Fall of Troy, Chiodos, Trivium, All That Remains, Shadows Fall and other assorted indistinguishable metal and screamo bands.
Favorite Books:
Born on a Blue Day, The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night Time, The Elegant Universe, The Metamorphosis, Hamlet, Anthem, A Briefer History of Time, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Watchmen, The Republic, Kingdom Come, Scud: The Disposable Assassin, Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
The "To Read" List:
Maus (in the process of reading)
100 Bullets
The Long Halloween
Superman: Red Son (Purchased)
Kickass
The God Delusion
The End of Faith
God is not Great (et cetera)
Matter and Memory
最終的に言いたいことが一つあります。日本語が一様喋れますので、これが読めれば友達になりましょう。スピルに日本語の話せるメンバーが少ないからですね。私のプロフィルを読み興味が似合ってるなら教えてください。皆によろしくお願いします。
- All Time Favorite Movies:
- V for Vendetta, A.I, Vanilla Sky, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Gladiator, Sin City, Almost Famous, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb and Dumber, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Office Space, The Prestige, 狂熱の季節(The Warped Ones), Superbad, There Will Be Blood, Old Boy, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, American Beauty, Adaptation, No Country for Old Men, Being John Malkovich (Best movie ever?), Planet Terror, 転々(Adrift in Tokyo), 全然大丈夫(Fine, Totally Fine), The Dark Knight, Let the Right One in, Pineapple Express, Into the Wild, Religulous, American Psycho, Children of Men, Vertigo, Synecdoche New York, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Watchmen, The Machinist, The Haunting(1964), Catch Me If You Can, Moon, The Chase(1965), In a Lonely Place, Interior Design, Inglorious Basterds, World's Greatest Dad
- All Time Worst Movies:
- Lost In Translation, Unbreakable, Dumb and Dumberer, Son of the Mask, Benchwarmers, Transformers, スケバン刑事 コードネーム=麻宮サキ(Yo-yo Girl Cop), 自殺サークル(Suicide Club), キャッシャン(Casshern), エルチェインジザーワールド(L: Change the World), Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 2, Eragon, すき焼きウェスターンジャンゴ(Sukiyaki Western Django), Death Proof, 片腕マシンガール(The Machine Girl), Gran Torino, The DaVinci Code, The Island, 大日本人(Big Man Japan), The Pacifier, War of the Worlds, The Cat in the Hat, Dare Devil
This list, unfortunately, is ever-growing.
- Favorite Directors:
- Charlie Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, James Cameron, Stephen Speilberg, Coen brothers, Wachowsky brothers, Christopher Nolan, Cameron Crowe, Alfred Hitchcock
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Here's the thing, I don't go out and see movies that I already know I'm not going to like, which includes American remakes of Asian horror movies, and big hollywood self-masterbatory drivel like Transformers and G.I. Joe. So I'm sure there are wor...
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Mike's Review of 2009 so far
Here's the thing, I don't go out and see movies that I already know I'm not going to like, which includes American remakes of Asian horror movies, and big hollywood self-masterbatory drivel like Transformers and G.I. Joe. So I'm sure there are worse films out there than the one's I'm listing but these are only the ones I've actually seen. If thee re better ones that I have overlooked or maybe have never heard of, please let me know.
With that in mind, let's get into it, shall we?
#1.… Continue
With that in mind, let's get into it, shall we?
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Posted on August 18, 2009 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments
The Evolution of Mainstream American Comedies
This is just a first draft! I'm going to check all the dates and cast-lists of these movies, and maybe even make a diagram. So I'm telling you off the bat thee WILL be mistakes in here. Mostly chronology. So chill your grills.
Here's the chain of American comedies as I remember it. So I guess that means from the mid-90s to the present.
Let's start with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley/David Spade who were SNL guys that actually riding on the coattails of Mike Myers who seemed to have magically s… Continue
Here's the chain of American comedies as I remember it. So I guess that means from the mid-90s to the present.
Let's start with Adam Sandler and Chris Farley/David Spade who were SNL guys that actually riding on the coattails of Mike Myers who seemed to have magically s… Continue
Posted on August 11, 2009 at 11:30pm —
Paul Giamatti as Paul Giamatti in "Cold Souls": Review
About two weeks ago I watched the flaming dog turd more commonly known as "The Illusionist." Well that movie is not good, BUT I could not deny at least one gem from it. That gem was Paul Giamatti. It was then that I realized that he is probably one of my favorite actors. He may not be the handsomest guy but god damn that man can deliver a lin… Continue
Posted on August 10, 2009 at 8:15pm — 1 Comment
The (lack of) signficant symbolism in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
Before I begin, I have to tell you that I'm going to spoil the plot. This isn't a review, it's a criticism.
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
One parallel I can draw from this movie is to a recent film, the Dark Knight. In the end, it turns out that the man who shot Liberty Valance is not the one who led the city to greatness as the legend had told, after all, so… Continue
Posted on July 3, 2009 at 8:00am —
McG, you got some 'Splanin' to do!
I'm very disappointed with this movie. Though I didn't hate it as much as my friends did, I wasn't by any means satisfied by what I saw tonight.
The good:
Sam Worthington's character, Marcus Wright and Blair, a resistance fighter. (How slammin was that girl?)
Some of the terminator robot fight scenes.
The bad:
Everything else.
Where do I begin?
Well, for starters they shouldn't… Continue
Posted on May 28, 2009 at 2:00am — 3 Comments
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No, but I am to follow the law unless it causes me to sin.
How am I a hypocrite when speaking about slavery?
Slavery was wrong in america because it was racial and treated black people as not being human.
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