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kimi no kokoro ga doko? |
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| Age: | 32 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Youngstown, OHIO |
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| Height: | 5' 9" |
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| Last Login: | Jul 6, 2008 (531 days back) |
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About Me |
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| I'm a novelist and short story writer who returned home from living abroad in Japan a little over a year ago. Mostly used to America again, and though aspects of it are sad or frustrating, I love it here.Go to my real website here.Buy my novel One for Sorrow here. Layout by CoolChaser |
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My Interests |
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| Books, Movies, Music, reading, writing, running, karaoke, people's weird habits, social order, social disorder, gym culture, bookstore culture, culture culture, Japanese, all things Japanese related, U.S. foreign relations botch jobs, education, alternate realities, emotional realities, ghost stories, metaphors and similes, also smiles. | |
I'd like to meet:The Buddha, Jesus Christ, Marguerite Duras, Isak Dinesen, Marilyn Monroe, J.D. Salinger, Lao Tzu, Haruki Murakami, Matthew Barney, Hannah Arendt, Einstein, George Washington, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Jeanette Winterson, Kurt Vonnegut. Geniuses, leaders, lords and ladies, people who create. |
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Music:Rufus Wainwright, Asian Kung Fu Generation, The Brilliant Green, Utada Hikaru, Tori Amos, REM, Aimee Mann, Carissa's Weird, Radiohead, Neko Case, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, Janet Jackson, The Cranberries, Tracy Chapman, Sufjan Stevens, Placebo, Over the Rhine, The Crissie McCree Band, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Death Cab for Cutie, The Bravery, Joni Mitchell, The Flaming Lips, BJ O'Malley |
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Movies:Muriel's Wedding, Kamikaze Girls, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Bridget Jones' Diary (shut up), The Velvet Goldmine, The Piano, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, After Life, Nobody Knows, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Strangers With Candy, Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead, Why We Fight, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Waiting for Guffman, Little Children, Strangers on a Train |
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Television:I like the Strangers With Candy Series, the first season of Queer as Folk, and some episodes of Sex in the City. Also, Heroes. But all in all, I'm not the target audience for television. |
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Books:Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners; Jonathan Lethem: Girl in Landscape, Amnesia Moon, The Wall of the Eye, the Wall of the Sky; Aimee Bender: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures; Judy Budnitz: If I Told You Once; Kevin Brockmeier: The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall From the Sky; Toni Morrison: Beloved, Jazz, Sula; Marguerite Duras: The Lover; Isak Dinesen: Winter Tales, Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny; Alan Deniro: Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead; Jeffrey Ford: The Girl in the Glass; Carol Emshwiller: The Start of the End of it All; Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; Kafka: The Sons; Karen Joy Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club, Sarah Canary, Artificial Things, Black Glass; Ursula LeGuin: Four Ways to Forgiveness, The Left Hand of Darkness; John Crowley: Little Big, Engine Summer; Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, and The Life of the Mind; Louise Erdrich: Tracks; Ben Rice: Pobby and Dingan; Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle |
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Heroes:People who create, people who try to leave the world a better place than how they found it, people who give a damn. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| Hometown: | Kinsman, Ohio |
| Education: | Grad / professional school |
| Occupation: | Writer/Teacher |
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My Friends |
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One for Sorrow, Tony, BROOKEBACK MOUNTAINS!, Juliet, BJ OMalley, Joyce, Beth, Grand Slam Outdoors, Meghan, Elad, Robert Dennick, Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts, Terri Windling, Gwenda, Elliot Edizioni, Holly Black, Deputy Nicoltradamus, Dave, Thelissa©, Paul, Midori Snyder, Giovanni Arduino, Mark Newton, Haddayr Copley-Woods, OAKLAND NEXT TOP DRAG QUEEN SHOW 6/14/08, LCRW, Tim, Milk, DEFEND YOUNGSTOWN, Catherynne, Steven Andrew, Richard, Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, Nalo Hopkinson, Bruno Schulz, allyssa, Chris, e, Unlocked., Newport News Concerned Citizens, Terry, TRYING TO MAINTAIN, freakscene, K.M.D., crystalcouture™, erin, Renaissance Dell'Arte, © NO LONGER IN CHAINS ®, Robert Walker, author, Morpheus Tales, Jessica, Nan, NewNowNext Awards!, Mindi, mockrevolution, brandi <3, E, Fran Friel - Writer, Lakeview: Just Chillin’, Ashley, Diane, J.Barzak™, Elva, Rebecca Sue, Barth, Dog OK
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