My wife, Mayu-chan!

Name:

Greg

Birthday:

March 8, 1976

Height:

6 ft.

Hair:

Brown

Eyes:

Blue

Married:

March 24th, 2001 in Tokorozawa, Saitama-ken, Japan

Education:

Glendale Community College (graduated with a worthless AA Degree), Phoenix College, and ASU West (BS in International Business)

Favorite colors:

Deep blue, forest green

Favorite food:

Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and cheesecake

Favorite drinks:

Mugi-cha (Japanese barley tea), jasmine tea, oolong tea, chamomile tea, Asian boba drinks (tapioca pearl drinks), Hanson's natural soda, lemonade

Hobbies:

Listening to music, photography, reading & writing, gardening, tropical fish aquariums, Japanese culture & language learning, Japanese traditional charcoal ink painting (sumi-e), Science Fiction/Fantasy, Anime, video games, and HTML

Self Description:

Friendlyshy, seriocomical, hypermellow, contemplative

Special Talents:

I can take the Pepsi Challenge and taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I can put bricks to sleep by using hypnosis, and I can bore people to death talking about Japan when they ask me, "So what was it like living in Japan?"

Favorite Books:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Idoru by William Gibson, historical and cultural books on Japan

Favorite Authors:

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein

Favorite TV shows:

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Space Gost Coast to Coast, The Tick, Red Dwarf, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Twin Peaks

Favorite films:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, The Empire Strikes Back, and Asian cinema

Favorite anime:

Anything and everything by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, Bubblegum Crisis, Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Ginga Eiyu Densetsu), Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars, UC Gundam timeline, Votoms, Dirty Pair, Patlabor, Card Captor Sakura, The Vision of Escaflowne, Macross, Kimagure Orange Road, Crusher Joe, Galaxy Angel, GTO, Yamato, Galaxy Express 999

Favorite artists:

Seiji Fujishiro, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Kiyochika Kobayashi, Ando Hiroshige, Kenichi Sonada

Favorite music:

Pre-Nirvana Alternative (aka "college music" prior to 1993), Shoegaze, Madchester, Classical, New Age, Spacemusic, Trance, Ambient-House, Japanese (traditional and some J-pop)

Favorite bands:

The Ocean Blue, The Sundays, The Trash Can Sinatras, Lush, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Electronic, The Cure, The Innocence Mission, The Charlatans UK, Inspiral Carpets, The Stone Roses, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ringo Deathstarr, Tears Run Rings, Amusement Parks On Fire, Pizzicato 5, Shonen Knife, Man...Or Astroman?, The Orb, Stereolab, Paul van Dyk, Salt Tank

Favorite composers:

Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolai Rimski Korssakoff, Vangelis, Joe Hisaishi, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, John Williams, and my friend Jonathan Standifird

Most embarassing secret:

My hovercraft is full of eels

Camera:

Canon AE 1 Program

Video game systems owned:

Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Neo Geo Pocket Color, NEC Turbo Duo, XBox, Playstation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo DS Lite, Sony PSP

My neighbor:

Totoro

Likes:

Tranquility, cloudy days, libraries, cats, and my cute and pretty wife, Mayu-chan!

Dislikes:

Sports, coffee, telephones, mean people (they suck), lowriders with loud stereos, dishonesty, arguing, far Left-wing Socialists (oops, I mean "Liberals"), simple-minded Conservatives who care about nothing other than the USA and have no real worldview, and when people tell me I look like Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins (who is actually Uncle Fester's love child)

Favorite things to do:

Going on walks at night with my wife, listening to music, reading, writing, going to movie theaters, going to coffee houses, going to book stores, visiting art museums and galleries, spending time at the library, watching stars, watching my fish aquarium

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For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from Him. --Proverbs 62:5
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