User:Aralith

I am an English speaking American male that likes his drinks cold, his women hot, and his bath water somewhere inbetween.... Nah, I'm just kidding. Well, at least about the whole drinks, women, and bath water bit. I am an English speaking American male. I hardly even care about the other things (except maybe the bath water). I've actually been editing Wikipedia somewhat infrequently for the past year or so. Mostly just grammatical mistakes and other minor things I happen to notice in articles that I know for a fact are incorrect. I only recently actually became a member, so I'm still trying to get the hang of some of the stuff around here. The reason I finally decided to join was so I could join the Evangelion Portal and edit NGE articles and whatnot in a more accurate fashion. That being said, I am a huge fan of anime and really all forms of Japanese art.

I dabble in some origami and Japanese cooking and would very much like to learn the art of bonsai. I am somewhat fluent in Japanese language (took three years of it in high school) and would someday like to live in Japan. There, I could fulfill my dream job of composing music for video games. On that note, I am extremely fluent in the language of music (sometimes more in that than English) and have been playing piano for 13 years, tenor sax for eight, and guitar for about a year, though my guitar skills are very, very basic. Probably my biggest inspiration for this goal is the composer of the music for the Final Fantasy series, Nobuo Uematsu. I was very sad to see him leave only a year ago. The next game in the franchise, Final Fantasy XIII will be the last to portray any of his original pieces for the series. I am also highly influenced in my work by Richard Strauss, Gustav Holst, and Claude Debussy. I am practically in love with all of Debussy's nocturnes. They are incredibly beautiful and emotional.

Some of my other favorite composers include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastion Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Robert W. Smith, Danny Elfman, and John Williams. The one thing all these men share in common? Their ability to make music move. Just listen to the stuff you hear in Star Wars compared to... oh let's see... how about the new Transformers movie and you'll see what I mean. The chords the composer of the Transformers movie used, were fantastic, but he didn't do anything with them. There was no underlying motion. Now, John Williams can take the music of Star Wars and use thirty-second notes (really fast for those of you not so musically inclined) and put them under this extremely slow, emotional piece and have it not sound too busy. And then use a similar motif in another piece and make it sound absolutely frantic, face-paced, and sometimes terrifying. Anyways, I'm rambling now. That's about all I have to say about myself.