User:Byxbee

(Note: This page hasn't been updated in over a year. Sorry.)

Q&A
Residence: San Francisco, California

Hobbies & Interests:

Walking/Running - Design - Reading - Cooking - Listening to great bands - X-treme sports - Ice skating - Thinking - Collecting Levi's - Hugging Trees - Browsing thrift stores - Herringbone stitching - Thinking about names I want to give and/or have (all I have right now are Maverick, Loop, Cricket, Axolotl, Jungar, Ampersand, and my username Byxbee)

Places I love to visit (maybe a little too much):
 * Trader Joe's
 * Daiso (and other "100 yen" modeled shops. they are so... addictive!)
 * San Francisco Public Library
 * H&M

Favorite Quotes: (the only ones I seem to remember) "No regret, no blame, no pain, ONLY BEAUTY - by a friend of mine who took his own life"

"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. - Anonymous"

"'We are ignorant at our own discretion.' - Unknown"

"There is a limit to how long we live, but there are no limitations in living! - by Miriam Yeung (hehe)"

Favorite (Text) Books: (I mostly prefer to read non-fiction text)
 * Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 * Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
 * Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
 * The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
 * The Mental Floss series and other fact/trivia books.
 * Works by authors Neil Gaiman, Brian K. Vaughan, Joss Whedon, and Dan Brown, Ryū Murakami.

Favorite (Graphic) Novels:
 * Y: The Last Man
 * Blankets by Craig Thompson
 * Flight (comics) Excellent work by up and coming indie artists.
 * Musashi
 * Hana-Kimi
 * Oh My Goddess!
 * One Piece
 * Boys Over Flowers
 * Hunter X Hunter
 * Rurouni Kenshin
 * Sgt. Frog
 * Everything by Rumiko Takahashi
 * I love American comics the most. Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, independent authors/artists... I absorb it like a sponge. American comics are just better, aren't they? They're more in depth, more emotional, more of an experience every time you read one.

Favotite Bands/Singers: (yeah, I'm an indie rock fanboy)


 * Franz Ferdinand
 * Keane
 * The Rosebuds
 * The Fratellis
 * Patrick Park
 * Arcade Fire
 * Coldplay
 * Alanis Morissette
 * Nirvana
 * Weezer
 * The Killers


 * Radiohead
 * The Cure
 * Jeremy Fisher
 * Rob Thomas/matchbox twenty
 * Razorlight
 * Spoon
 * The New Pornographers
 * Guster
 * Modest Mouse
 * Jason Mraz


 * Matt Costa
 * Freddie Mercury
 * Hard-Fi
 * The Shins
 * Ryan Cabrera
 * Death Cab for Cutie
 * Spoon
 * Miriam Yeung
 * Leo Ku
 * BoA

Favorite Films: (be prepared... this is going to be a long list that is not yet completed)


 * Donnie Darko
 * Titanic
 * The Pianist
 * Garden State
 * The Royal Tenenbaums
 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * Star Wars Saga
 * Keeping The Faith (starring Ben Stiller)
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * The Blair Witch Project
 * Select Hayao Miyazaki films. (there are some that I thought were a waste of my time, like Porco Rosso and Howl's Moving Castle. I am fond of most of his films, but Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away are two of my most favorite films, ever!)
 * Grave of the Fireflies


 * The Lion King
 * 50 First Dates (starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. I love Drew, she's one my favorite actresses, and people on this Earth.)
 * All films by Miriam Yeung. (I just love her!!)
 * About a Boy (film)
 * Kill Bill
 * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
 * Resident Evil (I know there are a lot of critics about the RE films, but I think they are very well done, and one of the best video game movies ever made.)
 * Friends With Money
 * Fightclub
 * Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu, both by Stephen Chow
 * Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
 * Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
 * Freaky Friday