User:Kyouketsusha

Hi! I'm Kyou.

I live in Kenosha, Wisconsin, home of the Joseph McCarthy Transit Center and the Jockey International headquarters, birthplace of Orson Welles, Don Ameche, Mark Ruffalo, and Al Molinaro.

I am currently unemployed, though I used to work at a market research firm. I'm going back to school to be a Registered Nurse.

I voted for Big John and Little John in the 2004 Presidential election. I consider myself liberal, but I don't much care to talk about politics, really.

If anyone was wondering, my username is the romanisation of the Japanese term for blood donor. The kanji is 供血者 -- literally "offer-blood-person".

Music
I'm currently addicted to Pandora, and it's let me find a ton of music artists I doubt I'd have found otherwise, including:
 * Gruff Rhys
 * Barbez
 * Noe Venable
 * Scout Niblett (who I really didn't like at first, but she kinda grew on me)
 * Amy Ray
 * Tuuli
 * Bif Naked
 * Faun Fables
 * Charming Hostess
 * Cat Power
 * Neko Case
 * Carla Kihlstedt
 * Petra Haden
 * Aimee Mann

My Pandora stations, on which I've found these and other artists, are based around
 * Pretenders
 * Tori Amos
 * Liz Phair
 * Within Temptation and Nightwish
 * Rasputina
 * Puffy AmiYumi
 * Lucinda Williams
 * Inkubus Sukkubus
 * the songs "This Could Be Love" by Alkaline Trio and "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" by My Chemical Romance
 * Marty Robbins
 * The Everly Brothers song "Wake Up Little Susie"
 * The Janis Ian song "Society's Child"
 * The White Stripes song "Fell In Love With a Girl"
 * Beth Nielsen Chapman
 * The Hush Sound
 * Charming Hostess
 * Charlotte Gainsbourg
 * Neko Case

Games
Right now I'm really into Neverwinter Nights. I also play Guild Wars regularly. Other games I play now and then and enjoy:
 * StarCraft and its expansion, StarCraft: Brood War
 * Diablo II
 * MapleStory
 * Warcraft III
 * Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
 * Icewind Dale II
 * Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II

Books
I'm reading all the time. Some books I've enjoyed:
 * American Gods by Neil Gaiman
 * the War of the Spider Queen series
 * A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
 * Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
 * the Kushiel's Legacy trilogy by Jacqueline Carey
 * American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
 * the Gor books by John Norman
 * the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
 * Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Contact Information and IGNs

 * AIM: Forsaken Ritsuko
 * Livejournal: kyouketsusha
 * Kingdom of Loathing: Sonietta
 * Guild Wars: Mara Moonchild (Ra/E), Sweet Sangria (N/Me), Maelle Silvertongue (Me/W), Tatsu Kyoujin (A/Me), Angelica Lacrimosa (P/Me), Charlotte Hessen (W/N)
 * Xfire: sweetsangria
 * NationStates: The Matriarchy of Saint Lilith
 * AdventureQuest: Lailah, number 5110721