User:Stara729

Hello World!
I am a college student hailing from the glorious Windy City. I will update this page whenever I remember something noteworthy about myself. No, I am not an amnesiac - I just always seem to forget my most important traits precisely when I need to remember them...

Books
→ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

→ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

→ A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

→ Howards End by E. M. Forster

→ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

→ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

→ Tintin by Hergé (not strictly books but oh well)

Mangas
→ xxxHOLiC by Clamp

→ Angelic Layer by Clamp

→ Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori

→ Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi

→ Dengeki Daisy by Kyousuke Motomi

TV Shows
→ Spongebob SquarePants

→ Sherlock

→ Nodame Cantabile

Movies
→ Spirited Away

→ Howl's Moving Castle

→ Princess Mononoke

→ Whisper of the Heart

→ Castle in the Sky

→ Summer Wars

→ Moulin Rouge!

→ Hugo

→ The Matrix

→ The Amazing Spider-Man

→ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Music
→ Johann Sebastian Bach

→ Ludwig van Beethoven

→ Johannes Brahms

→ Claude Debussy

→ Gustav Mahler

→ Ralph Vaughan Williams

→ Philip Glass

→ Joe Hisaishi

→ Pieter Wispelwey

→ Jascha Heifetz

→ Berlin Philharmonic

→ Hilary Hahn

→ Martha Argerich

→ Berlin Philharmonic

→ Quatuor Ébène

→ Cœur de Pirate

→ Frank Ocean

→ Coldplay

→ Muse

→ Bon Iver

Food

→ Tomatoes

→ Pomegranates

→ Raspberries

→ Sushi

→ Ghormeh sabzi

→ Baozi

→ Carrot cake

→ Mochi

→ Anything that's served at Thanksgiving dinner, i.e. turkey with gravy and stuffing and sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce and wild rice

→ Pie (cherry, pumpkin, apple)

Places
→ San Francisco, CA (also Berkeley)

→ Montréal, Québec (Yes, a little different than the above)

→ Marburg, Germany

→ And of course, the marvelous Ann Arbor, Michigan

Wikipedia interests
I'm interested, for Wikipedia purposes, in the following topics:

→ Classical music: particularly string solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire and composers

→ Manga: particularly Clamp

→ Anime: anything by Studio Ghibli

→ Learning how to use Wikipedia! I'm new to the site, so by all means leave me a message to give me advice or simply say hi!

Currently working on
→ Editing the xxxHolic page

→ Editing the List of xxxHolic characters page

→ Editing the Clamp page

→ Improving any page that has to do with Clamp, actually

→ Editing the Bach Cello Suites page

→ Editing and adding on to the Pieter Wispelwey page - he's my favorite Bach interpreter!

→ Expanding the Jean-Guihen Queyras page

→ Improving the János Starker page

→ Fixing stuff as a member of the Studio Ghibli task force

→ Looking around for more cello-related things to improve

→ Creating an xxxHOLiC Rei page (waiting for updates...)

→ Editing the Wenzel Pichl page

→ Learning how to Wikipedia...

Pages I've created/translated (and would like feedback on)
→ Quatuor Ébène

→ Jacques Mistral

→ Ophélie Gaillard

Skills
→ Language translation and interpretation: English, français, and فارسی

→ English grammar, spelling, and syntax

→ Classical music performance

→ Does being a CLAMP fan count?

Fun stuff
How is a raven like a writing desk?

Poe wrote on both of them.

Quotes
"Only connect! - E. M. Forster, Howards End