About Me

  • About Me: -Artist (photography, manga, comics, animation, penciled drawings) -Novelist (science-fiction, fantasy, action, adventure, comedy, romance) -Violinist, Pianist, & Back-up vocalist (Band: Neurotic Revelation/Poets Inverse)

Travel

  • Places I love: Japan, England, Italy, Taiwan, Australia, Scotland, Ireland
  • Places I've been: mah house :3 ...around town & out of state to places
  • Places to see before I die: all the ones in the "places I love" ^^
  • Dream Vacation: oh...the moon or Mars

Style

  • Where I shop: Hottopic, JC Penny's, Little Bohemia
  • Brands I love: Tripp, FANG,
  • I like to wear: gothic gear, artsy shtuff
  • Can't live without: my beta fish & guinea piggies, art, writing, & moose tracks
  • Prized Possessions: mah art, writings, Edward Scissorhands jacket, & mah soul. touch & die, you thieves.
  • Guilty Pleasure: what the heck IS this label? so i gorge on ice cream & love Edward Scissorhands...anyone gunna take me up on that? *hugs a gallon of mint chocolate chip* -.- thought so...i could punk you any day :D

Style

  • Where I shop: Hottopic, JC Penny's, Little Bohemia
  • Brands I love: Tripp, FANG,
  • I like to wear: gothic gear, artsy shtuff
  • Can't live without: my beta fish & guinea piggies, art, writing, & moose tracks
  • Prized Possessions: mah art, writings, Edward Scissorhands jacket, & mah soul. touch & die, you thieves.
  • Guilty Pleasure: what the heck IS this label? so i gorge on ice cream & love Edward Scissorhands...anyone gunna take me up on that? *hugs a gallon of mint chocolate chip* -.- thought so...i could punk you any day :D

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Skillet, E.S. Posthumus, Arkenstone/Troika, Edvin Marton, Shunichi Miyamoto, Danny Elfman, Oakenfold, d.c. Talk, Kevin Max Smith, Triga, Sting, David Bowie, Queen, Switchfoot
  • Favorite Albums: Atlantis (arkenstone), Unearthed (e.s. posthumus), String 'n' Beats (edvin marton), Collide (skillet), memoirs of a geisha (soundtrack), Stereotype Be (kevin max)
  • Favorite Genre: all but rap & country
  • Favorite Songs: marton's "Una Furtiva Lagrima," Triga's "Inner Universe, Arkenstone's "Across the Sea," Miyamoto's "True Light," Skillet's "Collide" & "Scarecrow," Tobita Nabuo's "Shi Jundo," & so many more
  • Favorite Lyrics: Skillet or Kevin Max Smith -there stuff kicks
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Switchfoot's traffic jam tunes :D
  • Songs I hate: American pop (Brittany Spears & such),
  • Songs I repeat the most: Una Furtiva Lagrima (edvin marton),
  • Band I wish I was in: skillet or e.s. posthumus

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: LOTR, Minority Report, Gankutsuou, Get Backers, Last Exile, Harry Potter, Howl's Moving Castle, The Great Escape, Enemy at the Gates, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean, & more...
  • Favorite Actors: Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Viggo Mortensen, Cillian Murphy, Hugo Weaving, Carrie Anne Moss, Johnny Depp, Ziyi Zang
  • Favorite Genre: sci-fi, fantasy, action, comedy, drama, & occasionally horror
  • Favorite Soundtracks: LOTR, Last Exile, Matrix Reloaded, Memoirs of a Geisha, Edward Scissorhands, Get Backers

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Italian, Chinese/Japanese
  • Favorite Dishes: oh noodles noodles noodles, of any kind; salads; stir-fry vegetables (esp. w/water chestnuts...mmmyeah); potatoes; duck; shrimp; anything doused in cream of mushroom sauce; rice
  • Favorite Desserts: muffins (blueberry, poppyseed, banana, zukini); ice cream
  • Favorite Drinks: raspberry lemonade, pepsi, red grape juice
  • Favorite Junk Foods: tostitos, toll house brownies, fried plantains, ramen noodles, cookies & candy bars by the bucket...
  • Best meal ever: roast duck w/cream of mushroom sauce on rice & some yummy veggie...topped off with vanilla ice cream & some velvet cake...oh yeah!!!
  • Foods I hate: avacado, kiwi, tomatoes, beef (usually) ;)

Books

  • Favorite Books: Abhorsen triology, Keys to the Kingdom, Qwan, A Midnight Opera, Count of Monte Cristo, A Stitch in Time, A Picture of Dorian Gray, Chronicles of Narnia, X-men comics, Get Backers, Lord of the Rings
  • Favorite Authors: Garth Nix, C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Aki Shimizu, Hans Steinbach, Hira Kohta
  • Favorite Genres: sci-fi, fantasy, action, drama, horror, classic literature
  • Favorite Characters: Nightcrawler, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Xavier, Akabane, Kazuki, Ginji & Ban, Qwan, Daki, Eowyn, Hakkai, Leroux, Albert, Monday's Noon & Dusk, Sabriel, Kibeth, Edmond Dantes, & so many more
  • Recent Reads: Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas & Loveless by Yun Kougra

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Katie
  • Nationality: Irish, Welsh, Scottish, German, British, Blackfoot Indian
  • Religion: Protestant Christian: Nazarene
  • Heroes: C.S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Kuang Hong
  • Interests: --Anime, Manga: ~Gankutsuou, Last Exile, Get Backers, Qwan, Saiyuki, Suikoden III, D.N. Angel, Hellsing, Witch Hunter Robin, Cowboy Bebop, FMA, etc... --ddr --Violin & Piano composing --writing (novels, short stories, poetry, prose) --photography & manipulation (urban & non-urban) --biotechnology & science-fiction --theatre, film-making, directing --field hockey
  • Expertise: ha...me an expert? Perhaps in writing, I suppose.
  • Occupation: Student
  • Industry: Art
  • Website: http://sindarinshadow.deviantart.com

College

  • School Name: Asbury College
  • Status: Undergrad
  • Class of: 2006
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Biochemistry
  • Minor(s): Creative Writing, Film/Photography or Illustration

Contact Info

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