My wife, Mayu-chan!

Name:

Greg (not Steve)

Born:

March 8, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Height:

5'10" / 179cm

Hair:

Brown (not much left, though)

Eyes:

Blue

Married:

March 24th, 2001 in Tokorozawa, Saitama-ken, Japan

Education:

Glendale Community College (graduated with an AA Degree, December 1996), Phoenix College, and ASU West (BS in International Business, December 1999)

Favorite colors:

Forest green, deep blue

Favorite food:

Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and cheesecake

Favorite drinks:

Oolong tea, Mugi-cha (Japanese barley tea), jasmine tea, chamomile tea, Asian boba drinks (tapioca pearl drinks), lemonade

Hobbies:

Science Fiction/Fantasy, anime & manga, video games, plastic models, iron bead sprites, HTML, Listening to music, photography, reading & writing, tropical fish aquariums, Japanese culture & language learning, Japanese traditional charcoal ink painting (sumi-e)

Self Description:

Friendlyshy, seriocomical, hypermellow, contemplative

Special Talents:

I can take the Pepsi Challenge and taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I can put bricks to sleep by using hypnosis

Favorite Books:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Idoru by William Gibson, historical and cultural books on Japan

Favorite Authors:

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein

Favorite TV shows:

Mystery Science Theater 3000, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Tick, Red Dwarf, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica (TOS only!) Twin Peaks

Favorite films:

Blade Runner, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Asian cinema

Favorite anime:

Anything and everything by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (the movie is the best), Bubblegum Crisis, Nadia: The Secret of blue Water, Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Ginga Eiyu Densetsu), Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars, UC Gundam timeline, Armored Trooper Votoms, Dirty Pair, Mobile Police Patlabor, The Rose of Versailles, The Vision of Escaflowne, Kimagure Orange Road, Crusher Joe, Space Cobra, GTO, Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, Cowboy Bebop

Favorite artists:

Seiji Fujishiro, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Kiyochika Kobayashi, Ando Hiroshige, Kenichi Sonada

Favorite music:

Pre-Nirvana Alternative (aka "college music" prior to 1993), Shoegaze, Madchester, Classical, New Age, Spacemusic, Trance, Ambient-House, Retrowave/Synthwave/Chillwave

Favorite bands:

The Ocean Blue, The Sundays, The Trash Can Sinatras, Lush, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, Electronic, The Cure, The Innocence Mission, The Charlatans UK, Inspiral Carpets, The Stone Roses, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ringo Deathstarr, Tears Run Rings, Amusement Parks On Fire, Pizzicato 5, Shonen Knife, Man...Or Astroman?, The Orb, Stereolab, Pinkshinyultrablast, Moscow Olympics

Favorite composers:

Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolai Rimski Korssakoff, Vangelis, Joe Hisaishi, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, John Williams

Most embarassing secret:

My hovercraft is full of eels

Camera:

Canon AE 1 Program

Video game systems owned:

Atari Lynx, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Neo Geo Pocket Color, NEC Turbo Duo, XBox, Playstation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo DS Lite, Sony PSP, Xbox 360

My neighbor:

Totoro

Likes:

Tranquility, cloudy days, libraries, aquariums, travel, my wife Mayu-chan, and my daughter, Ulan-chan.

Dislikes:

Sports, telephones, lowriders with loud stereos, dishonesty, arguing, far left-wing liberals, simple-minded conservatives who care about nothing other than the USA and have no real worldview, and when people tell me I look like Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins

Favorite things to do:

Going on walks at night with my daughter, traveling, listening to music, reading, writing, going to book stores, visiting art museums and galleries, spending time at the library, watching the stars

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For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from Him. --Proverbs 62:5
mail: greg -atsign- stevethefish -dot- net