utada - Date of Birth January 19, 1983 Height 158cm...or less?Blood Type A Hobbies - Literature will always be my thing. Books are assets to be treasured - I keep every book I read, and they now take up more space than my clothes. - Hot and spicy seasonings and condiments - Snapping pictures, without warning, of friends when they're having hungovers or snoozing. - Late-night web-crawling. I learned of a few cool sites from an EMI recording engineer ---[Modern Living] and[otogaiworld] are definitely worth checking out, especially in the wee hours. Specialities Touch typing, Tetris, biting the bullet, reading minds, moving just the smallest toe of my left foot, full leg splits and other instances of flexibility. Fave Writers Takeshi Kaiko; Kenji Miyazawa (his poems especially); Kenji Nakagami; Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Rashomon); Yasunari Kawabata; Ogai Mori (Takasebune); Soseki Natsume (Kokoro, Kusamakura); Yukio Mishima (Kinkakuji); Taruho Inagaki; Junichiro Tanizaki when pursuing eros; Yutaka Haniya (Shiryo) to savor bit by bit; Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha followed by Happiness and finally Steppenwolf (I recommend the Kenji Takahashi translation) for a satisfying bellyful of great literature;Shohei Ooka (Nobi); Shusaku Endo(Umi to Dokuyaku,Chinmoku);Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment); Roald Dahl; Oscar Wilde; Shel Silverstein; Edgar Allan Poe; Elie Wiesel; John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil); F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby); George Orwell (1984) Fave Movie Amadeus, Crash, Munich, Brazil, Tasogare Seibei, Lost Highway, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather Part II, The Jerk, Orlando, works by Hayao Miyazaki Fave artists Nine Inch Nails, Mozart, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Bartok, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Edith Piaf, Cocteau Twins, Jeff Buckley, Chick Corea, The Blue Nile, Freddie Mercury, Bjork, Yutaka Ozaki, Hibari Misora Places I want to go Mexico, Machu Picchu, the Sahara Desert I went to visit my ancestral graves in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the first time four years ago. I can hardly wait to go again!Dream Become a writer (I picked my pseudonym a long time ago), open a small bookshop and become a clerk there, work part-time at a cafe Things I'm into lately Tacky sleepwear; natto (fermented soybeans) and rice for breakfast; slip-on sneakers; the American TV show classic, Law & Order Fave Word Kinomi kinomama (with only the clothes one happens to be wearing, with the barest necessities), Shogyo mujo (all is vanity), Fuyukai da kaeru! ('I am not liking this and I'm goin' home!'), munya munya, 'I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war ....' - Shel Silverstein