What do we like here at the OS-tan forums, in TV, movies, music, and books?
(I'm mostly talking about non-anime since we have that covered in the other sub-forum, but we can also post about our favorite anime, as well.)
Aside from an occasional anime, I hardly ever watch movies, and I don't have TV reception so I can't really say anything in those departments. My taste in music has already been established in the whts Playing? (http://ostan-collections.net/topic-168-320.html) thread. So then, I guess that leaves books!
I often read through informative non-fiction such as manuals or reference guides (Seems I have a bunch of O'Reilly lying around), but when I'm feeling stressed, or have loaned out most of my favorites (Which rarely seem to make it back to me) I do enjoy a good romance. I just barely finished Twilight (http://www.myshelf.com/teen/fiction/05/twilight.htm) (again) and am nearing the end of my second time reading New Moon (http://www.myshelf.com/teen/fiction/07/newmoon.htm), the sequel. I'm also starting Interview with the Vampire
I'm certain we can all determine a common thread here, ne? But honestly, regardless of whatever bias may exist in me, these books are genuinely good. ^o^
and hey, I don't always read about vampires! Watership down, and Lord of the Rings are good too! ^__^
i've read piers anthony's xanth series, some of terry pratchet's disc world(ok not some just 1 so far) some stephen king books. some douglas adam books and other fiction sci-fi fantasy novels. i also like reading those mystery books. we have an encyclopedia here full of those kinds of things but its very old.
i don't really watch local shows here in the philippines, don't know why but i don't
some american series/cartoons includes House M.D., Heroes, invader zim, avatar, billy and mandy, Power puff girls, fairly odd parents, etc.
movies would include the pirates trilogy, the Lotr trilogy, spider-man series, batman begins, evil dead, army of darkness, waterboys, ringu series and other j-horror, Mystery science threater stuff and many more.
j-pop sums up my music favorites. YUI!!!
well thats all for now
I love reading Sci-fis with a good story. My favorite authors are Charles Stross, Andreas Eschbach, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg, Douglas Adams, William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. I hate Tolkien with a passion. Also Love stories, I always felt they were created for social conditioning.
I don't watch TV and I don't go to the cinema... it just does not interest me. I listen to the radio only when my surroundings subject me to it...
Interesting. I like Sci-fi a lot too, especially Asimov. Strange you should hate Tolkien, though, since his books are commonly seen as the epitome of the fantasy genre, which is closely linked to Sci-fi. Love stories, well it's true that there are a lot of pulp romances that smudge the entire genre, but there are quite a few really good ones, IMHO.
I feel the same about TV and the radio, which explains why I haven't even attempted to get local stations. ^-^
I third TV and cinema opinion,... not that I'm missing out on much, as it's junk compared to what it was in the good ol' days. -v-
(And then people wonder why I defected to Anime?) OvO
Same for Radio, but only because all my favorite radio stations have either been dissolved, banned or forced to go "underground" (net stream). XvX;
Love non-fiction books instead,... currently ready about the joys of C Programming.
Oh joy..... -v-;
hm... books... I liked Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, and Dan Brown's Angels and Demons... maybe I should pick up The Da Vinci Code.... Catcher in the Rye by Salinger wasn't so bad... I didn't know what emo was back then, but it is emo... haha
Oh, I also enjoyed Poetry of the Universe by Robert Osserman. It's not a story, but I liked the math and physics and all. ^^
as for TV, there hasn't been much that interests me. I don't have cable, so I don't get much. Two shows I watch: House and Heroes. And I really want to watch Band of Brothers, having watched an ep in my AP Chem class 2 years ago. (My teacher was in the 101st Airborne... and got his masters at CalTech, but I digress)
music.. haha... I don't listen to much mainstream music, but I have been listening to more rock on the radio. My dad, through the years, has gotten me into 70s and some 80s music. Composers such as Yuki Kajiura and Yoko Kanno have gotten me into jazz and orchestral. I have a particular liking to their piano pieces.... my cousins have gotten me into trance and electronica music too. whee, I'm all over the place. ehe :3
Oooh,... Catcher in the Rye,.... *squeals* ^__^
Brings back memories, how I loved that book. -v-
It was a very pleasant surprise to see many references to it (and other Salinger works) in Ghost in the Shell: SAC. Speaking of old literature, the last fictional (well, semi-fictional) book I read was the uncensored original edition of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". I remember the censored version being stirring enough, but this version absolutely moved me to tears. Fabulous piece of literature,.. it's a shame it wasn't the one to be published some 100 years ago. ^__^
Yoko Kanno I like too, but lately I've been into those variety swings. So I'll appreciate a good Pizzicato Five tune anyday! ^__^
My favorite TV shows are Lost, Heroes, and 24. Although I do love watching just about anything on the Discovery channel, History channel or Science channel.
Movies....a little less specific, I like stuff in the sci-fi, fantasy, historical, action/adventure or just-plain-good-storyline-without-too-much-special-effects genre ;)
Books...sort of the same as my movie preferences, my favorite being fantasy. I guess my favorite book series is Harry Potter. I also like reading about astronomy, theoretical physics. Stuff that has to do with space, and other dimensions and such :)
Music...I can pretty much appreciate anything, though I do especially like jazz, rock and contemporary.
I'm very eclectic ;)
Hmpf, how I start?!
Favourite Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Most heard music in last time is: LAW - xxx
["xxx" means not what u think]
In the last week I´ve seen Star Wars Episode 1+2
My favourite newcomer as music group is "Nevada Tan"!
They´re like Linkin Park but german!
Aossha...Now I'm getting flashbacks from this morning here, we just did a thing like this in class. Creep -.-
Anyways,
I don't watch TV at all, except for the occasional Simpsons episode from the kitchen when I've got nothing else to do while I'm eating. On the other hand, though, I'm a bit of a, as some of my mates call it, "Upper-class culture otaku" (at least for my age), since I'm a frequent visitor of musicals and theaters and such - basically all i ever stay away from is the opera, cuz they're just creepout.
Anyway, literature has always interested me - I've even written some shorter, and one longer, works occasionally - and I mainly read Sci-fi and Fantasy stuff, but there's more than that on my records. Books I've liked (outside those genres) are the Ramses series by Christian Jacq, Dan Brown's books, to an extent, the Otori Clan series by Liam Hearn, and most recently the book Rain by Barry Eisler. Among fantasy/scifi I've read lots, but they can basically be classified into two categories - Serious shit and Gag shit. Gag stuff is, well, the usual stuff, you know the drill - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I basically love Douglas Adams now, Future Eden by Colin Thompson (an alien chicken created the earth, of course that's true! didn't you know?), and basically everything ever written by the master of gag, Terry Pratchett. I've gotta send him flowers someday.
Serious stuff i've read include:
The Awakeners by Sheri Tepper, The living ship series by Robin Hobb, the Black Mage trilogy by Trudi Canavan, of course the LOTR, the Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card, some old stuff like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, Sword of Truth by I've-run-out-of-ideas-so-lets-make-another-crappy-sequel-Terry Goodkind, the Artemis Fowl series (dunno why, but i liked it) by that irish Colfer guy, and so on, and so on, and so on. But most important are Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and the stuff by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (you know, Deathgate, Dragonlance...that stuff).
puh, that was a lot.
Anyway, as for music i basically listen to most stuff, but my favorites have got to be J-stuff, mainly Janne da Arc, Hirano Aya (omfz PRAIZE!!!), AKFG, UVERworld, and of course YUI. Then we have (mainly) Progressive Metal stuff, including Dream Theater, Ayreon, Pain of Salvation and such, but also some non-prog bands as Sonata Arctica, DragonForce(yes.) and Children of Bodom.
Since i started playing saxophone a lot of years ago from now I've listened and played a lot of jazz, and for those i listen both to instrumentalists as Yoko Kanno and good ol' Thelonious Monk, but also a lot of Jamie Cullum, who is practically GENIUS. Listen to him sometime. I also have lots of OST stuff, mainly anime but also from things like Halo and Zelda games. Then we have misc stuff like some Queen and other random stuff, but screw those. -w-
Ehaah...that's a lot, isn't it? ^^
Quote from: "Tsubashi"Interesting. I like Sci-fi a lot too, especially Asimov. Strange you should hate Tolkien, though, since his books are commonly seen as the epitome of the fantasy genre, which is closely linked to Sci-fi.
I strongly dislike fantasy and think it has nothing to do with Sci-fi!
*Sigh*
I'm too drained right now to argue, but I will clarify "Closely linked" to mean "both are speculative fiction." Obviously the two are different, but are commonly lumped together
Oooh, A 'what do you watch and read but is not anime nor manga' thread!
I don't watch TV a lot, there are only two episodes that I watch, Tónlistarhorn Jóns Ã"lafs, and KlassÃska hornið, both Icelandic TV shows about music (I've appeared in the first one =P). But besides that I don't really watch TV.
But of course I read! Books that is, I'm currently reading Njála, a very big, very old Icelandic book and because of it being old there are a lot of words that I don't really understand, so that one is going a bit hectic.
Quote from: "Tsubashi"*Sigh*
I'm too drained right now to argue, but I will clarify "Closely linked" to mean "both are speculative fiction." Obviously the two are different, but are commonly lumped together
Fantasy is fiction, Sci-Fi is speculative fiction.
That even makes for a nice short form!
Fantasy - F - Fiction
Sci-Fi - SF - Speculative Fiction
Yar!
And also nice to see someone caring about the old works - kudos to ye, gummster!
i think my life changed 3 years ago where i didnt get any chance to watch tv programme at home.. then i move out to live on my own in apartment where i dun have tv at all..
my only source of entertaintment is just watching anime on my notebook and read some manga i pilled up
hmmm dont watch a lot of tv shows the only ones i like are Heroes,The Simpsons,Mythbuster(my fav) and hard gay(its a japanese comedy show) i dont enjoy going to cinemas i prefer watching a movie on tv.
I mostly like sci-fi fantasy adventure and humor mostly humor books i read are books like the Voyager,shang-grilla,the davinci code the LOTR,the harry potter series and my two fav books are How to survive a zombie outbreak and How to Survive a Robot Invasion(you never know when it might happen now)
Music i mostly enjoy J-Pop,Abingdon high school,ukug,aya hirano,manzo,antistar,dragonforce(currently listening to valley of the dammed while typing this) and some which i probably forgot ~pyoro :3
...for some reason, when i read this, i feel like someone has cloned me when i didn't notice...
...or maybe it's just that I'm a bit drunk right now. Ehehehe.
Besides anime, when it to television shows, I'm a HUGH fan of South Park. As well as some of of the TV shows that parent watched when they grew in up in the 70s. I still watch a a lot of cartoons where Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, and PowerPuff Girls are some examples. Other then that, I don't watch much television anymore now that reality shows are the big thing.
For music, I'll listen to just about that's thrown in the stero. The only things I don't listen to are Rap/Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Blues. I do listen to a little bit of Country but I'm not a big fan of that either.
I'm not really a movie type person. The only movies I ever liked were South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Team America, And Then There Were None, and a bunch of anime films.
As for books, I like writing them then reading them but I really enjoyed reading And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie) and Pretend You Don't See Her (Mary Higgins Clark). I also really want to read the book Great Expectations. <3
I think you can now easily see my preferences in terms of music, eh? :) I just realized I wrote nothing about it.
Same as Kami here, didn't write anyyhing 'bout tastes in music.
I'm actually very open to all kinds of music except for rap and hip-hop, I loathe those. My favourite music style is baroque, romantic and classical, in that order.
Rap and hip-hop are not music. They're noise. -.-
Gummster agrees!
They do not contain singing or disted electric guitars - therefore they suck!
Wait then you're saying that most of all baroque/classic/romantic which I adore suck, that is not cool dude.
Quote from: "NejinOniwa"Rap and hip-hop are not music. They're noise. -.-
AGREED. Nuff said.
Quote from: "NejinOniwa"Rap and hip-hop are not music. They're noise. -.-
Some rappers are really witty and have melodic music. For an example of this, search for 'Fettes Brot' and their song 'Jein!'. I normally do not care that much about these sorts of music, but I used to know that song by heart.
Ah, a challenger appears.
Quote from: "Kami-Tux"Some rappers are really witty and have melodic music. For an example of this, search for 'Fettes Brot' and their song 'Jein!'. I normally do not care that much about these sorts of music, but I used to know that song by heart.
It's true - there ARE rappers you can listen to without bleeding your ears out, but most hip-hop these days don't qualify as music on my spreadsheet.
Oh and Gummi, Classical and Baroque stuff has violins and ORCHESTRA. That's a whole different level of awesome.
(ever heard me saying your works were bad? oi -w-)
No no sorry sorry, I'm just finding loop-holes in your speeches.
LOOOOOOOP~ -w-
Oh also, I've become infected by Jack Sparrow. Someone heal me please, I think I'm starting to speak that way too. It's scary.
You must clean your mind, think of nothingness, there is no such thing as Jack Sparrow, the world dissapears from your eyes.
*Snap*
You are yourself again!
Why is the rum always gone...?
BTW: this seems to be the Youtube Video of Jein... I can not see it for an obvious reason :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qjG24NVsc&search=Fettes+Brot+jein
All depends on taste. I like Kotoko's "Shooting Star" just as much as Bach's "Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins" just as much as Eminem's "Without Me". However, I'm now gonna duck for cover for comparing J-Pop to Classical...
*ducks and covers*
Narrator: That's right, NewYinzer. When you sense immediate pwnage, duck and cover. Let's see how you should duck and cover if pwnage is imminent and there is no immediate cover to be found...
*falls into a 1950's fantasy world*
Eminem? What are you, living in the 90's or something?
*sends sack of pwnage with express mail*
Well, I guess I liked him too - but that was when I was young and foolish. -w-
I never liked him... He makes recursive rapping (raps about rapping) and I can not stand that!
Yes Eminem has always been such a fool.
Quote from: "NewYinzer"All depends on taste.
See that is the holy truth my friends. You can't really say that some artist is pure crap, because there is always someone out there who likes that artist.
I for example have many friends who like Eminem very much, and others who despise him, that is why it is very important to have an open mind for music.
QuoteI like Kotoko's "Shooting Star" just as much as Bach's "Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins"
I have to say the same thing, I find Kotoko's Shooting Star to be a brilliant song, expressive and such, and Bach's Concerto in d as well (I remember playing that with my room-mate in collage by the way ahh good times).
QuoteI'm now gonna duck for cover for comparing J-Pop to Classical...
Don't, I compare the two all the time, so if we have to duck and cover everytime we compare them I'd have terminal back pain.
Compare not! UNITE!!!!
*fusion....HAAA!!!!*
JVIOLINPOP!
You're kinda reading my mind there Nejin, I actually started composing a mix of J-pop and classical some time ago, intended for the song division and the orchestra of my school.
Hehehe ^^
What came to my mind was mostly that TAMUSIC violin remixes of the Haruhi songs...
A-ha, the tremaro fiddler. Yeah I think that he could have done a lot better on those songs.
I forgot to add...My favorite western animation show is The Simpsons :D
futurama is so much better then the simpsons
Quote from: "Gummster"A-ha, the tremaro fiddler. Yeah I think that he could have done a lot better on those songs.
he does a lot of Touhou stuff too.
I think he does better with his piano than the strings. ^^
Quote from: "CaptBrenden"futurama is so much better then the simpsons
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agreed. :3
futurama is good but i don't really think its any better than the simpsons. well for me they are highly "watchable" and both gives a good laugh from time to time. Invader Zim is a different thing altogether, the countless quotes you can use. that reminds me i need to change my sig...
Futurama, Simpson, Invader Zim, I've never really liked them american brainless comedies
I agree wholeheartedly. Completely mindless
That is why God created anime! Animation that makes sense!
Quotefuturama is so much better then the simpsons
Futurama comes in a close second for me :) I guess the thing I like the most about the Simpsons is how I can see an episode a few times and I'll still notice new jokes and parodies I may have missed. There's a reason it's been on the air for nearly 17 years ;010
QuoteFuturama, Simpson, Invader Zim, I've never really liked them american brainless comedies
QuoteI agree wholeheartedly. Completely mindless
I certainly don't see The Simpsons as brainless...though, I shouldn't be one to talk, I have friends that can't imagine why I don't like Family Guy or American Dad...
haha now those two ARE brainless!
I've finally found someone who agrees! ^_^
QuoteFuturama, Simpson, Invader Zim, I've never really liked them american brainless comedies
Number of successful comedies out of the United States: More than 10
Number of successful comedies out of Iceland: ???
Spaugstofan
Fóstbræður
TvÃhöfði
Plus new I don't know of because I don't really watch TV
Those just don't get popular in the outer world because they're not in english.
lots of things don't get popular because they aren't english, japanese or chinese.
futurama, simpsons, invader zim, anime = good
family guy, american dad = not so good
monty python's flying circus = amazing
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because I'm bored:
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^^ I remember reading her webcomic long ago...
Awesome pic! heehee...
lisa's related to son goku! hehehe