All About Z

Some of My Interests....
MUSIC:
 
ROCK N ROLL: Beatles, The Who, Moody Blues, Queen, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones,  Steely Dan, Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, and Blondie
 
VOCALS: The Carpenters, Joni Mitchell, Mary Fahl and October Project, Petula Clark, Simon and Garfunkel, Amy Grant, ABBA, Basia, Bic Runga and Nick Drake 
ALTERNATIVE: 10,000 Maniacs, Lush, Sundays, Tanya Donelly, Belly & Throwing Muses, Bjork and Sugarcubes, Ivy, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, Breeders, Pixies and Jellyfish
 
J-POP: CoCo & Ribbon, Princess Princess, Hikaru Nishida, Chisato Moritaka, Momoe Yamaguchi, Yumi Matsutoya, Hikaru Utada, Seiko Matsuda and ZARD
 
K-POP: f(x), Girls Generation, KARA, T-ARA, Dal Shabet, APink, 4Minute, AfterSchool, Rainbow, Secret, 2NE1, SISTAR, and AOA!
  MOVIES:   
Amadeus, American Graffiti,The Wizard Of Oz, The Sound Of Music, Grease, La Bamba, Back To The Future, Groundhog Day, The Wiz, That Thing You Do, Junebug, Dave, Beautiful Girls, Meatballs, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, History Of The World, Pt. I, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Top Secret!, Bad Santa, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Queen Christina, Love In The Afternoon, Twelve Angry Men, The Divorce Of Lady X, Roman Holiday, Ninotchka, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Don't Make Waves, Casablanca, North By Northwest, Heaven Can Wait, Searching For Bobby Fisher,The Road Home, Wait Until Dark, The Graduate
 Once Upon a Time In America, Scarface, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I and II, Enemy at The Gates, Once Upon a Time in the West, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Insomnia, Magic, The Untouchables, Ed Wood, Good Night and Good Luck, Pollock, Charlie Wilson's War, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Catch Me If You Can, Ghost World, The Royal Tenenbaums
Bladerunner (theatrical, NOT directors cut), An American Werewolf In London, Star Wars & The Empire Strikes Back,  Strange Days, A Clockwork Orange, The Warriors, Dark City, Road To Perdition, Mad Max & The Road Warrior, Sin City, Children Of Men, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Matrix, Planet Of The Apes, Lord Of The Rings ('78), The Hobbit, V For Vendetta
The James Bond Movies (fave: For Your Eyes Only) and the Walt Disney films
J-MOVIES: Funuke Domo Kanashimi No Ai wo Misero, Okuribito, Summer Time-Machine Blues, Onnatachi Ni Nidou wa Asobu, Hitsudan Hostess, Kanojo to no Tadashii Asobikata, AZUMI, Hana And Alice, Hula Girls, The Hidden Blade, Twilight Samurai, ZOO
TELEVISION:
            CLASSIC TV: Brady Bunch, Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, to Hawaii 5-O, Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, The Young Ones and Absolutely Fabulous
J-DRAMAS:
 Agri (NHK Morning Drama), Hideyoshi (NHK Taiga Drama). Long Vacation, Hitotsu Yane No Shita, Konna Koi no Hanashi, Renai Kekkon No Rule, Oishii Kankei, Aishiteru To Ittekure (Say You Love Me, Virgin Road, Riso No Joshi (The Ideal Boss), Tengoku Ni Chikai Otoko (Heaven Cannot Wait), Kagayake! Rintaro, To Heart, Second Chance, Mada Koi wa Hajimaranai
Hotaru No Hikari, Mop Girl, Nodame Cantabile, Last Friends, Seigi No Mikata, Yasashi Jikan, Ashita No Kita Yoshio, Boku To Kanojo To Ikiru Michi, Tiger And Dragon, Lunch No Joou, Papa To Musume No Nanokan, Osen, Yume Wo Kanaeru Zo, Loss Time Life, My Boss My Hero
BOOKS: 
General Mystery: Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Dean R Koontz
SF/Fantasy: JRR Tolkien, Mike Resnick, Stephen Gould and Robert McCammon
 Humor:David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Sandra Tsing Loh and Tom Robbins
YA enthusiast: Beverly Cleary,Three Investigators, Encyclopedia Brown, Scott Corbett and Esther Averill
COMICS
Silver Age Marvels: From Avengers to Fantastic Four to X-Men, yup, yup. also FANTAGRAPHICS series like Usagi Yojimbo and Love And Rockets, VERTIGO a la SANDMAN, Archie Comics, Indies SAGA and FREAKANGELS
 
MAD Magazine and HEAVY METAL Magazine,
Also the Classic Peanuts by Charles M Schulz, and Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson