: About Me

General Interests: alternative parenting, art, buddhism, civil rights, crafting/diy, filmmaking, gay rights, organic food, painting, reading, writing, women's rights

Favorite Musical Artists: Aceyalone, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Atmosphere, Erykah Badu, Beck, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Cibo Matto, John Coltrane, D'Angelo, Miles Davis, Ani DiFranco, EBTG, Esthero, Nelly Furtado, Gaelle, Goapele, PJ Harvey, Imogen Heap, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Bettye LaVette, John Lennon, Massive Attack, Rhett Miller, Mos Def, Naked Music NYC, Prince, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Roots, Ursula Rucker, Lisa Shaw, Shrift, Nina Simone, Bessie Smith, KT Turnstall, Rufus Wainwright, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Favorite Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, After Life, Chungking Express, Dreams, The Royal Tenenbaums

Favorite Television Shows: Barefoot Contessa, The Boondocks, Charlie and Lola, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Good Eats, Lost, Nigella Feasts, Project Runway, Samurai Champloo, Sesame Street, That '70s Show, The Venture Brothers

Favorite Books: Beloved, Dangerous Angels, Interpreter of Maladies, Native Speaker, Orlando, The Woman Warrior

Personal Heroes: Francesca Lia Block, Ani DiFranco, Ariel Gore, Katharine Hepburn, Akira Kurosawa, Ayun Halliday, Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, Karen O, Faye Wong, Wong Kar-Wai, and of course, my friends and family

My passion is ...

truth

I know too much about ...

pop culture

My parents always told me ...

to remember to say "please" and "thank you"

My childhood ambition ...

to be an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

is of this past Christmas with my family

Why I write ...

to communicate

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Emperor and the Wolf/What Not to Wear/Africa Unite - The Singles Collection

My first job ...

was in a windowless basement of a bank

My best moment ...

is whenever I'm with the people I love

My inspiration ...

is my family

Entertainment > Celebrity Biographies Biography: Takeshi Kaneshiro

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Actor Biography: Takeshi Kaneshiro While Takeshi Kaneshiro has been a major celebrity in China since the early 1990s, he's still relatively unknown in the US. In fact, his popularity has spread throughout the rest of Asia, a remarkable feat considering the vast cultural and political differences between each country in the region. Kaneshiro's unprecedented popularity isn't just due to his good looks or his unusual choice in movie roles (he's been called the "Johnny Depp of Asia" in the press), but also his formidable intelligence and ever-increasing range as an actor. Surely, he's a force ...

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