Time to Jump in the Bandwagon

[Maokun]

That's right, a Q&A session by yours truly, in a pitiful display of lack of originality and a pathetic attempt to escape from the unvaoidable obscurity of being a relatively new member. (Thank God for Groucho Marx and his making self-deprecation hip...wait, that was 30 years ago).

Anyway ask ahoy, no secret shall be left uncovered!

[Ante Bellum]

How well did you have to time your jump in order to perfectly land in the bandwagon?

[rocklobster]

Favorite anime titles?
Favorite writers?
What are your musical tastes?

[Maokun]

@Ante Bellum
Like any self-respecting gentleman of the road, I rode my noble steed at exactly the same speed of the carriage, and jumping from his back I landed gracefully on it. Never fails to impress the ladies.

@rocklobster
My fav animes would be Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion (gets banned) and Death Note. I tend to favour shonen and seinen but I can enjoy any other genre. Favourite writers would be C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett and Agatha Christie with Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman following close.

My musical tastes are a bit hard to describe. I'm tragically mainstream but I also have appretiate a good dose of indie. I like almost any genre -from latin to rock, from gospel to classical, from j-pop to reggae, etc- as long as the song talks to me in certain way: I like my music to tell stories, either in the lyrics or in the melodies, especially the latter, as I like to imagine and create stories following the beat, the highs and lows, the crescendos and resolutions, etc. My favourite band, hands down, is U2.

[Lilac#18]

Do you have any siblings?

[Maokun]

No, I'm an only child. Yeah, I know: spoiled, etc, etc.

[rocklobster]

Who is that in the avatar?
What does your username mean?

[Maokun]

He's the main character from the greatest indie game ever created: Cave Story. (Mr. Fish & Chips' avatar is also from that game).

My username is the short of my name + the japanese suffix -kun.

[Phantom_Sorano]

1. What lead you to join the CAA?
2. What are some of your aspirations?
3. Which stereotype do you fall under?
4. What do believe Heaven will look like?
5. If there was a book character that mirrored your personality, who would it be?

[Maokun]

Good questions

1. I was planning to join an anime forum again for a while (I had been a frequent member of Anime Planet, but after life got busy, it fell to the side) so I made a quick search for anime forums and I found this one, which also happened to be Christian so I joined instantly.
2. I want to be a fiction/graphic novel writer and I want some of my creations to reach some recognization to feel I added something to humanity's imaginary collective pool. I want to find a woman that can put up with my sillyness and get married some day (I'm a hopeless romantic, so there is a bunch of thigns in my life that I don't want to picture myself doing alone)
3. Nerdy "good boy": socially awkward, stupidly sentimental, naïvely loyal, beloved by the mothers, scorned by the daughters, etc, etc.
4. I fervently hope for a C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle"-like heaven: a place where there is infinite beauty and knowledge to be awed at for the rest of eternity. A place where both my emotions and my intellect will be challenged forever as my spirit is in total communion with God.
5. Probably Eustace from the Chronicles of Narnia. Or Pippin from TLotR. Or a mix of both.

[rocklobster]

Are you into Disney?

[Maokun]

Yes, totally, though they havent done anything really great (outside of Pixar) since The Emperor's new Groove with the probable exception of Lilo & Stitch. Thankfully I feel Bolt was a step in the right direction and now they decided to go back to the 2D business, I'm hoping the decade of the 2010 will be like the 90's over again.

[Phantom_Sorano]

Hmmm...how interesting.

1. What would you have written on your epitaph?
2. Favorite musicial piece?
3. What is your ideal date?

[rocklobster]

1. What is your favorite Pixar movie?
2. What do you think of Dreamworks' cartoons?
3. What video game systems do you own?
4. What is your favorite animal?

[Maokun]

@Phantom (I liked better your older avatar, but what do I know? )
1. "AFK" More seriously, "Seeing the things that no eye has seen" or something like that.
2. You mean as in classical music, as opposed to just "a song", right? It would be Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, without a doubt, although closely followed by Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
3. First of all, a woman that loves you. I do not believe in dates that have the purpose of hopefully swooning the victim into believing you are cool enough to date, just because you went out of your way to do something outlandish. In a real date (IMHO) the details are secondary to the main event: you and her alone, in a romantic atmosphere, having all the time and quietness to talk or just stare into one another eyes. The ideal date is not the one where you get to do many things (those are fun, though), but the one where you get to focus on the one that matters: her, and you with her, the miracle of real love bewtween two human beings.

@rocklobster
1. It was unbeatably Toy Story 2 for several years -though, Finding Nemo came close- then, Ratatouille came. Anton Ego's humbled final monologue doesn't fail to bring tears to my eyes every time.
2. http://blogs.indiewire.com/images/blogs/kohn/archives/dreamworks_pixar.jpg
A bit more seriously, there's talent in DW, but I dislike how they always stop in the way to milk a franchise whenever they hit gold. I'm by no means against sequels, but is easy for everyone to see when a sequel is carefully planned, serving as a real enrichment of the first movie and it's a great movie on it's own (hence my predilection for TS2) and when it's simply something thrown togheter knowing that it will cash in the success and the name of the first one. Yes, I'm talking of Shrek. I was delighted with Kung Fu Panda beyond my expectations, nevertheless.
3. When I moved to Australia I regrettably had to sell my Wii and give away my PS1, only bringing with me my PSP. Now I also have a PS2 to catch up in several games I missed before getting a current generation one.
4. The fox. God, they are beautiful. I also love their role in mythologies and folk stories.

[rocklobster]

1. Ever check out any old movies? If so, any favorites?
2. Favorite Biblical figure besides Jesus?
3. Favorite Cowboy Bebop character?

[Maokun]

1. Ever check out any old movies? If so, any favorites?
2. Favorite Biblical figure besides Jesus?
3. Favorite Cowboy Bebop character?

1. I'm fortunate that my best friend is a movie geek and he forced onto me a lot of classical features that otherwise, in my ignorance, I wouldn't have approached with at 2 meters stick. My favourite is probably Fritz Lang's Metropolis
2. Simon Peter. He's like the Lord's Samwise Gamgee or Sancho Panza: simple, stubborn, sometimes dumb, sometimes insightful, sometimes brave, sometimes coward, but always loving of his Master.
3. I'm afraid I cannot offer anything interesting in this department. Spike is just too cool.

[yukoxholic]

1.) If your life were a manga which manga-ka would you choose to write/draw for it?

2.) Favorite quote?

3.) If you had a time machine and could go back in time what era would you visit and why?

[Maokun]

1. Some years ago I'd have wished for CLAMP, so they would draw me totally gorgeous and super cool with my jacket flowing on a breeze of sakura petals. Nowadays, it would be Eichiro Oda. Man would I have fun!

2. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mistery, but today is a gift. That's why it is called the 'Present'".

3. Only back in time? Hrm, I would prefer to go to the future, but if there's no chance of that, then let it be to the to the time of the dinosaurs, following on Calvin's footsteps. That, or some years ago to correct a few stupid mistakes I made. (universe-ending paradoxes be darned!)

[Phantom_Sorano]

My....such interesting answers. I must pose better questions.

1. Which tragic figure in history would you like to meet and why?
2. If granted three wishes, what would you wish for?
3. What is the most sponetaneous thing you have ever done?
4. What is something that most people don't know about you?

[Maokun]

1. Skipping the very obvious (and eventually, not hypotetical) answer of Jesus, I'd probably go with Alexander the Great. Yeah, I know that the biggest tragedy in his life was just dying young, but when you have a life like that amazing, dying at that age must particularly sting.

2. SKipping again the obvious (and rather unfeasible) wishes for world peace, et cetera, I'll allow myself to be selfish. One, the power of teleportation (one of my pet peeves is being held back by traffic or other silly stuff like elevators stopping at each floor.); Two, a job that allows me do something I love and is well paid and three, one free wish for each day for the rest of my life. I wouldn't wish for love or free money/possessions because those are things that I believe must be earned by myself.

3. I was raised into being a very squared and calculating person; always carefully planing every single step, several steps ahead. But in the latest years I've learned to let loose and I've started being more espontaneous. However, that means that my list is still short and nothing of the things I've done yet is any kind of awe-inspiring. Probably the top of the list is having taken a bus to where my girlfriend back then was living for a time, which was at the other extreme of the city-a trip of almost two hours- after leaving late in the night from my job. I barely had 5 minutes with her before having to take one of the latest buses back home, but she surely appretiated it.

4. Several things! I'm a rather secretive person because I'm enjoy being understimated and then strike unexpectedly and amuse myself with the looks of disbelief on people's faces. Only the closest persons to me know some things about me from below my facade of clueless man-child and even they do not really know most of me. I yearn to have someone willing to really know me, but alas, that hasnt happened yet. Anyway, to answer your question with something unsavoury and obscure to set yellow tabloids ablaze: Amongst the choice 5% or so songs in my playlist with 5 stars, there is a song of the Backstreet Boys *GASP*