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Some very random things about Sinlee…

Some All-time Favorites

Color: Red
Mammal: Cheetah
Bird: Penguin
Shape: Circle
Food: Sashimi
Shoes: Converse
Magazines: Wired, Kerrang, Spin
Activies: Attending concerts, swiming, reading, computer games, random artistic endeavors, hanging with “Valentina” (cryptic isn’t it?)

Books (in random order)
Fiction:

  • “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • “The End of The Affair” by Graham Greene
  • “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Short Stories” by Tim Burton
  • “Romeo & Juliet” by William Shakespeare
  • “The Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King
  • “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” by Mark Haddon
  • “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
  • “Time’s Arrow” by Martin Amis
  • “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk
  • “I, Lucifer” by Glen Duncan
  • The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
  • The Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend

Non-Fiction:

  • “The Ethical Brain” by Michael S. Gazzaniga
  • “The Stuff of Thought” by Steven Pinker
  • “Freakonomics” by Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt
  • “A Primate’s Memoir” by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins

Movies:

  • Life is Beautiful
  • City of God
  • I <3 Huckabees
  • District 9
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Monty Python & The Holy Grail
  • Burn After Reading
  • Se7en
  • Memento
  • American History X
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Matrix
  • Wall-E
  • Paper Heart
  • Sin City
  • V for Vendetta

Artists:

  • Salvador Dali
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Georges-Pierre Seurat
  • Jon Burgerman
  • Nanami Cowdroy
  • Hua Yan

Some Current Favorites

TV Shows: Hell’s Kitchen, South Park, House, The Biggest Loser, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show

Activities: Making vintage magnets, making vintage prints in frames, painting

Websites:  Gizmodo, Neatorama, BitMob, NotCot, ThinkGeek, Hulu, CNN,  The Dark Empire

Games: Gears of War, Rockband, World of Warcraft, Plants vs Zombies

Random likes that came to mind spontaneously

Intelligence, logic, Shaker pencils, geeks, hand-painted tiles, baroque furniture, the egg chair, Wusthoff knives, Sur La Table, Armani Exchange, learning, Tim Burton movies, receiving gifts, The Sandman, punk rock, stripes, matching silverware, lighted keyboards, success, peace, cherry blossom tea, cooking, earrings, Pandora, Sesame Street, Buddhism, idealism, herb-growing, freecell, Milo, Trader Joe’s half-pound chocolate bars, double-breasted coats, how-to books, green jewelry, the theory of cognitive dissonance, belief from knowledge (and not the other way around), Pirouette rolled wafers, Calvin and Hobbes, bravery.

Random dislikes that came to mind spontaneously

Onion rings, polka-dots, ignorance, religious extremists, Hannah Montana, racists, narcissists, homophobes, attention-getters, overcooked fish, violence, Hummers, long beans, spyware, pop-ups, dirty public restrooms, Family Guy, uncomfortable shoes