19 year old Film Major in Seattle, WA. I don't use this site much anymore, save for pages on my favorite works, and for the SBIG/SBIH subsections. Everything else is filled with too much censorship, or mind numbing Fan Myopia (Because, you know, The Rules of the Game doesn't need a work page, but Miracle Maid Himiko-chan does).
- All Love is Unrequited: The greatest love I've ever known is one that will never go beyond a close, if highly unique friendship.
- Ambiguously Brown
- Apologizes Alot
- Asexuality: A type 3 or 4 Gray-A.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Of course, I can sit through Tarkovsky or The Human Condition just fine.
- Bi the Way
- Berserk Button: Many. Though I seem very sensitive to sexism and double standards therein (Girl on Girl Is Hot, Double Standard Rape: Female on Male, etc), as well as black and white interpretations of history, which goes hand in hand with Nationalism. Also, insulting Kurosawa, Bergman, or Tarkovsky.
- Celibate Hero
- Cloudcuckoolander: Supposedly. It's a really obnoxious thing to bring about, though.
- Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch:
- Control Freak
- Covert Pervert
- Dead Baby Comedy
- Deadpan Snarker
- Disappeared Dad
- Department of Redundancy Department
- Friendless Background
- Furry Fandom: I am mostly into it for the often awesome art. No, I don't have a fursona. Though If I did, it'd be a shark. (You're surprised, yes?)
- Grammar Nazi: Kind of.
- Gratuitous Japanese: Defied. Despite being a Second Year college student of the language, I actively refuse to pepper my speech with it.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Unfortunately.
- Hollywood Personality Disorders: Borderline, natch.
- The Illegible
- Ineffectual Loner
- Jabba Table Manners
- Jump Cut: A big fan of these (at least, the actual definition of one - such as those seen in Breathless).
- Just One More Level...
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All
- Le Film Artistique: Stereotyped as a lover of these. Usually by people who have never seen the films in question. Apparently loving foreign movies means loving pretentious movies - because American movies could never be pretentious!
- Larynx Dissonance: My singing voice is in fact slightly lower than my speaking voice (which is freakishly high)
- Long List
- Love Triangle: Think they're fun? Think again.
- Meet Cute: Not a romantic meet, and perhaps not even a cute one, but one of my best friendships began when she asked what some of the worst music was, and I responded by showing her Blood on the Dancefloor.
- Mood-Swinger
- Nightmare Fetishist: I'm dead serious about this. You can show me just about anything, and it's not going to weird me out. A Serbian Film didn't effect me in the least bit (though I found it an interesting commentary on Serbia itself). Recitified Anonymity was a walk in the park. I plan on reading Agony in Pink.
- No Social Skills: It really depends.
- The Oner: I try.
- The Other Rainforest: As much as I love it here in Seattle, come 2 years from now or so, I probably wont be part of this trope anymore (Horrible Hollywood, here I come!)
- Orgasmically Delicious: I do this a lot due to the amazing food variety here in the Emerald City. It can get.... awkward for me.
- Self-Deprecation
- Serial Tweaker: AND HOW.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The Loquaciousness particularly rings true, and this trope most often comes into play when I'm trying to write a short comment. You'll know it's me if my post is 90% longer than every other one. The same applies if I'm trying to tell a story.
- Soapbox Sadie: On the internet, anyway. Or if I'm in a Film Class.
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary
- Wangst
- Would Hit a Girl: As an ardent feminist, I thoroughly believe in this trope. If you insult my family, or do something to hurt me, don't be upset if I punch you and you just so happen to be a girl.
A note: While I consider all of this favorites, I don’t necessarily consider them all ‘the best’ - rather, they are films which had an extreme amount of influence on me.
- À bout de souffle (Breathless)
- Ace in the Hole
- アキラ (AKIRA)
- Aliens
- All About Eve
- Aparajito
- Apocalypse Now
- Au Hasard Balthasar
- Bande à part
- Barry Lyndon
- Barton Fink
- バトル・ロワイアル (Battle Royale)
- La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast; 1948)
- Birdemic
- Blade Runner [Final Cut]
- Breaking the Waves
- Brief Encounter
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Candyman
- A Clockwork Orange
- Children of Men
- Chinatown
- 重慶森林 (Chungking Express)
- Citizen Kane
- El espinazo del diablo (The Devil’s Backbone)
- La Dolce Vita
- Donnie Darko
- Double Indemnity
- La double vie de Véronique/Podwójne życie Weroniki (The Double Life of Veronique)
- 酔いどれ天使 (Drunken Angel)
- земля (Earth/Zemlia)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The End of Evangelion
- The Evil Dead
- Fanny och Alexander (TV Version)
- 霸王别姬 (Farewell My Concubine)
- Fargo
- Fight Club
- Frenzy
- Frontier(s)
- Full Metal Jacket
- Gycklarnas afton (Sawdust and Tinsel)
- ゴジラ (Gojira; the original uncut 1954 version)
- Gone With the Wind
- Gun Crazy
- Halloween
- 切腹 (Harakiri)
- Harry Potter
- ハウス (Hausu)
- Heathers
- 英雄 (Hero)
- 隠し砦の三悪人 (The Hidden Fortress)
- 天国と地獄 (High and Low/Heaven and Hell)
- Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
- 盜馬賊 (The Horse Thief)
- 十面埋伏 (House of Flying Daggers)
- la bête humaine (The Human Beast)
- 人間の条件 (The Human Condition)
- I Am Cuba/Soy Cuba
- 白痴 (The Idiot)
- 生きる (Ikiru)
- 花樣年華 (In the Mood for Love)
- The Incredibles
- Inglourious Basterds
- À l'interieur (Inside)
- Irréversible
- Иван Грозный, часть I и II (Ivan the Terrible, Part I and II)
- Иваново детство (Ivan’s Childhood)
- Jackie Brown
- Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring)
- Juno
- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick's first film - not the bad TV Show)
- Kill Bill
- The King of Comedy
- Kiss Me Deadly
- 藪の中の黒猫 (Kuroneko/Black Cat in the Bush)
- 怪談 (Kwaidan)
- La Chinoise
- L.A. Confidential
- The Lady Vanishes
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- L'Avventura
- L'Enfance Nue
- Les Vampires
- The Lion King
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Lost in Translation
- 愛のむきだしき (Love Exposure)
- M
- Masculin Feminin
- Magnolia
- Martyrs
- Melancholia
- Metropolis
- Miami Connection
- The Music Room
- Щастя моє (My Joy)
- Nattvardgästerna (Winter Light)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street/New Nightmare
- Nosferatu
- Nostalghia
- Offret (The Sacrifice)
- Oldboy
- Orphée (Orpheus)
- Paris, Texas
- El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
- Persona
- Psycho
- Pulp Fiction
- Raging Bull
- 大红灯笼高高挂 (Raise the Red Lantern)
- 乱 (Ran)
- 羅生門 (Rashomon)
- 赤ひげ (Red Beard)
- 紅高粱 (Red Sorghum)
- La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)
- The Red Shoes
- Requiem for a Dream
- The River
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- 我的父亲母亲 (The Road Home)
- The Room
- Rope
- Rosemary's Baby
- La Roue
- Русалка (Rusalka/Mermaid)
- Rushmore
- 山椒大夫 (Sansho the Bailiff)
- Saraband
- Såsom i en spegel (Through A Glass Darkly)
- Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes From A Marriage)
- Scream
- A Serious Man
- 七人の侍 (Seven Samurai; maybe my personal favorite film of all time)
- 式日 (Shiki-Jitsu/Ritual)
- Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal)
- 大菩薩峠 (The Sword of Doom)
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Sleeping Beauty (animated)
- Собиратель пуль (Bullet Collector)
- Sommaren med Monika (Summer With Monika)
- Сталер (Stalker)
- 歩いても, 歩いても (Still Walking)
- 砂の女 (Woman in the Dunes)
- Sunset Boulevard
- 他人の顔 (The Face of Another)
- Taxi Driver
- Terminator 2
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (as in, the 1974 original)
- There Will Be Blood
- The Thief and the Cobbler [recobbled cut]
- The Thing
- 蜘蛛巣城 (Throne of Blood, or, Spider Web Castle)
- Titanic
- Trainspotting
- The Trial
- Try and Catch Me!
- 東京物語 (Tokyo Story)
- 活着 (To Live)
- Touch of Evil
- 12 Monkeys
- Tystnaden (The Silence)
- 雨月物語 (Ugetsu)
- Up in the Air
- Vampyre
- Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf)
- Vertigo
- Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers)
- Wall-E
- Watchmen (Director’s Cut)
- Week-End
- Wings of Desire
- The World of Apu
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Wizard of Oz
- 用心棒 (Yojimbo)
- Ana Tijoux
- Arcade Fire
- Arkona
- Asobi Seksu
- Bat For Lashes
- The Besnard Lakes
- Big Black
- Billie Holiday
- Björk
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Blondie
- ボリス (Boris)
- 粵語流行音樂 (Cantopop)
- The Cars
- Chinese Rock
- The Church
- Cocteau Twins
- Courtney Love
- Cream
- Cristina
- Crooked Fingers
- 崔健/최건 (Cui Jian)
- Curve
- Cyndi Lauper
- Delays
- Depeche Mode
- Dinosaur Jr.
- дельфин (Dolphin)
- Doom Metal
- Dusty Springfield
- Ellie Greenwhich (songwriter)
- Fleetwood Mac
- Folk Metal
- Foster the People
- The Gits
- Глюкоза (Glukoza)
- The Go Go's
- Goldfrapp
- Gorillaz
- Gothic Metal
- Henryk Gorecki
- Gwen Stefani
- H-D-H (Holland-Dozier-Holland; trio of amazing songwriters from the 60s)
- Hole
- Hot Chip
- Janet Jackson
- Interpol
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Joy Division
- Kate Bush
- Kelly Clarkson
- КИНО
- L7
- Lady Gaga
- Ladytron
- Led Zeppelin
- Lustmord
- M83
- Macklemore
- Madonna
- Marina and the Diamonds
- Metric
- MGMT
- Minutemen
- Muse
- The National
- Nelly Furtado
- New Order
- Nick Cave
- Nirvana
- No Doubt
- N.W.A.
- Paramore
- Passion Pit
- Phillip Glass
- Pixies
- PJ Harvey
- Portugal. The Man
- Sergei Prokofiev
- The Psychedelic Furs
- The Replacements
- Shad
- Shadow Martin (songwriter)
- Shaggy
- The Shangri La's
- Shawn Lee
- Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (Morovian Metal band)
- Slint
- Sludge Metal
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Smith Westerns
- Sonic Youth
- Soundgarden
- Sparklehorse
- сплин (Spleen)
- Starfucker
- Stoner Metal
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Tears For Fears
- The Thermals
- This Mortal Coil
- The Vaselines
- The Veronicas
- Viking Metal
- Wolf Parade
- We Were Promised Jet Packs
- The White Stripes
- Yeah Yeah Yeah's
- Yeasayer
- ゆらゆら帝国 (Yura Yura Teikoku)
- Doctor Who
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Degrassi (including the original two incarnations Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High)
- The Simpsons
- Death Note
- Excel Saga, and its spin-off, Puni Puni Poemi.
- Futurama
- Gravity Falls
- King of the Hill
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit + Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Most for the absurdity.
- Mad Men. Favorite TV Show.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Phineas and Ferb (though I think it's gone downhill)
- The Soup
- Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, and not just because of blind nostaliga.
- The X-Files
- Bioshock 1 & 2
- Grand Theft Auto San Andreas + Grand Theft Auto IV
- L.A. Noire. Rockstar's overlooked masterpiece. Also, COLE!
- Okami
- Red Dead Redemption
- inFAMOUS
- The City and the Pillar
- A Clockwork Orange
- Harry Potter
- My Immortal
- Shakespeare.
- Watchmen
- A Yellow Raft on Blue Water
I have a strong interest in both Modernist and Humanist literature, however. I plan to do something about that soon.
- Wikipedia
- Fanfiction.net: I have a profile there
, where I write less than stellar fanfics
- Deviant Art: Love to troll/watch tarts, and love to favorite fantastic art. My profile.
- If you couldn't tell from that.... Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls.
- Architecture, mainly Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Gothic, and Stalinist.
- Astronomy
- Canada
- Cars
- Collecting old used Cellphones
- Feminism
- Food. (Of all types, obscure and non)
- Geology
- Jackets (some people have purses, or shoes, but I have this)
- Mythology
- Paleontology
- Seattle
- Russia
- Sharks
- Theology
- Theoretical Physics. Minus the whole math part...
- Twitter (and I wont reveal my account)
- Weaponry
- Wiki Walks
- World History, especially Russian, German, Eastern European, Medieval, and East + Southeast Asian. And Late 19th Century and 20th Century History.
Really? Thanks! I never got complimented for that before, so I... yeah. The country has its drawbacks, but... thanks! :) Re: taste, is it due to the TV Tropes list or my last.fm profile? Well, I guess we have something in common, even though I tend to feel stupid for overdoing the MUSIC IS SRS BSNS angle. Ya mind if I linkified some of your links? But yeah, there is some overlap in taste, so yers is good too! Could use more shoegazing/neopsychedelia. You hate Prince? Well, no problem, I viciously hate Björk. And some other bands that aren't on your list and aren't worth a mention, hahaha. XD - Sen
Sorry for taking so long to get back, I'm on vacation now and the Internet access gets pretty erratic. And yes, I know what you mean, I think Prince suddenly went to the shitter starting in The '90s. Is thinking Batman is his last good album crazier than not having a last.fm profile? :) TBH I was surprised you said Love Symbol instead of the usual Sign o' the Times, but hey, I totally wrecked up the Prince page once, so you prolly know my bias against his nineties stuff. (also agreed, he can be pretty frustrating to listen to sometimes.) If you want, I can either try helping with that list, or you can just skim my last.fm library, 'cos it's pretty large, innit? Heheheh. I'm pretty happy at your favourite bands list too! Just wish I could like Slint even more than I already do... Also TBH I don't really like noise rock, I just went through a phase of trying it. Much prefer noise pop or really loud neo-psychedelia. XD So, you on vacation too? :) PS I think at one point you said you were planning on contributing to the Courtney Love page? How'd that work? - Sen
Now I need to apologise for taking another month to reply. Sorry! Shit happens. :) Yeah, I meant out of school - 'cos I am as well right now. And you're right, your list is already hugeish. Probably bigger than mine at points, ROFL! I think I did the Courtney Love revamp, IIRC. Don't worry, I clog up yours too. >:) Well, have fun troping! Oh, and happy birthday in advance/lateness! XD - Sen
Hi! -Indigo12ash
I'm just happy to find another troper who is also appalled by this site's censorship. Best to you. -Alrune
