Name Origin: St. Clare and St. Francis of Assisi and English actress Claire Bloom
Screen Name: Makoto_4 (at the Sitcoms Online message boards), kinomakoto4 (at the Internet Movie Database)
Screen Name Origin: Makoto is the first name of Makoto Kino, the civilian identity of Sailor Jupiter from Pretty Soldier Sailormoon and the "4" refers to Jupiter's planet symbol
Date of Birth: April 28, 1983 (about a month before the May 25, 1983 release of Return of the Jedi)
Birthplace: Hayward, CA
Height: 5 foot 2
Ethnicity: Flipina
Religion: Catholic
Favorite Food: Any type of food, especially Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Mexican, American, Mediterranean, Greek, Indian. I'll try anything
Favorite Colors: Blue, Green, Black, White, Purple, Plum, Rose, Brown
Interests: Japanese anime (see anime list below); drawing; anything in the arts; writing; reading; various countries and their cultures; movies (mostly classic and older movies, Alfred Hitchcock films); tv shows (see tv show list below); The Untouchables (in all of its incarnations but mainly the original 1959-1963 tv series); video games (mostly classic/old-school games and music games such as Dance Dance Revolution, In the Groove, and Guitar Hero)
Favorite Characters: Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter (Pretty Soldier Sailormoon); Lime (Saber Marionette J and J Again); Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek movies 1-6); Sophia Petrillo (The Golden Girls); Marle (Chrono Trigger); Edna "E" Mode (The Incredibles); Judge Harold T. Stone (Night Court); Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
Favorite/Runner-Up Fave Books:
Jane Austen's novels (her best novels are Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion. Runners-up are
Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey and at third place, Lady Susan. Not that the last one was bad but I liked the first
6 better); The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis; Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling;
The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit both by J.R.R. Tolkien;
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto;
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan;
Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden by William Shatner (would make a great Trek movie);
Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and
Daniel Deronda, all three by George Eliot
Favorite Comics: Calvin and Hobbes; Garfield; Peanuts
Favorite Video Games: Bonk's Adventure; Bonk's Revenge; Bonk 3 (all 3 on Turbo Graphix 16); Chrono Trigger (SNES); Dance Dance Revolution series, especially mixes 3rd, 4th, 4th Plus, 5th, Extreme (arcade versions, Playstation 1 & 2); Guitar Hero series (Playstation 2); In the Groove 1 & 2 (arcade versions and Playstation 2); Kid Icarus (NES); The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES); Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64); Pretty Soldier Sailormoon: Another Story RPG (SNES, English-translated version); Metroid series (NES, classic Game Boy, SNES, Game Boy Advance); Super Mario All-Stars (SNES); Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3 (all 3 on NES); Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
Favorite Music: oldies (50s, 60s and 70s), 80s, soft rock, hard rock, anime soundtracks, movie soundtracks, dance music and remixes. I'll listen to nearly just about everything except country and rap, though I do listen to a few good songs from those genres and country is easier to listen to than rap.
Favorite Songs: Now in its own page
Favorite Groups/Artists: ABBA; The Beatles; Depeche Mode; Erasure;
Josh Groban; The Killers; Knight Sabers; Kylie Minogue; Peach Hips; Pet Shop Boys;
Queen; Smile dk; Tears For Fears; 2 Unlimited; U2; "Weird" Al Yankovic
Favorite Soundtracks: Back to the Future trilogy; Chrono Trigger RPG; Moulin Rouge; Run Lola Run; Saturday Night Fever; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Star Wars (mainly the original trilogy with Episode III a close second); Vertigo
Favorite Anime Soundtracks: Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal Collection; Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro; Sailormoon TV series and movies (original Japanese soundtracks); Vampire Princess Miyu TV
Favorite TV Shows: 24 (seasons 1-5 only); Alias (mainly seasons 1-4); Batman (1960s version);
Doctor Who (currently watcing the Ninth Doctor episodes but the series is
fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing the Tenth Doctor episodes and the Classic Who era);
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; Get Smart;
The Golden Girls; House, M.D.; Lost; Mystery Science Theater 3000 (mainly the Joel Hogdson era); Night Court (seasons 1-7, parts of season 8 only);
The Simpsons; Star Trek: The Original Series; Unsolved Mysteries; Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (PBS 1991-1996 game show)
Childhood Favorite Cartoons: The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3; Captain N: The Game Master; Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers; Darkwing Duck; Gummi Bears; Inspector Gadget; Jem; The Legend of Zelda; Sonic the Hedgehog (the darker version with Sonic, Tails, Bunny, Antoine, Princess Sal, etc.); Super Mario Bros. Super Show; Super Mario World; Talespin (The Disney Afternoon block was a big thing to me when I was kid, as was TGIF in its heyday on the ABC network.)
Favorite Anime: Bubblegum Crisis OAV; Card Captor Sakura; Dragon Half; Lupin III (mostly the movies); Rose of Versailles; Saber Marionette J TV; Saber Marionette J Again; Sailormoon (especially Sailormoon S); Trigun; Vampire Princess Miyu OAV and TV; The Vision of Escaflowne
Runner-up Favorite Anime: Cowboy Bebop; Iria: Zeiram the Animation; Neon Genesis Evangelion; Tenchi Muyo
Favorite Movies: The Adventures of Wallace & Gromitt ('A Grand Day Out,' 'The Wrong Trousers,' and 'A Close Shave'); Airplane!; Back to the Future trilogy; Chicken Run; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Galaxy Quest; The General (1927 silent classic with Buster Keaton); The Goonies; A Hard Day's Night; Harry Potter film series; Jesus of Nazareth (1977 miniseries); The Lady Vanishes (1938); Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003); Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro; Moulin Rouge (2001); Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; The Princess Bride; The Producers (1968); Rear Window (1954); Run Lola Run; Sailormoon R The Movie; Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Spaceballs; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Strangers on a Train; Original Star Wars trilogy (preferrably the original unaltered theatrical releases, not so much on the 1997 and 2004 special editions); The 39 Steps (1935); Vertigo; Way Out West (1937 Laurel and Hardy classic)
Runner-up Favorite Movies: Alien; Aliens; Dark City (1998); The Goodbye Girl (1977); The Incredibles; Millennium Actress; Minority Report; Monsters, Inc.; Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth; Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion; Noises Off!; North by Northwest; Project A-ko (first A-ko movie); Rob Roy (1995); Romancing the Stone; Spirited Away; Tenchi Muyo in Love (aka Tenchi the Movie); Time After Time (1979); To Be Or Not To Be (1942 original); Toy Story I and II; Young Frankenstein (or "Fron-ken-steen", take your pick ^__^)