This page is full of various facts about me and favorites of mine. Just some tidbits to give you a small view of who I am and what I enjoy. :)

[Stats & Stuff]:

• Birthdate: August 14
• Current Location: California
• Place of Employment: San Jose Public Library
• Pets: One kitty - Daphne (I miss you, Dawn and Midnight), One dog - Shasta
• Local Haunts: Hobees Restaurant, Bill's Cafe, Camera Cinemas, Willow Glen Coffee Roasting Company, Starbucks, Hicklebee's, The Cheesecake Factory, Oakridge Mall, Valley Fair Mall, Santana Row, any used bookstore
• Enjoyments: Web and graphic design, reading, TV (I'm obsessed), spending time with good friends & my family
• Favorite cities: San Francisco, Ashland, New York City, Chicago, Venice, Paris
• Sports teams: Baseball - SF Giants, Football - SF 49ers
  

[Books/Authors]:

• Authors/Playwrights: Jane Austen, Clive Barker, Christopher Golden, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Madeleine L'Engle, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, J.R.R. Tolkien

• Books: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine trilogy, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Ian Falconer's Olivia books, Christopher Golden's Body of Evidence series, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Madeleine L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light, and A Wrinkle in Time, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, (in the original order) Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

• Plays: Howard Brenton and David Hare's "Pravda," Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House," Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Shakespeare's "As You Like It," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"

[TV shows]:

• The Best: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files

• Dramas: CSI, CSI: NY, Friday Night Lights, Heroes, House, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lost, Pushing Daisies

• Comedies: Chuck, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Entourage, The Office, Psych

• Sci-Fi / Fantasies: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Eureka, The 4400, Stargate: Atlantis, Supernatural

• Dearly Departed: Alias, Angel, Arrested Development, Charmed, Cupid, Dead Like Me, Farscape, Firefly, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Keen Eddie, The Lone Gunmen, My So-Called Life, Now and Again, Roswell, Sex and the City, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls

[Movies]:

• Classics: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Great Race, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Laura, The Manchurian Candidate, The Philadelphia Story, Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Dramas: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The English Patient, Ever After, Hamlet, L.A. Confidential, Moulin Rouge, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seabiscuit, The Usual Suspects

• Comedies: The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Bridget Jones's Diary, Dogma, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Fish Called Wanda, Legally Blonde, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Muppet Movie, Ocean's Eleven, Shakespeare in Love, Sixteen Candles

• Sci-Fi/Fantasies: Back to the Future Trilogy, Dark City, Harry Potter series, Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Princess Bride, Serenity, Star Wars Trilogy

• Animated: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Monsters Inc, Sleeping Beauty, Toy Story + Toy Story 2

[Actors/Actresses]:

• The Best: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

• Actresses: Gillian Anderson, Kristen Bell, Amber Benson, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Garner, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lauren Graham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mariska Hargitay, Anne Hathaway, Katharine Hepburn, Felicity Huffman, Nicole Kidman, Mary McDonnell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson, Liv Tyler, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon

• Actors: Jensen Ackles, Paul Bettany, Humphrey Bogart, Nicholas Brendon, Bradley Cooper, Alexis Denisof, Johnny Depp, David Duchovny, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Colin Firth, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Viggo Mortensen, Clive Owen, Joaquin Phoenix, Gary Sinise, Kevin Spacey, James Stewart, Donnie Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Elijah Wood

[Music]:

• The Best:
  Band - The Beatles
  Songs - U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", Beatles' "Hey Jude"
  Album - Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

• Bands: Coldplay, Common Rotation, Dave Matthews Band, Guster, Oasis, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. Rilo Kiley, U2, The Who,

• Solo Acts: Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Gavin DeGraw, Jewel, Billy Joel, Elton John, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Sarah McLachlan, Jason Mraz, Duncan Sheik, Rufus Wainwright, Yo-Yo Ma

• Composers: J.S. Bach, Christophe Beck, Frèdèric Chopin, Robert Duncan, Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, John Williams

• Radio Stations: 97.3, 97.7, 98.5, 104.9, 105.3, 106.5

[EKT Facts]:

• "Innocence" is my all time favorite BtVS episode. "Restless" is a close second.
• My favorite book of all time is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
• My favorite Shakespeare plays are "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
• My favorite of the Harry Potter books are Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows.
• If I could live anywhere in the world I wanted, I'd be in Hawaii right now. And then I'd probably decide I missed California and move back.
• My brother's name is Bryan. My parents are Melanie and Dennis.
• I have a personalized license plate on my car that is BtVS related.
• I can live without coffee in the morning, but I can't live without orange juice.
• The top of my computer monitor is adorned by Albus of the Frickin' Chicken Brigade.
• I have a metal rod and four pins in the middle of my tibia bone in my right leg (broken leg when I was 15... long story).
• I'm a Democrat. I'm pro-choice. I support gay marriage.
• I have a tendency to purchase more CDs, books, and movies than my tiny room can hold... very bad habit when you're broke.
• I have 14 blood-related aunts & uncles and 18 cousins.
• I believe Madeleine L'Engle, Joss Whedon, J.K. Rowling, Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Smith, Jim Henson, and Tom Stoppard are geniuses.
• I love living in a big city. I really don't think I could survive in a rural city/town.
• Despite my love of big cities, however, I can't stand LA. There's fun stuff to do there, but I would never, ever choose to live there.
• I love to start collecting things, but after a while, I stop and don't usually continue. Things I've collected in the past include: Barbie dolls, BtVS action figures, coins (though I still collect the special state quarters), comic books, and Marvel card series.
• I've seen Dave Matthews Band in concert 7 times. I guess you could say I'm a fan. ;)
• My friends and family mean the world to me.
• I've been creating websites since early 1999. I started with a small & very crappy personal site on Earthlink.
• Susan and I coined the term "EKT"... here's the explanation of it from my blog: EKT is slang for the word random. It was made up by Susan and I (and used most faithfully by Little Willow, who rocks for picking it up) at PBP 2003. The reasoning behind it is that while wandering around towards the ballroom at the American Legion Hall, we were passed by none other than Eddie Kaye Thomas. We were so surprised to see him there (because, as far as we knew, he had no connection to BtVS, Angel or Firefly) that we decided we would refer to anything random as "Eddie Kaye Thomas." This was later shortened (I think by Little Willow) to EKT since "Eddie Kaye Thomas" was a bit too much to say and/or type. wink And there you have it! So now you all have no excuse not to use it. Yes, Susan and I are weird, but whatever. It's fun. Btw, we later discovered that Eddie Kaye Thomas actually DID have a reason for being at PBP: He was helping to film a documentary for Adam Busch's band, Common Rotation.

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