Linalin

Ello! I'm Linalin, a 21 year-old living near Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. I started the Jpop quite a number of years ago @_@, in middle-school with the discovery of that which is Hey!x3 via the former The International Channel. My favorite band is fra-foa and favorite singer Chisako Mikami. I tend to think I appreciate music much more than most people because I am in fact hearing-impaired and have been since birth. I wear hearing aids, but my biggest fear (with a huge possibility) is losing all of my hearing by the time I'm 30. So, for now, I listen to all I can, from every country I can. I have been to Japan and am trying to go back at least once every year.

My blog
http://ameblo.jp/mightydeafsensei/

My translation site
http://zouka.wordpress.com/

My Youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/mightydeafsensei

J-Artists
176Biz
Acidman
Ai Otsuka
alice nine
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Aya
Aya Kamiki
ayaka
Ayumi Hamaski
Base Ball Bear
cali gari
Chemistry
Chisako Mikami
Dir en Grey
Do As Infinity
Fake?
fra-foa
Gackt *when he isn't pissing me off
High and Mighty Color
Hikaru Utada
hitomi
Hitomi Yaida
Hyde
Kagerou
KAT-TUN
Kirito
L'Arc~en~Ciel
LM.C
m-flo
Mao Abe
mihimaru gt
Merry
Monkey Majik
Mr. Children
Namie Amuro
Oblivion Dust
Olivia
Panic*ch/Panic Channel
Plastic Tree
Remioromen
Sex Machineguns
Teriyaki Boyz
tetsu (69)
The Back Horn
The Brilliant Green
The Dead Popstars
The GazettE
The Gospellers
The Pink Panda
Tokyo Jihen
Tommy (Heavenly6/February6)
Tsubaki (the band)
Youjeen
Yui
Yumie Fuwara

Albums
Aya - Baghdad Sky
Chisako Mikami - Here
Dir en Grey - Withering Death
Ellegarden - Don't Trust Anyone But Us
Fake? - Breathe In
Fake? - Made with Air
Fake? - Marilyn Is a Bubble
Fake? - Tomorrow Today
fra-foa - 13 leaves
Hyde - 666
All Apologies - A Japanese Tribute To Nirvana
Mao Abe - Free
Namie Amuro - Queen of Hip Pop

Listening to music (though I do it even when I don't have free time too XD)
Frightening people with the sheer amount I write even in myspace messages
Playing with my webkare (new one, but I'm loving it)
Reading, anything I can
Perezhilton.com (I'll admit it, though I don't know who a ton of people he writes about are famous for, I like his videos)
Contemplating or plotting
Watching J-drama or good movies (movies from anywhere), if I'm lucky, catch a show through KeyHole

Battle Royale
Borat
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Casshern
Chakushin Ari
Clerks
Death Note
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Finding Neverland
Gone Baby Gone
Harry Potter
Howl's Moving Castle
Interview with the Vampire
Kill Bill
Lord of the Flies
Love Actually
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Brooks
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Blueberry Nights
My Fair Lady
Pan's Labyrinth
Perfume
Pirates of the Caribean
Quills
Quiet Room ni Youkoso
Ratatouille
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Shimotsuma Monogatari
Snow Cake
Stardust
Suicide Club
Sukiyaki Western Django
Sweeney Todd
Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru
Taiyou no Uta
The Darjeeling Limited
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Life of David Gale
The Notebook
The Patriot
The Pink Panther (ORIGINAL)
The Prestige
The Secret
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Visitor Q
Wall-e

Drama
1 Litre no Namida
1 Pound no Fukuin
Bambino
Gokusen
Hana Yori Dango (XP just the first season)
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
IWGP
Kimi wa Petto
Kurosagi
Last Friends
Life
My Boss, My Hero
Nobuta wo Produce
Nodame Cantabile
Puzzle
Ryuusei no Kizuna
Tokyo Friends
Trick
Zettai Kareshi

Manga/Anime
Battle Royale
Eerie Queerie
Fushigi Yuugi
GetBackers
Gravitation
Gundam
Hellsing
Life
NANA
Saiyuki
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Sayounara Zetsubou Sensei
Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Slayers
Zettai Kareshi

Television
A Team
Angel
Californication
Doctor Who
Extras
Father Ted
Graham Norton (all his shows)
Heroes
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Macgyver
Queer as Folk
Robot Chicken
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Star Trek ( - Voyager, I didn't like Voyager unless Q was around)
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
The Office (THE ORIGINAL OFFICE)
Three's Company
Torchwood
X-Files

My underlings (they know who they are, for they call me "Mighty Deaf Sensei")
Alan Rickman
Books
Campy things
Cafes
Collecting things with jolly-rogers or Classic Mickey apparel
Curry
Dancing (belly-dancing, parapara, and soon, somehow tektonik)
Dating sims (renai)
Education
Foreign Languages
Graham Norton
Japan (duh)
Movies
Music
Philosophy
Political satire
Sci-fi
Sushi
The ability to impress myself
The supernatural
Useless facts
Writing

American Radio
Being some sort of child magnet, though they in fact frighten me
How when I buy new DVD's 1/3rd have the security sticker underneath the cover so that when I take it off, I rip the cover, even if it's a collector's edition DVD set
How we have to buy Japanese Itunes gift cards to buy off the Japanese Itunes
Hypocrites
My hometown
My brand-new ipod (It won't stop crashing)
Not being able to hear on telephones
People who don't think they're good enough unless they're in some sort of social category
Realizing how damn spoiled the next generation is
Region-locked video game systems
Shonen Jumpers
Time zones (I know there's nothing we can do to change it, but I hate big time differences that interrupt when I can chat with friends)
Welsh accents (no offense, people in my bloodline had them too)