I'm an American who wishes I was British but am as equally fascinated by Japan as I am with Great Britain. My family is Portuguese who immigrated from the Azor Islands a couple generations back. I love art, music, reading, writing, and gardening (when it has to do with orchids). I love history and literature, both of which I never tire of studying, and if I could go to school my whole life, I happily would.
Favourite Visual Artist
Jonathon Bowser, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Favourite Movies
The Lord of the the Rings Trilogy, anything fantasy, anything sci-fi, and any movies of pre-twentieth century literature (particularly Shakespeare)
Favourite TV Shows
Tudors, Camelot, Rome, Horatio Hornblower
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Emma Shapplin, Antonio Vivaldi, Mozart, Chopin, Sissel, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Bond, Sasha Lazard, and Sarah Brightman
Favourite Books
The Cantebury Tales, Beowulf, anything derived from the Arthurian Legends, The Belgariad, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Woman in White, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, any of Shakespeare's plays, Middlemarch, and Persuasion
Favourite Writers
William Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, George Elliot, the Bronte Sisters, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Terry Brooks
Favourite Games
Guild Wars (and looking forward to Guild Wars 2), Dragon Nest, Aion, Dragon Age, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Vindictus
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC and XBOX 360
Tools of the Trade
Any artistic tool, traditional or digital, that I can get my hands on, however, I most frequently use Poser for digital artwork.
Other Interests
Cats, medieval history, French (I'm trying to the learn that gorgeous language now), and orchids