I'm a newspaper editor in Napa, Calif., but that's only the day job. I write anime DVD reviews for Home Media Retailing magazine (formerly Video Store Magazine), and cover the domestic anime industry in the weekly DVD Release Report. Reviewing motto: If I like it, I recommend it. If I don't like it, I'll tell you. I'm not worried about whether the anime was popular in Japan...I hope to relay whether or not American anime fans will enjoy it. I'm a San Diego native, an Ohio State journalism graduate, and I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000. SOME OF MY FAVORITE ANIME Neon Genesis: Evangelion Black Jack OVA Paranoia Agent Ghost in the Shell (TV and movie) Akira Boogiepop Phantom Princess Nine Ninja Scroll Giant Robo Porco Rosso Robotech Dead Leaves Gunslinger Girl (Vol. 1) Arcadia of my Youth SOME OF MY FAVORITE LIVE-ACTION MOVIES Monty Python and the Search For the Holy Grail Pulp Fiction Lord of the Rings Trilogy Matrix Trilogy Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas A Clockwork Orange I'm Gonna Get You Sucka Office Space La Femme Nikita The Usual Suspects Rocky Horror Picture Show Kill Bill (both) The Paper Soldier of Orange American Werewolf in London Animal House Reservoir Dogs

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