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My New Headphones!

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My piano teacher’s family gave me these new headphones! They are goodness! I can put them around my neck and feel cute! I can watch movies without needing subtitles because if I listen to it louder my parents will hear! I can watch dumb videos without embarrassing myself in front of my roommate! I can listen to music and actually hear what’s going on in the background! N I C E (also my earbuds broke)

-Z

Personal Interests: Entertainment

A list of things in entertainment I either enjoy or have enjoyed to be constantly updated.

Lists relatively in order of preference

Music/Musicians I like(d):

  • Janelle Monae
  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Mamamoo
  • Glass Animals
  • Stromae
  • AKMU
  • Gerard Way
  • My Chemical Romance
  • MFBTY
  • Childish Gambino
  • BTS
  • Panic! at the Disco
  • Bobbalgan4
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Heize
  • Dean
  • K. Will
  • Charlie Puth
  • ABBA
  • Jesse & Joy
  • Dumbfoundead
  • Juanes
  • (almost) any classical/jazz

Books I like(d):

  • The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  • Demian – Hermann Hesse
  • From a Buick 8 – Stephen King
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  • Kitten’s First Full Moon – Kevin Henkes
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
  • Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • The Stranger – Albert Camus
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
  • Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
  • Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
  • Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story – David Ritz and Lang Lang

 

Movies I like(d):

  • Black Panther
  • Annihilation
  • Arrival
  • Mulan
  • Coco
  • The Little Prince
  • Deadpool
  • Atlantis
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • Snowpiercer
  • Coraline
  • Oldboy
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Train to Busan
  • Bad Genius
  • Logan
  • The Imitation Game
  • Instructions Not Included
  • Circle
  • Miracle in Cell No. 7
  • The Man From Nowhere
  • Hope
  • Tropa de Elite
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service
  • Tau

TV shows I like(d):

  • Hannibal
  • Black Mirror
  • Daredevil
  • Prison Break
  • Sherlock
  • Pink Panther
  • Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir
  • The Get Down
  • Bad Guys
  • La Casa de Papel
  • Stranger Things
  • Psych
  • Club de Cuervos
  • 3%
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender
  • Bates Motel
  • Criminal Minds

 

Animes I like(d):

  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  • Kimi no na wa
  • One Punch Man
  • Violet Evergarden
  • B: The Beginning

 

Games I like(d):

  • Butterfly Soup
  • The Plan
  • A Raven Monologue
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • Spiral Knights
  • Tetris
  • Mandagon
  • Team Fortress 2

Personal Language Stats

I have a special interest in linguistics and language-learning, so I just wanted to share my extremely limited progress.

Languages I know proficiently:

  • English (native)
  • Mandarin (kind of native: family and Chinese school)
  • Spanish (5 on the AP Spanish exam)

Languages I’m actively trying to learn:

  • Standard Arabic (alphabet)
  • Korean (useless vocabulary)
  • Latin (basics, got through a beginner-level workbook)
  • Italian (rushed through Level 1 of the Duolingo tree)

Languages I’ve attempted:

  • Russian (alphabet)
  • German (basics)
  • Japanese (Hiragana alphabet)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (basics)
  • ASL (alphabet, numbers, question words)
  • Morse code (barely)
  • Braille (barely)
  • Zulu (basic phrases)
  • French (I completely gave up not gonna lie)

Yeah, that… um. That is all. I’m not great at commitment.