Words!!
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

From Jess:

1. Rhode Island

It's currently the place I reside 2/3rds of the year, and I'm not too happy about it. Sure I have met some great people there (including one really amazing girl) but I've found that the majority of people in Rhode Island are angry, stressed, and just like to be mean. Also it's the smallest state in the nation yet it takes forever to drive through. The road system/layout is god-awful I'm only about 20 miles south of Providence, but if I drive through RI to get there it takes about 40 minutes, where as going into Mass. and back into RI takes only 15 minutes. Stupid right? Thats all I have to say about Rhode Island. Besides, oh it sucks.

2. Anime

I honestly haven't avidly watched an anime in a long time. I'm just out of the loop, and honestly adolescent and immature fangirls and fanboys turn me off to the culture. I'm not saying I don't enjoy it anymore, I do, it's just the majority of people that are enthusiasts about it turn me off.

My parents once said to me "I can't wait until you grow out of this Japanese animation phase crap and move on to real movies." To me it's not the fact that its Japanese or animated that draws me to it, the writing and stories are generally better quality that american movies or tv shows, and of course the artwork that is the animation is sometimes great, and that doesn't detract from the appeal.

However my favorite animes would have to be (not in this order): Samurai Champloo, Paranoia Agent, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Dai Mahoe Touge, FLCL, and Excel Saga. Of course that's not an exclusive list, those are just ones I wouldn't pass up watching.

3. Bass

A word meme for me without bass in it? Of course not! So yeah bass was my forth instrument and hands down my favorite. I have noticed that I have started to prefer composing music when I'm by myself so I've started to play guitar and piano more out of the necessity of it. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy playing bass as much, because I do, it's just more fun for me to play bass in a band scenario.

I have two bands right now, one at school called "City" and one here in Maine called "To the Sky". I play guitar in the first band, and we primarily play songs that I write. In the later I'm playing bass, and having the most fun I've had playing music in a long, long time. Currently I own two basses, a Warwick Fortress One that has been modified to be fretless and have an ebony nut, the second is a Gibson G-3 circa 1975. I must say it is a very strange feeling owning an instrument that has existed for longer than I have.

4. Hair

Hair... Hair... hm... I have it. I have lots of it. Although I continually fear I'm balding, even though no one in my immediate family has ever been bald. I've been growing my hair out since sophomore year of high school, coincidently about the same time I started playing bass, (I had wanted to do both for a long time, but Andy really inspired me r.i.p.). I'm not a big fan of having my hair short, yes it makes many things easier, its not as hot in the summer time and its not as heavy, but long hair just looks better. Not past my shoulders though, then it's too long.

5. DDR

"WHATS DDR?!" (mumbling from crowd "who's the idiot that doesn't know what ddr is?... oh it's Tom, nevermind")

I first encountered DDR at a friends house in middle school, I liked it, but couldn't remember what it was called so I didn't play for a while after. I finally purchased it and began playing like a mad-man. It was great exercise, although it didn't teach me anything about dancing (Too this day I still don't care for dancing, but I will still play DDR). My love for DDR came and went, I now only occasionally play at the beach. I still have my $100 pads, but I sold my games. I have no qualms about spending hours playing that game and spending all my money on the arcades at the beach. Its still a brilliantly fun game, I just have no ambition to play it... In the Groove (or expert DDR for 1337 people OMG) made the game so stupidly hard that I just quite, no more desire to play it.

See those last three sentences? yeah, thats me rambling. In short, DDR: came, saw, played, loved, played, loved, promptly lost all desire to play when I got In the Groove.