gil asakawa

rock, folk, blues, soul, jazz, R&B, classical, Americana, world music, jpop, power pop, indie, altrock, punk, folk-rock, singer-songwriters, country, bluegrass, bebop, big band, pop

Too many and too changeable. Cheap junky action thrillers from time to time; Sherlock Holmes when I was young; the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit; sleazy detective fiction; Faulkner; "Shogun"; "The World Is Flat"; a lot of rockcrit geeky books and music bios; mostly non-fiction these days; "State of Denial", Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, JRR Tolkien

High and Low, Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars IV-VI and II-III... couldn't deal with that awful brat kid in I), Bad Boys I & II, Matrix I, Black Mask, Crouching Tiger, Replacement Killers, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Bullitt, The Sting, Borune Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Sayonara, Go for Broke, Only the Brave, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Eat Drink Man Woman, Chocolat, Casablanca, Ninotchka, M, Strangers on a Train, A Hard Day's Night, junky action movies, martial arts movies, sci-fi, Bond films (Connery and Brosnan) documentaries

The Man from U.N.C.L.E., X-Files, The Office (U.S.), Batman, Will & Grace, Twin Peaks (first two seasons), Buffy the Vampire Killer, Avengers

Internet, guitar, dining, movies, cross-country driving, photography, art, history, music, writing, Asian Pacific Islander American culture, See other interests above

open minded

alternative weeklies, daily newspapers, radio stations, magazines, online companies (a handful of 'em in a decade)

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Broad Run HS, Ashburn, VA and Alameda Sr. HS, Lakewood, CO

Some awards here and there, a fellowship and a few seminars, lots of speaking and moderating panels and such., JACL (jacl.org) -- I'm on the national board; Asian American Journalists Association; Online News Association; Society of Professional Journalists; AAA;