Journal Swordless Samurai's Journal: Which API? 1

Ok, So I know C, And A tad of C++, And I would like to dive into game programming. When I research it and look around, I get frightened because thier are so many API's, And I was wondering Which one to use? Now I Like OpenGL, but that's not really an All in one suite, more of just the Graphics, so i'd also have to learn OpenAL and Others. Or I could take the MS way and learn DirectX, But from what I hear from most people, it's not a good place to be. Their are also others who recommend SDL, Visual Basic, And .NET/C#, so my question is which one?