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About Me

Pleased to meet you. The name's Chris. Just Chris - until we're properly acquainted, that'll have to do. I'm a philosophy student. That'll also have to do. Contact me to find out the rest, you never know, I might be interesting.
That said, I don't accept friend requests from people who haven't bothered to message me first. Just one of those things....

What is your dominant Element? (A serious personality test, for a change)
Light
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My Interests

Travelling. Music; classical, rock. Reading. Sport; fencing, running, swimming, savate. Motorbikes; Suzuki, Ducati. Films; psychological, thriller. History; chivalry, renaissance. Philosophy; existentialism, Kierkegaard, nihilism, Nietzsche.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Modern Artists:
Colossus; TooL; NIN; Led Zep; Rolling Stones; Dream Theater; Portal.

Composers:
Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Dominico Scarlatti, Sergei Rachmaninov, Modest Mussorgky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Holst, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edward Elgar.

Classical Artists:
Glenn Gould, Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Movies:

American Psycho, Se7en, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Ghost in the Shell, Saw, Long Time Dead, Red Dragon, A Clockwork Orange, Downfall, The Silence of the Lambs, Metropolis, Meet Joe Black, Dr Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, The Seventh Seal, "Cloverfield"

Television:

Blackadder, Black Books, HIGNFY, Babylon 5, Gormenghast, Top Gear.

Books:

Fiction:
Dante Alighieri; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Thomas Harris; Bret-Easton Ellis; Mervyn Peake; Johann Goethe; Arturo Perez-Reverte; Herman Hesse; Franz Kafka; Jorge Luis Borges; Glenn Duncan; HP Lovecraft; Niel Gaiman; Terry Pratchett; Bram Stoker.

Non-fiction:
Friedrich Nietzsche; Schopenhauer; Wittgenstein; Kiergkegaard; Joseph Lisiewski; Christopher S.Hyatt; S.J. Black; Naiomi Klein; Richard Dawkins; Howard Bloom.

Heroes:

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hesse, Peake, Hyatt, Goethe,

My Blog

Revelation

I remember once being shown the black bull when a child at the farm for eggs and milk. They called him Bob - as though perhaps you could reduce a monster with the charm of a friendly name. At the thre...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:32:00 PST

My Writings

"Supposed to be? Who gives a damn about 'supposed to be'.... Either a thing is or it isn't. And that isn't.""I look out of the window and see a cloudbank, grim, and gray as old iron, about to descend ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST

Quizzes

What Type of Alcoholic Beverage Are You? You're a Shot of Whiskey!Take this quiz! ..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>Your Personality ProfileYou are eleg...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:09:00 PST

Witches Ballad

For I have heard, at still midnight,Upon the hilltop far, forlorn,Oh, I have been beyond the town,Where nightshade black and mandrake grow, And I have heard and I have seen What righteous folk would f...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:28:00 PST

Quotes

'Do not meddle in the affiars of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.'-JRR Tolkien'Never be certain of anything, it's a sign of weakness'.-The Fourth Doctor 'I tell you; one must have cha...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:35:00 PST

Videos

The Sandman ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:10:00 PST