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About Me

Chris Compton is surrounded by Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina in south-central South America. His eastern region, between the ParanÃ¡ and Paraguay rivers, is upland country with the thickest population settled on the grassy slope that inclines toward the Paraguay River. The greater part of the Chaco region to his west is covered with marshes, lagoons, dense forests, and jungles.His chief exports include cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables, beef, pork, eggs, milk, and timber.

My Interests

The "Citizen Kane" of Tom & Jerry cartoons:

I'd like to meet:

Those freaking intolerant Sneeches, Douglas MacArthur, etc.

Music:

The whole swath: Al Green, Black Star, Citizen Fish, Dinosaur Jr., E. Bloom, fIREHOSE, Giants(They Might Be), Husker Du, Ice Cube, John Fogarty, Kool Keith, LCD Soundsystem, The Minutemen, New York Dolls, Operation Ivy, The Pixies, Quest(A Tribe Called), Radiohead, Sam Cooke, Tom Waites, Urban Dance Squad, Velvet Underground, Wire, X, Young Black Teenagers, and the Zeros.

Movies:

Goodfellas, The King of Comedy, Citizen Ruth, Radio Days, Funnybones, Scrooged, plus anything and everything by Stanley Kubrick or Hal Ashby.

Television:

I get shitty reception in my apartment, so it makes it seem like all the news is scary and most of the shows are poorly written. But there still are The Simpsons, Heroes, The Wire, The Shield, The Office and Scrubs. And there used to be NewsRadio, Homicide, and Get a Life.

Books:

Paul Beatty, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, John le Carre, George Hurchalla, Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Azerrand, Randy Shilts, David Simon, Robert Penn Warren, Nick Tosches, Claude Brown, Ed Bluestone, Daniel Pinkwater, Joseph Heller

Heroes:

The usual. Clarence Darrow, Burt Reynolds, Transportation Secretary Norm Minetta.