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Chris

I wish I could quit you!

About Me

I was born on a rainy Wednesday night blah blah blah
little league "best bunter" blah blah blah
most outstanding theater student 1998 blah blah blah
80s Night blah blah blah
2004 Roosevelt Park Adult Roller Hockey Outdoor Bronze Level League Champion ANGRY CAKES blah blah blah...
AIM Cpher5... blah blah blah

My Interests

making music, listening to music, talking about music, watching sports, blogging, editing, cooking, bartending, singing karaoke, hanging with puppies, eating Cheetos, Chinese food, cheeseburgers and Taco Bell, experimenting with facial hair, riding my bicycle, wedding planning, playing Grand Theft Auto, Tony Hawk and Rock Band (I rule the drums!!), browsing Craigslist, maintaining my reputation as a human jukebox, taking pictures and developing them at Costco and having a hot dog and a soda while I'm there... or maybe a chicken bake and a churro, watching classic sitcoms (see TV section), making mix CDs, pretending that I read books, eating sushi improperly with no wasabi and too much ginger, playing dress-up, collecting different colors of Converse All-Stars (Red, Blue, Pink, Black, White, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Mono Black, Camo and Brown), drinking Dr. Pepper, Bud Light, and/or Crown Royal, reliving the 70's, 80's and especially the 90s, laying on the couch, attempting to bowl or play mini-golf, imagining myself in a 1963 Ford Galaxie convertible.

I'd like to meet:

awesome people

Music:

I listen to pretty much everything, but just to name a few: Pearl Jam, Cake, Pixies, Death Cab for Cutie, Queen, Bjork, Reel Big Fish, the Roots, Nas, Green Day, Dr. Dre, Blur, the Cure, Pantera, Flogging Molly, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi, Journey, Frank Sinatra, Firme, Incubus, Elton John, Kanye West, Willie Nelson, Nirvana, Weezer, blink-182, Method Man, Sugarcult, Electric Light Orchestra, Buzzcocks, Deftones, Busta Rhymes, Jimmy Eat World, Drunken Starfighter, Billy Joel, the Killers, Jay-Z, Reggie and the Full Effect, Led Zeppelin...

Movies:

despite the fact that I spent six years in film studies, I still watch a lot of bad movies. But here is my ever-changing top several (in no particular order) Out Of Sight, High Fidelity, Swingers, Smokey and the Bandit, the Graduate, Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, Anchorman, Speed, Glory Boy Days, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Transformers, Breathless, She's All That, Armageddon, Moonlight Mile, Undercover Brother, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the Royal Tennanbaums, Say Anything...

Television:

Saturday Night Live, Magnum P.I., Seinfeld, the Simpsons, Cheers, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Northern Exposure, Food 911, Yes, Dear, George Lopez, Fresh Prince, Full House, Family Matters, Family Guy, the O.C., Gilmore Girls, Who's The Boss, Three's Company, Spongebob, Home Movies, LOST, Law & Order SVU, Mythbusters, Cash Cab, a bunch of other stuff...

Books:

Musician's Friend Catalog, Archie comics, Mr. Boston's Bartender Guide. Anything by Elmore Leonard or Nick Hornby.

Heroes:

Bill Clinton, Magnum P.I., Sean Becker and Eddie Vedder

My Blog

awesome weekend.

Friday I went shopping and bought food and stuff for saturday's BBQ. I made this giant Rice Krispie Treat Cake.The picture doesn't do it justice, but it was about 14" x 9" x 4." I molded it in one of ...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PST

long ass five day review!!

So I officially made it past "rockstar death age." I am now 28. Let's see if I take it back a few days... Saturday was fun because Chrissy, Greg and Justin came over and along with Stefan and Amber, w...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:41:00 PST

So Im knitting now...

And I have to say it kind of stems from thetathrees's  (unfortunately locked) February 6th post on the topic of knitting and the book she discovered entitled "Never Knit Your Man A Sweater (Unless You...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:38:00 PST

V-day in review!

I started off the day by delivering copies of the Hale&Doots album, with cute pink V-day wrapping, to local Hale&Doots fans. Then I had a little Panda Express and bought some groceries for din...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:48:00 PST

I haven’t been doing too much lately...

I've been working on the Hale&Doots album that we recorded before Gerry moved to L.A.I finally finished it tonight, it's awesome. I'm mailing out copies of it tomorrow morning.I have been looking ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:41:00 PST

Super Sunday! Miserable Monday!

So Sunday was Superbowl XLII. I had a case of Miller High Life and a shoebox full of Jello shots (42 total, half AFC red and half NFC blue)I rode over to Yoni's house with Stefan. We watched the game....
Posted by Chris on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:16:00 PST

new job! and a weekend with the fams...

So, first, good news! I have a job. Or I will have a job. Here's the story. Carrissa's boyfriend Andrew works for Sportvision. The company is based in Mountain View and although they are most well kno...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:00 PST

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE???

I watch TV and I see ads for restaurants that are no where near my house. And it makes me want to go down to the Comcast office and slap the receptionist and yell "what were you thinking?" Not that it...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PST

dominoes, rock show, my first lacrosse game???

We've been having dinner at Amber's grandparents house a lot since Amber's mom is in town. We always play games, too. The most popular are this card game called Stomp (which I guess is like Canasta) a...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:10:00 PST

old Canadian whisky.

(I am going to start crossposting my entries from crhale.livejournal.com here.) I was at Amber's grandparent's house, nosing through their liquor cabinet after dinner and I asked them if I could have ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:23:00 PST