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Chris

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About Me

Weaving down a byroad, singing the song
That's my kind of highroll gone wrong

"Picture Chris Ward like a porno Calvin Harris" - ITV Teletext

My Interests

Singing, playing stuff and writing for Sex Education. DJ-ing at Adult Books. Getting tied up in Midi cables. And so on.

I'd like to meet:

The Beauty and the beast

Music:

Wire, Scott Walker, Television, New York Dolls, Associates, Nina Simone, Devo, Adam And The Ants, Slits, Smiths, Patti Smith, The Fall, Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Kate Bush, Funkadelic, My Bloody Valentine, Prince, Roxy Music, Ride, ESG, The Rolling Stones, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Sparks, Ramones, A-ha, Pixies, Klaus Nomi, Echo And The Bunnymen, Japan, Cluster, Blondie, The Sound, The Kinks, Joy Division / New Order, The Wild Swans, Abba, Pere Ubu, The Modern Lovers, Cocteau Twins, Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, Big Black, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Young Marble Giants, Portishead, Neu!, Soft Cell, Spacemen 3, Suede, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Neil Young, Human League, Public Image Limited, John Foxx, T-Rex, Bomb The Bass, Serge Gainsbourg, Talking Heads, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Sonic Youth, Eno, Fleetwood Mac, Julian Cope, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, XTC and really good pop

Movies:

Performance, Rumble Fish, The Battle Of Algiers, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, M, Don't Look Now, Mean Streets, Withnail And I, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Kes, Velvet Goldmine, A Taste Of Honey, Manhattan, Clockwork Orange, Harold And Maude, Germany Year Zero, Peeping Tom, Life Of Brian, 8 1/2, Repulsion, Taxi Driver, Behind The Green Door, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Last Detail, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, If...., Kind Hearts And Coronets, Naked, Casablanca, The Breakfast Club, The Leather Boys, Carrie, Peeping Tom, Heathers, Blow Up, Fright Night, The Italian Job ('69), Assault On Precinct 13 ('76), Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Matter Of Life And Death, Witchfinder General, Midnight Cowboy, Ghost World, The Apartment, An American Werewolf In London, The Last Picture Show, The Big Sleep, Look Back In Anger, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, Passport To Pimlico, This Is Spinal Tap, The Wicker Man, Badlands

Television:

Stand Up/Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton, Sapphire And Steel, (Whatever Happened To...) The Likely Lads, Boys From The Blackstuff, Doctor Who, Our Friends In The North, Porridge, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Threads, Top Of The Pops (once), Brass Eye, Life On Mars, Twin Peaks, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Black And Blue Lamp, Blakes 7, A Very British Coup, Rising Damp, The Mayfair Set, The Prisoner, The Tube, House Of Cards, Press Gang, Not Only But Also, The War Game

Books:

Goodbye To Berlin, Confessions Of A Mask, Head On, Last Exit To Brooklyn, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Island, Adam And The Ants Annual, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas / On The Campaign Trail '72, The Loved One, England's Dreaming, Great Expectations, Our Lady Of The Flowers, Girlfriend In A Coma, Billy Liar

Heroes:

Those responsible for the above, pretty much.

My Blog

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When I was a kid, I used to hate those few weeks after Christmas. It wasn’t just the inevitable post-prezzie comedown... Oh nooooo. It was the Thank You notes. Those bastard bastard Thank You no...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST