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D.istrict C.hris

About Me

Could say a lot about nothin or not enough about plenty...just drop me a line if you have a question.My favorite toast: "to life and its many deaths"

My Interests

Cyclin', jumpin trolly tracks, not blowin' out a tire on these busted Philly streets, not getting hit by cars, not bein all tuckered out, findin new brews upon which to vacate the funds in my checkin account, listenin' to some good ol' music, watchin some good ol' black and white movies, tattooin, travellin, kickin around a soccer ball, not havin to run too far after a soccer ball, sarcasm, readin, campin, ridin trains, rescuin aminals, Pondering the words: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

I'd like to meet:

Joe Strummer, Edward Gorey, Myrna Loy, a bartender who won't accept my money, Jane Goodall, Michael Collins, James Dean, Tom Waits, John Cusack, BEN? Billy Bragg, Ingo Hasselbach, Doc Holliday, Nelson Mandela, myself in 35-40 years (assuming I'm not busy then)

Music:

Tom Waits, the Clash, Hank Williams Sr, Shane MacGowan, Old Blind Dogs, Old Crow Medicine Show, Doc Watson, Orchestra Baobab, Johnny Cash, Flogging Molly, Waylon Jennings, John Prine, Stella Schindler, A Tribe Called Quest, Filthy Thieving Bastards, Sinead O'connor, Waterboys, Rancid, Cigar Store Indians, the Slackers, Asian Dub Foundation, Buju Banton, the Artifacts, the Aggrolites, Billy Bragg, Dr John, Deke Dickerson and the Ecco Fonics

Movies:

Shawn of the Dead, The Thin Man series, Lets Rock Again, Patriot Games, the Glenn Miller Story, Bad Boys II, White Christmas, Gleaming the Cube, The Original Sherlock Holmes series, Rude Boy, National Treasure, the Goonies, The Impostors, Office Space, Finding Neverland, Straight to Hell, Outbreak, Boondock Saints, A Prairie Home Companion, Should I Fall from Grace with God...

Television:

24, Family Guy, Muppet Babies, pretty much anything on the History/Discovery Channel, Judging Amy, ER, to be honest I don't even have an aentenna in my TV any more nor do I have cable.

Books:

Cash (johnny cash), Furher EX (ingo hasselbach), A reason for Hope (jane goodall), Free the Animals (ingrid newkirk), so far, anything by Flannery O'Conner...

Heroes:

Jane Goodall, Peter Pan, James Dean, Doc Holliday, Sketchy Rob (got hit by a Semi and kept on tickin), Ofcr. Ted Deppner, Dr. Gary Weitzman, Cash and Juniper (my cats)