Chas

About Me

Just another guy trying to beat down the door to the Western dream.

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My Interests

I'm a Stephen King "Dark Tower" junkie. Aside from that, I enjoy writing, photography, traveling, comedy, rock music, and movies.

I'd like to meet:

The intellectual, the famous, and the guy who created "Babylon 5."

Music:

"Give me some of that rock 'n roll music, any ole way you choose it..." AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Genesis, Stone Temple Pilots, Collective Soul, Bob Seger, Tom Petty, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Andre Segovia, John Williams, and Ennio Morricone some movie soundtracks.

Movies:

Braveheart, the French Connection, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Indiana Jones series, O Brother Where Art Thou?, L.A. Confidential, Vanishing Point, the original Gone In 60 Seconds, Session 9, North By Northwest, Star Wars, Star Trek, Micheal Moore movies, Ronin, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Halloween, etc.

Television:

Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Nowhere Man, the Prisoner, the X-Files, the Simpsons, Kingdom Hospital, and submitted for your approval... The Twilight Zone.

Books:

"The Gunslinger", Stephen King. "The Right Stuff". "A Clockwork Orange". "Everything's Eventual".

Heroes:

Jim Henson, and any other person who dared to dream and succeeded.

My Blog

Eight Belles

Aside from the miraculous performance of Big Brown coming from 20th position to win the Derby (it's the second time in the 134 years of Derby that has happened), there was an unexpected turn: the seco...
Posted by Chas on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:45:00 PST

Phil Collins retires ?!?!?

Apparently so...Check out the article.http://britmusicscene.com/phil-collins-announces-his -retirement/ ...
Posted by Chas on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:58:00 PST

Nobel Prize-winning Olympic-swimming billionaire astronaut that invented Sticky Notes here

Yep. That's what the placard on my desk says, and the desk itself costs more than the GDP of Zimbabwe. And you can believe that because it's all in my profile.Yea, right.It seems that the more the Ele...
Posted by Chas on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST

Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age of 90

Taken from the following source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarkeC OLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who co-wrote "2001: A Space Odysse...
Posted by Chas on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:48:00 PST

R.I.P: E. Gary Gygax

E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of the role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons," has passed. He was 69.I'm not going to get entirely sentimental, but I was a teenage kid who played "D&D" as well as "AD&D." I ...
Posted by Chas on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:05:00 PST

History is pop culture

First off, I gotta go ahead and attribute the subject line to Robert Wuhl (he's gotta be credited for more than "Batman" and "Arliss") I remember watching cable and seeing his 30 minute rundown on how...
Posted by Chas on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:19:00 PST

Nolan on Ledger

All,I ran across this article and wanted to post it. Director Christopher Nolan wrote an article for Newsweek in regards to Heath Ledger. Here is the entirety:Charisma as Natural as GravityBy Christop...
Posted by Chas on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:36:00 PST

Movie Reviews

All,Thank you for reading the movie reviews as well as "Movie News and Views." However, I have recently created the group Film Guys Online and have slowly been moving that stuff over that.And now it's...
Posted by Chas on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:29:00 PST

2008 Movie Releases: Sep-Dec

RELEASES FOR 2008By Chas AndrewsHey everyone. Compiled below is the current list of movies being released for 2008. I've never done this before and having done it, I now know why. Just joking. Serious...
Posted by Chas on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:43:00 PST

Yes. I am relieved to know that I am not a golem.