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Chris

a whole new form of urban style music

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



Music:

jazz, blues, ambient, rock, metal, breakbeat, broken beat, hiphop, triphop, dnb, reggae, ragga, ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, skatepunk, ska-punk, hardcore, thrash, grindcore, prog rock, art rock, experimental, noise, techno, industrial, world (worldbeat/africa)...

a few of my favorite artists: Tony Williams, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown, Roger Humphries, Ninja Tune (Coldcut/Strictly Kev/DK/Amon Tobin/Food), DJ Spooky, Hive, Echo, UFO!, Pendulum, Jonny L, Primus, Propagandhi, Pigface, Max Roach, Einsturzende Neubauten, Stone Roses, Run-DMC, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dead Prez, Black Sabbath, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, Tool, Swans, Hendrix, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, King Crimson, Nirvana, Chemlab, Helmet, Dave Brubeck, Jane's Addiction, Mr. Bungle, Fear Factory, Clutch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastadon, Tricky, Led Zeppelin, Billy Cobham, KRS-ONE, The Roots, Bad Brains, Jeru the Damaja, Afu-Ra, Crooklyn Dodgers, Jimi Tenor, Living Colour, Fishbone, Butthole Surfers, Sixty Watt Shamen, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, KMFDM, Coil, Tom Waits, Herbie Hancock, The Code, Psychic TV, John Lee Hooker, Nitzer Ebb, Affordable Floors, Soul Coughing, Skinny Puppy, The Pogues, Pixies, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Dilated Peoples, Cut Chemist, Fugees, Aesop, Cannibal Ox, Cali Agents, Blackalicious, Mr. Lif, Nonphixion, MF Doom/Victor Vaughn, Peanut Butter Wolf, Kid Koala, Luke Vibert, Johnny Cash, Aphex Twin, Frank Zappa, Minor Threat, Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Agent Orange, Dead Milkmen, Fugazi, Foetus, Front 242, Thrill Kill Kult, Photek, Woob, Talib Kweli, Alien Sex Fiend, Cowboy Junkies, Bauhaus, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Bahamadia, Crash Worship, Bob Dylan, Public Enemy, EPMD, Bigod 20, Polar, Sun Ra and the Sun Ra Arkestra, Killing Joke, Red Crayola, De Fabriek, DJ Cam, DJ Krush, The KLF, Gabor Szabo, ...the list keeps growing.

Movies:

Stanley Kubrick, Peter Jackson, David Lynch, City of God, Belly, Tupac Resurrection, Pi, LOTR, The Exorcist, The Ring, Dancer in the Dark, American Beauty, Tron, Casino, Fear of a Black Hat, The Fly, Super Size Me, Suburbia, Airport, 12 Monkeys, The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Fight Club, House of 1,000 Corpses, Outfoxed, Pulp Fiction, 4 Rooms, The Harder They Come, A Brief History of Time, Animatrix, War Games, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, sk8 videos, Scratch, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Irreversible, ...

Television:

kill

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television

Books:

Snow Crash, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, The Code Book, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Cookbooks, The Coming Plague, Nickel and Dimed, Fast Food Nation, Breakfast of Champions, A Clockwork Orange, The Emporer Wears No Clothes, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking's Universe, Theory of Everything...), Kurt Vonnegut, textbooks, technical stuff, ...

Heroes:

i find inspiration from a lot of different people and places and things

My Blog

back from the EU sukkaz

It's nice to be home...[[ I'll be adding pictures to this sometime soon I am too lazy right now >I've managed to survive my trip through 3 countries and 8 cities in 12 days.It started in London......
Posted by Chris on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:48:00 PST

travelling in europe

I've finally managed to upload a few pics from my trip to Europe, but haven't had time to really go through them and organize them, add captions, etc yet because we've been a little busy: http:...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:29:00 PST

Maryland vs Virginia Tech

word, everybody that works at UMD gets to go home early ('administrative leave') because of the MD vs. Virginia Tech game since traffic is going to be fucking horrible...(and maryland is gonna get...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:19:00 PST

article in Science Grid

"Science Grid This Week" has posted an article about our iGRID e-VLBI demo at e-VLBI article in Science Grid This Week.
Posted by Chris on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:40:00 PST

europe !!

whew...finally got my plans nailed down for our trip to europe... it sounds like i'll be flying to london on 12/03 and will be hanging out there until 12/05, at which point i'll be taking a train...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:29:00 PST

maybe the most fucked up sign in DC

i have been meaning to get a picture of this for awhile...wtf is up with this? look closely under the route 50 and above 'Washington'...yes, that actually says something: it says 'TO NEW YOR...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:31:00 PST

motherfuckin big d !

the weekends these days have been the shit... i'd have to say, i've been enjoying myself like a motherfucker. i drove to philly on saturday, mostly so i could see mps before he leaves for his 3 ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:50:00 PST

last weekend

so now that work demo ..1 is finished, i had to take some time off to chill out. it was definitely time well spent... i took about a week off and a whole bunch of cool shit happened. * got to...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:45:00 PST

good fiends

So, I used to be in this band called The Good Fiends about 4 years ago or so with a friend of mine named Matt a.k.a. Bear. I had known Bear pretty much my whole life since he was my brother's bes...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:48:00 PST

game day is over!

The last like 2 months of my life have most been focused on two 1.5 hour periods on two special days, which are now over. The heculean task was to help setup an experiment where we take data comi...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:18:00 PST