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Kristopher

make your own luck, cherish your happiness, and take your risk

About Me

mia-lax-sfo-gig-fln-cor-pmy-fte-ush-aep-eze-mia(x3)-sfo-aus "stand up, be bold, be strong. take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. all the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. therefore, make your own future." ::vivekananda::

My Interests

kristopher marx !PARKOUR! cycling, sufis, GINGER, dancing, old enameled kettles, ricoh, advaita, eizo, reading, any beach, traveling, MATE!, cooking, photography, carnival glass, trading sense for foolishness, riedel glass, kimchi, getting lost by myself, Dagoba Xacolatl chocolate!, scams, peanut butter and raw honey, dreaming of a future home in ......., xxxtra virgin olive oil, zojirushi, gardening, 10+ years aged balsamic, phase one, true enthusiasm, marmite, chess, mangoes on sticks with lime and chili, lightning storms!, grape leaves, ~the green fairy~, chess, peppers so hot you question everything, playing upside down, humor so dark it absorbs light, walking far, leica m8's, duende, sweating alot, near hypothermic moments, anything that sharpens my vision and makes my eyes brighter....

I'd like to meet:

."Entertaining such professional contacts as'...the shaman of the Blackfoot Tribe named Thunder Star, who in a fit of intense mental concentration had caused a small tributary of the Missouri River to run backward."

Music:

amadou et mariam, carmen amaya, ann courtney and the late bloomers, artifacts, ashanti, bach, roy ayers, brand nubian, brian eno, brian nash, cesaria evora, chopin, clave y guaguanc, dan the automator, damian marley, del, de la soul, dick dale, dj krush, dj shadow, dmitri from paris, dolly parton(silver dagger is wonderful), enrique morente, faith no more, glenn gould, holly golightly, j-zone, kanye west, le tigre, lil' kim, lords of acid, martina topley-bird, M.I.A.!!, mozart in egypt, mozart, mr.bungle, nouvelle vague, portishead, primus, prince paul, pygmy children, quasimoto, andres segovia, the sundays, vivaldi, yo-yo ma(his rendition of bach's cello suite 1 is amazing), Tom Waits, The Roots, "Killing Moon", Janes Addiction, Rick Armand, The Ramones, Natacha Atlas, Trojan Records Compilations, Rolling Stones, Gypsy Kings, seu jorge, Social Distortion, Stephan Pampougnac, Nusrat Ali Khan, the platters, The Priest, Wanda Jackson, Faithless, Velvet Underground, Lena Horne, Lamb, Outkast, Rita Marley, Meiko Kaiji, Bob Marx, James Brown, MF Doom, The Clash, Wax Poetic, Lovage, Kruder and Dorfmeister, The Magnetic Fields, Nacho Satomayor, Company Flow, Nat King Cole, Jay-Z, Billie Holiday, Pizzicato Five, Thievery Corporation, Nino Rota, Gorillaz, Chet Baker, Esthero, Zap Mama, Omayra Amaya, Sarah Vaughn, Massive Attack, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Little MJ, Mos Def, Sublime, Nitin Sawkney, NINA SIMONE, Koop, Skatalites, Mike Patton in all his forms ie a beat box duet with RAHZEL!!! WHAT!?!!!, Angelo Bandalamenti, Morcheeba, Cat Power, Operation Ivy, Quantic, David Bowie, Patsy Cline, MC Solaar, Otis Redding, Kool Keith, Representative Ball, Al Green, U.N.K.L.E., Elvis, Cesaria Evora, Radiohead, Dusty Springfield, Bran Van3000, old doowop, Move your feet, Peggy Lee, Tricky, Johnny Cash, radiodavidbyrne.com....

Movies:

My dinner with Andre, The Killer, Amelie, Wild Style, Black Narcissus, La Strada, The Triplets of Belleville, Endless Summer 2, Like Water for Chocolate, Kurosawa's Dreams, The Great Escape, Style Wars, Lost in Translation, The Music Room, Gangs of New York, Breakin' 2, The Big Lebowkski, Underground, the aristocrats, Sheltering Sky, Kill Bill, Blue Velvet, WILD AT HEART, Casablanca, Vengo, Style Wars, Ten Little Indians, The Princess and the Warrior, Carnages, Big Sleep, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Arizona Dream, Citizen Kane, Flamenco, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Apocalypse Now, My Best Fiend, Favela Rising....

Television:

TWIN PEAKS, Radio Free Video, Shark Week, Tour de France.......not much....no tv.....thank something

Books:

Island, The Anatomy of Restlessness, The Razor's Edge, Dice, Perfect Harmony, Scandal, Zorba the Greek, Sufis, Sweet Thursday, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Circus of the Earth and the Air, Hagakure, Le Petit Prince, Travelers Tales..., Almanacs, QED, ATLASES!, Anything by Bruce Chatwin, Tahir Shaw, Laugham, Peter Mathiessen Aldous Huxley, or Pico Iyer, the dictionary, so many more to list....i have just recieved the majority of the best books from the 5000 strong library that filled my childhood home.

Heroes:

Richard Feynmann, MY FUCKING VALIANT MOM!, Bruce Chatwin, Omayra Amaya, my older brother Hugh Boyd , Krishnamurti, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Tahir Shah, Werner Herzog, Banksy, Peter Mathiessen Wendell.....

My Blog

One of the 3 best shows of my life!!!!!

There are two shows that I have considered the ABSOLUTE best I've ever been to.1- prince surprise show at the fleet center in boston2- sharon jones and the dap-kings at castle clintonI am overwhelming...
Posted by Kristopher on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:02:00 PST

advice?

so, i went bike camping this weekend.had a great time.great people.i rode an enormous trike up many big and ridiculous hills for a friend of mine.one of these actually.CRAZY TRIKE!upon arriving we all...
Posted by Kristopher on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:26:00 PST

losing steam / swiftly reaching terminal velocity

: turkey on thanksgiving :. getting a flat on my "flatproof" rear wheel and losing my previously rock hard faithin armadillo technology.. having our main client move up, resulting in her not being in ...
Posted by Kristopher on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:17:00 PST

.the increase in spamming idiots.

is everyone else being inundated with this shit?i get at least 3/4 requests a day to be some shit clown's/hoochie mama's friend that "is going to make me rich".i usually mark them as spam and carry on...
Posted by Kristopher on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:20:00 PST

travelin', travelin', travelin'...travelin' from the east...

i've always loved to travel.but, for a few years there, i was in a rut.i just booked a flight for my next job with a shot to SFand it made think about how many flights i have been on in the past year....
Posted by Kristopher on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:32:00 PST

introducing......

did you ever want a digital camera that would just take the picture you wanted without that annoying shutter lag?did you ever want to be able to put that camera in your pocket?did you ever want to be ...
Posted by Kristopher on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:07:00 PST

a raincheck, it will have to be

i'm gone.now.i hope all of your holidays are excellent and fun.talk to you next year!xoxo
Posted by Kristopher on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:51:00 PST

WOOT! WOOT!

depart:JFK New York11/07/2006 06:50 PMarrive:GIG Rio De Janeiro11/08/2006 10:35 AMreturn:EZE Buenos Aires12/31/2006 11:05 PMarrive:EWR Newark01/01/2007 11:15 AMand all for 160 less than it was yesterd...
Posted by Kristopher on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:57:00 PST

have you been to south america?

kim and i are going to south america for two months.leaving in about two weeks.our rough plan is to fly into sao paulo and fly out of buenos aires.along the way we're going to: florianopolis(BR), mon...
Posted by Kristopher on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:01:00 PST

if you want to see my photos......

myspace's photo compression is dog shit.........click here
Posted by Kristopher on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:34:00 PST