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The Chri$

I *told* you that shit in the limo.....

About Me


personal .

professional .

visual chronicles .

My Interests

Music, photography, reading, the ocean, guitars, technology, computers and gizmos, international travel, Linux, graphic design, movies, Jack Daniel's, sailing.

Music:

yes please

Movies:

LOTR, Almost Famous, Zoolander, The Dao of Steve, Dress to Kill, Can't Hardly Wait, Old School, Van Wilder, High Fidelity, The Big Lebowski, Say Anything, Not Another Teen Movie.

Television:

Don't watch too much... BSG, Buffy reruns, Angel, Alias, Justice League, Family Guy, Blade, Battlestar Galactia, other things now and then.

Books:

East of Eden, A Month of Sundays, A Confederacy of Dunces, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, LOTR and associated works, The Pillars of the Earth, The Sound and the Fury, A Month of Sundays, S. a Novel, The Sun Also Rises, The Winter of Our Discontent, Green Eggs and Ham, Where The Wild Things Are, The Fountainhead, Dubliners, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rabbit Run (and associated series), The Grapes of Wrath, Norse and Greek mythology, The Temple of Gold, James and the Giant Peach, A Wrinkle in Time, Suicide Blonde, Tender is the Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Beowulf, The Iliad, A Siwftly Tilting Planet, The Last of the Mohicans, High Fidelity, Atlas Shrugged, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, too many more to remember...

Heroes:

Linus Torvalds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Carmack, Richard Feynman, John Steinbeck, Eddie Van Halen, and my father.

My Blog

first week downtown

Today marks the end of the first week living in downtown LA. And so far, it's been pretty cool. The boxes are still largely unpacked. I'd hoped to do more today, but I got a little tied up. Shocking. ...
Posted by The Chri$ on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:21:00 PST

fun in mexico

Mike is getting married on June 30th, 2006 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I will now begin accepting applications from any women who wish to be my date to this event. I'm completely open to bribes, whi...
Posted by The Chri$ on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:15:00 PST

let it be known

In the summer of 2006, something wonderful is going to happen....
Posted by The Chri$ on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:41:00 PST

travel '06

It appears that I'm going to be doing more travelling next year than I did in '05. At the moment, there's a possible appearance at Sundance, probably one or two trips to London, four weddings, three b...
Posted by The Chri$ on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:48:00 PST

friends getting hitched

The year is winding down. There will be plenty to look back on, but I imagine I'll save next month for that. Right now, I'm just standing in shock of all the weddings that are going on next year. It...
Posted by The Chri$ on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:16:00 PST

Off for Thanksgiving

I'm heading to Portland tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with the family. I'll be checking email pretty regularly, and will have my cell phone of course. If anyone needs me, give me a buzz. I'll be stay...
Posted by The Chri$ on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:20:00 PST

words of wisdom

From Demian. "I've only successfully gotten out of the friend zone once. It's like being in the Matrix without a phone." Classic.
Posted by The Chri$ on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:13:00 PST

homeowner gear

So as some may know I am buying a loft downtown. It's exciting and expensive, and not necessarily in that order. The thing that strikes me though is this. I have plenty of stereotypical male traits. O...
Posted by The Chri$ on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:48:00 PST

power outage

The power is out in my entire neighborhood for the third time in a few weeks. It's really, really annoying. All I wanted was to chill out on a Sunday night, maybe watch Grey's Anatomy, drink a glass ...
Posted by The Chri$ on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:11:00 PST

about that free time...

So yeah, that thing about the free time improving? Well, it was, but now not so much. Like really, seriously not so much. From now until (I estimate) around mid-June, I will be scarce at best. Afte...
Posted by The Chri$ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST