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Chris

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships and Friends

About Me

I provoke easily, attack ferociously, and domesticate with difficulty.

My Interests



Music, concerts, opera, camping, baseball, writing, reading, fishing, swimming, scuba diving, driving around aimlessly, cooking, skiing, animals, videogames, traveling, building computers, World of Warcraft, etc.

Music:

Condensed: The Appleseed Cast, Brazil, Cat Power, Cult Of Luna, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, Dimmu Borgir, Edge Of Sanity, Explosions in the Sky, The Flaming Lips, Forest of Shadows, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Green Carnation, Haggard, Hum, Hypocrisy, In the Woods, Iron Maiden, ISIS, Juno, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Live, Mastodon, Ministry, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Moonsorrow, Morphine, Neil Young, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Opeth, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shape of Despair, The Shins, Smashing Pumpkins, Summoning, System Of A Down, Testament, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Tom Petty, Tool, Ulver, The Who, Windir, Woods of Ypres, etc.

Movies:

Condensed: 21 Grams, American History X, Behind The Sun, Boondock Saints, A Bullet In The Head, Butterfly, Carandiru, The Celebration, Cemetary Man, Children Of Heaven, City Of God, The City Of Lost Children, Clockwork Orange, The Constant Gardener, Dancer In The Dark, The Devil's Backbone, Eyes Wide Shut, Falling Down, Full Metal Jacket, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Hang 'Em High, The Hidden Fortress, I Heart Huckabees, Kicking And Screaming, The Kingdom, Kung Fu Hustle, LIE, Lost In Translation, Madadayo, Mifune, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Nil By Mouth, Pan's Labyrinth, Romeo Is Bleeding, Ronin, Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Scarface, Seven Samurai, Sexy Beast, Shaun Of The Dead, Sin City, The Squid And The Whale, The Thing, Twin Peaks, Zero Effect, etc.

Television:

CSI, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, South Park, Sealab 2021, Firefly, Taken, Ren & Stimpy, Junkyard Wars, Fight Science, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, The Venture Brothers, The Office... I don't watch a whole lot of TV...

Books:

Mythology (Icelandic mostly), history (Greek, Roman, German, Icelandic, European), psychology (abnormal, clinical), philosophy, war and conflict (circa Roman Empire to modern day), poetry (Beat era, occasionally the Romantics, modern/post-modern?), occasionally a bit of biography, music history/theory, political theory and criticism (I lean rather far to the left, with a very few, choice exceptions), the classics (Dickens, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Doestoyevsky); less 'serious' writers: Harry Harrison, Mark Salzman, Michael Moorcock, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Peter Straub, John Brunner, James Lee Burke, William Gibson, John Connolly, Carl Hiaasen, Neal Stephenson, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Varley, Ian McEwan, and James Mitchener, in no particular order.

My Blog

Make your stand

It really is the little shit that makes our lives worthwhile:I'd forgotten the pure unadulterated pleasure of air guitaring to a good old Nirvana track in front of a mirror. Think petting your dog is ...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:27:00 PST

Return to Chapel Town

Of the very few metal bands I still listen to these days, Cult of Luna is probably my favorite - this is a the radio length edited video of their song Return to Chapel Town, and it absolutely destroys...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:13:00 PST

Doin' Time

I've always been more than just a little fascinated with criminal society. It's got an odd sort of comraderie to it, once you get past the surly hostility.    Doing my two community ser...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:41:00 PST

Confusing Moments

I've been a bit... nostalgic, for most of my life. I tend to reminisce about things that happened days ago, and act as if events played out a year ago were the good old days. I've written stories abou...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

Name the Band: "Driving Nowhere"

Holy boring day; I think everything I did involved my computer, except brief breaks to go to the bathroom and, er, read while... you know... makin' the poopies and stuff. Aye!I headed over to OfficeM...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:10:00 PST

It Pays To Be Paranoid

So, as usual, I filed my taxes early this year. I did not, however, e-file, in which case I would likely have received my refund a week or two after filing. I'm still plenty happy with how quickly it ...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:16:00 PST

But Coathangers PLEASE Me!

So, the Republicans have done it again... the quote that angers me the most is this: "The people are pro-life, particularly in South Dakota," Newman said. "The timing (of the law) couldn't be better a...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:08:00 PST

Amusement and Revelry in Nerd-dom

I was walking to class yesterday, iPod blaring away as per usual, leather jacket swishing about, a pretty decent wind playing with my rapidly growing hair... out of nowhere, the bag I have slung over ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:56:00 PST

Sheisse! (Opeth and Dark Tranquillity show)

So, just getting back from the Dark Tranquillity/Opeth show, Opeth headlining of course... there was another band called Devil Driver that apparently features the lead singer from Coal Chamber, howeve...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:42:00 PST

Dreams and Mundane Existence

I had the strangest, most vivid dream last night... it's not at all unusual for me to dream quite deeply and remember the dreams, at least for a few hours (never long enough to motivate myself to reco...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:20:00 PST