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Chris

From the burn-bag of L. Patrick Gray

About Me

I came here to eat ass and chew bubblegum....and I just ran out of ass.

My Interests

Black metal, black comedy, Black Randy, the Black Dhalia, Lori Black, Black Sabbath, Black Francis, Black Alberich, Under the Big Black Sun, Big Black, Black Star, "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," Jimmy Carl Black, "None...none more black," "Black Maria" (Waits, Rundgren, and Hooper), Wading Through Clear Water In A Pool Painted Black, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Granddaughters of second-string Dadaists, Brigitte Fontaine, freelancers, sir free-lancelot, sir marks-a-lot, YourMotherTron 9000.

Music:

ABBA, AMK, AMM, A Warm Palindrome, Ashtray Navigations, Albert Ayler, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Nikhil Banerjee, Bacillus, Black Sabbath, Borbetomagus, Camper Van Beethoven, Can, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beyond, Carmen, Celebration Roadshow, Ceramic Hobs, Swapan Chaudhuri, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Cock E.S.P., COiN, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Control, Alice Cooper, Coughs, Crawl Unit, Crawlspace, Cream, Currituck County, Darkthrone, Miles Davis, De La Soul, Tod Dockstader, Eric Dolphy, Iancu Dumitrescu/Ana-Maria Avram, Electric Eels, ELO, Eno, Bill Evans, John Fahey, The Fall, The Firesign Theatre, Fleetwood Mac, Brigitte Fontaine/Areski, Funkadelic, Game Theory, Gary Glitter’s Hard Drive, Gays In The Military, Green Monkey, Hair Police, Half Japanese, Emmylou Harris, Head of Femur, Pierre Henry, Hive Mind, Buddy Holly, Janis Ian, Idea Fire Company, Inca Eyeball, Iron Maiden, Keith Jarrett, Blind Willie Johnson, Daniel Johnston, George Jones, Judas Priest, K2, Kemialliset Ystavat, Ali Akbar Khan, Allauddin Khan, Bismillah Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!), Carole King, Leadbelly, Lightning Bolt, Little Feat, Loud Family, Luasa Raelon, Magma, Mammal, Lata Mangeshkar, Albert Marcoeur, Melvins, Merzbow, Minutemen, Joni Mitchell, the Modern Lovers, Essra Mohawk, Thelonious Monk, Moribund, My Bloody Valentine, Willie Nelson, New Reformation Dixieland Band, nmperign, Laura Nyro, OHNE, OutKast, Pere Ubu, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Prurient, Public Enemy, Quintron, The Residents, The Rheostatics, Zoogz Rift, Rudimentary Peni, TODD RUNDGREN, Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Mort Sahl, Scissor Girls, The Shadow Ring, Ravi Shankar, Sly and the Family Stone, Joseph Spence, Steely Dan, Stereolab, Morton Subotnick, Sudden Infant, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Talking Heads, Tart, Television, Thin Lizzy, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Throbbing Gristle, To Live and Shave In L.A., 25 Suaves, Uriah Heep, Vangelis, Edgard Varese, Velvet Underground, Venom, Tom Waits, Wendy Waldman, Weakling, The Who, Hank Williams Sr., Wolf Eyes, Stevie Wonder, Roy Wood, Yes, Dwight Yoakam, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, MORE

Movies:

The Warriors, the Cremaster Cycle, the World's Greatest Sinner, Crumb, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Death Drug, the UP series, films of Guy Maddin, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen, Downey Sr., John Waters, Tarkovsky etc. IF YOU LIVE IN CHICAGO, GO TO ODD OBSESSION VIDEO IN WICKER PARK! I like that kind of movies, basically.

Television:

The Office (UK mostly, but US is good too!), Brass Eye, Jam, The Day Today, Michael O'Donoghue-era SNL, America's Next Top Model, Robot Chicken, Check, Please!, Cash in the Attic, What Not To Wear (older ones with Trinny and Susannah), Space Ghost Coast to Coast, hysterical and overwrought Lifetime melodramas (especially "cyber seduction: His Secret Life" and "The Linda McCartney Story"), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Best Week Ever, The White Rapper Show, Mary Tyler Moore show, Freaks and Geeks/Undeclared, Fernwood 2Nite (why is this not on DVD yet?!?!), anything involving competitive gingerbread or pizzamaking. Also, I just discovered on Friday that "Ed vs. Spencer" is my new favorite show of all time!!!

Books:

Crash, Mother Night, In Watermelon Sugar, Awaken Healing Energy through Tao, Psychotic Reactions and Carbureator Dung, Trouser Press Guide editions 2 through 5, VALIS, The Great Shark Hunt, Revolutionary Road + the complete short stories of Richard Yates, Walking on Ice, Mr. Mike,

Heroes:

Robert Downey Sr., Mort Sahl, John Waters, Mark Prindle, Buzz Osbourne, Lester Bangs, Janis Ian, Michael O'Donoghue, Phil Todd, Richard Hulsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Tom Smith, Doug Sohn, Ken Mok, and whoever owns Metal Haven.

My Blog

Gays in the Military - Thursday Dec. 9, Logan Square Auditorium

Oh man, you gotta be there...this place is huge, the sound system is unearthly, and we will fucking rock you Like Rocco Siffredi on 3 doses of Levitra... ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Look mom, I'm blogging!!

Blog blog bloggity blog. Blog blog, blog blog blog blog. Blog.
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Society bitches, beeyotch!!

Damn, Gays in the Military got into the society pages of the Sun-Times on Saturday! Check out this week's edition of "Susanna's Night Out." http://www.suntimes.com/output/homan/cst-ftr-susanna0...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jams at work

CDs I brought to work this week: - Guapo, "Great Sage, Equal Of Heaven" - Bunnybrains, "CD*1993" - Anaal Nathrakh, "The Codex Necro" - Darkthrone, "Transylvanian Hunger" - Amon Duul, "Collapsin...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Gays in the Military updates

Might as well post this stuff while I'm thinking of it... Gays in the Military: Updates! Recordings: "Godspunk, Vol. 2," the UK-based compilation featuring our track "When We Were The AIDS T...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Jams of April

The first one's always the toughest. What to write, what to write....Let's do some lists n' things, see if it turns into anything that the Weekly World News would wanna pick up: The Jams of April: ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST