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Chris

clarity lost out to desire

About Me

I'm a friendly, energetic and creative type of guy. I'm a music obsessive and lover of all things involving art.

My Interests

Music, nice people, vegan cookin'(I'm not a full on vegan, I just play one on YouTube, someday I'll make a video for them, until then, I'm just a simple vegetarian), drawing, photography, i'm more of a cat person than a dog person, delicious coffee, beer & whiskey (not all at the same time mind you, oh, wait a minute...) and above all, playing bass...

I'd like to meet:

Other like minded people for all sorts of hell raising...

Music:

I love tha music, like those geniuses the Roots said: "It's all in tha music" and who would dare deny The Roots? If you you do, I will beat your ass, uh, ok, maybe I can call some people that would...But, seriously I love music, I'm a music ho, as long as you don't step to me with any of that hippy jam stuff, nu cuntry, or over produced Pro-Tools puppetry...Currently on a steady diet of: Black Sabbath, Mastodon, The Haunted, Arch Enemy, Converge, Bjork, Meshell Ndegeocello, Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Opeth, In Flames, Mr. Lif, John Zorn (Masada & Naked City), Voivod, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, The Minutemen, Carcass, Van Der Graaf Generator, John Coltrane, Radiohead, Pantera, Clutch Yes, Ani Difranco, QOTSA, UI, Tori Amos, Death, Sarah Slean, Glue, Thelonius Monk, Blackalicious, Slayer, Neurosis, Sonic Youth, Color & Talea, Tortoise, NIN, Swale, Carrigan, Wargasm, The Roots, RHCP, Isis, Trouble, Down, Sisters of Mercy, Blonde Redhead, tons of Old School Soul & funk, aw hell, the list goes on and on and on...

Movies:

Favorites include: Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Planet Terror, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, Magnolia, Fugazi: Instrument, Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks, Standing In The Shadows of Motown, Serpico, Laurie Anderson: Home Of The Brave, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Television:

I don't even own one. Seriously, ask my roommate...

Books:

Favorites include:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (anything by Hunter S. Thompson, really), On The Road, Get In The Van, The Trial, Beneath The Underdog, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, High Fidelity, Fast Food Nation, Art and Fear, The Real Frank Zappa Book

Heroes:

I don't know if I'd call them heroes, but some people I really respect are: My nephew Jonathan, Jon Erik Johnson (RIP), Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, David Bowie, Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), Mike Watt, Laurie Anderson, Vernon Reid, Ani DiFranco, Angela Davis, Jacob Bannon and lots of other great artists and free thinkers.