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christopher O)))

blessed be we amateurs

About Me

blessed be i don't even know when i'm joking or not anymore.

sometimes i paint.

My Interests

karen, my dog xochitl, my friends, music, vinyl records, painting, drawing, pottery, wabi-sabi, tea pots, raku, graffiti, pretty bikes, dirty bikes, bike rides, bike gangs, yelling, cussing, vegetarianism, yerba maté, junkyards, workin' on my house, gardening, cooking, kombucha, 22re's, hey babes, french exits, prongs, flipping off little kids, socialism, fighting back, posers, nicknames, passive smarcasm...

I'd like to meet:

margot tenenbaum. marcel duchamp. egon sheile. robert motherwell. james turell. helen frankenthaler. mark rothko. david alfonso siqueros. gustav klimpt. georgia o'keeffe. jose posada. david lynch. john zorn. john coltrane. jesco "the dancing outlaw" white.

artists, cyclists, socialists, revolutionists, bloods and crips, ninjas, fellow left handers...

Music:

joan of arc, neko case, olivia tremor control, of monreal, jeromes dream, off minor, the love of everything, make believe, usurp synapse, YES, eyehategod, black fucking sabbath, the green fuse, saviours, ten grand/the vida blue, yaphet kotto, arab on radar, john coltrane, orchid, the owls, neutral milk hotel, boys life, tortoise, black cat no. 13, patsy cline, jose gonzalez, sinaloa, ampere, the vogue, blowup, the innocence mission, louise cyphre, the one am radio, la quiete, the red light sting, saetia, the sundays, björk, pinetop seven, the sacco and vanzetti, racebannon, eric dolphy, pg.99, tom waits, love lost but not forgotten, john zorn, the blood brothers, autechre, xiu xiu, reversal of man, mara'akate, very secretary, minus the bear, fugazi, black dice, the autokinoton, carrisa's weird, hank williams, q and not u, a tribe called quest, lucero, city of caterpillar, the great redneck hope, blackstar, okkervil river, de la soul, quasimoto, charles mingus, masada, ex models, aloha, digable planets, form of rocket, femme fatale, man or astro-man?, joanna newsom, aphex twin, miles davis, lewis, mos def, buried at sea, sun kil moon, songs:ohia, magnolia electric company, sunn O))), dead meadow, zebulon pike, electric wizard, the sword, high on fire, sleep...

Movies:

the motherfucking texas fuckin' chainsaw massacre motherfucker, lost in translation, the royal tenenbaums, julien donkeyboy, gummo, amelie, fire walk with me, lost highway, mulholland drive, the 400 blows, my life in pink, murmur of the heart, my life to live, five easy pieces, rushmore, george washington, bottlerocket, buffalo '66, frida, northfork, american pyscho, all the real girls...

Television:

sometimes if it's on dvd.

Books:

albert camus, henry miller, j.k. rowling, william faulkner, virginia woolf, kurt vonnegut, charles bukowski, franz kafka, robert pirsig, kenzeburo oe, hubert selby jr., tom robbins, richard brautigan

Heroes:

my dad. marcel duchamp. paul soldner.

My Blog

art show: THIS FRIDAY 1.19.07, showing thru 4.28.07

attention EARTHLINGS!  I will be displaying my artwork at the Plantera Group (731 N. Weber St.) from January 19th until April 28th.  There will be an opening reception this Friday evening, f...
Posted by christopher O))) on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:54:00 PST

gettin' our hitch on!

hey everyone.  i've started a flickr set for our wedding photos!  i'll be adding more i'm sure...  and if you have some, let me know!!  i'd love to add them.take a look here! ...
Posted by christopher O))) on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:43:00 PST

pikes peak fart est... i mean art fest.... june 9-11

dear everyone, i will be selling my pottery at the pikes peak art fest this weekend.  it's on the lawn of the pikes peak center from june 9th to the 11th.  i'll probably be th...
Posted by christopher O))) on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:55:00 PST

rubbish gallery art show 2.10.06

hay is for horse is.  and there is a new art gallery downtown called rubbish...  it's right across the alley from 15c.  sew there.  well, they're having an art show with a valenti...
Posted by christopher O))) on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:19:00 PST

dear bike dikes... (and no i'm not talking about let's be friends you pc cry baby)

hey you kids!! www.velospace.org this is a site for bikephiles that is fun and easy!  just like magic powder sprinkled into one's very own hair.  "sprinkle the magic powder!" you'll say.&nbs...
Posted by christopher O))) on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:00 PST

kombucha tea

hey all you hippies...  scott and i have started making fermented kombucha tea.  it subsequently creates a new culture every brew, which is needed to make it yourself...  so if an...
Posted by christopher O))) on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:36:00 PST

dear myspace sluts that have webcams...

eat shit.  i know you're hot and all, but i don't want to: watch you use the internet over the internet, add you, email you at your hotmail address because you "don't get a chance to check y...
Posted by christopher O))) on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:42:00 PST

art is sucks, just like being hit with a sack of hammers... so come to my opening 10.7.05

everyone together now:  "art is for jerks...  seriously."  ta-dah.  now, wasn't that fun AND easy? ok i'll have a few paintings up for two weeks in denver starting on oct...
Posted by christopher O))) on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:25:00 PST

attention cry babies: i am showing my art all august and september at sencha

dear citizens of the earth, this just in: your grandmother farts into a tube and breathes the other end.  AND!  i will have some of my paintings hanging at sencha all august and septemb...
Posted by christopher O))) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my civic was stolen

my black 2000 honda civic dx hatch was stolen in denver on logan and 10th sometime between 11:00pm 7.10.05 to 6:00am 7.11.05. license plate # 940-GUX. any information would be greatly appreciated. it ...
Posted by christopher O))) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST