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Chris Berry

However, I might just have another small slice of pie.

About Me

I'm a guitarist, banjo player and fiddler. I know very little about any music after 1985. I know a lot about music before 1940. I know a lot about the Beatles. I'm a copy editor. If I had my dream job I'd be a game show host, but I don't have enough hair. I know too much about game shows. I'm a geek who can mix in company. I have a cat; her name is Esther and she meows a lot. I've got a thing for British TV. I have a thing for books and the English language. I have a thing for beautiful women, but they scream when I show it to them. I like dirty jokes. I begin many sentences with I. I'm a little bit country, but not so much with the rock and roll. I hate a parade. I can mount a skin head on a banjo and replace the socket in a lamp. I like the ocean but not the beach. I can tell what episode of "The Twilight Zone" is .. they show the title. I'm just got a bachelor's degree in English. I like hanging out with my friends. I stop now.

My Interests

Playing music, watching movies, eating pork, watching television, playing cards, torturing my cat, hanging out with friends, correcting other people's mistakes. And did I mention that I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a? Well I do.

I'd like to meet:

Bob Barker, ideally while playing Cliff Hanger.

Music:

Charlie Patton, Sleepy John Estes, Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Jelly Roll Morton, Sam McGee, Doc Watson, Riley Puckett and Asa Martin (two greatest old-time backup guitarists ever), Frank Hutchison, Jean Bosco, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Lang, Mel Durham, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson, basically any country blues and/or old-time country music

Movies:

Citizen Kane, Chimes at Midnight, Touch of Evil, The Third Man, anything by Hitchcock (well, almost anything. I've tried to watch Number 17 five times and never made it past 10 minutes), The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, M, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, Persona, Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, Star Wars (the original trilogy), Caddyshack, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Airplane!

Television:

Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Quatermass, Monty Python, Sapphire and Steel, I Claudius, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Star Trek (I suppose), Yes, Minister, The Sopranos, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Danger Man, The Avengers, Police Squad, The Twilight Zone, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Foyle's War, game shows from the 50s-70s, but none of these shows in a geeky, I-get-dressed-up-for-conventions sort of way. Although I do own a Doctor Who scarf. But I haven't worn it for years. Really.

Books:

Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, Judge Dee mysteries by Robert Van Gulik, Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters, fantasy novels by David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, Dennis McKiernan, Tad Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien's works and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Austen's novels, Slaughterhouse-Five, Carter Beats the Devil, Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Philo Vance novels by S.S. Van Dine, Agatha Christie, The Encyclopedia of Television Game Shows, History of Card Games by David Parlett, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny, I Say Me For A Parable by Mance Lipscomb and Glen Ayers, mystery and fantasy generally, especially historical mystery, nonfiction about history

Heroes:

Sherlock Holmes, Uncle Dave Macon, Bill Cullen, Doctor Who, Dock Boggs and big bowls of Mongolian BBQ. And my biggest hero of all -- why it's you, you big palooka!