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About Me

Up north, up where we lived in canada, there was a wooden manakin who lived on a hill down the street from us. The sun always shone on his house, even during the night time. He would pace back and forth across the second floor--we saw him through the window. he looked very, very lonely.No one knew him.Partially by accident, partially on purpose, once time I got too close to his house. I may have been trying to burn it down. He saw me through the window, and I saw myself in him--very clearly, i saw myself in his blank wooden face.After his house was merely a pile of charred sticks, everyone from our town picked through the rubble, and the children stick-fought with bits of what were either table legs or his arms, I walked alone through the rubble on the west end of his house. I picked up a large screw which I convinced myself had to be one of the ones that had held him together.That night as I walked back and forth across the second floor of our house, I got an idea. I got some towels, and a drill, and I screwed that screw as hard as i could into my shoulder, and to take my mind off the pain, I sang this little song to myself:"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper"

My Interests

School, hanging with good bros, spending rare but quality time with my special lady, hanging out with my kitties Henry and Rooney, Patchwork Collective, and seeing my fam.

I'd like to meet:

A man in a dapper suit, a boy with a balloon, or perhaps Steve Prefontaine's ghost (sans nikes)

Movies:

The Hours, Contempt (Le Mepris), Man on the Train, Coffee and Cigarettes, Motorcycle Diaries, The Beach, The 400 Blows, Legends of the Fall, Moulin Rouge, Interview with the Vampire, Amelie, V for Vendetta, and some surf and skate videos (Yeah Right! and Thicker Than Water.) Sports movies (pretty much all of them.. Fever Pitch, Cinderella Man, Miracle, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, etc.) Also cheesy stuff like Airborn and North Shore.

Television:

Top Chef, Project Runway, Realtime with bill maher, Planet Earth, Acceptable.tv

Books:

All time fav list= The Beach by Alex Garland, The Waste Land by Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

Heroes:

Mark Twain, Elliot Smith, C.S. Lewis, Adam Bradshaw, Noam Chomsky, Sylvia Plath, Banksy, Jeff Buckley. In real life:

My Blog

At this stage

when i was a boy, i saw things that no one else could see. so why am i so blind at 24, to the hope that is all around me - filling up this room? when i was a boy, i could hear symphonies in seashells....
Posted by Chris Elford on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:35:00 PST

Patchwork Article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Read it here!
Posted by Chris Elford on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:01:00 PST

New Patchwork Collective article in Style Weekly

Matt White, Scott Burton, Chris Elford Creative organizers by Peter McElhinney January 25, 2006 If the Patch...
Posted by Chris Elford on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:39:00 PST

After cutting my hair off, I have come to a conclusion:

The choice between shaving your winter beard or risking resembling Iron & Wine is not an easy choice to make. So I'm going to flip a coin, best out of 5. And it'll be a Canadian coin, because I tr...
Posted by Chris Elford on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:09:00 PST

MY HOUSE IS CLEAN

Eh something about the cycling of the seasons makes me feel nervous and guilty about wanting spring to come, which is bullshit. I love spring. I want to go running and sit on the porch in nothing but ...
Posted by Chris Elford on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:59:00 PST

Callooh Callay! New Patchwork Collective website!

patchwork collective has a new website, at www.patchworkcollective.com . ch ch ch check it out little buddy!
Posted by Chris Elford on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:31:00 PST

This new year:

You may tire of me as our December sun is setting. Just a warning!
Posted by Chris Elford on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:30:00 PST

Tommy Chong "Visibly Disappointed" Upon Hearing Superjoint Ritual CD

Dude. My faith is restored in winter and Christmas. Also, it is really good to be back in Richmond. Lots of stuff is coming up that looks really fun. Mainly, it is time to figure out New Years resolut...
Posted by Chris Elford on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:41:00 PST

Such a beautiful city.

I want this played at my funeral. And my wedding. Please remember me, happilyby the rosebush laughingwith bruises on my chin, the time whenwe counted every black car passingyour house beneath t...
Posted by Chris Elford on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:18:00 PST

This is a list of stuff I like about Richmond right now.

There is lots of awesome stuff going on. People have ideas and are making them happen. It is a novel fucking idea! This list is in no particular order. -Gallery Five putting on awesome art and music. ...
Posted by Chris Elford on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:25:00 PST