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chris

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About Me


KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENT...

My Interests



Meaning and Distraction

Music:

A HOUSE, abecedarians, aden, adorable, airport girl, air miami, aislers set, alison's halo, dot allison, american lesion, american music club, angels of light, animals that swim, archers of loaf, arco, arrogants, arson garden, ash, astrid, at swim two birds, autumnfair, autumns, BAD RELIGION, ballboy, bardots, bassboosa, bauhaus, beat happening, beautiful south, belltower, belly, berlin, big black, big country, bike, black, frank black, black flag, black tambourine, black watch, blake babies, blind mr. jones, blithe, blondie, blue nile, bolshoi, bomb pops, boo radleys, boogie down productions, book of love, david bowie, boyracer, bradford, billy bragg, breathless, breeders, bright paper werewolves, british sea power, brittle stars, brother kite, dave brubeck, buddha on the moon, buffalo tom, burning airlines, buzzcocks, CALIFORNIA ORANGES, camden, cameo, camera obscura, cannanes, candy skins, cardigans, care, cars, catchers, catherine wheel, nick cave, celestial, chainsaw kittens, chameleons, chapterhouse, charlatans uk, china drum, christian death, christiana, church, cinerama, cinnamon, clash, club 8, cocteau twins, leonard cohen, lloyd cole, compulsion, consat angels, concrete blonde, concretes, confetti, congo norvell, julian cope, crackerbash, cranberries, cult, cure, curve, DAMNED, damon & naomi, darling buds, dart, miles davis, dead kennedys, dean & britta, death cab for cutie, deception bay, decoration, deflowers, delgados, delicious monster, dentists, depeche mode, rob dickinson, died pretty, dillinger four, dimmer, dinosaur jr., disco inferno, tanya donelly, doves, nick drake, drakes hotel, dramamrama, drugstore, EARTHMEN, east river pipe, easy, echo & the bunnymen, echobelly, ecstasy of st. theresa, editors, edsel, eggs, 18th dye, mark eitzel, elbow, electric group, electronic, eleventh dream day, empire, engineers, eurythmics, FACE TO FACE, fall, farside, fastbacks, feelies, felt pilotes, field mice, fields, flesh for lulu, flower, the fontaine toups, for against, forest giants, robert forster, foundry field recordings, frank & walters, frankie goes to hollywood, adam franklin, frente, front 242, fudge, fugazi, future bible heroes, PETER GABRIEL, galaxie 500, marvin gaye, gene, m. gira, glide, glos, glove, go-betweens, godfathers, godrays, rachel goswell, grandpa boy, great northern, green day, guadalcanal diary, HALF STRING, neil halstead, happydeadmen, happy mondays, julianna hatfield, charlotte hatherley, heartthrobs, angie heaton, heavenly, henry's dress, kristen hersh, high, robyn hitchcock, holiday flyer, hot hot heat, hourly radio, house of love, housemartins, human league, humidifier, hummingbirds, husker du, ICICLE WORKS, icicles, idaho, idlewild, innocence mission, inspiral carpets, insta, interpol, ipanema, ivy, DAVID J, j church, jack frost, jam, james, janes addiction, jawbox, jawbreaker, jazz butcher, jealous girlfriends, jesse, jesus & mary chain, jets to brazil, joy division, judybats, julie plug, KILLING JOKE, king missile, kitchens of distinction, mark kozelek, kraftwerk, LA'S, laburnam, lambchop, lassie foundation, lawrence arms, leatherface, lemonheads, lilys, the lodger, long blondes, longwave, loose salute, love & rockets, lovejoy, low, lucksmiths, lucy show, luna, lush, luxurious bags, MAGNAPOP, magnetic fields, magnolias, majesty crush, j mascis & the fog, maximo park, mazzy star, gw mclennan, tyson meade, mega city four, men at work, metric, midnight oil, midway still, mighty lemondrops, ministry, minor threat, mira, misfits, mission uk, mission of burma, mojave 3, monaco, monster movie, moose, morphine, morrissey, bob mould, moving targets, peter murphy, musical chairs, my bloody valentine, NADA SURF, ned's atomic dustbin, new model army, new order, nirvana, nisi period, northern picture library, nouvelle vague, gary numan, OCEAN BLUE, omd, dolores o'roirdan, other two, outkast, PS I LOVE YOU, pacific, pale saints, parasites, pavement, pernice brothers, picture centre, pinhead gunpowder, pink floyd, pipettes, pixies, polak, iggy pop, pope, popsicle, postal service, portishead, power of dreams, pretenders, primitives, prince, promise ring, psychedelic furs, public enemy, public image ltd, puressence, RADIOHEAD, rain parade, ramones, rancid, ratcat, recoil, red house painters, red lorry yellow lorry, lou reed, rem, replacements, resist, ride, rifles, rollins band, SADE, samiam, sammy, hope sandoval & the warm inventions, saturnine, scenic, schroeder, screaming trees, sebadoh, secret army, 17 relics, sex pistols, tracy shedd, should, shriekback, siglo xx, silversun pickups, siouxsie & the banshees, simple minds, sing sing, sisters of mercy, 6ths, skywave, sleater-kinney, sleeping years, slint, slowdive, small factory, smithereens, smiths, snow patrol, social distortion, sonic youth, sophia, spent, spinanaes, spoke, springhouse, starlet, star, stars, steelica, stooges, straightjacket fits, strangelove, strike the colours, suddenly tammy, sugar, sugarcubes, justin sullivan, sundays, superchunk, swans, swervedriver, swirlies, TEARS FOR FEARS, teddybears, teenage fanclub, 10,000 maniacs, televise, that dog, the the, they might be giants, this mortal coil, this perfect day, thompson twins, tiger trap, toiling midgets, tones on tail, toshack highway, trains & boats & planes, trembling blue stars, true love always, tsol, tubeway army, tugboat annie, UNDERGROUND LOVERS, unrest, urge overkill, V.CARD, varsity drag, velocity girl, velvet crush, velvet underground, venus beads, verbow, versus, visqueen, WEDDING PRESENT, paul westerberg, what made milwaukee famous, wheat, whipping boy, whysall lane, wild swans, wire, world of skin, X, x-tal, YELLO, ZERRA ONE

Movies:


Ski School & Ski School 2 and a whole bunch of other ones that aren't nearly as AWESOME!!!!

which may include these: Fight Club, Seven, Shawshenk Redemption, Swingers, Rushmore, Royal Tannenbaums, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Foul Play, Fletch, Bring It On, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Barfly, North by Northwest, True Romance, Usual Suspects, Blue Velvet, Fugitive, Saving Private Ryan, Longest Day, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, etc...

Television:

arrested development, knights of prosperity, the office (uk & us), hawaii five-O, house, chappelle's show, mystery science theater 3000, hogan's heroes, daily show, colbert report, ncis (i know, i know, but i like the gothy chick), family guy, american dad, my family, black books, scrubs, 30 rock, csi...

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Daniel Pinkwater, Jonathan Letham, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Klosterman, Hunter S. Thompson, John Irving, Steven Wright, John Nichols, just off the top of my head...

Heroes:

my Mom, my Uncle, my Brother, & A.C.

My Blog

"They Said Tomorrow" MAX PART 2

A quick note about these Max stories from the late 90s.  These were originally written as letters to a friend and not intended as short stories as such, since they were written in stream of thoug...
Posted by chris on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:33:00 PST

"Wildflower"

He was standing on the second floor of the old apartment building.  The hallway was in shadows, as the flickering lights that normally cast a dingy white hue across the middle of the hallway had ...
Posted by chris on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:07:00 PST

"Masquerade"

When did this all go wrong?  The thin waxy paper crackles underneath my rear end, as I shift my weight from one ass cheek to the other.  My toes dangle off the end of the table and kick arou...
Posted by chris on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:27:00 PST

headcase

This has happened before.  When it happened before it was much much worse.  I don't know why I even care, aside from the headaches, nausea, and mild numbness in the extremities.  Compar...
Posted by chris on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

DINO size that for me!

Hello?  Is this thing on?  Sorry, I can't hear right now.  You see, I just got home from another Dinosaur Jr. show at the Crystal.  I'm not sure what it is, but every time I see th...
Posted by chris on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:06:00 PST

wayside

Sitting in my car, I could feel the waves of heat on my arms making my skin tingle.  I struggled to figure out the settings of the new stereo I just had installed.  Finally!  Five month...
Posted by chris on Tue, 15 May 2007 02:20:00 PST

"The Last" (another old story from 1998)

May 8, 1998: Feeling a bit lucky to find a seat on the MAX downtown during the Friday evening rush hour, I start to wonder what kind of freak will end up sitting by me from the next stop. Usually, it'...
Posted by chris on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:42:00 PST

Remembrance

One year ago yesterday, my Uncle (the only remaining member of my Mom's nuclear family), lost his battle with cancer and passed away.  I have never been able to properly express how much he meant...
Posted by chris on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:19:00 PST

"soul mining"

Sometimes I wonder why I do it  why any of us do it.  I've never believed in any kind of bigger picture, or been spiritual in any way.  When it comes to life and its meaning, I don't have a...
Posted by chris on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST

Horror Head (old story from January 1998)

The fluorescent lights seem to be burning through my clenched eyes. I fold my arms around myself and lean over to one side. My head is pounding and my stomach is filled with an angry sea of booze. I t...
Posted by chris on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:45:00 PST