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Chris

a good egg - slightly cracked - but a good egg.

About Me

I hate Led Zeppelin. I am deathly afraid of snakes and the Big Sleep. I can convince anyone of anything. I'm passive agressive. I'm learning to bite my tongue. I try to speak through song, but that rarely works. I've tried to speak in tongues, also, with very little luck. Jimi Hendrix is another topic that I don't like. My mind usually has one track. The bass guitar track. Lately I've been converting months into a percentage of the average human life and that depresses the hell out of me. I will admit when my ideas and thoughts are irrational, but will not attempt to change said ideas and thoughts. When I first joined myspace, I wrote the longest About Me of all time, and only Mike Gittings read it. I was born on the day after my mother's 23rd birthday. It was on Father's Day, exactly 39 years after the Father's Day that Harry Nilsson was born on. Upon looking up other Father's Day trivia, I came upon a Father's Day Fact Sheet . One of the first factoids you'll learn on this page is this...
Reason We Celebrate Father's Day:
To honor Fathers.
My mother went to high school with Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock. You will rarely hear me say "B-More." I'll be jokey and you'll find it hard to trust me. I can throw nearly 250 pitches with very little elbow pain. If I throw more than 250 pitches, fuckin' bag 'em up. I repeat myself so often at age 26, that I shudder to think what I'll sound like at age 76. My pace is typically set to be a step quicker than whomever is walking on the other side of you. I've found that my opinion of beaches has grown immeasurably over the last year. Like, favorably. To some, I appear to be mildly interesting. I've recently moved out of the The Sanctuary For Dateable Boys. Apparently, you hadn't heard about this. I'm either highly competitive or an asshole. I'm either passive aggressive or correct. I'm not currently interested in topsy-turvy so don't be topsy-turvy with me. I write songs mainly because I want to impress Mike and Mark. I have a sinking suspicion that the driver in front of me is heavily influenced by whatever my blinker suggests is an apt next move. Carl Filipiak taught me a valuable lession. So now if I fuck something up, I'll fuck it up again and act like I meant to do it. Lession. I shudder to think what'll happen when I stop liking myself. If you like something I own, more than likely, I’ll sell it to you. I won’t sell people. Nor do I own any people. I don’t want to own anything. My interaction with children is typically scripted by last night's Letterman. I'm starting to really dislike the Rolling Stones. I went through a long McCartney Pop Genius phase, coupled with a Lennon's a Joker phase, a George Harrison Just Seems Like A Real Normal Grounded Nice Cool Guy period, and have now settled into a John Lennon's The Best zone. No disrespect to Ringo, but only irony leads to a Ringo's The Dude ideology. Never match me up against a DJ. Its a little known secret that I preferred to be called just "Chris." I don't mean to make this sound like I'm a really bad person. I can be alright, and in the long term, I will be alright. Topping my "List of Dislikes" is when my favorite television programs resort to the old "72 hours previously..." trick. Secretly, I put together a rather wretched and disturbing Year 26. My life is [becoming] just like the Showtime original series Californication, minus the sexy stuff.

My Interests

The Orioles, Toni Collette, Andy Kaufman, ew.com, TiVo

I'd like to meet:

    People who dislike things but don't feel the need to constantly note how much they despise those particular things. Lovers of old-time country music. People who dislike modern country music, but deep down find something endearing about songs about Sippy cups and beer-drinking horses. People who wonder what people in professions that don't require offices do in their obligatory offices (i.e. actors, game show hosts). Someone who'll make me realize that love shouldn't involve having to try too hard. Girls who can run really, really fast. The ones that got away. People who know the difference between bits and schtick, and who'd rather not participate in the latter.

Music:

1963:
The Beatles
Please Please Me
1964:
The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
1965:
The Beach Boys
Party!
1966:
The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds
1967:
Herman's Hermits
There's A Kind Of Hush
(All Over The World)

1968:
The Byrds
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
1969
Harry Nilsson
Harry
1970:
Cat Stevens
Tea For The Tillerman
1971:
Dolly Parton
Joshua
1972:
Randy Newman
Sail Away
1973
Gram Parsons
GP
1974:
Big Star
Radio City
1975:
Original Soundtrack
Nashville
1976
The Ramones
Ramones
1977
Elvis Costello
My Aim Is True
1978
Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy
1979:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Damn The Torpedoes
1980:
Rockpile
Seconds Of Pleasure
1981:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Hard Promises
1982:
Nick Lowe
Nick The Knife
1983 :
The Violent Femmes
The Violent Femmes
1984 :
The Replacements
Let It Be
1985 :
Camper Van Beethoven
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
1986:
Elvis Costello
King of America
1987:
Dinosaur Jr
You're Living All Over Me
1988:
'Til Tuesday
Everything's Different Now
1989:
Tom Petty
Full Moon Fever
1990:
Soul Asylum
And The Horse They Rode In On
1991:
Teenage Fanclub
Bandwagonesque
1992:
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted
1993:
The Lemonheads
Come on Feel The Lemonheads
1994:
Liz Phair
Whip-Smart
1995:
Oasis
(What's The Story) Morning Glory?
1996:
Jonathan Richman
Surrender To Jonathan
1997:
Redd Kross
Show World
1998:
Pulp
This Is Hardcore
1999:
The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs
2000:
Laura Cantrell
Not The Tremblin' Kind
2001:
Sloan
Pretty Together
2002:
Judd and Maggie
Concentrate
2003:
Belle and Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2004:
Ron Sexsmith
Retriever
2005:
The Rosebuds
Birds Make Good Neighbors
2006 :
The Format
Dog Problems
2007 :
Apples In Stereo
New Magnetic Wonder

Movies:

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Rushmore, Nashville, Back To The Future, Boogie Nights, Magnolia

Television:

Lost, The Amazing Race, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Prison Break.

Books:

Tex and The Outsiders.

Heroes:

Without a doubt, Mark O'D.

My Blog

My Top Ten Albums of 2006

10. The Pipettes We Are The Pipettes  9. The Essex Green The Cannibal Sea  8. Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings The Flood  7. Paul Westerberg Open Season soundtrack  6. The Lemonheads...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:45:00 PST

My First Political Blog

Heres a very Special Edition of Brackets   Paul McCartney's answer to 9/11, Freedom or Tom Petty's answer to the LA Riots, Peace in LA   Freedom  This is my rightA right given ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:44:00 PST

My Salad Update

I haven't visited a salad bar in nearly a whole month. They're nasty. What's up with the Sneeze Guard? Not only do they keep the sneezes out, but they also keep them IN!!!!!!!! Totally filfthy. What d...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:43:00 PST

Salad Days

Not even two years ago, a guy I used to live with, Todd, had an idea that would have single-handedly brought the salad bar industry to its knees. He saw a great opportunity in the common $3.99/LB pric...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:14:00 PST

Rope's Got Your Tongue

I have two recurring dreams. Neither are very dreamy. One is frustrating, and the other is also frustrating. Not sure which one is which. The first starts with me discovering a seemingly small piece ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:06:00 PST

Brokeback Mountain (spoilers!!!)

Next time you visit the old hippytown where you spent your formidable years, I suggest you take in a screening of Brokeback Mountain.Brokeback Mountain is like an old friend. The facebook of everythin...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:40:00 PST

Couch Relocation Program

Hello friends. And so ends another episode of my "6 Months At A Time" living structure. In March, I'll be moving from Mt. Vernon back to Charles Village. Unfortunately, I fear that I will not be able ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:27:00 PST

January 7th at the Talking Head

Listen to the rehearsal...http://waterschoolband.com/january.html
Posted by Chris on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:51:00 PST

"nary a voice" - a haiku (ThemeStream Revival vol. 2)

speaking to Alfredshort order cook needs adviceis anyone there
Posted by Chris on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:07:00 PST

Rory, I'm Getting Married (ThemeStream revival no. 1)

07-12-00 Dear Rory, When the alarm spoke up at 6:30 this morning, I was already dressed and ready to go.  Usually, it takes a small army to drag me out of bed in a situation like this, but this...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:02:00 PST