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Roy Christopher

That which can be broken must be broken.

About Me


I marshall the middle between Mathers and McLuhan: roychristopher.com/about
Sound Unbound is now available! I recently served as Assistant Editor to Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky on his essay collection, Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. Contributors include Erik Davis , Manuel De Landa , Cory Doctorow, Chuck D, Brian Eno, Dick Hebdige, Vijay Iyer, Jaron Lanier, Jonathan Lethem, Moby, Steve Reich, Simon Reynolds , Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, Bruce Sterling , Lucy Walker, and Saul Williams, among many others -- and now it's out.
Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is available from followfornow.com . It's an interview anthology by Roy Christopher and contains forty-three interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so." More information is available at the book's site: followfornow.com .
[more at roychristopher.com ]
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." -- Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It's not where you take things from -- it’s where you take them to.'" -- Jim Jarmusch

My Interests

Anatomically vs. archetypically correct Etch-a-Sketch hearts; scatological eschatologies; big-screen phosphene dreams of obscene, hot-teen sex scenes; tragedies of strategy; parodies of parities; parallel caramel; fractal pterodactyls; academic epidemics; major dangers; tragic magic; clever wordplay and rampant sloganeering; making my parents proud; and making faces with Jessy Elf (and Cindy):

I'd like to meet:

Tricia Vessey, Paige Davis, Mary-Louise Parker, Rachel Harris, Anna Belknap, Kathryn Morris, Carla Gugino.

Nicky Katt, Jamie Bell, Eric Stotlz, Kevin Pollak, Bruce Campbell, Chris Isaak, Alan Cumming, Max Perlich, Alfred Molina, Luis Guzman, James Spader, and, of course, Farnsworth Bentley.

Music:

Sean Price, dalek, Jesu, Isis, Cult of Luna, The Ocean, Sparta, The Mars Volta, Radiohead, Antipop Consortium, Cadence Weapon, Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan, My Bloody Valentine, Flying Saucer Attack, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut, This Will Destroy You, Saxon Shore, Caspian, Russian Circles, Followed by Ghosts, Mouth of the Architect, Sigur Ros, Head of David, Naked Raygun, Gang of Four, Killwhitneydead, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Dazzling Killmen, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Unsane, Celtic Frost, and Slayer... but mostly Sean Price.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange, Primer, Ghost Dog, 12 Monkeys, The Boondock Saints, Blade Runner, Children of Men, Wonder Boys, TRON, Time Bandits, Dead Poets Society, Magnolia, Southland Tales, Real Genius, Sack Lunch.

Television:

The Young Ones, Greg the Bunny, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Family Guy.

Books:

Chaos by James Gleick, Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit, The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem, Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers, Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, The Donnie Darko Book by Richard Kelly, The Wu-Tang Manual by The RZA, Metapatterns by Tyler Volk, Dispositions by McKenzie Wark, Ocean of Sound by David Toop, More Brilliant Than the Sun by Kodwo Eshun, Great Apes by Will Self, The Thought Gang and The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, The Social Construction of Technological Systems edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander, Folds, Bodies and Blobs by Greg Lynn, Some Assembly Required and Variations on a Theme Park by Michael Sorkin, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff, Godel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, The History of Forgetting by Norman M. Klein, Writing Space by Jay David Bolter, Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Metaphor and Thought edited by Andrew Ortony.
Follow for Now edited by me, and Sound Unbound assistant edited by me. :]

Heroes:

Paul Feyerabend, Terry Eagleton, Raoul Vaneigem, Michael Sorkin, Guy Debord, Gilbert Ryle, Alfred Jarry, Neil Blender.