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Chris

Quivering within the wave's intenser day

About Me



You're the United Nations!
Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go. You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result. But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.

My Interests

film, books, early modern culture, talking, music, art (especially contemporary), gender/queer theory, critical theory, postmodern theory, Theory, drum and bugle corps.

I'd like to meet:

Jake Gyllenhaal, Karl Marx, Judith Butler (like woah).

Music:

Aimee Mann, Aphex Twin, Art Blakey, Beethoven, Bartók, Belle & Sebastian, Biber, Björk, Borodin, Charles Mingus, David Lang, The Decemberists, Dvo,,ák, Franz Ferdinand, Giovanni Gabrieli, Green Day, György Ligeti, Haydn, Holst, Low, Machaut, Matmos, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Miles Davis, Múm, My Bloody Valentine, The New Pornographers, Nickel Creek, Ornette Coleman, The Pernice Brothers, Pérotin, Philip Glass, The Police, Queen, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Radiohead, Rossini, Rufus Wainwright, Samuel Barber, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Sigur Rós, The Smashing Pumpkins, So Percussion, Steve Reich, Stravinsky, Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, Television, Thomas Tallis, Tortoise, Tori Amos, Venetian Snares, Vivaldi, Yo La Tengo

Movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, The Dreamers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Zoolander, Persona, Mean Girls, Children of Men, Once, Throne of Blood, The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Star Wars, Wings of Desire, Punch-Drunk Love, Dancer in the Dark, The Hours, Koyannisqatsi, Blade Runner, Rebel Without A Cause, Metropolis

Television:

Dawson's Creek, the original Ninja Turtles, The OC

Books:

lots

Heroes:

Judith Butler

My Blog

Self-Disclosure

Since it would probably be in bad faith to ignore being tagged, here are six bizarre facts about me. 1. I have no big toenails. They (along with all the others, actually) got torn off when I was in dr...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:03:00 PST