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Christopher B

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About Me


i was born in Rapid City, South Dakota. It's a really cool place in case you didn't know. And now my sister lives there. I grew up in Montana like a lot of you high quality people. Seattle, Portland with friends, Maui for some healing time, escape. Flagstaff for more adventure, got into a hole and divine intervention brought me back to Seattle. I'll always love Hawaii (who doesn't), but now I'm thinking Astoria is a great place for a writer to live.
I'd really like to be some kind of gunless James Bond. I don't know. I'm sure it's true though.
To the quiet mind, the entire universe surrenders.
I'm done with school for now after 17 years or so of institutionalized learning, and it's detox time kiddos. I may want to go to graduate school, but it's good to always remember
Don't dwell in the past or get too far ahead of your Self. Be Here Now.
I have a lot of big dreams, am incredibly lucky, and have been blessed with gifts, like all of us.
I like kids (of all ages). They're tapped in. Children seem to latch on to me (just call me Christopher Robin, or Robin Williams in Hook). But don't be deceived. I'm quite old in other ways. Maybe I'll teach someday.
You Are a Dreaming Soul
Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world
So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time
You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all...
But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult
You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you.
Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses.
Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others.
Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life.
Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul What Kind of Soul Are You?
You Are Bart Simpson
Very misunderstood, most people just dismiss you as "trouble."
Little do they know that you're wise and well accomplished beyond your years.
You will be remembered for: starring in your own TV show and saving the town from a comet
Your life philosophy: "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!" The Simpsons Personality Test
You're an Expert Kisser
You're a kissing pro, but it's all about quality and not quantity
You've perfected your kissing technique and can knock anyone's socks off
And you're adaptable, giving each partner what they crave
When it comes down to it, your kisses are truly unforgettable What Kind of Kisser Are You?
Your Brain's Pattern
You have a tempered, reasonable way of thinking.
You tend to take every new idea in, and meld it with your world view.
For you, everything is always changing. Each moment is different.
Your thinking process tends to be very natural - with no beginnings or endings. What Pattern Is Your Brain?

My Interests

sometimes everything, other times less until I can feel its beauty and/or humor.

Music. Traveling. I still think breasts are a truly magical universal invention

This whole Hawaiian spiritual outlook has really made my life more and more magical more and more of the ma'fuckn time. So I think you would dig it too. Don't be scared.

http://hooponopono.org/Articles/100_percent_responsible.html

Nothing for sale, i haven't spent a dime (but I've received some money from it), it's just information on You and Those around You. I've had a blast with it, knowing (or figuring it out later usually) why the daily people i come in contact with are anything but random. It's often extremely funny. Ask me about it if you're curious.

Love as the most powerful dish served in the known universe and something much bigger than the well known romantic entree, like eating itself or something

Words. Like POTENTIALITIES, for example. Great word. There are many others. Like vehemently.

Seeing this world as one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.

Hugs.

A variety of shoes and pants to fill as long as they're not too tight, although I am getting more into things that fit as opposed to make me look like I'm preparing for something big. I really like hats, but i think they look much better on other people.

More specifically I'm really into Writing stories, rhymes and music. Also painting, Percussion, Piano, pyramids, and learning new instruments like Prince does.

Savers is really cool.

Also Me like travel and exploration. let's go on a road trip.

I'd like to meet:

more than anyone right now: Tom Bird (I could really benefit from a writing mentor...C: Tom Bird's book for help if you feel you have a book in you, Robin Williams (the fun we'd have together...), Christopher Moore, Tom Robbins, my scooter (where are you beautiful?). More reading, less TV would help our world. Just ask "The Cable Guy." David Bowie, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell, Eddie Izzard, Scarlett Johansson, Zooey Deschanel, the Gyllenhaals, and Jack Black.

Fellow Muppets, the people that are going to be in the sweet band I'll be in someday, the first person to buy the first book I write, and anyone the universe decides i need to meet. If such a thing were possible, it would be nice to give my 5 year old self a talk before school started: don't let the other kids bother you. But like Tom Robbins says in Still Life With Woodpecker: It's Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood.

GODDESSES: Minnie Driver, Tori Amos, Bjork, Parker Posey, Christina Applegate, Bernadette Peters, Kristy Swanson, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek

FILMFOLK: Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Owen and Luke Wilson, Mos Def, Christini Ricci, George Carlin (if he's not super pissed off that day...oh whatever...I'll take whatever I can get), Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Spacey, Annette Benning, Cheech Marin, David Lynch, Steve Martin, Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughn

WRITERS: Paulo Coelho, Christopher Moore, Thomas Pynchon, Zora Neale Hurston, Chuck Palahniuk, John Irving, Frank Miller, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, the Coen Brothers, Matt Groening, and whoever wrote Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine, Benny and Joon, Harold and Maude, Little Miss Sunshine, A Love Song for Bobby Long, 50 First Dates, and American Beauty

MUSICIANS: Dave Matthews, Carole King, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Tom Waits, Danny Carey, Les Claypool, Herb, Jill Scott, Richard D James (Aphex Twin...Seth told me this dude lives with his mom and drives around in an armored truck), speaking of recluses I'd like to meet JD Salinger and Denis Johnson also

someday, an alien. Did I mention Paulo Coelho? Oh. And Bjork.

And this woman, whatever sign she is, if true love exists. I'm definitely a true love type romantic, but I also believe we have the opportunity to truly and deeply love a lot of people:

Music:

I know I'm not the only one with this constant dream:

Radiohead - There There (live)

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Artists: The Beatles, Radiohead, Tool, David Bowie, Dave Matthews Band, James Taylor, Bjork, Pearl Jam, The Crown City Rockers, Faith No More, Carole King, George Gershwin, Primus, Cake, Queen, Ani DiFranco, Tenacious D, Tori Amos, Pink Floyd, Prince, Ween, Marvin Gaye, Bjork, Ray Charles, The Police, The Killers, The Gorillaz, Victor Wooten, Thievery Corporation, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, The Roots, The Fugees, Atmosphere, STS9, Galactic

Common was on here but is now off the list. Once you use your gifts to hock products you're out of the artistic community forever. Unless your name is David Bowie and you've transcended such nonsense. (I'm a cuspkid and quite the contradiction...read FIHFHC by Tom Robbins for more information on the contradictory nature of the universe)

Singers: JACK BLACK, Carole King, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Mike Patton, Maynard James Keenan, Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Tom Waits, Al Green, Dave Matthews

Favorite Albums (divine goosebumps): Rent, Carole King Live at Carnegie Hall (very special night back in 1971), Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones), Dookie (Green Day. Give it another shot. It's a damn good album), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Flaming Lips), Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Prince's Live Portland Show, Vespertine (Bjork), Live On A Wire (Counting Crows), Abbey Road, OK Computer & Hail to the Thief (radiohead), Lateralus (tool), Earthtones (crown city), Hunky Dory (db), Live on Two Legs (pearl jam), King for a Day Fool For A Lifetime & Angel Dust (faith no more), Sailing the Seas of Cheese (primus), Quebec (ween), Some Devil (dave by hisself), Songs to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (lovage), Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness (smashing pumpkins)

Greatest Soundtracks: The Big Lebowski, Chocolat, The Labyrinth, Garden State

And the stuff that came/comes out of these peoples mouths sounds like beautiful music to me also:
Eddie Izzard, Dave Chappelle, Alan Cohen, Ram Dass, George Carlin (granted he has gotten progressively older and crankier and more negative but thank god for him), Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Tom Robbins

Movies:

LAST BEST CATEGORY: latest additions, some I saw again for the first time so to speak:
The Guardian, The Dream Team, The Sandlot, The Witches of Eastwick, Blood Diamonds, Dr. No, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, V for Vendetta (this was absolutely wonderful),
50 First Dates (probably my all time favorite), About Schmidt, Amelie, American History X, Annie, Back to the Future (did I already name an all time favorite?), Batman, Batman Begins, Before Sunrise, Being John Malkovich, Benny & June, the Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Bridge On the River Kwai, Bull Durham, The Care Bears Movie, Cars, Chinatown, Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, Coming to America, Dances with Wolves, The Dark Crystal, Dazed and Confused, Deja Vu, Do the Right Thing, Dr. No, Dr. Strangelove, Election, Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Far and Away, Fargo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fisher King, Frida, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Katie Holmes' breastst...I mean The Gift, The Good Shepard, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter et al, Hear No Evil See No Evil, High Fidelity, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hook, I Am Sam, Jesus' Son, Kicking and Screaming, LA Confidential, the Labyrinth, Liar Liar, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Life of David Gale, Little Miss Sunshine, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lonesome Dove, Lost In Translation, A Love Song for Bobby Long, , Michael, Millions, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Mulholland Drive, The Muppet Movie (et al), Napoleon Dynamite, Old School, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Patch Adams, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, The Quiet Man, Punch Drunk Love, Rain Man, Raising Arizona, Ray, Roman Holiday, Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Tennenbaums, Saving Face, Shakespeare in Love, the Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Singin' In the Rain, Snatch, Some Like It Hot, The Squid and the Whale, Sunset Blvd, Tenacious D's The Pick of Destiny, The 3 Burials of Malquiades Estrada, Time Bandits, Tombstone, Transamerica, Waking Life, Wayne's World (another favorite), The Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer (yet another favorite), Willy Wonka (and "Charlie") and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, The World According to Garp, You Me & Dupreea

Television:

Off is really a smart idea. More reading, less TV would help our world. Just ask "The Cable Guy." But like a lot of things, it helps me to realize everything is here for a reason. I've found these shows to be real gems, gems amid a pile of shit mind you, but gems nonetheless. And on HBO and Showtime there aren't commercials for anything other than for the shows you're already watching.
Simpsons, South Park, Sopranos (yes it's as good as everyone says), Six Feet Under...Showtime has a new one with the guy who plays the gay brother in Six Feet Under as a serial killer who only kills serial killers. And at the right times I love it because i have a really dark sense of humor sometimes.
Over on the cartoon network you got your Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Robot Chicken and Home Movies.......and Jeopardy's pretty cool if you have someone like Alec to watch it with.....or can be consciously schizophrenic and not care.
And there's this new show on ABC called "thank god you're here" that i like. Improv comedy's a serious talent. you just have to use mute for the commercials, or shove forks in your ears or something until you're as numb as a republican. And I do like watching the Suns and Mariners play...and women's beach volleyball. But that's it. TV's the devil.

Books:

right now i'm reading LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL, by Christopher Moore. It's fucking hilarious and brilliant and all that.
others...oh lord...I'M A GOOD ONE TO ASK FOR A BOOK RECCOMMENDATION, SO FEEL FREE TO WRITE. I'M PRETTY GOOD AT MATCHING PEOPLE UP WITH GOOD STORIES. I HAVE THAT LIBRARIAN THING.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy ;-) (Douglas Adams)
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates; Skinny Legs and All; Jitterbug Perfume; Still Life With Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)
A Dirty Job; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore)
Confederacy of Dunces
(J. Kennedy Toole)
Dubliners; Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake
(James Joyce)
The World According to Garp; Hotel New Hampshire; The Cider House Rules; A Prayer for Owen Meany
(John Irving)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Fight Club; Survivor; Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath; Travels With Charley in Search of America; Cannery Row
(John Steinbeck)
The Tao of Pooh; The Te of Piglet
(Benjamin Hoff)
The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(Alan Cohen)
Recreating Your Self
The Power of Myth; Myths to Live By; The Masks of God
(Joseph Campbell)
The Book (about the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)
(Alan Watts)
The Alchemist
(Paulo Coelho)
Hearts In Atlantis; On Writing
(Stephen King)
anything by Bill Peet, David Sedaris, Pat Cashman, Zora Neale Hurston, or David James Duncan

Heroes:

Gabriel Cebrian, Joseph Campbell, Jim Henson, and Bill Hicks (deceased), Tom Robbins, Eddie Izzard, Jack Black and Anyone else who follows their heart/intuition/connection that It/She/He has given us to call home with, and has the strength, faith, balls, and Love to do so, not giving a fuck what the rest of the world thinks about it (still very alive). Oh. And people who don't pretend not to be crazy.

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..> ..>  ..> Monday, February 27, 2006 ..> lucky lucky me (Nicole, can we have a date sometime? I've had a crush on you since Days of Thunder, beautiful) ..> Your Musical Tast...
Posted by Christopher B on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:31:00 PST