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chris

i'm tired

About Me

Here is what some of my friends have say about me... "can't say enough good things about this person" - bargainbincds. "class act all the way" - moviemarz. and "smooth, quick and easy. highly recommended." - ashleysfinejewelery. well, i think that says it all.

My Interests

art, louise brooks, drawing, drinking, easter island, garage bands, geneology, girls in gloves and stockings, houndstooth, making lists and writing things down (OCD), monkeys, painting, pinup art, playing bass, parker posey, snow white, succulents and lithops, sushi, tattoos, tikis, travel, work, 20s-70s horror films, 50s rockabilly, 60s garage, psych, freakbeat, nederbeat, soul, ska and rocksteady, 70s punk, 80s psychobilly and garage rock.

I'd like to meet:

a salary and benefits.

Music:

p.p. arnold, blasters, bonzo dog band, bowie, buff medways, buzzcocks, nick cave, clash, eddie cochran, ray condo, elvis costello, cramps, damned, rev. gary davis, desmond dekker, delmonas, detroit cobras, devo, bob dylan, roky erickson, charlie feathers, flat duo jets, franz ferdinand, gories, guided by voices, gun club, thee headcoats, buddy holly, son house, howlin' wolf, iggy pop, interpol, burl ives, jam, kinks, leadbelly, love, meteors, mighty caesars, milkshakes, monkees, monks, mummies, nervous norvus, new york dolls, outsiders, phantom chords, washington phillips, prisoners, q65, r.e.m.(before 1986), ramones, rats, jonathan richman, small faces, stiff little fingers, stooges, joe strummer, t.rex, tall boys, pete townshend, big joe turner, gene vincent, white stripes, who, hank williams, x

Movies:

the american astronaut, beat girl, blood feast, bride of frankenstein, desperate living, diary of a lost girl, dead man, down by law, dr. jekyll and mr. hyde [with fredric march], edge of sanity, ghost dog, hot rods to hell, house of 1000 corpses, house of yes, idiocracy, island of lost souls, maniac (1934), mystery train, night of the seagulls, nosferatu, pandora's box, parents, phone, return of the living dead 3, sexy beast, straight to hell, stranger than paradise, tombs of the blind dead, white zombie

Television:

in search of...with leonard nemoy

Books:

i don't read much anymore. i can feel myself getting dumber each passing minute. i like kerouac, flannery o'connor, poe, salinger, sedaris, christopher moore uh uhh uhhhhh

Heroes:

pablo picasso, billy childish, joe strummer

My Blog

WE HAVE MOVED

La Jolla Tattoo has moved south to Pacific Beach. Come check out the new shop beatifully remodeled by Mr. Chris Winn. We are at 4638 Mission Blvd. on the west side at the corner of Mission & Emera...
Posted by chris on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

new work schedule / oc convention

my new schedule at la jolla tattoo is tues.-thurs. 2-8 and sat., sun. 12-8. orange county, i will be working at the musink tattoo convention at the orange county fair & expo center in costa m...
Posted by chris on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:05:00 PST

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

After nine years at About Face, I am moving on to La Jolla Tattoo. I will miss all the great artists there but I'm looking foward to working at a shop with all Chris's. The confusion will begin next w...
Posted by chris on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST

Heeeeeere's Buddy

Arthur Lee aka Buddy was born Feb. 9 at 2:04 pm. He was 7 lbs. 13 oz. and 19 3/4'' long.
Posted by chris on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST