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chris

the things that you tell yourself, they'll kill you in time...

About Me

not quite sure where to go from here

and i rarely stop for directions.

music is neat, we still hang out
tear it down
and put it back together

My Interests

music production, advertising, concerts, reading, coffee, drinking, dive bars, california, guitar, piano, nashville, whiskey, writing, sequencers and midi controllers, good beer, breakfast at any time of day, red wine (primarily cabs and zins of the napa valley,) learning

I'd like to meet:

me in two years, tomorrow.

Music:

ryan adams, wilco, zero 7, elliott smith, cursive, at the drive-in, a tribe called quest, antonio carlos jobim, belle and sebastian, damien rice, death cab for cutie, the postal service, thievery corporation, hank williams, deftones, howie day, kent, editors, led zeppelin, bob marley, karate, sublime, modest mouse, the smiths, morrissey, interpol, paul van dyk, voxtrot, johnny cash, placebo, portishead, sneaker pimps, stevie wonder, radiohead, rival schools, the faint, snow patrol, magnolia electric co, the doors, rolling stones, nin, the rapture, the verve, travis, junkie xl, sinatra, robert johnson, cake

Movies:

21 grams, me and you and everyone we know, lost in translation, thank you for smoking, fear and loathing in las vegas, spun, requiem for a dream, pi, clerks, half baked, capote, a clockwork orange, dr strangelove, memento, election, igby goes down, donnie darko, up in smoke, crash (the new one), bottle rocket, rushmore, the royal tennenbaums, the life aquatic, the squid and the whale, before sunrise, after sunset, goodfellas, casino, carlito's way, pulp fiction, super troopers, american pimp, taxi driver, trainspotting, office space, apocalypse now, this film is not yet rated

Television:

aqua teen hunger force
boondocks
harvey birdman
home movies
family guy
basically, anything on adult swim

Books:

currently:
tolstoy- war and peace
(i am going to finish it)

My Blog

the day i thought i’d die

have you ever had a moment that you thought you were dead?today i had one of those momentsbecause in a split second,i thought i'd surely be gone.woke up this morning, pretty wiped out from a few hours...
Posted by chris on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:22:00 PST

this may have been an actual conversation, from years past

"i know i know"she says as she rolls her eyeshe looks at the screen, then down at her picture."i'm going to fix a pb & j," he says"would you like me to make one for you as well?"she pretends not t...
Posted by chris on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:53:00 PST

in recent news...

so another weekend downand here i am sitting,cracking my back, knuckles, neckand all other applicable jointsi can't quite tell if i am happy or not-it's a strange thingand i think i need to try and fi...
Posted by chris on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:26:00 PST

work, etc

well, here it is, another lazy sunday nightand i'm (hard?) at work in the local coffee shopso the downside of being made available to work 24/7is that you actually have to do that once in awhilebut th...
Posted by chris on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:59:00 PST

[uncensored]

so here i am...sitting, thinkingnot thinking- maybe feeling.it's hard to tell sometimesbut lately i've been in the best mood{thank you} and i can identify exactly why i feel the way i do...which has b...
Posted by chris on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:11:00 PST

i was there when the bomb fell

is christmas over?when did it even begin?all i remember is getting out of work one day and now here i amleft wondering why i don't have much recall of this incidentso much has happenedor has much happ...
Posted by chris on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:38:00 PST

rĂªves doux

and sometimes it takes a little more to fall asleepwhether it's the rest of the whiskeythat's in the trunk of the caror a half a pack of cigarettes.sometimes it's the end of a moviethe sad type you wa...
Posted by chris on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST

stalemate

    so i'm feeling as though i've been sucked into michigan yet againand don't think i'm meaning this as a bad thingor as a good thingbecause it's a good place to get my shit togetheran...
Posted by chris on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:48:00 PST

red-eyed and blue

ok, so here goes.do you know what it's like to feelyour life changing?i do.things are dramatically changing in my life.i was on antidepressants a few months ago,and i decided to stop when i was moving...
Posted by chris on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:44:00 PST

four heartsick tales of one who's sick in the head

the phone rings softlywhen it doesn't really ring at alland all you set yourself up foris one enormous falltumbling down a hilllike somersaults or cartwheelsfalling till you reach the bottomof a botto...
Posted by chris on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:09:00 PST