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Chancho

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Nietzsche

About Me

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My Interests

I like to photograph as I travel around the world reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee, learning about new cultures languages and people, all while simultaneously creating my next painting in my head. I like to cook too.

I'd like to meet:

The Pillsbury Doe Boy...

Music:

If it sounds good to me at the moment then that's what I'll listen to...I'm not too picky when it comes to music. I'll listen to Coltrain or T. Monk, throw in some Jimi with a dash of Doors, sprinkle on some Jack Johnson, a spoonful of Roots, and serve it with a Godsmack-Toby Keth salad. Like I said...not very picky...

Movies:

I watch lots of movies so it's hard to narrow down a list so that I'm not typing all night. I would say that anything that Gael Garcia Bernal has acted in has been a great movie. Darren Aronofsky movies can be slightly strange but are well worth taking a look at. I'm also known to have, from time to time, indulged in the action-packed big budget films that only captivate me because I'm a guy and like when things are loud and blow up...not unlike my car which has yet to blow up but could quite possibly in the very near future.

Television:

On occasion, I like to light a fire, pour a glass of cognac, puff on a cigar, and watch a little TV as sit in my red velvety robe. If you believe that then you're in for a shocker because my robe is blue. When I do watch TV though, I'll watch stuff like House, Lost, Gray's Anatomy, 24, Family Guy, or whatever else happens to be on when I'm not working or sleeping or traveling or writing about what i like to watch on TV.

Books:

The Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, This Side of Paridise, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Absolute Friends, The Constant Gardner, The Historian, Ana Karenina, The Great Gatsby, Derailed, Le Miserables, Great Expectations, El Alquimista, any James Patterson book, Hamlet, 100 years of Solitude, 1984...I'm sure there are more but I can't remember...

Heroes:

Captin Crunch...he was an officer and a gentleman, courageously battling soggy cereal until his unfortunate demise.

My Blog

The Van!!!

I just drank lots of strong coffee so bare with me. I was driving around yesterday and this beat brown old van with rusty dents pulled out in front of me. It was one of those vans that you'd expect a...
Posted by Chancho on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:30:00 PST

The Rising Sun

      The sun rose in the horizon without a care in the world.  Oblivious to war, life, death, or any other thing that people seem to concern themselves with, the sun ris...
Posted by Chancho on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST

Christmas in Spain

This Christmas like many others previous will be spent away from my family. I however, am not sad or dismayed by the prospect for I have in my friends, an extended family. It's not the same but livi...
Posted by Chancho on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:09:00 PST

Butane In The Morning.

Procrastination always gets the best of me especially, when it has to do with buying butane bottles for the water heater in my home. I'm usually in the shower running late for work when my bottle run...
Posted by Chancho on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:41:00 PST

Haircuts...

Being back in the States gives me a nostalgic feeling for things American, so I in all my wisdom and adventurous nature, decided to get a hair cut at an old style barbershop. As soon as I walked in I...
Posted by Chancho on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:22:00 PST

25 cents

I went out drinking with some friends in the small town of Jerome, Idaho while home visiting. We showed up at one of the shittiest bars I have ever seen. I loved it. The jukebox in the corner was p...
Posted by Chancho on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:51:00 PST

The controllers will understand&

What do you do when you know days in advance that you're going to get into an inevitable and unavoidable car accident?  Various answers and theories may come to mind yet Monday morning the hu...
Posted by Chancho on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:47:00 PST

Looking for September...

Everyone has a bad day sometimes but how about a bad month? I'm not polytheistic, but at times this month I truly believed the gods were having their fun with me. I haven't lost a leg nor any other ...
Posted by Chancho on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:18:00 PST