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Chris

Proudly Not An Otaku Since 1980©

About Me


About Me.
Well, I havn't acted my age since I was about 15 and I'm fine with that. I'm also inherently lazy witch is another trait that I'm surprisingly fine with. I'm an aspiring writer that hardly ever writes which, believe me I know, is ridiculous.
I've always been an artistic person. I've dabbled in just about everything artistic there is with the exception of dance. And we all know dance isn't really art anyway :) . From a young age I've wanted to be involved with entertainment. In first grade I decided I wanted to be an actor, though I wouldn't start acting till 5th grade when I was "discovered" by the drama teacher at the time who came into my english class asking if there was anyone interested in trying out for the upcoming Christmas show. In college my best friend at the time made me realise I wanted to be a director.
All throughout school I was heavily into drawing (both realistic and cartoon). My most note worthy art show being a portrait I did in pencil that hung in a bank in West Pittston. Truly amazing, I know! I've since fallen away from drawing with several atempts to get back into it failing. Aparantly drawing is not just like riding a bike. I use to have a comic strip I did for my high school newspaper and also tried to do a strip for the internet. The later never really panned out. Think I made a total of 1 finished strip.
My current goal/passion is to start my own company. A media/entertainment company. I really want to produce episodic content for the internet and television. I want to make sitcoms, dramatic series, tech and video game related shows, cartoons, pretty much I want to start my own TV network. Hopefully in the next few years I'll be able to start slowly make this a reality.
Well now you know considerably more about me than you'd probably care to. Hmm...anything else? Oh yeah, I'm left handed and I've got a bad habit of only buying blue clothes. Blue is the best color of course .

My Interests

IPTV, Podcasting, Graphic Design and Illustration, Movies (Indie, Foreign, and the occasional Hollywood fare), Animation, Music, Italian food, Sushi, doing random things late at night, Video Games, and the Internet and Internet Culture. Also, Japan and the Japanese language.

I'd like to meet:

Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, David Prager, Robert Herron, the guys that run TikiBar TV, and of course, Natalie Portman. And if there's an afterlife there's no other 2 people I'd be happier to meet than Jim Henson and Albert Einstein.

Also, this is the damn cutest reporter I've ever seen in my life. Yes, I'd LOVE to meet her.

And here's a commercial that's guaranteed to give you nightmares. Though the song is oddly addicting...

My current favorite band. I -love- this song. Jill-Decoy's flawless mix of Jazz and J-Pop is simply amazing.

Music:

Spoon, Delgados, Belle & Sebastian, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Super Furry Animals, Video Game SDTRKs, New Found Glory, Third Eye Blind, Pete Yorn, Keane, Ash, Minibosses, Travis, Gin Blossoms, Jill-Decoy Association, The Pillows, Japanese Pop music in general (strange, I know), Jazz in general, and more to come...

Movies:

Requiem For a Dream, Memento, Donnie Darko, Swingers, MST3K: The Movie, Any Kevin Smith film (except for Jersey Girl), Office Space, Pi, Shaun of the Dead, Oldboy, Battle Royale, The Incredibles, and so many more.

Television:

Arrested Development, Scrubs, Adult Swim linuep, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Spaced, South Park, The Office (BBC and American), Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Firefly, Angel, Buffy, Smallville, classic 80's cartoons from my childhood, Internet shows like Tiki Bar TV, Ask a Ninja, and Diggnation. Also, anime's Red Garden, Elfen Lied, and Gundam Wing.

Books:

Backroads, A Seperate Piece, To Kill a Mocking Bird, anything by Brian Greene, Steven Hawking or Mike Nelson, Harry Potter series, Watchmen, Blankets, anything by Doug TenNapel, Maddox's Alphabet of Manliness, and more...

Heroes:

My Grandfather, Mother, Spider-Man, Optimus Prime, Albert Einstein, and Jim Henson.

My Blog

Random Postings

I feel I should write something, as it's been a very long time since I've done that.You'll notice the post below this one talks about me visiting Japan. Just a little update on that: It's been postpo...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:18:00 PST

Going To Japan

Well, it's official. I'm finally, after many long years of wanting to, going to Japan next year. Next September I'll be heading to Nihon to experience the culture, language, and (most importantly) th...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:53:00 PST

(Finally) Fixed My Page in IE

Finally got my page to look (mostly) right in IE for all of you that just refuse to switch to Firefox. Least the colors on the borders are all gray like they should be instead of the funky colors it ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:50:00 PST

Harry Potter and Spoiler Filled Internet - Don't worry, no spoilers in the post.

Ahh...it's officially kicked into full gear. The vast amount of douche bags of the world have begun to unite in that age old favorite past time of theirs, spoiling Harry Potter before people can read...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:13:00 PST

Transformers is the Deffinition of an Amazing Summer Movie.

While I thought Spidey was pure crap, Transformers was simply epic. I haven't seen a summer flick this good in years. As a giant fan of the original cartoon and movie(I grew up on Transformers like ...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

Firefox peoples! Firefox!

Not much to say, but just wanted to mention that I looked at my MySpace page in Internet Explorer for like the first time and boy oh boy does it never not display right! The colors and centering are ...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:58:00 PST

Join A Gym. Seriously.

I've been trying to lose weight now (seriously) since the start of the year. I've managed to drop about 12 pounds by just watching what I eat and doing some very occasional exercise. Well, I seem to...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:15:00 PST

Spider-Man 3 Sucks.

However, Gwen Stacy is very hot.That is all.
Posted by Chris on Fri, 04 May 2007 04:07:00 PST

Chris/Karisu/Kurisu

Meh, I just found out that "Kurisu" is apparently the more "accurate" translation of "Chris" into romaji. You know what though? Screw it, I like Karisu more.- edit Allright, so I changed my mind.&nb...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:37:00 PST

Nihongo Fun!

Sooooo, I decided to torture myself and start learning a second language. This isn't the first time I've attempted to do as much, however the previous time was forced upon me in high school and colleg...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:46:00 PST