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christopher

everyone's a critic and most people are djs.

About Me

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx

My Interests

sitting back and watching jokers run everything into the ground. good job children!

I'd like to meet:

Bob Dylan before he was famous, Brian Wilson when he was going crazy, Jesus before he had magic.

Music:

the kinks, the talking heads, leonard cohen, elliott smith, wilco, the hold steady, okkervil river, magnolia electric co., beulah, clap your hands say yeah, the magnetic fields, lifter puller, grinderman, iggy pop, hefner, bound stems, radiohead, tv on the radio, the delgados, the flaming lips, kind of like spitting, the animal collective, the silver jews, the mountain goats, the magic numbers, califone, chin up chin up, art brut, the violent femmes, mew, broken social scene, the anniversary, anti pop consortium, the national, the new pornographers, knock-knock, the zombies, doloreon, sondre lerche, mercury rev, american music club, m83, nick cave, elbow, pavement, ghostface killah, danielson, her space holiday, loose fur, wolf parade, the french, andrew bird, spoon, the good life, the brian jonestown massacre, david bowie, band of horses, pretty girls make graves, built to spill, big star, maritime, eric bachmann, john vanderslice, darren hayman, eels, islands, johnny thunders, liars, loudon wainwright, i am the world trade center, the thermals, of montreal, ted leo, van morrison, daniel johnston, the velvet underground I LISTEN TO FAR MORE OLDIES THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE.

Movies:

punch-drunk love, high fidelity, rushmore, short cuts, stranger than fiction, the deer hunter, the royal tenenbaums, boogie nights, little miss sunshine, trainspotting, jesus' son, almost famous, happy endings, the life aquatic with steve zissou, about schmidt, kingpin, buffalo '66, adaptation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, broken flowers, pulp fiction, the truman show, i heart huckabees, groundhog day, chasing amy.. i watch a lot of movies.

Television:

arrested development, freaks and geeks, the history channel, national geographic, CNN.

Books:

Dave Eggers, Raymond Carver, Chuck Klosterman, Milan Kundera, Augusten Burroughs, Paul Feig, Nick Cave, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen Colbert, George Carlin, Denis Johnson, J.D. Salinger, David Sedaris.

Heroes:

Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
Nick Cave... dark and creepy. You're a bi-polar genius, with equal passion for the most degrading aspects of humanity, as well as the beauty & wonder of God and Heaven.
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My Blog

when i paint my masterpiece.

hello everyone. this is what's been poppin'. i've been busy. far too busy. too  busy, in fact, to ever update this. i could threaten to delete my account, but i know and you know that we all know...
Posted by christopher on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:55:00 PST

some people call me the space cowboy.

here's a bit of an update for everyone i dont communicate with on a daily basis: i have quit the gas station job. people yelling at me because they soak themselves in gasoline was just too goddamn muc...
Posted by christopher on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:59:00 PST

i'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery.

hello everyone. here's a bit of an update on everything. i've been working. yes i know it sounds crazy, but i have. i stand around all day and sell hotdogs and gasoline, but most of all gatoraid and l...
Posted by christopher on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:41:00 PST

there's no key, there's no plan, well i discovered that.

well i can't sleep and i've already filled out two bulletins and changed my profile song... and i'm overdue for a new "blog" post. so here we go: first off, this wont have as many stories about drug ...
Posted by christopher on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:06:00 PST

let's be passionate, it's not like we'll get another chance to do this.

so.. this weekend was insane.. god, it's so hard to sum up. i guess you kinda had to be there. saturday jump rope for heart played at dunn bro's, i drove there. i had to take brian back to belton beca...
Posted by christopher on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:35:00 PST

sunday night

so. the weekend was decent enough. i feel sort of troubled. don't know why. i need sleep.
Posted by christopher on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:42:00 PST

KIND OF LIKE SPITTING

i'm too excited not to inform everyone in the world that jump rope for heart is playing with kind of like spitting next saturday. KOLS is the reason taylor dunn makes music. i hope the dudes not a tot...
Posted by christopher on Sat, 06 May 2006 12:33:00 PST

show? and stuff?

once again, not sunday, whatev. i just wanted to let everyone in the world to know that at the show the other night taylor dunn called the band that played before us douchebags. his exact words were, ...
Posted by christopher on Thu, 04 May 2006 11:54:00 PST

back by popular demand, the sunday night post!!

it's getting difficult to distinguish the days of the weekend, but i'll do my best. aight, first off i'm sorry that this is being posted on monday night, things have been sort of hectic around camp tu...
Posted by christopher on Mon, 01 May 2006 03:25:00 PST

there's a new review up for constants

it's on the jump rope for heart page if you wanna check it out. it's fairly flattering, which is nice. they say we play "grunge guitar" i don't know what that means. go find out for yourself. 
Posted by christopher on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:55:00 PST