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Chris

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I don't like cake, I don't like animals, and I probably don't like you. No, I take it back, animals are okay. (and pie is a satisfactory alternative to cake... as for you... well, you've got other friends, right?)

My Interests

Philosophy
Game Design and Programming
The Clarinet
Writing
Running
Dance Dance Revolution
Exploring/Hiking
Movies
Anime
Origami
Role Playing Games

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is interested in game design and is either musically or artistically inclined.

Music:

I'm listening to a remix Faye Wong's "Eyes On Me", one of the themes from Final Fantasy VIII, if that gives you any idea. I like Queen a lot, but I thought Queen was a person for the longest time, and I'm still having troubles remembering Freddie Mercury's name (and I'm even more clueless about spelling...). David Bowie has a lot that I appreciate, Julie Brown is a lot of fun, and then I like a few songs here and there, mostly stuff that tends to be really popular, "This Love", "Love Fool", "Bitter Sweet Symphony", "Tom's Diner", "Bohemian Rhapsody" (of course), anything byLibera, most soundtracks to games and movies, particularly John Williams and Danny Elfman (The Nightmate Before Christmas is a favorite). I also like a lot of musicals, above all Man of la Mancha (The Don Quixote musical) and its "Impossible Dream", but also The Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Carmen (I guess that is opera), Little Shop of Horrors, and so forth and so on. Nobuo Uematsu is my favorite composer, and I enjoy playing classicaly music on the clarinet. Remixes of video game music have a very special place in my hear. I enjoy music more when I can associate it with a particular story, mood, character, or event, which is why sound tracks from games, movies and musicals appear so often on the list. I like popular music mostly because it is catchy and occasionally because parts resonate with me, but that is rare.

Movies:

MOVIES SUXORS (except the Shaw Shank Redemption, and anything with Johnny Depp) No, actually I love all sorts of movies, but I'm too lazy to even start listing. I like lots of Japanese movies, and then anything that is quality. Oh, and soft core lesbian pornography. Gotta love Misty Mundae. Hmm, well, it is funny, at least.

Television:

Anything except for what my room mate has been constantly watching this semester. So, no reality tv, no dating shows, no passions... Oh, and the usual, family guy, sea lab, futurama, those are all good. I also like X-files, Buffy, Angel, Smallville and other strange things like that. Star Trek, most of those have been pretty good... not a big fan of the original though.

Books:

Don Quixote, Harry Potter, anything by Donaldson (especially Mordant's Need), Tolkien, Koji Suzuki... that is it for now.

Heroes:

Too many people to count. Pretty much anyone who has dared to believe in theirselves. (the use of "theirselves" with "anyone" here is intentional)

My Blog

Talking to Strangers

All of the following are simply my opinions, but for ease I will be writing my opinions as assertions. If I am particularly uncertain about some idea, I may still write it as an opinion to indica...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:22:00 PST

The Nature of Feelings

*Warning* This has not been edited, and was written late at night, so there are likely many spelling and grammatical errors afoot. I'll come back to this and fix it up soon. A lot of the following ide...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:56:00 PST

I don't wanna be... somethin-somethin other than... than... dammit.

It seems that I am peculiar in a way that can be quite upsetting to some people. Up to this point, I've been trying to "fix" this so that things would not be so difficult for such people. But trying ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:47:00 PST

India

I'll be visiting India with Neela Sandel until January 12th, so I will not be reachable until then. I hope everybody has a wonderful break and I look forward to seeing everyone in Tucson once I get ba...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:41:00 PST

Will & Sana (+reflections)

I was recently inspired by a dream to write the following passage. I am not an especially talented writer, but there was something particularly cogent about this scene to me, so I did my best to artic...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:04:00 PST

Embrace Change (but don't forget about what is important)

So, after learning about Steorn(still waiting to see if that is really the miracle it claims to be), I have become aware of a vast number of amazing technologies that seem to be just on the horizon an...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:47:00 PST

Free Energy?

I'm trying to spread news to as many people as I can in as many ways as I can think of. I sent the following regarding the possible discovery of free energy to most people on my mailing list. Please l...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:07:00 PST

Question on Objectivism

I was reading up on objectivism and wanted to ask a question about a particular quote of Ayn Rand's. I may or may not hear back from where I sent the question, but I wanted to remember it, so I'm...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:13:00 PST

I'm back... or have I just arrived?

I don't have time to do this justice at the moment. So I'm not going to, I've got better things to be doing, like sleeping. But I couldn't just keep this all bottled up inside of me (not that I've not...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:43:00 PST

An Experiment

Howdy, I just recieved an email from my friend asking me to support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2006. He also directed me to read the following on the topic: http://www.freepress.net/pres...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:34:00 PST