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Chris

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About Me

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My name is Chris. I am 20 years old. I am a nerd and I am very proud of it. I am a history major, it's my dream to live in Monaco and Montana, and I play guitar and write music. I am also an enormous, and I do mean enormous, NASA fanboy. Just ask anyone. They'll tell you. Other than that, there's really not much else to say about myself. As you can see, I don't do many interesting things. I don't really like talking about myself either so just ask me if you have any questions. I don't ever know what to say in these things...

My Interests

American history, world religion, astrophysics, thermodynamics, quantum theory, relativity, astronomy, world history, European history, starting collections, music. I like a lot of boring things.

I'd like to meet:

People with good interests, some sense, and a great sense of humor. It would also be cool to meet someone who hates O.J. Simpson as equally as I do or more. I have no real preference about who I meet here. Just as long as you meet the criteria and at least have some sort of common interests with me.

Music:

98º, 10,000 Maniacs, Acid Bath, Acker Bilk, Alan Menken, Alan Silvestri, Alice in Chains, American Football, Amon Amarth, Annie Lennox, The Appleseed Cast, The Arcade Fire, Atom and his Package, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Conti, Black Sabbath, Blind Melon, Blink 182, Blues Traveler, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Springfield, Burt Bacharach, Cap'n Jazz, Cat Stevens, Chicago, Coheed and Cambria, Copeland, Counting Crows, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Cure, Damien Rice, Danny Elfman, Danny Wilson, Darkthrone, Dave Brubeck, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Decapitated, The Delfonics, Dion & the Belmonts, Dire Straits, Dispatch, The Distillers, Do As Infinity, Don Henley, The Doors, Dragonforce, The Droogies, The Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Elvenking, Ensiferum, Etta James, Eva Cassidy, Eve 6, Everyoned, Explosions in the Sky, Extreme, Faith No More, The Fall of Troy, Fantomas, Farewell, Finntroll, First to Leave, Fleetwood Mac, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Frederic Chopin, Further Seems Forever, Gary Hoey, Genesis, George Harrison, Gin Blossoms, Glassjaw, Glen Phillips, Goo Goo Dolls, The Guess Who, Guns n Roses, Gustavo Santaolalla, Hall & Oates, Hammer No More the Fingers, He Is Legend, Heart, Hit the Lights, House of Fools, In Flames, Incubus, Jackson 5, Jackson Browne, James Horner, James Taylor, Jane’s Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Jewel, Jim Croce, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, Joan of Arc, John Coltrane, John Denver, John Lennon, John Mellencamp, John Williams, Johnny Cash, Kansas, KISS, Koji Kondo, Korpiklaani, Led Zeppelin, Lionel Richie, Liquid Tension Experiment, Louis Armstrong, Lyle Lovett, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Make Believe, Marc Cohn, Marillion, Marilyn Manson, Mark Isham, The Mars Volta, Marshall Tucker Band, Marvin Gaye, Matchbox 20, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Michelle Branch, Miles Davis, Minus the Bear, Motion City Soundtrack, Mozart, Murder Practice, Nat King Cole, Natalie Merchant, Neil Young, New Radicals, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nobuo Uematsu, Norah Jones, Northstar, Notorious B.I.G., Novembre, NSYNC, Oasis, The One Up Downstairs, Opeth, Outkast, Owen, Pantera, Park, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Pete Francis, Phish, Piebald, Pink Floyd, The Police, Porcupine Tree, Prince, Pulp, Queen, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Randy Newman, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rick James, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Roy Orbison, Rufio, Santana, Satyricon, Say Anything, Sean Lennon, The Sex Pistols, Shai Hulud, Silverstein, Simple Minds, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonata Arctica, Soundgarden, Staind, Stephen Lynch, Steve Miller Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sublime, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superstitions of the Sky, Taking Back Sunday, Te’, The Temptations, Texas is the Reason, Thelonious Monk, Thin Lizzy, Third Eye Blind, Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tool, Toto, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tyrone Wells, U2, Underoath, Unified Theory, Van Halen, The Ventures, The Verve, Victor Wooten, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Weezer, Winds, Yazoo, Yngwie Malmsteen, Yo-Yo Ma

Movies:

In no particular order: Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, Schindler's List, The Majestic, The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, The Wild Bunch, Vertigo, Rear Window, Apollo 13, The Cider House Rules, Seven Years in Tibet, Casper, Pride and Prejudice (the Colin Firth mini-series), Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, The Guardian, The Notebook, Notting Hill, Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, Spaceballs. I am sure that I like more movies than this, but my brain is kind of empty right now.

Television:

Jeopardy, Sportscenter, anything on the History Channel, Seinfeld, The Critic, Family Guy, Playmakers, The Simpsons. I think that's about it. I actually probably like more, but it's just so hard to think. Now that I do think about it actually, I have to admit I love TV that comes on at 3 AM. Cheaters, re runs of Dateline, Maury Povich(in fact I run a Maury group), Happy Days, I Love Lucy, Golden Girls*, Designing Women*, Charles in Charge*, I love the classics.

*These were put here by force. If I did not put these on my profile they would have killed me.

Books:

I like too many books to list here, but some books I do like are: A River Runs through It by Norman MacLean, Love in the TIme of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, anything by Elie Wiesel. I also like to read about astrophysics, relativity, thermodynamics, and really, just the universe in general.

Heroes:

Wernher von Braun, astronauts, Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Norman Maclean, Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, my mom, Aristotle, Socrates, Voltaire, Hippocrates, Plutarch, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Lou Gehrig, George Bu-- LOL just kidding. I have a lot of heroes, but I can't list all the people I admire. I mean, I probably could, but you don't want to read them all.

My Blog

The death of Tsar Nicholas II.

I have always been fascinated by the murder of the Romanov's in Russia and I just got chills reading Yakov Yurovsky's account of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.  Yurovsky was th...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:52:00 PST

Pablo Neruda is awesome.

I finally found the Complete Works of Pablo Neruda and I love his poetry.  I hope you will too.         &n bsp;      &nbs...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:03:00 PST

A great story.

I was sitting in the lobby of the Sheraton and I was browsing MySpace and this lady starts talking to me. She's talking very slow and softly and I can't hear her. So I move closer and start talking ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST

80's Acoustic Extravaganza.

I love covering songs late at night.  Especially 80's tunes.  It's really fun to put a new spin on things.Here are some tunes that I have been working on.  They're not all 80's, but eh ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:04:00 PST

Inspiration at 4:41 AM on a Saturday morning.

I was playing my Martin acoustic (for those of you that don't know, Martin is like the cream of the crop for acoustics, tied with Taylor for being unmatched in quality) and I thought, "You know what? ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:44:00 PST

Dear Ticketmaster.

FUCK YOU.
Posted by Chris on Tue, 22 May 2007 04:22:00 PST

Why 0.999... equals 1.

x = 0.999... Multiplied by 10:10x = 9.999...Subtracted by 1x:9x = 9.999... - .999....Thus:9x = 9Divide by 9:x = 1.THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS.A pretty simple proof really, but a lot of people seem to thin...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:29:00 PST

A blog to post siilly haikus. Post your own!

This blog will be continuously updated with silly haiku's about random topics.John Oates' Mustache John Oates' mustache Completely captivates me In the worst of ways So thick, so eighties. So incredi...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:38:00 PST

Louis XIV.

When I get back from dinner tonight I am going to write a blog about Louis XIV, "La Roi Soleil" or The Sun King.No one will care about it, but I want to tell all of you why Louis XIV was awesome....
Posted by Chris on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:24:00 PST

I am overly enthusiastic.

Knocking stuff over when you're REALLY into playing guitar is annoying, but funny.:)  
Posted by Chris on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:05:00 PST