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Chris Lissner

hahaha, that is frightening

About Me


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My Interests

Solitary walks. Deborah. Georgy Girl. Pleasure. Place Dauphine, Paris. The children of my imagination. Farmers' Market, L.A. Smoking a hookah in the Haight. Negronis. Tinfoil suits.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet:Endangered hothouse flowers, devourers of books and languorous observers, fine artists, pan pipe players, photographers, beatniks, writers, vagabonds, Heliogabalus

Jean-Luc Godard / Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) / Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_K3oHzokvs

Music:

Purcell. Liszt. Bizet. Ravel. Satie. Juliette Gréco. Antonio Carlos Jobim. Fred Astaire. Nina Simone. Coleman Hawkins. Bernard Herrmann. Wes Montgomery. Serge Gainsbourg. Sam Cooke. Andrew Loog Oldham-era Stones. John Barry. The Small Faces. Love. The Jefferson Airplane. T.Rex. Burt Bacharach.

Movies:

Ernst Lubitsch. Alfred Hitchcock. Jean Renoir. Billy Wilder. René Clément. Powell and Pressburger. Vittorio De Sica. George Axelrod. Jacques Demy. Lindsay Anderson. Nicolas Roeg. Jean Eustache

Television:

Bewitched (in French)

Books:

Shakespeare. Rousseau. Dickens. Wilkie Collins. Théophile Gautier. Mary Webb. Joris-Karl Huysmans. Proust. Rumer Godden. Aldous Huxley. Colette. Kingsley Amis. Steinbeck. Isherwood. Elaine Dundy. Kerouac. Jorge Luis Borges.

Heroes:

Lord George Gordon Byron. Vincent van Gogh. Toulouse Lautrec. Oscar Wilde. The French Resistance. Anne Revere. James Baldwin. Abbie Hoffman. Susan Sontag. Gore Vidal.

My Blog

Who would like to give me a quick rundown on the pros and cons of MySpace?

It's a bit on the damp side in here.
Posted by Chris Lissner on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:23:00 PST

Encounters with strangers

 Twice on the bus have strangers pressed into my hand pieces of paper with things written on them. On one occasion it was a recommendation for a book, on another it was an obscure film 'best...
Posted by Chris Lissner on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:50:00 PST