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Chris Brown

Great acting is being able to create a character....Great character is being able to be yourself.

About Me

I'm a former Marine who's from Oregon, but now lives in New Jersey. If I'm not performing in and around NYC or abroad, I'm either practicing my instruments, playing tennis, working out, hanging with my close friends, or trying to meet as many new and interesting people as possible. My latest accomplishment, aside from being hired as a new Professor of Jazz Theory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ., has come in the form of acting. I can be seen along side Denzel Washington in this Fall's blockbuster movie "American Gangster" (directed by Ridley Scott). Aside from all that, I'm basically a sarcastic, wise cracking type of cat that is constantly cracking jokes or laughing at them, all day...everyday. So if you need some extra comedy in your life, then you've come to the right place!1982 Bryant Gumbel interview w/Miles DavisMe with the 63rd Army Band July 07'
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My Interests

Music, teaching, martial arts, tennis, fitness, fashion, snowboarding, skiing, paint ball, meeting new and interesting people, and enjoying the company of my best friends.

I'd like to meet:

People who are professional minded and focused about developing a plan to obtain as many of their hopes and dreams as possible, as well as people who have an eclectic group of friends from many different types of cultures and socio-economic backgrounds--as opposed to just a bunch of people who subscribe to the same mode of simple thought and behavior.

Music:

Most of anything that couldn't take a serious musician less than five minutes to write.

Movies:

Dumb and Dumber, Brown Sugar, Star Wars Triology, Crash, Kings of Comedy, Chris Rock's Bigger/Blacker, Any of Dave Chappell's standup stuff, The world according to John Coltrane, "The Music Tells You" (Branford Marsalis), Mo'Better Blues (as well as everything else that Spike Lee has put out), etc...

Television:

King of Queens, BET, Pimp My Ride, Girl Friends (what can I say...it's a funny show and a couple of those chicks are pretty hot), CNN, Sports Center, Jamie Fox show, etc....

Books:

Fast Food Nation, Miles Davis' autobiography, Tito Puente's biography, Jazz: from its origin to the present, The white boy shuffle, Makes me wanna holler, etc...

Heroes:

My mother and father, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Kenny Garrett, Kenny Kirkland, Ralph Peterson, John Coltrane, Ralph Bowen, Owen, Denzel Washington, Charlie Parker, and Conrad Herwig.

My Blog

Immature men...

I came across this online and thought that it was worth sharing. Even though this is written for a female audience, everything in here is totally applicable the other way around. Enjoy!If you had a he...
Posted by Chris Brown on Mon, 05 May 2008 02:53:00 PST

Before it’s too late...

In music, one of my many little sayings is "the measure of all that is 'hip', is SOLELY weighed against its degree of relevancy." I, however, also think that this statement is applicable to everyone's...
Posted by Chris Brown on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

Basic Instinct

As of lately I've been doing A LOT of reading, thinking/self reevaluation, and conversing with people for the sake of putting a lot of my new theories on social and human behavior to the test by allow...
Posted by Chris Brown on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:43:00 PST

Ghetto Tourism

Try to take note that when I use the term Black Class, or Black Culture, that I'm not really trying to reference race too much because even though a person may be black, it doesn't mean that they subs...
Posted by Chris Brown on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:39:00 PST

When we grow up...

I recently realized that for the past month I've been telling people that I'm 30, even though I'm 31. It's weird to me that I'm this age now because I used to think that by the time I hit 30 that ever...
Posted by Chris Brown on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:16:00 PST

Pain

The majority of the medical community will more times than none, instinctively define pain as being just a sensory event that arises from disease or tissue damage. I will say, however, that for the ti...
Posted by Chris Brown on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

We Are What We Eat.

We all have our little mantric sayings that remind us of the importance of staying emotionally and spiritually grounded in the principles that we feel will keep us on the path to living a righteous an...
Posted by Chris Brown on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

Striving for Perfection Pt.2

The question now becomes, what do we do about all of this. How do we change for the better? Well, I’m glad you asked:) The first place to start is in realizing that this issue of perfectionism i...
Posted by Chris Brown on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

Striving for Perfection (definitely my best work to date:)

Last night, while I was having dinner at one of my best friends’ house, we began discussing some of the various idiosyncrasies of relationships. At a certain point, she left the room to retrieve...
Posted by Chris Brown on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:11:00 PST

Real Love Stories...

I just ran across these little articles today and thought that they would make an interesting read for you all. These little transcripts are taken from ’O’, the Oprah Magazine (Feb. 2006),...
Posted by Chris Brown on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:51:00 PST