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About Me

About Me: I am great. Greatness is what I am about. My name is Chris, but you may call me Great One, because that's what I am: great.

Favorite Artists: Muse, Cold War Kids, The Dresden Dolls, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Hot Hot Heat, Eagles of Death Metal, The White Stripes, The Oohlas, Modest Mouse, Beethoven, Wolfmother, The Ditty Bops, Eminem, The Grifters, Queen, 4 Non Blondes, Danny Elfman, Bright Eyes. Weird rock, basically.
Favorite Albums: Anything Muse; One Sock Missing; Era Vulgaris; Bigger, Better, Faster, More; Yes, Virginia; The Dresden Dolls' self-titled; Room on Fire; Robbers and Cowards.
Favorite Genre: Weird rock
Favorite Songs: "Ruled by Secrecy," by Muse; "Stockholm Syndrome" by Muse; "Dirty Business" by The Dresden Dolls. Tons more.
Songs for Roadtrips: "No One Knows," and "Turnin on the Screw," both by Queens of the Stone Age
Songs I hate: All Green Day and all whiny emo or screamo music.
Guilty Pleasure: What does my guilty pleasure have to do with songs? Oh, nevermind, I get it. Umm...hmph. Well, I love Smash Mouth, and everybody else hates them. And there's a song by A-Ha called "Take on Me" that sounds uber-happy and uber-gay....But I'm not guilty for what I like.
Songs I repeat the most: "Agaetis Byrjun" by Sigur Ros
Band I wish I was in: Cold War Kids

Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction, Crash, Reservoir Dogs, There Will Be Blood, Donnie Darko, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Edward Scissorhands, Saw, The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Margot at the Wedding, Signs, The Village, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, The Godfather series, Joe Versus the Volcano, Cast Away, A.I., Meet Joe Black, High Tension, What About Bob?, What Dreams May Come, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Garden State, Vanilla Sky
Favorite Actors: Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, Forrest Whitaker, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Favorite Directors: Tim Burton, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Zemeckis, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, and Ridley Scott
Favorite Genre: Drama
Favorite Soundtracks: Batman Returns
Movie Quotes I say all the time: Yes, 'cause I'm a loser who quotes movies nonstop. Gosh, freakin' idiots!
Movies I can watch over and over: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," "Dumb and Dumber," "Pulp Fiction," and "What About Bob?"
Actor that would play me in a movie: Arnold Schwarzeneggar or Tom Cruise

Places I love: Virginia
Places I've been: New York, California, Florida, West Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina...I'm a real east-coaster. Bermuda, too.
Places to see before I die: Sicily or Venice, I guess. I'll be content just staying in one spot my whole life, though.
Dream Vacation: Bermuda is wonderful, but I'd like to have a whole small island all to myself and my wife, if ever I get one. Just us and a hut and the crystal water, man. Agh, it'd be awesome!

Favorite Shows: Arrested Development, Family Guy, Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, South Park, Trigger Happy TV (canceled), Sheep in the Big City (canceled), Eureka's Castle (canceled), Zoobilee Zoo (canceled), Fraggle Rock (canceled), Mythbusters, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law.
Favorite Channels: TBS, Comedy Central, TCM, TV Land, Adult Swim
Favorite Reruns: Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Movies, Harvey Birdman
Most Addictive Show: American Idol. I admit it.
Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Conan O'Brien
Favorite Episode: Probably something in Family Guy
Characters you relate to: Peter Griffin (tactlessness) and Raymond (a mixture of tactlessness and saying-the-wrong-thing-ness).
Favorite Theme Song: Arrested Development has a pretty neat intro. And Home Movies.
Show I Secretly Watch: American Idol, I s'pose
Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Eureka's Castle, Zoobilee Zoo, Fraggle Rock, Sheep in the Big City, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Arrested Development. Thank goodness for DVD collections!

Where I shop: Cheap stores
Brands I love: American Rag
I like to wear: Shoes and jackets are my favorite.
Can't live without: Well, my dad's sperm, if you get right down to it.
Prized Possessions: My I-Path Cat Shearlings and my D.C. jacket that looks Russian. The shoes look Russian, too, actually. And my casually dressy Sketchers are wicked, too.
Guilty Pleasure: Not guilty of what I wear, thank you very much. But I tend to wear things that don't match (and the sad part is that it's on accident).

Favorite Books: Good Omens; A Prayer for Owen Meany; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Tommyknockers; Misery; Pet Semetary; Harry Potter; Fahrenheit 451; From the Corner of His Eye; I Am Legend; The Giving Tree; The Midnight Fox; The Pinballs; At the Back of the North Wind; anything by Ray Bradbury and O. Henry; A Confederacy of Dunces;
Favorite Authors: Ray Bradbury, O. Henry, Betsy Byers (children's books), Shel Silverstein, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Matheson, and John Irving.
Favorite Genres: Dramas, humor, horrors, and books that focus on only a few people and focus on their lives over the decades.
Favorite Characters: Ron Weasley, Bartholomew Lampion, Owen Meany, Diamond, Ignatius Reilly
Favorite Quotes: "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I'M ALREADY DEAD," he told us. "REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE."
Recent Reads: Short stories from The New Yorker (magazine), Ray Bradbury, and O. Henry.