Chris Lyons
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Dallas, Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | Agnostic leaning towards atheist, music snob who knows more about the rock and roll institution than anyone should ever know, Florence Welch's (or Gwen Stefani's) future husband, post-postmodern and existential (esp Absurdist) writer, liberal pacifist who dreams of one day punching Ann Coulter in the Adam's apple; My heroes include Joe Strummer, Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Laurie Anderson, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Vonnegut, Benazir Bhutto, Albert Camus, and Germaine Dulac; My favorite tv shows include Misfits, Doctor Who, Dead Like Me, Weeds, Firefly, My So-Called Life, Vanguard, Ugly Americans, Adventure Time, The Mighty Boosh, and The Daily Show |
| Interests | Philosophy of religion, the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, literary theory, music history (currently writing an encyclopedia of 20th and 21st century musicians with approximately 2500 separate entries), Bob Ross super-fan, Doctor Who geek, songwriter and music organizer, anything Current TV has ever produced |
| Favorite Movies | Harold and Maude, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Annie Hall, Casablanca, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Training Day, City Lights, Breathless, Blow-Up, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho, Pan's Labyrinth, Some Like It Hot, Winter's Bone, Heathers, Persepolis, Kill Bill, The Descent, Near Dark, M, 12 Angry Men, Faust, L'Age d'Or, Atonement, The Battle of Algiers, Chungking Express, Eraserhead, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Juno, 8 1/2, Duck Season, The Game, High Noon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Lawrence of Arabia, Suspiria, Wristcutters, 10 Things I Hate About You |
| Favorite Music | No Doubt, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, The Cure, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Rilo Kiley, Fiona Apple, Joy Division, Dresden Dolls, Bob Dylan, Crystal Castles, The Smiths, Pixies, Bat for Lashes, Regina Spektor, Sonic Youth, Tegan and Sara, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Elton John, Gram Parsons, Squeeze, Smoosh, Ramones, Violent Femmes, The Velvet Underground, The Killers, Nico, Franz Ferdinand, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Johnny Cash, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Waits, My Chemical Romance, Radiohead, Lily Allen, Vic Chesnutt, Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amy Winehouse, Richard Hell, Talking Heads, The B-52s, Florence and the Machine, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Daniel Johnston, Snooks Eaglin, Beastie Boys, Afrika Bambaataa, Soundgarden, Sahara Hotnights, Depeche Mode, Gossip, Prince, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, ZZ Top, Queen, XTC, X, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, The Zombies, U2, Pulp, Bauhaus, Big Star, Buzzcocks, Butthole Surfers, The Flaming Lips, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Lemonheads, Ween, Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Electric Light Orchestra, Nine Inch Nails, Tina Turner, Lady Gaga, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Run-DMC, Eric B and Rakim, Gang Starr, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, KRS-One, Lil Wayne, Tiger Army, Modest Mouse, George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, The Animals, The White Stripes |
| Favorite Books | The Stranger, Chronicles of Narnia, Slaughterhouse-Five, No Exit, White Noise, The Great Gatsby, Middlesex, Howl, Memoirs of a Geisha, Speak, Winesburg Ohio, Scott Pilgrim, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Real Inspector Hound, Nadja, Siddhartha, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Disgrace, Their Eyes Were Watching God, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Pablo Neruda, The Virgin Suicides, Anna Karenina, Cat’s Cradle, Paradise, Erasure, Jump, The Hours, The Rover, T.S. Eliot, Yousef Komunyakaa, Things Fall Apart, The Fall, Steppenwolf |