Chris Wesseling
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Location | Tybee Island, GA, United States |
| Introduction | "Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free." |
| Interests | getting tripped up by a bookstore, extra innings = free baseball!, rounding third and heading for home, a line drive up the middle, fourth quarter comebacks, trade talks, dissonant cacophony, a good turn of phrase, dabbling without finishing, the story behind the story, scar tissue, october playlists, the first snow, studies in contradiction, travel writing, beers and bullshit, lollygagging, roadtripping, autodidactism, a distant shore, keeping some kind of record, vagaries, feet of clay, healthy skepticism, cherub scorn |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Caddyshack, Beautiful Girls, Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot, Animal House, Stripes, Diner, Tombstone, Swingers, The Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Clerks, Dumb and Dumber, Breaking Away, Forrest Gump, Say Anything, Annie Hall, Slingblade, Old School, The Big Chill, Jeremiah Johnson, Alone in the Wilderness, Northern Exposure, News Radio, Seinfeld, Deadliest Catch |
| Favorite music | Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson, Moon River - Louis Armstrong, Unknown Legend - Neil Young, Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello, Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne, Whatever It Takes - Ron Sexsmith, Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan, Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy, Ohio - Over the Rhine, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Emmylou Harris, It's Not That Easy Being Green - Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Bruce Sprinsteen, Warren Zevon, Jeff Buckley, Chris Isaak, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Harry Chapin, Steely Dan, Indigo Girls, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Underplayed Soul Songs, Break-up Songs, Whatever Coach Watson is playing at Huc-a-Poos on Sunday nights |
| Favorite books | A Fan's Notes, The Great Shark Hunt, The Sportswriter, Revolutionary Road, Middlemarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Nine Stories, The Great Gatsby, Charles Kuralt's America, Helter Skelter, High Fidelity, The God of Small Things, Lords of the Realm, Ball Four, America's Game, The American Political Tradition, Paris 1919, From Dawn to Decadence, The Little Prince, Paddle to the Sea, One Man's Wilderness, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Great Santini, Civil Disobedience, old Jim Murray columns, H.L. Mencken |
You've rented a sky-writer to propose to your significant other, but it's completely overcast. What will you do?
dis-engage