Chris Rees

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Gender Male
Industry Publishing
Occupation Graphic Designer
Location South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Introduction I was born in early 1968 in the Burnie Division of the North West General Hospital - a wistful child, obsessed with the vacant spaces in the periodic table, partial to celery and polite to a fault, runner-up in the junior Wimbledon mixed doubles of 1976, teamed with a young Indira Naidoo, my tennis career soon foundered due to inabilty to grow a handblebar moustache, leading to a focus on the fields of astronomy, asphalt mining and asparagus husbandry, which resulted in the first description of the phenomenon of the floppy pulsar, the rapid bituminification of the third world, and massively increased yields...
Interests All animals, most vegetables and some minerals.
Favorite Movies The Royal Tenenbaums, Escape to Victory, Malcolm, Wallace & Gromit, Life is Beautiful, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic
Favorite Music Jolie Holland, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Sufjan Stevens, Hunters & Collectors, Dave Graney, Decembrists, Jon Brion, Can, Pixies, Neil Finn, the music that came out of Ernie's radio in that Ernie & Bert episode where they blew a fuse.
Favorite Books Martin Flanagan, Peter Carey, Julian Barnes, Richard Flanagan, Clive James, Bill Bryson, Annie Proulx, Mark Kurlansky, Oliver Sacks, Michael Chabon, Alexander McCall Smith, Les Carlyon

How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?

Just as tall but a little heavier.