Chris

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Gender Male
Industry Banking
Location New York, United States
Introduction Navigating through life by writing about the things I love. That means family, films, books, and anything I don't understand and, by writing, hope to. Check it out over at www.belownirvana.com
Interests Books, film, music, games, the works. However, I generally don't like books based on films, films that have been based on books, games based on books or films, films based on games, books based on games, or Holland. Damn you Holland!
Favorite Movies King Kong ('33 version), Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Oldboy, 3-Iron, Born to Kill, The Quiet Man, Shaun of the Dead, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter, The Godfather, Ikiru, Evil Dead 2, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Cat People, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Repo Man, The Big Sleep, North by Northwest, Notorious, The Public Enemy, Amelie, The Last Life in the Universe, M, Wild Strawberries, 400 Blows, 3-Iron, Infernal Affairs, Floating Weeds, Sullivan's Travels, Dark City, The Incredibles, The Royal Tennenbaums, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Life of Brian.
Favorite Music Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Opeth, Mike Keneally, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Soul Coughing, Death, Bad Religion, Beatles, The Who, Grateful Dead, Testament, Jethro Tull, Muse, Tegan and Sara, Bach, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic, Temptations, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, TMBG, Beethoven, Thelonious Monk, Louie Armstrong, Living Colour, QOTSA, Yob, Prince, The Cure, Buckethead, Joni Mitchell, Ben Folds Five, King's X, The Clash, Grateful Dead, Django Rheinhart
Favorite Books Harlan Ellison, Norman Mailer, Italo Calvino, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Umberto Eco, Ed McBain, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Roth, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jorge Luis Borges, Issac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, PKD, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Robbins, H.P. Lovecraft, John Irving, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Jose Saramago