Chris
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Safe, memorable, and epic.
Male
37 years old
Orange County, California
United States
Last Login: 7/11/2009
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Chris's Interests
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| General | I like to write about you when you're not looking. I am addicted to exercise, lifting heavy things, and playing with Legos. Sometimes I am consumed by fits of dancing, drinking, followed by more dancing. Occasionally, I represent my emotional states with two-dimensional balloon people who are much better at expressing themselves than I am. I used to like to walk around at night in the middle of the Santa Ana winds and dream of cooler days, but then I kind of got irritated at the Santa Ana winds for all those fires in late 2007 that devoured all they could get a hold of. Bad winds, bad bad winds.
Also, I run sometimes when the mood hits. The mood is usually "fear." | | Music | Just about anything is cool. Except operas. If you like opera, more power to you, but it drives me bugfuck. Sitting there in the chair, watching people caterwauling while my ass starts to hurt and my mind wanders I am convinced is some kind of specially-devised torture that became an art form. Then again, I used to hate musicals until I saw Team America and South Park: The Movie, so I could be convinced otherwise if the right opera came along.
Some bands I'm currrently listening to: West Indian Girl, Supergrass, Rachael Yamagata, BT, the Darkness, The Music, Tony C and the Truth, and others - it changes on a weekly basis, there's too much cool music out there. I'm also a big fan of Two-Time Prom Date, but don't get them confused with Two-Timing Prom Date.
This week I'm listening to some old school Trashcan Sinatras. Those guys are so twangy. | | Movies | No Country for Old Men
Serenity
Amelie
Napoleon Dynamite
The Big Lebowski
Rushmore (and the Royal Tennebaums)
3 O' Clock High
Dancer in the Dark (when the soul needs scrubbing)
Magnolia
Punchdrunk Love
City of Lost Children
Rear Window
Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
Chasing Amy
As Good As It Gets
Election
Barton Fink
Memento
Clerks
Welcome to the Dollhouse (yes, I know it'll make you feel completely miserable)
Swingers
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
The Breakfast Club
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
Real Genius
...and just about every Pixar movie ever made.
Porn's also good, but the acting is terrible and the premises are ludicrous.
There are also certain movies I never want to see... at least on a date. Ever been burned hard on a "date" movie? Add the movie to the Shittiest Date Movies Ever Blog List! | | Television | Don't watch much TV, but that's not some snobbish choice, it's just a time thing and the fact I'm the only primitive I know who doesn't have Tivo. Or T-VO. Or Teevo. Or however you spell it. So mostly I buy DVD collections and watch them until I pass out with the TV screaming static.
Generally, any HBO compilation is awesome - Deadwood, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City (sue me),Sopranos and probably a bunch others. I also enjoy The Shield - it's like watching a 12-car pile up in slow motion.
I wasn't a big fan of Aqua Teen Hunger Force until the second season, then started laughing my ass off until it rolled under the couch and I had to coax it out.
The Office (British version) is also cool, like watching a really funny train wreck.
I am also in love with the short-lived sci-fi series Firefly, which features not one, but TWO hot nerdettes.
Oh - and Venture Brothers. And I finally warmed up to the American version of the Office by season 2 when they started hitting their stride. | | Books | 1st half of Catch 22
Charlotte: Light & Dark
The Screwtape Letters
Choke
The Tao of Pooh
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Phantom Tollbooth
Fight Club and anything else by Chuck Palanhiuk
the Princess Bride
Childhood's End
Galapagos
Bluebeard
Dune
Lord of Light
Almost anything I read in The Onion.
Snow Crash
Ender's Game
80% of everything by Terry Pratchett and George R. R. Martin.
My favorite short story ever is "The Eyes do More Than See," but I wasn't expecting it when I read it. Other good short stories include "They're Made Out of Meat" and "The Shawl," both of which you should save for a bad day - one will make you laugh out loud, and the other which will make you curl up in a fetal position and pray for death. | | Heroes | You, so hurry up, I'm drowning over here. |
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Chris's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Tustin, Alexandria, Tanelorn, Take Your Pick | | Body type: | 5' 8" / Athletic | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Computer Game Designer, but don't be afraid. |
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Chris's Schools
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College Of William And Mary
Williamsburg, VIRGINIA
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
Clubs: Literary magazine, an actually humorous humor magazine, some newspaper, and actually getting my social life together.
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1991 to 1994 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State Univ
Blacksburg, VIRGINIA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Architecture
Clubs: If you're in Architecture at VA Tech, you have no time for anything else, trust me. You mostly end up staggering into your dorm room from architecture lab at 2AM while your roommate is taking the chance you won't come home that night and is having sex with some girl he met at a party that you didn't have a chance to go to. Goddamn you, Dylan.
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1989 to 1991 |
Thomas Jefferson High School
Alexandria, VIRGINIA
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Literary Magazine, "Humor" Magazine, a six month embarassing tour in the Chess Club, and the "Let's Skip School Today" Club.
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1985 to 1989 |
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Chris's Networking
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Gaming - Design - Designer
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Any sort of computer or pen-and-paper gaming. Yes, I'm a huge nerd, but I know where the clitoris is, so back off.
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Publishing - Writer - Other
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I write comic books sometimes, usually when Dark Horse takes pity on me. My adventures have taken me to the distant past of the Star Wars universe to the origin of Visas Marr all the way to Count Dooku's plans to murder an entire planet for conve
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Gaming - Management - Other
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Half... maybe more than half... of my role at Obsidian is dispensing bad news and good news. And hiring people. And keeping designer grease on the wheels.
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Chris's Companies
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Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.
Santa Ana, California US
Co-Owner, Designer, Writer, Dreamer, Drinker.
There is no division in our ranks.
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4+ years or something
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Interplay Entertainment, Inc.
Irvine (Sigh), California US
Designer, Senior Designer, Lead Designer, Slave
Black Isle Studios
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7-8 years
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Chris's Blurbs |
About me:
Starving Artist, without the starving part. I used to be an introvert, then California turned me inside out. Bowls of Cheerios center me when in strange places. I like to write books on the inside of books, which prevents me from borrowing books from most of my friends. I think American Indians had the right idea and people's deeds should dictate their name. Chai tea runs through my veins. I keep wondering if Pandora really did a bad thing or not. I like to lift heavy objects repeatedly and ride bikes that go nowhere in an oddly ironic place called the "gym." I love the sun so much I think I was a lizard in a past life. I tend to have lots of questions for people I meet because people are a big mystery to me. If you excrete, I have etiquette requests. I have spent a large part of my subconscious life trying to figure out the proper way to greet cats, and am nearing a breakthrough. I get addicted to music and tend to mainline a good song non-stop for about 2 days before moving on. There are many things I like ...and other things I dont care so much for. Around 7PM onwards, I feel the growing need to go out and do SOMETHING, or else boredom starts crawling in. Talking on the phone can drive me crazy, since I feel physically paralyzed for the conversation.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Storytellers. Game development nerds. Cartoonists. Sarcastologists and trash-talkers. People without stories, but are looking for new ones. Readers with cool book recommendations. Relationship vets with war stories. Musicians, non-musicians, and music aficionados with cool music selections. Funny blog-writers. Anyone with a twisted perspective on the world and can show you how to twist with it. Health nuts. Pet lovers. Linguists who have made up their own language and wouldn't think twice about describing a loud person as a "Shouty McLoudface." Word bartenders and mixologists.
If you are a left-brained sarcastic trash-talker who likes to dance, paint, or write - and do any of them badly but STILL do them because you don’t give a shit, then drop me a line.
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