Politics, food, travel, exposing hypocrisy. Reading, writing, and revolution. Tipping sacred cows. Outside the box experiences. Art. Love. Philosophy. Spirituality. Animals. Planets. Surrealism. And sexuality.
Music
Everything from Adam and the Ants, Tori Amos, Arrested Development, Art of Noise, Syd Barrett, B-52s, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Beethoven, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Boys Next Door, Brave Combo, Jackson Browne, The Butthole Surfers, The Buzzcocks, John Cale, Johnny Cash, Centrinity, Chemical Brothers, Chumbawamba, The Clash, Patsy Cline, George Clinton, Leonard Cohen, Consolidated, The Cramps, The Cure, Cypress Hill, Miles Davis, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, The Demigs, Derek and the Dominos, Devo, The Dicks, The Doors, The Eagles, Joe Ely, Eminem, Rocky Erickson, Fear, Kirk Franklin (I attended high school with him), Flying Lizards, Diamanda Galas, Gangstarr, Marvin Gaye, Phillip Glass, The Goats, Benny Goodman, Grandmaster Flash, Al Green, GWAR, PJ Harvey, Faith Hill, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Mahalia Jackson, Jane's Addiction, Jean-Michael Jarre, Ricky Lee Jones, Jonzun Crew, Joy Division, Carole King, The Kinks, Kitaro, Kraftwerk, KRS-One, Crystal Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Mad Scientists, Bob Marley, Reba McEntire, Meat Beat Manifesto, Meatloaf (a guilty pleasure indeed), Metallica, Roger Miller, Ministry, The Minutemen, Joni Mitchell, Giorgio Moroder, Ennio Morricone, The Motors, Mott the Hoople, Negativeland, New Order, New York Dolls, Nico, Nirvana, NWA, Ojays, Roy Orbison, Paris (the Guerilla-Funkmeister, not Paris Hilton - though I don't diss her either), Peaches, Pharcyde, Shawn Phillips, Pink Floyd, Elvis Presley (the musician, not the icon), The Pretenders, Primus, John Prine, Public Enemy, Puccini, Queen, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, R.E.M., The Residents, Revolting Cocks, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, The Secret Garden, Sex Pistols, Frank Sinatra, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, The Spinners, Stravinski, Ray Stevens, Donna Summer, Television, Tiny Tim, The Undertones, U2, The Vandals, Velvet Underground, Verdi, Tom Waits, Was (Not Was), Roger Waters, The Who, Hank Williams, Bob Wills and Texas Playboys, George Winston, X, Neil Young, and Frank Zappa, just to name a few out of thousands. Eclectic is my game.
I've spent so much of my life listening to music, I no longer even attempt to categorize styles - better to actually describe elements of the aural dynamic. The best music transcends trends.
Movies
All About Eve, All My Sons, All That Jazz, All The President's Men, American Beauty, Animal Farm, Annie Hall, Apocolypse Now, Aria, As Good As It Gets, Avalon, The Bad Seed, Benji (yeah, the dog movie), Betty Blue, The Birds, Birdy, Blazing Saddles, Blue Velvet, Bob Roberts, Born On The Fourth Of July, Bowling For Columbine, The Breakfast Club, Burnt Offerings, Cabaret, Carrie, Casablanca, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Champ, City Lights, Conspiracy: The Chicago 8, Chicken Run, Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Dances With Wolves, Dawn of the Dead, Death Of A Salesman, The Deer Hunter, Do The Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, Easy Rider, Eating Raoul, The Education of Shelby Knox, The Elephant Man, E.T., The Exorcist, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, Evil Dead (1 and 2), Fame, Fantasia, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fiddler On the Roof, Forrest Gump, Frankenstein (the original), Freaky Friday (the original), The French Connection, Gates of Heaven, Ghandi, The Glass Menagerie, The Godfather (1 and 2), Goldfinger, Gone With the Wind, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Halloween (the original), Hardcore, Hearts and Minds, Heaven, Hello Dolly, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Holocaust (TV Series), I Spit On Your Grave, In The Heat of The Night, Inherit The Wind, The Jerk, JFK, Judgment At Nuremberg, The Killing Fields, King Kong, Koyanisquatsi, Last House On The Left, Last Temptation Of Christ, Lenny, Liquid Sky, Little Big Man, Little Shop Of Horrors, Logan's Run, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Man On The Moon, Manhattan, Manhunter, Marathon Man, Mary Poppins, Mask (not the Jim Carey film), Mean Streets, Midnight Cowboy, The Mission, Mississippi Burning, Monster, My Bodyguard, My Fair Lady, Network, New York New York, North by Northwest, Oliver, The Omen, On Golden Pond, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Once Upon A Time In America, Ordinary People, Paris Texas, Patton, Philadelphia, Pippi Longstocking, The Plague Dogs, Platoon, The Prince of Tides, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, R. Budd Dwyer's Suicide Footage, Rain Man, Raising Arizona, Rear Window, Rebel Without A Cause, The Red Balloon, Reefer Madness, Repulsion, Reservoir Dogs, Risky Business, Rocky (the original), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Roger and Me, Roots, Rope, Rosemary's Baby, The Ruling Class, Running On Empty, Saturday Night Fever, Say Anything, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Schindler's List, Sex Lies and Videotape, Shampoo, The Shining, Shoah, The Shootist, Short Cuts, Silence Of The Lambs, Slacker, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Song of the South, Steal This Movie, Steel Magnolias, Straw Dogs, Suburbia, Supersize Me, Taxi Driver, Terms of Endearment, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thin Blue Line, The Tin Drum, Titanic, To Kill A Mockingbird, Tommy, Traffic, Urban Cowboy, Vertigo, Wait Until Dark, Waking Life, Watership Down, West Side Story, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Woodstock, Wild At Heart, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wizard of Oz, Yellow Submarine, Young Frankenstein, thousands of others. For all you confirmed cynics out there, I'm also a Rogers and Hammerstein fan.
Television
Local television and print news outlets were aware that James Taylor Moseley was chained to the second floor of The Tomato for days - but they didn't report it until after the fire. Those same outlets were subsequently aware of the attempted firebombing of Texas Filmmakers headquarters (where raw footage for The Burning of Fry Street was stored), during Thin Line Film Festival (at which The Burning of Fry Street had its world premiere) - but they didn't report it, and haven't to this day.
As if the Boston Tea Party never happened...
Books
Jane Austin, Richard Bach, Iain Banks, Clive Barker, Charles Beaumont, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Manuel Cervantes, Anton Chekov, Noam Chomsky, Kate Chopin, Pat Conroy, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Brett Easton Ellis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eve Ensler, E.M. Forster, Anne Frank, Gatewood Galbraith, Jack Herer, Herman Hesse, Abbie Hoffman, Homer, Aldous Huxley, Molly Ivins, John Irving, Henry James, Carl Jung, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, James Kitchens, Dean Koontz, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Stanislaw Lem, Christopher Largen (lol), C.S. Lewis, George McMahon, Flannery O'Connor, Sharon Olds, George Orwell, Ovid, Plato, Edgar Allen Poe, Tom Robbins, Henry Rollins, J.D. Salinger, Carl Sanders, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dan Savage, William Shake-Spear, Mary Shelley, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Braham Stoker, John Stossel, Shelly Taylor, Hunter Thompson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, HG Wells, Walt Whitman, Tom Wolfe, Malcolm X, and too many others, enough to blow my mind through the ether and back again.
For children: Where Did I Come From? I'll Love You Forever, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Free To Be You And Me, The Lorax, The Giving Tree, Little House (series), The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, Where The Wild Things Are.
Heroes
Idolatry aside... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mark Lunsford, George McMahon, Jesus (the one you won't hear too much about in many churches, who hung out with the outcasts, called the religious leaders hypocrites, and challenged the authority of the state), warriors, artists, survivors, anyone with the motivation and courage to speak their own truth in the face of injustice. Mr. Munchies. And you.
Christopher Largen's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Fort Worth, TX
Body type:
6' 3" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
Occupation:
Author, Filmmaker, Caregiver
Christopher Largen's Schools
University Of North Texas
Denton,Texas
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: Interdisciplinary: Psychology, Sociology, Rehabilitation, and Criminal Justice
Minor: Who needs a minor with all those majors?
Clubs: ACLU, Patients Out of Time, Building BLOCK, Feminist Majority Leadership Association, NORML, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, etc.
1994 to Present
Tarrant County College
Ft Worth,Texas
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: General Studies
Clubs: Co-Founder of The Writer's Bloc
About me: Chris Largen is an internationally published journalist, author, speaker, child advocate, and award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared in Village Voice, Washington Post, and hundreds of other media outlets.
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As big business alters America's landscape, an arts community revolts in Denton, Texas. When the streets erupt in arson and firebombs, a stunned city must redefine and reclaim itself.
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BOHEMIA RISING: THE FRY STREET STORY is a DVD compilation of short documentaries exploring rebellion and resilience in response to demolition of art, culture and history.
THE BURNING OF FRY STREET - Winner of the Jury Prize at Thin Line Film Festival
Property developers and outraged citizens clash over the fate of an 80 year-old historic building on Fry Street, a cherished meeting place for artists, philosophers, students and street dwellers. Wrecking crews gear up to demolish, protesters seize the building, and a man chains himself to the top floor for three days - while an arson plot develops.
When flames engulf the structure, one activist stands accused of torching the art and history he fought to save. Evidence becomes art in this gritty, impressionistic, nightmarish documentary exploring history, politics and identity.
Directed by Christopher Largen, who went down to Fry Street three days before the fire, hoping to capture demolition footage. Discovering the building was seized by activists, he stayed with his personal camcorder, no audio or lighting equipment, no production team, no tripods or dollies, and an official budget of $0. Hours after the arson, Largen's camera was acquired by law enforcement officials, who reviewed the raw footage (Largen later provided the same evidence to the defense attorney of the accused arsonist).
A DRIVING PEACE - Fry Street business owner Mike Sutton gets fed up with the war in Iraq, and covers his car with the names of fallen U.S. soldiers. The car attracts international press coverage, but when Mike runs out of room for additional names, he enlists the aid of highschool students and a national cemetery.
ASBESTOS IGNITES: A BURNING QUESTION - As a dazed community regroups after the arson blaze, a citizen returns to the crime scene to raise concerns about Denton residents who may have inhaled carcinogenic particles.
A WALK THROUGH FRY STREET - Save Fry Street representative Jon Black takes viewers on a historic journey through the Bohemian community.
THE DENTON POLKA - A live Brave Combo music video taped at Dan's Silverleaf, the night after the band received their 7th Grammy nomination. Brave Combo delivers a barn-burner gig that affirms the spirit of a community in flux.
BONUS FOOTAGE includes: a statement from United Equities, A Day and Night in the Life of The Tomato (time-lapse art film by Patrick Flaherty), an interview with Denton mayor Mark Burroughs, movie trailers from Denton filmmakers, and bonus arson footage with exploding transformers, a burning American peace flag, and a flaming car. Director's commentary provided.
A portion of BOHEMIA RISING: THE STORY OF FRY STREET sales proceeds will be donated to CAMP I-THONKA-CHI, a project of Parkland Hospital, dedicated to children with burn injuries.
Sales will also support TEXAS FILMMAKERS, a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing the regional film community with access to education, experience, equipment, exhibition, and other essential production resources.
BOHEMIA RISING: THE STORY OF FRY STREET is available for international online purchase, through this site and others.
Largen has performed with an array of authors, musicians, comedians and politicians, including George Clinton's P-Funk Family, Alex White Plume, Ruta Lee, Debbie Reynolds, Montel Williams, Howard Woolridge, Gatewood Galbraith, Spoonfed Tribe, Keith Stroup, R. Crumb's Fat Freddy, comedian Reverend Roland A. Duby, and two-time Superbowl champion Mark Stepnoski.
JUNK is a riotous sociopolitical satire about a war on junk food.
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"JUNK is a profound and absurd tragicomedy, an engaging page-turner that reads like a film. JUNK will entertain, intrigue and provoke, inspiring debate and exploration as humanity wrestles to define the relationship between health and public policy." - Joe Camp, writer, producer, and director of the Benji films.
"JUNK is a must-read. I couldn't put it down! I was hooked from the first page." - Erin Hildebrandt
"JUNK is an engrossing page-turner which had me hooked from beginning to end. It's satire which packs a ferocious punch." - Ph.D., editor of The ARID Site
"JUNK is tragicomedy for thinking people. Largen takes no prisoners. A frighteningly believable plot, set in a not too distant future." - Dr. James Quinn, Professor of Addictions and Criminology, University of North Texas
"Brilliant! JUNK is satire at its best!" - Michael Constantine McConnell, author of Detroit Stories
"JUNK is a classic comedy in the style of Mark Twain or Will Rogers." - Jack A. Cole
"I loved this book so much that I will read it again! JUNK is a hilarious, horrifying, thought-provoking ride. So simple, yet so eloquent!" - George McMahon
"A brilliant mockumentary with frighteningly Orwellian dynamics. Packed with insight, irony, and no small dose of hilarity, JUNK seethes like a District Attorney who just lost a case on a technicality." - Renee Vaughn Hayes, editor of Venues Magazine
"Portraying the worst and best in my profession, JUNK demonstrates real possibilities for America. It is a wake up call to lovers of liberty." - Officer Howard J. Wooldridge (retired)
"JUNK is laugh out loud funny!" - Suzanne Wills
"I laughed and I cried! JUNK is beautiful! Mr. Largen possesses a talent to touch people in a way they can't forget." - Rhonda Cheatham
"JUNK is priceless... a wonderful character driven satire, simple and straightforward, a searing indictment." - Al Byrne
"JUNK is a hoot! After reading this book, sweets will taste a little sweeter." - Dean Becker, talk radio host, Cultural Baggage
"JUNK is Vonnegut styled, ironical witty satire that laughs out loud at misguided causes. I cared about the characters. There's not enough of this kind of clean, neat prose anymore. The message rang loud and clear but never screamed at me. Carry on, Mr. Largen!" - Leslie Miller, Books to Enjoy
"JUNK is hilarious and tragic! I ate 2 bags of extra butter flavored popcorn by page 100! The editing is fantastic!" - Mike Smithson
"JUNK leads you down a familiar path and then BOOM...natural thought patterns are jolted into the unfamiliar... JUNK is a mind-boggling realization, a very imaginative approach toward a very real issue." - Dr. Juliet Getty, Professor of Nutrition, University of North Texas
"What I have just read is a hit. I loved every second. I started reading it and didn't stop until I was done. When I took a break and went into the kitchen for a snack, a chill went down my spine. I could never live in a world like Junk; just the thought of it was quite terrifying. The book is great, and the thought of this marvel on film.... Oooo, I can't wait! Bottom line...the characters were original, the story was entertaining, frightening, realistic and at times quite heart-wrenching. It blended together so well. Junk is a bloody hit, man! Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to have myself a Charlotte Russe." - Graham Armstrong, college freshman
"Darkly hilarious...Wild and funny...Entertaining, riveting reading, wherever one falls on the opinion continuum." - Natalie Davis, BlogCritics
"Like the film Traffic on sugar and triglycerides..." - Thomas Bell, Creative Loafing
"An inventive parody..." - The Arkansas Traveler
"Effective satire...Largen is a welcome voice of both playful and serious resistance." - Kim Lumpkin, Toxic Universe
"Entertaining...a fun, light read...hilarious...high in flavour..." - Leah Anderson, The Gateway Canada
"Astute...Wonderfully written and fast-paced...Provides insight...Hide your Snickers." - Zac Austrew, NT Daily
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who appreciates the joy and beauty of life, who nurtures the fiery spirit that keeps us in the good fight. Individuals who care about changing the system in constructive ways. Seekers. Survivors. Fellow independent artists. Child welfare advocates. Intellects. Existentialists. Iconoclasts. Mona Lisa. Kinky Friedman. Captain Von Trapp. You. Yo mama.
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If you are partying in downtown Baltimore for Halloween, we are playing with Fools and Horses at The Quarter. Costume party and the whole 9. Best part about Halloween is its the only time of year Guys are allowed to stare at chicks outside of a strip club! Lucky us!
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The Fourth Annual Sixth Street Smokeout will be held on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, at Momo’s Club in Austin, Texas. Check out Texas Norml dot Org / events
Blessed, I give thanks for the friendship, and the love. I just finshed an album bout to drop..sept.09.. called "Break Free" . with My family Man-I-fest. click the my pic to hear us.
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