Chris

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Non-Profit
Location Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Introduction Student of the good policies for the polis at a pretty big university in the Northeast.
Interests music, books, beer, the process of traveling to places and then the experience of being there, cooking, other people (but not cooking other people that would just be weird)
Favorite Movies I am a utilitarian movie goer.
Favorite Music Coldplay, Radiohead, Tom Conlon, Starflyer 59, Sixpence None the Richer, Red House Painters, Over the Rhine, Velour 100, the Postal Service, Explosions in the Sky, Ryan Adams, Yo la tengo, Interpol, the Gotan Project, Robinella and the CC String Band, good dirty blues, R&B from the 50's and 60's, hip-hop that is smart, early to mid 20th century jazz, electronic music with a good beat, bluegrass - especially the front porch pickin stuff, anything ambient and guitar driven, big walls of sound, I'm a sucker for a good pop tune with a great hook....I am a bit of a music whore
Favorite Books Dostoyevsky, C.S. Lewis, Oswald Chambers, the Bible, Brave New World, Henri Nouwen, classic fiction, historical things, political things, I read the Economist a lot