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Name:  Christopher Lloyd Cooley

Age:  25

Neuroses:  Manic Depression, Megalomania, Insomnia

Location:  Los Angeles, CA

Currently Listening to:  Sleep, Little Beaver, Fela Kuti, Orange Goblin, Fucking Champs, Black Sabbath, The Upsetters, Nina Simone, Mr. Lif, Dälek

Currently Reading:   "Sein und Zeit" - Martin Heidegger

"Collected Prose" - T.S. Elliott

"The Collected Stories of Sherlock Holmes" - Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle

"Residencia en la tierra" - Pablo Neruda

"Dubliners" - James Joyce

various plays by Don Nigro

Loves:  Film Noir, Records, Movie Theaters, Black Coffee, Protoculture, 70's Honda Motorcycles, Polaroid Cameras, Arri Cameras, 16mm film, Apple Computers, Castlevania, Low Brow Art, Coca Cola, Cooley/Locke's Whiskey, Players Tobacco, Breakfast, the Twilight Zone, and girls who wear skirts

Loathes:  Ignorance, Parking Tickets, Pepsi, People who never use their turn signals, and People who can't shut hell up during movies (especially thrillers, and especially in the movie theater)

Links: 

imdb - http://imdb.com/name/nm2113203/

deviantart - http://madirishdrunkard.deviantart.com/

flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriscooley/

myspace (Neptune Films) - http://www.myspace.com/neptunefilms

myspace (Mephisto / Kuen) - http://www.myspace.com/kuenmusic

      Favs

Musicians: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, The Cardigans, John Coltrane, James Brown, & Arnold Schönberg

Music Genres:  Bebop, Free Jazz, Post Punk, Industrial, Triphop, Hip-hop, Swedish Metal, Old Brit Invasion stuff, Analog Synth stuff, Garage Rock, Stoner Rock, Surf, Funk, Folk, Soul, whatever really...

Writers: Yukio Mishima, Herman Hesse, Jim Thompson, Milan Kundera, Dorothy Parker

Philosophers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Robert Thurman, Ken Wilbur, Bill Hicks

Painters:  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Francis Bacon, J. M. W. Turner, Michael J. Austin, Bosch, Pino, Mark Ryden, R.A. Maguire, Robert Williams

Comic Book Artists:  Ashley Wood, Sam Keith, Frank Miller, Katsuhiro Otomo, Joseph M Linsner, Tomer Hanuka, Junji Ito, Robert Crumb

Photographers:  Philippe Halsman, Brassai, Joel-Peter Witkin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Charlie White, Carlos and Jason Sanchez

Cinematographers:  Christopher Doyle, Hideo Yamamoto, Roger Deakins, Robert Elswit

Film Makers: Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville, Paul Thomas Anderson, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar Wai, Chia-Liang Liu, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Gondry, Takeshi Kitano, Kinji Fukasaku, Takashi Miike, Jack Hill, Abel Ferrara, Robert Siodmak, Stanly Kubrick, Seijun Suzuki, Shinya Tsukamoto, Hayo Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer, Dario Argento, Sam Peckinpah, ...seriously this list could go on forever i'm gonna stop there

Haunts:

LA: El Gran Burrito, Tiki-Ti, The Astro, Tiny's, GoodLuck, Cat Club, Silverlake Lounge, Burgundy Room, Millie's, Niko Niko Sushi, Acapulco (during happy hour), Head-Line Records, The Record Collector, Amoeba, Vinyl Fetish, Skylight Books, The Illiad, Kinkos, The Vista, The Aero Theater, and of course The New Beverly Cinema,

Portland: Night Light, Alto Lounge, Saphire Hotel, the Winking Toad, Taste of Europe, Johnny B's, Juniors, Grand Central Bakery, Laurelhurst Theater, Cinema21, Movie Madness, Powells Books, Counter-Media, Q is for Choir, The Record Exchange (aka the cd/game exchange), and the Film Center

photograph by Maria Hiestand