Who is Aesop?

Just call me Chris. It’s my real name.
I’m a 25-year-old college graduate (Associate of Arts) working to become a published and paid author. I like to write essays and articles but hope to someday accomplish my lifelong goal of publishing a serious work of fiction.
I support printed books and buy from local book stores. I own (and love) a Kindle Fire HD 7″, but I will never fully abandon my old, yellowing, crinkling pages in favor of ageless data.

Questions, suggestions, or personal criticisms? Just want to chat?
E-Mail me: aesopyoplait@gmail.com

FAVORITE BOOKS

• “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury (mystifying story, haunting lesson, haunting mental images)
• “East of Eden” and “Travels With Charlie in Search of America” by John Steinbeck (come on, it’s Steinbeck…)
• “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee (I’ve read it three times.  I will read it again.)
• “Down and Out in Paris and London” by George Orwell (a nice reminder that things have been worse before)
• “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien (Best book I’ve read on war.  Moral of the story: don’t do war.)
• “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris (Sedaris has a style that makes light of the heaviest subjects)

FAVORITE MOVIES

• Up in the Air (“To know me you have to fly with me.”)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (a storybook for adults, perfect casting, best suicide scene ever)
• Bladerunner: Director’s Cut (the film is so much better without narration)
• Oldboy (the English voices suck; watch it in Korean with subtitles)
• 28 Days Later (less zombies, more humans being assholes; Danny Boyle got it right)
• Sunshine (the sun is hot, madness is scary)
• Synecdoche, NY (life in a play in a play in a play.  Most depressing movie ever?)
• Anything by Stanley Kubrick (he never repeated himself, and his style is raw and powerful)

FAVORITE BANDS

• The Airborne Toxic Event
• Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
• The Arcade Fire
• The Naked and Famous
• Weezer (blue album, green album)
• The Black Keys 
• Freightened Rabbit

FAVORITE GAMES

• Bastion (“What do you say to a man who’s seen too much?”)
• Bioshock Infinite (it discusses racism, corruption, and metaphysics; how can I not love it?)
• Dark Souls (it keeps taunting me)
• Diablo II (still addictive after 13 years)
• Mass Effect series

OTHER HOBBIES

• Photoshop, self-taught for ten years.
• I love pasta.

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Disclaimer (07/29/2012):  Starting July 20th, 2012, any images or videos I use to illustrate my entries link to the source.  Those that link to only the image are mine.  Before July 20th, I was just being scatterbrained in my failure to provide links.  Any claims to ownership of previously used images will be acknowledged in those entries; if you want the images removed, I will do so at your request.  I have no intentions to plagiarize anyone.