My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is now available from followfornow.com.

Blurb:
"Roy Christopher has one of those distinctive voices that pops up every once in a while, an intelligent voice that hasn't been domesticated by the academic machine, an engaging voice that hasn't been prostituted by the infotainment complex. He's been tracking down the situations, people, and ideas that he thinks matter. I'm glad to see him get this all down in a book, and I'm not alone."
-- Peter Lunenfeld, author of USER: InfoTechnoDemo

Published through my own Well-Red Bear imprint, Follow for Now is an eclectic, independently-minded snapshot of the intellectual landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

For more information, see here.

This is a limited-edition publication, so order today to make sure you get your copy. It includes an extensive bibliography, a full index, and weighs in at nearly 400 pages.

More about me:
"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's up" -- Mercury Rev

"Once you own up to perfection not being possible, a lot of beauty can occur." -- Anna Chlumsky

"I do understand the fact that it's just a money-making thing, but that doesn't matter. You should still give it your own voice." -- Danny Elfman

I hunt and kill my own vegetables.

"Roy" to some, "Chris" to others, I was recently described as a six-year old trapped in a thirty-six-year old's body. I have also been described as "peripatetic" and "romantically eccentric" as well as "arrogant and annoying." I am a total liability to all of my friends.

I run the edge culture website, frontwheeldrive.com; my "personal" site, roychristopher.com, and there's an interview that Brian Tunney did with me for the May, 2005 issue of DIG BMX Magazine as well.

I am infinitely intrigued by dinosaurs, dumptrucks, bunny rabbits, and the moon.

"One Mic" by Nas makes me cry everytime I listen to it.

Remain in Light is my favorite Talking Heads record.

"Live without dead time."-- Raoul Vaneigem

"You hear that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeee'? That's your ear cells dying. You'll never be able to hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while you can." -- Julian Taylor in Children of Men

Pie chart:

* Chart excludes interest in girls.

Bettina McEntyre Art:

"I will always love breaking the spell that dooms our destiny to an ineluctable downfall. Wear-and-tear, sickness, [and] death are the effects of an absent life, not an ontological curse. It is not death that is frightening, but the mortifying control that kills us daily -- the denaturation and wasting of our living forces. I have too much life to bother myself with worries about death while I'm still exhausting my passions. A thought that doesn't find favor in a society in which money ages and kills its victims with their consent. He who samples the wonderments of living knows true youthfulness, which leaps beyond the ages. It is necessary to finish with the operative senility that identifies youth with profitable and consumable frenzy. The time that I insist upon is the time of the heart." -- Raoul Vaneigem



"I denti non possono dire niente... senza la lingua...
Perche' la tua lingua e' mia! Mia! MIA!"

Security cam footage from work:
I shouldn't skateboard. Ever.

The best part is how my two co-workers look over for a split-second, then continue their work as if nothing happened (I fall down a lot).

Lately... Sean Price, Clipse, Sadat X, Consequence, Paul Wall, Jim Jones, El-P, Obie Trice, Ghostface Killah, Ray Cash, Rick Ross, Slow Suicide Stimulus, Babbletron/Cool Calm Pete, Optimus Rhyme, MC Lars... dalek, Cult of Luna, Jesu, Isis, Mogwai, Wilco, Nine Inch Nails, The Blood Brothers, Glassjaw, Lifetime, KILLWHITNEYDEAD, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, The Mars Volta, Rush, and of course these ones:

recent: Children of Men, Night Watch (Nochnoy dozor), Zodiac, Tideland, The Science of Sleep... all-time: Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange, Primer, Blade Runner, The Chumscrubber, Real Genius, Sack Lunch.

The Young Ones, Greg the Bunny, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

I recently read Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Right now I'm reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and Sound Ideas by Aden Evens.