Kris

• Age: 32
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Taurus
• Zodiac Year: Snake
• Industry: Consulting
• Occupation: CEO/Public Policy
• Location: Hobart : Tasmania : Australia

About Me

Born and raised in Burnie, on the rugged North West Coast of Tasmania, I now live in Hobart, the state capital. The father of two strapping lads, and husband of one strapping lass, I like to think of myself as a “hired gun” in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs policy field. Of course, that really is just an attempt to reconcile the career path that has seen the present triumph of necessity over desire. One day I hope to know what I want to be when I grow up, until then I am content to kick about and do my best.

What reason do you have to believe the earth is flat?

I haven't fallen off... Yet.

Interests

• Music
• history
• film
• sport
• politics
• fiction
• Soviet Union
• USSR
• East Germany
• West Germany
• Germany
• vintage ads
• flags
• vexillology
• Ezra
• Henry
• boxing
• being naughty
• dumplings
• icy poles
• Prussia
• cider
• computing
• scrumpy
• aussie rules
• food
• Eastern Europe
• the West Indies
• Tasmania
• Nurnberg
• Burnie
• Russia
• military history
• social history
• political theory
• political philosophy
• critical theory
• humour
• meat
• tickling
• sleep
• books
• writing
• reading
• cute cartoons
• photography
• Australia
• Argentina
• QPR
• Essendon
• the ocean
• islands
• kittens
• games
• cuddles
• Prague
• thinking
• talking
• eating
• kissing
• tickling
• swimming
• local history
• the twentieth century
• modern history
• raspberries
• blueberries
• berries
• wombats
• chickens
• roast chickens
• goulash
• Fichte
• Frankfurt School
• gulyás
• colours
• blue
• Wilco
• harmonica
• Czech Republic
• jokes
• Seinfeld
• chasing babies
• chasing toddlers
• colourful fish
• the north west coast
• books
• Hemingway
• social democracy
• third way
• Kinky Friedman
• English
• echidnas
• vintage ads
• ads
• advertisments
• fun
• games
• falling down
• venting
• laughing
• teasing
• photos.

Favorite Movies

• Unforgiven
• The Decalogue
• Chinatown
• The Godfather
• American Movie
• Apocalypse Now
• The Life of Brian
• Halloween
• Finding Nemo
• Secrets and Lies
• Easy Rider
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Das Boot
• The Thin Red Line.

Favorite Music

• Wilco
• Marah
• Fountains of Wayne
• The Gourds
• The Byrds
• Grant Lee Buffalo
• R.E.M.
• Guided by Voices
• John Mellencamp
• The Rolling Stones
• Johnny Cash
• The Beatles
• The Fauves
• Bruce Springsteen
• Belle & Sebastian
• Gram Parsons
• Pavement
• Bob Dylan
• Whiskeytown
• The Smiths
• Public Enemy
• Morrissey
• Jewel
• The Supremes
• Blur
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Flaming Lips
• Otis Redding
• Los Lobos
• The Band
• Led Zepplin
• The Mavericks
• Sam Cooke
• Wings
• U2
• Pavement
• AC/DC
• The Beach Boys
• Billy Bragg
• The Ronettes
• Midnight Oil
• Guided by Voices
• Sarah Blasko
• The Kinks
• Uncle Tupelo
• Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
• N.W.A .
• The B-52's
• British Sea Power
• Sufjan Stevens
• Paul Kelly
• Ryan Adams
• Stereophonics
• David Bowie
• Mclusky
• Pulp
• Queen
• Motown
• (and many more!)

Favorite Books

• Catch-22
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Lolita
• Closing Time
• The Tin Drum
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• A Farewell to Arms
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Rabbit Run
• The Naked and the Dead
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Darkness at Noon
• Under the Volcano
• Animal Farm
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Heart of the Matter
• Wide Sargasso Sea
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
• Berlin:The Downfall 1945
• Stalingrad
• In the Skin of a Lion
• Darkness at Noon
• The Reader
• A Woman in Berlin
• If This is a Man
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
• The Ghost Road