My name is Chris. I'm 26 years old. I currently live in Peoria, AZ, a suburban nightmare come to life where every single house looks exactly like
this. Peoria is a suburb of
Phoenix, which is a giant fucking sprawling metropolis straight out of the urban planner's handbook of what not to do when building a city. I was born in Tucson, which is in southern AZ just 2 hours drive from Phoenix. Tucson is surrounded by
this shit as far as the eye can see. If you're not used to heat, you will die here in the summer. I promise.
Currently I'm working on my MA degree. I should be done with it by May. After that, I'll probably start looking for teaching work at small community colleges in the area and then apply to Phd programs. I used to work as a teaching assistant at my university (best job I've ever had by far). I like lots of different kinds of metal, but my main interests are in black metal, death metal, and some heavy and power metal. I also like some folk metal if it doesn't sound too jolly and twee or whatever. As far as non-metal, I like music in the Western classical tradition from pretty much every period, dark ambient, neoclassical stuff like Dead Can Dance and Elend, and krautrock/proto-ambient stuff like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze.
Here's a picture from about a year and half ago I think: