Hi, I'm Chris, but on
TV Tropes I'm known as "Sen".
So... me. I was born in 1991 in Romania. As of right now I'm studying international politics in the UK. In my spare time I:
- write music with my trusty Propellerheads Reason, which I upload here
- I'm also in a band and trying to get another band started
- write silly stories and similar stuff for fun
- listen to stuff
- watch movies/TV/anime/whathaveyou
- read stuff
- play games
- allow teh Interwebs to bring out my inner raving opinionated idiot.
Small wonder my time management skills are non-existent?
My interests include lots and lots of alternative music, weird, psychological,
Mind Screwy futuristic animes (the first one I watched was
Neon Genesis Evangelion... go figure), lots of Sci-Fi in general (big fan o'
Star Wars,
Alien, Aliens,
Blade Runner and others),
Con Langs/
Con Worlds, and so on.
What can I say... you can easily recognise my style by its awkwardness, excessive details and general painful lack of funny. In fact, the funny on those pages comes from
Wiki Magic. If you see a comment that tries to be funny but ends up offensive or stupid, chances are it's mine. Sorry 'bout that. My articles in particular tend to vary between severe
word diarrhea and
desperate attempts at
Beige Prose that
sometimes hit the mark.
(I have a sense of humour. The problem is that it constantly misfires, and I often have trouble recognising jokes or sarcasm.)
Being a fanboy, I have my moments of suffering
Opinion Myopia. They leak into my contributions every once in a while, mostly in the form of whiney bitching. I try to remove those once I step back a bit, think about it and realise there's no point, but I forget some of them because I don't keep track of all my edits. So, er, thanks a lot to anyone who's ever removed my whining.
I have a pretty big collection of music, and just because I love
Alternative Rock doesn't mean I'm a
It's Popular, Now It Sucks guy. Hell, an equal degree of my music collection's taken up by famous and awesome bands like
AC/DC,
Led Zeppelin,
The Beatles,
Black Sabbath and so on. If you're really curious,
here's my last.fm profile. Oh, and I'm a sortofa rockist? I don't like about 90% of pop music, but hey,
Sturgeon's Law - I have a few favourites you could call "pop" (Prince, Wendy & Lisa, The Time, Sheila E.,
90125 by Yes, etc). I'm predisposed towards rock and
Electronic Music though.
Post Grunge annoys me a lot. I don't like
And Justice for All - with the exception of "One" it just bores me - and I think The Black Album is the best
Metallica album. I love U2 in
The Nineties, when they were all futuristic techno-alternative-rock. I otherwise hate their super-echoey sound (stolen and diluted from the
Cocteau Twins) and think Bono's an annoying twat. Massive fan of
Nirvana - seeing
Smells Like Teen Spirit on MTV when I was around 5-7 is what turned me on to rock music. I tend to love
My Bloody Valentine,
Slowdive,
The Beatles and
The Stone Roses way more than healthy limits. I'm not yet an obsessive
Tori Amos,
Kate Bush and
PJ Harvey fan, but I'm working on getting there.
(As of 19/20 March 2011, I'm also a
Björk fan.
Vespertine 4 lyfe.)
I tend to pay more attention to the production of an album and its overall sound. A particular pet peeve of mine as a result of this is the
Record of Loudness War (or as I like to call it when I'm particularly verbose, HFSTEELWSH
* hyper-compressed flat strangled torturous everything-louder-than-everything-else ear-fucking loudness war sonic horseshit
). I'm really interested in
Sampling and
Sampled Up, and it's kind of a
Berserk Button for me: people who say that sampling's "unoriginal" and "lazy" because they've just heard mainstream rap can expect to hear me go on a long rant about the
Beastie Boys,
DJ Shadow,
Public Enemy and so on.
Re: music, I kinda sorta taught myself to play keyboards and I'm currently learning to play the guitar. I seem to have a weird variation of
Once per Episode when it comes to guitar practice. Y'know the bass riff from the middle of
Tori Amos' "Precious Things"? The one that goes E-E-E-E-D-E-G-D-E-E-E-E-D-E-G-A? That and "Louie Louie" are two riffs I will inevitably play any time I'm in the same vicinity as a guitar.
I'd like to thank TV Tropes for getting me big-time into
FLCL,
The Sandman,
Nextwave,
Runaways,
Emilie Autumn,
EarthBound and others. Thanks, dudes. Especially for
Earthbound. That game rocks. Srsly.
And thanks to
Soap Magic for the
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and
Adventure Time recommendations!
I can be really opinionated when it comes to music and films, so I better shut up.
I've created quite a few pages for bands:
I partially or completely revamped the
Yoko Kanno,
Tenacious D,
PJ Harvey,
Frank Zappa,
Yes,
Van Halen,
Courtney Love and
Queen pages, among others.
Non-band creator pages I made:
I also created the following trope pages, mostly to do with music:
genres:
other tropes:
And I contributed to many others, trope, creator or otherwise.
I frequently lurk around the
Romania page and try to improve it whenever I can.
Currently in the middle of nurturing a growing addiction to
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (thanks,
Fringe Benefits!), whenever I have enough free time and Buffy wins out over the other interests constantly wrestling for it.
Additionally, I've been writing my own things for a long time, but I've only recently grown the balls to actually
publish them (blame
FringeBenefits for that, hahahahahaha). So this is the space for them:
Something else may show up sometime in the future, depending on how
Kudzu Plot it gets.
Tropes that kind of apply to me:
Considering that I now live in what
The Other Wiki says is Inner London, my hate for
Britain Is Only London as a
Pet Peeve Trope has grown geometrically. It might come up in my writings. So I'd like to preemptively apologise to Americans who feel offended.
This is where you tell me about the quality (or lack thereof) of my thingies
- Just want to say that your writing is brilliantly, gloriously, epically, orgasmically insane, and you should be proud. ~FringeBenefits
- Do you play bass for people? ~ SoapMagic
- You are probably the first person I've met who has tried to compliment me with logic. - Wellinever
- Oh I see. Buttering me up so you can use my most humiliating moments for personal gain. Well go ahead! See if I care! Just kidding. Go ahead. How much music do you listen to! You like a musaholic. - Wellinever
- Oh I'm so offended by your comments I'm going to go punch a kitten.
- Fine, I'll forgive you but I've already done the Kitten punching. It's nose started bleeding and then I got fined by the RSPCA. I hope you're happy.
- Aw Christ, I'd forgotten that I'd made an edit about my unspeakable ugliness. I don't remember half my damn entries. Glad you like the page anyway, I put an inordinate amount of time into it. Thumbs up for liking Mother and Red Dwarf, anyone who likes these are probably awesome.
- Ok, so I just have to say; 1. being Romanian is cool. A very weird compliment, I know.... anyway, 2. YOU HAVE AMAZING TASTE IN MUSIC. That is all. - Hammerhead
- Me again. Re: music. I saw your tv tropes page. I don't have a last fm (crazy, huh?). But I've been meaning to listen to so many bands in the genres you said I need more of- I just get sidetracked... plus making a list that amounts to literal PAGES of bands and albums I need to listen to ends up being quite intimidating. The main reason I had to write you is because you mentioned Dream Pop, Shoegazing, Noise Rock, Noise Pop, Power Pop, and Riot Grrrl in one breath (figuratively speaking, o' course). Anybody who does that.... well, it just makes my lil' ol' music snob heart all happy n' junk. But that's ok. I know a lot of people don't like her. Though I should say, I actually don't completely hate Prince... I just hate anything not from Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain, and the "Love Symbol" album. Though there are still plenty of songs from those that make me want to gag, too...
- Sorry I didn't reply faster. To be honest, I tried Sign o' the Times.... and wanted to scratch my ears out. The love symbol album was much easier on my ears. Oh no, it's ok. I mean, I don't want to sound like an ass... it's just my list is already so big... I don't thing I'd ever get to it (out of intimidation) if I added much more. But once I've listened to most of it, I'll come back to you, ok? :P I'm also not a huge fan of Noise Rock, except for Big Black (even though Steve Albini is kind of douchebag). I wont be on Vacation until my birthday (two weeks-ish). Although if you meant just "out of school", yes I am. I was going to contribute to the Courtney Love page, but then somebody (I think you- didn't check the history) had totally revamped it and added everything I wanted to add when I went back a while later. Also, I'm sorry.... I'm really clogging up your main page.
- You're certainly a very dilligent person. Keep it that way! - Amused Troper Guy
