So you're dying to know more about me, eh?
Well, then, this is the place to come to...
OK. As I said on my first page, my name is Christian Matthew Weigert. Born June 13, 1980, at 8 something PM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now, for the sake of giving you every single piece of minutia about me (as inspired by Seinfeld), here is a massive list of info.
Ramblings of a Psuedo-Egomaniacal College Student
Who am I?, you may well ask. Well, I'm just another guy who is all up in arms against the alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about. Oh, and by the way, I'm not as conceited as I present myself to be...it's acting. I actually blush and say something along the lines of "Aw, shucks," when someone compliments me.
I waffle among ENFP, INTP and INFJ, which are personality types as set down by Jung. I'm double majoring in Communication and Theatre, which basically means that I'm an actor with way too much time on my hands and a concern that I may not make it as big as I hope.
People and Characters with whom I identify to some extent
The Oddballs
- Lazlo Hollyfeld, Real Genius
- Mother, Sneakers
- Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future
The Science-Fiction
- Luke Skywalker
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- The Emergency Holographic Doctor
- Darth Vader, Star Wars
- Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, and Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Different
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs
- Jesus Christ (I really hope I don't have a God complex, though)
- Antonio Salieri, Amadeus
- The Cable Guy
- Opus the Penguin and Mike Binkley, Bloom County and Outland
The Funny
- Westley and Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
- Rev. Jim Ignatowski, Taxi
- Kermit the Frog
- Gonzo, the Little Blue Weirdo
- The Swedish Chef
- Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius
- Dr Nick Riviera (of The Simpsons ) "Hi, Everybody!"
- The Jerry Lewis type guy that made cameos on Animaniacs
- Newman, Kramer, Jerry and George (of Seinfeld )
The Literary
- Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Kilgore Trout, found in several of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
- George, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
- Conrad Jarrett, Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- Dr. Kreizler, The Alienist and Angels of Darkness by Caleb Carr
- Asher Lev, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
- Both Jerry and Peter, The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
- Stephen Daedalus, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Christian's Numbers
Each of these numbers hase a special significance for me, and no, I won't just tell you why. That you'll have to figure out.
- 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...
- 13
- any square number
- 29-39-29
- 42 (Hint: If you need a hint, don't bother figuring it out)
- 771-7137 (This is NOT my phone number)
Christian's Neuroses
I happen to believe I suffer from all of the following neuroses.
Arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth Arachniphobia - fear of spiders...oddly enough, its only the small spiders I fear...tarantulas don't bother me, and if you're scared of anything larger than that, its a moot point at best. Antisamaritrophia - the compulsive need to be nice to everyone. Blither's Disease - the filter between the brain and mouth is defective, causing the victim to speak incessantly and about anything that comes to mind, no matter how ridiculous. Really Good Books
- Ordinary People - Judith Guest
- Neuromancer -William Gibson
- The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
- Brighton Beach Memoirs - Neil Simon
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Zoo Story - Edward Albee
- I Hate Hamlet - Paul Rudnick
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Christian's Music
Classical and Opera
- Thus Spake Zarathustra -R. Strauss
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony, "Choral"
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Pagannini -Rachmainoff
- Ride of the Valkries, -Richard Wagner, Die Walkure
- Anything by John Williams
Rock and Jazz
- Anything by Styx
- Anything by Vince Guaraldi
- Weird Al Yankovic
Miscellaneous
- Spike Jones, need I say more?
- Manneheim Steamroller's Christmas albums
- Yanni -- yes, I'll admit it, I like Yanni. So there.
- Charlie Daniel's Band, especially Devil Went Down to Georgia
- Bluegrass music, especially Orange Blossom Special
Christian's Favorite Movies!
Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, despite the Disney sanitization done on it. Hell, ANY Disney Movie! Dead Poets' Society, rather thought provoking, all and all. The Princess Bride. Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line. Real Genius, existential intellectualism. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Let my Cameron go!" A Christmas Story, a holiday classic! Plus, I look like Ralphie Amadeus, featuring the patron saint of mediocrity. Ordinary People, suburban life at its most real Newsies, a cult classic Airplane! The original Zucker Brothers' hilarious comedy, which started the genre of brainless million laugh movies in America. The Silence of the Lambs, which gave us Hannibal Lecter. The Birdcage, Robin Williams, nuff said. Practically any Robin Williams movie (yes, even "Toys")