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May 5, 2004
Profile: Chris Uphues
Age: 32
Hometown: Berwyn, Illinois
Where do you now live?: South Side- Chicago
Where would you most like to live?: Tokyo, Japan
Who was your first "hero" in life?: General Patton
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Buy Records, eat tacos,or ride my bike by the lake.
What is your favorite color?: clear
Who (or what) do you love?: Pretty much everyone and everything.
Who and/or what are some of your influences?
stupid old comics, Graffiti, Voltron, Ultra 7, junk, Donald Trump, Specter Man, Native American Totem Poles, Chinese Opera, toys, Persian calligraphy, celestial maps. U.F.O's.
Psychedelics.
What other artists do you most admire?
Daniel Johnston, Jack Kirby, Barry McGee, The Beach Boys, Mr. , Henry Darger, Donovan, Osamu Tezuka, Philip Guston, Karl Wirsum, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson.
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
Friendly.
What other talent would most like to have?
I would like to be able to play the harp.
What do you fear the most?
When my girlfriend gives me a dutch-oven.
What is your greatest ambition?
To make the world a more magical place.
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