- May 5, 2004
- Posted by Marc
Profile: Chris Uphues
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/>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.
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/> 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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