Inside the Bloggers Studio: Chris Blake, Musician

Inside the Bloggers Studio: Chris Blake

in bloggers studio, pop culture, spotlight, twitter by faryl on January 27th, 20098 Comments

Chris Blake is an example of why I love sites like Twitter.
I’m not sure how our tweets crossed paths, but I am glad they did.

95.5 KLOS-FM Battle of the Fans finalist Chris Blake writes passionate alternative pop/rock songs about relationships, the environment and life. His music and videos have been featured on VH1′s Best Week Ever, BoingBoing, Chris Brogan, Mothering, Huffington Post, GigaOm, Cosmopolitan, ShinyShiny and hundreds of other sites around the world.

Chris is a talented musician. I love his music, but music reviews are not what I do best. Instead, to give you an idea of why I <3 Chris, I’m “borrowing” from another TV institution. Today’s installment of Inside the Bloggers Studio will be prefaced by my own “Top 10 List”.

Top Ten Tweets I’ve seen from Chris recently:

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But it seems we’ve gotten to a point where it’s overkill.
In the last minute, 45 people have tweeted the word love. Only 10 tweeted the word hate. :)
Bird just hit the window and fell to the sidewalk. Darwinism.
Punk rockers should never die. Should be a rule. Like relish should never be put on toast.
I really like turtles. I respect their need for privacy.
Don’t ask me why but I just Twitter searched “I’m so awesome.” The results go on and on and on and on. People sure do thinK they’re awesome.
How come the price of petroleum jelly doesn’t fluctuate like gas prices do?
I love looking at maps. Don’t ask me where anything is, but I still like looking at them.
Miss my kid. (He’s with mommy in Fla.) Tried to teach the cats how to play light sabers. Didn’t go so well. Lots of cat hair to vacuum up.
Daily Confession: I worry about running out of good daily confessions.

(I know if this was a true “Top 10 List”, David Letterman style, I’d have started at 10 and ended at 1. I left it this way either because I didn’t want to get sued by “the network” OR because I couldn’t figure out how to reverse the numbered list order in WordPress. I’ll leave it to your imagination to determine which.)

When I made my “wish list” for Inside the Bloggers Studio, Chris was at the top. I was stoked to get to hear Chris’s take on life, without the limit of 140-characters-or-less.

At this point, I must take a moment to make my own daily confession. I don’t always connect the people I interact with online with who they are in “real life”. That is, when I first connect with someone on a site like Twitter, I generally check out their profile, try to find out a bit about them, nose around their website, check out their photos and links . . . Then I usually forget which links went with which people. It’s a little lame, admittedly, but I’m just as bad with names and faces in “real life”

Back to Chris. I remembered he was a musician in L.A. I remembered he’s a dad. I remembered Chris’s MySpace page and liking his songs. I’d forgotten that Chris was the guy behind this:

I love that video
(don’t you?)

To see – and listen – to more of Chris’s work:

To better acquaint you with the talented Chris Blake, I will now delve deep into my improv soul and pull out my best James Lipton impression for you, my dear readers.