He was born on July 3, 1963 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He travelled to Alaska to seek his fortune and became a DJ at Maurice Minnifield’s radio station KBHR („K-Bear“) in Cicely, Alaska. He rides a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and lives simply in his Airstream trailer (which he has remodelled towards the end of the wonderful TV-series „Northern Exposure“ („Ausgerechnet Alaska“)) next to a lake, where he reads authors like Thoreau and creates sculptures and performance art. He also fishes and hunts (birds and deer). The whole series with its six seasons now experiences its 25th birthday.
2015 14 Juli
Christopher Danforth Stevens
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Michael Engelbrecht:
Philosophy
Chris is perhaps Cicely’s most poetic soul, given to reading Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Carl Jung, and Maurice Sendak on-air (and quoting others off-air). Studying philosophy has given him a generally calm demeanor, but he has his limits. He loses his voice, gets tongue-tied, and helps Ed woo a girl with his poetry.
Chris had his „first trip into the realm of the senses“ at age 7 in Wheeling, West Virginia at the trailer park near the sump. „I knew as much about life at that moment as I’d ever know.“
Literature
This is a list (episodes needed) of various works Chris has quoted or read on-air:Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Shakespeare, the complete works
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Carl Jung, Man and his SymbolsVoltaire, Henriade
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Hegel, Early Technological Writings
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Walt Whitman, the complete worksNietzsche, Logic and The Metaphysics of Morals
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (in translation, Chris does not read French)The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Alexis de Tocqueville, the complete works
Jack London, Call of the Wild
Holling Clancy Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea
Herman Melville, Billy BuddRobert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Raymond Chandler, Red Wind
Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
E.B. White, Charlotte’s WebCarl Jung and Joseph Campbell (editor), The Portable Jung
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
Algernon Charles Swinburne, When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter’s TracesHenry David Thoreau, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
John Whitaker Watson, Beautiful Snow And Other Poems
Robert A. Johnson, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex: Volume Two, Lived ExperienceCarl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man
Frederick Langridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
William Wordsworth, Poems In Two VolumesHenry David Thoreau, Walden
Robert Frost, A Boy’s Will
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat -
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