power of perception writers Christiaan A. Pasquale

Christiaan A. Pasquale has been a writer, musician and film maker in the Los Angeles underground scene for the last 25 years. His roots are grounded in a life long romance with the city and the light and dark sides of its streets. Christiaan Angelo Pasquale was born in Fullerton California to Jan and Victor Pasquale on July 29th 1972. He excelled in theater in high school as an actor, playwright and director. ? After graduating he moved to Hollywood to study at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute but quickly became disillusioned with acting and fell in love with The Beat Poets, and late 19th and mid-20th century literature. He got on a train bound for nowhere in particular to see Kerouac's America and forever there after focused on writing music, poetry and short stories. He moved out of Hollywood and settled in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District in 1996 and lived and worked there for 10 years. Fronting the Psychobilly band The Slanderin as Christian Slander, he has toured extensively in the U.S. and England. ? Pasquale's column The Christiaan Bible (a collection of short stories) has been published in Destroy All Monthly, Rabid Magazine, Hellcat Magazine and even got a mention in Vogue. He recently finished a documentary film, which he wrote and directed, called "Angels and Oranges" about his working class upbringing. He lives in Los Angeles and is working on his first novel Love, Loss, Long Beach,due to be released early in the winter of 2016.