Chris Hoff

1. I'm a High School drop out. I attended HB High School until they threw me out my sophomore year. I tried to go to continuation school but couldn't seem to make the 3pm start time.

2. The first concert I attended was Social Distortion at Harris Studios in Costa Mesa around 80/81. My mom dropped me and my little brother off and picked us up. Yep.

3. I've been clean & sober for nearly 16 years now. This is the most important fact about me.

4. I'm an entrepreneur. My two business partners and I started Two Roads Professional Resources (technical staffing) in Nov. 96 and have had a great ride ever since. We've made multiple fastest growing company lists and have been recognized by Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

5. On the side I'm an artist, curator, former gallery director and art blogger. I ran the Orange County based alternative art space The Office (www.theofficeart.com) for 4.5 years and I also still manage the OC Art Blog ( www.theocartblo.typepad.com). I also serve on the Art Forum Board of CSU Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center. I've shown my artwork here and in Europe. I don't make art anymore.

6. I'm a published poet and have won awards for my poetry. I've been suffering from writers block for a while now although I did have a poem published in a literary journal last year.

7. I'm a practicing Buddhist and a daily meditator. I hope to teach meditation workshops to non-meditators. I did my first public meditation workshop last year. It was a blast.

8. My favorite city is Paris and one day hope to live there with my wife.

9. My favorite surf spot is Bolsa Chica beach. I grew up surfing there and still feel most comfortable there. I miss the old Bolsa crew.

10. I've been married over ten years and I'm happier now then the day I got married. Who knew?

11. We have no kids. My wife didn't want them and I knew that going in.

12. I never really left Huntington Beach until I met my wife. She has dragged my ass all over the globe and I'm grateful for it.

13. My wife and I started a Foundation last year that supports individual artists and arts organizations. www.thehofffoundation.org

14. I learned a long time ago that there is a power in giving of your time, money and energy. Try it!

15. My life changed completely in the summer of 79 when my best friend Richard's older brother let us listen to the first Sex Pistols album. I haven't been the same since.

16. My wife thinks I'm a 16 yr old girl because I have a personal blog www.dharmabum.typepad.com, I twitter and I'm on FB. I think I'm just technologically savvy.

17. I always have a stack of books on the nightstand but it's rare that I actually make it all the way through a book. The last two books that held my attention were Sailing Home by Norman Fischer and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.

18. My wife is the most unique, self-assured person I know. How she ended up with a basket case like me is a mystery of the universe.

19. I'm a die-hard Angels fan but secretly liked them better when they were losing all the time.

20. I hold an active Secret Clearance with the Dept. of Defense. I could tell you why but then you'd probably disappear.

21. I started Grad school this year at Pepperdine University. I'm going for a MA in Clinical Psychology. My goal is to become a therapist, start a private practice and work in hospice care.

22. If I could be anywhere right now it would be arm in arm with my wife walking along the bank of the Siene River in Paris at night. From the Eiffel Tower to our little hotel in the Latin Quarter. Heaven on Earth.

23. Against my wife's wishes I will someday have a cabin in the woods. My own little isolation station.

24. I've been pretty amazed lately how once you make a decision in your life that you've been putting off because of fear, etc. The doors of opportunity start flying open.

25. I'm pretty happy about where I'm at right now. Even though everything is in flux.