Kris Benton

About Me

I'm from South Carolina,ya'll. I've lived in Los Angeles and New York City, making my way around this country. I model here and there, play music here and there, interned at Filter Magazine & Paper Magazine, and am deciding what I want to do next.

Follow me on twitter - twitter.com/luffkrisbenton

My Interests

growing out my hair, 1977, liberty prints, campy and kitsch, vintage, Richard Nixon, fantastical and storybook architecture, mid-century modern, vintage airstreamers, sunshine, mountains, and kittens.

Music

Adam and the Ants, Air, Babyshambles, Band of Horses, The Beach Boys, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, The Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brightblack Morning Light, Buddy Holly, Built to Spill, Cat Power, The Clash, The Cribs, Crystal Stilts, The Cure, Darker My Love, David Bowie, Devendra Banhart, Dream Syndicate, Duffy, El Perro Del Mar, ELO, Elliott Smith, Elvis Presley, The Feelies, Francoise Hardy, Fugazi, Galaxie 500, Gen X, Gorillaz, Guitar Wolf, Japanther, Jenny Lewis, Jens Lekman, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, King Crimson, Ladytron, Lykke Li, The Mamas & the Papas, Morrissey, The Mummies, Phoenix, Pixies, Plastic Bertrand, Polaris, The Pretenders, Prince, Ramones, The Raveonettes, Sean Lennon, Serge Gainsbourg, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Smog, Sonic Youth, The Strokes, Styx, The Unicorns, The Velvet Underground, Veruca Salt, Vincent Gallo, Violent Femmes, The Warlocks, Wire, X, Yann Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yelle, Yo La Tengo, etc.

Movies

American Beauty, American Graffiti, Annie Hall, Bande à part, Being John Malkovich, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club, Buffalo '66, A Clockwork Orange, Cruel Intentions, The Dreamers, Empire Records, Good Will Hunting, The Graduate, Great Balls of Fire!, Gummo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Fidelity, Junebug, Kids, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Labyrinth, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Lolita, Lost in Translation, Mallrats, Man on the Moon, Manhattan, My Girl, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Rocky, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Rules of Attraction, Rushmore, Secretary, The Shining, SLC Punk, Vanilla Sky, The Virgin Suicides, When Harry Met Sally, 2 Days in Paris, etc.

Television

Gossip Girl, Flight of the Conchords, Project Runway

Books

Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, The Basketball Diaries, High Fidelity, The Little Prince, Prozac Nation, and Less Than Zero