BIO~
Christiaan Pasquale has been a writer, musician, and film maker in the Los Angeles underground scene for the last 28 years. His roots are grounded in a lifelong 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. He was also active in sports, fighting in the amateurs for his local boxing gym, the Fullerton Boxing Club, from the ages of eight, to eighteen.
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 subversive, outlaw writers like William S. Burroughs, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, and Charles Bukowski. He got on a train bound for nowhere, in particular, to see Kerouac's America, and forever thereafter 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 12 years. Fronting the Psychobilly band The Slanderin as Christian Slander, he has toured extensively in the United States and in England.
In 2017 he wrote and directed a documentary film about his working-class upbringing and the musical culture of Los Angeles, called Angels & Oranges. 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's published three collections of poems and short stories, A Marked Man~ The Misspelled Ramblings and Pointless Poems of Christian Slander, You Can't Lose if You Don't Want to Win~ Memoirs of a Charming Loser, and Violets & Vitriol, as well as his first novel, Love, Loss, Long Beach
He lives in Los Angeles and continues to write, working on two new books, a collection of poems and short stories called, Bougainvillea Blues, and a novel called, Agents of Cool.