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Joe Erg

chooglin'

About Me

What's wrong with me?

My Interests

Music, audio electronics, good pizza, and New Jersey.

I'd like to meet:

It ain't none of your goddamn business.

Music:

Replacements, Ramones, Descendents/All, Minutemen, X, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Exploding Hearts, The Clash, Devo, Nirvana, Boris the Sprinkler, Reigning Sound, Springsteen, Dictators, Guided by Voices, Soviettes, Marked Men, Screeching Weasel, Scared of Chaka, Dillinger 4, Chixdiggit, XTC, Weird Al, Didjits, Devil Dogs, Figgs, Tom Waits, CCR, Turbonegro, Hunchback, Bent Outta Shape, Modern Machines, Husker Du, Beatles, The Who, The Zombies, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks, Superdrag, punk rock, pop punk, powerpop, soul, jazz, hardcore, country, good old rock n roll, massive etc.

Movies:

Dirty Work, Army of Darkness, Anchorman, Some Kind of Monster, Coen Brothers, Christopher Guest, Kevin Smith, Friday, Half Baked, most cinematic buffoonery in general

Television:

HBO original series, Adult Swim, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show, The Office (UK & US), Lost, Arrested Development

Books:

Caps for Sale, Universal Baseball Association, Our Band Could Be Your Life, 33 1/3's, HP Lovecraft, Sam Lipsyte, Richard Feynman, Lester Bangs, David Foster Wallace, Asimov, Evan Dorkin, Preacher, Watchmen, Mick Foley, Razorcake, Go Metric!, technical books

Heroes:

Someone who does this better than I am.

My Blog

A chronological list of nicknames I've accrued in my life*

*barring of course any of the ridiculous petnames I've exchanged with girlfriendsThese are all 100% real deal nicknames given to me by other people - there's no "thunderbird"-ing a la George Constanza...
Posted by Joe Erg on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:18:00 PST

Slangin' that CoQ10 aka Top ten for 2006/the year in review EDIT

This is mostly pointless (even more mostly pointless than usual) as I did a blog in June outlining what most of my yearly top ten would be barring any drastically amazing records dropping 'tween July ...
Posted by Joe Erg on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:37:00 PST

Top 5 Christmas songs and the holiday activities that should accompany them

I've never been one to have a problem with Christmas.  In fact, I will go on record saying that I look forward to Christmas every year.  This may be somewhat surprising as I am not a highly ...
Posted by Joe Erg on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:02:00 PST

Drunken Larry King Does the Monster Mash

This is News and Views, here's my two cents, gang. It's official gang, I hate the word "canoodling". Here's my proposed Robot Chicken segment idea: Re-enact "The Race" episode of Seinfeld with actio...
Posted by Joe Erg on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:48:00 PST

Last night....

...I had the best night of sleep that I've had in roughly a year.  If this seems trivial or a waste of a blog post to you, then you are patently a moron.  
Posted by Joe Erg on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:46:00 PST

Top 5 Cheap Trick songs* (attn: Jay Ingstrup and Mike Catalano)

*full title: Top 5 Cheap Trick songs and how I would use each as a soundtrack to a Tarantino-esque murder scene starring myself. Cheap Trick is what's great about America.  They are a band of op...
Posted by Joe Erg on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:11:00 PST

Drunken Larry King hits the road

This is News and Views, here's my two cents, gang. If a woman screams out your first name in the throes of passion, you're most likely doing a good job.  If you're in a long term relationship wi...
Posted by Joe Erg on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:32:00 PST

Hockin' Black Cohosh 10 to 6:30

Half the year almost gone.  Well that was fast.  Someday, physics is going to prove that time actually does fly, i.e. some sideffect of special relativity boils down to us always moving slow...
Posted by Joe Erg on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:52:00 PST

Drunken Larry King goes to Atlantic City to see Elvis Costello

Drunken Larry King, Part 4 of the Trilogy This is News and Views, here's my two cents, gang. Don't you think Benjamin F...
Posted by Joe Erg on Sat, 20 May 2006 01:43:00 PST

Top 5 Reigning Sound Songs (attn: Nato and Lauren Measure)

Ahh yes, The Reigning Sound, what a kickass band.  I was introduced to The Reigning Sound by Nato Paisano of The Modern Machines (or is it just "Modern Machines"?  If so, I'm telling "The" F...
Posted by Joe Erg on Tue, 02 May 2006 01:33:00 PST