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Erin

..O, long live living, if living can be this...

About Me

"Magic persists with or without us no matter how we may try to destroy it."
Well, you're here. I guess you'd like to know a little about me; about my dreams and fears and blah blah blah?
My dreams are to change the world through art, compassion, and sacrifice. To influence, nurture, and help grow the people who surround me; and take something back myself. If I were to choose only one passion that dominates the rest, it would be travel. I'm almost always planning my next trip; whether it's road tripping to Zion Canyon or backpacking solo through New Zealand, I appreciate the new sights, new smells and new energy lingering in the air of new places. I love the idea of being a nomad for the rest of my life, but I think I treasure my own space and lasting connections for that permanent lifestyle. Regardless, I'll be well traveled before the end comes. I anticipate each new experience I can dig up. And I'd hate to pass up a new adventure worth risking certainty for, so I'm usually looking for mischief. Which makes me somewhat fearless.
AH, speaking of which....my fears: attachment to things unchanging, learning stunts, drifting from adventure unknowingly, corporate America and comas, strong tides that pull me away from individualism and free thought.
Besides summarizing what is me through dreams and fears, I am a wide-eyed, curious being who tries to simplify, and beautify. I live for the give-and-take of life, of friendships, of strangers. My friends are my family and my family are my friends. I believe in travel and leisure, soul searching and day dreaming, independence, strength and courage.
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My Interests

Broadening my horizons, the 1870's and 1950's, real cowboys, flea markets, photography, journalism, fashion, old objects, observing culture at its highs and lows, politics, train trips, bus rides, long walks, questioning the things that surround me, learning, reading, relaxing, stepping out of my comfort zone, practicing lucid dreaming, cocktails and sunbathing on the roof, debate, eating out, creativity by any means, theater (and theatre), social gatherings with obscure themes, travel, travel, travel, the beach, the mountains, the river and anything that lays between.

I'd like to meet:

I have the best friends already. After-all, they let me follow them around with my camera....

(of me or by me)

But, besides having a good group of friends already, I'd like to meet anyone who has something to say passionately. People who plan on making the world a better place; or a different place; or can think that far and posses plans of some sort. Someone who values education, knows the power, and makes an effort to obtain it everyday. Someone who is creative, thinks creatively, acts creatively, and speaks it. Someone who proof reads e-mails and knows the control keys to use spell check. Writers, revolutionaries, entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, lovers, crazies, hippies, and groupies. Someone who can have a good conversation and who considers whit to be flirty. Someone who can change my mind, reinforce it, or can show me something I've never seen. People who make me laugh and laugh and laugh too hard until my tummy hurts and my eyes water.

If you aren't any one of those, please don't bother....

Music:

Old Stuff, New Stuff, Red Stuff, Blue Stuff.

Anything that inspires dance.
"Effortless activity happens in moments of dance...at the highest levels of performance; when it does, it takes everybody's breath away."
--Jon Kabat-Zinn

Movies:

Sunset Boulevard, Everything is Illuminated, Pan's Labyrinth, A Streetcar Named Desire, Waking Life, The Constant Gardner, The Dreamers, Little Children, Sex and Lucia, Garden State, The Squid and the Whale, Lost In Translation, Crash, City of God, Fidel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sabrina, Before Sunrise, Very Bad Things, Pulp Fiction, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs, Proof, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Breakfast Club, Amalie, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, Clockwork Orange, Born into Brothels, Mulholland Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Constantly expanding.

Television:

Deadwood, oh my heart swoons.But I'm living life, I don't have time for T.V.

Books:

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
--Henry Ward Beecher

humph...I can never keep up with this section.

I'm currently taking book suggestions:

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Still Life with Woodpecker
Blink
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Entering the World of Lucid Dreaming
Letters to a Young Poet
The Alchemist
Journey of the Peacful Warrior
Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy
Jiterbug Perfume
The Laws of Spirit
From Socrates to Sartre
The Tao of Pooh
Siddhartha

Time, National Geographic, Traveler, Urb, Juxtapose

Poetry by Bukowski and Silverstein

Heroes:

Revolutionaries, struggling artists, nomads, time-travelers.

My Blog

If I do Say So Myself.

I've spent a good portion of my enlightened Angeleno years searching for just the right balance of a right-brain/left-brain lifestyle. I hate to pull the astrology card& (or&tarot card. Wha whaa whaaa...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

oh, misery.

My sweet, tiny car needed a check up this month. I had one last free oil change left on my warranty--which is exactly in my price range. So lucky me got a free oil change yesterday, but somehow it c...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:25:00 PST

Common LA, is that all youve got?

You can do better than this; I've seen you.The rain washes everything away and I wish it were raining harder. I have a few tecates in the fridge I named Steve; Steve the fridge, who talks to me just a...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:44:00 PST

Thanks Colonel Griffith, for your giving nature.

Ahhhh,I am so, so, so, so happy that my drive to work no longer involves freeways; and the difference between driving in the midst of LA traffic or when the streets are free of congestion is only fift...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:12:00 PST

Three so far

Our Earth has been orbiting through the Milky Ways dump zone. It happens this time every year and results in several days worth of meteor showers.I must have been 9 or sothe first meteor shower I wi...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:54:00 PST

Theatre or Theater?

Theatre or Theater? Culture and recreation? This weekend was jam-packed with all of the above.I started the weekend on Wednesday (of course) and let The Rapture commence the celebration of weeks-end...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:49:00 PST

scantily-clad

I took a nap today. That means I'm awake past the simultaneous departure of my lovely friendswho were over for drinks and the famous Detroit Greenroom Hors D'oeuvres. (We found a BBQ yesterday, so ...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:26:00 PST

Photos of protest

January 27, 2007 Anti-war Demonstration LOUD Speaker Community Buttons ...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:05:00 PST

bubbly

there's no better day than sunday for a mimosa.even if the champagne is flat.drifting into outer space; leisure comes so naturally on sunday.
Posted by Erin on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:14:00 PST

break in a new pair of cowboy boots

even if they are used boots.kickin' and shakin' at a Reverend Horten Heat show is the best way to break them in....
Posted by Erin on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:06:00 PST