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Kurt Gerkins

If your friends are so much better than mine, i'd be friends with them too

About Me

Sacrifice is your savior. It's on the inside that you'll find it all.
Not in the shit you bought at the shopping mall.
It's learning how to give with your selfish bones.

My Interests

music
cooking
fine alcohol
cryptozoology
guitar
bell tones
pinch harmonics
friends
being on the ocean
the fifties
wildlife
ghost hunting

I'd like to meet:

Escoffier, Neil Young, and someone to keep my fingernails clean.

Music:

afi
alkaline trio
amy blaschke
the anniversary
as tall as lions
audio learning center
bad religion
ben kweller
the decemberists
deftones
descendents
the esoteric
fairweather
the flaming lips
foo fighters
the forecast
the format
fountains of wayne
the get up kids
the gloria record
hot rod circuit
jimmy eat world
limbeck
the living end
melee
mineral
minus the bear
the misfits
moneen
neil young
the new amsterdams
nine inch nails
refused
reggie and the full effect
the rentals
rocky votolato
saves the day
shout out louds
smashing pumpkins
thursday
waxwing
weakerthans
weezer
zookeeper

these are pretty much just bands i reaaally like.
i enjoy alot of music though.

Movies:

basically anything meaningful, funny, or absurdly gory.
stand by me is wonderful every time.

Television:

arrested development
family guy
top chef
law and order
(just not criminal intent)
the simpsons
weeds

many things on:
comedy central
discovery/discovery health
the documentary channel
food network
(it keeps getting worse)
ifc
the history channel
pbs

Books:

i haven't read enough books to make it sound like i can carry on intelligent conversations about literature. i read an incredible amount online, though.

My Blog

huh.

it's been a while since i've talked about anything here.and i'm not about to start with any drastic changes.so, on that note.it is beautiful out today and i am on break.i have to go back for my fourth...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:13:00 PST

new year's eve...

was amazing. i love you all. thank you. the last couple months of this year have been really difficult, and i owe it all to you guys for helping me through everything. i can't believe i've come out of...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 08:41:00 PST

there's too much to talk about!

i'm not even going to attempt to fit everything I've done in the past couple weeks here. I'll give an overview. -almsot got kicked out of my apartment for being too loud. -had some of the best tim...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:17:00 PST

just another rainy day

miike is in his underwear in the comfy chair on jaime's laptop, jaime is asleep on the sofa bed after a long day of work, and jack is sitting across the room in a chair behind me...he just burped. thi...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:33:00 PST

Wow, what a weekend.

The last bulletin talks about thursday night, so I figured I should write about the next two nights of my weekend. Friday was Uconn. Friday was ridiculously drunk fun times. Friday was lots of gi...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:15:00 PST

What a fucking great birthday!

I love my friends. They are the best people in the world. Tonight was: -Ed Gein in Wallingford -Druuuuunk! -Hanging out with some awesome people I'd never met before, and of course the usual cuties th...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:49:00 PST

Wow, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

My only regret through all of this is that we couldn't have ended a little bit more peacefully, or humanly, or like I felt like I wasn't being lied to when you said you cared about me and wanted to be...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:29:00 PST

Things keep getting worse.

First there was the struggle of moving away from home. Then there were other problems with stuff. Then there were problems with school. And now this. I'm alone. And all those problems from before, the...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:21:00 PST

only make one life change at a time.

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted anything here, but then again, I feel that this is quite important. I'm having a very hard time with living by myself and going to school. My life complet...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:00:00 PST

Read Yellow + Dance Party + Northampton + Caitlin

It doesn't get any greater than that folks. My night > your night fo'sho! P.S. - While this post is very similar to Caitlin's, the subject heading is different. This post is better than Caitlin's...
Posted by Kurt Gerkins on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST