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eric howk

Potent potable

About Me

Badly injured. I was named after Eric Clapton. For better or worse.

Pause that awesome song and watch this VIDEO:

Come back to me!!!

My Interests

^Changing my profile song a few times a day.^ Science. Books. A good melody. Stem cell research.
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I'd like to meet:

I'd like to vejatable and froot as well. Get it? C'mon, get it??? Ah, whatthefuckever.

Music:

On and on and on it goes...Hits, Misses, Teenage American Rock and Roll. I play in a band called The Lashes . From time to time, I write and record songs under the name Palmer, AK. At one point or another I've recorded or played live with Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground, Dolour, Pris, Sameer Shukla and the Part Time Lovers, Tennis Pro, The House of Breaking Glass, Jacob James, Street Congress, Miko Miko, Shane Tutmarc and the Travelling Mercies, and dozens of other bands that just didn't make it. I can sort of play the bagpipes. I like the beatles.
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Movies:

Got any netflix suggestions?

Television:

Mythbusters... and Marquee Moon

Books:

Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, James Elroy, Richard Bach, George Orwell, Gunter Grass, Dr. Suess, Siddhartha, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan
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Heroes:

Carrie, Noel, Oliver, U.S.E., McLeods, Nurses, Rehabilitation Specialists,

My Blog

A few points of interest regarding my injury...

*Not for the squeamish.*I realize that I've been somewhat vague regarding the details of what exactly happened to me, so here's a little clarification, strictly in the interest of medical science.This...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:38:00 PST

My semi-official statement...

Hi all.Where to start? Thank you all so, so much for the loving messages and kind words. I'm lying in my bed here in the rehab floor at Harborview, and it breaks my heart knowing that there are people...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Sun, 20 May 2007 12:01:00 PST

March March March March March

How do you top a week of perfect Austin southbysowasted madness? Do you live in LA for three weeks and somehow get by and thrive on nothing but luck and amazing friends? Every day and every night of m...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:57:00 PST

It all happened last week.

.... I ....1. ...trowled, skreeted and finished out 8 tons of concrete in Wilkeson in order to make two amazing curly-q slab sidewalks. We also framed a sweet duck shelter.2. ...rode my bike from E. D...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:49:00 PST

Another solo show, another lashes record, another seattle winter, a good time to be alive...

I'll be playing at the hopvine this sunday, around 8, for anyone 21+ who would like to hear the kind of music I write when the rain doesn't stop for a week... uplifting.Meanwhile, the lashes survived ...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:40:00 PST

the house of breaking glass

Listen to the music that my brilliant landlord has been making. I think that "whoever" is playing guitar on it is a genius. And probably very attractive, too.www.myspace.com/thehouseofbreakingglass-or...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:16:00 PST

Super wussy singer/songwriter debut!

Tonight! At the Bus Stop! Free! 21+I'll be starting around 9, only for a few songs... Come hear me and my friends sing about our FEELINGS! ROCK!!!DJ sets all night, cheap drinks, good times....
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:18:00 PST

Part two, false alarm

Never mind, only a couple of my pictures turned out. Stupid stupid camera.
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:26:00 PST

Alaskan adventure part one, ~or~...

...how I managed to stay on tour.So hard to explain, but......I ended up flying back to Anchorage for the weekend, with intentions of attending a going away party, spending some quality time with the ...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:27:00 PST

Rancid is still totally awesome...

...and I love that Tim barely plays his guitar, and doesn't sing almost all the time, and yet he still commands the full attention of every member of the crowd start to fin. He's like a permenently fu...
Posted by Eric Howk Lashes on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:49:00 PST