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Erika

Don't mess with leopard print

About Me


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My Interests

Travel, live music, anthropology, film, art, cooking for friends. I'm addicted to movies and the spa. BURNING MAN FESTIVAL -- the single, best reason to exist on Labor Day Weekend.

I'd like to meet:



People who are truly passionate about something. Tell me what it is.

Music:

Postal Service, Frou Frou, Lali Puna, Shiny Toy Guns, The Lovemakers, Mickey Avalong, Basement Jaxx, I Am Jen, Motion City Soundtrack, Peter Bjorn & John, Radiohead, Death Cab, Incubus, Deftones, Perfect Circle, Tool, Coheed and Cambria, Black Eyed Peas, This Calendar Year, Lagwagon, Rise Against, Hot Water Music, Get Up Kids, Disturbed, Astrud Gilberto, Moby, India Arie, Roni Size, Kid Beyond, Outkast, Cold Play, Gorillaz, Beck, Wheetus, Jackson 5, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, 311, Everclear, My Morning Jacket, Hot Hot Heat, Lost Prophets, Jimmy Eat World, Harry and the Potters, Flogging Molly, Duran Duran, Edith Piaf, James Taylor, Depeche Mode. And Abba.

Movies:

Adaptation, American Beauty, Crash, Rent, The Fountain, Mad Hot Ballroom, Matchpoint, Why We Fight, Murderball, Soap Dish, Office Space, Bond (Connery or Moore), Six Degrees of Separation, Thirteen, Donnie Darko, The Secretary, Whale Rider, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie, Delicatessen, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Ring, Best In Show, Back To School, Empire of the Sun, Raising Victor Vargas, KPAX, Catch Me If You Can, Love Actually, Being John Malkovich, anything Alfred Hitchcock, Intolerable Cruelty, The Last Samurai, The Never-Ending Story, Finding Nemo, Almost Famous, Fight Club, There's Something About Mary, Monster, and every Warren Miller and IMAX movie.

Television:

Seinfeld, Sex In The City, The Daily Show.

Books:

Thank You for Smoking. Little Green Men. The Little Prince. The Odyssey. Brave New World. In Search of Respect. The Boys from Brazil. Anything Hemingway. Across Time and Space. The Da Vinci Code. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It by Judge James P Gray. Harry Potter. Nancy Drew. Art history and photography books.

My Blog

2005 Recap

Its nearly the end of 2005 and time for a new adventure. This past year has definitely had its share of them. After my big decision to leave the company I helped start 5 years ago, I set sail in unf...
Posted by Erika on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:05:00 PST

Summer In NYC

Been in NY for the past 3 weeks, and probably will be for the rest of summer... Editing a romantic comedy called Chronicles of a Skater Girl Check out a sneak peak: www.skatermovie.com/clip.html
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bahamas

After visiting a mere 5 airports on Tuesday, I've returned to Reno from the clear blue calm of the Bahamas.  The impromptu mini-vacation, spurred by my spontaneous siblings, was lovely...albeit t...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A supreme sense of pain

Well well, after 7 weeks, I'm back in reno now and I'm truly missing my time and my friends in NY. Not to mention the Greyscale show at CGBG's tonight -- how disappointing! I'm feeling a certain vo...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sundancing

As I write, I'm sitting at the Sundance Lounge sipping free coffee and watching the actor from PCU (what's his name again? I love that guy) filming some HBO thing outside. Purple corduroy couches ...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

From Beijing, With Love

Things to do in Beijing: 1) Tour Forbidden City 2) Visit National Museum of Art 3) Pay homage to Mao's prefectly preserved head 4) Dance on a table at Day Off Disco Club 64 Huge Score... It ...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

China Blog

Tried to go Christmas shopping for all of my friends at "Fetish," an exotic Hong Kong sex shop -- unfortunatley for you, it was closed. Instead, I decided to experiment with custom couture -- had pan...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

In Memory of Mac

Looking back, I remember how sweet they were together. Watching them play together, entertain one another, educate each other...it was as if they shared their own little world, a world for just the t...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ODE TO THE GLOWSTICK

ODE TO THE GLOWSTICK A PLAYA POEM Glow stick, glow stick, in the night You're how I keep my friends in sight You're how I see the passing car You're how I know that camp's not far At moon's ...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST