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Eryk

A Slow Motion Kind of Awesome.

About Me

I write Crashpop for all the kids out there who are "trying too hard."I'm with you, kids! Let's keep trying!

My Interests

Making stuff, Radio Art, Indie Rock, Indie Film, Social Justice, Right Action, Good Vegan Food, Traveling, happy post modernists, Abolishing Hierarchies, Liberating myself from myself, Avoiding Corporate Influences, The Situationist Internationale, Fluxus, Karaoke Nights at the Suicide Shack, The Friendly Toast, Movies, Photographs, People who take photographs and do things with them, FOUND magazine, Tasting Exotic Cola, art museums, poetry readings (but usually not poetry slams), thunderstorms, home sewing, vegan recipes, recreational night time college classes, Moxie, metaphors, semiotics, regional slang, conversations that make walking long distances seem like short ones, bird watching, fantasizing about how I'll give my money away when I am rich, listening to people talk on the phone while I am falling asleep, listening to the radio while I am falling asleep, interpreting dreams. Giving back rubs. Thai Food. Vegan Sushi. Bad jokes. NPR! Especially "This American Life" and, god forgive me, "Market Place."

I'd like to meet:

Alienated smart kids in recovery.

Music:

"If there’s something in the deli aisle that makes you cry / You know I’ll put my arm around you and walk you outside / through the sliding doors / Why would I mind?"

Movies:

I 3 Huckabees, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Hal Hartley Movies, Woody Allen Movies, David Lynch Movies, Wings of Desire- too many to name. I heart Netflix.

Television:

Less and Less of it every day. But, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and "The West Wing" used to be must see.

Artists

They really need an artists section for us phoneys. Here, and some of them have links because they are all contemporary: Jenny Holzer , JODI , Andy Warhol, Vuk Cosic , Edward Burtynsky , The Critical Art Ensemble , Fluxus .

Books:

JD Salinger, Douglas Coupland, Milan Kundera, "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, "The Proud Highway" by Hunter S Thompson, Cat and Girl . Poetry: Bukowski, Rilke, Brautigan, Atwood, Issa, Hafiz. Raoul Vaneigem.

My Blog

Best of LiveJournal, Volume 2: Jesus Takes The Wheel

I woke up after only four hours of sleep and decided to take notes at work so I could write something when I got home.Today started with a customer in a tee shirt that said, "It doesn't suck itself" w...
Posted by Eryk on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:00:00 PST

Best of Livejournal, Volume 1: Three Hummingbird Scenarios

Maybe you're best friends with a hummingbird, and it always hung out and thought it was pretty cool to be friends with a human. But then occasionally it gets mad at you for violating some kind of humm...
Posted by Eryk on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:59:00 PST

Myspace Seance Report

(Crossposted at the Myspace Revolution Blog) As a researcher of Black Myspace Magicks, I am aware of secret evidence that the Myspace Servers are built on what remains of an ancient indian burial gro...
Posted by Eryk on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:30:00 PST

How to Cube an Egg in Brooklyn

You've heard the expression, "You can't go to Brooklyn without cubing an egg", but do you know what it really means? Here's a how-to guide to make sure the kids don't laugh at you when you ask them wh...
Posted by Eryk on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:32:00 PST

New York: Learn Your Routes

Dear New York, please learn where you live. You do not live at JFK airport so why are you telling me to always go there? You do not get to Brooklyn from Queens by driving through the British Airways t...
Posted by Eryk on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:14:00 PST

Sex to Psychology Credits Ratio

The more psych credits you have, the more complicated sex gets, at least to me. If you have no credit hours in psychology you can sleep with whoever you want, but the more you get, the more you start ...
Posted by Eryk on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:26:00 PST

Ding!

I've spent 24 years exploring my own soul. The next 24 years should be dedicated to exploring everyone else's.
Posted by Eryk on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:38:00 PST

At War With Canada.

1. Setting The Stageowls mcgee: I just had the fucking weirdest night of my lifeowls mcgee: I have been into this girl for a whileowls mcgee: and I kind of thought she was into meowls mcgee: but today...
Posted by Eryk on Sat, 06 May 2006 11:09:00 PST

my friends are awesome

My friends are the coolest people in the world. Take that, other people's friends!
Posted by Eryk on Fri, 05 May 2006 07:47:00 PST

Field Reports on the Human Environment

Walking into the public bathroom, today a guy with a stroller leaning against the wall looking bored and annoyed. A young red haired child was washing his hands. It took some time, like the length a n...
Posted by Eryk on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:27:00 PST