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Spider Jerusalem

Putting the ock in rock since 1992.

About Me

I like candy.I USED to like cigarettes... well, i still do i guess.and guitars.oh, and alcohol.and.... my kitty.and... my friends.and.... my dog.and.... my bed.so, let's all hang out in my bed with my kitty, dog, and smoke cigarettes, and eat candy, and drink alcohol.

My Interests

Law, Guitars (preferably 1960's Fender Mustangs, Jaguars, and Jazzmasters), Writing, Drinking, Smoking, Medieval History, Traditions of Medieval Historiography, listening to music, reading books, writing books, reading and writing books about either a. reading or b. writing.

I'd like to meet:

you... you little dickens, you.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Erik N. Michaelsen
Birthday: 02/27/1975
Birthplace: Marin, CA
Current Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Gray (it used to be blond)
Height: 6' 3"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right-Handed
Your Heritage: Norweigian
The Shoes You Wore Today: Addidas Flip-Flops
Your Weakness: Plenty to name, none to share here.
Your Fears: See Above.
Your Perfect Pizza: Cooked?
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: If you only knew...
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: I don't IM.
Thoughts First Waking Up: Coffee? Dog must go bathroom?
Your Best Physical Feature: I don't know.
Your Bedtime: is late as I don't really sleep.
Your Most Missed Memory: My life at school.
Pepsi or Coke: Neither. Dr. Pepper.
MacDonalds or Burger King: Neither. In and Out.
Single or Group Dates: Neither. I'm married.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither. I don't like tea.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Neither. I don't like extremes.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Both. Preferably together.
Do you Smoke: I used to. I quit.
Do you Swear: F*&K yeah.
Do you Sing: I used to. I quit.
Do you Shower Daily: I shower in the daytime. how's that?
Have you Been in Love: I used to... then i met my wife. now i'm really in love.
Do you want to go to College: i've been.
Do you want to get Married: i did. can't you read?
Do you belive in yourself: i believe that i'm still here... with a lot on my plate.
Do you get Motion Sickness: sometimes.
Do you think you are Attractive: to flies? maybe.
Are you a Health Freak: no.
Do you get along with your Parents: they're gone. so, i guess so.
Do you like Thunderstorms: sure.
Do you play an Instrument: yes, but not very well.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes.
In the past month have you Smoked: no.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yes.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yes.
In the past month have you been on Stage: no.
In the past month have you been Dumped: no.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no.
Ever been Drunk: yes.
Ever been called a Tease: no.
Ever been Beaten up: yes.
Ever Shoplifted: yes.
How do you want to Die: well... it depends on who's coming with me.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: i used to think: "lawyer".
What country would you most like to Visit: england.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: blue
Favourite Hair Color: blond
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: 5'6-5'8
Weight: doesn't matter.
Best Clothing Style: yourself.
Number of Drugs I have taken: one.
Number of CDs I own: too numerous to list here.
Number of Piercings: none.
Number of Tattoos: 15
Number of things in my Past I Regret: too numerous to list here.

CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Music:

In no order of importance:Nirvana R.E.M. U2 Smashing Pumpkins The Afghan Whigs A.F.I. Bad Religion Black Flag Rage against the Machine The Pixies The Spinanes The White Stripes Weezer The Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Police Jane's Addiction Hole Hendrix Clapton Led Zepplin Metallica Marilyn Manson The Cure The Donnas Dire Straits Shonen Knife Red Hot Chili Peppers Pavement Parliment Funkadelic Snoop Doggy Dogg Ice Cube MC5 Burt Bacharat Neil Diamond Blondie The Ataris AC/DC Aerosmith Beck The Beastie Boys Interpol The Killers

Movies:

Star Wars, Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, Cape Fear, Romeo Is Bleeding, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, Seven, The Great Race, It's a Wonderful Life, Friday, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I and II, Office Space, American Beauty, Shallow Grave, The Last Seduction, Trainspotting... basically, anything that can make me either think or laugh, or both...

Television:

The Simpsons... are simply the funniest thing I have ever had the lucky privilege of watching. Ever.

Books:

i like 'em, i love 'em, i read 'em.

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, Charles Bukowski, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Venerable Bede, Dante Allegheri, Niccolo Macchiavelli, George Orwell, Lord Byron, Beethoven, Homer Simpson, and Grandpa Simpson for the greatest line ever: "I feel funny... WAIT! I'm in LOVE! No, wait... it's a stroke."

My Blog

BLURPSLSLNGOPBIL>>>

so, i've been suffering from the fucking "plague" going around... if you get this, or if you haven't it yet, here are some handy tips: 1. you might get the most raging head cold of your life. 2. you...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

and if it didn’t get worse...

so, i just read online that in Sydney, Austraila, a human resources firm is asking new employees that are going to play Santa Claus in department stores to refrain from using the term: "ho ho ho" as i...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:41:00 PST

my baby’s got the bends

good morning... it's your old pal grover. no, it's me. so, i'm alive, i'm doing much better, and i'm still here... kicking the dust up until they say it's time to go home. hope you are all well. i ...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:43:00 PST

caveat

to everybody... if i haven't talked to you in a while, i apologize. i'm not... doing so well. i think that i've been sort of running on auto-pilot since my mom died... and i've been trying to work t...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:13:00 PST

satan, laughing, spreads his wings...

good evening. please sit down. this will only take a moment. i want you to picture yourself sitting by a brook under a tree in a meadow. now, i want you to set the tree on fire, piss in ...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

a house of plague

this last week i've been suffering from this weird fatigue... almost like i had mono, but not really. my head would constantly feel like it was in a "fog", and i'd either not sleep or sleep. in fact,...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:47:00 PST

mother superior jumped the gun

hey. so, i'm done with the bar. it was one of those tests that seemed very kind, if one can call bar exams: "kind". my dog got sick. she ate too much of our other dog's food, and got pancreatitis, a...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:46:00 PST

oh, that time again...

"The basic tenet of American foriegn policy is that human rights are irrelevant." - Noam Chomsky   Consider this: We are still involved with a war. We have no clear resolution as to when the app...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:21:00 PST

upchuck

FUCKADHALKDLAKN:LKENR:LKNA:. there is NOTHING more annoying than having a goddamn blog eat it when you are trying to write. now, i've lost my thought. i'm going to go poop.   DAMMIT.   sj...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:47:00 PST

an update...

alright. i'm taking the july bar this summer. if you love me, don't call... i figure that this is my time to pass this fucker and be done with it. my mom is gone, my job is gone, we can swing this fi...
Posted by Spider Jerusalem on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST