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eric lab rat

hating myself since 1987

About Me



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Much like yourself, I do things. I live amongst the hippies, thugs, and condos in Rogers Park with my rat friend Bukowski and my iguana friend Hammock.On Monday nights, I do a funk and soul show on 88.7 WLUW with Arvo Fingers. Infrequently, you can hear me on WZRD 88.3fm . Occasionally, I can be seen taking pictures , playing music, writing, or performing improv, comedy and spoken word. I prefer dance parties and hardcore shows to all other forms of human interaction. I blog too much. I make zines. Every other Sunday, I host a writing workshop with my friend Ben. It's all dweeb shit but I like it.

Old flyers, new pictures and random detritus on my flickr page.

My Interests

shootin my fool mouth off, being poor, gobbling psychotropics, chronic masturbationI am a total dork about comedy, poetry and photography

I'd like to meet:

Every fun, adventurous person in the Chicagoland area! Cult leaders, school shooters, circus folk, and gibberish speakers; people who can help me at the risk of their own complete physical/mental breakdown, people with stupid tattoos. Floors and couches that will hold me for a night or two

Hey look, I'm a huge dork and I put my calendar on myspace. look below!

Music:

aids wolf, teen wolf, weisse wolf, queerwulf, peanut butter wolf, wolf and cub, wolf eyes

pailhead, buckethead, blockhead, oysterhead, motorhead, mister fuckhead, the proppellerheads, portishead, radiohead snothead, the talking heads

Movies:

I Don't Realy Like Good Movies, But I Have A nice Big Screen to Watch Crap On:

Harold and Maude, Down by Law, U-Turn, Death Race 2000, Sin City, Wild Zero, Desperado, Natural Born Killers, Dark City, Dark Crystal, Flight of the Navigator, Big Fish, Goonies, Clerks, Animatrix, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Mac and Me, The Neverending Story, 5000 fingers of Dr. T, Kill Bill, Dr. Strangelove, Fear and Loathing, Frankenhooker, Waking Life, Brazil, Time Bandits, Nightmare Before Xmas, Fight Club, Eraserhead, Starship Troopers, Pi, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Willy Wonka, Hook, Willow, the Maxx, Aliens, Battle Royale, Iron Giant, Dead Man, Santa Sangre, Forbidden Zone, V for Vendetta, Coen Bros., Bill Plimpton, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch

Television:

Cartoons and News til I fuckin go nuts! Then more cartoons and news.

Books:

I've written four zines and done one podcast . The zines are Conspiracy of Firmaments, Genuine Rocket Pack, Destroy Everything, and Are You There God...It's Me Lab Rat?

In addition to my shit I'm a big fan of the art and writing of Martin Amis, Al Burian, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovanni, Ken Kesey, Hunter Thompson, Salvador Dali, Wm S Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe, Pablo Neruda, Wolfe (not Woolfe), Irvine Welsh, Sherman Alexi, R. Crumb, LB, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lemony Snicket, Shel Silverstein, Bukowski, Gorey, Art Spiegleman, Carlos Castenada, Mayakovsky, Babel, Bulgakov, Pahlaniak, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, Berkely Breathed, Stephen Hawking, Bill Watterson, Sam Kieth, Eastman and Laird, Aaron McGruder, Lisa Carver, Dave Sim, Paul Koob, Gary Panter, Matta, Yves Tanguy, occult, zines, conspiracy and all the typical beats and drunks

Heroes:

People who party too much. People who completely withdraw. John Holmes, Bill Hicks, GG Allin, Raoul Duke, the Merry Pranksters, Andy Kauffman, Wendy O Williams, Paul Reubens, Ed Wood, Bobby Fischer, Stupendous Man, the Branch Dividians, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Ed Gein and all the rest of the scumbags.

My Blog

a morbid blast from the past

I just opened a bag I haven't looked in since 2004. Contents: a blood caked razor bladeand a small stack of Dennis Kucinich bumper stickersit's really the job that's getting to me. not the day job, bu...
Posted by eric lab rat on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:38:00 PST

lab rat and real rat at the movies: the sequel

In which my pet rat Bukowski and I review the best of thrift store finds, six dollar Tuesdays, and free movies on demand. First installment can be found hereTonight's feature: Men in Black IIELR: I do...
Posted by eric lab rat on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:14:00 PST

the dream journal of... A TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD!

My cousin lives in a high rise in Lakeview. The type of place a supervillain, a Lex Luthor-type CEO supervillain would call home. Floor to ceiling windows overlook a steel mesh dinosaur on the edge of...
Posted by eric lab rat on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:22:00 PST

news of the week

God told Alan Keys to run for president again!No matter how depressing the next year of presidential politics get, we'll at least have Alan Keys around to say all sorts of crazy gibberish. Finally, a ...
Posted by eric lab rat on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:25:00 PST

General Life Update

In one week, I will be twenty five.In two weeks, I will have moved back in with my parents. to save money, try to make a go of it as a DJsMy pet rat Bukowski has lived longer than any other anima...
Posted by eric lab rat on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:27:00 PST

odd. odd. odd.

I spent most of my evening photographing an 66-year old friend photograph an orgy with a bunch of friends and the weirdest and most interesting thing I saw all night was a beetle having a fight to the...
Posted by eric lab rat on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

For the first time in a long time.... a playlist

I try not to clutter up my blog with playlists, but I wanted you all to know that TwoSlaps Radio is moving. From now on, we can be heard from Midnight to 2am, every Monday night on WLUW 88.7 fm and WL...
Posted by eric lab rat on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:00:00 PST

going for a stroll

working backwards from now, naked on a futon, between two box fans and a grown womanthe chapter of the book is called "necrophiliacs anonymous". the book I'm reading, not the one I'm writing. that cha...
Posted by eric lab rat on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:26:00 PST

the only two poems I ver bothered to memorize

I ran into Ari yesterday. She was on her bike heading for the 20khz open mic and she'd been given bad directions. When she went off in the right direction, I thought about heading out, but I didn't wa...
Posted by eric lab rat on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:15:00 PST

why Sarah and I shouldnt work together

a partial list of things we make jokes about that confound our coworkers, especially the one who seems like he wants to look cool around usAnal CuntZinesPogromsPapa Legba and Baron Semedi Too Much Met...
Posted by eric lab rat on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:25:00 PST