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Erbil

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

Amy Winehouse, Andrew Bird, Explosions in the Sky, The Black Keys, Blonde Redhead, Cornelius, Death from Above 1979, The Happy Hollows, Tapes N' Tapes, The Shins, The Beach Boys, The Apples in Stereo, Bloc Party, The Fastbacks, i am spoonbender, The Pixies, Prince Paul, Ghostface, Solex, Meat Beat Manifesto, Orbital, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin, at the drive in, Bikini Kill, Stray Cats, Pavement, Placebo, Dead Kennedys, The Flaming Lips, Quasi, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth, Slowdive, The Raveonettes, 8-Bit Weapon, Elliott Smith, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ladytron, The White Stripes, The Rev. Horton Heat, !!!, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Refused, Underworld, Looper, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Bad Religion, NoFX, Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion, Q and not U, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Sparta, Interpol, Mary Timony, Shannon Wright, Circle Jerks, Sleater-Kinney, Thought Riot, Jawbreaker, The Lawrence Arms, De La Soul, The Bangs, Helmet, The Arcade Fire, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Juliana Hatfield, Portishead, The Raveonettes, Frank Black, Peaches, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, They Might Be Giants, The Decemberists, Sage Francis, The Get Up Kids, Cat Power, Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force, Ween, Ten in the Swear Jar, The Bangs, µ-Ziq, Built to Spill, Blur, Fat Lip, Fantomas, Squarepusher, etc....etc.... More when I feel inspired...

Movies:

I can watch pretty much anything but horror movies. I'm sorry, but I don't get off by watching people getting slaughtered in various creative ways.

Television:

I don't watch too much television, although I do like watching Arrested Development and Adult Swim cartoons. I also just watched Project Runway and, well, I liked it a lot.

Books:

Again, too many to list. Although the last book I've finished was based off the Post Secret website. (Check it out at www.postsecret.com, it's worth your time.)

My Blog

Arrrgh!

Well, the project is almost at an end. I have had this weekend and the last weekend to myself, which was nice. But now, it looks like I have bronchitis or some other fucking respitory issue that I hav...
Posted by Erbil on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:13:00 PST

Bic the head

So yeah.One of the things that I have been regulary doing for the past 5 years is shaving my head. Although this is usually a no thrills production that I generally have one of my friends do for me, "...
Posted by Erbil on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:45:00 PST

Odd bit of history for the day:

In the battle for the Arnhem bridge in World War II, Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter of the 2nd Battalion, British 1st Airborne Division, led his men in a bayonet charge "carrying a pistol in one h...
Posted by Erbil on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:03:00 PST

Its just a ride...

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down ...
Posted by Erbil on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:37:00 PST

Bad parenting and cashing in at Great America.

..> ..> Honestly, shame on the parent in this article. I feel for her loss, but still. When it comes down to it, she just plain fucked up.     'How could he drown?' Mother blames Great A...
Posted by Erbil on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:54:00 PST

Yeah

A few days ago, I accepted a job offer from Page44 studios to work as a Jr. Game Designer on their next project. So yeah, pretty excited about that, as some of you may already know since I sent out a ...
Posted by Erbil on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:34:00 PST

Death Race

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_RaceI got to play it today, a little pice of gaming instory. The damn machine was older than I was. Still, I have been looking to play this for a while so I can actu...
Posted by Erbil on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:17:00 PST

Amen, brother

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/10/cash.home.ap/index.htmlSo a fire destroyed Johnny Cash's old home, which I initially thought was kind of sad... until I read this excerpt from the article."Richard Ste...
Posted by Erbil on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:21:00 PST

It can only be a good thing....

knowing that The Arcade Fire's new album is the most eagerly awated album of the year. Thank god music is on an overall upswing again.
Posted by Erbil on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:55:00 PST

Creepy

I have known this for a while now and I don't think I actually vented about it, but I cant stand when overtly agressive people hit on me. It doesn't matter where, but if you are hitting on me and you ...
Posted by Erbil on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:04:00 PST