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The Erin Underground

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About Me

I'm an artist, ex-preschool teacher/todler wrangler, caffine pusher, permanent metalsmith and sculptural jewelry extraordinaire...

My Interests

Wake Up Wal-Mart

Music:

Squirrel Nut Zippers, VnV Nation, The Reverent Horton Heat, Muse, Flogging Molly, Oingo Boingo, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Bobby Darin, Glen Miller, Gogol Bordello, Hello Astronaut Goodbye Television, Apoptygma Berzerk, Metallica, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash...get the idea?

Movies:

some of my favorites: Nightmare Before X-Mas, JAWS, Mulholland Drive, Amilie, Waking Life, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, American Wearwolf in London, Snatch, Twister (and i dont care WHO knows it!!), Monty Python things, Waiting for Guftman, A Mighty Wind, Spinal Tap, Riding Giants, Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bills, and there's so many u get the idea...

Television:

77 Sunset Strip, FanZone soccer, Cheap Seats, Iron Chef, Good Eats, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, BBC America, Independent Film Chanel, Sundance Film Chanel, Food Network, and NHL Center Ice

Books:

30s thru 50s crime novels like The Thin Man, The Long Goodbye...anything Dashell Hammit or Raymond Chandler, also Atlas Shrugged and everything else Ayn Rand has ever written.

Heroes:

i heart Carl Sagen...note the sublte chest hair...

My Blog

My letter to the LA Times regarding ruling on Starbucks tips

The girl who wrote the article that this was in response to called me back and asked if she could quote me in another article she was writing about this, so here is the full letter from which she will...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:28:00 PST

Group Metals Show end O’ this month!

So mark yer calendars, opening Sunday, Jan. 27th at 5pm and running till Thursday the 31st (i think) is the first round of student exibitions at CSULB including one whole gallery full of our fabu...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:51:00 PST

There’s a scary bill in the Senate: H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism P

So a friend of mine posted a thing about this which I just read, and I decided to look into it a little further.  I guess there's a bill that just passed in the House on October 23rd and it's now...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST

We’re getting the heck outta here!

So things have been NUTS for the past few weeks, and it's not getting any less nuts anytime soon, so we're packing up and going to Monterey for a while before anybody says otherwise.  Surely, I'...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:30:00 PST

CNN on Exorcism

So I was watching CNN for some reason and they actually did a segment on exorcism with two different preachers, one who has performed over 10,000 of these ceremonies appearently, and one who claimed t...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:29:00 PST

I'm getting all political...my letter to Fox News

I was just watching Mr. Cavuto talking with Dennis Kucinich about his health care plans, and Cavuto tried to make the argument that a not-for-profit health caresystem was a bad idea, suggesting that i...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:02:00 PST

Come see my shit at the Chemers Gallery 4/28

So two of my pieces (the rocket and moon broach set) will be shown at the Chemers Gallery in Tustin, along with a bunch of other young up-and-commings.  The opening reception is April 28th from 5...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:17:00 PST

New Utah pics available for your viewing pleasure in the Photo section!

What a time!  First, they call us at 2am exactly two hours before we're supposed to wake up and head to the airport, "Your flight out of Long Beach is cancelled, so we re-booked you tom...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:40:00 PST

back at the 'Bucks

I know I said they could go fly a kite, but 6 months and two other jobs later I found myself missing the damned place.  Lowest paying job I've ever had, and I actually missed it. Especially when...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:08:00 PST

so dont see me for art supplies...see me for dresses instead!

So about a week and a half ago I was working ANOTHER closing shift at Michael's (after I told them I couldn't close, and I wanted to work 20 hours or less a week)....my back was killing me, customers ...
Posted by The Erin Underground on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:32:00 PST