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erika

Skankin to the rhythm of the music by my side

About Me

Create or get your
very own MySpace Layoutssocial worker, commie liberal, living in the LBC, lifelong world traveler, music fiend, movie snob, vegetarian, Marley & Duke's mom

My Interests

Music, politics, nostalgia, movies, pool, books, dive bars, cooking

Music:

Favorites in no particular order: Reverend Horton Heat, Beck, the Donnas, Foo Fighters, Social D, Bowie, White Stripes, Cake, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, 311, Franz Ferdinand, Incubus, Beastie Boys, Von Bondies, REM, Bright Eyes, Ozomatli, The Shins, Duran Duran, Janes Addiction, Blondie, INXS, the Smiths, Culture Club, Erasure, Go Gos, Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, Billie Holiday, Lous Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis, Motown, Sinatra, the Beatles, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Cat Stevens, Supersuckers, Old 97s, Dance Hall Crashers, old No Doubt, Save Ferris, Skeletones, Bad Religion, OPIV, Green Day, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Split Lip Rayfield

Movies:

Animal House, Rushmore, Airplane, Edward Scissorhands, MP's Holy Grail, American History X, Pride & Prejudice (the BBC mini-series version), Whalerider, Sound of Music, Goonies, Parenthood, Napolean Dynamite, Office Space, Swingers, All About Eve, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Magnolia, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Chicago, anything John Hughes.

Television:

Gray's Anatomy, Lost, HBO, My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, Rescue Me, Heroes, Dexter, Weeds, Rick Steves Europe, Biography

Books:

Recently finished: Life of Pi, My Life with Marley, Enrique's Journey, Freddy & Fredericka, Walking in Circles Before Lying Down, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Million Little Pieces, Isabel Allende's Zorro, Harry Potter

My Blog

Phew

As of 2PM today I passed the first of the two test that will license me as a professional social worker. What a freakin relief.  I feel like the whirlwind that has been my life has finally rounde...
Posted by erika on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:36:00 PST