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Eric

About Me

I was born a poor black child. But now I'm a 20 year old white kid from Chester, NH. I enjoy the finer things in life - black and white films, classic rock, and British comedy. As you might guess, I don't enjoy the less-fine (or sub-fine, you might say) things in life - namely babies and the elderly. My biggest pet peeve that I can think of at the moment is when someone asks you questions during a movie they've never seen before, as if the film is never going to explain these things. I'm an art major, though I don't know what I want to do with my life yet. People say I'm a nice guy, so I take their word for it. I laugh at dead baby jokes. I'd like to go skydiving someday. If I had no morals I think it would be fun to be a bank robber or contract killer. I'm kind of a cheap bastard, so it works out that I don't have a girlfriend since she'd probably dump me anyway. I identify with big Pete Wrigley and Charlie Brown (except I have more hair). I've sometimes had the feeling that everyone else in the world has a part in some great production and I'm like the narrator, a non-entity who watches these events taking place rather than being a participant in them myself. I try not to think about things like this too much (or about astrophysics, which I find interesting but makes my head spin). My favorite animals are platypuses (platypi? platypeese? maybe it's just platypus, i can't be bothered to look it up). That's about all I have to say about that.

My Interests

mirrored aviatiors, drums, leather driving gloves, music

I'd like to meet:

Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Michael Cera

Music:

Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Belle &amp Sebastian, The Beta Band, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Cream, Miles Davis, Derek and the Dominos, Dinosaur Jr, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Explosions in the Sky, The Flaming Lips, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy and the Stooges, Joe Jackson, Jethro Tull, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Modest Mouse, Mooney Suzuki, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Radiohead, Roxy Music, The Shins, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Cat Stevens,, Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, The Walkmen, The Who, Wilco, Neil Young

Movies:

Almost Famous, Amadeus, American Beauty, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, Being There, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, The Blues Brothers, Bob Roberts, Brick, Dazed and Confused, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Fight Club, Glengarry GlenRoss , Harold and Maude, High Fidelity, Into the Wild, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Office Space, The Player, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Stand by Me, Stop Making Sense, Waking Life

Television:

The Office, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Dexter, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Books:

Catch-22, High Fidelity, Catcher in the Rye, A Prayer for Owen Meany, most anything by Vonnegut, Calvin and Hobbes, The Kite Runner, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Man in the High Castle, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Great Gatsby, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Into the Wild, The God Delusion

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell, Jonathan Richman, Artie (the strongest man in the world), Aron Ralston