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erin

yes! we have no bananas

About Me

lying on some really ugly geometric patterned industrial carpet at a public radio station in portland.

My Interests

red wine, whiskey, photography, thrift store junkie, capital showdown, punctuation, fabric, colours, non-windy rainy days, bicycling, coffee, buenos aires, abandoned buildings/toys/hearts, museums, mini-golf, horticulture, bass guitar,

I'd like to meet:

clown haters

Music:

gene autry, bright eyes, palace, mountain goats, hawaiian records, belle and sebastian, unicorns, american analog set, songs:ohia, calexico, roy rogers, wolf parade, arab strap, olivia tremor control, bob wills, sigur ros, holy shit, chinese stars, japanther, an albatross, cat power, the faint, most things scottish, hank williams, jangly 60s mod stuff, frog eyes, elliot smith, devendra banhart, blonde redhead, iron and wine, of montreal, ladyhawk, decemberists, deerhunter, black mountain, telefauna, people for audio, final fantasy, sleater-kinney, serge gainsbourg, spoon, carmen miranda, dean martin, animal collective, astor piazzolla and argentine tango music in general, vetiver, besnard lakes, lightning bolt

Television:

the daily show, informative history or nature shows, buffy the vampire slayer. i have three english channels i seldom watch, but often when i do turn on the tv one of the french channels is playing softcore porn at relatively prime time hours. not that it's all wooo softcore porn!, i'm just sayin' it's on a lot. COSMOS! Carl Sagan ruled so hard.

Books:

atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias

Heroes:

my heroes have always been cowboys.

My Blog

fair weather cyclists

Where were you when it was hailing? Huh? When the snow was bucketing down and the cars were hurling slush as they sped past? Where was your two-wheeled resolve to not let the weather beat you, to nobl...
Posted by erin on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:11:00 PST

CMYK

C is for Crazy, my neighbour downstairsM is for Magenta, still stuck in my poresY is for Yelling, keeping me from my sleepK is for Black. No really, so that you don't get it confused with blue. or bro...
Posted by erin on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:36:00 PST

february, kiss my ass

with your freezing burn and filthy streets, your ice cold wind ripping the epidermis off my cheeks, buses pulling away as i'm running for them, metros leaving as i'm coming, lost mittens, gloves, scar...
Posted by erin on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:12:00 PST

my neighbour is channeling the spirit of strom thurmond

which is pretty ironic considering he's a black man. perhaps he's strom's other illegitimate mixed race child.because seriously, how else could the man go on at such great lengths with such passion? i...
Posted by erin on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:09:00 PST

today i learned a very important lesson

NEVER get your hair cut by someone who barely speaks your language, and has no idea what you mean when you say "like francoise hardy in the sixties."
Posted by erin on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:41:00 PST

JESUS NEVER FAILS

fuck you brain. no seriously, shut the fuck off. insomnia is no bleedin' fun, let me tell you. and because i didn't already have enough troubles sleeping, ol' crazy downstairs is spitting venom at his...
Posted by erin on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:38:00 PST

the number of times i heard the arcade fire on the radio in portland, oregon in 5 days

4.first in fred meyer. the next time i entered, phil collins was spilling his poison over the in-store airwaves, so i made haste outta there. holy motherfucking shit, do i despise that man. i hate him...
Posted by erin on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:49:00 PST

hangover vs malaria. i'll take the first, thank you.

all hail the champ of procrastination! i am working on my video, really. it's just that these damn edit labs have internet. i've near sucessfully recovered from a motherfucking bender of a weekend, i ...
Posted by erin on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:23:00 PST

oh yeah, blog....

well yeah, it's been a while. i spend enough fucking time on this stupid website, i may as well type some new input into it for anyone that actually cares about what has been notable in my existence f...
Posted by erin on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:28:00 PST

god's love fills the earth. psalm 33:5

you are loved because he loved us firsta friend is the reflection of god's lovegive god the glory in all that you do and watch HIM do great things for youand that's just the fridge magnets.so i made i...
Posted by erin on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:08:00 PST