Erin - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I love art.I love family and tight but open/minded communities.Sometimes when I sweat, my armpits smell like a wet sandbox or maple syrup (seriously). Anyway, at the end of the day I love my family and friends and love, or that entity that is most commonly referred to as God.

My Interests

babycakes Nappier (aka my nephew Elliot), theatre arts, the small dance, Tadashi Suzuki & his acting method, anthropology, art at large, excellent food, tea, sleep, radicalia, bicycletta, multimedia art & performance, bookmaking, french press coffee, being outside, freedom +/or anarchy, do-it-yourself, family, board games, playfulness, looking closer, rocking out, doing a project start--finish, singing, tea tree, modern dance, contact improvisation, culture jamming, jamming, being an aunt, camping, aquariums/marine life in general, happy animals, frank shades of red, the way little things taken for granted in times of boredom or discontent become exquisitely wonderful hot & fine during times of extreme business, stan brakhage, FIBER ARTS!!!, storytelling festivals in foggy autumn weather, celebrating the seasons

I'd like to meet:

folk that make me feel inspired to make moving pictures again & their kin + + Karl Blau, Animal Collective, Tadashi Suzuki, Bjork, Pipilotti Rist, Abigail Child, nice people with true passion for collaborative experimentally-based film/video production + anyone who likes to cakewalk into town.

Music:

Michelle Shocked, the Microphones, Joanna Newsom, Molly's Revenge, Joe Craven, David Holt, Kate Bush, Queen, Bjoerk, Beck, Mingus, Bird, Diz, Davis, Elton John, Caetano Veloso, Tortoise, Air French Band, Diane Cluck, The Coasters, James Brown, The Ronettes, Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs, Mickey & Sylvia, Charlie Feathers, Sonic Youth, Le Tigre, Josh Martinez, Sparks, Matmos, Electric Light Orchestra, Animal Collective, Karl Blau, the Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads, B-52's, Bowie, choral music, Jon Brion, Lightning Bolt, Indecent Rat, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, the buzzcocks, the cars, cafe tacuba, bomba chante, baaba maal, the wild magnolias, glider, prince, rosie ledette, arlo guthrie, voca, devo, celso fonseca

Movies:

The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg, The Wicker Man (original)

Television:

conan, old skool Nick, snl, star trek: the next generation

Books:

Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne, Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, Kem Nunn, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., James Baldwin

Heroes:

all those who've mentored me well over the last 22 years, Joe Craven, Jim & T:

My Blog

oh BOY!!!!

oh BOY!! Today (well, yesterday, really), my nephew Elliot turned 3, three! Three years old! Three birthday cakes! Three batrays! Three trucks, three of Elliot's BIG trucks! Three trains! Three...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:55:00 PST

a mERINer’s tale

Bah!Rain, rain, go away, come again another day! For nearly the last two weeks, the Juicemaker in the Sky, call him God, call him Zeus on a treadmill, call him what you will, has been bringin' torrent...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:32:00 PST

Joyce Carol Oates

IS GOING TO BE MY COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER...! ...and to think all this time I was vying for Judy Blume (after Bono, of course, 'cause everybody's wanted him every year since like 1982), even thoug...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:04:00 PST

m & m's

munity/munition: a granted right or priviledge mutiny: to revolt against constituted authority; to refuse to obey the orders of a superior community or commutiny...what'll it be, mm? ...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:41:00 PST

alohomora

I have been thinking lots about magic lately, and whether or not I want to start doing spells. I am leaning heavier on the "no" side of things, as I'm unclear as to where the energy to make spel...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:42:00 PST

big stripey lie

Tonight I at the library i lied! That's right I told the library clerk a lie. I said once was enough for me to see Videodrome and that "I like David Cronenberg BUT--..." I couldn't finish my sen...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:05:00 PST

my biscuits are broiled so black

Some aspects of ye olde nightlife are worth making you feel like a real flapjack at work at your brand new job the next day. In the case of last night:&n...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST