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Mr. Erik Alan

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About Me



My Interests

Hit/the/road-- three definitive words. Long roads, longer walks, sprawling deserts, books, reading, writing, guitar, good scotch, thick beer, warm nights, bright stars, astrology, the occult, esoterica, the dreamlands mythos, magic, dreams, chaos, poetry, doing things, creating things, surgery, choking, death, DO/IT/YOURSELF...

I'd like to meet:

Someone truly human.

Music:

Mr. Airplane Man, Against Me!, Sleep, Coco Rosie, Choking Victim, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Munly, Tom Waits, Fifteen, Silencio, Giant Sand, Calexico, Woven Hand, Tusk, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Piglet, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, 16 Horsepower, Two Gallants, The Black Keys, Souvenir's Young America, etc...

Movies:

Lonely Are The Brave, Pi, Happiness of the Katakuris, The Bird People in China, Visitor Q, Bill Hicks: Sane Man, The Isle, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Killing Fields, Waking Life, Powder, Jacob's Ladder, Boondock Saints, Quills, Fight Club, Dark City, The Big Lebowski, Down in the Valley, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men..

Television:

Kill it!

Books:

Graphic Novels, Bone and the Fall of Cthulhu, Edward Abbey, notably the Monkey Wrench Gang and the Brave Cowboy, the Stories of H.P. Lovecraft, John Steinbeck, Kook literature, namely Donna Kossy's Kooks, Apocalypse Culture, Occult literature, the Book of Lies and The Occult: A History, Contemporary Westerns & Travelogues, The New West Reader, American Nomads, On the Road, the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, especially Thus Spoke Zarathustra and etc.

Heroes:

"There are no idols, no heroes in a world of death, its all a joke and so are you... So am I..."

My Blog

Mud in Our Socks & Lillies in Our Hair

The harvest moon steals light from the campfiresDozens of them scattered about the foothills like little red tongues licking the cold hands of huddled vagrantsMen turned animalsWirey beards wrapped a...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:08:00 PST

When Politix & Religion Fail (Call a Plumber)

Ah, homo sapiensThe self-proclaimed champions of evolutionSome humans even think they were made in the image of the universal creatorThats right folks, ol' God himselfJust between you and me I think p...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:47:00 PST

I Belong to Cthulhu, Chaos Machine

Who am I kidding? I'll probably write another poem about my disappointment in mankind...Day after dayCraving inspirationA brief moment of synchronicityTo share a revelation with the strangers who haun...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Gilled Dildoes Wriggling in a Puddle of Vomit

In a waiting roomSingle-lightbulb lamp swinging in circlesRolling its perverted eye over naked bodiesShoulder to shoulderPasted together in a thick, dirty filmAn oil slick fondling dead fishLike limp ...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:01:00 PST

Jesus on a Leash

To watch buildings lean in sicknessHear them moan & crash like deadfallSee the freeways swell and crackAnd vegetation slithering through the citiesLike leafy scabs over scorched EarthThese are my pray...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:26:00 PST

Dust in the Corner

I stand alone in the biting coldLicking wine from my mustachePushing smoke from the bottom of my lungsAnd the stars are frozen in the skyI'm falling apartMy skin peels off and follows me to bedGathers...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:50:00 PST

The Wind Won’t Carry Your Burden

You push against the wind & curseDemand answers"Why me?"Into, through & past the skyAlone & forsakenYou shout into spaceWrinkle your nose, glare at nothing & no oneWishing the wind would deliver your ...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:21:00 PST

Death and Ecstasy

Who will I be when you're goneWhen whatever part of me it is that you dwellIs emptied& memories fall heavy like clayInto some bottomless graveSome quiet pit of my mindWhat will you be?Will I hear your...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:48:00 PST

Unfinished Business as Usual

Give up hope because that too is bought & sold in the market placelined up along the shelfa step up from lies & a step down from lovebut you'd have to be an idiot to buy any of it in the first placelo...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:47:00 PST

Playing with the idea of unfinished business

Urgent!Give it all up, get rid of itabandon absolutely EVERYTHING from your broken life to your most prized fantasyTo your wife & home & your white picket fence!A fence? you call that a fence?And just...
Posted by Mr. Erik Alan on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:41:00 PST