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Eric

'...and that's the kind of dirty that don't wash clean.'

About Me

My name is Eric, I'm a single 25 year-old living in Alameda and working in Berkeley. I'm a hopeless romantic / dreamer and I love to write poems and such just to jot down the journey my mind wanders through. At night I love to blast my iTunes and sing my heart out. Personality-wise, I've been called everything in the book - good things (charming, loyal, easy-going and witty) and bad (standoffish, fake, hoity-toity and catty) - and I'm okay with all of that :-P

I don't necessarily march to the beat of a different drum; I just find a way to make the beats I march to more interesting.

My Interests

I'm all about letting my amazement grow, laundering my Karma, laughing at yesterday and letting forever be (Can you guess which four songs I gaffled those lines from?).

Things I like to do: wrassle (note: not 'wrestle'), keep it classy (but end up a mess), sing to myself, people-watch, talk shit, write stuff down / doodle, Tanqueray and Tonic nights, chase the sun, wish upon stars...

I update my 'Space blog frequently - if you're down for some mopey-ass poetry or pseudo-sophisticated, self-indulgent ramblings, subscribe to it or my LiveJournals: and fuido and superstoked !

I'd like to meet:

"Something" (ooh! And a cowboy.)

Music:

My three favorite songs of all time: "Be My Baby" (The Ronettes), "Come On Eileen" (Dexy's Midnight Runners) and "Something" (The Beatles).

En Vogue, Shelby Lynne, The Beatles, Rufus Wainwright, Jill Scott, John Legend, The Clash, Billie Holiday, Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin, The Beach Boys, The Bouncing Souls, Damien Rice, Cowboy Junkies, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Arthur Lee and Love, Modest Mouse, Macy Gray, Queen, CCR, David Bowie, The Kinks, Field Music, The Mars Volta, The Postal Service, Travis, Violent Femmes, The Living End, Ben Harper, Eva Cassidy, Ray LaMontagne

Movies:

You Can Count on Me, All About Eve, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, West Side Story, Bridget Jones's Diary, Muriel's Wedding, The Science of Sleep, Mean Girls, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, The King and I, Jules et Jim, All About My Mother, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Carrie, Mildred Pierce, Rebel Without a Cause, Sunset Boulevard, The Parent Trap, Gone With the Wind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Pleasantville, Love Actually, Death Becomes Her, Fried Green Tomatoes, The First Wives Club, Garden State, Serial Mom, The Virgin Suicides, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Carmen Jones, Jackie Brown, Clueless, Memoirs of a Geisha, Waitress, Monster, Whale Rider, La Strada, Closer, The Last Samurai, The Good Girl, Brokeback Mountain, Sense and Sensibility, Dark Victory, The Squid and the Whale, Wonder Boys

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Roseanne, I Love Lucy, My So-Called Life, Project Runway, American Idol, Big Brother, Snapped!, Rock Star

Books:

The Tales of the City series (28 Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane, Michael Tolliver Lives), The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Why Things Burn, I Am Not Myself These Days, The Namesake, The Zookeeper.

Purchase a copy of The Queer Collection at Amazon featuring some of the world's most brilliant queer writers - and, oh yeah, I'm in there, too, with my last name spelled wrong.

My Blog

And can I say...

I had my first (2) drink(s) in over a month...And, lo and behold, I feel like a hot-ass mess. Can someone fix me? I'm broken and I don't know how to fix myself.
Posted by Eric on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:37:00 PST

Off to Europe!

If anything happens to you that I seriously need to know, you can refer to my flight schedule and my itinerary here.Also, here's my hotel information:London: Lime Tree Hotel 1355-137 Ebury St. London ...
Posted by Eric on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:32:00 PST

Day After Day - Sobriety, the Final Week

Fuido be Stoked (11:46:17 AM): I'm having troubles writing my week-four blog, like, I'm trying to avoid it because I have so much to say but don't want to.It has been 30 days since my last drink, 28 d...
Posted by Eric on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:33:00 PST

Im Looking Through You - Sobriety, Week Three

For the assignment I handed myself after week two of sobriety, the staring at the mental mirror, there were some things I needed to address to push myself forward. I was chatting with Larry about his ...
Posted by Eric on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:47:00 PST

Jiggly-WHAT? Jiggly-BOO!

Let me take this moment to talk about my ass.One of the perks of not drinking for the last couple weeks is this apparent weight-loss I've been experiencing. I estimate that I've lost about 7 pounds an...
Posted by Eric on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:10:00 PST

stressin’ my balls off, yo...

I had a job interview today. It went... well, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I kinda got the impression they weren't gonna go with me, and that's okay. It seemed a great opportunity, something I ...
Posted by Eric on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:45:00 PST

Never Again - Sobriety, the end of Dos We(a)kos...

Sobriety is great*! I feel great*, life is great* and my overall disposition is GREAT*! (*replace this word with shitty.)Things get a lot more clear when one is sober. I really have been a lot more po...
Posted by Eric on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:33:00 PST

Brudderly Love

A conversation my brother and I had as he took me to work:Me: Am I wearing a belt?! (fidgets with waist)Brudder: Why, you don't want to be gangster? Me: Not during office hours, no.Brudder: Right, rig...
Posted by Eric on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:23:00 PST

Leave Your Name / Where the Boys Are

Leave your name and - 1. I'll respond with something random about you.2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.4. I'll tell you my f...
Posted by Eric on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:21:00 PST

Just What I Needed - Sobriety, Week One

Not a bad first week!There was a danger moment when a whiskey sour was sitting right next to me - God, watching the Jack empty into the glass, on the rocks, caressed by the sweet touch of sour... cher...
Posted by Eric on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST