Eric - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Painting, travelling, camping and exploring California with my favorite girl Ramona. Painting outdoors. I have a lot of cacti. I drink too much coffee and do crosswords and I can teach myself to fix anything. I built a birdhouse recently. I like to memorize the numbers of stairs in stairways and license plates. And my cat Grendel is the toughest ever, except when she's not. Check out my website: www.ericmerrell.com and also drogulus magazine

My Interests

Painting, Botany, Music, Color, History, Philosophy, Crosswords, Hair Farming, le Petit Ecolier cookies, erlernen autre langues.

I'd like to meet:

A good barbeque. Even better, Winston Churchill.

Music:

Buckethead, Dinosaur Jr., Tom Waits, Calexico, Neil Young, Camille Saint-Saens, Arthur Bliss, Erik Satie, The Odd Numbers, Dahlia Seed, Unwound, Slint, Art Blakey, Minutemen, June of 44, The Sonora Pine, Regulator Watts, Milt Jackson, Sibelius, Man or Astroman? and Morten Lauridsen.

Movies:

Cinema Paradiso, Camille, Power of Art, Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Sling Blade, Children of the Corn, Amelie, The Princess & The Warrior, Bullitt, Chinatown, The Shining, The Iron Giant, The Shipping News, Enemy at the Gates, Glory.

Television:

Your brain is more active while you are sleeping than when you are watching television. Read a book!

Books:

Harold and the Purple Crayon, Steinbeck, Dickens, Dostoevsky, The Bermuda Triangle, Art Biographies, The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, The Shipping News, World Histories, War Histories, Civilizations, Philosophy, Theology. Anything that adds something profound and gives new appreciation to life.

Heroes:

My parents.