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Erin

Do I really want to fit in with paintball enthusiasts?

About Me

I was born in December of 1986 to a pair of eccentric bibliophiles. I'm a generalist, for better or for worse.

My Interests

Angler fish, Ballistics, Cryptozoology, Donner party, Existential crises, Forensics, Gnosticism, Hiking, Iboga, journalism, knowledge,linguistics, Mermaids, Nests, Opals, Poetry from opium dens,Quaint stuff,Reading, Subcultures, Trees,Vocabulary,w, Xylophones, Yanomamo, Zest

I'd like to meet:

someone to cocoon with.

Music:

Agnostic Front, Broadcast, Clinic, Dynasty, Erase Errata, The Faint, Good Riddance, Hank WIlliams, Icons of Filth, Joy Division, Kyuss, Ladytron, Moving Units, Nekromantix, Opeth, Peaches, Q and not U, Righteous Boy, Silver Apples, Le Tigre, Uriah Heep, The Varukers, Tom Waits, X, Yeah Yeah yeahs, Zongamin,

Movies:

El Crimen del Padre Amaro, The Squid and the Whale, Night of the Hunter, The Bad Seed, Cleo from 5 to 7, THe Door in the Floor

Television:

The History Channel and Turner Classic Movies, Curb Your Enthusiasm, FLIGHT of the CONCHORDS

Books:

The Best of Roald Dahl, Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Head Trip, On Ugliness, Anti-story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction

Heroes:

Ted Nugent, Horace Floyd Quick IV, Dr. Phillips

My Blog

Let me splain

Ithell Colquhoun painted Scylla some time in the 30s. She was inspired by Scylla, the mythical sea monster in the Odyssey who lured sailors to their deaths in narrow straits. This painting is a&n...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:12:00 PST

Infant graves and kickball

My Memorial Day weekend was pretty memorable. I met Rick Springfield's son at a CalArts party, burnt the bottoms of my feet on private beach property only to be turned away from a private fish ta...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 30 May 2006 11:22:00 PST

A sovereign entity

I have gone through the Myspace equivalent of the Paschal Mystery: Way back in October of 2004, my roomie introduced me to the 'space, a birth of sorts. After a tumultuous relationship with the space,...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:49:00 PST