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erika

Change your ways while you're young...

About Me

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
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My Interests

Music
Photography
August
Writing
Buddy!
Randomness
The Moon
Hippies

I'd like to meet:



Jenny Lewis

Music:

Rilo Kiley
Coldplay
The Unicorns
Alanis Morissete
Rufus Wainwright
Jennifer Kimble
Kanye West
Iron and Wine
John Mayer
Miles Davis
Frank Sinatra
(The rest of the pack)
Ludo
August Rolufs!
Radiohead
Pearl Jam
Chris Thile
Norah Jones
Teitur
Jack Johnson
Blink 182
Boxcar Racer
Fiona Apple
The Temptations
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Aqualung
The Vines
The Shins
Spice Girls
Social Distortion
The Vibrators
The Scissor Sisters
The Vandals

Movies:

Moulin Rouge
Garden State
My Best Friend's Wedding
Napoleon Dynamite
Bourne Identity
Ocean's 11 (original)
Cinderella Story
That Thing You Do
The Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
Rigaletto
Behind the Waterfall
Scamper the Penguin
The Secret Window
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
Some Like It Hot
Casablanca
The Gas Lantern
The Three Amigos
The Notebook
Ray
Little Black Book
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Wimbledon
Farenheit 9/11
Madagascar
Shrek
Finding Nemo
Now and Then
A lot Like Love
Undiscovered
Crash
Shattered Glass
With Honors
My Date with Drew
Mad Hot Ballroom
Super Size Me
Stateside
Bewitched
Donny Darko

Television:

Seinfeld
America's Next Top Model
Family Guy
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Futurama
Dr. 9021
Project Runway
That 70's Show
King of the Hill
Dateline
Gilmore Girls
Boy Meets World
Comedy Central Presents...
Premium Blend
Greatest Hotels
There and Back
Made

Books:

The Bathroom Reader
The Year my Life Went Down the Loo
Old Man and the Sea
Northern Light
Ordinary People
Alice in Wonderland
Flipped
Flowers for Algernon
Star Girl
Mona Lisa Smile
The BFG
Crime and Punishment
Blink
The Tipping Point
City in the Stars
The Uglies
The Notebook
A Walk to Remember
What My Mother Doesn't Know
Alt Ed
Speak
The Pretties
Lisa Bright and Dark
This Lullaby
Jean and Johnny
Dear Mr. Henshaw
A Northern Light
LovingKindness
Journals of any sort.

Heroes:

Jack Johnson
Judith Guest
August Rolufs
FDR
John Mayer
my grandma :)

My Blog

Eighth Grade was odd.

THINK BACK TO 8th GRADE...1. Who was your best friend in 8th grade?Taryn, Corey Dunn, Hillary.2. Who did you like?Augie mostly, but I had a *few* boyfriends before him. (Ean, Matt S, Matt P, Adam, Ale...
Posted by erika on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:01:00 PST

Coocoocachooo

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Posted by erika on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

The Perfect Human

The Perfect Human Erika Lewis This is the perfect human-the perfect human in her adolescence; look at her, the perfect human, waking up; the perfect human places her feet on the ground; why does she...
Posted by erika on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:27:00 PST

Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more.

I've been happy lately. I can sleep, I can dream, and I can be myself. I can't write, though. I miss writing with everything in me. I think I'm too much of a dreamer right now. I think of everything i...
Posted by erika on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:58:00 PST

Christmas

I was so terrified of this Christmas. This is the Christmas where I felt little to no excitement, the one where I didn't blast Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra at all hours. I haven't watched Rudolph or...
Posted by erika on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:30:00 PST

So...

I guess you all know that my dog, Buddy, died. He was my first REAL dog, the one where I was old enough to take care of him and form a bond. He was kind of a fruity dog, but he was awesome. He used t...
Posted by erika on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:11:00 PST

All Things Go...

     Jamie Cullum is amazing. I just got back from his concert at the Pageant, and I have no idea how he does it. It was really awesome, because it was the second show on the U.S. ...
Posted by erika on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:11:00 PST

... or am I lost?

{At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can liv...
Posted by erika on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:49:00 PST

Sometimes planes, they crash up in the sky...

Don't ask me.   Ask the Ministry. {A self-fulfilling prophecy of endless possibilty You roll in reams across the street In algebra, in algebra The fences that you cannot climb The sentences that ...
Posted by erika on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:46:00 PST

Sadness is Gentle Mind

I think I'll just take some pills, and go to sleep.   I've finished two books in the past 30 hours already. There's not much more to fill my head. All of the stories seem to run together now. The...
Posted by erika on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:28:00 PST