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Erin

Whatever...

About Me

Here goes... I'm older than I look & more serious than I seem. Everything reminds me of a song. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't trust vegans. I always have my Nano & a book in my purse. I don't store numbers in my cell phone. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but I've turned into a coffee snob. I love my family into tiny bits. I don't smoke anymore, but still want a clove cigarette during the first cold snap of the year (they taste like Christmas). I know where to find all of the best cosmos in town. I love New Orleans. I'm eerily good at Boggle and Pop-o-Matic Trouble. I like to drive with the windows down. I wear a cowboy hat about twice a year. And I'm tired of talking about myself...

My Interests

I quite dig my car... Blue Steel.Other stuff I enjoy... Reading and writing. ('Rithmatic is for the mentally unstable. Although, it's pretty cool when things approach infinity.) Words are cool. I love music - SINGING it, playing it, listening to it. Oh, and sarcasm. It's great exercise for the old noggin.

I'd like to meet:

There's no way that this list could be at all realistic... or even cool... so why try? I'd like to sit on the back of Ewan McGregor's motorcycle, have a beer with ee cummings, paint easter eggs with JK Rowling, people-watch with Carrie Fisher, sing with Patty Griffin, hit Bourbon Street with Vince Vaughn, run over Adolf Hitler with a pointy car, make a pizza with Morgan Freeman, paint Will Ferrell's fingernails, have a staring contest with Jude Law, put cement shoes on Osama, skip rocks with the apostle Paul, knit a keen scarf for Colin Firth, throw a muddy rock at Martha Stewart, discuss religion with Martin Luther King Jr, climb something with Nathan Fillion, and ultimately talk it all over with Christ.*** I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts! ***

erin --
[noun]:

A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

You Are Austin
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
You're totally weird and very proud of it.
Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way.

Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick What American City Are You?

Music:

There's not enough space in this website... Beatles, Patty Griffin, Gabe Dixon Band, Gavin DeGraw (the live stuff), Alison Krauss, Amos Lee, Jonatha Brooke, Shane and Shane, Violent Femmes, Nichole Nordeman, Ben Folds (with and without the other 2 who make up the Five), Marc Broussard, White Stripes (actually, all things Jack White), Descendents, Newworldson, They Might Be Giants, Jeff Buckley (RIP), John Mayer, Lyle Lovett, Brad Paisley, Nickel Creek, Jane's Addiction (before Porno for Pyros & even Lollapalooza), Radiohead, Eva Cassidy, Bebo Norman, Bob Schneider, THE SHINS, Regina Spektor, Kimya Dawson, FEIST, and (thanks to Myspace) Buchanan, Innocence Mission, Deb Talan, Michael Rossback, Rogue Wave, Jimmy Needham, Michael Gungor, the Weepies, and David Cook (may his record deal be swift & lucrative)... that's enough... for now.
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Movies:

Hmmm... Superbad, Punch Drunk Love, Delicatessen, anything Baz Luhrmann, Amelie, the Bourne flicks, anything Wes Anderson-related, Secretary, anything Ewan McGregor, Closer, Ever After, any of the good scary ones (Halloween, Exorcist, 28 Days Later, etc), Bridget Jones Diary, Napoleon Dynamite, Passion of the Christ (in spite of Mel), Reality Bites, Serenity, State and Main, Raising Arizona, Made, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, SLiTHER, JUNO, No Country for Old Men... there're more... many more.

Television:

OK. Stuff I liked enough to buy - Flight of the Conchords, Absolutely Fabulous, Sex and the City, The Tick (live action), Firefly, Arrested Development, Coupling (Good/British version). Stuff I watch now - HEROES, Prison Break, CHUCK, Bones, CSI (Vegas only - David Caruso makes me cry inside), Amazing Race, NCIS, Smallville, Supernatural, The Office (!!!), and (sigh) The West Wing (RIP) - which I replaced with (sigh) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (again with the RIP).

Books:

I read like my life depends on it... so this'll be all over the map - A goodly amount of Stan Rice or Leonard Cohen poetry, anything ee cummings or T.S.Eliot, those stinkin' Anne Rice vampire books & now her Jesus books (surprisingly good - the next one comes out in March), several of Stephen King's earlier novels, The World is Flat, Rule of Four, Secret History, Cat's Cradle, Catcher in the Rye, Princess Bride, all John Case thrillers, Running With Scissors, Fall On Your Knees, Assassination Vacation, Bridget Jones' Diary, Lovely Bones, Shopgirl, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day (you should hear him read it!), Waking the Moon, all Donald Miller prose, all Judith Viorst books (especially Rosie and Michael), Atonement, The Pink Carnation series, most Shakespeare, Generation X (trust me, it's good), 1984, John Connolly's thrillers, The Girl Next Door (all things Jack Ketchum, for that matter), Interpreter of Maladies, The Terror, and the Bible.

Heroes:

My family is awesome... and Jesus is the bomb. Seriously.

My Blog

A tiny rant...

I've just been bouncing around Myspace for a bit, and I need to get something off my chest.  I totally dig the need to express emotion in a typed message.  All caps is cool.  Italics wo...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 24 May 2008 10:56:00 PST

Theres a first time for everything...

There’s actually a contestant on American Idol that I love:  David Cook.  I’ve watched the show sporadically over the years, but I actually VOTED Tuesday night.  I’m f...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:10:00 PST

Broken Lines...

So this is Part Two in this sort-of-series that I'm writing.  I think it's important to look back before looking forward, so here's a little hindsight tale... I'm not sure if everyone is familia...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:19:00 PST

Miracles...

My brother will be here soon, so I don't have much time.  I just felt the need to get a ball rolling here...Here's the initial push... to get a little momentum going... I've known since I walked ...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST

Caring...

First thing's first.  Let me paint a wee picture for you...You bedazzle an old t-shirt to make it new again.  You're psyched to let your pals at work see your handiwork.  Eyes widen at ...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:38:00 PST

Head Over Heels...

Head over heels.  I hear it all the time, and it always irritates me.  I don't know about you, but I spend the better part of my day head over heels.  It's my normal physical state of b...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST

The Wave...

OK.  Driving in Austin is so often very much like a cruel joke.  The traffic on Tuesday at 2:42pm can be inexplicably worse than the traffic at 5:32pm on Friday, so I understand how this cou...
Posted by Erin on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:00 PST

Civil War (Part 2)...

The sky is a hypocrite.Equal parts dark and light.Murky threats brushed onto a clean conscience.Patchwork guilt draped over cashmere.In the inches above my headblur questions marksand dollar signsand ...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:13:00 PST

Good music...

...was here....
Posted by Erin on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

I'm resolved...

For the past several years, the closest I've come to making New Year's resolutions has been to resolve not to make any.  Not this year.  This year I have three:1)  I want to finally rec...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST