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Erin

It takes one to know one

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

boys who smell like juicy fruit

Music:

Les Savy Fav, Busdriver, Iron & Wine, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, Beans, Elliott Smith, Calla, The Warlocks, Edan, Lyrics Born, Jose Gonzales, Mike Wexler, Terry Reid, Devendra Banhart, Stevie Wonder, Big Mama Thornton, Joe Turner, Jelly Roll Morton, Black Sabbath, Weird War, the Notwist, Can, ESG, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, Johnny Cash

Movies:

The Secret of My Success, House of Flying Daggers, Big Trouble in Little China, Magnolia, Life is Beautiful, Hands on a Hard Body, Night of the Living Dead, When a Stranger Calls (the original), anything Studio Ghibli, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Boambauch film, not the Will Farrell one).

Television:

The Three Stooges, The Office, Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, The L Word, Harvey Birdman, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek DSN, ATHF, Family Guy, Kids Next Door, anything on Boomerang, Six Feet Under, all Adult Swim

Books:

just almost finished: And you shall Know our Velocity...why can't I seem to finish a Dave Eggers book...this book has held me up for weeks. I'm putting it down.Currently reading: Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami

Heroes:

The Prize Patrol

My Blog

how high can you jump?

Gabe and I are getting a trampoline.
Posted by Erin on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:49:00 PST

Non-violent resistance no longer an option

The days of going limp and participating in non-violence resistance are over with the ever increasing use of tasers. The incident in the video below actually made me weak watching it. There are seve...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

A sad day

My mom's dog died Monday morning from a flesh eating bacteria. She had Shar-pei fever, which can be a fatal disease in shar-peis, but she was only 3, and most of them live longer than that. The bact...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:25:00 PST

And just 14 years later he’s president!!

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida . The one who hangs around here al...
Posted by Erin on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:08:00 PST

My Personal Development Plan

I just negotiated the price of a painting we are using in a publication from $5,000 to $1,500. That means I can say I saved the company $3,500 on my PDP (see title of blog). And just in time for my ...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:56:00 PST

The worst luck in the world

Gabe always picks me up from work. Always. However, he felt sick after school on Wednesday, so he came to my work at lunch, and I took him home and then drove back to work. On the way home that eve...
Posted by Erin on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:03:00 PST

Getting shit straight

Between Gabe and I, we've had every possible charge, ticket and crazy outcome from the DMV. I got a letter from my insurance agency on Friday that said they were cancelling my insurance. When i ca...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:40:00 PST

What the fuck is happening to this city?

Last night, my friend Travis ran through the stop sign on Guadalupe right past 38th near intramural fields on his bike. A car pulled over in his path and two guys got out and started harassing him fo...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

Mayor McCheese!

The Mayor jumped in the swimming pool last night at Sharon's. He jumped in the deep end, and swam towards me. We kept putting him on the step in the shallow end, but every time we swam away, he'd ju...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:41:00 PST

People and their guns

So, I've been desperately searching for a new photo project, and the idea of portraits of people and their guns came to me. It will have to be with my medium format camera, which means it will be sho...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:07:00 PST