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E R I K A

All the babies, they can feel the world, that's why they cry.

About Me



My Interests

Reading, Learning, Traveling, Listening and Feeling Music, Sleeping, Painting, Playing Poker, Meditation

I'd like to meet:



Music:

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A Band of Bees
A Tribe Called Quest
Add N to X
Aesop Rock
Air
Akron/Family
All Night Radio
Andrew Bird
Animal Collective
Anoushka Shankar
Aphex Twin
Aqueduct
Arcade Fire
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Atmosphere
Babyshambles
Badly Drawn Boy
Band of Horses
Battles
Beachwood Sparks
Bearsuit
Bearwolf
Beastie Boys
Beatles
Beck
Bedouin Soundclash
Beruit
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds
Ben Kweller
Best of Seth
Beta Band
Beulah
Bishop Allen
Björk
Blackalicious
Black Star
Black Keys
Bloc Party
Blonde Redhead
The Blow
Blur
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Boy Least Likely To
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene
BS2000
Busdriver
Cake
Calexico
Califone
Caribou
Cat Power
Cat Stevens
Chemical Brothers
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Clash Clinic
Clor
CoCoRosie
Coldplay
Cornelius
Creedence Clearwater Revival
CSS
Cursive
Cyne
Daft Punk
The Dandy Warhols
Danielson
David Bowie
The Dears
Death Cab For Cutie
Deerhoof
Del The Funky Homosapien
Des'ree
Devendra Banhart
Dinosaur Jr. DJ Shadow
Doves
Dungen
Eagles of Death Metal
Echo & The Bunnymen
Eels
The Elected
Electric Light Orchestra
Elliot Smith
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Explosions in the Sky
Feist
The Fiery Furnaces
Fiona Apple
Fischerspooner
The Flaming Lips
Four Tet
French Kicks
Frou Frou
George Clinton
Gnarls Barkley
Goldfrapp
The Good Life
Gorillaz
Grandaddy
Grateful Dead
Grizzly Bear
Guided By Voices
Harry Nilsson
The Helio Sequence
Heiroglyphics
Holopaw
Interpol
Iron & Wine
Islands
Janis Joplin
Joe Cocker
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Tweedy
Jimi Hendrix
Joanna Newsom
John Coltrane
John Lennon
John Vanderslice
Jon Brion
Jose Gonzalez
Jurassic 5
Kasabian
Kings of Convenience
Kings of Leon
The Knife
Koushik
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Le Tigre
Lou Reed
M. Ward
The Magic Numbers
The Magnetic Fields
Man Man
Manitoba
The Mars Volta
Massive Attack
Matt and Kim
matt pond PA Medeski, Martin, & Wood
Menomena
Mercury Rev
Miles Davis
Moby
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Moldy Peaches
Mos Def
Nahza
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
Nick Drake
The Notwist
Of Montreal
Olivia Tremor Control
Page France
Paleo
Panda Bear
Pavement
Peter Bjorn and John
Pinback
The Pixies
PJ Harvey
The Polyphonic Spree The Ponys Portishead
Prefuse 73
Prince
Q and not U
Quasimoto
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M.
Radiohead
The Blow The Rapture
Ravi Shankar
Regina Spektor Rob Zombie Robert Plant
The Roots
Rufus Wainwright
Ryan Adams
Se7en Sean Lennon
Seu Jorge
The Shins
Shout Out Louds
Sigur Ros
The Silver Jews
Simian
Smashing Pumpkins Smokey and Miho
Soul Coughing
Spank Rock
Sparklehorse
Spiritualized
Spoon
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Starlight Mints
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Sufjan Stevens
Sunset Rubdown
Swan Lake
Thelonious Monk
The Talking Heads
Thievery Corporation
Thom Yorke
Tom Waits
TV on the Radio
The Unicorns
Ugly Cassanova
The Velvet Underground
VHS or Beta
The Walkmen
Ween
The White Stripes
Wilco
World Leader Pretend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo

Movies:

11:14 28 Days Later 28 Weeks Later A Clockwork Orange Almost Famous Amelie Annie Hall Blow Broken Flowers Clay Pigeons Cube Coffee and Cigarettes Dark City Dazed & Confused Ed Wood Elling Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Fargo Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Full Metal Jacket Garden State Idiocracy I Heart Huckabees I Love Your Work Kung Fu Hustle Lost in Translation Love Actually Manic Monster Natural Born Killers Papillon Punch Drunk Love Radiohead - The Astoria London Live - '94 Rushmore Se7en Secret Window Snatch The Best of The Beta Band Film The Flaming Lips '92-'05 VOID Music Videos The Life Aquatic The Nightmare Before Christmas The Ninth Gate The Royal Tenenbaums The Science of Sleep The Squid and the Whale The Virgin Suicides The Wizard of Oz Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Trainspotting Transformers V for Vendetta What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous Aqua Teen Hunger Force Arrested Development Becker Cheers CNN CSI: Las Vegas Curb Your Enthusiasm Da Ali G Show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe Double Dare 2000 Dude Ranch Entourage Flight of the Concords Futurama GUTS IFC Jeopardy Late Night with Conan O'Brien Law & Order Man vs. Wild Miami Ink Modern Marvels Monty Python's Flying Circus Mr. Show with Bob and David MXC Nip/Tuck Peewee's Playhouse Reno 911! Robot Chicken Roseanne Salad Fingers Salute Your Shorts Samurai Champloo Saturday Night Live Scrapbooking Scrubs Six Feet Under South Park Squidbillies Stella Subterranean The Adventures of Pete & Pete The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Ellen Degeneres Show The L Word The Office (UK) The Simpsons The Weakest Link What Would You Do? Will & Grace Win Ben Stein's Money Wondershowzen

Books:

+Anthony Burgess-"A Clockwork Orange" +Belle Yang-"Baba" +David Sedaris-"Dress Your Family in Courdoroy and Denim" +David Sedaris-"Me Talk Pretty One Day" +David Sedaris-"Naked" +Dean Koontz-"From the Corner of His Eye" +Herman Hesse-"Siddhartha" +Irvine Welsh-"Ecstasy" +J.D. Salinger-"The Catcher in the Rye" +Jack Kerouac-"On the Road" +Kurt Cobain-"The Kurt Cobain Journals" +Kurt Vonnegut-"Breakfast of Champions" +Lorrie Moore-"Birds of America" +Robert M. Pirsig-"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" +Sam Kashner-"When I Was Cool" +Scott B. Smith-"A Simple Plan" +Stephen Davis-"Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga" +Susanna Kaysen-"Girl, Interrupted" +Sylvia Plath-"The Bell Jar" +Sylvia Plath-"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" +Tom Robbins-"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" +Tom Robbins-"Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" +Tom Robbins-"Jitterbug Perfume" +Tom Robbins-"Still Life With Woodpecker" +William S. Burroughs-"Junky"

Heroes:

All my friends, especially the ones that have been there for me through the really shitty times. And hey, I can't forget about my dad.

My Blog

ATTENTION ALL CALLERS!

Anyone who tries to call me: Leave a message and your number (very important) My phone was dropped in a glass of orange juice and vodka and now doesn't work, but I can still check my voicemail from a ...
Posted by E R I K A on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:22:00 PST

VOTE FOR ME!

Go here and VOTE FOR ME!
Posted by E R I K A on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:27:00 PST

Anticipated Future Album Releases

Basement Jaxx - Title TBA (2008) Blur - Title TBA (2008) Coldplay - Title TBA (Early 2008) The Counting Crows - "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" (January 2008) Zack de la Rocha - Title TBA (200...
Posted by E R I K A on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:46:00 PST

Top 5 Sexy Men with Glasses

Johnny Depp Jermaine Clement Jason Schwartzman (in "Rushmore") Ben Folds Woody Allen...
Posted by E R I K A on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:12:00 PST

The most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen...

If you wanna see the most disgusting thing of all time, go to http://www.cupchicks.com/ . Then scroll to the bottom and click on "Watch the Video" or whatever, and just watch that shit... literal...
Posted by E R I K A on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:24:00 PST

Shout Out Louds, Johnossi, & Nico Vega

Sean and I went to Atlanta to see the Shout Out Louds, which also featured Nico Vega and another fellow Swedish band, Johnossi. Be sure to check out Johnossi's new album, called Johnossi which was rel...
Posted by E R I K A on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:38:00 PST

Tag, Im It!

READ THE RULES FIRST.. The rules: Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or thoughts about yourself. At the end, you choose 10 people to be ta...
Posted by E R I K A on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:14:00 PST

Suzanne’s Survey

1. What is your best friend's Dad's name?Rai's dad's name is Steve.2. What body part do you hate on everybody?For guys, the penis. For people in ge...
Posted by E R I K A on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:40:00 PST

September 40 Watt Club Shows

AKRON/FAMILYSaturday, Sept. 159:00 PM$10 VHS OR BETATuesday, Sept. 259:00 PM$8 BLONDE REDHEADMonday, Sept. 179:00 PM$15...
Posted by E R I K A on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:24:00 PST

Bands To Check Out

If you're not already aware of these bands, you MUST check them out: Cats on FireKev HopperSalty PiratesThe TrianglesPlastic Little CrambodiaAnnualsAsobi SeksuBarzinBenni Hemm HemmCadence WeaponCajun...
Posted by E R I K A on Sat, 12 May 2007 08:34:00 PST