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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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9:15 pm - in case you're bored
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| Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
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12:55 am - new gig
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looks like I'll be doing some odd writing jobs over here for a spell:
www.sentimentalistmag.com
yeah, stuff like that mostly. so, you know . . . hey.
I went to their cd release show tonight with Dan. it was pretty great, but I hadn't realized how very young the band is. given their popularity, it'll be interesting to see if they can mature with any sense of dignity or if they'll just be supplying songs for Zach Braff movies in the years to come.
well, I hope everyone's doing well. if not, let me know what we can do about it.
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| Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
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12:10 am - last year
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| Monday, December 17th, 2007
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12:19 pm - inspiration
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for anyone who needs it. a lot of us seem to right now:
From The Once and Future King by T.H. White:
"The best thing for being sad…is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
cribbed from this
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| Friday, December 7th, 2007
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5:18 pm - the morning news is so hot right now
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from an internal TMN email:
"Q: How's the traffic?
A: Ooh, good. November was a top fall month. 750-800,000 visits. And
that's visits over page views, which is different, like, somehow.
September was nuts.
Q: How so?
A: Went over a million, blew out the sockets. We've got more memes
than looter in a riot. That is, until the new server was installed."
WOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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| Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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11:52 am - anyone free tonight?
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Anyone in the NYC area want to come with me to a super-corporate Xmas party thing in Times Square tonight? I have an extra pass to this thing:
The Lustgarten Foundation's Holiday Rock & Roll Bash 7
ft. JD and the Straight Shot (I'm pretty sure this is some CEO's "Blues" group)
B. B. King's Blues Club on 42nd
6:30-?
lots of free food and drinks
I promise a redonkulous evening.
ETA: "JD" is in fact the CEO of Cablevision and, if previous years' Bashes are any indication, there will be some of the Rockettes there performing.
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| Friday, November 30th, 2007
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12:01 pm - they be stressin'
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| Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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3:04 am - buH?
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just finished my mp3 digest for TMN tomorrow.
it's about gospel music, and how much I love it despite my lack of faith.
I don't know how it will go over.
I usually don't like them but then the guys are all "great!"
I have about 5 hours until I need to call a car to take me to the airport, where a plane will take me to FL.
I don't know what to do at the moment.
I still need to shower and pack.
blarg.
well, if you know who the New Pornographers are and you know who Michael McDonald is then you might find the following video as awesome and hilarious as I do.
it's my favorite thing in the world right now.
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| Friday, September 21st, 2007
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11:23 am - n'york
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So, one week ago today marked the one year anniversary of Erik Living in New York City. I don't write much in this LJ anymore (and never really did) because I think I hate talking about myself. Maybe it's just another form of vanity, though. Whatever, I thought that I could at least belly up to the bar for one post to briefly make note of the time I've spent here, and, since I love lists, I decided to make this easy via the following:
New York City: Pros V. Cons:
Cons:
Smells awful almost everywhere you go
Not many trees anywhere except Central Park, which is awesome (see Pros)
No central AC in most apartments
There's always somebody directly in front of you, blocking your way, wherever you go, whatever you're trying to do
$$$ (as in, don't got)
Bed bugs
The hype (don't believe it)
People (a lot of total d-bags)
Lost an old friend shortly after arriving (turns out she's a pathological liar, delusional, and a psycho hose beast. Wish I hadn't been depending on her)
"Cajun" (as in, every place I eat here seems to think this means adding green onion or red pepper to something)
Food, in general, is worse here than in New Orleans, or even Tallahassee for that matter. Unless you want to pay mad $$$ (see Cons)
Google (they don't treat their support staff half as well as everyone else, which is getting kinda lame, but see Pros)
Pros:
The Morning News (probably my favorite thing that's ever happened to me was getting an internship with them and then being asked to be an assistant editor. This is exactly why I came here)
Google (they feed me, and, curiously, with the exception of pizza, everything they make is pretty awesome, but see Cons)
The subway (pretty cool)
Subway musicians (the good ones, not that hippie with the ukelele)
Seasons
Central Park (when it's not too hot, hugely impressive)
People (not d-bags: I couldn't begin to name every name, but everyone I've met through LJ, all the Morning News crew, my crazy-ass roommates, my friends-of-friends from New Orleans, friends-of-friends from Tallahassee, most of the people I work with at Google, my girlfriend, and everyone else who have made my stay here so delightful and unique)
Jameson (good whiskey)
All the celebrities I've banged
So, obviously still not doing fantastic, but looking promising. I'm looking forward to see how the scales will tip in the future, and looking froward because nobody uses that word anymore.
hearts,
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| Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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9:33 am - where I will be tomorrow night
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| Friday, July 20th, 2007
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11:58 am - from themorningnews.org
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| Friday, July 13th, 2007
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3:50 pm - the game
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| Monday, June 11th, 2007
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10:31 am - Who's coming with me?
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| Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
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1:39 pm - this is what I do now
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| Friday, May 18th, 2007
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12:21 pm - new TMN piece
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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10:32 am - I took pictures of Rome
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| Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
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4:04 pm - we're through the looking glass here, people . . .
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| Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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1:27 am - this was fun
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Give me a shout and I'll:
1 - Tell you why I friended you (on LJ or in the really, real world).
2 - Associate you with a song or film (hope everyone likes ZZ Top).
3 - Tell a random fact about you (or a specific lie).
4 - Tell a first memory about you (or a last, Francine).
5 - Associate you with a character or pairing (like peanut butter and jelly: the movie).
6 - Ask something about you (is your fridge running?).
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours (not that one).
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| Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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1:38 pm - Andrew W. K. Speaks!
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| Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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6:07 pm - Questions?
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1. What about living in New York has surprised you the most? I mean, what did you never see coming?
Honestly, the feeling I get the most is that I've seen all of this before. I was expecting a far more unique experience, but what New York offers is mostly an aggregate and multiplicity of everything I've seen before taken to an exponential extreme, except of course for aspects of rural American life which just can't be found here in any sense. In any number of places I've been I've seen crazy wackos on public transportation, bored models using their Blackberrys (I wasn't sure about how to properly pluralize this. I mean, it's a brand name, right?) at clubs, people passed out on the street, celebrities, and people who act like I should know who they are because of how much money they make or their own implied sense of importance, but there's so much more of it here. One thing I was surprised about, I guess, is how generally awful the food and restaurant service is. This could just be that New Orleans spoiled me in this area, but it costs about twice as much to get something half as good in this city, which, to me, is total crap.
2. What's the best thing about Florida that people up in the rest of the country don't know about?
One thing you're gonna run into if you're from Florida is the prevailing notion in the rest of the country that Florida is just one long strip of beach between Disney World and Miami. This is not the case. This is like the rest of the country's notion that New York is comprised of one borough: Manhattan. What's more alarming, however, is that whenever I tell people I'm from Tallahassee, they say, "That sucks," or, "I'm sorry," which I think is incredibly presumptuous and rude. I love my hometown, and I may fight to defend it's honor. About a month before I came up here, I had one of the most wonderful and characteristically North Florida experiences of my life. A friend and I drove about a half hour outside of Tallahassee to a national park deep in pine forests called Wakulla Springs, where, most famously, Tarzan and The Creature from the Black Lagoon were shot in the 30's. Anyway, the springs are crystal clear, refreshingly cold on a 90-plus degree day, and surrounded by lush wildlife. While on the diving platform, a manatee and its calf (they are "sea cows" after all) swam into the roped-off swimming area, and about four feet below me under the tower. The memory of that day is something that returns to me frequently up here when surrounded by the wintry squalor of the city. I'm not trying to say that New York doesn't have a lot going for it, but you just can't get that sort of thing up here.
3. If there was going to be a drink named after you, what would you want it to contain?
That's a great question. I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with absolutely horrible drinks that no one should ever order, but I've never considered naming one after myself. One is one part sambuca, one part jager, and one part Hormel chili. It's called "vomit in the asshole". Another is one my friends came up with. It's a glass of red wine with baked beans at the bottom. It's called a "dirty treat". I recommend neither.
Finding existing sodas unsatisfying, however, I started making my own fountain sodas which were 1/2 coke, 1/4 fruit punch, and 1/4 lemonade. My friend James started calling those "Erik drinks".
4. Same question as above, but this time it's a sandwich.
Even better. My sandwich would have turkey, salmon, hummus, fried shrimp, kalamata olives, sprouts, cucumbers, a fried egg, tomatoes, romaine lettuce, muenster AND smoked gouda, banana peppers, onions, jalapenos, avocado, bacon, pickles, a smidge of mayo, a little creole mustard, all on a loaf of pumpernickel-rye swirl.
5. What is your least marketable skill?
As far as the job field I've been looking in (namely publishing/editing/writing) my penchant for making out hasn't proved particularly useful. Which is really a shame, 'cause I hear I'm one hell of a kisser.
Here's how this works: If you respond with the phrase "I too am an egomaniac" or an approximate derivation, you too could be asked five personalized, unrelated questions by . . . me! Apply today!
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