... you're nice. i like you.

a little video

2011-06-11T19:35:00.000-07:00

A little video of what I've been looking at. Music curtsey of Walrus Rex

Chill Fundy

2010-11-30T08:35:00.000-08:00

Stop by Sully's House to Support the 1st Chicago Chill Event of the Season. Share the love of the mountains!

snowboarding is the best

2010-11-21T18:45:00.000-08:00

Don't forget to volunteer for Chill this year. SHARE THE LOVE

Jim Denevan and David Eustace

2010-11-06T09:18:00.000-07:00

it's snowing outside today and i'm looking at the anthropolgist. it's a neat electronic space to visit.

Every Morning I've Got a New Chance

2010-08-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

mike simi's art is really cool. i like it. he lives in seattle AND used to live in marquette. the coolest place on earth.

he also built Mr. Weekend. i like the video.

i like things

2010-08-20T23:55:00.000-07:00

i-94

2010-08-20T23:23:00.000-07:00

i-94 northwest indiana august 10, 2010.

picking up

2010-08-20T22:42:00.000-07:00

hollywood blvd. los angeles, california. August 8, 2010

taxi ride 2

2010-08-20T22:31:00.000-07:00

the strip. vegas. August 7, 2010. cash only.

hike in the park

2010-08-20T22:05:00.000-07:00

los angeles, california, runyon canyon, august 9, 2010

work it out

2010-08-20T21:55:00.000-07:00

tao. vegas. august 6, 2010.

2010-06-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

marquette, michigan. may 2010.

The Nightingale

2010-05-21T18:29:00.000-07:00

Everyone should go to the Nightingale. it's the best. and Christy is my friend. I like her a lot. 

Nightingale Trailer 2010 from Nightingale Chicago on Vimeo.

Taxi Ride

2010-05-21T18:25:00.000-07:00

Push Tuesdays

2010-05-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

Push Tuesdays. Abyss playing music at Lokal. wicker park. chicago.

Banksy in Chicago

2010-05-16T15:16:00.000-07:00

neato toledo alex. can you believe it's really happening?

David Masciotra on Friday Nights with Erica!!

2010-05-04T21:09:00.001-07:00

Hey hey hey, I got another little radio treat for y'all little ear feigning freaks. I say y'all now because I live in Indiana. who else lives in Indiana.... DAVID MASCIOTRA! who is he? well, at first he was this kid who sat in the back of my writing class, rolling in late. who would have guessed he just published a book. real nice cardstock y'all.

Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen. Listen to Mr. Masciotra eloquently speak about The Boss and the message behind the music.
David is clear, direct, and poetic - and all off the top of his cranium. You will never listen to Springsteen's music or rock-n-roll in the same way again.

Check out his website,peruse his publications, and follow his blog, Subtle Subverison.

FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH ERICA DOWNLOAD!!!

2010-04-04T11:30:00.000-07:00

Schmap Los Angeles Tenth Edition: Photo Inclusion

Hi Erica,

I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released tenth edition of our Schmap Los Angeles Guide:

Santa Monica
www.schmap.com/losangeles/tours_tour1/p=2004D05/i=2004D05_92.jpg

Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - please enjoy the guide!

Best regards,

Claire Evans
Editor, Schmap Guides

Friday Nights with Erica!

2010-03-20T01:00:00.001-07:00

k... so, turns out i have a radio show. say what?! yep, and this friday i got a chance to interview Omnigod. REALLY??!!! yeah, for real. 8-bit gorilla, Angel 1, Charlie Sweet, Caroline, and Stacy called in from Lincoln, NH and stayed on the phone with me for 2 hours! These guys are super rad, so much fun, and the music will make you want to breakdown your walls and run through the streets hand-in-hand with your neighbors.

Check out their myspace page

OMNIGOD

EBD

8-bit gorilla also has a bunch of other side projects that are extra radical.

Blite

8-bit gorilla

If you tell me the minute where I hit my head on the microphone, i'll send you a postcard.

FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH ERICA

Everyone loves Hokkaido

2010-02-17T18:42:00.000-08:00

No olympics for Antti Autti......

happy valentine's day !

2010-02-14T15:05:00.000-08:00

Found this video

while checking out this other super cool video

Creative Lounge - Chicago

2010-02-09T20:42:00.000-08:00

January i tried to meet my cousin at the Creative Lounge. I walked into penis art with crazy dresses and free champagne! went by myself and was pretty shy. everyone there seemed to be doing their thing. made me feel comfortable to be a fly, take video, lots of photos and genuinely just be weird. i was documenting.

lots of things to stimulate the neuros. video, performance, sculpture, painting, photography.... very cool. the 1st of each month there is always an event. go go go

25th Banked Slalom at Mt. Baker

2010-02-08T18:16:00.000-08:00

Frequency covers this awesome event. awesomeness.

waiting for the d train

2009-11-09T15:45:00.001-08:00

Yoko Ono. There is really nothing more to say.

plastic ono band on jimmy fallon

Lady Gaga

2009-11-06T12:04:00.000-08:00

awesome performance. lady gaga is cool.

Lady Gaga MTV VMA performance

micachu & the shapes

2009-10-27T17:06:00.000-07:00

music video - turn me well

couch

2009-09-20T20:47:00.000-07:00

tonight I'm at meg's apartment. flight out to new york tomorrow morning. got my sleeping bag out, don't really need a pillow. last minute check on the emails and I started to think about how many couches i've slept on. which me brought me to sleeping on Katie Berkedal's couch way back in 2003 ? this was before katie and sam ventured off to Kyushu. they were in the middle of filling out all of their paper work. they lived in this tiny apartment in an old brick building in Lacrosse Wisconsin. creeky wooden stairs. middle of the summer, no air conditioning. all we would could do was take showers to keep cool. not together mind you. I remember the bathroom. small. the apartment was shaped like an octagon. bay windows. itchy carpet. i think the couch was made of wool. didn't even really want to sit down on it. had the same sleeping bag that I have now. I remember getting really high and after everyone went to sleep i thought I was breaking out into hives. it was so hot in that apartment. staring at myself in the mirror at 2 am. is my face swollen? look right. look left. tilt my chin down. is my left check bigger than my right? i debated sleeping in the shower. after i brought myself back to reality i got the brain wonders about how I was sleeping on their couch. and how many other couches I potentially would be sleeping on and if i would ever have my own couch to sleep on. or would I always be that girl who shows up and sleeps on your couch. here I am 6 years later having these same thoughts. I guess I am that girl that shows up and sleeps on your couch. no fuss, i've got a sleeping bag.

a letter from the kitchen

2009-09-07T11:15:00.000-07:00

Dear Kathryn,

I made miso soup today and I thought about how much fun it is to cook with you and kelly. sapporo starlets. fun kitchen chats with lots of alcamahal so let me know what you think and what's been cooking with chuuu

train of thought :

1. I got this kombu from my friend Asia. came in this weird package. covered in white stuff, assumed it was salt. do i wash that off or is the salt good ? I washed it.

2. next, 2 cups of water in the pot, added a bit more because you never know

3. cool out. stared at the pot for a little bit. walked back and forth, sat on the couch, got a glass of orange juice. I waited until clusters of little bubbles appear around the kombu. right before the water boils. then take it out. put it on that rash you noticed last night.

that is your stock. I didn't use dashi because I didn't have any.

4. at an early boil, put in the dried shataki mushrooms first. makes 'em nice and soft. dried things expand in water so I ripped 'em up into small pieces

5. do the wakamae wake up dance. really cold water, quick rinse. then break it up into small pieces, drop it into soup

NOTE*** this whole time I'm pretty concious of the temperature of the water. never getting it to a full rolling boil.

6. when the water is hot steaming and settled, add the miso.

yes i found miso in argentina.

I judge how much miso by the color of the water. this time I kept it light.

7. Last, add in the spring onions. or green onions. or are those the same thing ? I put them in last so they would keep their crunch. you know how I like my texture. Then I was done. and it was really good. i think the best one yet. a classic traditional masterpiece. eat it while it's hot though. cold miso soup is not so good. In my 2nd cup i added some brown rice. Chika told me the name for this in japanese . i forget what she said, but she said it's food for cats. I like it.

hey you you're always so back and forth

2009-09-05T14:58:00.000-07:00

looks like SASS isn't the only one who knows what to do with a paddle. check out the almost latest from Ian Matteson

2009-09-02T12:13:00.000-07:00

sometimes i need a little taste of summer in the midst of my endless winter

a really pretty surfing video

Tokyo X-trail

2009-09-02T11:38:00.000-07:00

check this out.... one of the reasons why I went to Japan. big flashy comps, indoor snowboarding, and people dressed up as giant smiley faces. Japan knows how to throw awesome events. I'm sad to see it go, but eager to see what will happen next

...end of an era

trash park lincoln, nh

2009-09-02T06:07:00.000-07:00

2009-06-30T21:11:00.001-07:00

life has this funny way of keeping you in a circle and before you know it, it's time to go back to Argentina. 12 more days....

2009-03-11T00:32:00.001-07:00

I felt like writing something new. so I am. and I did. so there you go.

what happened?

2008-10-22T01:42:00.000-07:00

I was in Argentina for 3 months.

where were you ?

I went snowboarding all summer.

what did you do ?

So I feel like perphaps you expected me to write something.... maybe even on a regular basis.....

...... ummm...... logical.

where i am going

2008-07-31T18:29:00.000-07:00

Argentina is the word that comes up automatically in the box that pops up underneath the google search box when you type in the letter 'A' beacause I look it up so many times. Actually going there doesn't seem like reality to me yet. It's such a dream. I can't even make a joke about it. My brain goes blank, my eyes get wide, my head starts tilting back, and all I can muster out is .... uhezzedoobee.... And that's just from looking at photos of the mountains. Do you realize where you are going to be snowboarding? Do you realize that the places you will be seeing only a tiny percentage have seen? This is crazy. Who does this? Is this my life? this is what goes on inside my head when I think about making the trek down south. Then I start jumping up and down making a high pitched buzzing noise ... just wait ... I'm sure all of you guys will hear it.

a job

2008-07-31T06:05:00.000-07:00

I left his apartment in tears like all good girls do. I'd been trying to cry for the last 3 weeks because I knew this would happen. Walking, bicycle busted, down a narrow street at 4am, headphones on. Pass two Seciomarts and I'm back at my tiny apartment. Finish up packing and I'm going west. Fuck. what am I gonna do? Fiona's heading to Chile. Only so much money in my pocket. plane tickets and I gotta head home to Indiana for a very important wedding of a very important friend. 3 hours until my airport bus, no sleeping. check my email one last time and I hear that skype buuuuulup. Hey, it's that guy from that camp. sweet. ... what? you guys want me? huh ... uh... this has gotta be a joke. From an emotional low to an emotional high, I was more fucked up than that day I convinced myself I didn't exist.

AHHHHHH!! I'm going to ARGENTINA with SOUTH AMERICA SNOW SESSIONS!!