In alphabetical order: archipelagoes, Asian food, asymmetry, Bangkok alleyways, baseball, being a total nerd, being pedantic, berating George Lucas, bizarre love triangles, books, Buddhists, buses from Chinatowns to other Chinatowns, Chinatown, coming very close to hurting myself, conversations with cab drivers, cougars, drinking a cold beer on a hot summer day in the bleachers, driving recklessly in shitty cars, eastern europe (the parts without skinheads), extreme liberalism, flickr, ghetto revivals, Golden State Warriors (sadly), hapas, Highway 1, individuality, japanese freak-kink (for entertainment purposes only), Jeopardy!, Jews, karaoke, Komodo Dragons, learning pointless crap so i can dominate Jeopardy, lomography, minimalism, mountains, newspapers, Oakland Athletics, Omarion, orangutans, orange julius, ping-pong, Queer as Folk, Rage Against the Machine, reading good books in hammocks, riding elephants, riding in cars with boys and girls, scuba diving, southeast asia, travel and exploration on a local or international level, trying desperately to get off the beaten path, used bookstores, vagina monologues, Vietnamese sandwiches, wailing away with an acoustic guitar or a karaoke mic and sounding like a lamb being slaughtered, walking aimlessly, wandering, wanderlust, Xavier Nady, yearning, Zebras.
Music
"I've had a long day and I hate the fucking Eagles."
Movies
Point Break, Big Lebowski, The Cutting Edge, VI Warshawski, Christmas Ape, Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp.
Television
It begins and ends with the Sopranos.
Books
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, One Pitch Away by Mike Sowell, and The English Roses by Madonna.
Heroes
Theo Epstein, Dr. Drew, Carlos Delgado, Allen Iverson, Che Guevara, Meredith Grey.
Miami Ad School-San Francisco
San Francisco,California
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Clubs: i'm not really alumni. i dropped out for several reasons. one, i wanted to take an internship in Bangkok, and didn't think the school was entitled to the $4000 or whatever it is they want to retain enrollment. two, i didn't think ron and pippa needed a new ivory backscratcher (although they need a new myspace page). enough fake school. the real world awaits (kinda).
2004 to 2006
University Of California-Berkeley
Berkeley,California
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
Clubs: I was once mentioned in a Daily Bear comic strip as having "an anal-erotic preoccupation." Thank you Dan Wheeler.
2000 to 2002
University Of California-Berkeley
Berkeley,California
Graduated: 2002
Major: Rhetoric
Clubs: Yes, I was a double major. Yes, I majored in the same two disciplines that MySpace Tom did. No, I do not have a net worth of over $400 million. But I can make spaghetti, play "Heart and Soul" on the piano with my feet, apply lipstick while holding the tube between my breasts, and tape all of your buns together.
2000 to 2002
Monte Vista High
Danville,California
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: amberlyn jackson
Clubs: Fishing Club Sergeant at Arms, 1995-1996
Fishing Club President, 1996-1997
Cricket Club Equipment Manager, 1994
1993 to 1997
Eric 's Companies
Oakland Athletics Baseball Oakland, California US media relations/emergency bullpen catcher Baseball Information
2000-2001
Initech (ADP) San Ramon, California US TPS Reporter TPS
About me: I'm having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that my life now consists of a commute, inherently pointless yet seductively semi-creative/potentially prosperous work, and ten days of vacation a year. I realize that does little, if anything, to set me apart from the rest of the world, disgruntled or not, but every day I inch closer to doing something about it. Rest assured that a killing spree is the last thing you could expect from me, but thoughts of quitting the ratrace for a position as either a UN Peacekeeper or a nomadic ESL teaching position fluctuate between frivolous and desperate.
My favorite athlete is Stephen Jackson.
Who I'd like to meet: Half-Japanese girls, people that obsess over baseball, expatriates, ascetics, adventurers, divers, photographers, artists, authors, designers, fashionistas, urbanites, someone who can teach me how to surf, nice, humble, creative people, and the legendary Carl Buddig.
I don't want to meet blowhards, cocky motherfuckers, self-absorbed chatterboxes, people with no imagination, people who are always interrupting other people, or anyone who cares what Paris Hilton is doing.
Question: So would you be down to host someone's brother's girlfriend as a houseguest next weekend??? Basically, David has respectfully declined accompanying me to the Bay so that I can go to a wedding and I need a place to stay because the friends I would stay with are out of town. I would prefer to ask you before your parents cuz I don't want to inconvenience them and you’re cool and I’d get to see Ping! Plus I could take you out for a drink and then you could explain your MySpace quote to me, or you could just ignore me all weekend and when I leave I’ll just be a fleeting memory of someone who slept on an air mattress on your floor for two nights ...
happy birthday to you... happy birthday to you.. happy birthday dear... my old friend, Jose Canseco... (who doesn't even have me in his top 80) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!
Good to see you've finally crawled out of your parents basement and joined the ranks of the overcharged rental masses. Go eat a sourdough bowl of chowder for me on the pier!! Are ya ready for some basebbbbbbbbball ???? :)
Hey a-hole. How was the power exchange? Hope you used protection. You probably still have the free condoms & lube from the Gay pride parade circa 2005. Good stuff. You should be expecting an envelope in the mail by next week. Don't get too excited tho. It's nothing special. Just something unspecial.
well that's awfully nice of you, eric, but i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that i surround myself with people who are far more interesting than i am -- you being one of them. then i just take pictures of them and put them on myspace. it does a lot for my image. :)
