Erin

About me

Gender Female
Occupation Community Resource Officer
Location Australia
Introduction While I try to plan for the future, I can't help living mostly for today.
Interests Energy, world music and culture, musical inspiration, the process of self expression via dance/song/instruments/literature/visual art/other, sociology, anthropology, nature of social conditioning upon humans, authenticity, community development, collectivism, group euphoria
Favorite Movies Kicking and Screaming (the 90s one), Waking Life, Drumline (cool drum patterns and movements, very av storyline), Rules of Attraction, Baraka, ANYthing by WIM WENDERS, especially Faraway So Close, Altman films, there's lots more...
Favorite Music Samba, of course! Retrophonic Funk Machine is a new fave. But I love world music in general, motown, hardcore dance, folk (Ani Difranco), and funk and the best of everything else.
Favorite Books The Eight by Katherine Neville, Anything by Tom Robbins especially Jitterbug Perfume, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Morris Lurie's neurotic chatterings, Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Origins of the Sacred: the Ecstacies of Love and War by Dudley Young.

You can whistle and steam can whistle, so why do you sing in the shower?

Because the accoustics are great! So are some of those walk-in ATM rooms in the dead of night - I find ANZ to be the best for showtunes!