Eric Melin (Eric_Melin)

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jfizell (anonymous) says...

Eric, since you are in the band, do you know what the deal is with this show? It isn't on the Record Bar website and a call to them confirms that UFB is not on the schedule tonight (unless they are keeping it a secret).

December 30, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. (reply | | suggest removal )

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Occupation

student/bitter boy

Location

Lawrence

Hometown

Manhattan

Member since

Lawrence connection

drank everything they had at Auntie Mae's in Manhattan, figured I'd better finish up my degree and move my band to Lawrence.

Income range

Poor

Interests

Hobbies

movies, rock, drinks, books

Books

"The Killer Inside Me" by Jim Thompson
"Survivor : A Novel" by CHUCK PALAHNIUK
"The Big Nowhere" by James Ellroy
"Slapstick" by Kurt Vonnegut"Where I'm Calling From" by Raymond Carver
"Junkie" by William S. Burroughs
"CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" by George Saunders
"Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend" by Tony Fletcher
"Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991" by Michael Azerrad

Movies

This is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)
Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
L.A. Confidential (1997, Curtis Hanson)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995, Mike Figgis)
Almost Famous (2000, Cameron Crowe)
Metropolitan (1990, Whit Stillman)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Leaned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
Runners up: Dancer in the Dark, The Godfather Part II, Out of the Past, Taxi Driver

Music

Cheap Trick
The Replacements
Wilco
Thelonious Monk
Rufus Wainwright
The Jayhawks
Big Star
The Who
Marvin Gaye
Red House Painters
The Zombies
The Beatles
Flying Burrito Brothers
Pernice Brothers
The Shins
Lester Young
KISS
The Flaming Lips
Sloan
Teenage Fanclub
George Jones
The Beach Boys
Curtis Mayfield
The Pink Floyd
Soul Asylum

TV shows

"Freaks and Geeks"
"Mr. Show with Bob and David"
"24"
"Fawlty Towers"
"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"Da Ali G Show"
"Angel"
"Lost"
"The Sopranos"
"The Shield"

Websites

Blogs

<a href="http://blogs.lawrence.com/scenestealers/">Scene-Stealers</a>

Media

5.1 Surround silliness

Opinions

Hipster essay

no cool clothes

Mooch value

20 bucks

Opinion on the SLT

dunno

Opinion on the smoking ban

I like talking to smokers IN the bars with a drink in my hand and not OUTSIDE freezing my ass off w/o a drink.

Opinion on West Lawrence

ha ha