Paint With Words

Words are the author’s paintbrush

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Sep 05 2008

About

Published by diedirigentin

Basics:

Name: Erika

Age: 23

Occupation: funemployeed ;)

Relationship: recently single, and not looking

Hobbies: Music, reading, and writing. I’m trying to publish a story through WEbook.com (though I’m having second thoughts) and I’ve got various other series planned and whatnot. I play the drums, too, and am trying to find the time to get back to playing more.

Religion: Christian…but not the fundie Bible beating type. Or, jokingly, I’m a “Cigaliste” (bad joke that has carried over from my French Literature class).

Languages: English, French, and German

Studying: French and International Studies with a minor in German at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. I hope to finish my music and journalism degrees after I get done with my language degrees at Columbia College in Chicago. If not there, continue with language studies elsewhere

Favorite colors: Hot pink, black, purple, white, and red

Favorite Bands: Tokio Hotel, AFI, Hanson, Savage Garden/Darren Hayes, Joy Division, The Cure, Cinema Bizarre, Nightwish, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Rammstein, Tiger Army, HIM, The Misfits, Arch Enemy, A Kiss Could Be Deadly, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, pre-Inifity on High Fall Out Boy, Still Remains, Katy Perry, Mindless Self Indulgence, and a bunch more…I can’t think of them currently

Favorite books: Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Beowulf, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Watchmen by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer, Gravitation Manga series by Maki Murakami, Love Hina Manga series by Ken Akamatsu, The Left Behind series by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, Sue Grafton’s series, Le Bourgeois Gentillhomme by Moliere, La Chanson de Roland, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne, The Time Machine by HG Wells, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimoore Cooper, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Starter Wife Gigi Levangie Grazer, The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer, Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley, Rhett Butler’s People ~ Donald McCaig

Currently reading: Son of a Witch ~ Gregory Maguire

In line to read: Vampire Knight series, The Historian ~ Elizabeth Kostova (let’s face it, I’ve been trying to read this book since it was published so it’ll probably take me forever to finish), Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Favorite movies: Gone With the Wind, Gegen Die Wand (German film, English title is Head On), Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (French film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Les Yeux Sans Visage (French film, Eyes without a face), Doctor Zhivago, Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, Ever After…let’s say I like extremely girly, extremely dramatic, or foreign films. ;)

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One Response to “About”

  1. xpressoutloudon 03 Jul 2009 at 11:25 am

    Left a reply for you about your comments regarding languages. Thanks for stopping by (twice)

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