Maaam 1977

My boss told me A Walk To Remember is the saddest movie he's ever seen.

My mother Linda Nebeker Erickson

Southern Utah 1972

In case you haven't already heard... the line-up for the annual Twilight Concert Series has been released! This free concert series in Salt Lake is part of what makes the summers in Utah so great. Due to major renovations of the Gallivan Center, the venue has changed to Pioneer Park. I'm sure they'll clean it up real nice.. ? Yikes! But either way... you can't help getting excited about this:

• July 8: Modest Mouse, Avi Buffalo

• July 15: Girl Talk

• July 22: Beirut

• July 29: New Pornographers, Dodos

• Aug 5: Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Jamie Lidell

• Aug 12: TBA

• Aug 19: TBA

• Aug 26: She & Him

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Kloveyoubye.

I Am Not A Robot

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4 roommates
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50 water balloons
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3rd floor windows
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Ride of the Valkyries
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the other ward hates us

This is my brother James, sister Catherine, and cousin Lydia. Today I gave my brother a haircut so it looks less like this and more like this.

I just got back from Wendover, Nevada. A truly enthralling place! My sister and I drove out there last night with my dad so he could ordain my uncle Brian to the office of Elder. Most LDS guys get the Melchezidek priesthood around age 19, he got it at 68. It was a really neat experience to have so many family members gathered there together. One step closer to getting everyone in the temple.

It was a short but fun trip. We spent today messing around on a couple of ATVs riding through the mountains and checking out old Indian caves. I'm really into caves... prefereably haunted ones. I wish I had taken more pictures!

Today a dog peed all over my leg.

School's out!

Emma is here!

Dad and James will be here tomorrow!

Life is good. I am happy!

Today I went to lunch with my aunt Margaret Ann. She's 63. She got a text and told me it was a booty call. Then she told me several "ways to get a booty call." I'm definitely gonna try out some of the methods she suggested.

I dreamt that I was backstage at a Girl Talk concert in Hawaii on one of the boats in Pearl Harbor. So mid concert I remember that I have to drop off some sunglasses at my sister's house. So I drive to this underground parking garage and just leave my car (which is actually Cole Manship's car..) running in the middle of the lot. So I go try to give her the glasses but she's not home so I give them to her roommates. Then I go to this dinner party at a ward building. And there are these 2 guys there and they're really good looking and they both tell me to go wait in a dark room for them. So I go wait in the room and then wonder.. "what if this was some mean joke and in reality neither of them are coming? I will be really embarrassed if I fall for their joke." So instead I found Mike McCloskey and told him to come in the room with me and wait so that if the guys come, we'll start kissing and then.. jokes on them! So after my little joke I remembered about my car still running in the middle of the parking lot. I make it back to the lot juuuuust as my car is being towed by 2 asian men. I run to them and start begging them not to tow my car. But these 2 guys don't speak English. So I just say "Wakatashi" which in my dream meant "I'm sorry." And they were so impressed with me that they hugged me and let me off the hook.

This is the first time in my entire life that my pointer fingernail has been longer than my ring finger fingernail... fascinating right??

Sometimes I really hate my blog.

Tegan & Sara - "Back In Your Head"

My room feels twice as big with my BIKE out of it. Let's get that Free Spirit some fresh air!

Boy talk.

I guess the shoe didn't fit? Still confused about it to be honest. But it's really ok... I'll get more shoes.

I'm having a huge internal struggle lately with living in the world but not being of the world. It's incredibly difficult. The world is too obsessed with music, fashion, food, sex, money, and luxury. I am no exception. Gotta change. Gotta redirect. Refocus on what's important. But be realistic too. I'm not looking for Walden or anything..

Drinking a red bull way too fast, listening to Linkin Park, and feeling sorry for myself. Productive right? Ugh..

So earlier in the day my mom dialed a number from her cell phone. When it went to voice mail and sounded like a teenage boy she assumed she must have misdialed and hung up. A minute later she gets a text from the kid that says: "who dis?" My mom laughed and responded: "dis yo mama! hahaha dis a wrong numba!" So next the kid calls her and says "Who is this??" And my mom responds "WHO IS THIS??? Who taught you how to speak??" So the kid just starts laughing and they both just laughed and shared a special moment I guess. Man, my mom is a riot. Here is a picture of her with John Locke.. just for fun.

I swear I've gone pee 10 times in the last 2 hours thanks to my water happy waitress.

Post Meal Narcolepsy setting in. This new disease I have self-diagnosed myself with is really starting to bug.

My advice on booty calls.

Can my Spring look like this please?

I need a nap. And a kiss. And a milkshake.

Calvin and I are on the same wavelength.

It blows my mind how bad I am at taking pictures sometimes..

See the rest here.

Scott: "Hey, how are you?"

Lindsay: "I'm fabulous in bed"

Oh punctuation! ..or lack thereof. I think he knew what I meant... but still!

Today I saw a dog standing on the roof of a truck while it was driving down University Parkway. It was very much like this picture except it was a truck and the dog didn't have a creepy bandage mask on... I was afraid he was gonna fall off but I couldn't stop laughing!

Miike Snow w/ Delorean
Tonight @ Urban Lounge
This is gonna be soooo good.

Many mp3s for you:

Delorean - "Stay Close"
Delorean - "Seasun"
Delorean - "Deli"
Miike Snow - "Animal"
Miike Snow - "Sans Soleil"
Miike Snow - "Billie Holiday"
Miike Snow - "Silvia"
Miike Snow - "Cult Logic"

Right before I left for Hawaii I went tanning just to get a sort of base upon which to build while I was on vaca. Anyway, I hadn't gone tanning in a long time and I burned reeeeally bad. So that Friday night Claire and I of course had a busy schedule of social events to attend... and I was miserable at all of them. I was so red and hotttt, it was awful. So I stuck it out as long as I could but I finally couldn't take it any longer. My skin was ON FIRE. I convinced Claire to leave with me but we weren't quite ready to head home yet. We decided we should go to Jameson and Trav's house and do some sort of going away prank in Jameson's room before he moved to L.A.

To our great surprise, when we went in his room it was completely empty. Everything had been packed up and moved out already. The entire room was barren... except.. on the desk... there stood... a lone bottle.. of... INSTANT BURN RELIEF ALOE VERA LOTION!!! Sweet Hallelujah! It was a miracle from on high. I promptly stripped down to my skivvies while Claire applied the sweet relief over my sun burnt skin. I never told Jameson because he probably would have thrown up at the thought of me naked in his room. But I am now telling all of you that may read this. Miracles are everywhere. You just gotta look for them.

"You know my dream? I wish that every cool person we know lived in the same house and we ate cereal all day. And watched funny movies. Then rode bikes to water holes. Today I really don't want to grow up." ~Jared Shores

Do you love it when you send a cute text to a boy and then realize a couple hours later that your phone, which has a mind of its own, also sent that text to 4 other boys...? I know I do.

Mr. Little Jeans - "Angel"

Today I was driving through a parking lot when another car sped across the lot and cut in front of me. It was in a weird place where we were both turning and he honked at me like I was the one being dumb.. So naturally I gave him the finger. He looked at me with a face of utter disbelief, slammed on his brakes in front of me and got out of his car... in the middle of the street around this parking lot.. He stood in front of my car and yelled at me through the windshield. I honestly couldn't tell you a word he said because my response was to now give him 2 middle fingers and yell something to the effect of "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??." I'm not proud of this.. But it really did invigorate me. What can I say? I'm from Boston..

GROUP - "Colours"

Basically, if you didn't go see The Morning Benders last night at Velour... you are an idiot.

Photos courtesy of JWidd who for the record did not influence me to go to this show... I already had tickets when he blogged about it... Sorry I'm so prideful. Anyway, See the rest hereeee.

Stars - "Fixed"

When I was 8 years old I discovered MTV. (This may explain a lot about me...) Anyway, from that time on it became my life dream to be on The Real World. (Wow, as I'm typing this I realize more and more how messed up that is...) Well, a friend just informed me that Real World 25 is holding auditions in Salt Lake on Saturday at none other than our beloved Area 51. I'm happy to say at this point in my life that I DO NOT want to be on the Real World anymore. Ok, wait, that was a lie. But I can atleast recognize that it would potentially be the worst decision I ever make in my entire life. And there's no way I'm interesting enough to be on the show anyway. There's nothing like shattered childhood dreams. Sighhh...

Tonight @ Velour: The Morning Benders w/ Miniature Tigers

Miniature Tigers - "Cannibal Queen"
The Morning Benders - "Excuses"
The Morning Benders - "Promises"

80 degrees in Boston today.

Snowed here...

Happy Easter.

Atleast the Sox won.

I'm always getting in fights with my brother in the conference center. Every year I swear.

My parents are in town for conference. So far so good.

I almost ate ONLY cadbury mini eggs today.

Sticky tickets, get with the program.

Brother, get with the program.

Guy asked me out in Deseret Book. I'm regretting my answer.

Cadbury mini eggs will be the death of me.

Thank goodness for LEVOTHYROXINE