Erik Ruggels

Foster-TVHS-Chaparral-Vassar-UCR

University of California - Riverside, Attended - , Class of , Other

Student, Feslife, Webmaster, et-al

Hiking, Camping, Cars, Movie, 'puters, Friends, Driving, Music, etc

White Noise, Underworld, Typee, Billy Budd, Shogun, Les Miserables, Gardens in the Dune, Lord of the Rings, Paradise Lost, Israel Potter, etc. etc.

The Matrix, Gods and Monsters, Ronin, Akira, X2, Titus, Lord of the Rings, Silence of the Lambs, Heaven, Tekkaman Blade, Eternal Sunshine

Everything on my iPod :-). Aphex twin, Enigma, Banco De Gaia, Deep Forrest, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard (aka Jimmy Eat World 2), Dido, Massive Attack

Millenium - I stopped watching TV when Carter and Fox took it off the air... nothing has seemed interesting since (that's 5 years for those of you counting)

Im ruggels. My life is a patchwork quilt of multivariate experiences. I live in the grey area America so often denies exists. I grew up privileged and poor, was educated at schools reserved for the wealthy and for the proletariat . Ive eaten mac and cheese for an entire year and claim jumpers for another. Weekends were filled with riding the bus to any destination or flying first class to foreign countries. Ive been a minority, an outcast, an alpha male, and an academic. Ive worked menial jobs and have supervised people with masters degrees or entire west coast conferences. I make no excuses for my point of view or the truth I recognize without fear. Ive taken counsel with billionaires and bums and realize the only real difference between the two was personal motivation.

Goals are something I firmly believe in. I know where Im going to be in ten years and Its certainly not here. American culture, popular culture, has brought me to the point of no longer identifying with the term American. Instead I feel as a drifter, floating in this crazy fantasy world of California where people bitch about traffic, not struggle on a national level to get fed.

My Television sits on the opposite side of my room from where the cable connections hangs limp from the wall. Its not been plugged in for six years. It merely acts as a window into GT4 and supports my unweaving curiosity about all things automotive.

There stands a bookshelf against one wall in my room, filled with Melville and delillo post-modern texts I refer to on a weekly basis, as well as 100 dvds I can assure you youve never seen because they didnt come to a theater near you and are infinitely better then anything that has. Ask to burrow one, and Ill gladly oblige... see more on facebook as friendster sucks:

http://ucr.thefacebook.com/profile.php?id=6302095
http://www.ruggels.com

Genuine people who dont seek drama or bs. Im a very
honest, straight shooting kind of guy. I call it like I
see it, yet Im open to new things; surprise me. English
speaking is a plus, j/k. Someone whos into cars, the
beach, not afraid of politics, able to actually think
critically about the world, must have a realistic world
view, must be smarter then me and it would be nice if
you've actually left this hegemony known as the USA once or
more times. Im really quite friendly, chat with me or
something (eruggels on aim).