
About Me
My name is Erik Peterson. I cook, bake, run, ride bikes, garden, draw, paint, play guitar, and listen to music. I prefer warm, humid weather between 84° and 97° F, latitudes in the low 30°'s, and the months of June, July, August, September, October.
Favorite Things
Music | Books | TV | MoviesMusic
- Umphreys McGee
- Mac Miller, Good News, NPR Tiny Desk Concert
- moe.
- Perpetual Groove
- Grateful Dead
- John Prine
- Slightly Stoopid
- Deftones
- Sublime, Jailhouse, Saw Red
- Tom Petty
- Willie Nelson
- Taylor Swift
- System of a Down
- Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Pink Floyd
- Motorhead
- ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Wasted State of Mind
- Justin Timberlake
- At the Drive-In
- Benevento Russo Duo
- Blackalicious
- Blind Melon
- Blink-182
- Buckethead
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- CunninLynguists
- David Bowie
- Disco Biscuits
- Eve 6
- Foo Fighters
- Fugazi
- Future Rock
- Gorillaz
- Incubus
- Joe Russo's Almost Dead
- Keller Williams
- Les Claypool, Primus, Oysterhead, Claypool Lennnon Delerium
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- No Doubt
- Phish
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Robert Glasper
- Robert Randolph
- Smashing Pumpkins
- String Cheese Incident, Shaking the Tree
- Talking Heads
- 311
- Tosin Abasi
- Widespread Panic
- The Wood Brothers
- Yonder Mountain String Band
Books
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
- The Country of Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- I Ching
- Impro, Keith Johnstone
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
- Principia Discordia
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard Feynman
- On Writing, Stephen King
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick
- Valis, Philip K. Dick
- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman
- In Search of the Perfect Loaf, Samuel Fromartz
- Bread Science, Emily Buehler
- Tartine Bread, Chad Robertson
- Whole Grain Breads, Peter Reinhart
- Bouchon Bakery, Thomas Keller
- Adventures on the Wine Route, Kermit Lynch