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 | Movies

Music

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

TV

  • Frasier
  • The West Wing
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Seinfeld
  • M*A*S*H
  • John from Cincinnati
  • The Office
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force
  • Metalocalypse
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
  • Emeril Live
  • The Great British Bake Off

Movies