Soon. New Eric music. Very soon.

Posted inMusic, Random Musings
When recording music, self-indulgence is a huge sin -- and one I commit time and again. Can't help it. It's not like it's musician wank. I'm not anywhere CLOSE to a good enough musician for that. It's sound wank. Noise, big sound, layered drones, guitar feedback. Stuff no one wants to hear. But I like to hear it, so I do it. So anyway, I'm recording a new X-Sweet album, right? And X-Sweet tends to be my more traditional musical project, what with me singing reg'lar ol' songs and all that. I'm not claiming it's good, as you can see…

Standing in the middle of the road

Posted inRandom Musings
Three paces, then four, then five, and you're in the middle of the road, watching it stretch out in either direction, no cars for as far as you can see, just blacktop and you. And somehow, it manages to make you feel freer than you've felt since you were 12 and were allowed to ride your bike around the neighborhood on your own; like nothing in the world can contain you. It might be a remnant from childhood. The unspoken knowledge that you're breaking a Rule. That you're doing something you're not supposed to do. After all, you don't just…
On Writing: Good Days, Bad Days

On Writing: Good Days, Bad Days

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Sometimes writing sucks. On some days every stroke of your pen or clack of your keyboard results in what can only charitably be described as crap. Crap. It happens. And on other days magic spills out of your keyboard, and even the roughest of rough drafts are close to final. Again, it happens. After a week or more of the former, today I am enjoying the latter. That's not to say that every word I'm spinning is gold -- it's up to my editor on my current project to make that call -- it's to say that decent words are…

Putting together a short story collection

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Well, sort of putting together a short story collection. It's just going to be for me and a few select people, you see. But I'll still be excited to have this stuff in a nice printed package, even if only to put the stories behind me and get cracking on new work. See, it's like this. I've dabbled a small bit in short stories over the last 10 years. Not as much as I'd like -- there will be about 15 stories included in this collection, give or take -- but enough to have amassed a good little stack of…

My blog sucks

Posted inRandom Musings, Uncategorized
My blog sucks. I'm well aware of this fact. It's not for lack of trying, it's ... well, okay, maybe it's partially true that lack of trying comes into play. After all, it's not that I'm incapable of dazzling you with insightful commentary about all manner of things, from the Tantric underpinnings of the television show Lost to the undisputed fact that pineapple is a delicious pizza topping, it's that I'm unwilling of dazzling you with insightful commentary about all manner of things, from the Tantric underpinnings of the television show Lost to the undisputed fact that pineapple is a…