“It’s Nice to Eat the King” is my first new music recording in a year

“It’s Nice to Eat the King” is my first new music recording in a year

Posted inMusic, Videos, Works by Eric
Recording music was an escape for me. My focus on big, layered sonics, ambiance and sometimes even downright noise came in no small part because I can get lost in all that sound. It's meditative. Relaxing. Soothing despite the noise. But for some reason, the pandemic has coincided with the longest musical dry spell I've experienced in years. Aside from some digital music created last year for a project I will post about another time, I haven't created anything. Nothing at all. Hell, I went nearly a year without even picking up the guitar, much less writing something on it.…
The Girl and the Dog: Fiction Fragment

The Girl and the Dog: Fiction Fragment

Posted inWorks by Eric, Writing
She reached down for the water bottle at her side, remembered it was empty only when she brought to her lips, sighed, and hung her head. "I should have stayed in the city." She knew she was wrong about that, of course. The city is where it all started. Things were still bad there. And the smell? She didn't want to think about the smell. But at least she knew what to do in the city. What abandoned stores to search, which apartments had storerooms others might now know about, what neighborhoods were left at least somewhat intact after the…
In A Silent Way is the semi-overlooked Miles Davis masterpiece you need in your life

In A Silent Way is the semi-overlooked Miles Davis masterpiece you need in your life

Posted inMusic, Random Musings, Videos, Works by Eric
When I first discovered the music of Miles Davis in the late 1990s, it was something of a musical awakening for me. It came during a time when I was setting aside the strident music "purity" of my youth -- you know how some people will only listen to a specific kind of music and ONLY that kind of music? -- and exploring new frontiers in sound. Miles Davis certainly provided that. His personal story was compelling, but he was more than an intriguing figure. He had the tunes to back it up. LOTS of them, an ever-shifting career filled…
Here’s me being interviewed about GoodFellas and Raging Bull for TRT World’s Showcase

Here’s me being interviewed about GoodFellas and Raging Bull for TRT World’s Showcase

Posted inFilms, Promotions, Videos, Works by Eric
I recently sat down with TRT World, an international news outlet out of Turkey, to talk about two of Martin Scorsese's landmark works, GoodFellas and Raging Bull as part of their Showcase series. Here is my interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zpPMpxS8cA And here is the full episode, which is worth watching. They do a great job of diving into these topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNpV-FTybXI My book, The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt, is due out September 20 of this year via Rowman & Littlefield. It is now available for pre-order. Learn more about it here.