The first music I ever “released” — it’s back!

The first music I ever “released” — it’s back!

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since I first did this little tape. It was the summer of 1994. I had just gotten my trust TASCAM Porta 7, a four-track tape recorder that allowed talented people record demos and such, and allowed people like me to ruin the definition of "music." Which is exactly what I did for the last few months of 1994, the time period from which this "music" springs*. I "sampled" (read: stole) chunks of music from elsewhere, slowed it down or played it backwards, laid other stuff on top of it, and generally just…

The Unexpected Death Scene

Posted inWriting
So I'm writing last night, plugging away at my work in progress. Working on this major action sequence, a series of four or five brief chapters that (hopefully) string together like a Spielberg setpiece. Think the truck scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Minority Report and you have the idea. And right in the middle of it, this character ... he died. I didn't expect him to die. Hadn't included it in my outline. Hadn't plotted for it. But he's there and this situation arises and I realized as I was writing, "He's not going to make it,…

Bust my website, please

Posted inUncategorized
Spent a good portion of the other day fixing, tweaking, and redesigning my personal website. Please take a look and if anything looks out of place, broken, or otherwise awful, let me know by commenting here, on FaceBook or Twitter, or by emailing me. The kind of browser you're running will be helpful, along with whatever didn't work for you. Thanks.

Stuff for which I am thankful

Posted inRandom Musings
We're supposed to reflect today (though really we ought do that every day, don't you think?), and so, as I wait for the family to get ready for our car ride to grandmother's house -- we will be going over a river, but won't be near any woods -- I thought I'd quickly do just that. I am, of course, thankful for a wonderful family who not only support me when I devote long hours in solitude to my creative projects, but who also make me proud by being the good, smart, and of course loving people they are. I…

Ueten ven hein! Schnell un blitzenberg!

Posted inAlfred Hitchcock, Random Musings
Okay, I've got to link to this week's episode of the Year of Hitchcock podcast, if only because I cracked myself up while editing it. The faux German shtick in the first few minutes of the Lifeboat episode were a bit of unexpected stupidity that had me howling when I listened to it a few weeks after recording. I had completely forgotten I did that. Moments like this are the reason why we do the podcast. Because it's fun, and hopefully entertaining. We enjoyed writing the book of the same name and think it holds up quite nicely as a…