tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74254077818992252782024-03-13T05:25:45.686-07:00remember where you areerichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-18843577281412073672011-06-15T21:35:00.000-07:002011-06-15T21:59:36.025-07:00Steel Wheels<a href="http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-rolling-stones/album-steel-wheels.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 300px;" src="http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-rolling-stones/album-steel-wheels.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>My parents introduced me to the Rolling Stones when I was in elementary school. "Steel Wheels" was the first rock record I ever heard, and second-grade me was blown away. <div>I was always the good kid in class. "A" Honor Roll, teacher's pet, thick glasses and tucked in shirts. I was the nerd who was good even when we had a substitute teacher. But listening to the Stones made me feel like a rebel. I knew something that the other kids didn't. I wasn't sure exactly what Mick Jagger was singing about, but I knew it was cooler than Disney soundtracks and pop radio. While my classmates perfected their New Kids on the Block dance moves, I memorized the lyrics to "Rock and a Hard Place." </div><div>"Steel Wheels" isn't my favorite rock album. It isn't even in my Rolling Stones Top-Three. But it is the album that defined rock and roll for me at an early age. </div>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-67210159498667853762011-06-15T21:24:00.000-07:002011-06-15T21:33:59.353-07:00Important recordsI've been meaning to do one of those "15 Albums that You Love" notes on Facebook for a while. <div>I figure that no one over there really cares about it though. I mean, there are some albums that I really love, and a few that are meaningful, but I can't bring myself to post about it over there. According to Facebook, I've got 364 friends. Of that 364, there might be 50 people on there who I consider good friends. Maybe. Of those 50, maybe 20 would read one of those notes if I posted it. 20 on a good night when everybody was home on their computers with nothing else to do. In reality I'd be lucky if 10 people looked at it. Maybe five would care to read what I had to say about the albums, but most would probably just scan the list to see if there were any they recognized.<div>I said all that just to say I will post some albums I consider memorable on this blog. Almost no one will see it, but the people who do are people who might actually care about it. So that's good, I think.</div></div><div>So stay tuned if you care. Or not. Whatever.</div>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-76033172479868656882011-04-26T17:03:00.000-07:002011-04-26T17:14:20.958-07:00Druid City Hardcore Halloween Special 2002<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJU7NDQ0rPAdIH-NtfOr_uc7_q7qdNyodZ4WiXhf9-uiBAAdoUbI5TBE-3joblcWPwudPE7xxGMW2Ioy8e-2T2ATsaO1mMQ3jIbeqeK6DH5hTKLEp4EV0I1AP7bR_bRQQoMSjwaQo6dDS/s1600/DCHCcover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPJU7NDQ0rPAdIH-NtfOr_uc7_q7qdNyodZ4WiXhf9-uiBAAdoUbI5TBE-3joblcWPwudPE7xxGMW2Ioy8e-2T2ATsaO1mMQ3jIbeqeK6DH5hTKLEp4EV0I1AP7bR_bRQQoMSjwaQo6dDS/s320/DCHCcover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600049905925522354" /></a><br /><div>Back in college I worked at the radio station at the University of Alabama, formerly known as New Rock 90.7. Freshman year I was invited by a friend to join her as a co-host on The Revolution, a Christian punk/emo/whatever show. A year later when she decided to leave the show another friend of mine filled in. We changed the name of the show to Druid City Hardcore and started playing more secular hardcore and punk along with all the Christian stuff. In 2002, we decided to have a Halloween Special show. My co-host, who later married my wife and I in Tuscaloosa, made a few CD copies of the show. </div><div>Here is a mediafire link for you to download the entire one hour Halloween special for your listening displeasure. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe. Mostly cringe. <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2pz725cr2hsy72p">Druid City Hardcore Halloween 2002 Special</a></div><div>When my co-host left the show, it became the "Eric plays whatever he wants to play" radio show, still called Druid City Hardcore. Good times.</div>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-45085528721804722802010-04-24T10:40:00.000-07:002010-04-24T10:44:08.321-07:00Yesterday I shared the best PB and J ever with Savannah, and Cade and I had an hour of beach/pier time to ourselves. Best afternoon ever.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-72203209519875394692010-04-22T15:59:00.000-07:002010-04-22T16:05:34.654-07:00Welcome to Bizarro Worldhttp://reason.com/blog/2010/04/22/does-mohammad-shit-in-the-wood<br /><br />Money quote:<br /><br /><i>...it isn't just that Comedy Central censored an image of Mohammad, as they have done in the past, but they bleeped out any mention of the him, lest any Muslims happen upon their prophet's name being used in an offensive context.</i>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-27021407953164598662010-04-22T15:42:00.001-07:002010-04-22T15:50:17.012-07:00Some musicBeen listening to this mix this week:<br /><br />http://www.mediafire.com/?3z2m0dbqznt<br /><br />It is mostly spacey rock with a couple heavier songs thrown in. Copy and paste the link into your browser, download, then crank it up and rock out.<br /><br />Tracks: <br />1. Doves "Pounding"<br />2. Cave In "Lift Off"<br />3. Swervedriver "Never Lose that Feeling"<br />4. Failure "Moth"<br />5. Hum "If You Are to Bloom"<br />6. Young Widows "Old Skin"<br />7. Oceansize "Amputee"<br />8. Alcest "Percees de Lumiere"<br />9. Mogwai "Glasgow Mega-Snake"<br />10. School of Seven Bells "Half Asleep"<br />11. Oceansize "Trail of Fire"erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-83517451939415951122010-04-20T15:47:00.000-07:002010-04-20T15:49:05.794-07:00Giddy upThis afternoon the kids took turns riding on my shoulders pretending I was a horse. <br />They happily yelled "giddy up" over and over again and Savannah even slapped my head like she was a jockey in the Kentucky Derby. <br /><br />Good times.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-38819909796813317502010-04-20T11:23:00.000-07:002010-04-20T11:29:41.962-07:00Oceansize liveHere's a video of Oceansize performing "Unfamiliar" live. The vocals here aren't spectacular, but the musicianship is superb. The last two minutes of this performance are epic. I would love to see Oceansize live, but they don't make it to the states often. They opened for Cave In on a tour once in the early-mid 2000's but haven't made it back to this side of the pond since. <br /><br />The band's latest EP "Home & Minor" is really incredible. Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/oceansizeuk .<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/20VI2bFMICU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/20VI2bFMICU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-75063962030470521062009-03-23T20:07:00.000-07:002009-03-23T20:13:52.985-07:00the cycleCade got sick and threw up on Kerri and Jessica on Wednesday. I got sick and threw up all night long on Friday. Jessica threw up on Sunday. Kerri came home from work with an upset stomach tonight. Meanwhile, Cade and Savannah started having nasty disgusting poop sludge diapers yesterday, and today I started having nasty bathroom experiences again. I'm pretty sure this cycle will never end.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-67621251198031089562009-03-22T12:56:00.000-07:002009-03-22T13:01:38.748-07:00new Converge studio footage<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=54278301">CONVERGE New album out soon on Epitaph/Deathwish</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=54278301,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=54278301,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br /><br />Here is a short video of Converge in the recording studio. The band is working on a follow up to "No Heroes," which came out in 2006. Converge has yet to top 2001's "Jane Doe" in my eyes, but everything they have released has been spectacular.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-81118689171446825492009-03-11T20:00:00.000-07:002009-03-11T20:07:15.352-07:00ken andrewsapalooza<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpEdo9lIvh0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpEdo9lIvh0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I am pretty sure Ken Andrews never made a bad album. Failure, Year of the Rabbit and his latest solo album are all great. Even ON, his least awesome work, wasn't really bad. It just didn't live up to the standard set by the rest of his bands. <br /><br />Anyway...Here is a video of Andrews and Year of the Rabbit performing "Rabbit Hole."erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-34104402538690528632009-03-11T14:54:00.000-07:002009-03-11T14:59:57.707-07:00we've got another smoking umbrella in here<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TO_pnHOh5fY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TO_pnHOh5fY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's a video of Failure playing the song "Smoking Umbrellas" live. The video has to be old, since the band broke up like 10 years ago. The song is from the band's under appreciated spacey grunge album "Fantastic Planet," which is like 18 songs about heroine.<br /><br />I have no idea who shot the video, or why they are obsessed with focusing on Ken Andrews.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-55737165194008217082009-03-02T18:28:00.000-08:002009-03-02T18:45:22.934-08:00A good first dayWe took the kids to daycare this morning for the first time since we moved to Foley in July. Cade had been to daycare when we lived in Northport, but hadn't been since the move. Savannah had never stayed with anyone other than us for more than a couple of hours. <br /><br />Cade cried as we were leaving, but stopped as soon as we were out of his sight. Savannah was fussy all day and wouldn't eat much. But that is kinda the way she is at home. Cade's teacher said he warmed up to the other kids by mid-morning, ate his whole lunch and napped when the other kids napped. Savannah was the only infant there today from the looks of it.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-47873034888285815182009-02-23T19:02:00.000-08:002009-02-23T19:05:35.931-08:00We gotta stay positiveAdd The Hold Steady to the very short list of music that calms Savannah down. <br /><br />Girl was screaming at the top of her tiny little lungs as I was putting her in the car to go see Kerri at the cafe tonight. As soon as I cranked the car and The Hold Steady's "Stay Positive" started up, she stopped screaming. <br /><br />So the very short list of songs that calm Savannah down goes like this:<br />- Nas "Whose World is This?"<br />- The Hold Steady "Stay Positive"erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-63010608511613460662009-02-20T12:53:00.001-08:002009-02-20T13:16:56.670-08:00The Inspector<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5cRQsZ9AyIw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5cRQsZ9AyIw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector">The Inspector</a>, a cartoon loosely based on Inspector Clousseau. This particular episode, "Les Miserobots," entertained Cade and I this afternoon while Kerri and Savannah napped. Here's the description from Wikipedia of this 1968 classic: <br /><br /><i>The Inspector is fired after being replaced by a very efficient police robot, so he tries to destroy it. After the Inspector's many backfired attempts, the robot does such a good job that the Commissioner ends up losing his job and joining the Inspector in a skid-row soup kitchen.</i><br /><br />I love the theme music, "A Shot in the Dark" by Henry Mancini. Mancini also did the music for The Pink Panther cartoon series. I also love that the Inspector and the Commissioner end up workin at "Le Skid Row Soup Kitchen" in the end.<br /><br />Cade thought all the parts with the robot were hilarious.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-57884766883648402412009-02-19T21:16:00.001-08:002009-02-19T21:20:57.920-08:00converge at cave 9<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xP1N1KvaEHk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xP1N1KvaEHk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's a video of Converge playing at Cave 9 in Birmingham. I remember this being a really good time. I was sore the next morning from various pile-on singalongs. <a href="http://fiveyeardiary.blogspot.com">Mike</a> and my good friend Matt are all over this video.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-24249461004919800942009-02-19T20:49:00.000-08:002009-02-19T21:09:35.205-08:00worst movies<a href="http://videogum.com/archives/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-o/">Videogum</a> has a list of the worst movies ever. Sadly, I have seen almost every one of them. I only thought a few were worthy of the "worst movie ever" title, but I can admit that most of them are bad.<br /><br />The review for <a href="http://videogum.com/archives/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-o-18_013771.html#more">Crash</a> is great, since it is almost exactly what I felt when I watched that crappy movie.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-6202965409920237162009-02-17T20:14:00.001-08:002009-02-17T20:18:05.589-08:00this day forward<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zqc0BsAk1N4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zqc0BsAk1N4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's an awesome video of a great band, This Day Forward. The video is from their last show in December of 2003. Band members went on to some other bands that aren't as good as This Day Forward.<br /><br />These guys played the Boiler Room in Birmingham in '01 or '02 and the reception was not like this at all. <br /><br />Enjoy!erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-8788831398371200782009-02-17T19:39:00.000-08:002009-02-17T19:58:57.186-08:00a note to a-rod and michael phelpsA-Rod: Please do not apologize for doing something that you know you aren't sorry for doing. Those 'roids that you "didn't know you were taking" got you an AL MVP award and made you one of the highest paid baseball players in the MLB. Besides, what you did wasn't even against MLB rules back then. Tell the haters to back off. It's your body, man. If you want to have some other guy injecting you in the buttocks on a regular basis, that is your own business.<br /><br />Michael Phelps: You shouldn't apologize, either. You should tell all those nanny-staters that what you smoke on your own time is none of their business. There are athletes who have raped women, been accomplices to murder, and pushed cocaine who still have professional careers. Hell, they are even talking about letting Michael Vick back into the NFL when he gets out of federal prison. So you smoked some dope. You didn't kill or rape anyone. The fact that you can smoke a little weed and still win 12 gold medals has to prove that pot smoking really isn't that bad for you. Besides, you were only doing something that the last three presidents have admitted to doing.<br /><br />So stop with the apologizing, you wimps.erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-91847139997194342922009-02-15T19:36:00.000-08:002009-02-15T19:53:56.026-08:00the world is yoursYesterday I was driving the babies to Publix to pick up some last-minute Valentine's dinner items, when the younger one, Savannah, started screaming. My first reaction when the kids cry in the car is to talk to them. Sometimes it helps. This time it only made things worse. Cade, the older of the two babies, looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. Dude didn't know how to fix it either. Kerri is normally able to calm the kids down easily, but she was at work.<br /><br />After trying to reason with Savannah, I thought I'd find something nice on the XM to calm her down. I found an easy listening station, thinking it might relax her. Didn't happen. I scrambled through five or six stations trying my hardest to find something that might work, but nothing worked. Finally, I happened to land on the hip-hop station by accident. "The World is Yours" by Nas was on, and Savannah immediately stopped crying. Apparently my three-month-old girl is down with early '90s New York hip-hop.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Whose world is this? The world is yours. The world is yours.</span>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-83775471541231632222009-02-15T19:00:00.000-08:002009-02-15T19:02:06.915-08:00My friend <a href="http://bloggycarl.blogspot.com">Robbie</a> has a blog that is a good read. Hit him up!erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7425407781899225278.post-60632783722738708662009-02-15T18:24:00.000-08:002009-02-15T19:15:33.405-08:00first post!first post. i think it ought to be a good one, but i fear it won't be.<div><br /></div><div>here are a few things about me:</div><div><br /></div><div>i live in foley, alabama with my wife, two children and dog. foley is better known as that small town right before you get to gulf shores. foley is famous for 1. lamberts (throwed rolls!!!!), 1. the outlet mall, and 3. julio jones. it also the stomping grounds of a notoriously drunk ex-university of alabama quarterback. </div><div><br /></div><div>i would like to update this blog on a regular basis, but we will see what happens. my previous blogging attempts were short-lived and ill-conceived. i will probably blog about my kids, music, sports and other stuff here. </div><div><br /></div><div>my friend <a href="http://fiveyeardiary.blogspot.com">mike</a> has a blog that you should be reading instead of this crappy blog.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03163246465470421134noreply@blogger.com0