Hello, Welcome to the EJP myspace page!!

I'm glad you found your way here, either on your own or by my invitation, so thanks! ejp is short for extra jumbo peanuts. or Elastic Judo Pants.
If you're looking for smooth music you came to the wrong place, my music has been described as 'edgy'. and I like it that way. I just try to give it to you as it comes to me, you know?
Some of these songs are from live shows that I've done, but there are also some studio tracks that come and go from my profile.
I've been doing this music stuff for about 4 or 5 years or so. It's been a lot of fun to make my own songs. I really just like to play music on my guitar and to sing and sometimes you get tired of playing other peoples songs and thats what happened to me. I was like, i bet if i wrote my own songs, i'd have fun playing those songs too. so i started writing.... and here we are.
Being a musician has taken me to a lot of neat places. I started the living and breathing part of my life in Long Island, New York, then I went to live in the college part of Harrisonburg, Virginia for the education part of my life. I found it peaceful to be in a rural area and it was also fun to be at James Madison University. I made a lot of good friends there with funny names like The New Guy and Twinkie.
That was all back when gas only cost about $1.25 a gallon and I also used to love cruising up and down the little roads that go over and past hills and countryside and mountains, there were lots of farms and cows and everything countryish like that.
After I was done getting educated, I moved back home to Long Island for the fall of 2001. It was a pretty strange and bad time to be there, but something I'll remember for a lot of different reasons. I didn't stay long before I moved to Alexandria, VA in January, 2002, and started working in Washington, D.C.
It was exciting to work in D.C. at first, especially while I was young and excitable. I met some cool people there. And did some fun traveling for my job. By the time I got done with that, it was almost 2003 and I was looking for a new job again. It was then that we had a real family tragedy that hit me and everyone close to me really hard. I wasn't doing well, no one was really.. I guess i was sort of a mess. It's still tough to look back at, but you know, you gotta keep moving and doing what you do... so I guess that's what I tried to do, but sometimes you carry things for a long time and that was something that I might carry for my whole life.
As far as the auto-biographical story I'm telling here goes... eventually, I found another job and I made even more cool amigos and ended up moving into a place in Arlington, VA that had a little basement that I got to use as my music room. That really changed things for me. I was getting pretty tired of being at a desk, especially after getting to travel around, and everything else that was going on, so the escape of playing music was something pretty special for me.
There was one day in 2003 that I decided I would be very dedicated to my music. And I would write songs and play them and record them, and I would leave Virginia and go someplace else. I really just wanted to be one of those people that you hear say, 'I'm doing what I love and what's better than that'... And i still want that. In a sense I have it and I can say that - I do love what I'm doing, but it's not exactly paying the bills... anyway, I decided that I would either go to Los Angeles, San Diego, or Nashville, and I began asking my friends if anyone knew anything about getting an apartment. Someone called from San Diego to tell me they knew someone that was moving out and that I could move into their room once it's vacated. So I did that.
I ended up about 2 blocks from the beach in Pacific Beach. It was sorta like going back to college, except at the beach in San Diego. I found a decent enough place to play music at open mic night and did that and enjoyed myself. How could you not, really... being at the beach is nice pretty much anywhere, all in all though, maybe that spot wasn't for me. After 2 years or so, it was maybe just a little too much like being back in college, but at the beach....
So I moved in with a friend, another cool person i met at another job, who lived a little further up the road in a quieter spot. And here we are...
I'm still writing and playing and I've learned some great ways to enjoy living near the coast, I enjoy the good weather, I've got a wonderful and pretty girl who comes to all my shows and lets me eat her food, whatever I want as long as it's not her chocolate stuff and as long as I share. My roommate has a cool dog that likes to hang out and likes to get in my bed. I taught him how to SPEAK on command which my roommate was thrilled about.
All in all things are good. I'm working on some new songs that maybe reflect the new things in front of me while not forgetting everything else thats been part of my life before now.
So, it's nice to meet you... welcome to my page, i hope you enjoy listening my songs as much as I like making them.
Check out the list upcoming shows, if you like what I'm doing, come out and see a show. I appreciate all the support I've been getting from my friends and other musicians and from all the people who have just been into the songs I'm singing... I need all the help I can get and it means a lot to me to know that people are getting behind what I'm doing.
Thanks for visiting!,
Eric