E r i c

A big hug to any old friends that have found me here. Special Hugs (alphabetical order) to: Emily, Gera, Lesley and Maura. You are in my heart.
*Scroll on down, I am sure we have 'something' in common.
In 1998 I started typing something called, "bio thing" I said, "Someday I will have a website where we can all put our "bio things" up, link them with words / pics & we can meet girls (!) & other music/film people." Well, many others (w/cpu knowledge) had the same idea so 'myspace' beat me to it!
Here is just a tiny bit/ copy/paste job from my bio thing:
Height: 6'1" "and a bit." (6'2" in the morning)
Weight: 174 lbs. (77.28 kg) (11&1/2 Stone).
Hair Colour: dark Auburn
Eye Colour: Hazel/dark Green
Shoe size: 13 1/2 (American)
Told I look like: Eric Stoltz (click!) & Neil Patrick Harris (“Doogie Howzer”) (click!) .
Ancestry: Dutch, German, Ukrainian & Scottish. Clan: Stevenson.
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius (Aqua-Man). Chinese Year: Buffalo/Ox.
Religion: I really have my own now. If you would like to join, there are never any dues to pay.
Web page? Yes, a photography page
Click here to see it! (and leave some groovy comments, like, "Oh Eric you photos are so groovy, shoot me, shoot me!"
Sex: I never have any, thanks to you.
Bad habits: Nail biting (always quiting), rambling on & on about things that no one cares about, wasting time, accidentally walking-in on people while they are having sex , humiliating myself at least a little bit everyday,
Good things about me: I am most likely the most "Un cool" person you have ever met. "Goody two shoes" (don't drink/don't smoke), pretty much 'straight edge', though my mind is very, very naughty. I do not slurp my soup nor my drink, I sometimes stop to help people/animals/things, I do not snore (alright, maybe 2 or 3 times in my life, but getting nose fixed $oon), sometimes I will pick up trash and place it in a proper spot, I do not eat or drink cheese (if you are saying, Well how do ya drink cheese!? right now, you have no sense of humour and you deserve to be punched in the throat.)

Accomplishments: Have not had any alcohol since 1994. No, I was NOT an alcoholic, it's just not for me. I eat some junk food 'occasionaly' but try to eat well and stay 'in shape'.

My idol/Hero: My Grandmothers, Neil Peart, Matt Harding (click!) , Edgar Cayce, Chester Copperpot,

What I really need to do before I die: Connect with the right female, have sex, "get in with the right bunch of fellows" (music makers)- Create a great/dramatic/different music album, make me Mum proud of me (at least once!), visit & live in many different countries/territories throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, United States, Easter Island, New Zealand, Australia, become a better human/writer/musician.
Things that just amaze me: Just before Orca (Killer whales) are born they have arms, hands, fingers, two legs and look a lot like a human baby. Elephants have funerals for each other. Polar bears are all left-handed, a Giraffes' head can be so big that it will not fit through the front door of a house! Many animals cry with tears.

My own theories: (in short) When we are dreaming (in our sleep), we are using deep parts of our brain & memory that we would most definitely not use at any other time in our conscious life. Intricate art work that has been thought-up, mathematical formulas, exact not for note / word for word knowledge of songs that you may have only heard once in your life, direct answers for the present, past & future (I think Edgar Cayce was amazing),

First thing I do when I wake-up: Regret, think about girls, regret,

Collections: Pictures of women (oh relax, I am human & they're all tasteful, ...mostly.), vintage clothing , music stuff, drum stuff, film stuff, stuff stuff,

Other things enjoyed: Good socks, YARD SALES!, Garage Sales (but I like yard sales more), I think I would like picnics:

Beatles man or Elvis man: I respect both but easily Beatles.

John Lennon or Paul McCartney: I like them both, if I have to pick just one... I am a George Harrison person.

If one song were written about you, it is: Lonesome Looser by the Little River band. Unlucky in love, Least that's what they say, He lost his head And he gambled his heart away, He still keeps searching, Though there's nothing left Staked his heart and lost, Now he has to pay the cost, Have you heard about the lonesome loser, Beaten by the queen of hearts every time Have you heard about the lonesome loser, He's a loser, but he still keeps on tryin', "It's okay", he smiles and says, Though this loneliness is driving him crazy He doesnt show what goes on in his head, But if you watch very close you'll see it all.

If you could fight any historical figure, whom would you fight? [from Fight Club] George W. Bush / Dick Cheney & their friend$. And of course Stalin, Hitler & Mussilini. Post Script: I do NOT like violence.

Places I have been:
Montreal, Quebec (7 or 8 times) & Quebec City, Quebec (2 times).
[IRELAND]-Dublin (mostly, but went almost everywhere around the island excpet for 5 or so countys in the north-west.
[SCOTLAND]-Edinburgh (for a week or two, also visited Inverness, Loch Ness (I shot this!) & the Highlands.
[UNITED STATES of AMERICA]- uhm driven through 27 states and stayed in MT, PA, NY state, FL, NH, MN & Noo Joisey.
Advice: Cheese is not food. It is mold.
Click here (humans are not supposed to drink milk from a cow!)
The person/people in the next room usually can hear you, mind what you may say.
Be careful how you use the word, Love, as it is the greatest word we have. Always write it with a capital L. ("How can you Love a floor wax?" Steve Martin in 'Roxanne'.)
Do not start writing a letter with "Dear" unless that person is in fact dear to you. Learn to pronounce the letter "T". (DirTy, twenTy, waTer, thirTy,) "Want you", not "Juan chew"! Feb-Rue-ary, not Feb-yoo-airy. And Christ-mass, not Chris-miss. This is especially important for writers/singers/lyricists/actors/etc If you are trying to express yourself through words, at least learn to say them the correct way. (Post Script- I do not think that I know everything, these are just common mis-takes that I do know about yet need to correct myself on as well)
In the Actors Studio 10 Questions: (Originally from the French series, "Bouillon de Culture". Written by: Bernard Pivot)
1. What is your favorite word? Hump; silky; LOVE; throat; llama; thirsty; Lackawanna; 'Dobra Jenshinia' (Russian for 'good girl').
2. What is your least favorite word? (Disliked so much that I do not want to write it down)
3. What turns you on? Important moving music / films / poetry / etc. People with a high E.Q. Sexy eyes, alluring looks, great body language, sexy legs, lingerie and girls.
4. What turns you off? People that refuse to even try to understand another person other than himself or herself. People that think they are the authority on many things. Psychiatrists that do not care, but happy to take your 70. $ an hour.
5. What sound or noise do you Love? The satiny smooth sound of Nylon/Lycra as a woman crosses her Legs.
And of course "Goofy" (the tall dog from Disney) yelping as he accidently ski's off a large cliff.
6. What sound or noise do you hate? Bill upstairs stamping his feet & yelling, car alarms going off for no good reason, most anyone crying from sadness, constant construction (road / buildings) on an otherwise nice, quiet day, people fighting, stupid kids acting / talking tough, hip-hop & very crude language.
7. What is your favorite curse word? Stinky person! or Ass-head Skagnetti!
8. What professions other than your own would you like to attempt? Charity, Foreign relations, writing for Film or The Simpsons types of shows, owning a store (Lingerie.. & vintage clothing) .. , photography (women / landscapes / music), psychiatrist, work for the Wolford company, "flipping" houses & anything else in great, honest Music.
9. What profession would you not like to do? Work at a deli (or any yucky food service), selling something that hurts people in any way, lawyer, accountant, false musician (see also: m.t.v.) or any job where I am just wasting life.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive? (Heaven does exist) God (he / she / it / or they) would say, 'All of those times, you know when you were wondering? - Yes, it was a test. You passed, just barely, but you passed - come on in and have some Chinese food!
FAVOURITES:.. (a list of favourites can go on forever)
Food: Chinese (Wang!), Pasta, Chicken things, Noodles & gravy, Soup, really good soup,
Drinks: Spring Water, V-8 juice, Pink lemonade & "Hey Kool Aid! Oh Yeah!"
Air: the clean kind I guess. No smoking! El yo no smoko! Ich habe keine smokey smokey!
Candy/Junk food: Dark Chocolate, Corn nuts, Snow Caps (as their known, I prefer simply made 'Non Pariels'), PEZ, Pop rocks, Rice Krispies Treats, Lime flavoured Tic-Tacs, Summit (discontinued), Peanutbutter cups made w/Dark Chocolate, Red Pipe licorice, Candy cigarettes,
Cereal: "Quisp", "BIG Yellow", "Halfsies"
and anything with cereal type 'marshmellows', of course I would only eat the 'marshmellows'; sometimes collecting them all and then squashing them into a giant 'coloured sugar ball', then eating it.
Scents: "Angel" for men (Thierry Mugler), vanilla, purple / grapey stuff, fresh cut wood, new vinyl / nylon, almost any day in Autumn.
Drugs: Tussionex cough syrup.
Colours: Deep Burgundy, Greens, Greys, Purples,
Fast Food Restaurant: Roy Rogers
Real Restaurants: Almost any Chinese restaurant and Hooters
Number(s): 25 or 6 to 4 I guess. (That is a song by Chicago). 17 would be my hockey jersey number.
Animals: Doggys
(I won 2nd place this photograph! [This means that I am an "Award Winning Photographer"!] Ha! (The 'cute' photos always get picked, whilst the great shots are in someones shoe box),
Polar bears
, KANGAROO's, Llamas & Giraffe (see also: throat! ), (I like most all animals)
Tree(s): Weeping Willow, Douglas Fir, Porcupine Tree,
Actors:
Sherilyn Fenn . . .Jennifer Connelly
Mary McDonnell, . . . Maria de Mederios, Uma Thurman, Jodie Foster, Jenny Agutter, Gretchen Moll, Marlee Matlin, Nicole DeBoer, Zina Reel, Veronica Hart
Liam Neeson, Michael Keaton, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Michael McKeon, Clive Owen, Christian Bale, Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, John C. McGinley, John C. Reilly, Richard E. Grant, Curtis Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush, Ray Walston, John Amos, Keith David (the black one), Jon Lovitz, James Belushi, Wallace Shawn, Taylor Negron, Kevin Klein,
Bond Girl:
Carey Lowell ("License to Kill"), Izabella Scorupco (“Natalya Simonova” in “GoldenEye”) & Jane Seymour.
Comedians:
George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Phil Hartman, The Kids in the Hall, Mitch Hedberg Lewis Black, Bill Nelson, Chris Farley, "Uncle Larr'",
Musicals: Les Miserables, Riverdance, Fosse , All that Jazz, The Fantastiks,
Season: Fall (Autumn)
Holiday: Halloween
(well it used to be, now nothing.)
Clothes: Females:
Designers: Chantel Tomas, Wolford, Donna Karen, Heatheret, Betsy Johnson,
Models:
Bettie Page . Heather Stewart-White . Sherilyn Fenn
Helena Christiansen, Ann Margaret (Click!) . . Valeria Golino . . . Coral Sands
Suzanne Sommers, Zara Whites, Lysette Anthony, Cassandra Petersen (Elvira)
Francessca Dani, Tiffany Thiesen, Paulina Porizkova & of course
Derek Zoolander

Photographers: Pavel Dvorak , Eric Kroll, Roy Stuart, Helmut Newton,

Artists (paints/pencils): P.W. Kelly
, Jason Flynn, Vargas, Van Gogh & Bob Ross
Sports: Ice Hockey
, Street Hockey, Floor Hockey, Soccer, Aerobics , Frisbee, Olympics.
Athletes: Peggy Fleming
, Dorothy Hamill, Elena Sokolova , Scott Hamilton, Martin Broduer and Philo Beddoe (Click!)
Names: Annastasia (pronounced Onna-stahz-eeyah), Natalya, "Kayleigh", Adrian, Mattias, ...so many.
Musical Instruments: Female voice, Piano, keyboards/synthesizers - especially the old analogue ones, bagpipes/Uilean pipes, Continuum, flute, electric/fretless bass guitars, muted trumpet with proper equalization.

Lyricists Neil Peart, Steve Hogarth, Roger Waters, Kevin Gilbert, Steven Wilson, Peter Gabriel, Fish, Duncan Sheik, Elliott Smith, Bono, Glenn Phillips,
Drummers / Percussionists:
Neil Peart ,Jeff Porcaro
Gavin Harrison, Mike Portnoy
Stewart Copeland ,Phil Collins
Steve Smith, Carter Beauford
Manu Katche, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bill Bruford, Keith Carlock, Chris Maitland, Simon Phillips, Dave Weckyl, Teryl Bryant, Nick D'Virgilio, Bernard Purdie, Gregg Bissonette, Louie Bellson, Eric Carr, Eric Singer, Karl Latham, Jim DePalma, Ian Mosely, Kenny Arnoff, Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, Bill Gibson, Alex Van Halen, Paul Craddick, Nick DVirgilio, Pat Torpey, Buddy Rich, Alain White, Scott Rockenfield, Vinnie Paul & Bobby Brady.

Vocalists:
Sarah Brightman , Harriet Wheeler
Amy Lee , Joanne Hogg
Crystal Gayle , Paula Cole
Olivia Newton-John, Angie Hart, Nina Pearson, Tori Amos, Sarah MacLachlan, Allison Goldfrapp.
Geoff Tate, David Sylvian, Steve Hogarth (I shot this!), Adrian Belew, Paul Carrick, Bryan Ferry (click!) , Steve Kilby, David Bowie, David PACK, John Wetton, Steve Perry (click!) , Freddie Mercury, Daryl Hall, Michael McDonald, Iva Davies, Tim Bownes, Jon Anderson, Gordon Sumner, Paul Hewson, James Labrie,

BASS Guitarists:
Geddy Lee, Pete Trewavas (I shot this), Tony Levin, Colin Edwin, John Myung, Kasim Sulton, Guy Pratt, Chris Squire, Nick Beggs, Joseph Decker, Robert Trujillo, Tom "T-bone" Wolk, Gail Ann Dorsey, Victor Wooten, John Taylor, Sir Paul McCartney, Mark King,

Keyboardists:
Jordan Rhudess, Tony Banks, Mark Kelly, Bruce Hornsby, Roger Manning , John Tesh, Rick Wakeman, Amanda Palmer, Tom Brislin (click!) , Joe Jackson, Bugs Bunny ,

Guitarists:
Steven Rothery
(I shot this), Ah David Gilmour ahh (click!)
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Adrian Belew, Alex Lifeson, , Steve Hackett, Brian May Brian May (if you know why I typed him 2wice, U R groovy), Reeves Gabrels, George Harrison, Brian Setzer, Eric Clapton, Richard Williams, Robert Fripp, Prince, Andy Summers, George Harrison, Steven Wilson, Steve Howe, Mark Knopfler, Edward Van Halen, Neal Schon,

Producer/Engineers: Dave Meegan, Steven Wilson, Seth Justman, Gavin Mackillop, George Martin,

Composers (Instrumental): James Horner, Angelo Badalamenti, Danny Elfman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tchaikovsky,

Music Videos:
“Open your heart” (click!) (Madonna)
“LEGS” (click!) (ZZ Top)
”Easter” (click!) (Marillion)
“Ave Maria” (click!) (click!) (Sarah Brightman)

“Winter Light” (click!) (Sarah Brightman)
“The Hardest Part” (Le click!) (Blondie)
”The Spirit of Radio” (live ‘G.u.P.’ tour) (click!) (Rush)
“Mr. Brightside” (click!) (The Killers)
“Coin operated boy” (click!) (the Dresden Dolls)
“Call on me (Valerie)” (click!) (Steve Winwood & Eric Prydz)

And the LIVE version of it HERE (click!)
”Look Away” (click!) (Chicago) [sorry not available right now (too sexy)]
Keeping the Faith (click!) (Billy Joel)
“Your Love alone” (click!) (Manic Street Preachers w/Nina Pearson)
“Babies” (click!) (Pulp)
And the 'spoken' version of it: HERE (click!)
Names that I chose for the band:
Estonia, Eponine, release, underwear, Scenery, December 21st 2012, Gentlemen, Thermos, Throat, astronomy, Plop, Sexy Legs, Outcasts of Suburbia, Permissive, Thirsty-Quenchy, "It's turning purple!", JerkWater diabolical, Squat Thrust!
Automobiles: I am not really 'into' cars like many 'guys', but I do like: Conversion Vans- GMC & Chevys from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. (I drew this when I was a kid)
(see 'pics' section for more groovy pics of groovy Vans!)
Quotes/Sayings:
“I wanted movement & not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement & danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my Love. I felt in myself a super abundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.” (Leo Tolstoy)
“ ‘Men’ who beat their wife or kids have a small penis” (Eric)
“People would rather be wrong than be different.” (Henry Jacobsen)
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen." (Aldous Huxley)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" (Abraham Lincoln)
“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” (William Blake)
“Any man that is not willing to die for something, is not fit to live.” (M.L.King Jr.)
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." ~Dalai Lama
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." (Henry David Thoreau)
“Every generation laughs at the ‘old’ fashions but religiously follows the new.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“New Jersey is like ‘The Smurfs’, one female for every 100 males” (Eric)
“If Love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?”(unknown)
“Never say that a white person can not play “Soul”, because then you would have to say that a black person can not play “Classical”." (Quincy Jones)
“Music is the universal language of mankind” (unknown)
"It is I and I alone, who must make of my new life a heroic tale." (Anne Rice)
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." (Abraham Lincoln)
“Nothing beats a great pair of Legs!”
"I am as passionate about music and performance now as I was when I was a little girl and I don't think I shall ever change. It's not my work, it's my life" (Sarah Brightman)
"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or . . . two cups of good, hot, black coffee." (Special Agent Dale Cooper [Twin Peaks])
“It is difficult to have a rehearsed routine fit in with broken rhythm.” (Bruce Lee)
"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything." (Alexander Hamilton)
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." ~Dalai Lama
“What mans mind can conceive his character must control.” (Thomas Edison)
“A song CAN’T have any Soul if it’s written in study hall!” (Comedian Bob Oshark)
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Things are only impossible until they're not." (Jean-Luc Picard)
“There’s nothing wrong with G-rated movies, as long as there’s lots of SEX and Violence.” (Elvira- Mistress of the Dark)
"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life." ~Dalai Lama
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Life without a friend is death without a witness." (?)
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." (Voltaire)
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth—whether about the President or about any one else—save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would other wise be unknown to him." (T.Roosevelt)
"It's un-Patriotic at any given moment to sit back and let things pass that are damaging to some place that you Love so dearly and that has given me so much and that I still see as a beacon of Hope and Possibility." (Bruce Springsteen)
(From the movie: “City of Angels”: (by Dana Stevens)
Maggie: Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?
Seth: No.
Maggie: Are you homeless?
Seth: No.
Maggie: Are you a drummer!?
655,000 and counting (mostly Civilians) DEAD.(click!) (Past One Million now)