Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am no longer babysitting band members. I am now coordinating events under the name Scotoma Events that are tributes to great films I am emotionally attached to and comics and actors that I love. I'm also putting together the KISS Karnival in DFW this July. I also do ad sales for a company called Multiview. I have two awesome boys and a wonderful wife that keeps me in line.

My Interests

Music Business, my wife, kids, and movies

I'd like to meet:

Harrison Ford
George Lucas
Gene Simmons
Any of the other members of KISS
Any of the members of The Beatles
John Lennon (if he were still alive)
Peter Cushing (if he were still alive)
Christopher Lee

Music:

Bands I've Been In:

Primary Censor - lead singer, songwriter - no official releases

Coarse - lead singer, songwriter - song "Quiet" released on Full Frontal Lobotomy Compilation CD through Flaming Fish Music - you can listen to it at www.purevolume.com/coarse.

Inhabit - lead singer - no official releases

Music I Like:

The Beatles, KISS, As I Lay Dying, ABBA, The Who, The Rolling Stones, August Burns Red, Sparta, Elliott, The Fold, Roses Are Red, Erasure, Duran Duran, Mighty Lemon Drops, Agent Orange, and a ton more I'll have to add later.

Magazines I Have Written For:

HM Magazine/Heaven's Metal -
ChemLab Article For "What So and So Sez"
P.O.D Article for the album "Brown"
NIV (No Innocent Victim) for the album "No Compromise"
And others
Several Album Reviews (GlobalWaveSystem, X-Propagation, Deitiphobia, etc.)

Industrial Nation -
Local Scene Report
Mentallo and The Fixer feature

Movies:

Movies I've Been In:

Slap Her, She's French (also known as She Gets What She Wants) - I'm in the Football crowd - haha

Serving Sara - I'm the no good stealing incarcerated Santa Claus

Movies I Like:

Star Wars, all Indiana Jones movies, every James Bond film ( yes, even the Timothy Dalton ones), all Friday The 13th movies, pretty much any Asian horror film (Ju-on being one of my all-time favorites), Harry Potter films, pretty much any horror films, Jaws movies, and a bunch of other stuff I'll add later.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, Knots Landing, Flash Gordon, Futurama, My Name Is Earl, Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, That 70's Show, Supernatural, and some other stuff.

Books:

James Bond books, Harry Potter books, Fletch books, those big movie books written by Leonard Maltin (that movie critic dude)

Heroes:

good question

My Blog

So long...so very long...

I haven’t posted on here in forever. So much crap is going on. I’m busier than I don’t know what. This KISS Karnival I’m doing for my birthday in July has taken on a life of it...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:54:00 PST

Iconic Actor Charlton Heston Dies At 84

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Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:00 PST

Texas Frightmare Weekend

I went to Texas Frightmare Weekend about two weeks ago. It was such a blast, but I was so busy with other junk, I just now got a chance to upload my photos and post about it. The photos are up on the ...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:33:00 PST

Busy, busy, busy - In a new position at work

I got a new position at work. I am now "officially" the Online Video Sales Manager for Multiview. This means that I get people to put video on their listings in the different association guides we do....
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:26:00 PST

Late to the punch, but still a brilliant film

***Edit: When I said late to the punch, I was referring to me finally seeing a film from 2003***Absolutely brilliant film. I don't have enough thumbs to put up. As usual, Asian horror is so far ahead ...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:07:00 PST

Boycotting the rest of the season of Celebrity Apprentice

I have decided that I am boycotting the rest of this season of Celebrity Apprentice on behalf of Gene Simmons. I believe he was prematurely fired (like there would ever come a "right" time to actually...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:09:00 PST

Some fun personal info updates

I just put a link to a song I did under the name Coarse way back when on my website. It was featured on a pretty popular Industrial compilation that came out on Flaming Fish Records called Full Fronta...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:16:00 PST

RIP Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger1979 - 2008
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:13:00 PST

Me in HM Magazine

I forgot to post that I was recently interviewed / wrote for an article on As I Lay Dying. It's one of those reflections on where the band came from type things. It's the Sep/Oct 2007 Issue which is 1...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:18:00 PST

Diet Hell / Apprentice Joke / Hot Rod

So I started this calorie counting diet where I write down all the calories I eat. Man, what a pain. I really am tired of being the fat funny sidekick guy in life. I really do need to lose weight for ...
Posted by Eric Ryan Shirey, Esq. on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST