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Erik

You should've been watching the sky, Manny. Death from above!

About Me

Executive director of Indie Memphis . I also co-founded Birmingham's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, which I ran for its first eight years. From time to time, I cut film.

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My Interests

Music:

"Field of Illusion", "Alone in Your Corner", "The Depression Song," "Strife"

Movies:

"The Poacher of Men", "In an Unrelated Story", "PianoGuy", "Gamalost"

My Blog

the mississippi delta was shining like a national guitar...

It turns out that I'm really slow about updating folks about things. So, for those of you that missed the news: I'm no longer in Bend; now I'm in Memphis.Had a terrific year out in Central Oregon, but...
Posted by Erik on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:33:00 PST

Why so serious?

The Dark Night - 1966 The Dark Night - 1989 The Dark Night - 2008 ...
Posted by Erik on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:11:00 PST

Moby Gratis

Now this is just cool... From Variety.comMoby has become the latest artist to give away his new music for free -- but to a select audience: He's giving it to filmmakers.The multifaceted dance music ar...
Posted by Erik on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:13:00 PST

In The Oregonian

After 8 years of running a film festival in Alabama's largest city (more than 1,000,000 in the greater metropolitan area), I just completed my first in Bend, Oregon (population ~75,000). It was good a...
Posted by Erik on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:26:00 PST

Positively Fifth Place

Yesterday I took 5th Place at a Texas Hold 'Em tournament benefitting the StoneyBrooke Foundation, which helps people with a genetic developmental disorder that affects growth and creates an insatiabl...
Posted by Erik on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:56:00 PST

Where did you sleep last night? (A question from the future.)

Friends keep talking about heading out this way for the BendFilm Festival (October 11-14), so I figure I'd better do a quick blog to let them know where to stay since there is no hotel big enough to b...
Posted by Erik on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:18:00 PST

Bicycle, bicycle!

After work on Friday I sauntered downtown to drink martinis and watch the Cascade Cycling Classic fly through Bend. I didn't realize it then, but the CCC is a six-stage race which had started two days...
Posted by Erik on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:08:00 PST

Recap, part 1

I promised a bunch of folks that I'd be blogging regularly from Bend, but haven't been very successful in overcoming my perpetual writer's block. So,with some random bands playing Live Earth on Bravo ...
Posted by Erik on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:50:00 PST

Bird? Plane?


Posted by Erik on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST

May I introduce to you the act you've known for all these years


Posted by Erik on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PST