So, the original intention of this blog was to force myself out of a creative slump and into this digital medium of expression by means of some sort of artistic accountability.  Failue. 

Oh well, I believe it’s time to just put it out there that I’m rather inconsistent about such thing, even though I’d much well prefer not to be.  It’s weird how creativity interferes with existence as we’ve come to know it – sad.

Of all people to inspire this post, it’s Mr. Semisonic himself, Dan Wilson, whom I saw at Mercy Lounge in the not-so-distant past opening for Kathleen Edwards.  So, Dan Wilson, next time you Google ‘Dan Wilson’, I hope you see this mention of you, Dan Wilson.

Dan has this kind of wonderfully understated artistry that gets pushed behind other notables in songwriting; he says the same things, sometimes simpler, sometimes better.  All in all, they’re the same basic ideas in the ever-recycled emotional steengroeve of humanity.  Dan Wilson, now that you’ve come, you may not be my favorite – just want to put it all out there in the name of honesty.  But really, I respect you.  ‘All Kinds of Beautiful’ is still stuck in my head, even though it was not my favorite tune of the evening.  But Dan, that’s ok, you probably wouldn’t like my idiosyncratic artistry very much; we can be friends despite this.  I like that you write songs that people relate with, even at the most basic of levels – you have a skill at a craft some may deem cheap, but I believe you attain beauty and artistry by your definition, and that’s incredible.

So, thanks, Mr. Wilson and I wish you the best of luck on your continued success as a songwriter.  Oh, and thanks for the tip-off on http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ - I had a class that spoke much of these mapping ideas in college (thanks Mom & Dad!). 

If you’re in the Nashville region this Memorial Day Weekend, Eric Wilson & Empty Hearts will be having a CD Release show at 12th & Porter Saturday at 9pm.  Aaron Robinson (great dood) and The Lonely Hearts (great doods) will be supporting, and the band will be joined by some friends…

Self-promotion.

Thanks blogosphere, we shall become better mates as the days drift.

So, totally appropriately, I will begin this new blog into a venture of my May schedule. 

Why?  Needless self-indulgence. 

For whom?  Self; indugled.

May 2- Playing w/ Aaron Robinson at The End, than over to the Black Flag Militia Naked With Us Fashion Show – SickestFashionShowEver@gmail.com

May 3- Ed graduates college, a monumental feat in and of itself.  Some of us chipped in and bought him the best gift ever – pictures soon.

May 4-15 – Various mental, physical, psychological and physiological excerise to expand/contract things.  If I told you, your mind would melt.  Deal.

May 16-18 – Houston.  Yup, Houston.  Megan graduates high school, possibly more momentous than Ed!

May 24 – ERIC WILSON & EMPTY HEARTS cd release show w/ Aaron Robinson and The Lonely Hearts.  Yes, important, hence all caps.  Seriously, if you read this, you probably know me well enough to show up!

May 29 – June 1 – Going home to the Rockford for STARLITE RADIO cd release show (again, caps = henced importance).  That show is May 31st at Memorial Hall – what a joyous reunion it shall be, fo sho.

June 6 – 8 – Matt & Bekah’s wedding in…Elizabethtown, Kentucky!  Even in my rather rabid repulsion by said state, there are two places I like – the Wilson compound in Auburn and Elizabethtown.  The latter I’ve never actually experienced, but Cameron Crowe/Kirsten Dunst/Ryan Adams/Rachel Yamagata/EastMountainSouth/Lindsey Buckinham/etc. have forever romanticized it as the quintessential ‘Point A’ for coming-of-age.  Oh please, don’t let my heart break…

So, this really was just for May, but the spillover is inevitable, I guess.  Long blog – ouch.  End with this excerpt from THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEK: The story of an Appalachian Malady, an Inquisitive Doctor, and a Paradoxical Cure by Cathy Trost

“They were bluer’n hell,” Cawein says.
“Well, as you can imagine, I really examined them.
After concluding that there was no evidence of heart disease, I said ‘Aha!’
I started asking them questions: ‘Do you have any relatives who are blue?’
then I sat down and we began to chart the family.”

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