Beauty is Imperfection

… with a little tiny wing-wang broke into my MySpace page the other night and started sending everybody Instant Message invites with my name on them. I’m frightfully sorry about this, and I apologize, first, to anyone who got this fake message, and trebly to anybody who actually might have clicked through to download the pernicious spyware on the other end masquerading as beta chat software. If it makes you feel better, we were victims, too.

I was in flight the whole time, coming home from a five-day visit to Oklahoma, and didn’t have access to my computer to even know I’d been hacked. This is the first time it has happened to me on MySpace, and I hope the last. I’ve changed my password, which seems to be the only initiative anyone can take in these circumstances.

Sorry again.

(Originally posted July 14, 2007)

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Above It All
Music and lyrics by Eric Rasmussen. All instruments played by Eric Rasmussen, including the guiro. Song unfortunately also sung by Eric Rasmussen.

Yellow ice is forming
On the windows of New York tonight
Summer’s really gone
You sleep with your gun without closing your eyes
You fall asleep in your taxi
A song disappearing under a train
Take a smoke from a needle
Can’t even see your face for your own brain

You stirred it up in a bathtub
Blue dry and a bucket of ice
And you filled every wound
Not a thought sliding from your side

But then one day I know
You could find the joy of a woman
And the one that you want
Is an angel with her hair cut off
She’s so shy you can’t touch her and she
Makes you question your convictions

What’s the matter driver
Is there something sliding from your view?
Did the woman you love
turn around and run away from you?
Are you sick with experience
And your eyes turning blood into wine
Will the world go to hell
And will you fall in behind?

Find yourself aiming a pistol
At the sun at the end of the day
There is no east or west in this
Nothing to guide your way?

Only one day I know
You could know the joy of a life
You don’t have much to hang it on
Nothing you can call your own
But you won’t ever die
Or even see the end of day

What’s the matter driver
Did you never hear your body fall?
Because the moment they got you
You were already above it all

(Originally posted June 27, 2007)

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Hey all,

Steph recently did some on-the-street interviews for this company. You can see her performance on YouTube here.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=FirstSunlight1

(Originally posted May 11, 2007)

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1 CBS
Dr. Quinn Faces The Frontier Kidney Stone

2 NBC
Who's Being Eaten? (Reality)

5 ABC
Republican Candidates At Presidential Debate
Washed Away In Freak Flood of Human Antibodies

7 Fox
Is a .44 Magnum Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

20 E! Entertainment Television
"Survivor" Creator Mark Burnett And "Touched By An Angel"
Actress Roma Downey To Wed In Historic Mediocrity Summit

21 Cinemax Two
Naked Pancakes

35 Public Access
Robin Byrd's All-Immigrant Nude Talk Show 

33 Cartoon Network
My Dad, The Ball of Snot

79 CUNY Albany Public Access
Decrepit Member of The Communist Third International
Looks For His Teeth

29 HBO
The Dukes of Hazzard

30 Lifetime
Movie: "My Mom Won't Stop Coming To Grips
With My Homosexuality"

40 Bravo
My Friend Needs A Makeover, If Only
To Underscore That I'm the Pretty One

42 Fox News
My Military Dictatorship Needs A Makeover

50 Sundance Channel
Our 72 Hour Solar Panel Marathon

52 History Channel
Whitewashing The Vietnam War With Truly Awesome
Footage of F-105 Thunderchiefs

57 Fox News
Chuck Norris Explains How To Win In Iraq

82 Discovery Channel
Mythbusters See If Coca-Cola Will Really Stop A Baby

83 BBC America
Richard Gere Burned In Effigy On Indian Subcontinent

87 Independent Film Channel
Henry Rollins Does His Thing With Integrity,
Whatever It Is. To Be Honest, I'm Not Sure Where 
He's Going With It, But It Sure Has Integrity

92 Showtime
How Is It That Snoop Doggie Dogg Gets Away With Doing Guest Spots On Both “Girls Gone Wild” videos and “The L Word”? If you ask me, that’s pretty goddamned cool.

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Sadomasochists, You Like Me! You Really, Really Like Me!

Hey, it’s not Siskel & Ebert, but somebody in the S&M community thought enough of my film “S&M Queen For A Day” to write this thoughtful review.

“It’s a quirky little piece, but I find it strangely affecting,” says the writer of my short comedy. Hey, any press is good press, right?

http://ondominance.blogspot.com/2007/04/youtube-triple-play-s-queen-for-day.html

(Originally posted April 25, 2007)

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Eric’s Top Ten List

The Top Ten Things You Can Blame For the Virginia Tech Shooting Other Than The Lack of Gun Control, If You’re In Total Denial

10. Korean action films and their widely imitated “hammer pose” posters

9. The failure to create a much-needed “Nut Alert System” (as proposed by nutty conservative analyst Amy Holmes)

8. Marilyn Manson’s dark new album

7. A much too lenient grading curve in college creative writing classes

6. Immigrants and their ambition to assimilate their children into chiefly white American male pursuits such as going postal with .9 mm Glocks

5. The feminization of the American male, who obviously needs to be taunted and ridiculed as a pussy-boy more often

4. The decline of martial virtues such as valor and glory … (No, we at the ‘National Review’ are not kidding. No, really.)

3. The failure to create a “culture of life” among semi-autistic kids exhibiting anti-social behavior disorder, clinical depression, paranoia, flat affect, and suicidal ideation.

2. Trans-fatty acids and other lipids

1. You didn’t support the troops

(Originally posted April 24, 2007)

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Ataturk’s Revenge

Not content to start World War IV, George Bush has restarted World War I. You can read about it here. Or type the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_kurds

Note the Turkish general’s conviction: “An operation into Iraq is necessary.”

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(Originally posted April 12, 2007)

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Hey all,

I’ve had a little downtime with other projects, so I spent January and February recording some music. You can find some of it here, if you like:

http://www.myspace.com/ersalodeguierre

(Originally posted April 5, 2007)

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