I went to the self-help section
To feel less alone
I was reminded by the cool book with the blue binding
It’s called self help because, in other words, you have to be alone.
So many of us stood together alone
Here in the self-help section.
Self Help
October 10, 2019 by Eric Rasmussen
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- Eric R. Rasmussen is the writer/director of the online Web comedy series "The Retributioners," and the musician behind Salon De La Guerre. He is also a novel-writer, blogger and journalist.
Salon De La Guerre (Eric’s Music)
- “Federals”
- “Red Clay Moses”
- “Steal The Water”
- “Green Tumbler”
- “Talk About The Guns”
- “Malishin'”
- “Lester”
- “Linda’s Blues”
- “Steppe Bride”
- “The End Looked Like The Beginning”
- “Just Waking Up”
- “Livingstone”
- “Value”
- “When He Was Ultra Sound”
- “Your Blues Ain’t My Blues”
- “Mine Disaster”
- “Incident at Juarez”
- “Mein Disaster”
- “The Mechanical Bean” (Part 1)
- “Test Tube, She”
- “Transformation Part II”
- “Transformation Part 1”
- “When The Lawyers Come”
- “The Hero In His Own Town”
- “A Man With No Name”
- “Over Man”
- “Alice Ploughshare”
- “They Turn Against Us”
- “Goodbye Rabbit”
- “The Blue Mom”
- “Five Wounds”
- “Intro To Exile”
- “Exile”
- “The Mechanical Desert”
- “Prodigal”
- “Pyrrhic Feat”
- “Face The Music”
- “The Liberty Roundup”
- “Dixie Drowned”
- “All Mechanical”
- “Leaving Babylon”
- “Ford 632”
- “Children’s Army”
- “La Chingada”
- “Kansas, 1921”
- “Decathect”
- “The Passion of the Elvis”
- “TV Head”
- “New York Christmas, 1945”
- “First Comes Daddy”
- “Window Train Movie”
- “The Merc of Cameroon”
- “Cleopatra”
- “Vancouver”
- “Electra in Birkenstocks”
- “Patriots/Crossed Lines”
- “Above It All”
- “Aguirre”
- “The Names”
- “Lorca the Duende”
- “Mockenstein”
- “The Dionysian Rationale”
- “Duster”
- “Hemingway”
- “Third Wave”
- “Where You Dream Tonight”
- “13 Moons”
- “Killer” (The “Retributioners” Theme)
- “Bell”
- “When You’re Sad”
- “You Define Me”
- “Bayou Bye-Bye”
- “Sir Paul”
- “Top Sheet Blues”
- “Butter”
- “The Secession”
- “Open Sea”
- “Or Karma Will Get You”
- “International Pill”
- “Lazy Yuppies”
- “Crystal Meth In A Bathtub”
- “I Indict You”
- “Budgie McBrain Damage”
- “Killer” (full version)
- “Intro”
- “Halo”
- “In Praise of Her Who Left”
- “Gothic”
- “Death In Venice”
- “If It Pleases God”
- “Remember John Fahey”
- “Kyoto”
- “Let My Ocean Be Your Mind”
- “Outro”
- “The Plane That Took Her To Heaven”
- All music on the home page written and performed by Eric R. Rasmussen, copyright 1992, 1996, 2007, 2010 and 2013.
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