It's true. I need a day job.

Ever since being "dissolved" from a wonderful day job at a little software company, I've been steadily searching for a new regular source of income. At first, I spent a lot of time looking for something as perfect as the last job. Then, as the months passed and the money went away, I started looking at jobs I would rather not do, but wouldn't be too depressed to perform. Months after that, anything will do. And to make matters worse, it seems that anything will do for EVERYONE in Seattle.


I'm constantly looking for more work in the studio, but this economy is effecting bands and artists just as hard, if not harder than everyone else. Paying the bills is becoming a nightmare reminiscent of my early 20's when I accrued so much debt I had resolved myself to a life of bad credit and creditor calls. I got myself out of that mess (with a little help from Amazon.com) and now I fear it's coming back to get me.

My dear friend, Ma'Chell Duma-LaVassar has taken it upon herself to make a public plea for my employment on Seattle Weekly's music blog Reverb. Click HERE to see it.

I'm very serious about this! If you're in a band and you want to make a record, hit me up! Otherwise, until music starts paying the bills, I need to get my ass in someone's office, warehouse, or delivery vehicle STAT!

xo

The Ballad of California

Some are shocked, some just surprised, and some saw it coming a mile away. To the 18,000 couples who are still legally married in the state of California, keep up the fight with the rest of us. To the people who feel like we're losing the battle, don't lose heart.

When you fight on the side of equality, you always win. It might take a while, but we will win.

Any day now.

xo

SUCCESS!

I know this is kind of tacky, but it made me smile! This is an email I just got from my best friend.



This really happened.>


It brings me great pleasure to be considered mediocre Motown. Hey, white people, Beach Boys are great but Motown is where it's at (and always has been.)

See you tonight at Chop Suey!

xo

Work vs. Sun

Being a producer in the Pacific northwest, you have to sacrifice a lot of beautiful days to sit in a dark, smelly, windowless room staring at monitors and pushing buttons and moving faders and remembering to stand up and stretch. It's worth it when the music comes out good.


Today, final Black Daisy mixes were completed while the sun gave a new life to Seattle residents who suffered through last week's horror and a couple of nasty storms earlier this week. Next up, I will be hiding out in the studio to tweek the fuck out of the new Lights album. So close, by the way. KEXP apparently has some secret leaked mixes (I'm not even sure they have titles) that get played every once in a while. Like I said before, the mixes we did when we left the studio were great, but they will soon be spectacular.

This summer, I will be heading into the studio with Redwood Plan to make my contribution to their upcoming album. Not sure who else they're working with, but I'm sure it's going to be a fabulous record. Haven't set dates with Devices yet, but I'm hoping that happens sooner than later.

During all this, I will also be working on new Erik Blood material and a collaborative effort between me and Altspeak. Speaking of Altspeak, if you haven't downloaded "It's Up to You" yet (it's fucking free!!!) you better get your ass to www.altspeak.com and download it. That's one slept on record, my friends.

Tonight at Lo-Fi in Seattle, Andy Rourke from The Smiths is DJing after performances by Romance, Altspeak, Coulter, and Pedestre. That's quite a line-up and well worth the price of admission, whatever it is. I'll be there until I go celebrate a certain awesome-colored friend's birthday.

More to come...

New favorite blog

http://musselsoppansvanner.blogspot.com/2009/03/danish-70s-interior-design-porno-style.html

More kind words and a free download!

Something tells me this guy from The Finest Kiss likes me.

http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/erik-blood-one-more-time/

I like him, too.


Also, if you head over to The Color Awesome, you can download my demo for "Jet Inside You" which me and the band performed at the Chop Suey show. I hate it when bands play shit that you can't get for yourself, so I decided to offer up the demo now so I won't feel guilty about playing it live more often.

Just wanted to clear up two small miscommunications on my part.

1) The porno album has not been scrapped. I'm still writing songs around the theme, but it might not really be a "concept album" about pornography as much as an album about sex. Would that be disappointing?

2) I noticed a blog post that mentioned that I produced the Shabazz Palaces albums. Not really the case. My hands and sounds are all over those records, but I couldn't dare claim I "produced" them.

That's all for now. I'll do my best to come up with some more stuff to talk about this week.

xo

E

"The Way We Live" is now available!

First off, thank you to everyone that made it to Thursday's show with The Hotels. It was a very good time, if I do say so myself.

Second, and more importantly, my debut album "The Way We Live" is now available! You can download it from iTunes (anywhere in the world), Amazon.com, eMusic, Napster, Rhapsody, and a few other download services. If you have your heart set on a physical CD, you can get it at Sonic Boom, Easy Street, and Wall of Sound in Seattle. If you're out of the area and really want a physical CD, you can order one from Sonic Boom very soon.


Thanks for listening!

xo