Author: Erich Scholz

Up and coming webblog DRAWASTAR.COM has turned me into a published artist. My ultra-realistic sketches of “Sawyer” and “Jack” from LOST have earned me entry into the pantheon of celeb-obsessed doodlers…enjoy.

Happy birthday to actor and author Sterling Hayden who would’ve turned 92 today. I’ve long admired Hayden’s presence in gritty, ’50s-era film noirs such as Crime Wave and Stanley Kubrick‘s The Killing but he’s probably best known for his role as “General Jack D. Ripper” in Kubrick’s 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove as well as his…

Last night I participated in a sleep study set up by my doctor. I had heard complaints from friends about my snoring so I mentioned it during my last check-up. Within one week I made an appointment to spend the night in a facility off of I-35 and W. Mockingbird here in Dallas. I was…

Interesting article on the Muscle Shoals sound here. Check it out. “Most Jimmy Cliff fans would assume “Sitting in Limbo” from The Harder They Come soundtrack was recorded in Kingston. Nope. Like other “secret” Shoals sessions, it was never officially credited on liner notes because Cliff was not properly papered to “work” (i.e. record) while…

I don’t know who is behind this site, Bandtoband.com…but I think it’s pretty interesting. They even have me in there. And you can draw less than six degrees of separation between me and GWAR. I think that’s pretty cool.

Some interesting coincidences in the past couple of weeks. I started reading about chess and how to play the day before Bobby Fischer dies. And I recently watched some classic Twilight Zone episodes, most notably the great 1961 offering Midnight Sun…only to learn that the show’s star — the incredibly talented and kinda hot (pun…

You can check out a bunch more of these Garfield…eh, interpretations…on the Lasagna Cat website (and in much better resolution).

Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans, take heart. The cast-crew of the original series have reunited in what could be a fun new project titled CINEMATIC TITANIC. Joel, Trace, Frank, Josh and Mary Jo will silhouette themselves once more in a direct-to-DVD release of the Al Adamson classic Brain of Blood. The group performed for the…

Man, sorry it’s been so long. Too long. The holidays have come and gone. New Years has come and gone and here we are — seven days into 2008 (dang, the years are starting to accelerate out of control!) and here’s my first post. For those of you who caught me, thanks for your hospitality…

Recently was turned on to virtually unknown comics genius Fletcher Hanks thanks to the wonderful Fantagraphics compilation, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks. Hanks, by all accounts a vicious drunk who regularly beat his wife and son before abandoning them sometime in the ’30s, was one of the unsung…