I wouldn’t say Tim and Eric are an acquired taste. I mean, you either get it or you don’t. It’s stupid. It’s not funny. It’s retarded. It’s absurd. Actually absurd is probably too hoity-toity of a word for what Tim and Eric do. For those of you with your heads in the sand, Tim and…
Author: Erich Scholz
Butthole Surfers – Oct 22 – Granada Theater
I’m so far behind. I haven’t updated this thing in a while which makes me sad. But I wanted to take some time to post a few items for posterity…so that in a few years maybe I’ll remember them. The Butthole Surfers concert at the Granada here in Dallas on Oct 22, 2008 is just…
16mm Shrine
My involvement with Dallas Cinemania whetted my appetite for film. I’m not talking about DVDs either. I’m talking actual, physical celluloid. There’s something strangely primitive yet advanced about film. The process of watching a movie involves an interlocking of the both the mechanical and biological at 24 frames per second. I suppose it’s this crux…
It’s So Cold in the D
I got off work early today. This was, of course, after spending 12 hours at work the day before. Anyway, I’m home now. Drinking some white wine and watching Tim and Eric on the net. I also listened to a bit of the debate between Obama and McCain on the radio. Yawn. Tim Heidecker Stand…
Preocupied
I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of energy on the Dallas Cinemania screenings lately. I’m very excited about it all and I hope that it goes over well. I think the one thing that’s really going to separate us from the pack is the fact that we’re going to have some really good prints and…
Hello Hello
Greetings. It’s been a while. So much to write about…so little energy. Where do I begin? Well, for starters, Holly and I traveled to Chicago — our future home? — in June. The photos have been posted on my Flickr account for some time (see sidebar). I underwent sinus surgery last month which put me…
Grimaldi’s Dallas
One of the pleasures of living in New York City was having access to some of the best pizza on the planet. I’m not talking about that shitty Famous Ray’s stuff that tourists think is New York pizza — I’m talking the REAL deal, you know, Totonno’s over in Coney Island; Lombardi’s on Spring St….
Kites
I’m obsessed with the Lee Pockriss, Hal Hackaday pop standard, “Kites.” I think it’s one of the corniest songs ever recorded but at the same time one of the most beautiful. It’s relatively simple — two parts really — but it’s soaring chorus makes it special. A number of artists have released versions. Most of…
Tomorrowpeople, Radiohead
Wow. What a weekend. There was certainly no shortage of things to be done and did, not the least of which was the return — after an eight year absence — of my rock and roll group, Tomorrowpeople. We had a well-attended and, if I might say so, artistically successful gig at Doublewide on Saturday….
My First Job
The very first paying, “professional” job I ever had back in high school was at a greasy old steak house on Highway 80 on the dusty, east side of Abilene, Texas. The place was called Towne Crier. The building was a Tudor-style structure and the dark interior, lined with faded vinyl booths, smelled of oily…