I'm bored

[ericcoleman]

and I wanna talk about me ...

so ask me something already

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[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

What on earth were you thinking???

(It's the best question I could come up with on short notice)

[ericcoleman]

Obviously I wasn't thinking ...

otherwise things would have turned out differently ... wouldn't they ???

geeze ...

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

What do you think Tracy was thinking???

[ericcoleman]

Obviously she wasn't thinking

otherwise she wouldn't have asked that question ... would she

geeeze ...

[chirosinger.livejournal.com]

When you coming back up to Minneapolis for another visit?

[ericcoleman]

the May show ... which is the 21st ... right ???

[chirosinger.livejournal.com]

Yes it is! Can't wait to see you!

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

We should have a music circle when he's here...

[chirosinger.livejournal.com]

I think he's planning one for Friday night...

[ericcoleman]

If my friend Celia is not having her b-day party that saturday, it is very possible. But I won't know for a couple of weeks yet. If nothing else I would imagine that folks would be welcome at the party after your show. But I need to check on that as well.

[xap]

When did you write your first song, and why?

Why then, why that song (along with any other values you'd care to assign to why :)

[ericcoleman]

Lyrics first

I was a drummer in a basement band with this guy named Aaron Johnson (you can see his back on the photos page on my website)

He wrote songs and I wanted in on the act

The first lyric I wrote was called Laughter. It was typical angst no one likes me bullshit. I still have it in a briefcase somewhere ... NO you can't see it. It's one of those things that I keep around to remind me of how badly I can suck ... just in case I get too big an ego. Aaron wrote music for it that he decided was too good for one of my songs and cannibilized it for one of his. A much better song if I remember correctly. I ran into Aaron a year or so after I moved back here. He gave me a tape of songs he was writing at the time. They sounded just like his songs from when we were in HS. He was living in his mom's house even. Sad.

I wrote a lot more lyrics in the next 3 years or so before I was in a band again. None of them are any good.

The first close to complete songs I wrote were in the band Jim?. I wrote the progressions on the bass and the other guys turned them into power chords. I burned a live show onto CD recently. I was amazed, we were MUCH better than I remembered, but MAN did I want to be Johnny Rotten. Most of Jim?s lyrics were parodies of punk cliches and when we played live Mike, the guitar player (fellow standup comic and now writer for Second City in Chicago) went through every rock guitar star cliche he could think of. It offended nearly everyone.

So, I've been writing lyrics for more than 30 years.

I've been writing the way I do now since the mid to late 80s when I started playing guitar. A couple of songs have survived the years. Don't Go Home is one of my oldest songs, probably the 3rd or 4th song I wrote on guitar. The next CD will have Need, which might even be the 2nd song I wrote on guitar.

[alymid.livejournal.com]

In your opinion what is the weirdest thing you've ever done?

In Julie's opinion, what is the wierdest thing you've ever done?

[ericcoleman]

In your opinion what is the weirdest thing you've ever done?


ask me sometime when there won't be a record in print. I'm not sure what the statuate of limitations would be on such a thing

In Julie's opinion, what is the wierdest thing you've ever done?

I can't track her down at the moment. She has known me for a very long time so ... she knows all the skeletons. I'll ask her and add to this later. My guess though, knowing her, she'll say marrying her.

[cryndalae.livejournal.com]

But I'm not bored

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Probably everyone knows the answer to this except me, but I'm the one asking, so it's allowed to be stupid. *grin* So...how did you end up doing Radio Capricon?

[ericcoleman]

My relationship with Cap had imploded some years before (for reasons I won't go into here, the folks involved are no longer involved with Cap). I said that I would never go back to Capricon ... period.

tlunquist was the Chair one year and called me up and said

"I want you to come work at Capricon"
"No, I have no interest at running games there (the thing I was known for at the time)"
"I want you to run a radio station"
LONG FRIGGIN SILENCE
"I'll think about it"

She called me back a few days later and convinced me that the folks who had made my life so miserable at Cap before were all long gone. I had already made up my mind to do it though. I am a MAJOR music geek, a big fan of Old Time Radio and had always wanted to do such a thing. That was 5 years ago and I am still at it and intend to be until the concom chase me out.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I still haven't been back to Cap

[greenmansgrove.livejournal.com]

How did you meet Erik? And what did you think of each other at first?

[ericcoleman]

You know this story ... geeze ...

I was sitting in the laundromat on the 6300 block of north Broadway. I was reading an AD&D manual. A rather silly fellow walked up to me and said "yer fen aren't you?"

I think I denied it. He didnt believe me. It turned out he worked across the street from the comic store. He came in during his lunches. I decided that he was just the sort who I needed for my staff. The boss hired someone else but 6 months or so later I was able to hire him.

I always liked him, but our real friendship didn't get moving till after I moved back here.

For that matter, I am fairly certain that the first time I met you was in the store on Clark where David worked. I was looking for a job. I think you were hanging out, at least I have this dim visual of you there.

[ericcoleman]

certainly longer than that of someone who feels the need to ask.

[ericcoleman]

Bye

[thenickatoms.livejournal.com]

What is your coolest childhood memory and what is you favorite movie of all-time? >>Wyngarde

[ericcoleman]

Hmmmm ... let's stick with musical

Being at a folk festival in West Virginia with my mom (and maybe my dad, but he tended to avoid such things, since it was something my mom liked) and seeing an older man and what seemed to be either his sons or his grandsons sit down and proceed to tear it up with the best bluegrass I have ever heard before or since.

Movies ... it depends on my mood. Just on a quick impulse and since I was talking about it this weekend

The Stunt Man - a brilliant and odd puzzle of a movie that contains what is probably Peter O'Toole's finest performance.

It could be replaced with the General (Keaton's masterpiece) or Monkey Business (my fave Marx Brothers movie) or several others at any given time.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I added The Stunt Man and a seperate DVD about the making of the movie to my Netflix queue, and just noticed it's coming up in four more movies. :-)

Am I too late to ask a question? I hope not...

"Have you ever heard of NATF, and does it sound like your kind of thing?" (http://www.natf.org, I do it every year and might have mentioned it. If you ever are interested enough to come it's in my home town, and I could probably arrange really good crash space for you.)

*ahem* :-)

[ericcoleman]

at 425 bucks ... not a chance ... bummer ... it sounds cool

and you told me about it when we met

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

Yeah... actually I've only gotten to be a participant "all the way" once, most years I just go and try out for the plays and then participate in the production... hang out with people in the evenings and such. It really is an incredible experience, watching them build the stage and doing the sound effects and everything. I would love to take all my radio geek friends along - it's a great time. And you'd get to meet Simon Jones! :-) (he really is a cool guy)

[the2wittybird.livejournal.com]

So when ya gonna do the Boston rant? ;-)

[ericcoleman]

I;ll do it elsewhere when I have time ... probably in the worstsongsever community

[twoofdtm.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm.... What is your biggest fear? Why?

What is your biggest accomplishment? Why?

[cryndalae.livejournal.com]

I do believe I'll answer that for him >evil grin<

Me

and....

Me!

But of course!

>Eric is now standing across the room in utter terror of the evil grin!<

I do believe I'll 'let' him answer the 'Why?'

[ericcoleman]

I want to state now and for the record

I LOVE the evil grin. It means fun things are about to happen.

I am sure that freeimprov will attest. When you are a fairly geeky oddball outcast, being married to a fabulous babe is always fraught with terror. But it sure is a fun sort of terror.

As for the rest ... do you really want to put the challenge up before me in such a public place ??? You know how I am ...

[ericcoleman]

Ummmmm.... What is your biggest fear? Why?
Gorgeous con babes. Really. They scare me. But I like it.

Seriously. I'm claustrophobic, but only under certain circumstance (having my arms pinned send me into a panic). There is one of the Mythology books by Jodi Lynn Nye that I can't ever read again because of a certain scene.

What is your biggest accomplishment? Why?
I'll say the release of my first full length CD. I had a long tendency over the years to give things up. Music, this time around, has been going very nicely for a very long time. There are other things I could talk about, but I don't tend to discuss them here.

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

When did you first realize that you were a sentient crouton with the power to turn bellhops into gold?

-=ShoEboX=-

[ericcoleman]

When did you first realize that you were a sentient crouton with the power to turn bellhops into gold?
It was trousers, trousers were the thing. Back when men were artichokes and weasels roamed the veldt. You may realize your tendencies toward moosehood, but you can never deny your trousers. Ever!

[bectod.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite song that you wrote?
What is your favorite song that you wrote to play?
What is your favorite song that you didn't write?
what song do you love to hate?

[ericcoleman]

What is your favorite song that you wrote?
Color Of Your Eyes. It turned out exactly the way I wanted.

What is your favorite song that you wrote to play?
I wrote them all to play >>ducking<<
Hides ... in all it's moods. It allows me to stretch out and have fun on the guitar.

What is your favorite song that you didn't write?
What springs to mind at the moment is Punk Meets The Godfather from Quadrophenia by the Who. This would change tomorrow if I answered again (later today even). Of the songs by other folks that I play, Ed Haynes I Want To Kill Everybody.

what song do you love to hate?
Puppy Love has gotten me the biggest laughs (and the best ohmygodIcan'tbelieveyoujustsaidthat looks) over the years.