check ignition

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www.ericfrench.com! anyone who writes code for a living deserves to be paid well. what a job - at times tedious, at other times horribly frustrating, punctuated with short bursts of pride and excitement. i designed it myself with some help from boygenius.com sean correia. it was fun though, engrossing too. i'm sure it will continue to be interesting. i'm going to keep updating it. all is quiet here in pawtucket aside from the trucks coming back home to the factory loading docks next door. backing in. beep beep beep. i kinda wish my car made that noise, only it might be more sickly at the moment, someone rammed my ass last week on 10 south. the band sounded GREAT today at rehearsal and we're gonna knock em up... dead, dead i mean dead at Jerky's tomorrow. we have a new sign too! email me if you want info on how to get a high quality vynl sign for really cheap. no, not from china. gigs lately have been really fun too, tink's last week was a real blast with Roger Williams U graduates singing along, special guest on harp ronny french (shamon), and announcements from the leader of their softball team - note to self, on breaks at a bar gig TURN THE MIC OFF. memorial day in lincoln was a good time as always too. haven't shaved yet for tomorrow's show... should i do the hyde half beard? should i rock the costume? i have the feeling the boys might still be holding back a little in the wardrobe dept so it might be a little weird. we'll see, i'll concoct something. just need to keep my grandmothers and aunts away from my costuming, they want to sew the holes in my jeans shut. i tell them it's ventilation


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heya

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that "jazz" recording is up @ www.myspace.com/ericfrenchguitar

don't mind my alter ego (yeah, a third one) who sells his headshot hockin soul on weekends playing that funky music. i especially like black orpheus. the band's doin well, the mcFaddens cinco premier was a rousing success. we need a deeper repertoire of covers though, leave me notes, cast your votes. anything but don't stop believin and mustang sally will be considered. btw - sure.... unsure - huff huff huff huff



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jazzed friends

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all is happy again in toyland, no more sound police, and lots of work going on. i'm about to sheepishly admit something. i've been playing a little jazz. just with friends to make money on the side, honest... but i've been enjoying it. all the things you are, solar and my personal favorite - the days of guns and roses! oh yeah, blue bossa, black orpheus, red 22 hike! jobim goes for the touchdown - goooooooooooooal. gooooooooooooooooal. goooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooal i just wanted to be honest with all of you, this is a relationship built on trust, and if i have a dirty little secret, i want it to be our dirty little secret. the recording of our little demo should be done this week, i'll post a link. we need a name though. i think jazzed friends. or the return of all dressed up. ellie martin, corey schreppel and matt pryor are the co- conspirators. anyway, gotta go practice my chord scales- i mean ROCKING, ROCKING, definitely ROCKING

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love notes

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i hate being interrupted at anything, especially work. when i'm practicing singing or playing and someone calls, i ignore it and throw the phone in another room. when someone comes to talk to me i bite their head off. when i'm in the middle of leading a rehearsal at a space i've paid to use for such and a pawtucket police officer threatens to kick my head in because he doesn't have time for this $#@% i get really ticked. apparently the people in the building who prop the door leading to theft, blast guitar hero into my bedroom at 3am, and care for a child in a manner that promotes a consistant bloody scream at all hours of the night accompanied by the yips of a malnourished chiwouwa have a problem with me working during the daytime. well that's just lovely. so, i've left love notes being mr. friendly. but i warn these losers and landlords of the lofts that if this becomes a problem i'm going to be the biggest pain in the @$$ they've seen in a long time about it. i've got a jewish mother and have had 2 jewish girlfriends, i've learned a thing or two about getting my way.

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cookie shocker

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cookie shocker

ingredients:

1 medium to large glass
1 spoon
7 - 10 cookies of any type
peanut butter
milk (regular or vanilla soy)

stack the cookies in the glass, and grab a spoonful of peanutbutter with, well, with the spoon. then shove the peanutbuttered spoon into the glass with the cookies and fill the glass with milk until all the cookies are just about submerged. wait about a minute for the cookies to soften, then blend the whole thing into a mush. eat and drink the mush.

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larger than life

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so my hetero domestic partner (really - he's got a girlfriend, and i'm married to a strat named cheryl - not that there's anything wrong with that!) got an HD projector. we're watching obama tell us about the economy, Carlos Santana scream on a PRS, and Robert Downey Jr. do whatever he does 8 feet tall. it's pretty great, we're having movie nights, playing giant wii, and since i watch lots of concert dvds in the morning while i eat cereal and panetone and do my calisthenics - i get to study my guitar heroes in action.

i need to work on my faces. SRV made great faces, jimi made this stretched weaving the threads of the universe together face, Clapton makes this pained thang. i need a face. i don't want it to be a face people'll wanna punch it's so goofy, but something emotive. i love john mayer's playing and his artistry since his 3rd record, but his faces make me wanna knock his expensive 2 roks over and yell at him.

been working here at the loft a lot, it's been productive. anyone that syncs things

CHRONOSYNC

it's awesome. as my little bro says, i'm livin dream. HJY's playlist makes me almost as mad as JM's faces though. with something in her mouth

oh and i'm doing yoga now, it's pretty intense, my core muscles haven't been this sore since i met paris hilton last year. and my right shin is still dented from a PA head falling on it last week. check out the pic on twitter

follow ericfrench, i post often. also, comment somewhere what you'd like to hear the band cover, we're building our repertoire.

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isolation, so LoneLAY

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oh yeah, finished my booth. that means i'm tracking. and i'm seeing bb and buddy wednesday. that means i'm going to feel like a million bucks. a regular gianni cash. that's one of the titles of the costumes in the photo sessions for the record and site

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