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# Eric Schuurman

Music From Another Life

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## Posts

- [Bio](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/18/timeline/) - December 2, 1959 I was born in Oak Park, IL to Richard and Ann Schuurman and siblings David, Richard, Jan and Patty. 1968-ish We had an elderly woman watching us while our parents were on vacation. She was uncomfortable with me stitching patterns into a swatch of fabric, and shut me down from doing it
- [Music From Another Life](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/07/music-from-another-life/) - These songs are my body of work. Included are collaborations with Stan Borys, Tomek Lipiński, B.B. Bugaloo, Tom Waicunas, John Halka and Vince Salerno.
- [Program 2024](https://ericschuurman.com/2022/10/30/program-2024/) - Stems and lead-sheets exist for these Program 2024 songs. Animation and video content is under development. A scalable immersive rig has been configured.
- [Probing AI - Viral Versus Reason](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/06/28/probing-ai/) - AI Frontier: Philosophy, Art, and a Riddle. Probing AI and its reflections of us. The non-nutritional value of viral information junk-food is highlighted here.
- [Standing](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/10/21/standing/) - Song by Eric Schuurman
- [Blender Lessons](https://ericschuurman.com/2024/01/01/blender-lessons/) - An index of YouTube Blender videos from BornCG's excellent 'Let's Learn Blender! tutorial lessons with individual procedures and processes listed. Recommended!
- [Lighthouse/Bridge 3D and AI](https://ericschuurman.com/2024/01/30/lighthouse-bridge-3d-and-ai/) - In this test I create a 3D bridge animation, audition artist styles, then render 4 variations using the source animation in the style of the selected artist.
- [YouTube Channel - Featured](https://ericschuurman.com/2024/07/12/youtube-channel/) - Eric Schuurman's featured animations and video from his YouTube channel: -Edison Prague -ChatGPT 4o and Processing -ChatGPT 4o/Processing Lesson Doodles -Generative AI Embedded in 3D Fractals -Songs by Eric Schuurman I create immersive visuals and music using combinations of: -Generative AI -Resolume -3D Fractals -Blender 3D and Compositing -Processing Programming Language -Music Composition My tools
- [Tomek Lipiński](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/07/tomek-lipinski/) - Tomek Lipiński is a highly regarded Polish rock lyricist, composer, singer and guitarist. He is the founder of Tilt (1979), one of the first punk bands in Poland, and co-founder of Brygada Kryzys (1981), an influential new-wave band there. The songs by Tilt and Brygada Kryzys were regarded as anthems of the Polish opposition movement in the 1980s.
- [Culling Drone](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/09/05/culling-drone/) - The prideful King Mahn summoned his Jester, wearing his crown jewels, and wrapped in a sable. With goblet of muscadin to temper the woofits, and the mirth of a Jester for prank or a fable. Ah…ha… Culling Drone King Mahn bellowed with laughter at the bourde of his Jester: "Village of idiots buying, Leasing-monger
- [Eric's Freaks](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/16/erics-freaks/) - Eric's Freaks, misfits, rascals and oddities.
- [Whispering Pines Kaiber Animation](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/06/17/whispering-pines-kaiber-animation/) - These were the prompts for the Whispering Pines AI Kaiber animation. Interesting how Kaiber interprets, accents and ignores the various elements in them.
- [Stan Borys](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/06/stan-borys/) - I met Stan Borys in the summer of 1984. I was preparing to leave Chicago for extended travel in Europe when I read an article in the Chicago Reader about him. He was a rock legend from behind the Iron Curtain where his charisma, voice, and poetry were seen as a challenge to the establishment in
- [Tomek Lipiński video Nie pytaj mnie](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/06/nie-pytaj-mnie-by-tomek-lipinski/) - From the film 'Psy 2: Ostatnia krew'
- [Tomek Lipiński video Jakby nie stało się nic](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/06/jakby-nie-stalo-sie-nic-by-tomek-lipinski/) - From the film 'Słodko gorzki'
- [Polish Poster Art](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/14/polish-poster-art/) - Most of these are from my Polish Poster collection. They were given to me as a gift from Arthur Winiarski after the Opole Festival. Graphics of these are from PolishPoster.com . Here is an interesting history of Polish Poster Art, and an over view. I first became aware of Polish Poster Art when I went
- [Yerkes Observatory](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/10/20/yerkes-observatory/) - Yerkes Observatory, built in 1895, is a historic astronomy research institution near the north shore of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, owned by the University of Chicago. In early summer 2018, My sister Patty told me Yerkes Observatory was ending its public tours in October. In late June, I drove up there to take a look
- [1994 Sopot International Song Festival](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/10/sopot-festival-1994-slideshow/) - Photography by Allan Roysdon. Love Dangerously, the song I wrote and produced for BB Bugaloo, had been entered by Arthur Winiarski in a competition to determine participants for the 1994 Sopot International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland. It was selected and we were invited to participate. Arthur's company, Galaxy Group was our corporate sponsor for
- [Recklessly Yours (St. Vitus Dance)](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/11/12/recklessly-yours-svd/) - 'Til the spring comes, ’til the rains fall. ’Til the blossoms drop and the birds call. ’Til the ice melts upon the shores, I sign this, Recklessly Yours. ’Til the summer’s blaze, ’til the thunder rolls. ’Til a bright June morning as the Sunday bells toll. ’Til the locust's song’s heard thru porch doors, I
- [Richard Schuurman Article](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/11/02/richard-schuurman-article/) - The Sunday Herald November 2, 1980 A Closer Look Richard Schuurman: Turning inner city despair into jubilation by Anna Madrzyk "The place was really in bad shape. Like no heat, no hot water... We would get up, and we would have to heat water to wash up in the morning; plus we would have to
- [TVP Interview - Stan Borys in Chicago](https://ericschuurman.com/2022/12/06/tvp-interview-stan-borys-in-chicago/) - 12-5-2022 Going into the TVP interview, there were 4 things I really wanted to have a chance to talk about. First: When I was a young 24 year old artist, I kinda threw everything up in the air and let things land however they did, to send my life off in some new direction I
- [Now](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/05/28/now/) - This feels like now.
- [McHenry Rehearsal House](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/29/mchenry/) - After high school, in November of 1978, John and I rented a little house in McHenry for our band St. Vitus Dance to rehearse in. We built a small studio in the basement and went to work. Muscling through suck, we developed a work ethic and an ability to grind through the hours of physical
- [Eric Schuurman Video Nightsweats (Tongues of Jakob)](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/nightsweats-tongues-of-jakob-video/) - Note 6-12-23: For some reason, Youtube has age-restricted the video. Not sure why, but I'm taking it as a compliment. The video is still up. You just have to show them your I.D. When my eponymous album was released in 2007, this video was posted along with this ridiculous story about its history: About twenty
- [Jaskółka uwięziona (Trapped Swallow)](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/01/jaskolka-uwieziona-by-stan-bory/) - Words and music by Stan Borys (Google translation) trapped Swallow Swallow black dagger, torn from the breast of the wind Sudden sadness anchor, from an invisible yacht The cathedral caught her in the vaults of the high net Like death a lump of stone Like the verdict of the aisles of the rectangle Swallow lightning
- [Something Inconsequential...](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/09/23/something-inconsequential/) - A month of lost weekends, fueled inspiration, and a toss-off written for BB Bugaloo. I wrote 'Love Dangerously' in the fall of 1992 along with a number of other demos for BB's project 'Soul Roots.' BB and I performed it at the Sopot Festival 2 years later and won the audience award. A year after
- [John Halka and St. Vitus Dance](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/07/john-halka/) - When I first met John, we were both 13, living in north Barrington. We shared the same school bus stop in our wooded neighborhood, Timberlake. Our birthdays were a month apart, but he was a grade higher than me. He had a Pioneer stereo, blacklight posters, and Pong on his basement tv. There was also a
- [Ray, Ewa, Patrycja, Eric - Warsaw 1984](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/14/warsaw-meeting-with-ray-ewa-patrycja-and-eric/) - Ray, Ewa, Patrycja and Eric in Warsaw, 1984: When I met with Stan Borys in Lake In the Hills in the summer of 1984, I told him I'd be visiting Europe soon and I'd like to see Poland. He offered to give me the names and phone numbers for his ex-manager Ray Dabrowski, and his ex-wife
- [Vince Salerno](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/09/03/vince-salerno-uncle-bunny/) - In late ’82, John and I spotted an ad in the Illinois Entertainer for a harmonica and sax player. We hired Vince Salerno to record tracks to new songs we were working on in St. Vitus Dance. Vince took the train from the north side where he lived, to Barrington, where our rehearsal space was
- [If You Were Mine](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/if-you-were-mine/) - In the dead of winter, nothing makes a sound, except the whistling trees brittle in the ground. The frozen winter sun, it doesn’t shine. All this would melt away If You Were Mine. The steam in the city, like the flame in my heart, vanishes in frozen air without a chance to start. Pass you
- [Mother's Kitchen](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/11/14/mothers-kitchen/) - (Words and Music by John Halka) Do the invisible shuffle with the California muscle. You really try to hustle when the leaves start to rustle. Well, come on down don’t hesitate. Everybody’s waitin’ don’t be late. Mother’s Kitchen you’ll meet, your mate. Join the continental habit. Feel the wind now grab it. Catch a speedy
- [Matchbox](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/matchbox/) - (Words and Music Carl Perkins) Well, I'm sitting here wondering Will a matchbox hold my clothes Yeah, I'm sitting here wondering Will a matchbox hold my clothes I ain't got no matches But I got a long way to go I'm an ol' poor boy and a long way from home I'm an ol' poor
- [Angela](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/angela/) - You said your name was Angela, a kind offering from above. You were sent to spread warmth and softness, delivered with a message of love. You told me you were fond of flowers, and anything ‘neath the firmament that grows. But we both realize now that it was a mistake, When I snipped from the
- [Wild Child](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/wild-child/) - (Words and Music The Doors) All right Wild child full of grace Savior of the human race Your cool face Natural child, terrible child Not your mother's or your father's child Your our child, screamin' wild An ancient lunatic reins In the trees of the night Ha, ha, ha, ha With hunger at her heels
- [Tiny Montgomery](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/tiny-montgomery/) - (Words and Music Bob Dylan) Well, you can tell everybody Down in ol' Frisco Tell 'em Tiny says hello. Now, every boy and girl's Gonna get their bang 'Cause Tiny Montgomery's Gonna shake that thing Tell everybody Down in ol' Frisco That Tiny Montgomery's comin' Down to say hello. Skinny Moo and T-Bone Frank They're
- [Lights Out](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/lights-out/) - (Words and Music Mike Bloomfield) Standin' on my front porch Grabbed her and I kissed her Boy I was surprised when I saw her little sister Lights out Lights out I'm glad the lights was out Sister knows what it's all about What to do when the lights go out Mother looked at me She
- [Crawlin' King Snake](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/crawlin-king-snake/) - (Words and Music The Doors) Well, I'm the Crawlin' King Snake And I rule my den I'm the Crawlin' King Snake And I rule my den Yeah, don't mess 'round with my mate Gonna use her for myself Caught me crawlin', baby, window Grass is very high Keep on crawlin' till the day I die
- [Respectable](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/respectable/) - (Words and Music Rolling Stones) Well now we're respected in society We don't worry about the things that we used to be We're talking heroin with the president Well it's a problem, sir, but it can't be bent Uh yes! Well now you're a pillar of society You don't worry about the things that you
- [What's Buggin' You?](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/whats-buggin-you/) - (Words and Music, sort of, Bo Didley) You always hollering ‘bout where I been you always bug me ‘bout the money I spend What’s bugging’ you my girl? What’s bugging’ you my girl? Tell you baby all I know That I wasn’t gonna treat you wrong no What’s bugging’ you my girl? What’s bugging’ you
- [On the Road Again](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/25/on-the-road/) - (Words and Music Bob Dylan) Well, I wake up in the morning There's frogs inside my socks Your mama, she's hidin' Inside the icebox Your daddy walks in wearin' A Napoleon Bonaparte mask Then you ask why I don't live here Honey, do you have to ask? Well, I go to pet your monkey I
- [Recklessly Yours](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/recklessly-yours/) - ’Til the spring comes, ’til the rains fall. ’Til the blossoms drop and the birds call. ’Til the ice melts upon the shores, I sign this, Recklessly Yours. ’Til the summer’s blaze, ’til the thunder rolls. ’Til a bright June morning as the Sunday bells toll. ’Til the locust's song’s heard thru porch doors, I
- [Season of Danger](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/season-of-danger/) - I am the pendulum guard. My majority rule club card sometimes I feel to disregard. Talk is cheap and persuasion’s hard. Hear me now hear what I say, for these are the decisive days. The plot you pick’s the course that stays, and bells toll for carefree ways. Dance lightly in this Season of Danger.
- [Little Miss Mystery Kiss](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/little-miss-mystery-kiss/) - Some say Lauren, some say Bardot, some say Marilyn, some say no more. Some say kitten whisper lips. Some say many things, I say this: We all love you, we all love you, we all love you, little, little, Little Miss Mystery Kiss. Little, little, Little Miss Mystery Kiss. Some say they dine in Moscow,
- [Goodnight Godspeed](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/goodnight-godspeed/) - Stepping’ from a subway in a strange town, I’m trying’ to find this place and the sun’s gone down. Woman on a platform, crying’ in a shawl. Drugstore neon flickers in the wet, late fall. “Goodnight, Godspeed, keep him in care.” I hear my baby’s whispered prayer. The sidewalks are empty, the streets are undisturbed,
- [Exhilarated](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/exhilarated/) - The boys in green, guns for guitars. A change of season, a change of stars. Khaki chic. Rocker GI Joe. Pride runs deep, a video show. Well, you want it, it’s yours, you got Exhilarated! You want it, it’s yours, you got Exhilarated! You want it, it’s yours, you got Exhilarate! You want it, it’s
- [American Séance](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/american-seance/) - We gathered from the corners of America. We sat and watched the purple night fall. With bags still packed and waiting by the door, lowering our heads for the spirit call. One by one they passed above us as the moon rose in a star bright sky. Holding hands that trembled and clutched, all at
- [Blessed](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/16/blessed/) - Blessed is the face that shines on me tonight the smell of the perfume on the collar of the coat. The heat, the presence, the touch of the hand. Blessed is the feel of the finger on my throat. Blessed is the feel of the finger on my throat. Blessed are the eyes that watch
- [Snack](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/15/snack/) - Refrain: Starvin', starvin' I fear. Starvin', starvin' out here. Starving, starvin, starvin' dear. Daybreak rises on my tray a meal fit for a king. Daybreak rises on my tray a meal fit for a king. I clean my plate, I's raised that way, it don't change a thing. Mid-day sunlight through my window dances on
- [Follow the Moon](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/17/follow-the-moon/) - Refrain: Follow the Moon, don't ever lose the moon, Follow the Moon, never lose the moon! Take a promised word in stride. Take a lover's ghost to heart. Take a shadowy ride, tonight. Don't take the antidote too soon. Questions just swamp this boat. Look up to the harvest moon, now don't... Refrain I Follow
- [World Away](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/world-away/) - World Away, love, World Away. World away, love, World Away. Pull me down, drown me love, World Away. Pull me down, drown me love, World Away. World Away, love, World Away. World Away, love, World Away. Give me birth, bring me forth love, World Away. Bring me forth, love, World Away. World Away, love, World
- [Time Falls, Run '85](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/time-falls-run/) - Refrain: Time Falls, Run little darling. Time Falls, Run precious one. Time Falls, Run little sister. Time Falls, Run. Time Falls, Run little darling. The sun rises not forever more. Time Falls, carry just your little prayer. Time Falls, Run the killing floor. Time Falls, Run little darling lest the promised lands burn behind closed
- [Time Falls, Run '87](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/12/time-falls-run-2/) - Refrain: Time Falls, Run little darling. Time Falls, Run precious one. Time Falls, Run little sister. Time Falls, Run. Time Falls, Run little darling. The sun rises not forever more. Time Falls, carry just your little prayer. Time Falls, Run the killing floor. Time Falls, Run little darling lest the promised land burns behind closed
- [Heaven is Far Away](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/14/heaven-is-far-away/) - Heaven is a tin echo. Heaven is a still born day. Heaven is a clean incision. Heaven is Far Away. Heaven is a sudden hand. Heaven is a dull highway. Heaven is a ragged sky. Heaven is Far Away. Heaven is a memory. Heaven is blue and gray. Heaven is the blood and soil. Heaven
- [Marionettes](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/marionettes/) - Refrain: Charms for children. Ghost guests. Come to life, Marionettes! Refrain Dance, dance, check yourself at the door. Lose yourself among the crowd, wander on the floor. Dance, dance, this is what you get. Dance, dance, just like Marionettes! Refrain Dance, dance, life's a funny little game, so many people so much the same. Dance,
- [Liturgy](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/liturgy/) - Love will set the two of us free, love will be the temple key. A kiss between you and me, a kiss, a Liturgy. All the candles have been lit down the length of the hall. And the flicker of the flame casts shadows on the wall. Love will set the two of us free,
- [Waiting in the Rain feat. Stan Borys](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/06/waiting-in-the-rain/) - Another morning, another day, the clock unwinds on me alone. Its hands and sedentary choke hold my true love far from home. Night-time ticking hollow echo, nothing but the same. Letters from a lover, Waiting in the Rain. Another drizzle, dissonance once texture and rhyme. Our inspiration, once upon a time. The tapping on my
- [The Hand in My Head](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/the-hand-in-my-head/) - Keep your questions to yourself another voice said. And my mouth was shut by The Hand in My Head. Take the finger of your fist, point out instead. And my eyes were covered by The Hand in My Head. Now I don't mean to sound frosty, but why don't you go wait in the cold? Eye
- [Dressed in Black](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/dressed-in-black/) - She steps up to a wooden door, opens it a crack. Comes in from the autumn cold. She is Dressed in Black. She walks into a little room, hidden in the back. Settles in the dimming light. She is Dressed in Black. She takes a yellow envelope, holds it to the light. Reads a faded
- [Strange](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/strange/) - Strange, Strange... Whisper that in my ear, you're going to see a little change. I feel, Strange, Strange. Whispering about love, we're living in a dangerous age. I feel, Strange, Strange. Strange... Whispering to my heart, witness this immediate change. I feel, Strange, Strange. Strange...
- [Greenwich Mean Time](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/11/greenwich-mean-time/) - Stepping from Bakerloo into the dull sunshine. Blinking at foreign streets, crazy crooked lines. Idling away Greenwich Mean Time! Kaleidoscope of syllables, cacophony rhyme. Sonic wash of other worlds all in a line. Idling away Greenwich Mean Time! Kicking down Trafalgar, spitting in the Thames. Stumbling in drunken circles, laughing again. Bums with British accents
- [Homeward](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/20/homeward/) - Is there a chance that we have finally managed to find our way? Is there a chance that we could be home when night-time turns into day? The tired, weary, heartbroken and ragged, believing the moment is soon. Wasn’t that a landmark we recognized ’neath the light of a brilliant moon? Oh to be home!
- [Apology](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/19/apology/) - Taken at face value, it none the less falls short and doesn't ring true. Given a chance in time maybe this will come around down the line. Refrain: Everything precious is turning blue. Everything precious is hidden from you. Everything precious has now been taken. Everything precious has been forsaken. Forty years is a long
- [Take Care of Love](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/20/take-care-of-love/) - Take care of love, Take care of love. It is a delicate flower. And it’s blooming. In the morning, Take Care of Love. In the evening, Take Care of Love. Love is a fragile flower. Carry her inside your heart. Warm her with your body. Love is a slender flower. And it’s blooming, blooming only
- [Too Many Pieces](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/19/too-many-pieces/) - Ya got a tough job. At 1 O’clock, I was, at the post office. Uhh, but uh, (foolish laughter) you dick! I’m reaching a point where I can’t care much more. Think I finally see this for what it may be. I’ve come to look upon life as some post-explosion, sitting among the debris. I’m
- [Resurrection](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/20/resurrection/) - Walking in the garden we are taking stock of all that you have left behind. Everything you touched now seems to vibrate with the presence of your earthly soul. Walking in the garden there is nothing we can even lay a finger on. Looking up we see your ghost above us sitting on the courtyard
- [Winterline](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/19/interline/) - Now the winter wind is blowing, howls cold and curls 'round your bare neck. As the winter wind is blowing you know there is no turning back. Howls cold and curls 'round your bare neck. No turning back, no turning back. Winterline! Now the ship you will be riding rolls in all moaning, coal black.
- [Vineyard Homicide](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/19/vineyard-homicide/) - In the haze of a humid summer evening's full moon, staring out across the valley from the window of my room. Men in the vineyard, a flash in the night. I realized I was witnessing the Vineyard Homicide. Down in the valley by the still riverside, I was the only witness to the Vineyard Homicide.
- [In My Hour](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/18/in-my-hour/) - Who has thrown this spell upon you, in cold rain, dancing in the afternoon? Strangers laughing in another room as city night approaches in the neon gloom. Praying at the foot of the bell tower. Praying for release, In My Hour. Whose kiss have you taken to heart? Whirl away abandon from the very start.
- [Love Dangerously Demo](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/16/love-dangerously-demo/) - Words, Music and Performance by Eric Schuurman. Written for BB Bugaloo. Your love is dangerous, it’s clear to see, a love so dangerous, danger to me. Your love is frightening, now I can see nothing between us, Love Dangerously. Your love is reckless, suffering and wild. A love so dangerous, whims of a child. Your
- [Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Sad Song](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/02/04/fa-fa-fa-sad-song/) - Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa I keep singing them Sad, Sad Songs, y'all Sad Songs is all I know I keep singing them Sad, Sad Songs, y'all Sad Songs is all I know It has a sweet melody tonight Anybody can sing it any old time It touches your heart Puts you in a groove And when you
- [Brand New Cadillac](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/16/brand-new-cadillac/) - Ooh, yea! Well, my baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac Ooh my baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac Well she looked at me man! I ain't ever comin' back! I said baby, baby, baby Won't you listen to me Baby Listen to me Come on sugar Come on, hear my plea
- [Mr. Pitiful](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/16/mr-pitiful/) - They call me Mr. Pitiful Baby thats my name now, oh They call me Mr. Pitiful That's how I got my fame But people just don't want to understand that What make a man feel so blue They call me Mr. Pitiful 'Cause I've lost someone just like you. The call me Mr. Pitiful This
- [Love Dangerously](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/16/love-dangerously-bb-bugaloo/) - Sheet Music Your love is dangerous, now it's clear to see, a love so dangerous, danger to me. Your love is frightening, now I can see, nothing between us, Love Dangerously. Your love is reckless, suffering and wild. A love so dangerous, whims of a child. Your love is peculiar, and something to see. Leaves
- [My Phone Got Disconnected](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/my-phone-got-disconnected/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. Well I been living' this charmed life, babe, I like it just fine. Lots of pretty woman, sweet talk and wine. I go to work when I want to, babe. Often times not till way after dark. Yes, I was beginning to feel like this
- [Techno Blues](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/techno-blues/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. Don't think about me now, I'll forget about you. Put a lid on it brother, can't you see, we got a lotta work to do. I won't step on your toes, if you won't won't stand on mine. Hey, buddy. What you doing'? Can't you see
- [What You Gonna Do Now?](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/what-you-gonna-do-now/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. Oh, yea! What You Gonna Do Now? Truth is in your eyes, babe. Oh, yea! What You Gonna Do Now? Carelessly living life in fear. Your taking a fall a few times a year. Your beginning to see all the patterns things weave, and taking
- [Midnight Shuffle](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/23/midnight-shuffle/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. Well I been hanging round the the same place all night long. Seems like everybody I'm talking to got the same old song. They're dancing, you know it's getting late and I'm kinda tired. Most of the folks around here are looking kinda wired. It's
- [Sense of Humor](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/23/sense-of-humor/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. My momma she done told me, yes, I know she wasn't lying. My momma she done told me, yes, I know she wasn't lying. Said you gonna need your Sense of Humor, or this world is gonna keep you crying. My momma she done told
- [Maybe It's the Way](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/23/maybe-its-the-way/) - Performed by Tom Waicunas. Words and Music by Tom Waicunas. I wished upon a star last night until the dawning of a newborn day. In the clear blue morning light all your tears melt away. And your soul will be free again, and your love it could be again. Oh! But that's only me again.
- [New Amerika](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/16/new-amerika/) - New Amerika New Amerika... Your star will shine. Wipe those tears away, you will live to see a better day. You will live to see another miracle. You will live to see New Amerika. Wipe those tears away. Wipe those tears away, Ellis Island was another day. Ellis Island - undoing Babylon. Ellis Island -
- [For Nothing More feat. Stan Borys](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/for-nothing-more/) - -For Arthur Winiarski- Your hands, half, just half. Touch, or touch. Dream, no dream. And love, rented love. How can you understand my absence if I’m not myself forever more? Forever more. Your eyes, full of life. Visions, untouchable, deep inside. Empty voices crawling around and crying for love, for love. Crying for love. Pierwszy
- [Wade in the Water](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/308/) - Wade in the water, Wade in the water, Wade in the water. God's gonna trouble the water "Jesus is coming back." "A servant of God." "Jesus said woe unto the scribes, the Pharisees, the hypocrites." (Repeat) Who those children dressed in red? God's gonna trouble the water. They going to be disappointed. God's gonna trouble
- [Baltic Rain](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/baltic-rain/) - From a shore of the Great Lakes, through the St. Lawrence seaway, sailing away in a dream across Atlantic cold and grey. Rolling in the North sea, fading from distant pain. Stepping onto solid ground in a spray of Baltic Rain. In my dream there were two lists. The first, three thousand that we lost.
- [Far Enough Away](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/far-enough-away/) - Additional Words by Tomek Lipiński Refrain: Am I going? Am I gone? Am I Far Enough Away? Am I going? Am I gone? Am I Far Enough Away? „Można po polsku weź tego technika, eh, przy przemiń kiedyś tak było wyrażane. Technologia ostatnie jest bardziej popularny.” Am I going? Am I gone? Am I Far
- [Jettison](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/jettison/) - "Today it's time to stop singing' and start swinging'." Son, son. Jettison, Jettison. I must get out from underneath the dead weight you've become. Jettison. Jettison, Jettison. "Put some, put some guerrilla action on it." A little voice that's got my ear says "Time to cut and run." Jettison. This ritual of our friendship, it's
- [Home Prayer](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/home-prayer/) - So far away, so far away, so far away from home. So far away, so far away, so far away from home. Each morning I awake and pray this is my homecoming day. If it’s blue or gray, It was meant to be that way. If it thunders and storms I pray that you stay
- [See Through Me](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/see-through-me/) - You can see through me now, I'm a cold heart, a callous soul. You can see through me now, I'm telling you it's time to go. And I'm calling you, I'm not alone. Trying to carve a heart of stone. You can see through me now, you can see clear through my eyes. You can see
- [Nightsweats (Tongues of Jakob)](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/nightsweats-tongues-of-jakob/) - Video Immeeldom leeschta yackupopfullbook airshluge darevatter oondie mooterzein. Undshlezee bida indane veshershvank, umbleebem houza eebricht airalign. Eshvommen volcun underm Himmel hinn, uhn ume zine houz ging milt dare summer vind. Uned im demme houzze za zare zelba drin, zeeban toggen vos nok hine cint. Dee togga gingen und dee nok ging owf, uned nikts vah
- [First Chapter Elizabeth](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/first-chapter-elizabeth/) - There was a flash of charity from the howling abyss and out stepped young Miss Elizabeth. Long gone young Miss Elizabeth, down from the mountain, back from the edge. We wear the veil, we offer flowers, we bathe in hidden mountain showers. We are your lambs. We're your nation. Glory's yours! Be our salvation! We
- [Splinter](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/splinter/) - I cannot forget your ghostly face in the rain. The bead of moisture that fell on your breast and the stain. The smell of your collar in our first lingering embrace fills my senses as gravity beckons my body from space. Look up there! It’s our love. Bursts orange and Splinters in the blue. You
- [Monkey and the Button feat. Natalia Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/monkey-and-the-button/) - Natalia: Narrator Julia: Voices of the Beasts Dad: Refrain Refrain: There's this monkey, he had a Button, and he did just what he wants. Now this monkey is no more now for his weakness and arrogance. Refrain In the night, the Voice of the Jungle came to the first monkey: "Monkey, here is the Key of
- [Johnny Thirteen](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/johnny-thirteen/) - -For Brother John Halka- "Your destiny is determined by the roll of the dice." Johnny one, Johnny two, Johnny three, Johnny four. Yea, he knows what a curse is for. Johnny five, Johnny six, Johnny seven, Johnny eight. Man'll do anything when he's desperate. Johnny nine, Johnny ten, Johnny eleven, Johnny twelve. Mouths to feed
- [Love Dangerously](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/13/love-dangerously/) - Your love is dangerous, now it's clear to see, a love so dangerous, danger to me. Your love is frightening, now I can see, nothing between us, Love Dangerously. Your love is reckless, suffering and wild. A love so dangerous, whims of a child. Your love's peculiar, and something to see. Leaves me defenseless, Love
- [Natural Light](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/12/19/natural-light/) - My darling ones we’re not afraid of distant thunder across the plain. The day gone black above us forms a gathering of the perfect storm. A crackling bolt of lightning hits. The planets’ tinder now is lit. Downslope wind brings no rain, scatters embers, and fans the flames. Screens glowing with conspiracies, devoured whole willingly.
- [Tucson](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/07/12/tucson/) - They took to the road with a map and a stash and stoned at a truck stop, paused for a break. Wore scalloped mirror bug-eyed reflective sunglasses, Bought donuts and coffee to keep them awake. They'd stumbled out with idiot laughter But back on the road the smiles turned to pouts As two silenced brothers
- [Two Brothers](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/05/31/10267/) - First brother set the house on fire, licking flames dancing higher. Second brother rose to run when he seen what he had done. But he stood there transfixed at what he had just witnessed. Sparks swirled and scattered round them, thinking ‘bout the blood that bound them. Second brother then heard First brother say these
- [Airplane Dreams](https://ericschuurman.com/2021/03/16/airplane-dreams/) - Two jets merged proximities Distant, but visible to each other Ones' mechanical failure And its focused, futile response Home Yea, we're at twenty-six thousand feet We are in a vertical dive Two jets merged proximities Distant, but visible to each other Ones' mechanical failure And its focused, futile response Again 361, we're at twenty-four thousand
- [Genbaboom](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/04/23/genbaboom-jen-buh-boom/) - My generation, born of the greatest, coming of age to a dark bells toll. Idealism, a flower in a gun barrel, entrusted with the national soul. My generation deployed to rock and roll and fought in a jungle at seventeen. And when it was over, returned to a country had no idea of what we
- [Epilogue](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/03/01/epilogue/) - Born into a family, fifth of five. We lived beneath the same roof for some time. Then one by one we began dispersing, and the last departure then was mine. We set off for school, jobs and families, with spouses and children of our own. Now the passing of seasons dim memories of a family,
- [A Prodigal Son](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/11/24/a-prodigal-son-1/) - I walked thru their door, I stepped into the night. With the home-light burning I didn’t look back. I drove thru the night into the morning sun, down a ribbon of highway, never did look back. I tried to reason with him. I tried to calm and still her. To show the sense of doing
- [Obliteration](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/08/17/obliteration/) - A kiss is a kiss, is just a kiss. A kiss is a kiss, nothing more nothing less. A kiss is a kiss, a promise of bliss, a promise of bliss. Obliteration Obliteration A kiss is a kiss, is just a kiss. A kiss is to know worthy and blessed. A kiss is a crime
- [East West](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/07/06/east-west/) - The skies' half circle surrounds us again The skies' half circle surrounds us again East West, East West A continent before we can rest East West, East West A continent before we can rest Its just the way the world turns It's just the way it turns Its just the way the world turns From
- [Days Are Few](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/04/19/days-are-few/) - Days Are few. Words of the wise, guidance of age, cannot shake or sway what you know to be true. Rules of the road, gravity itself, in your youth means nothing to you. Your whirling of dervishes, drunken and wild in cathedrals where lost souls pray come back to haunt you, in your reflections, debt
- [Index of Music Projects](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/09/index-of-projects/) - A Prodigal Son (Eric Schuurman, 2021) Days Are Few Lyrics East West Lyrics Obliteration Lyrics A Prodigal Son Lyrics Epilogue Lyrics Genbaboom Lyrics Airplane Dreams Lyrics Two Brothers Lyrics Tucson Lyrics Natural Light Lyrics Eric Schuurman (Eric Schuurman, 2007) Love Dangerously Lyrics Johnny Thirteen Lyrics Monkey and the Button Lyrics Splinter Lyrics First Chapter Elizabeth
- [Spice Factory Demos by Tom Waicunas](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/spice-factory-demos-by-tom-waicunas/) - Recorded at the Spice Factory in Chicago in 1993. The project was never completed. Produced/Engineered by Eric Schuurman. Words and music, Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica by Tom Waicunas. Guitar, Piano, Synths and Backing Vocals by Eric Schuurman on 'Maybe It's the Way'.
- [Europe Acoustic by Eric Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/10/22/europe-acoustic/) - The band, 1984. By spring of ’84 I needed to reinvent myself. I decided to take a break from St. Vitus Dance and see Europe. I wrote a batch of songs, playing them on guitar and harmonica. I recorded them and made copies to sell while busking on my trip that summer. The Europe visit
- [Autumn '85 by Strange Romance](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/autumn-85-by-strange-romance/) - Recorded in Lincoln Park in 1985. Produced by Eric Schuurman. All words and music by Eric Schuurman. Eric Schuurman - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synths, Programmed Drums Vince Salerno - Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Harmonica
- [Charms by Strange Romance](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/charms-by-strange-romance/) - Recorded in Lincoln Park in 1987 for Risque Records. Executive Producer, Jeff Svoboda Produced by Eric Schuurman. All words and music by Eric Schuurman, except 'Waiting in the Rain', words and music by Schuurman/Borys/Salerno/Garret. Eric Schuurman - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synths, Programmed Drums Stan Borys - Vocals on 'Waiting in the Rain' Vince Salerno - Tenor Sax,
- [Old Town by Eric Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/old-town-by-eric-schuurman/) - Recorded at Wieland Center in Old Town in 1991. Produced by Eric Schuurman. All words and music by Eric Schuurman. Eric Schuurman - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synths, Programmed Drums, Harmonica on 'Homeward' Vince Salerno - Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Harmonica Dave Schuurman - Prayer on 'Apology'
- [Soul Roots by BB Bugaloo](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/soul-roots-bb-bugaloo/) - Recorded in Chicago in 1992. Produced by Eric Schuurman. 'Love Dangerously' words and music by Eric Schuurman, 'Mr. Pitiful' words and music by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, 'Brand New Cadillac' words and music by Vince Taylor, 'Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Sad Song' words and music by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper. BB Bugaloo
- [BB Bugaloo](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/11/24/bb-bugaloo/) - I was introduced to BB Bugaloo by Vince Salerno in summer of '85. BB was born Justice Obed, living in Takoradi, Ghana near the central western coast of Africa. Friends from his soccer team heard him singing to James Brown and Sam Cook songs in a nightclub. One of them played bass in a local
- [Tom Waicunas](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/04/tom-waicunas/) - UPDATE - September 28, 2019 March 4, 2017 Tom Waicunas is a singer, song-writer, harmonica player and guitarist. He's from Connecticut, Marthas' Vineyard, Philadelphia, and Chicago. I met him in 1993 when we both lived in the Spice Factory artist lofts on the south side. We became friends and collaborators up until his disappearance in
- [Eric Schuurman by Eric Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/eric-schuurman-by-eric-schuurman/) - Recorded In Edison Park 2004-2007. 'Eric Schuurman' is the last release by Eric Schuurman. It is dedicated to John Halka. Produced by Eric Schuurman. All words and music by Eric Schuurman, except ‘Johnny Thirteen’, words and music by Eric Schuurman and John Halka, and ‘Far Enough Away’, words and music by Eric Schuurman and Tomek Lipiński, and
- [A Prodigal Son](https://ericschuurman.com/2021/05/01/a-prodigal-son/) - Recorded in Chicago, 12/18 - 5/21. Words and music by Eric Schuurman. Produced by Eric Schuurman. Executive Producer, Richard Schuurman. In December 2018, my brother Richard set me up with a couple of beautiful guitars, and encouraged me to be musically creative again. I hadn't played or recorded in over a decade. For whatever reasons, I
- [TR-808](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/04/25/tr-808/) - By '83, me and John were burning thru drummers endlessly. We were in Barrington, not in the city, and the available musicians generally were not into what we were into. We got sick of constantly auditioning new drummers, so we figured we'd use a drum machine, which was something new we'd heard about. We got
- [F5](https://ericschuurman.com/2023/01/25/f5/) - 1-25-23 Last night I dreamt I was in my dark basement and the wind started rising outside. It kept going, getting louder and stronger, and it caught my attention. I got down on the floor and it burst open my window and began pushing on me. The house started to shake, and the wind continued
- [Sketchbook - Logic Pro X Tutorials](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/12/09/sketchbook-logic-pro-x-tutorials/) - Excellent resource: MusicTechHelpGuy - Logic Pro X Video Tutorial Series synth and guitar loop drummer and drum machine getting started in Logic X getting Started in Logic 10.3 sample rate, bit depth, i/o buffer, setting up for recording autopunch, quick swipe comping, low latency mode, control bar transport, colorize regions, cycle mode quick punch, punching
- [Spice Factory](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/26/spice-factory/) - This is the loft building known as the Spice Factory where musician Tom Waicunas and I recorded 20 of his demos in 1993. It is at Cermak Road and the Chicago River. It was originally built for the Thomson and Taylor Spice Company in 1911. It is in the historic Cermak Road Bridge District between Pilsen
- [Awake in Old Town](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/09/11/in-spring-of-91-i-awoke-in-old-town-newly-separated/) - In spring of '91 I awoke in Old Town, newly separated. I set up shop in an artist loft building called Wieland Center on North Ave. It was across the street from the old Piper's Alley location, next door to the Old Town Ale House, right around the corner from Second City, and a few blocks
- [Chopin's Piano by Cyprian Norwid](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/14/chopins-piano/) - (To Antoine C...) La musique est une chose étrange! -- Byron L'art? ... c'est l'art - et puis, Voilà tout. -- Béranger I I was with you, those all but final days, Impenetrably woven — Laden as Myth, Pallid as dawn... – When the end of life to its beginning whispers: "I SHALL NOT REND
- [Pfizer #1](https://ericschuurman.com/2021/04/01/pfizer/) - March 30, 2021 11:10 am 1155 Oakton Des Plaines, IL Got my first Pfizer shot. Guy next to me in the observation area went limp and wound up on the floor. Other than my upper left arm being a little sore, I'm fine. Walking into this old Kmart, the sight of it took me off
- [Music Projects](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/10/20/music-projects/) - A Prodigal Son by Eric Schuurman - 2021 Eric Schuurman by Eric Schuurman - 2007 Spice Factory Demos by Tom Waicunas - 1993 Soul Roots by BB Bugaloo - 1992 Old Town by Eric Schuurman - 1991 Charms by Strange Romance - 1987 Autumn ’85 by Strange Romance - 1985 Europe Acoustic by Eric Schuurman
- [The Pearl Diver](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/11/17/the-pearl-diver/) - The world began and the little boy sat on the shore looking out across the ocean. The old man approached the boy, stopping near the fence between them, and motioned to him. When the boy approached, the old man spoke to him: "A stranger has come who will be staying for awhile. He dreams of
- [The Culling](https://ericschuurman.com/2020/04/23/the-culling/) - This is the God I believe in: If you take the laws of physics, the mystery of life, and that which is un-knowable, beyond comprehension, un-verbalizable; that would be God for me. The planet has recognized our species to be a threat, and is doing something about it. Like a plant bending towards light, the
- [Tom Waicunas Update](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/09/28/tom-waicunas-update/) - September 28, 2019 In mid September, 2019, I posted the notice below on the Facebook Missing and Homeless page after being contacted by Helen Waicunas, Tom's mom. She had been informed by Humana, and confirmed by the Social Security office, that Tom had died on August 26 of this summer, but they were unable to
- [Two Little Birds](https://ericschuurman.com/2019/07/26/two-little-birds/) - Two Little Birds in a feathered nest keep their parents busy, not a moments rest. Momma weaves the long grass leaves that make their small home strong. Daddy brings her twigs and string and sings his morning song. Two Little Birds In the mid-day sun, each a little bigger when the day is done. Momma
- [Flying Thru Totality August 21, 2017](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/08/21/total-eclipse-at-35000-feet/) - Earlier this summer when I first heard about the Great 2017 American Eclipse, Carbondale, IL was its ground zero, as it would spend the longest duration in Totality, or total eclipse. My family considered renting an RV and spending a long weekend downstate to experience it, but for a number of reasons, it wasn't going
- [Sketchbooks](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/12/22/sketchbooks/) - Logic Pro X Tutorials Music Exercises
- [The Next Thing](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/10/06/the-next-thing/) - Riding my stationary bike, eyes closed in my quiet basement, I peer into the Next Thing, which I’m closing in on. I think my spirit won’t just dissipate, it will carry on in some form to the benefit of the species, to life itself. I’ll rejoin the ocean of souls from where I once emerged.
- [Bringing Home Maya](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/09/03/bringing-home-maya/) - Our efforts to find our next pet began Sunday, August 27, 2017, when we drove to the Chicago Animal Care and Control shelter down Western Ave. on the southwest side. There was one dog that looked nice and seemed to have a pleasant personality, but a couple of ladies had expressed interest in her, and
- [Creativity and Depression](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/04/20/creativity-depression/) - My creativity has always had a ceiling. In my manic creative phases, all my time, energy and thought is focused on my art. Relationships become almost impediments. Work, an interruption. Eventually, significant problems arise because of this, which shuts down the creative will. Sometimes just until the next work budget materializes. Sometimes it remains asleep
- [Invisibility](https://ericschuurman.com/2018/09/29/invisibility/) - It has taken some time, but I'm finally becoming invisible. Recently, I came across a video of my family from when I was about 5. Some time ago my parents had old film footage converted to video cassettes and gave copies to us. One part showed my family entering a relative’s house on a holiday.
- [Arthur Winiarski](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/28/arthur-winiarski/) - Arthur Winiarski was a Polish-American businessman and impressario that I met when I accompanied Stan Borys to the Opole Festival in June of 1991. He was then Stan's manager for the festival and related events. He lived in New Jersey and Sopot, Poland. His business, Galaxy Group, introduced parking meters to Poland, and financed his
- [University Without Walls](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/31/university-without-walls/) - In the summer of 1995, a year after the Sopot Festival, I was accepted into Northeastern IL University's independent study program 'University Without Walls'. The theme of the program I designed was 'Technology and the Arts in Poland'. It was based on my experience using technology artistically, with a focus on Polish music and culture. It allowed
- [Krzysztof Kieślowski](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/07/krzysztof-kieslowski/) - Krzysztof Kieślowski is my film director choice. Roger Ebert has some excellent pieces on his films, which I'm providing links to in this post. You owe it to yourself to see his films. In the early 90's when I was living in Old Town, I read about 3 films being released that were referred to
- [Natalia and Julia](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/09/natalia-and-julia/) - These are my beautiful, intelligent, sensitive and wise children Natalia and Julia. This document is for them, that they may understand their father better, and hopefully benefit from my efforts.
- [A Visit to the Attic](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/07/23/visit-to-the-attic/) - This visit to the attic is in the hope that my life before fatherhood wasn't time wasted. My children are redemption for me from the vanity and self-absorption that comes with being an artist. The world will benefit from my poems 'Natalia' and 'Julia' as their goodness and light goes out and multiplies. My other efforts
- [On my Mom's Death](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/07/26/on-my-moms-death/) - Ann Elaine Schuurman January 2, 1928 - July 26, 2017 The buzzy, arcing live-wire of worry bounced around somewhere in her consciousness since my mid-teens when I began my rebellion. By the time of her death, it didn’t keep her up at night anymore. I think that somewhere deep in her fog of dementia she
- [Legacy Gear](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/28/my-legacy-gear/) - Hardware I cut my teeth on: Epiphone 12-string 1967 Red Gibson ES 330 Martin D-16 acoustic Fender Telecaster Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Yamaha CP70B Electric Grand Hammond M3 Leslie Speaker Fender Reverb amp Marshall studio amp Senheiser and Shure mics Kelsey 12 channel mixer NEI spring reverb ADA Digital Delay Symmetrix Compressor/Limiter MXF dual 15
- [Anosmia](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/04/08/anosmia/) - The weed in my front yard next to the sidewalk regrew every time I pulled it out. I would remove it, but the root would remain, of course, and a few weeks later it would poke from the ground again and begin spreading outward all spikey and obscene. It was October 13, 2013 and I had
- [BB Demos by Eric Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/11/24/bb-demos-by-eric-schuurman/) - Recorded at Wieland Center in Old Town in 1992, there were 6 demos for the BB Bugaloo project. 'Love Dangerously' was the standout. Words and music, vocals, and all instruments by Eric Schuurman
- [Bill Dahl](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/25/bill-dahl/) - Bill Dahl is a writer, musicologist, and a blues expert. Before I met him, and we became friends, I was reading his articles about the Chicago blues scene. John Halka and I were in Barrington with our band St. Vitus Dance, trying to educate ourselves about the blues. His column was a favorite of ours. When
- [Cyprian Norwid](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/27/cyprian-norwid/) - Born September 24, 1821, Cyprian Norwid was a Polish poet, sculptor and painter who lived part of his life abroad. Born into royal lineage, he was orphaned at an early age. With an incomplete formal education, he was largely self-taught. Friends with Chopin and Turgenev, he was himself un-appreciated in his day, dying largely un-published
- [Stirring from a slumber long enough to house clean.](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/07/10/hello-world/) - This is a vessel for the residual artifacts of a once-creative. Recent events have roused me from my sleep long enough to organize a little. I've been meaning to straighten things up a bit. It's as good a time as any to empty the closet, make a couple lists, tidy up some files, fill a few
- [Inspired by 9-11 Jumpers](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/08/27/inspired-by-9-11-jumpers/) - Blue sky orange burst, perfume memories, twisted metal. Paper plane prayers, brittle fates, and butterfly souls. 'Splinter' runs the vision of a shattered relationship through the filter of September 11, 2001. From the wreckage, a new beginning, a fragile ascent.
- [Letting Go Misia](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/06/17/letting-go-misia/) - Misia Summer 2000 - June 15, 2017 I’d left work and met the vet at my home at 1. My wife had just said goodbye and left. Misia’s muzzle was moist and smeared with her lipstick. I sat down next to Misia who was laying on her cushion in the living room. I cupped her
- [Our Civil War](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/05/20/our-civil-war/) - There is a political class that benefits from us being at each other’s throats. There are men and women who have built fortunes, leveraging and exploiting our reasonable differences, magnifying them and using them against us for their gain. We have to ask ourselves when we hear something from them that stokes our anger towards
- [Tom Waicunas Video Techno Blues](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/05/video-techno-blues-by-tom-waicunas/) - Video, Editing and Production by Inja Lin.
- [Sopot Festival 1994 Live - Encore #1](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/07/sopot-festival-1994-grand-prix-event/) - (Sorry for the poor quality of the video and audio. It was the only copy of the performance I could track down.) BB and I won the Audience Award in the Sopot Festival in Sopot, Poland 8-26-94. There was a lot of partying that week, and by the day of the first major festival appearance,
- [Sopot Festival 1994 Live - Encore #2](https://ericschuurman.com/2016/12/07/sopot-festival-1994-gala-event-encore-2/) - (Sorry for the poor quality of the video and audio. It was the only copy of the performance I could track down.) BB and I won the Audience Award in the Sopot Festival in Sopot, Poland 8-26-94. There was a lot of partying that week, and by the day of the first major festival appearance,
- [Dahmer Limerick](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/03/15/dahmer-limerick/) - There once was a boy from Wisconny, who buried surprises for mommy. The locals say please, we prefer cheddar cheese, but Jeffrey loved bratwurst of Johnny.
- [Like Father, Like Daughter](https://ericschuurman.com/2017/01/14/like-father-like-daughter/) - My freak looks bewildered. Natalia's freak looks thrilled.

## Pages

- [Everything is Transactional.](https://ericschuurman.com/) - Eric Schuurman is a musician, producer, illustrator, animator and writer based in Chicago. This site documents his explorations of ideas, art, AI, etc.
- [Bio](https://ericschuurman.com/biography/) - This is the extended biography of Eric Schuurman linked to additional media and info with a focus on his creativity and chronology of artworks.
- [Featured Posts](https://ericschuurman.com/home/posts-about-pieces/) - Music From Another Life A Visit to the Attic Something Inconsequential Inspired by 9-11 Jumpers University Without Walls Natalia and Julia Keep the Aggregators Happy Stan Borys Tomek Lipiński Arthur Winiarski Tom Waicunas Sopot Festival 1994 Video: Nightsweats (Tongues of Jakob) Legacy Gear Project Credits

## Indexes

- [Video, Graphics, Images, etc.](https://ericschuurman.com/visual/visual/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Commentary](https://ericschuurman.com/indexes/misc/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Eric Schuurman's](https://ericschuurman.com/poetry/poetry/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Commentary](https://ericschuurman.com/commentary/commentary/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Language](https://ericschuurman.com/indexes/language/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Words](https://ericschuurman.com/words/words/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Words2](https://ericschuurman.com/visual/words2/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Logic Pro X Tutorials](https://ericschuurman.com/indexes/logic-pro-x-tutorials/) - %{easyindex}%
- [Friends, Influences, etc.](https://ericschuurman.com/people/2605-2/) - Friends, Influences, etc.
- [Lists](https://ericschuurman.com/lists/lists/) - Lists
- [An Unpredictable Path](https://ericschuurman.com/places/places/) - An Unpredictable Path

## Html5 Audio Player

- [Program 2024](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/test9/)
- [MFAL Sidebar](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/mfal-sidebar/)
- [MFAL](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/test8/)
- [A Prodigal Son](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/a-prodigal-son/)
- [Eric Schuurman](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/eric-schuurman/)
- [Tom Waicunas](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/tom-waicunas/)
- [BB Bugaloo](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/bb-bugaloo/)
- [Old Town](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/old-town/)
- [Charms](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/charms/)
- [Autumn '85](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/autumn-85/)
- [Europe Acoustic](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/europe-acoustic/)
- [St. Vitus Dance](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/st-vitus-dance/)
- [Something Inconsequential](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/something-inconsequential/)
- [Stan Borys](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/stan-borys/)
- [HTML5 MP3 player](https://ericschuurman.com/audioplayer/html5-mp3-player/)

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://ericschuurman.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Visual](https://ericschuurman.com/category/visual/)
- [Lists and Indexes](https://ericschuurman.com/category/indexes/)
- [People](https://ericschuurman.com/category/people/)
- [Words](https://ericschuurman.com/category/words/)
- [Songs](https://ericschuurman.com/category/words/songs-words/)
- [Commentary](https://ericschuurman.com/category/words/commentary/)
- [Music Projects](https://ericschuurman.com/category/indexes/music-projects/) - Music Projects
- [Eric Schuurman's Poetry](https://ericschuurman.com/category/words/poetry/) - Poetry
- [Sketches](https://ericschuurman.com/category/indexes/sketches/)

## Tags

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- [AI Art](https://ericschuurman.com/tag/ai-art/)
- [AI Philosophy](https://ericschuurman.com/tag/ai-philosophy/)
- [AI Riddle](https://ericschuurman.com/tag/ai-riddle/)