Upcoming Mess Of Shows:) Check It Out!

Hey there, Eric here again:) Just wanted to tell you that I am excited for these upcoming shows:

We will be headlining Tulsa Pride this year and I will be building a set for this show (!!) with Jimmy, and some friends of ours today. Have some big stuff in store for the night. Here is the poster:)

The band will be performing this coming month for Pride events in: Albuquerque (June 10th at the SOCH!), Oklahoma City (June 25th-Pride Block Party at The Boom!), and St. Louis Pride (June 27th). I will be appearing solo acoustic at Las Cruces for an event (with my good friend and talented songwriter, Namoli Brennet!) on June 18th and again with her at Tucson Pride’s H20 event on the 19th. I will also be performing at Emerald Coast Pride in Panama City Beach on June 26th! If you are around these next two weeks, I will also be headed through Louisville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York City solo acoustic (check the tour page. Also joined by Andy Moore on a few dates!!!).

July 2nd will also be a big day for this little band of ours because it is our first show where we perform an entire set of another musician’s songs. This show is titled: Eric and the Adams goes GAGA! We will perform the hits of GAGA with some big stage and musical surprises. DEFINITELY not the show to miss. One Night Only. Check out the poster we made for it:

See you soon and have a great summer!:)
~Eric

Eric’s Home-made Review: A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010

Before I start my review of this new horror remake, I just wanted to say I made this great dinner from Rachael Ray’s cookbook. Swedish meatballs with egg noodles! SO good. Thanks, Rachael! Check out the recipe at: http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/swedish-meatballs-egg-noodles/

Also, psyched about two other things: the recent Tulsa episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” that I took part in (sweeping, painting, cleaning, pretending to mulch when asked to pretend) will air next Sunday (May 9th) at 7pm Central! AND, psyched to get a tweet back from one of my favorite comedians, Paula Poundstone! I mentioned I was watching one of her old comedy specials and told her she was faaaantastic. She wrote back: paulapoundstone: @RealEric_Himan Thank you, Eric. Love those moments in life when you can connect with someone who you are a fan of:). OK, now on to my review:

So after our gig at the Open Arms Project (read what I wrote about @ www.ericandtheadams.com), I rushed my band (and their gals) out to the door and over to the movies to see a movie I was super excited to see the minute I heard it was being made. I even tried to get one of our songs, “Every Move” onto the soundtrack (maybe for the next installment!:). The movie: the new remake of the 1984 hit, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.

First off, these movies scared the crap out of me as a kid yet there was something that I found fascinating about them. The one that I mainly caught on to was the third “Nightmare” movie, “Dream Warriors” where the villain, Freddy Krueger, uses his victims strengths against them. With the first movie, not the case. Freddy was getting revenge on those that burned and killed him for being a serial child killer. In this new updated version, Freddy is burned and killed by the parents of those kids that he was accused of molesting. Not to be a big spoiler of the movie (if you think this might happen, don’t read anymore and get your butt to the theater so you can read this later and agree with me), but I was kind of disappointed by this story plot. I read reviews and quotes from the people behind the remake saying they wanted Freddy to be more realistic. I think Freddy’s powers were lost in this movie BECAUSE it was made to be too realistic. Dreams are not based on reality and in the movies featuring Robert Englund as Freddy, dreams took you too a different land/place. This movie attempted to piece some of that together and in a few sequences, the update (coming about 26 years later) lends well with technological advances in film (CGI). I wish they did it up even more (ala The Lovely Bones) than go “real”. Jackie Earle Haley was scary at times as Freddy but most of the fright from this movie came in the same way; loud bursts of sound that happen when things jump out of nowhere. It happens a lot and yes, some are predictable, but there were a few the audience (and us) were not ready for.

This movie tries to do double duty of creating a new saga and back story of Freddy while “tracing” scenes from the original to the T. I remember seeing video of Robert Englund talking about how open he was to seeing the new Freddy movie but also talking about how, back then in 1984, there was no CGI and things had to be done organically. I think that way made the films scarier. These days I must be desensitized from CGI ( Shrek, Transformers, The Incredible Hulk) that I found some of the scenes where they focused on using it, boring.

All in all, I was entertained by the film and will maintain my loyalty to the franchise when they come out with another film (SPOILER: after killing Freddy much the same way they did in the earlier films-pulling him out of dream and making him mortal-at the end of the new movie, he reappears as if that didn’t work in the last scene. I hope they explain why that didn’t work in the next one). If you do so choose to see it, your going to jump so don’t hold your popcorn on your lap.

Now, I am working on my computer after making dinner, watching “The Proposal” and realizing I have a TON of emails/things to do tomorrow so have a good week and will be back on soon! OH! and “Julie and Julia” is becoming more of a favorite movie of mine since they show it on HBO nonstop (and I’m getting more obsessed with cooking).
~Eric

Good Villains Debut…on Video:)

Just made this little video from my new original music side project band, GOOD VILLAINS. This is a short video of our first on-air radio performance this past Friday and our first show that took place at The Flytrap in Tulsa, OK opening for Fair To Midland. Fun stuff and you can check out two new songs from us at: www.myspace.com/goodvillains.

Been meaning to blog more. Lots of practices, new songs to learn/write. Will do better, I promise, blog:).
~Eric