Erich Schmidt
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Communications Specialist |
| Location | Burlington, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | In the never-ending search for ever-elusive happiness, a small semblance of stability, hair-stand-on-end adventure and distant travel, the ultimate physical conquest, the perfect meal, a peaceful moment to end a harried day, a dream that doesn’t need to come true but simply must keep returning, and certain lurid things my mom wouldn’t want anyone to read about here or anywhere else, I try to find my unique and distinct place in the world through honest and forthright means of communication. In 1997 I authored and self-published a novel about a belligerent and spirited young man in the process of meeting and ushering along his adult fate. In the advertising I created for it, I wrote a little something about myself that I'd say still applies today: "Most of all, I am prolific and dedicated ... My work expresses an intense imagination and street-wiseness. It is usually reality-based, alternately amusing and poignant; often laden with my deeply facetious sense of humour. At this point in my life, I find myself drawn to tales of misguided youth and people on the brink of insanity, and stories of folks struggling to make peace with themselves and their environment." |
| Interests | My wife, my little girl, my loyal family, my longtime friends, reading and writing bold and uncompromising fiction, working out each and every part of my body until it hurts, eating foods from every part of the world, wandering the earth forever. |
| Favorite movies | Platoon, The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Me Myself And Irene, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Hard Core Logo, Breaking The Waves |
| Favorite music | Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, old Rolling Stones, Stan Rogers, Stompin' Tom Connors, Johnny Cash |
| Favorite books | A Prayer For Owen Meany, Catcher In The Rye, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Slaughterhouse Five, Barney's Version, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Trainspotting, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, Crime And Punishment, A Fine Balance |
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
Why does everyone keep telling me the world is round when my atlas shows 165 pages of flat ground, mountains aside?