The Hero's Blog

 The Hardest Part of Wanting You The hardest part of wanting you Is having to pretend I don’t Wanting you with me  Needing to be beside you Yearning to be inside your soul The hardest part of burning for you is never having a chance Wishing you with me Falling inside my feelings Feeling the burning in my soul  Why am I so tortured with my thoughts of you? Am I supposed to come out with my feelings about you? Oh, why can’t I accept that we aren’t to be? And how can I go on each day without you by me? The Backstory      This song started as a project for a graduate class I was taking in 2017. I was supposed to generate a piece of original artwork and write about how it relates to the course content. The class I was taking was meant for visual art majors, but I was a music production major, so I had to make sure it was okay with my instructor to write and produce a song for the assignment. She enthusiastically approved my request, so I went to w...

  Der Kommissar: Which Version is Definitive? My Connection to the Song Back in 1983, I was attending 6th grade in a Catholic school, which I absolutely hated, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about. There was this song that girls used to sing that I hadn’t heard on the radio yet, but because of these loudmouth girls I was in class with, all I heard in my head for 3 months was “Don’t turn around, uh oh! Your pants are fallin’ down, uh oh!”. It drove me nuts. At the end of the school year, my mom came and got me and my sister, and we all moved to Louisiana, where I got to attend an actual normal public school again. Louisiana is where I got to experience MTV, Music Television for the first time. That’s where I got to see a proper presentation of After The Fire’s “Der Kommissar”, in which I finally got to hear the lyrics sung right” “Don’t turn around, uh oh! Der Kommissar’s in town, uh oh!”. Little did I know that within a month, I would find out that those weren’t actually th...

 Big Steak Omelette Casserole Recipe (Featuring Lipton Onion Soup Potatoes)     This is the classic Lipton Onion Soup Potatoes recipe married to my favorite item to order from IHOP: The Big Steak Omelette! I got the idea to do this last week, when I needed to stretch a dollar and feed myself for a couple of nights. I had a ribeye steak that I wanted to do something different with, and that’s when I came up with the idea of essentially turning it into a breakfast taco. Ingredients:  1 Envelope Lipton Onion Soup Mix 6-8 medium gold potatoes, cut into medium-bite-sized chunks 1/3 cup olive oil 1 ribeye steak 1/2 shredded cheddar cheese (or your favorite cheddar blend) 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon heavy cream Kosher salt and pepper to taste Mild, Medium, or Hot Salsa Flour Tortillas      This is the classic Lipton Onion Soup Potatoes recipe married to my favorite item to order from IHOP: The Big Steak Omelette! I got the idea to d...

 The Dream (The Thousand Eyes) The Start: it all began with a smile and a hello. The Eyes: they couldn't tear themselves away from the sight. The Words: they had a flow of their own with a rhythm. The Smile: it made a bright and sunny day in the night. The Nerves: it's time to make a move. It's now or never. The "In": oh, is the answer yes or no? The Touch: it was a shock to the system indeed The Kiss: so soft and sweet, it lasted a while The Night: it was electric, and the passion was wild The Day: they couldn't get each other out of their minds The Like: it's always good to be friends before lovers The Love: you couldn't take the love away..... (solo) The Truth: oh was it really much too good to be true The Tears: the tears of joy from a love like no other The Head: it's trying to tell you that something was wrong The Mind: it's trying to turn the fantasy into the real  The Heart: it's beating quickly as it senses the end The End: it only...

Tom Savini and Tony Todd, Discussion about Robert Rodriguez 10-21-18 Tom Savini , acclaimed director, actor, and makeup artist, talks about his experiences working with Robert Rodriguez at a local comic book convention event.  Tom Savini directed the 1990 re-make of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead . He appeared as the character Sex Machine in From Dusk Till Dawn , written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez . He also appeared in 2007’s Planet Terror , written by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino , and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Planet Terror was part of a suite of movies known collectively as Grindhouse . In this particular movie, Mr. Savini played Deputy Tolo.  Working frequently with Robert Rodriguez, Mr. Savini also appeared in Rodriguez’s  Machete (2010) as Osiris Amanpour, a hit man who was hired to kill the main character, played by Danny Trejo. Not coincidentally, the full movie of Machete was based on a mo...

Former Journey Singer Steve Perry's Return to Music In October of 2018, completely by surprise, former Journey frontman and vocalist Steve Perry released his first album of original material since 1994! Nobody saw it coming, not even me! I was totally  convinced we were never going to hear Steve Perry sing, again.  I've been a fan of Journey since I was little kid. My mom had Journey's "Departure" album on cassette tape, back in the early '80's, and she used to listen to "Walks Like a Lady" over and over again. She wore the tape out so much, that it pretty much became unplayable, squeaking and screeching like a dying rodent, whenever we played it.  I think I still have my mom's "Departure" cassette, somewhere.  This video is about the release of Steve Perry's 2018 release "Traces", a collection of 10 very personal songs dealing with the death of his love,  Dr. Kellie Nash, who passed away of breast cancer in December o...