1974: Conceived, born shortly after.
1977: Kicked preschool teacher in head.
1977: Plane to USA.
1979: Discovered Queen, Kenny Rogers and Blondie.
1984: Played first instrument, the autoharp.
1985: Joined a break dancing troop.
1986: Dad buys Amiga 1000. 'Sampled' music discovered.
1987: Discovered 'Teletunes'.
1990: I get an Ensoniq EPS-16+ sampling workstation for my birthday. Oh no.
1991: Lost my virginity to a swimmer who shaved her legs earlier that day.
1997: First CD EP, "Penitence", released under the name "Emptyhead".
1998: Second CD EP, "Voluptuous", released. After receiving a copy I mailed, the staff of Peter Gabriel's record label enjoy the CD as they write memos.
1999: Remixes reach Europe.
1999: Corporate whoring begins. Companies as diverse as Vh1, Smirnoff, The E! Channel, etc. start licensing my music.
1999: I have a severe mental breakdown.
2000: Found the love of my life and met my first son.
2001: New Vision America, my dance record label is launched.
2002: After 3 singles are released, New Vision America dies a quiet death.
2002: My second son is born. My life is saved, I just don't know it. I stop writing music.
2003: I go to jail. My life is saved again. This time I know it.
2005: I start writing music again and score the best selling on-line game, "Belle's Beauty Boutique".
2007: First full length CD finished. About time.
Website
Band Members
Eric Salazar
Influences
The media. Drug users. Episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Mahatma Ghandi. Traci Lords. Ceiling tiles with holes in them. Tiled bathrooms. Tiles on a computer desktop screen. Certain animals I communicate with telepathically. Zombies. Sam Raimi. The dialogue in "Miller's Crossing". Shit with peanuts in it. Or carrots. Yahoo Serious. That motherfucker is funny. George Lucas. Ton-Tons. Kerlian photography. Curlian? Kcoorleein? My nipples. Abstract paintings with names like "The Confluence of Paper Clips". The death of smoochy. Doggy style. You just want mine. Kung Fu movies dubbed in Spanish. Astroglide. Molecular Acid. GERD. This awesome album cover with a lady naked and covered in honey. The collected works of T.S. Elliot. Shel Silverstein. Teens for Cash. Vampires. Vampire Slayers. Vampire badger hybrids. Hybrid cars. The taste of ethanol. The taste of pussy. Televangelists with big and/or immobile hair. Renegade Soundwave. Biting my nails. Toenail clippings arranged in the form of Cyrillic lettering. My fingers, when I sleep. Call of Duty 4, more specifically, headshots using a Barretta .50 caliber sniper rifle. Or shooting someone in the face with a shotgun. Neptune and Pluto together, not separated. Greek Mythology. That owl in "Clash of the Titans". "Flash Gordon". The preceeding words I just wrote, especially the part about Vampire badgers. Saying "enough".
Other Artists
The guy who designs Logitech's packaging.