#eric benson

[acabang]

All together now, @divvytheloot's Amateur Hour featuring @radmartigan, @CaitiWard_, @Hobbitzez & @jack_p with DM @ejbenson ~

[theunderestimator-2]

Never previously published until a couple of days ago (on Brian Eno’s twitter account), this is a rare photo of Iggy Pop with his son Eric Benson outside Kant Kino Club, Berlin, Sept. 18, 1977, in the company of artist Brion Gysin (the surrealist who invented the Dreamachine, a device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed), as documented throught the lens of Philippe Auliac.

“...Iggy grew up an only child in a rural trailer park in Ann Arbor, Michegan. His dad, Newell, was a teacher, his mum Louella, who died in 1996, a secretary (...) Iggy never fitted in. When he went to a posh junior high and was put into a class with kids whose parents were architects, lawyers, ran technical companies, Iggy freaked. Plus, as he points out, 'most kids with successful parents are indulged and given freedom. I was not'; Mr Osterberg, an ex-military man, was a very strict disciplinarian (...)

At first sight, he seems to have spent the rest of his years in total rejection of his childhood, to the extent of taking his only son, Eric, born when Iggy was in his early twenties, out with him to clubs and gigs when Eric was barely in his teens. (Eric himself ended up with addiction problems, and the two have had 'a rocky few years', says Iggy; he has not met his baby granddaughter as yet)...

theguardian.com (2004)

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[pamegacorp]

Next week a new challenger appears for our This Old Lair Season 3 guest GM, Jasmine Bhullar, AKA ThatBronzeGirl, AKA Certainty Dran!

If you have any pressing Tabletop RPG questions for her or the boys, Jerry Holkins and Eric Benson, head over to our Google Form and submit them: https://forms.gle/mNuZvpcUDJBn5nnt5

[pamegacorp]

Now Available - This Old Lair - Season 3, Episode 1 w/ Kate Welch! Available as a teaser for our $1 Tier patrons and above!

[jacklyn747]

Spotlight on Local Talent – E$B Eric Benson and Mosswood Music It's been a while since I've posted but, as everyone knows I'm all about supporting other artists I'm inspired by.

[theoxfordamerican]

ISSUE 85: Last of the Red Hot Poppas

Outside the Winn Parish Courthouse on Main Street stands a bronze statue of Winnfield’s most famous son. He’s nattily dressed in a three-piece suit and appears taller and thinner than in pictures. A plaque nearby describes him matter-of-factly as a lawyer, administrator, statesman; in the “Home of Three Governors,” the legendary exploits of Huey Pierce Long, Jr. need not be oversold.

Read the rest of Eric Benson's piece, from our latest issue.

[sonicmoremusic]

Father's Day: Iggy Pop and his son Eric Benson

Father’s Day: Iggy Pop and his son Eric Benson

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[brainbowinc-blog-blog]

On my reading list…

-JT

"The Trip to Echo Spring" by Olivia Laing sets out to provide some answers, probing the connection between writing and alcoholism by tracking the sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting lives of six American writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, John Berryman, and Raymond Carver.

Could there be something inherent in the writing life—what Georges Simenon called “the vocation of unhappiness”—that drives one to seek refuge in booze?

(From a review by Eric Benson for Oxford American).