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Eric Z.
@ericzieg.bsky.social
Stage, songs, walks, and stuff.
Album ‘Second Husband’: https://ericziegenhagen.bandcamp.com/album/second-husband
Claire Rousay at Holocene, 11/6/25:
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
She's sliding into my DMs:
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
From Seymour Hersh's Substack:
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
”You’re no Mies van der Rohe, kid”:
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Bringing similarly ecstatic lap-guitar poses to The Hideout tomorrow night (Wednesday), with Shredded Sun and Leigh Stein also on the bill. Hoping The Hideout green room rivals this one at the Bryant Lake Bowl:
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Good to be back at the Bryant Lake Bowl:
October 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Took the Empire Builder 30+ hours to play two shows: Sunday 10/19 at Bryant Lake Bowl (Twin Cities) and Wednesday 10/22 at The Hideout; talented fun other folks on the bill as well. Take a chance and come out.
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
When you ask the new Nobel Prize in Literature winner where a new reader should start: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Chicago & Minneapolis, playing two shows this month:

Sunday 10/19 at Bryant Lake Bowl (Twin Cities) with 10 Items or Fewer (trio) @10orfewer.bsky.social

Wednesday 10/22 at The Hideout (Chicago) with Shredded Sun and Leigh Stein

That's that!
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Skipped the 70mm for the century-old neighborhood spot.
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
First day of the 7-day PDX Songwriters Challenge, with a not-uncomplicated prompt from Laura Veirs, so I wrote and recorded this one tonight, based on the Sunday Night Dance Party at First Avenue. Here it goes: soundcloud.com/eric-ziegenh...
September 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Muppet Michael Clayton:
September 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The place in my neighborhood is showing all submarine thrillers (+ Finding Nemo) this week:
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Friedkin wrote the liner notes:
September 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Good mix:
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
At the food carts I’m
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Rewatched Chef (maybe my top feel-good movie), which now is in an especially golden hue of pre-toxified social media, kitchen culture, men, Austin, and so on. Thanks, Obama!
August 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Songs this Sunday at The Waypost in Portland:
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
New work by Alex Katz, a
series called White Lotus, at Richard Gray Gallery:
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My pet theory about this movie is that the lights in just about every scene are viral germs the couple exposes themselves to by straying (until the Nicole Kidman character unplugs their Christmas tree). Which leads to: did Kubrick know Felix Gonzales-Torres's work made about the AIDS era?
August 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Surprising find on last night’s karaoke menu:
August 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Best breakfast in a long while at the unpretentious roadside Milwaukie Cafe:
August 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Looks like No Hands Clock opened for the Urban Guerrillas (who also played my high school's cafeteria one Sunday night; first punk show I ever went to) at the 7th Street Entry:
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Malick time:
August 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Finally watched and loved Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move. Paul Schrader has it right:
July 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM