#8 - Vicken Hovsepian - Drummer - Will You Be My Friend? 

 Vicken, aside from being my friend, is a recent grad of the drum program at Cal Arts. He has also been working at trader joe's during this crazy corona time, so we talk a bit about that too. Check out some of his music on spotify under his name, and find him on instagram at @vickenhovsepian  

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.   

-Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #7 Ricky Chavez - Videographer  

Ricky, aside from being my friend, is one of Los Angeles' finest with a camera. And that's really saying something. 

He works regularly with "Buckets Moving Company" which you can check out their videos here:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twD25je_hNs  

and find him online at @rikemind  

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.   

-Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #6 Intrnet Boyfriend  

Dominic, aside from being my friend, is one of the better content creators on the internet. It's a one-two punch between his original music and instagram sing-alongs. You can check him out at @intrnetbf   

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.   

-Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #5 Bryan McAllister - Whiskey Drinker   

Bryan, aside from being my friend, is one of my favorite people to play music with. He is an incredible pianist, composer, and drinker of whiskey. Listen to his music here:   https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/al... 

This episode was filmed on March 22th 2020. Bryan is my first double feature guest and I couldn't be happier about it.   

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.  

 -Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #4 Bryan McAllister - Whiskey Drinker   

Bryan, aside from being my friend, is one of my favorite people to play music with. He is an incredible pianist, composer, and drinker of whiskey. Listen to his music here:   https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/al... 

This episode was recorded on Dec. 9th 2019. I was working out all my bugs on the production side, so I unfortunately lost half of the video for the end of the video, so that is why the second half is just a picture of Bryan, while the audio remains untouched.   

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.   

-Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #3 Eva Friedman   

Eva, aside from being my friend, is one of LA's finest drummers. And the proof is in the pudding, she's in like 13 bands. If you want to stay up to date with Eva find her at @evaplaysthedrums  

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.  

 -Eric.

Will You Be My Friend? #2 Tudor Williams  

Tudor Williams, aside from being my friend, is a musician and songwriter in the band Neon West. He is also a videographer and avid video message communicator. See what he's up to at @neonwestmusic and @musicbytudor   

"Will You Be My Friend" is an unstructured conversation between me and my friends. Or me and a stranger, and then hopefully at the end they want to be friends with me. Ultimately, I'm just feeling kind of lonely and am trying to talk to more people. I hope you like it.  

 -Eric.

So I currently have 16 episodes of a podcast that I'm still editing.   But this corona shit is in full force and I figure I might as well put out some video-conference podcasts in the mean time, since I won't be able to have people over for a while.   

So this first one is just me, but the idea is to always have a guest.   

So I guess, this first time around, the guest is... you.   

Will...  

Um...  

Do you want to be my friend?