SCHMID, ERIC - a channel, dedicated to Michael

"In 2013 I was living in California working as programmer and would talk to our friend Eric (I owe this formulation to Rachelle Rahme on the phone every few days, he's always liked talking on the phone and I liked it then because I could take breaks from work and it was also nice to talk with our friend who was living in New York, where I had just recently left, but where most of my thoughts that were not related to work continued to be. He left a year and a half before I did just after the beginning of our final semester at school. He'd returned to the city to finish school shortly after I left to go to work. Now I am living in New York and he is in Chicago. From August 2014 to October 2015 we were both living in New York. On one of our phone calls he talked about an idea for art production that involved recording all his phone calls. At the time he had been writing these poems and a lot of his calls would come directly after he had emailed a poem to me because he wanted feedback. I t