To answer your questions, no, my mom really isn't in a wheelchair and I'm not sure if the soundtrack for the video is available. I showed this to some friends recently and Christina made the suggestion that a sequel probably should be made called Eric's Secret. Eric is much older now and begins to realize he has feelings for the same sex....
Sunday, June 20, 2010
I have a secret...
When I was little (maybe around age 7), my family did a short, 5 minute, still frame video for the LDS church. The man who was making them lived in our ward and he asked our family to do it. The title of the video is Eric's Secret Prayer and I play the part of Eric. Yes, I was a child actor. Maybe that's why I got so messed up. Hmmmm. Anyway, I did a little research and found out that the LDS church's distribution center still carries the video and that it is now available on DVD. Of course I ordered it and now I'm sharing it with you in all it's 1980's, correlated beauty.
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Awesome. I kept expecting to hear the to advance to the next frame. Ah, filmstrips.
ReplyDeleteYou should definitely do a sequel!
ReplyDeletePoor Eric, he must have forgotten to pray before heading to church. And he must not have prayed hard enough to pray away the gay.
You are the cutest! Love the missing tooth. Is that real or more Hollywood magic?
ReplyDeletei've been watching too much tv. i kept expecting something way more dramatic. a home invasion. aliens. it was an awesome movie though, good job eric :)
ReplyDeleteThat music on the drive home really had me thinking/hoping, like Ariel, that aliens would be involved somehow.
ReplyDeleteHa, oh my freaking heck that was...well...it was something! :-) So funny! "Oh my, I just can not stop thee car..." The emotional impact was gripping. ;-)
ReplyDeleteso cute, love the missing tooth!
ReplyDeleteis that you guys talking or just voice overs?
so rad!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. And so cute with the missing tooth!
ReplyDeleteApparently our voices weren't good enough. They did voice overs.
ReplyDeleteDon't feel bad about the voice overs. Early in his career, Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice was replaced by an American actor's voice.
ReplyDeleteAlso, sweet station wagon!
The car won't stop! I CAN"T STOP THE CAR! MELK.
ReplyDeleteThough I've seen this before, it always gets my heartstrings. I think the best part for me was the look on your face shortly after they showed your dad's foot on the brake. I can only describe it as constipated fear. And where is Matt???? He wasn't pretty enough was he?
Ah, you were so cute! What happened?! And where was your seat belt? Nobody wore a seat belt! Pray like your safety depends on the Lord, but wear a seat belt! Click it or ticket!
ReplyDeleteSomeday when we are all safely gathered in heaven I expect you to reveal that you secretly prayed in the pre-mortal world that we'd all make it safely back home one day. "And we did!" will be your triumphant cry once again. And we'll all remember the little toothless boy with the Spock-like haircut exclaiming the same thing over a Close Encounters soundtrack in a funny-looking station wagon in the 1980's, and we'll smile even harder. The kid will have been right again.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, it makes for one heck of an entertaining artifact of clunky and kitschy church correlation media in the 1980's!
I love how it operates on so many levels.
Ninny Beth,
ReplyDeleteApparently neither matt or I were pretty enough. We had to lay down in the boat....rude.
Yay! I was wondering where the other kids were...Tara, I guess your haircut wasn't 80s enough. I'm happy they used your real house/car. AND I'm happy Sharon isn't in a wheelchair.
ReplyDeleteSomeone in a wheelchair back then must've meant "miscellaneous disabled".
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