Welcome to Paul’'s Basement, a repository for various, uh… “content” authored by Eric Creery, Paul DeCamp, Matt Terry, and Jason Toews (and, increasingly, their friends).

Right about now, you may be asking, “what the hell is ‘Paul’s Basement’?” or perhaps you are just shaking your head in sad disbelief. Or pity. The short answer to your question is: We all met in high school almost a quarter of a century ago (Good God…). We all had relatively normal homes, but for some reason, we always seemed to end up in Paul’s Basement. He had a big basement with old couches and chairs, a decent TV and a VCR, and Paul’s dad was pretty lax in the parental supervision department. There was also a tarantula down there, which was cool.

So, here it is, all these years later, and we still find ourselves hanging out in Paul’s Basement, although he obviously lives in a different house than he did back then, he's got TiVo now, and the tarantula has long since crawled off to spider heaven. Otherwise, it’s much the same.

When we get together, we seem to spend a lot of time regaling each other with our favorite stories. “Remember that time we went to go see the Kinks, and Eric grabbed Dave Davies’ guitar?” begins one of these stories, and there are many others, often involving memorable concerts or movies, and what happened on the way to or from the event, but they tend to spiral out into all sorts of tangential memories, which I think is a good thing, and it’s my site. Well, and Eric’s and Matt’s and Paul’s.

That’s the version of the Paul’s Basement “origin” story that we all agree on. For a more detailed explanation, refer to the “Official Story” or, for our widely diverging (and possibly libelous) personal recollections, see versions of the story by Eric, Matt, or Jason. Paul's recollection of events, being highly suspect, has been removed for security reasons.

I can't really imagine why you would, but if you want to know more about the four Paul’s Basement Principals, see bios for Eric, Matt, or Jason. But definitely not Paul.

Enjoy, and feel free to contact us with your reactions, or with stories of your own. Who knows – if we run out of our own stuff, maybe we’ll use your story to fill up some dead space.