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Yes, well, you need the "nay-sayers."  They help define what you want, who you are and what you aren't.  It's good to...

"Yearning always for the moment of infinite possibilities..." - Michael Bracewell Our poster for the CD Release party this comin...

I agree that reading  Keith Johnstone's "Impro" is a "life changer."   And all theater, all comedy and tragedy, and ...

I made the mistake of asking a couple people I knew, and respected, for advice.  I knew that they had had some "experiences" with ...

There is also a very powerful monologue in Tracy Letts' "Superior Donuts"  (see previous post) delivered in the Chicago produ...

Chicago is a theater town.  Lots of great little storefront theaters dotted all along the EL line in the City.  It's a good town to do e...

At some point you just let it go...   You do everything in your power to move that boulder forward; you push, you shove, you roll. And jus...

And you ask, just why are Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (see previous post) so good?  Well,  there's a catchy joyousness in the t...

What are friends good for?  And just how can you call someone you recently met "a friend?"  Well, friends help you open your eyes...

I may wave the flag for higher audio quality, and there is a small cadre of listeners out there who still spin vinyl or high-quality CDs, bu...

My little Jihad against Mp3s continues... OK, it's not a holy war by any stretch of the imagination.  But the more I learn of the proc...

Okay, maybe it's no accident that since we have a new CD to sell, I am now advocating buying CDs over buying MP3s! Yes, MP3s have chan...

We are still waiting for our shipment of CDs.  Expecting delivery any day now.  Yes, it's coming: whitewolfsonicprincess 10+1.   We are ...

What also came out the Simon Reynolds book is the strange alchemy of POP.  People make music in the moment, and sometimes that in-the-moment...

Yes, well, you read a book and one idea, counter to the author's agenda just blows the whole thing ( 400 plus pages) away.  That was my...

As I wrote in this post  I was sort of struggling with Simon Reynolds "Retromania."  It kept putting me to sleep.  And for a while...

I guess we already knew that the big Financial Titans on Wall Street, and especially Goldman Sachs,  are corrupt, blood-sucking firms just ...

Yes, there is a "reality" behind these words, there is a person behind this keyboard.  Sometimes I seem to be chattering on, some...

Hanging by a thread.  It sometimes looks like flying.  A thin filament keeping one from crashing, from falling into the black abyss. It...

Sometimes you hold onto the wheel in that claw-like, white-knuckle, death grip.  It's a way of convincing yourself that you are actually...