Weekend Musical Diversion: The Wood Brothers

January 29, 2011

I’ve been a big fan of experimental jazz/jam band Medeski Martin and Wood for while now…great music to write to by the way. In any case, the Wood Brothers is a folky blues band that features MMW bassist Chris Wood and his brother Oliver. One thing I think you’ll notice and appreciate is the sound [...]

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    Peoplescape Part 3: The Presentation

    January 22, 2011

    About a year ago, I had the good fortune to witness an amazing Pecha Kucha presentation from Maria Scileppi about her Peoplescape project.  I later featured Maria and interviewed her about her life-changing project (check out Peoplescape pt. 1 and Peoplescape pt. 2).  Now, a year later, I became aware that her presentation was captured [...]

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      Life As A Story

      January 18, 2011

      “Is your life a living hell? Change your act, re-write the script the way you planned it” – The Fixx, from the song Privilege I was first introduced to the idea of life being like a story on the Fixx’s 1982 album, Reach the Beach. I was a young, impressionable teenager and in addition to [...]

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        Book Review: Wherever You Go There You Are

        January 13, 2011

        I first read Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever You Go There You Are back in the mid to late 90′s. It was one of those books that opened my mind to the idea of mindfulness and it soon became one of my favorite books. Having gathered some dust over the years, I decided to re-read the book [...]

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          Weekend Musical Diversion: GTR

          January 8, 2011

          Combine guitar players from early versions of both Genesis and Yes and you get one of the 80′s greatest supergroups – GTR.  The band features Yes’ Steve Howe and former Genesis guitar player Steve Hackett.  Being the guitar nerd that I was, I saw this band play Chicago’s Riviera Theater with couple buddies in the [...]

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            RAOKA: Simplicity

            January 5, 2011

            This month’s RAOKA (Random Acts of Kick Arse) topic is simplicity.  Each month a new theme is explored.  To get involved, please visit Positive Provocations. Let’s face it – we live in an incredibly complex world filled with more choices and more demands than ever. In addition, we now have access to more information than [...]

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              Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

              December 26, 2010

              Though it’s a day late…have a Merry Christmas and a happy, safe holiday season. I took a few pictures today that exemplify the beauty of a fresh clean snowfall… and the not so beautiful aspects of slushy snow… I’ll be on the lookout for objects and furniture that Chicagoans use to save their parking spaces [...]

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                Master Storyteller: Spalding Gray

                December 14, 2010

                I know I’ve written on this blog about my interest in and admiration for great storytelling. Truth be told, I’m not sure if my interest in the fine art of storytelling would be possible had I not seen Spalding Gray perform two of his monologues at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre several years ago. One word can [...]

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                  Weekend Musical Diversion: Shop Vac

                  December 4, 2010

                  I don’t know a whole lot about Jonathan Coulton, but I was recently sucked into a video for the song “Shop Vac.” Not knowing whether this was a commercial or song, my curiosity told me to investigate a little closer.  One view of this video, I was entertained by the typography animation and the catchy-ness [...]

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