It has been 15 years since Matthew Ryan released his first album May Day and quite a few albums later comes his latest work In The Dusk of Everything.
Read MoreI’ve been re-reading David Mamet’s On Directing Film. While there are some aspects of it that are very specific to the mechanics of filmmaking, it is a nice refresher of perspectives in storytelling.
Read MoreAs social issues rise - from chickens and homosexuality to taxes and poverty - I wonder how much we look to “Kings” to exercise Authority because we are far too threatened with the Intimacy of the Wise?
Read MoreSpace is uncomfortable because it allows for questions I might not want to ask, or answer, it offers freedom to be creative in ways my clutter kept at bay, it provides an opportunity to be exposed for who I really am which may not jive with who I thought you wanted.
Read MoreGetting lost gives plenty of time to explore the extremes in one’s life – be it the big picture that comes in Wide or the little rooms inside a soul...
Read MoreIt was Robert Earl Keen who sang, on his debut album No Kind of Dancer , “I tried hard to tell you I was no kind of dancer,” and I have always felt I was no kind of one either.
Read MoreWriting may start in a solitary space but it cannot remain there and thrive.
Read MoreWhat does 500 years look like for you? How would you create if you approached in these terms? How would the culture around you bob and weave differently with that longer-view?
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