by Greg M | Mar 28, 2018 | Adventures in Living, Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
The Prayer (1889) by Camille Claudel This subject is always important. When it is not so regarded, our culture is finished. Here are some thoughts on what makes an artist, and how one relates to the culture around them. The Mainstream: Thing 1 and Thing 2 One popular...
by Greg M | Feb 18, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
As anyone who has attended one or two of them knows well, a Steve Roach concert is much more than a music performance. It’s a ritual gathering of kindred spirits from far and wide. Our friend, uber-connoisseur and prolific reviewer Richard Gürtler made the trip from...
by Greg M | Feb 17, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
My February 2015 trip to Tucson, to hear Steve Roach live for the first time, should have been documented, but somehow was not. I didn’t even think to take my camera with me, and my impressions faded before I could try to give them written form. This suggests to me,...
by Greg M | Feb 15, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
To celebrate Steve Roach’s birthday on Feb. 16, here again is my interview with him, published on Feb. 16, 2011. This all comes in the afterglow of Steve’s three extraordinary performances in Tucson, Feb. 9-11. My two-part report on that trip, the music...
by eyes cast down | Aug 3, 2015 | Adventures in Living
Vacation time! We spent a delightful week (entirely offline and unplugged) chilling in the Boulder Lake Campground, part of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, in northern Wisconsin. After the long drive up from Chicago, the last hour was a joy, winding along...
by eyes cast down | May 16, 2014 | Adventures in Living
Kalman Cat left us in mid-April, just a few days before his 18th birthday. When we left the house early that morning, he was fine. When my wife returned home around 10am, he was breathing rapidly, very uncomfortable and – most unusual for him – completely withdrawn....