by Greg M | Apr 10, 2020 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
My colleague Mark Seelig quotes a musician friend of his, regarding troubled times: “We have to make better music.” I couldn’t agree more, as I set out in my blog post The Artist’s Role in Culture. This planet is in the teeth of the worst pandemic since 1918,...
by Greg M | Oct 26, 2019 | The Creative Life
At the end of 2018, I announced that I was ending online availability of my solo work, partly to protect it against theft, and partly because I believed that I was playing into a global/financial cultural mentality which is antithetical to creative work. The Music...
by eyes cast down | Apr 29, 2012 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
To get this month started on a hectic note (or cluster thereof), I played two live shows, bookending the week. They were: Sunday, April 1 at one of the empty storefronts in downtown Chicago which have been converted into temporary visual arts studios; and Saturday,...
by eyes cast down | Feb 9, 2011 | Poems
Back in the mid-90s, I wrote some poems to indulge my love of wordplay, which also served as helpful venting. Some of them were published in various periodicals from 1993-96. I was going to publish them as a book called Divinations, but circumstance intervened. Maybe...
by eyes cast down | Jan 24, 2011 | The Creative Life
A friend in the Relaxed Machinery community, for his English class paper on “Underground Musicians”, drew up a set of questions and invited answers. They are excellent questions, cutting to some fundamental issues, so it was a pleasure to participate. My...