What Is Enough?
While responding to feedback from my recent post on my love/hate relationship with social media, I noticed a common theme arising for me around these conversations. What is enough and how do we accept it when we reach it? Part of what makes social media such an...
My Social Media Debacle
(Originally posted at EraseTheFilter.com) The Crossroad “It’s been coming for a while but after watching The Great Hack, I decided to pull the plug.” That’s a typical conversation I’ve been having with friends and colleagues lately regarding either significantly...
Late Career Classics
There’s something awesome about a rock band hitting its stride and creating music in its peak of relevance. I feel like that time often comes in the ten years after a band’s first album is officially released, and perhaps around the 3rd or 4th studio album. Albums...
Three Years of Drone
This past weekend I made my 3rd annual pilgrimage to Basilica Hudson, a repurposed 19th-century factory turned arts and performance venue in Hudson, NY, for the 24-Hour Drone, an immersive sound art and experimental music festival spanning (you guessed it) 24 hours....
I Love This New Malcolm Record
The Ok-Ok’s are an indie rock band from Central PA. I don’t know anything about them. The guitarist in the band is Isaac Swartz and he recently released an album under the name Malcolm called Romantic Melancholy (A Brief Period of Emotions). I honestly don’t know much...
The Satanic Panic
I was listening to the 666th episode of This American Life the other day, which is appropriately about Satan. The first act of the show features a story about longtime ultra-Christian radio preacher and televangelist Bob Larson’s research mission back in the late...