That’s what it says on the Colorado license plate. After three days of precipitation, we awoke to a bright blue sky and a temperature predicted to be in the fifties.  On a day like today, you put a move on it, you get in gear, you want to get out there.  And somewhere in the […]

That was one of the most surreal concert experiences EVER! We’re in Colorado, for Spring Back To Vail.  Don’t give me any recession shit.  It’s cheaper to be here than in L.A.  Maybe because Vail Resorts figured out it was better to sell everybody lift tickets cheaper than to sell a few ducats at high […]

"This machine kills fascists" These are the words Woody Guthrie had emblazoned on his guitar. Conventional wisdom is you can’t change the world with a song.  I don’t buy that.  The arts are the voice of the proletariat, music, plays, books, they’re the only way the impoverished masses can stand up to power.  But you […]

Spent the day in Rockefeller Center. First we met Seth Godin at Maison du Chocolat.  It was fascinating to hear him riff on music education, Felice’s world.  He lamented teachers married to excellence, performance of material that most people were not enamored of.  He boiled it down to a sense of mastery.  That by learning […]