Speak from the heart, not the head. Go with what feels right. The more you think about it, the greater the chance you’re sacrificing your authenticity. You can play to the audience or yourself. The audience changes, you don’t. Either draw people to you for who you truly are, a unique individual, or get left […]

There’s a fiction that everybody cares, they do not. That’s what sank the Grammys. Sure, they went young, but the belief that all young people care about these acts is plain wrong. Not that you’d expect an organization influenced by the major labels to understand that. The ratings for everything are falling. Not only awards […]

1. Include TV. Television is no longer the poor stepsister to movies. The line between TV and film is fluid. Those both in front and behind the camera work in both paradigms. Forget the charter, forget the past, you either disrupt yourself or you get disrupted. Next year, TV too! 2. Story, story, STORY! Traditional […]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti died. Does anybody know who that is now? Back in the sixties they did not teach to the test. You still could not go to public school in the metropolis, but if you lived in the suburbs, there were fewer than thirty kids per class and there was enough paper for the mimeo […]