Album Review: Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid
I love this album so much that four hundred words are criminally insufficient to do it justice; but I wrote this brief review for a music journalism job application and, partial as it is, it... More »
I love this album so much that four hundred words are criminally insufficient to do it justice; but I wrote this brief review for a music journalism job application and, partial as it is, it... More »
(I'll be making this available as author-read audio; email me at michaelgarfield at gmail dot com if you are interested in a copy.) Giving In To Astonishment: Scenes From Burning Man’s American Dream “The myth... More »
www.bluestonejones.org In the midst of vast culture-level arguments over digital rights and intellectual property, my friend Matt Jones does something incredibly cool: he releases a bi-weekly podcast of his original electronic music compositions, Blue Stone... More »
Painting @ Trilogy Lounge, 2008 03 06 Sometimes I feel like grabbing someone and pleading with them to please remind me what I'm doing, pretending to be a painter. It's a term I can only... More »
Live painting was a curiosity to me, bizarre and insignificant, until last summer, when I finally got to see it actually happen. I had just moved to Boulder from Lawrence, Kansas, where I had been... More »
After a year of apologizing to people for not having recent examples of my music online, I can finally take a break. Here are two videos from my 13 March 2008 show at The Laughing... More »
[For a better look at my paintings, visit my portfolio at myspace or photobucket .] Every Wednesday night around 9 pm, I drive out to the Trilogy Wine Bar here in Boulder, Colorado, where my... More »
Normally I don't do this. Normally I don't dip into the bedlam of internet discussion forums. They're engaging, but only until you realize that pearl diving in a flame storm is usually fruitless. Bless the... More »
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form [Here are links to Part One & Part Two of this interview, highly recommended if you intend to make sense of the lingo. And immediately below is the audio... More »
[Continued from Part 1 . I highly recommend that you read these in order, as a great number of confusing terms are explained in annotations throughout the interview. The audio for Part Two is available... More »