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Album Review: Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid

Posted on Oct 2nd, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Giving In To Astonishment

Posted on Sep 18th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

(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 »

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Blue Stone Jones' Electronic Music Podcast

Posted on Apr 9th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Painting While Dancing, Part 3

Posted on Mar 28th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Painting While Dancing, Part 2

Posted on Mar 25th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Two New MG Live Music Videos

Posted on Mar 23rd, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Painting While Dancing, Part 1

Posted on Mar 15th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

[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 »

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Oh, Irony!: An Ode

Posted on Mar 5th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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You Have To Be In Love: MG Interviews Ken Wilber, Part Three

Posted on Feb 26th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

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 »

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Complex Coherence: MG Interviews Ken Wilber, Part Two

Posted on Feb 25th, 2008 by Michael : The ice on Mars is melting. Michael

[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 »

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