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Season 7: “Book Lunch”Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas, Episode 4- the final chapter( for now)
In this, the final episode for our miniseries on Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne I feature Dunne's (very) 1970s book Vegas and as always, though closer reading, reflect onhow the differences in prose styles create specific and unique meanings and, furthermore, these styles interact with entire eras. An era may favor one style over another, becoming a dominant one, even make the existence of a style possible or not.
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In this multi part stream, we will explore the newly published private diary entries of Joan Didion concerning her relationship with her daughter Quintana forms the inspiration to revisit her final work Blue Nights, which concerns some of the same territory and above all, the philosophic question of grief. Since the new Notes To Jon was never intended by Joan Didion to be seen this raises many ethical and aesthetic questions about the relationship between the raw material of any individual life and the constructed and hard won art objects that are finally released into the world, and the nature of matters of craft, exposure, transparence and the like more generally.
We will discuss the uniqueness of Didion’s prose style and the effect her style has on we the readers.
#memoir #autobiography #privacy #literature #california #newyorkcity #hollywood #natasharichardson #tonyrichardson #johngregorydunne #dominickdunne #yearoflivingdangersously #therapy #psychology #recovery #suicide #grief #2000s #1990s #1980s #1970s #1960s #saturdadyeveningpost #thewhitealbum #hippie #haightashbury #summeroflove #1969 #losangeles #lilyanolik #charlesmanson #courtneylove #lsd #evebabitz #williambutleryeats #thesecondcoming #slouchingtowardsbethlelhem
We had an absolute blast Saturday at our most recent aesthetic miniseries livestream! Thanks to our replay crew and please share it far and wide with us!We are hoping to reach 500 subscribers by Christmas so thank you for being part of our show- the best part !
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In this, the fourth episode of our miniseries for All About Aesthetics on Isiah Berlin's theory of Romanticism and its great effects, I discuss the many philosophic stances concerning individual had collective human conduct. We discuss the concepts of Sincerity and Authenticity, largely inventions of the Romantic revolution. Denis Diderot and Jean Jacques Rousseau's relationship and books are read as metaphors for opposing views.
The great 20th century philosopher Bernard Williams will be a guide of sorts to these discussions - the implications of which remain as powerful today, four centuries later.
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We are delighted you all joined us for some jazz to ring in fall and wave goodbye to summer!
Enjoy our jazz trio on replay, anytime!
https://www.youtube.com/live/QWF8jliV2TI?si=2AbqVpRuYGa4WOyL#jazztrio
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On this , the third episode of my series on Joan Didion's "Blue Nights" and her diary "Notes To John" , I welcome special guest Joanne Davis Woods who is a longstanding fan of Joan Didion, including some first edition of Joan Didion in her book collection. More on this ongoing, multi episode series, here: In this multi part stream, we will explore the newly published private diary entries of Joan Didion concerning her relationship with her daughter Quintana forms the inspiration to revisit her final work Blue Nights, which concerns some of the same territory and above all, the philosophic question of grief.
Since the new Notes To Jon was never intended by Joan Didion to be seen this raises many ethical and aesthetic questions about the relationship between the raw material of any individual life and the constructed and hard won art objects that are finally released into the world, and the nature of matters of craft, exposure, transparence and the like more generally. We will discuss the uniqueness of Didion’s prose style and the effect her style has on we the readers.
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GoodBar #history #truecrimeIn this episode we feature a return guest from 2021, Deb Berry, and we will discuss the 1970s fictional book and film Looking For Mr Goodbar as well as the actual case that was its inspiration and the reporter, Lacey Fosburgh, who covered it.
Travels With the Dark: Stories from humans in the “Limit-Experience”
This “special” episode is the first in what promises to be a series concerning real occurrences of human beings when they are brought into or more aptly, up against “limit-experience”, a phrase from French and German philosophers that attempts to describe in the most general way what human beings undergo when they are thrust into situations that push them to their limits and conditions of maximum intensity. While originally this was intended to be a series in the “True Crime” genre I wondered to myself if subject and theme could extended outward. It might not even only encompass the most negative aspect of human experience.I have been fascinated with the so-called "Goodbar" case yet I loved and knew about the 1977 movie and then the novel before I even knew that it concerned a real woman and her story - Roseann Quinn. It was genuine delight to talk with Deb on the subject and I honestly can't think of any better collaborator for this episode.Notes from our special guest, Deb BerryOn this week’s episode, we’re joined by Madame B (aka Deb) for a deep dive into the 1973 murder of Roseann Quinn, the case that inspired the Judith Rossner book “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” which was later adapted to the film starring Diane Keaton in a sharp turn against her previous role as Annie Hall and a young Richard Gere in his stunning breakout role. While the book and film have generated much discourse over the years, most of it has revolved around Quinn’s victimology, with little discussion of her killer, John Wayne Wilson, and his respective background, psychopathology and motives. So today, Mitch and Deb draw upon another book about the Quinn case, “Closing Time: The True Story of the ‘Goodbar’ Murder” by the late New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh, to explore the lesser-discussed aspects of the crime which occurred on the Upper West Side of Manhattan during the height of an era of cultural- and social upheaval in America. Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s with the forces of the sexual revolution and second-wave feminism behind it, the Quinn murder was a perfect storm of social, cultural, psychological and even religious factors that begs examination of this complex landscape and its relevance to the murder.More about amazing Deb:Madame B (aka Deb) grew up in Chicago during the 1970s when it was disco balls, Cubs games, deep-dish pizza—and the occasional serial killer hiding in plain sight as a birthday-party clown-for-hire. Like a lot of girls at that time, she loved roller-skating, “Laverne & Shirley” and “Donny Osmond” (and she had the purple socks to prove it). But beneath her feathered hair and Bee Gees T-shirt was a secret obsession she didn’t dare share with anyone—not her parents, not her teachers, not even her best friends: murder.In her public life, she swooned right along with her girlfriends over Leif Garrett and Scott Baio in issues of “Tiger Beat,” but in secret, she read “Helter Skelter” and devoured every detective show the ‘70s had to offer—“Kojak”, “The Rockford Files”, “Starsky & Hutch”, “Beretta”, “Ironside” and “Hawaii Five-0”, just to name a few. She came to see these shows not just as entertainment, but as something that held the key to understanding the danger that lurked right outside her door.Back then, being into true crime wasn’t just uncool—it was weird, creepy, and not a thing that girls (or anyone) are supposed to be into.
She believes you can dive into the darkest corners of human behavior without glamorizing or mythologizing it, and maybe even laugh about it now and then, as long as you know where the punchlines end.
Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton
This episode of my discussion with married couple Tina Stafford and Andy Patterson will be the second episode I have created with a goal of featuring a couple who happen to be in the same or related profession or occupation related to the Arts. With this episode I got to discuss with one married couple the world of acting, live performances on stage involving musical song as much as spoken conversation as well as screens of many sizes.
Like my conversation with the Cawdreys in Montana I was struck by the genuine love of two people in relationship and the fact of this love as intertwined with work. As an ex New Yorker myself I felt that I was temporarily back in midtown Manhattan during this episode, if only for a time.
As you watch this episode I hope you feel the sense of hopefulness regarding the possibility and potential of human relationships and that one couple's shared craft and career of the performing arts supports their life together overall and at least one important union of art and life.
More about Tina
www.tinastafford.com
Originally from Northern California, I’ve been living in NYC for 30 years and I’m married to the actor and my long-time best friend Andy Paterson.
I play multiple instruments, mainly guitar and accordion, but also fiddle, piano and clarinet, and although acting is really my first love, I’m what you’d nowadays call an actor-musician. It is important to me above all to make human contact a pleasant experience, and collaboration a priority.
Andy and I both remain in New York City helping our community in any way we can. Although theatre work is my passion, I find the work of being a citizen of this great nation a full time job, and one that I’m proud to do. Peace.
More about Andy
ANDY PATERSON, ACTOR
Andy has played extensively across the country and in New York City and is tickled to be part of the RAC. Among the many theaters he has worked with include American Repertory Theater, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre, La MaMa ETC, New York Classical Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Paper Mill Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Great Lakes Theater, Geva Theatre Center, Virginia Stage Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, The Acting Company.
See you at the theater!
Upcoming Performances https://www.racnyc.org/performances
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In this, the third episode on Isaiah Berlin and Romanticism I focus on a couple of examples of the period from 1779-1830 as well as 1980s and 2010 representations and reflections on this late 18th century and early 19th century period.
*Special Correction- in this episode Mitch gives commentary on the wonderful film "Tender Mercies" and the lead actress is Tess Harper, not Kate Mulgrew ( both fabulous ).
More on this mini series, here:In this, our new special topic, “All About Aesthetics”, I will begin a miniseries on Isaiah Berlin’s theory of Romanticism, taken from his important lectures in the 1960s at the National Gallery and elsewhere, and starting from his unequivocal assertion that Romanticism was “the single greatest shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred” I will inquire into the many effects of this shift, most of which are taken for granted and have been indispensable to forming the works of art, both popular and high, that we have most enjoyed or given importance.
The series will include discussion of MGM musicals in Hollywood, melodrama films, novels, standup comedy, improvised jazz performances and much more.
Learning Links related to this stream: • Romanticism - Isaiah Berlin (1965) https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.u...#History #literature #movies #love #Hollywood #comedy #tragedy #freedom #liberty #classical #modern #postmodern #religion #spirituality #wordsworth #coleridge #keats #brightstar #lyricalballads #verse #isaiahberlin #russia #germany #France #uk #greatbritain #england #jazz #rock #africanamerican #existentialism #standupcomedy #tradition #thirtyyearswar #communism #fascism #ecology #environmentalism #intellectualhistory #culturalstudies #authenticity #sincerity #annaakhmatova #poetry #brontesisters #lordbyron #painting #caspardavidfriedrich #eletricguitar #powerballad #romance #feminism #democracy #liberalism #immanuelkant #rousseau #diderot #socialcontract #civility #manners #civillization #anarchism
thesubstance #thelastshowgirl #truecrimecommunity #newseries Treat Mitch to a Coffee buymeacoffee.com/aesthetepodcastFor this inaugural edition of our new series “Travels With The Dark” we are blessed to have a return guest, painter Alexandra Carter. We will do a joyous deepest dive into the movie s“The Last Showgirl” and "The Substance" more on this episode. More on this special , new series we are offering, here:The nature of art and culture reception and evaluation can be as volatile and powerful as the IPO or the stock market. Here at “Journey of An Aesthete Podcast” we are more interested in appreciation and understanding than anything else.It is always the most joyous occasion when I have the fortune to discuss movies - or anything else - with our guest painter Alexandra Carter. We were both so impressed and enriched by two releases from last year, Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, that we devoted two hours in this episode to discussing them. As is inevitably the case we covered many topics, including personal travels and the Burlesque community in Las Vegas, as well as political and social matters. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did.Alexandra’s notes on this episode:These two films explore aging, identity, and societal expectations of women in strikingly different but complementary ways. The Last Showgirl spoke to me personally, having spent time in Las Vegas—especially within the burlesque and showgirl community during an artist residency. Its characters and setting felt deeply authentic, with Las Vegas itself becoming a living, breathing presence. Both films touch on themes of loss, delusion, and the erasure of women as they age. While The Substance delivers a visceral, maximalist critique through body horror, The Last Showgirl offers a more intimate, melancholic take on similar ideas.Alexandra’s Bio Alexandra Carter (b. 1985, Boston, MA) is a San Diego–based artist whose paintings explore themes of fertility, maternity, and transformation, often drawing on her upbringing on a cranberry farm in Massachusetts. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2015), and a BA from Rhodes College (2009). Her recent solo exhibitions include the Middle Room and Luna Anaïs Gallery (both Los Angeles), Rogers Gallery (Las Vegas), the University of Minnesota (St. Paul), and Oolong Gallery (San Diego), with additional solo shows at Fusion Gallery (Turin, Italy), Southfork (Memphis), Proyecto’ace Foundation (Buenos Aires), and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Carter has participated in numerous residencies, including the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence (Finland), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas), Qwatz (Rome), Vice~Versa Foundation (Goa, India), the Kentucky Foundation for Women (Prospect, KY), and Graniti Murales (Sicily).Alexandra’s Socialswww.alexandra-carter.com@alexandracarterstudio#giacoppola #demimoore #pamelaanderson #feminism #biology #reproduction #sexuality #wellness #health #bodyhorror #gothic #horror #fitness #aerobics #exercise #nature #culture #media #internet #socialmedia #internet #politics #jamieleecurtis #playboy #cinema #theatre #panting #portraitpainting #mother #children #maternity Series title: Travels With the Dark: Stories from humans in the “Limit- Experience”
This “special” episode is the first in what promises to be a series concerning real occurrences of human beings when they are brought into or more aptly, up against “limit-experience”, a phrase from French and German philosophers that attempts to describe in the most general way what human beings undergo when they are thrust into situations that push them to their limits and conditions of maximum intensity. While originally this was intended to be a series in the “True Crime” genre I wondered to myself if subject and theme could extended outward.
It might not even only encompass the most negative aspect of human experience.
#JoanDidion #BookLunch #JohnGreogoryDunne #BlueNights
In this, the second episode of a series on Joan Didion's Blue Nights, John Gregory Dunne's Vegas, and other books, I do the deepest dive into Joan Didion's prose style, how it works and what the meanings, effects and values are the consequence of her style.
DonFlemons #mitchhampton #blackcowboys #music #podcast #mitchhampton Inside this episode with host, Mitch Hampton:I always love to feature fellow musicians as guest on our podcast and Dom Flemons is no exception. This guest is one from whom I have learned a lot about different traditions in music and history more generally. I have to thank Laurie, our producer, for introducing me to his music and his immense talent. He is a wonderful singer and instrumentalist and his work with the Black Cowboys and others is among the most exciting music being done today, a large part of which is the commitment musical diversity and many traditions.Meet Dr. Dom FlemonsDr. Dom Flemons “The American Songster" received an Honorary Doctorate from Northern Arizona University and he's a GRAMMY Award Winner with four GRAMMY nominations, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, International Acoustic Music Award Grand Prize Winner, and was a United States Artists Fellow. He is a musician based in the Chicago area and he is famously known as "The American Songster®" since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music; including country, folk, bluegrass, Americana, and the blues. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, narrator, host, slam poet, record collector, podcaster, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, TN. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones. He is the Co-Founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Founder of American Songster Productions. FUN FACT: Dom Flemons competed and WON a Merengue Dance Competition in the Dominican Republic during an Artist Excursion on the Cayamo Cruise. Links to Dom’s works, socials, website:*Note- Dom has a gorgeous website full of wonderful information so please check it our for his full bio and journey!Website: https://www.theamericansongster.com/Music: https://www.theamericansongster.com/m...Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/domflemons/...You Tube: / domflemons_theamericansongster Twitter:https://x.com/domflemonsFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/DomFlemonsMu...Link’d In: / domflemons Merch: stores.portmerch.com/domflemons#africanamerican #americanwest #cowboy #blackcowboy #western #guitar #song #singersongwrtier #folkmusic #countrymusic #bobdylan #merlehaggard #waylonjennings #slystone #jamesbrown #soulmusic #arethafranklin #raycharles #impressions #slavenarratives #fiddle #reconstruction #civilwar #mali #griot #civilrights #highcourt #courtmusic #musicofthegambia #northcarolina #carolinachocolatedrops #bigbillbroonzy #muddywalters #charliepatton #1930s #stuffsmith #claudewilliams #neworleansjazz #minstrelsy #billmonroe #alanlomax #segregation #integration #19thcentury #1860s #jimcroce #jackiewilson #samcooke #harrychapin #song #vocalcontortionsim #vaudeville #burlesque #acting #verawardhall #fieldrecordings #ethnomusicology #blues #deltablues #tintypephotography #arizona #oklahoma #arkansas #tennessee #amarillo #sanantonio #tulsa #oklahomacity #nashville #memphis #cotton #mexico #folklore #mariachi #ballad #jimmyreed #lightninhopkins Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human.
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On this launch of our seventh season I discuss the nature of commitment, creativity, and the so-called "writer's block" in the context of composing a piece of music live and in time.Thank you all for being with us these past seasons and we look forward to our journey into Season 7 with you all!
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#romanticism #podcast #mitchhampton #aesthetics
In this, the second episode of my series on Isaiah Berlin and his scholarship and theories of Romanticism, I enter into a definition of Romanticism and begin my regular usage of visual film and textual examples.
More on this special series, here:In this, the 22st episode of “All About Aesthetics” I will begin a miniseries on Isaiah Berlin’s theory of Romanticism, taken from his important lectures in the 1960s at the National Gallery and elsewhere, and starting from his unequivocal assertion that Romanticism was “the single greatest shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred”.
I will inquire into the many effects of this shift, most of which are taken for granted and have been indispensable to forming the works of art, both popular and high, that we have most enjoyed or given importance.
The series will include discussion of MGM musicals in Hollywood, melodrama films, novels, standup comedy, improvised jazz performances and much more.
Learning Links related to this stream: • Romanticism - Isaiah Berlin (1965) https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.u...#History #literature #movies #love #Hollywood #comedy #tragedy #freedom #liberty #classical #modern #postmodern #religion #spirituality #wordsworth #coleridge #keats #brightstar #lyricalballads #verse #isaiahberlin #russia #germany #France #uk #greatbritain #england #jazz #rock #africanamerican #existentialism #standupcomedy #tradition #thirtyyearswar #communism #fascism #ecology #environmentalism #intellectualhistory #culturalstudies #authenticity #sincerity #annaakhmatova #poetry #brontesisters #lordbyron #painting #caspardavidfriedrich #eletricguitar #powerballad #romance #feminism #democracy #liberalism #immanuelkant #rousseau #diderot #socialcontract #civility #manners #civillization #anarchism
jazzconcert #livestream #livestreamconcert #piano #MitchHamptonTrio Tip the trio here: https://buymeacoffee.com/aesthetepodcastI performed a Summer themed jazz concert with Zack Page on bass and Justin Watt on drums, featuring both original and standard music.#jazz #haroldarlen #yipharburg #piano #steinway #trio #pianotrio #kennybarron #busterwilliams ##steelydan #blackfriday #donaldfagen #walterbecker #concerto #classical #funk #drums #bass #wizardofoz #cedarwalton theloniousmonk #sphere #blues #r&b #judygarland #celebrityseriesboston#jazz #music #piano #bass #drums #percussion #improvisation #composer #song #swing #rock #r&b #blues #classicalmusic #trio #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s $1980s #1990s
#JoanDidion, #booklunch, #BlueNights, #GregoryDunne, #memoir, #MitchHamptonThe new release of the private writings of Joan Didion, "Notes to John" , inspired me to revisit her "Blue Nights" and do a Book Lunch multi part series. I will explore both the uniqueness of Joan Didion's style of prose when it takes as subject matter the most personal and intimate of life's events - in this case the loss of her daughter and husband as well as reflections upon her own impending mortality. As an added bonus in the series I will also devote some time to her husband Gregory Dunne's 1970s masterpiece Vegas, The series will explore all the many things that can be done in and with prose.#memoir#autobiography#privacy#literature#california#newyorkcity#hollywood#natasharichardson#tonyrichardson#johngregorydunne#dominickdunne#yearoflivingdangersously#therapy#psychology#recovery#suicide#grief#2000s#1990s#1980s#1970s#1960s#saturdadyeveningpost#thewhitealbum#hippie#haightashbury#summeroflove#1969#losangeles#lilyanolik#charlesmanson#courtneylove#lsd#evebabitz#williambutleryeats#thesecondcoming#slouchingtowardsbethlelhem
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It is always meaningful and helpful when a guest has undergone a similar significant experience as your host. In the case of our current guest this has been the passing of fathers.The subject of loss more generally (alongside achievement) is one of the greatest themes in all of art and I certainly relished the experience of being able to discuss matters most personal but in the context of creating those world of representation that we often call art.
The opportunity to hear a poet read their own poems is also always one of the highest point on episodes like these. Thank you Miguel Eichelberger and Coldwater Communications for the opportunity to speak about this beautiful work.More about Miguel Eichelberger Miguel Eichelberger is a writer, communicator, and joyful mutineer. His creative work has appeared in literary magazines and on stages around the world. His most recent publications include Acta Victoriana, Harpur Palate, Rappahannock Review, Literary Review of Canada, and Plainsongs Magazine, and his poetry is a feature piece in the Ducktown Poetry Trail in Atlantic City, a collaborative art project between Murphy Writing and the Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University that brings awareness to issues of social justice.Visit Miguel’s Website, here:https://www.migueleichelberger.com/More Miguel’s very special new work by , here:An exciting new release from Poetose that we believe will resonate deeply with your audience. In May 2025, Poetose will be publishing Everything Is, a powerful debut poetry collection by Vancouver-based writer Miguel Eichelberger.In this collection, Eichelberger confronts everything he encounters following the loss of his father with eyes-wide-open—a father who was a mentor, friend and model for living in this world. “No one has a roadmap, no language to consult when they meet real grief for the first time,” says Eichelberger, “just a limbic system on fire. Grief is trying to tell us something, but the way we view and understand death in a modern context tends to move us away from the profound gifts that can only be gathered when we sit in and feel every single piece of it.”
This isn’t a book written for poets or magazine editors, but for everyone. More than just a personal catharsis for the poet—it’s a universal companion for anyone navigating their own grief.One of the standout pieces in the collection, Self-Talk at the Wake, was nominated for Best of the Net, (available to be read on the Poetose website), and another, Come as Quick as You Can was long-listed for the 2024 Frontier Open Poetry Prize.Miguel Eichelberger is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in literary journals around the world like Harpur Palate, Rappahannock Review, the Literary Review of Canada and Plainsongs Magazine. His plays have appeared on stages in the UK and Canada and he is a featured poet in the Ducktown Poetry Trail in Atlantic City, a collaborative art initiative focused on issues of social justice. As a writer, communicator, and “joyful mutineer,” Miguel is a gifted and heartfelt speaker on subjects too numerous to name.It is an important and timely read for anyone seeking power and wholeness through grief.#poetry #thefairequeen #canada #unitedstates #portugal #switzerland #linguistics #fucntion #style #verse #singersongwriter #folkmusic #rock #jazz $hiphop #rap #edmundspenser #family #generation #genx #millennials #everythingis #buddhism #catholicism #christianity #science #news #truth #romanticism #naturalscience #cosmology #astrophysics #astronomy #solarsystem #evolution #psychology #grief #therapy #jeanettewinterson #orangesarenottheonlyfruit #thepassion #france #england #queer #gender #sexuality #marriage #lesbianism #gaypride #education #editor #artsbroadcasting #books #audiobooks #creativity #artists
In this, the 21st episode of All About Aesthetics I will begin a miniseries on Isaiah Berlin's theory of Romanticism, taken from his important lectures in the 1960s at the National Gallery and elsewhere, and starting from his unequivocal assertion that Romanticism was "the single greatest shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred".More on this livestream event, here:“Isaiah Berlin, Romanticism and it's effects in Art and CultureEpisode 1, an Introduction”In this, the 21st episode of “All About Aesthetics” I will begin a miniseries on Isaiah Berlin’s theory of Romanticism, taken from his important lectures in the 1960s at the National Gallery and elsewhere, and starting from his unequivocal assertion that Romanticism was “the single greatest shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred” I will inquire into the many effects of this shift, most of which are taken for granted and have been indispensable to forming the works of art, both popular and high, that we have most enjoyed or given importance.I return to our good friend and inspiration for the podcast Isaiah Berlin, covered in my book lunch on Kei Hiruta from Season Three and elsewhere.The series will include discussion of MGM musicals in Hollywood, melodrama films, novels, standup comedy, improvised jazz performances and much more. This will be the beginning of a series of episodes on Berlin’s innovative theory of “The Roots Of Romanticism” that Berlin explored in lectures delivered at the National Gallery Of Art in Washington DC 1966.Berlin was quite explicit in his assessment: “the largest recent movement to transform the lives and thought of the Western world and seems to me the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred, and all the other shifts which have occurred in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century appear to me in comparison lessimportant and at any rate influenced by it.” Starting from the premise that there is a great deal of truth in Berlin’s theory, I will examine in these episodes not only the beauty of Berlin’s oratory but also the many world of art and culture that seem to be made possible by this shift in consciousness - even in areas not normally thought of of as in any way Romantic, as well as in vastly diverse mediums of expression, including music, stand-up comedy, performance art, movies and much more.#History #literature #movies #love #Hollywood #comedy #tragedy #freedom #liberty #classical #modern #postmodern #religion #spirituality #wordsworth #coleridge #keats #brightstar #lyricalballads #verse #isaiahberlin #russia #germany #France #uk #greatbritain #england #jazz #rock #africanamerican #existentialism #standupcomedy #tradition #thirtyyearswar #communism #fascism #ecology #environmentalism #intellectualhistory #culturalstudies #authenticity #sincerity #annaakhmatova #poetry #brontesisters #lordbyron #painting #caspardavidfriedrich #eletricguitar #powerballad #romance #feminism #democracy #liberalism #immanuelkant #rousseau #diderot #socialcontract #civility #manners #civillization #anarchism
#JeyOdin #comics #comicbooks #podcast #sequentialart #mitchhampton @JeyOdin #scad #Hammer
With this episode we have what I believe is our first guest from the world of illustrated comics. I really can't think of a better guest to discuss this universe. I found Jey to be an articulate and unusually accomplished artist, always finding a way to connect his projects to themes that matter to daily life while never pulling back from the imaginative and fantastic inventions that are the hallmarks of his style.
I found this a most enjoyable conversation and hope the same for our audience.
More about Jey and his beautiful work:
New Orleans comic book/ manga artist known as JeyOdin, is the creator and owner of the series "Hammer" which is currently being serialized and published through Saturday AM. JeyOdin attended SCAD where he majored in Sequential Art. Jey's first few publications came out with Antarctic Press, and then through Arch Enemy he was published on USA today.
He was also the artist on Lemonade Code, published through OniPress.The pseudonym "JeyOdin" is known online on all social media websites like Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. JeyOdin loves drawing but is a HUGE fan of spending time with his Wife, baby and three hilariously cute dogs.
Links to Jey’s beautiful works, here:
** Special note- Jey is a wonderful mentor and offers so much help to other artists- his linktree below is full of wonderful info about this!
Links to his Books: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jey-Odin/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJey%2BOdin
More social links and his many wonderful classes:https://jeyodin.gumroad.com/https://linktr.ee/jeyodin
#dccomic #marvel #fantasticfour #saturdayam #comic #cartoon #manga #charlesschulz #peanuts #charliebrown #1990s #1980s #1970s #1960s #1950s #2000s #superhero #education #adolescence #economics #politics #africanamerican #civilrights #housing #labor #work #xmen #robocop #fantasy #bullying #Japan #everydayhero #hero #superman #dogs #parenting #family
More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete.
Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human.
DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete?fan_landing=truehttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/http://www.audibletrial.com/JourneyofanAestheteNew England Conservatory #music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry #soundart #soundtracks #playwrighting #theatre #arts #travel #augustwilson #legacy #writing #philisophy #artsbroadcasting #books #audiobooks #creativity #artists #folkart #artisans #creation #spiritual #meditation #academics #filmarchives #travel #travelwriting #music
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On this, the last episode of our series on John Updike and his Rabbit novels, I discuss the last in the Rabbit series, what Updike calls a sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" from 2000, as well as Updike's life and career more generally and the world in which he and his work played a part.
Listeners, a great time was had by all last Friday as we celebrated episode 20 with you all of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" series which centered around Graydon Carter's new memoir, "When the Going Was Good".
We will be back in May with Episode 21 of our namesake series, exploring the depths and nuances of aesthetics!
Thanks replay crew!
mitchhampton #GraydonCarter #aesthetics #vanityfair #patriciabosworth #analog #magazines
buymeacoffee.com/aesthetepodcastA jazz concert from the Mitch Hampton Trio with Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on drums!The Mitch Hampton Trio featuring Zack Page on bass and Justin Watt on drums will perform a special Easter celebration in music, including two original compositions in 2025 in the spirt of creativity and new beginnings as well as at least one familiar standard to be announced in the show. #1970s #1950s #1940s #2025 #spring #1960s #1980s #1990s #2000s #2010 #acoustic #blues #doublebass #percussion #drums #piano #steinway
#journeyofanaesthetepodcast #JoanneDavisWoods #DecorativeKnowledge #silversmith
Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton
Sometimes a guest has had such a varied career or more than one career that it feels right to devote two episodes to them. Joanne Davis Woods is most representative in this regard.
Coming from one of the smallest towns in Michigan she developed into one of the leading crafts experts in the Hollywood of the 1990s, Wood’s story touches on the subjects of what it is to physically create with ones' own hands, craft more generally, and even the subjects of literature and physics.
I hope you enjoy watching this episode as much as we did creating it.
Joanne’s Bio ( from her lovely website) :
From a little Michigan village searching the driveway gravel for treasure, to Michigan State University studying Physics, to climbing pyramids & volcanoes; from restoring historic theaters in Wisconsin to painting movie
sets in Hollywood, life has led Joanne to Asheville, NC to find time and opportunity to acquire skills needed to bring her ideas into being.
In metal smithing, Joanne finds a path that balances both rigor and lyricism. Fascinated with the aesthetics of the Byzantine civilization and the utility of the industrial revolution she strives to embed her work in history, yet keep it contemporary.
Often she will begin with an interesting technique, or invent a project to learn the manner of construction of an historic work. She is careful to keep the mark of hand and tool, she looks for an amalgam ancient yet sophisticated, the elusive simple composition.
Links to Joanne’s many beautiful works:
Website: https://www.decorativeknowledge.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decknow
#losangeles #hollywood #studio #paramount #20thcenturyfox #warnerbrothers #universalstudio #michigan #belize #hitchiking #latinamerica #southamerica #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #craft #design #paint #artdirection #deerhunter #westsidestory #robertwise #curtishanson #davidfincher #seven #morganfreeman #bradpitt #laconfidential #jamesellroy #michiganstateuniversity #kentstate #thomaspynchon #williamgibson #cyberpunk #chicago #milwaukee #city #country #rock #punk #disco #nature #northernexposer #ntpdblue #dillinger #markharmon #television #michaelcimino #heavensgate #kriskristofferson #isabellehubert #williamfriedkin #twelveangrymen #ossiedavis #jacklemmon #courtneyvance #williampeterson #georgecscott #jamesgandolfini #paulsylbert #productiondesign #liuna! #local724
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For the fifth episode of our John Updike "Rabbit" series we continue with an emphasis on the fourth novel, Rabbit At Rest, discussing Updike's prose style, the sociological world of the 1980s and being with a sneak preview of "Rabbit Remembered" and more!
Listeners, enjoy Episode 19, Part 2 of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" Series!
We will live on both Facebook and You Tube and would love to see you in the chat!This episode of our “All About Aesthetics” Series - no. 19 - will continue and conclude our discussion of universally oriented network television of the Analog Age, in particular, the nighttime talk shows. I will include material I could not get into on our proviso episode as well as Dick Cavett, more from Arsenio Hall, and others.
Note: “This video includes copyrighted materials and clips.The material is used for the purpose of commentary and criticism, which falls under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. No copyright infringement is intended. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended.
ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS”
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Thanks so much for joining us for Episode 4 of our ongoing "Book Lunch" series on the magnificent John Updike and his "Rabbit" series of books! We always love seeing you in the chat and your thoughtful comments on the replay!Please share it out with us - we are hoping to build to 400 subscribers this month and we continue to grow our "aesthete" community!#JohnUpdike#BookLunch#Podcast#MitchHampton
We had a blast last week seeing you all at our Episode 18 livestream in our "All About Aesthetics" series!
This one is a deep dive by your host, Mitch Hampton, and we appreciate you all stopping by.
Link to watch here, now: https://www.youtube.com/live/hFc8JPTu-IA?si=6vbIHMw7DyeUuJKU
Thanks as well to our replay crew and here it is to enjoy! Please like, share and subscribe as we build our community of aesthetes forward!
#johnnycarson#thetonightshow#davidletterman#madonna#sandraberhnardt#genehackman#television#commercial#network#1970s#1980s !990s #bettemidler#robinWilliams#billzehme#talkshow#kingofthenight#nbc#legacy#evergreen#analog#digital
Note: “This video includes copyrighted materials and clips.The material is used for the purpose of commentary and criticism, which falls under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. No copyright infringement is intended. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS”On this stream and series, here:In this, the 18th episode of "All About Aesthetics", I make good on my promise to continue the discussion of art that I will call "universal adjacent". Using the examples of famous television talk show hosts like Johnny Carson and David Letterman, I will discuss commercial work created for the sole pupose of appealing to the widest possible audience.
The third episode of our John Updike Rabbit Series will focus on Updike's chronicling of the transitions and transformations of American culture, as represented by his characters, of the 1970s through the 1980s.
As always the focus will be on prose style and how style connects to larger values in the novels.
#pennsylvania #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #worldwar2 #sexualpolitics #feminism #industrialrevolution #internetage #politics #linotype #books #bookstore #library #johncheever #newyorker #williamshawn #wallyshawn #tinabrowne #adambegley #adamgopnkik #christianity #episcopalianism #cartoon #madmagazine #disney #newengland #massachusetts #harvard #ruskinschoolofart #unitedkingdom #democraticparty #oxforduniversity $poetry #fiction #novel #davidfosterwallace #saulbellow #ericajong #fearofflying #joycecaroloates #golf #judithjones #knopfdoubleday #algonquinhotel #newyorkcity #Boston #harpercollins #books&company #jeannettewatson #ibm #ianmeewan #annbeattie #francineprose #janetmalcom #toyota #car #nationallampoon #playboy #esquire #vietnam #watergate #cocaine #recovery #disco #top40 #essay #prose #top10 #geraldford #jamesbuchanan #1700s #1800s #911 #ronaldreagan #georgewbush #herbertwalkerbush #billclinton #museum #talkofthetown #pulitzerprize #sovietunion #russia #jimmycarter #crisisofconfidence #malaise #suburbia #christopherlasch #narcissism #freud #psychoanalysis #grouptherapy #fashion #greece #germany #denmark #hippie #yuppie #revolution #culturewar #richardnixon #ipswich #philiproth #lyndonjohnson #rockmusic #folkmusic #salesman #watsonfoundation #hinduism #judaism #buddhism #islam #cult #davidremnick #popmusic #alfredaknopf
“This video includes copyrighted material from [Paul McCartney and Wings].
The material is used for the purpose of commentary and criticism, which falls under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. No copyright infringement is intended. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS”This episode will fall somewhere between musical instruction and philosophic talk as I sit at my Steinway piano and begin to learn the Sir Paul McCartney song "Maybe I'm Amazed" as well as discover its possibilities for improvised variation - all in real time.More on this episode with your host, Mitch HamptonThis episode is one featuring your host in a solo stream. It promises to be a live demonstration of how I approach any piece of music for the first time - when I am learning it with an eye or ear towards possible future performances and integration into a repertoire. Although the song chose is a quite famous one from Paul McCartney - “Maybe I'm Amazed” - I will be also treating it as any jazz improviser who happens to be an instrumentalist would, putting the focus on it as a piece of music more than as poem or lyric.
Many of the topics to be covered will only be announced in the stream but will encompass such matters as the diversity and specificity of musical styles and languages, the nature of any artistic practice itself - with its attendant matters of regular exercise and craft and the lifelong art of learning any new things. I hope the stream will be of interest to a wide variety of people.#beatles#sirpaulmccartney#wings#rock#pop#1970s#1970#lindamccartney#1960s#jazz#improvisation#musiclesson#education#style#musictheory#classicalmusic#lifelonglearning#humanities#arts#letters#instruction#piano#solopiano
Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton
I read an enormous amount of books in a given year, partially for the great pleasure it creates in me and partly as my project of lifelong learning, itself probably identical in pleasure. Verba's work on Violeta Parra - one of the giants in Latin American music in general and Chilean music in particular as well as a leading visual artist and scholar - was one of the books in this new year of 2025 that taught me an enormous amount, not only about music but History and other matters.
I found my episode with Verba - someone who has deep and involved careers in music performance as much as scholarship - a delight from beginning to end and I hope our audience gets to learn more about the genius that was Violeta Parra.
Dr. Verba’s Bio
Ericka Verba is Director and Professor of Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests include the cultural Cold War, the role of music in social movements, and the intersection of gender and class politics in twentieth-century Latin America. She has received grants from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a founding member of SCALAS (Southern California Association of Latin American Studies) and the recipient of the E. Bradford Burns Award for service to the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.
She is the author of the book Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra. Her interest in Violeta Parra dates back to her early teens in the 1970s when she became friends with a Chilean family of musicians and artists who taught Verba her first Violeta Parra songs and guided her political awakening to the brutality of the Pinochet dictatorship and the role of the US government in installing and supporting it. As a musician and founding member of the US-based New Song groups Sabiá and Desborde, she has been performing Parra’s music since 1976. In 1980, she wrote her undergraduate honors senior thesis on Parra’s autobiography in verse. In 1996, She was the musical director and arranger for a tribute concert to Violeta Parra, supported by an Artists in the Community grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and recorded and released as Desborde, Tribute Concert to Violeta Parra. As a professor of Latin American History since 2004, she has welded her research on the history of women in Chile with her interest in Parra to acquire a deeper understanding of the social context and gender dynamics that shaped Parra’s life. Suffice to say, Verba’s book represents the culmination of a decades-long curiosity about Violeta Parra and engagement with her work.
#folkmusic #chile #guitar #communism #marxist-leninism #fascism #salvadorallende #1940s #1950s #1960s #alanlomax #peteseeger #painting #dance #sculpture #feminism #latinamerica #southamerica #nicanorparra #angelparra #violetawenttoheaven #biennalearte #louvrepalace #albertcamus #existentialism #jeanpaulsartre #picasso #earlbrowder #paulrobeson #woodyguthrie #l'escale #france #paris #argentina #folklorista #chileannewsong
Links to her socials:
Website:https://erickaverba.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericka_verba/
More about her new book:
THANKS TO LIFE
A Biography of Violeta Parra
"A stunning achievement. This comprehensive analysis of Parra's life provides an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate one of Latin America's greatest artists. Thanks to Life is an outstanding piece of biographical work on a world-class artist whose legacy continues to shape Latin American music and culture." —Heidi Tinsman, author of Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
For media inquiries contact:
Nanda Dyssou, Publicist nanda@corioliscompany.com (424)-226-6148
Listeners, thank you so so very much for making our "Valentine's Living Room Concert" last night so special and a hearty welcome to all our new subscribers!
We will be back with our usual podcast episodes this month and more music soon. Leave a comment if you can to let us know where you are joining us from!
And thanks to our replay crew- you are the best!
ColePorter #piano #music #jazztrio #livestreamconcert #livingroomconcerts #MitchHampton
Season 6: "The Amy Pike Show” Helene Recovery Series
Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton:
One of the many themes of our podcast is the act of human creation itself, in all of its myriad forms, and how humans always already are creating in specific circumstances.
Amy Pike, a jewelry maker, is one of the artists in our community who was affected by the Hurricane Helene in the Fall of 2024. While we hope to have other episodes in. connection with this event, every artist, as an individual human being, is unique and I loved my conversation with her as she sat in her studio discussing her life and careers, including a substantial one in music I can't think of a better guest really to inaugurate a series on how all of us cope in a most difficult circumstance and thrive as well as survive.
More about Amy and her beautiful works, here:
Since I have trouble writing about myself, let me share the lovely artist bio written for me by friends at The Gallery of the Mountains.
Amy Pike was born in New Orleans. She is the daughter of two artists – a potter and a photographer. Her early exposure to the creative world through artist studios and craft shows set the foundation for her artistic journey, which now includes jewelry-making. However, her initial venture was in the realm of music.
Amy honed her singing skills, establishing herself as a notable vocalist in Atlanta’s nightclub scene and beyond on the East Coast. Her musical repertoire included genres like Rockabilly, Swing, and Hot Club Jazz of the 30s and 40s. She has received accolades for both her singing and songwriting abilities, with her music gracing radio waves and even national commercials. She’s truly multi-talented!
Amy relocated to Asheville in 2004. While she still performs at venues around town, her creative interests have evolved. She began quilting and making art dolls, which led to the opening of a small fabric store in West Asheville. This new path introduced her to Haywood Community College’s esteemed craft program. Here, Amy focused on metalsmithing, culminating in her earning a degree in Professional Craft Metals and Jewelry.
Today, as a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Amy has her own home studio and teaches metalsmithing at Haywood Community College and in the River Arts District. She works with all kinds of metals and stones. Her work is imaginative, well-designed, and expertly crafted, encompassing pieces of all price points and possibilities. But as Amy insists, “… you don’t need precious metals to make beautiful jewelry … all metals are precious if you treat them that way.”
Links to Amy’s gorgeous works:
Website: https://amypikejewelry.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amypikejewelry/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/torch_and_twang/
northcarolina #hurricane #tropicalstorm #buncombecounty #bass #song #swingmusic #swingdance #jewelry #ashevilletrong #asheville #nature #climatechange #music #country #jazz #riverartsdistrict #swannanoahriver #metalsmith #gems #geology
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In this stream I will share my love for Freddie Hubbard and one of his albums in particular: "Keep Your Soul Together from 1973."
More on this special livestream event, here:Keep Your Soul Together! Special Aesthetics Livestream event!
If you asked most musical mavens to name the most listened to and celebrated album from Freddie Hubbard - one of the great trumpeters of the 20th century - they would most likely name Red Clay. For me Keep Your Soul Together, from the same era and recording company, is a favorite.
What makes this album so special and what were the musical influences that went into Hubbard's unique style of jazz improvisation? This special episode of “All About Aesthetics” will investigate.
#jazz #trumpet #1970s Freddiehubbard #brass #georgecables #creedtaylor #cti #kentbrinkley #carlburnett #soul #gospel #spiritual #soulmusic #bebop #postbop
Important links related to this stream:https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Your-Together-Freddie Hubbard/dp/B000O8QV0Qhttps://www.ctproduced.com/on-this-day-cti-chart-takeover/
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Listeners, thank you for joining us this past Friday for our annual New Year's livestream featuring your host, Mitch Hampton!
Please share it with us, like and subscribe- all that jazz!Here is to a New Year filled with creativity and humanity.More on this special livestream here:This stream on the topic of temporal change in time in the arts will focus on the image (Antonioni, Akerman others) as well as music (Sarah Vaughan and others) to discuss the quite wide and various ways artists depict the passage of time.
Listeners, thank you for joining us this past Friday for our annual New Year's livestream featuring your host, Mitch Hampton! Please share it with us, like and subscribe- all that jazz!Here is to a New Year filled with creativity and humanity.
More on this special livestream here:This stream on the topic of temporal change in time in the arts will focus on the image (Antonioni, Akerman others) as well as music (Sarah Vaughan and others) to discuss the quite wide and various ways artists depict the passage of time.
podcast #NewYear2025 #music #time #ChantalAckerman #Antonioni #SarahVaughn
In this, our second episode in the series on John Updike's "Rabbit" novels I continue with in depth discussions of his magnum with special emphasis on Rabbi Run and Rabbit Redux and Updike's overall prose style.This series will continue into the New Year with multiple episodes so check back for more info!More about this ongoing multi part series, here:In addition to being one of the giants of twentieth century literature, John Updike is a personal favorite I have been reading since childhood. While I briefly mentioned an excerpt from his Rabbit Is Rich on one of the aesthetic episodes, I thought it would be a real journey is many senses to do a series on his Rabbit books. I will discuss Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest respecting the chronological order of the novels while also talking about all four in spot of the episodes. This is one of the rare instances in which a work of art is completely aesthetically valuable as a work of art while at the same time being a quite realistic (in the sense of accurate) sociological examination of life in the United States from the 1950s through the 1980s. Updike does this from the point of view of central protagonist Harry Angstrom and the milieu of middle and then upper middle class Pennsylvania, an opportunity to reflect on the country as whole. Steeped in the culture and milieu of The New Yorker Magazine as it was then, Updike epitomized those ideas and ideals about a certain kind of prose while being completely original in his style such that you can read any random paragraph from his work and know that it is John Updike. In this series we will try and discuss as much of these matters as we can and we hope you can join us. Updike was an innovator as much as he was a traditionalist in his prose, innovative particularly in how he depicted human sexuality. I will discuss his syntax, his tone and point of view as well as vision of life overall. #pennsylvania #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #worldwar2 #sexualpolitics #feminism #industrialrevolution #internetage #politics #linotype #books #bookstore #library #johncheever #newyorker #williamshawn #wallyshawn #tinabrowne #adambegley #adamgopnkik #christianity #episcopalianism #cartoon #madmagazine #disney #newengland #massachusetts #harvard #ruskinschoolofart #unitedkingdom #democraticparty #oxforduniversity $poetry #fiction #novel #davidfosterwallace #saulbellow #ericajong #fearofflying #joycecaroloates #golf #judithjones #knopfdoubleday #algonquinhotel #newyorkcity #Boston #harpercollins #books&company #jeannettewatson #ibm #ianmeewan #annbeattie #francineprose #janetmalcom #toyota #car #nationallampoon #playboy #esquire #vietnam #watergate #cocaine #recovery #disco #top40 #essay #prose #top10 #geraldford #jamesbuchanan #1700s #1800s #911 #ronaldreagan #georgewbush #herbertwalkerbush #billclinton #museum #talkofthetown #pulitzerprize #sovietunion #russia #jimmycarter #crisisofconfidence #malaise #suburbia #christopherlasch #narcissism #freud #psychoanalysis #grouptherapy #fashion #greece #germany #denmark #hippie #yuppie #revolution #culturewar #richardnixon #ipswich #philiproth #lyndonjohnson #rockmusic #folkmusic #salesman #watsonfoundation #hinduism #judaism #buddhism #islam #cult #davidremnick #popmusic #alfredaknopf#piano #JohnUpdike #authortube #BookLunch #books #mitchhampton
Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton
This episode is an exciting one for us in that it contains many firsts: for one it our first show featuring a gallery and for another it is the first with two guests who are also a married couple.Among the many reasons for me creating and then hosting our podcast is that I was most fortunate to grow up in the New York City of the 1970s and 80s, in which I was literally raised on institutions such as MOMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cawdrey Gallery represents a most important feature of our current art world - that which is representative of worlds of art in places away from the coasts of these United States. Nancy and Steve have had quite the eclectic lives since they also had a long career, off all things, running a Wilderness School. I can’t think of a better example of the pluralism and diversity to which we are devoted on our podcast than this conversation with Steve and Nancy Cawdrey of Montana.
More about our friends at the wonderful Cawdrey Gallery, here: ( please not this is an abbreviated version for space- for our full article visit our show Facebook page and Cawdrey Gallery Website)
The Cawdrey Gallery proudly hosts contemporary artists of the American West. The spirit of the West is as dynamic and diverse as ever, and we aim to showcase much more than just Western Art through a range of subject matter and mediums from sublimely painted vistas to animated sculptures. We facilitate and inspire fine art experiences with our collectors, artists, and community.
When gallery owner and artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey began painting in Montana about 25 years ago, she wanted to express how it really FELT living in Big Sky Country. Nancy along with her husband Steve and son Morgan, opened their first gallery in Bigfork, MT. In 2017 the gallery relocated to Whitefish and expanded to represent more than 20 artists working in over 10 different media.
Making art and experiencing art is about rediscovering the world, moment by moment, and our hope is that it invites us to linger and remain in that moment of awe. American Western art is not only about preserving a storied past—but it is also about capturing and reimagining our present.
Visit us at Cawdrey Gallery to see a large variety of original fine art and high quality reproductions all in one space. Be sure to also walk around charming downtown Whitefish, Montana, home to many talented artists including western photographers, western wildlife sculptors, unique ceramicists and potters, and a variety of contemporary fine artists.More about Nancy Cawdrey and her beautiful work, here:
“Whatever medium I am working in, I like to mix color on the surface of the painting–giving the work more immediacy and spontaneity–what I call spirited silk painting. On silk I can really float brilliant color with spirit and gusto.”Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey paints with vibrant French dyes on crepe de chine silk fabric adapting her experience in water media to express her renowned contemporary style. Cawdrey’s signature western motif paintings, vibrant florals, and commanding wildlife masterworks can be found in museums and private collections around the world. In 2020, Nancy was honored to launch a one-woman traveling museum exhibit titled “Forever Glacier” which focuses on the mammals native to Glacier National Park. Links to Cawdrey GalleryWebsite: www.CawdreyGallery.ComFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CawdreyGalleryInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cawdreygall...You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nancycaw...#art #gallery #montana #western #west #utah #uk #northwest #unitedstates #nature #wilderness #roberthenri #theartspirit #painting #france #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #middleeast #berlinwall #vietnamwar #martinlutherking #nativeamerican #johnfkennedy #robertkennedy #germany #genx #babyboomer #kevinredstar
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On Sunday December 15th I perform an all solo piano concert in a style somewhere in between a traditional solo piano recital and a jazz performance featuring brand new original works as well as a a couple of standards for the season.
More on Mitch's musical offerings, here:
From time to time, roughly every couple of months, Mitch Hampton will present concerts of music, consisting of both originals as well as standards and covers. Most of these concerts will involve a trio he developed and cultivated in the 2020s - featuring Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on the drums. Most of the music will be in the category usually referred to as jazz but there are many other influences and from many eras that make their way in to Hampton's music. 2024 will make the ten year anniversary of Hampton's solo piano project, Hard Listening and potentially some solo piano performances will drop in celebration.
#jazz #haroldarlen #yipharburg #piano #steinway #trio #pianotrio #kennybarron #busterwilliams ##steelydan #blackfriday #donaldfagen #walterbecker #concerto #classical #funk #drums #bass #wizardofoz #cedarwalton theloniousmonk #sphere #blues #r&b #judygarland #celebrityseriesboston
#jazz #music #piano #bass #drums #percussion #improvisation #composer #song #swing #rock #r&b #blues #classicalmusic #trio #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s $1980s #1990s #broadway #hollywood #pop #salsa #afrocuban #latinpercussion #bossanova #samba #africanamerican
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for episode 16 of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" series!
Give it a share and pass it along with us!
We will be back very soon with live music, episodes and much more!#aesthetics #design #travel #MitchHampton#series #podcast
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In addition to being one of the giants of twentieth century literature, John Updike is a personal favorite I have been reading since childhood.
While I briefly mentioned an excerpt from his Rabbit Is Rich on one of the aesthetic episodes, I thought it would be a real journey is many senses to do a series on his Rabbit books. I will discuss Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Restrespecting the chronological order of the novels while also talking about all four in spot of the episodes. This is one of the rare instances in which a work of art is completely aesthetically valuable as a work of art while at the same time being a quite realistic (in the sense of accurate) sociological examination of life in the United States from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Updike does this from the point of view of central protagonist Harry Angstrom and the milieu of middle and then upper middle class Pennsylvania, an opportunity to reflect on the country as whole.
Steeped in the culture and milieu of The New Yorker Magazine as it was then, Updike epitomized those ideas and ideals about a certain kind of prose while being completely original in his style such that you can read any random paragraph from his work and know that it is John Updike.
In this series we will try and discuss as much of these matters as we can and we hope you can join us. Updike was an innovator as much as he was a traditionalist in his prose, innovative particularly in how he depicted human sexuality.
I will discuss his syntax, his tone and point of view as well as vision of life overall.
We plan on this running from November into the New Year as we cover Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest respecting the chronological order of the novels while also talking about all four in spot of the episodes. Please join us in the comments and we look forward to seeing you all there!#pennsylvania#1950s#1960s#1970s#1980s#1990s#2000s#worldwar2#sexualpolitics#feminism#industrialrevolution#internetage#politics#linotype#books#bookstore#library#johncheever#newyorker#williamshawn#wallyshawn#tinabrowne#adambegley#adamgopnkik#christianity#episcopalianism#cartoon#madmagazine#disney#newengland#massachusetts#harvard#ruskinschoolofart#unitedkingdom#democraticparty#oxforduniversity $poetry #fiction#novel#davidfosterwallace#saulbellow#ericajong#fearofflying#joycecaroloates#golf#judithjones#knopfdoubleday#algonquinhotel#newyorkcity#Boston#harpercollins#books&company #jeannettewatson#ibm#ianmeewan#annbeattie#francineprose#janetmalcom#toyota#car#nationallampoon#playboy#esquire#vietnam#watergate#cocaine#recovery#disco#top40#essay#prose#top10#geraldford#jamesbuchanan#1700s#1800s#911#ronaldreagan#georgewbush#herbertwalkerbush#billclinton#museum
It is often too easy for us to be slow to acknowledge that there are those artists and performers among us who are unusual in their breadth of skills, sometimes expressing these in more than one career within a single lifetime.
Brit Whittle is certainly emblematic of this phenomenon in the arts.
He has had at least two careers: one in the worlds of acting and one in the seminary and ministry. I found that we had an enormous amount in common, particularly intellectually, the latter often far rarer than I would expect or hope. We cover a lot of topics in this episode: the curious and complex history of Christianity, the nature of being a working actor, cultural and geographical diversity in the United States and being a Gen Xer in the 2020.
I hope you enjoy watching this one at least a much as we did creating it.
More on Brit, his journey, his family, his bio in his own words
I grew up in very conservative environments in Georgia. Church wise, politically, culturally...
While I played sports, I was always drawn to music, theater, and literature. I was a very popular kid until I walked away from sports and focused on music. My first access to the arts was in churches.
We would act out Bible scenes, or do musicals about famous biblical stories. One of the first ministers I remember actually listening to was an incredible speaker. I was just 11, 12 years old but he had such command of his subject matter and could hold the attention of the entire sanctuary.
I plowed ahead anyway and after several years of this, I recognized that if I wanted to truly succeed as an actor, then I needed to get out of Atlanta and move to either NYC or LA. And to succeed in those places, I needed more formal training. Laurie was actually a huge inspiration and role model for me on this.
So I got my MFA in Acting from the Florida State/Asolo Conservatory and even studied for a summer in London. One of the most affirming parts of my time in the UK was studying with Patsy Rodenberg who worked at both The National Theatre and the Guildhall School in London. She once asked me what my biggest fear was in performing Shakespeare? So I said “Sounding dumb or unintelligent in doing so”. I said I was often called out for my accent.
She then assigned me a Hamlet monologue and on the side would encourage me to let my true accent out. My southern accent and when I did that, I would naturally fall into the iambic pentameter. But when I got up in front of my classmates, I still struggled hiding my true voice.
I started having financial success for the first time in my acting career. I got married, lost my mother, and then had 3 little girls, one of whom is now in heaven. It was that latter experience, a late term pregnancy loss, that reawakened my need for God and possibly becoming a minister.
I came to fatherhood late in life.
So, when my 3 girls came along...I
wanted them to know that other guy who I was in my youth.
And the more I thought about it, the more important my spiritual life became.
After some nudging from my wife, I put myself out there and to my surprise, Princeton Theological Seminary accepted me. And then went out of their way to accommodate me and my family in our move here.
It’s been a hard transition but it’s also been filled with joy and serendipitous moments. My wife and I call the latter “God winks”.
The Spanish put the Latin term “plus ultra”on their coins after discovering the Americas. And that term means “more beyond”.
That’s where I’m heading. The more I can’t see yet but can feel in my soul.
Links to more about Brit’s beautiful work, family and journey:
Website: www.britwhittle.com
Princeton Theological Seminary: https:// www.ptsem.edu/
#rowanwilliams #christianity #theology #princeton #episcopalchurch #ai #internet #parenthood #family
We cannot thank you all enough for joining us for our special "Autumn Reunion Show".
In case you didn't know we are based in WNC where Helene hit hardest and thankfully our team all are safe and their instruments made it too. It's always special to have these concerts for us as a way of giving back to our wonderful audience and this one extra special as we are all so grateful to be back.Welcome to all the new folks who stopped by! We are 3 people away from 300 subscribers so share this with us if you will and consider subscribing. We will announce our solo holiday piano concert soon and our regular podcast programming is back as well!Thanks for being the best part of what we do!#podcast #MitchHamptonTrio #HeleneRecovery #WNC #NorthCarolina #music #concert #livestreamconcert
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#pennsylvania #pittsburgh #1950sThis will be the livestream on this wonderful book by Annie Dillard that was originally scheduled on September 27 but postponed due to the storm.On this book lunch we take the deepest dive into Annie Dillard's 1980s masterpiece "An American Childhood".More on this livestream event, here:I chose Annie Dillard's book for two rather different reasons. One, admittedly more conventional, reason is that it is one of the great works of prose in the contemporary English language in what we used to consider a "canonical" sense. Dillard was already by this book's release in the 1980s a Pulitzer Prize winner for Pilgrim At Tinker Creek. The second reason is that during an episode of Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind I was cherishing Arendt's prickly and uncompromising tone and spontaneously thought of the name of Dillard as a writer whose tone I felt was different from Arendt in some important respects. Like Arendt though, Dillard is still an unusually independent minded thinker, resisting any and all ordinary categories of political, religious or philosophic affiliation while remaining steadfast in her unique spiritual convictions and practices. If there is an author to whom she is closest it is perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson, both in the complexity and abstraction of her ideas coupled with an accessibility and relatability to a general audience. Her book is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Pennsylvania in a wealthy family - one that also happened to cherish intellectual knowledge and culture most highly. (The latter also an Arendt connection). In Dillard's words herself, it is a memoir of her "waking up to life" in the widest sense. It is also one of the most passionate accounts of bibliophililia I have ever read. it is a definitive book about books and among the thousand books I have read I know of no book with more love for the book itself within its pages. And it is this last instance that "An American Childhood" is an ideal for a book lunch.#pennsylvania #pittsburgh #1950s #1940s #1980s #spirituality #christianity #judaism #Islam #Buddhism #books #bibliophile #library #bookstore #family #pulitzerprize #leonuris #annefrank #diaryofannefrank #memoir #autobiography #creativenonfiction #poetry #feminism #nature #wilderness #city #urban #ecology #environmentalism #episcopalianism #catholicism #marktwain #comedy #humor #joke #radio #television #carnegiemellon #winter #summer #storytelling #adolescence #criticalthinking #presbyterian #andrewcarnegie #steel #railroad #spiritualism #american #unitedstates #germany #scotland #ireland #louispasteur #science #biology #virology #medicine #childhood #georgestevens #giant #jamesdean #rockhudson #elizabethtaylor #hollywood #geology #industrialrevolution #pittsburghsymphony #philadelphiaorchestra #thecainemutiny #johnhersey #hiroshima #worldwar2 #holocaust #suburbia #socialsim #baseball #softball #sports #bridgeovertheriverkwaiDISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for y "All About Aesthetics" livestream - Episode 14!
We roamed far and wide in this one with new music, Susan Sontag, 70s album covers, bespoke fashion and more! Never a dull moment here.
Please share this with us, leave a comment and thanks for helping us to grow forward.
You are the best part of what we do!
Link to the channel we featured clips from, here: https://www.youtube.com/live/EJ9droHUx5k?si=o_CwI83u8W2j5KV0
#ballet#pottery#novels#architecture#cinema#film#indiefilm#independent#arts#sculpture#movie#hollywood#painting#ballet#jazz#tap#hiphop#rocknroll#rock#salsa#bossanova#samba#africa#afrocuban#latinamerica#southamerica#dance#philosophy#criticaltheory#literarytheory #digital #analog #book #popularmusic #pop #singersongwriter #folkmusic #jazz #africanamerican #needlepoint #comic #comedy #standup #improvisation #piano #woodwinds #brass #guitarplayer
#jazz #legacy #soundtracks#podcast #interlochen #arts #birthday #Join your host Mitch Hampton as he celebrates his birthday from the grounds of his wonderful Alma Mater, Interlochen School for the Arts!Note: you may hear some wind- this is a remote pop up so consider it ambience !Buy Mitch a Birthday Coffee!account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanae...https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast...http://www.audibletrial.com/Journeyof...New England Conservatory #music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry #soundart #soundtracks #playwrighting #theatre #arts #travel #augustwilson #legacy #writing #philisophy #artsbroadcasting #books #audiobooks #creativity #artists #folkart #artisans #creation #spiritual #meditation #academics #filmarchives #travel #travelwriting #music
Enjoy episode 15 of our "All About Aesthetics" series featuring #Amtrack! "Travel in the US".
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Join Mitch for a unique aesthetics series #15 episode on the road , live from Amtrack!
More about this stream and on going series, here:
This fifteenth episode of our “All About Aesthetics” series will be the first time I do an episode outside of my usual living room, on the occasion of my journey to Michigan for a high school reunion (and my very first high school reunion at that!).
The location of the episode will be unknown until the stream: it could be on a train, in a motel, in a field, and some other possibilities.
The subject matter will still be continuous with the themes of the series: the great diversity of artistic styles. the interaction of eras and which of the styles are popular, and the relationship between aesthetics meant for utility and those meant for high art purposes.
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#MitchHampton #Interlochen #piano#MitchHampton #Interlochen #piano #aesthetics #podcast Folks! This is a quick pop up stream from your host, Mitch Hampton as he visits his alma mater at Interlochen! This school is at the heart of Mitch's artistry and ethos. Our regular programming will resume soon- as you know our show is based in the Asheveille/ Weaverville NC area in the heart of where storm Helene landed. Our team is okay and working on some new stories about artists in our area.Check back soon and enjoy this pop up talk!Buy Mitch a Coffeeaccount.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanae...https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast...http://www.audibletrial.com/Journeyof...New England Conservatory #music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry #soundart #soundtracks #playwrighting #theatre #arts #travel #augustwilson #legacy #writing #philisophy #artsbroadcasting #books #audiobooks #creativity #artists #folkart #artisans #creation #spiritual #meditation #academics #filmarchives #travel #travelwriting #music
Season 6: “The Wendy Steiner Show: Women, Beauty and Choice”
This will be the second timeWendy Steiner has been on our podcast - on the occasion of her most timely yet perennial book The Beauty Of Choice.
At the conclusion of our episode I was treated to a viewing of some of her paintings which are truly beautiful, one aspect of her immense talents with which I had been unaware, even after reading her now for close to four decades (!)
What in an earlier era would have been classified as "current events" came up often in this episode which is only fitting since her latest book is - to my mind - one of the most successful ones to merge a discussion of aesthetics and politics, and even, other realms, like biology and geopolitics.
I found the discussion of the Chaucer one of the most exciting I have ever had with another guest about any single - or singular work - of art - the greatest proof, if such proof were ever considered necessary, that a work of written art some six hundred years ago could be as forceful and relevant as if it had been written last week.
Something tells me that Steiner's book may very well be a reference for as long into the future.
I feel that our conversation that you will watch contains within it so much that the podcast is truly about.
Wendy’s Bio:
Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a wide-ranging cultural critic who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nation, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.
Links to Wendy’s new book and other works:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-beauty-of-choice/9780231215268
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/W/au5427647.html
More links about Wendy and her beautiful work:
https://web.english.upenn.edu/~wsteiner/
A sampling of stunning Wendy’s art work we spoke of in our episode can be found on our show Facebook page, here:
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Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton
Christoph Schülren, one of the guests to whom I was so kindly introduced by pianistBeth Levin, will be the first time on our podcast that a musician whose professional career is devoted to the art and practice of conducting has been featured.
I thought it indispensable for many reasons to feature him: musical conducting is ubiquitous in many styles of music yet is perhaps little understood or appreciated outside of the worlds of music.
I was most happy with our discussion: he is quite articulate and able to get into the details of his craft in a relatable way to a most general audience and he has quite an intriguing biography as can be gleamed from our episode.
Christoph Schlüren’s Biography
“Uniting the well-known with the unknown”
Conductor, Music Researcher,Musical Mentor, Music Editor, Program Adviser, Chamber Music, Coach Christoph Schlüren studied with the late Sergiu Celibidache from 1981 to 1996. Other strong influences were the composers Anders Eliasson, Pehr Henrik Nordgren, and Per Nørgård, the musicians Paul Zukofsky, Sándor Végh, Murray Perahia, Juha Kangas, and many more. As a conductor (Symphonia Momentum, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, St Michel Strings Mikkeli) Christoph Schlüren led first performances of works by Peter Michael Hamel and Anders Eliasson. Some of the lesser established composers he particularly favors are:Heinz Tiessen, Eduard Erdmann, Anders Eliasson, Jean-Louis Florentz, Paul Büttner, John Foulds, Vittorio Giannini, Nicolas Flagello, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Peter Mennin, Bernard Stevens, Felix Draeseke, Heinrich Kaminski, Max Butting, Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling , Heinz Schubert, Philipp Jarnach, Emil Bohnke, Matthijs Vermeulen, Harald Sæverud, Georges Migot, Eduard Tubin, Vagn Holmboe, Douglas Lilburn, Robert Simpson, Per Nørgård, Boris Tishchenko, Ketil Hvoslef, Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Tristan Keuris, Halvor Haug, Peter Michael Hamel, John Pickard, Håkan Larsson, and Juan José Chuquisengo.
He combines their works in dramaturgically correlated programs with the established great composers. Read more about conducting
He is a music researcher, author and journalist as well (Frankfurter Rundschau, Gramophone, Tempo, Fono Forum, Crescendo, Neue Musikzeitung, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio, etc.) and works as main editor and researcher on the rare music scores series Repertoire Explorer. Christoph Schlüren wrote the first basic introduction into Musical Phenomenology as it was created as a universal approach to music by Sergiu Celibidache developing further on.
As a program adviser he collaborates with orchestras and conductors (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Arcos Orchestra, Münchener Kammerorchester, etc.; Lavard Skou Larsen, Juha Kangas, José Serebrier , Mario Venzago, Christoph Poppen, Israel Yinon, etc.), and created commissions for the Musica Viva series of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Anders Eliasson’s Fourth Symphony, Cynthia Lee Wong, and Onute Narbutaite, as well as arranging the world première of Artur Schnabel’s Third Symphony).
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Christoph Schlüren works as a musical mentor with soloists and chamber ensembles (Rebekka Hartmann, Ottavia Maria Maceratini, David Frühwirth, Masha Dimitrieva, Omar Rahbany, Margarita Oganesjan, etc.).
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Links to more about Mr. Schlüren's beautiful works
www.christophschlueren.com
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Thanks to everyone who joined us this weekend for our joyous "End of Summer Concert"! We love to do these every season as our thanks to you for being the best part of what we do! In case you missed it, here it is to enjoy and share with us.Buy the trio a coffee, here: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Ham...#jazz #haroldarlen #yipharburg #piano #steinway #trio #pianotrio #kennybarron #busterwilliams ##steelydan #blackfriday #donaldfagen #walterbecker #concerto #classical #funk #drums #bass #wizardofoz #cedarwalton theloniousmonk #sphere #blues #r&b #judygarland #celebrityseriesboston#jazz #music #piano #bass #drums #percussion #improvisation #composer #song #swing #rock #r&b #blues #classicalmusic #trio #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s $1980s #1990s
Our guest Aaron J. Leonard is most unusual for an historian, or indeed any kind of guest. For a great deal of his adult life he was a member of arguably the most radical political organization in the United States, the Revolutionary Communist Party, something which he and many now admit is a cult.
His unique experiences as a thoroughgoing activist gives me great insight not only into the history of the United States working class economic cycles but developed in Leonard a knowledge about and sensitivity to the relationship of the state to free expression, censorship and political activity in the twentieth century. I really enjoyed our discussion for the uniqueness that only somebody of Leonard's life experience and scholarship could bring.
His Meltdown Expected is an exploration of the late 70s and he has authored books on the histories of radicalism in the United States.
More about Aaron, here:
Aaron J. Leonard is an author and historian with a particular focus on the interplay of radicalism and repression. He is the author of "Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists,” and "A Threat of the First Magnitude," pathbreaking books that revealed the untold story of the FBI's efforts in the 60s-early 70s against US Maoism.
Along with those works he, with colleague Conor A. Gallagher, published examinations based on secret information about the FBI's role in the killing of Black Panther Party member, Fred Hampton.
Following his first two books he turned to writing about contention in the cultural realm. In "The Folk Singers & the Bureau," and "Whole World in an Uproar,” he tracks the interplay of artists such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Sis Cunningham, Dave Van Ronk, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, and a host of others who sparred with forces of the status quo in producing their music.
In May 2024 he will publish "Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder & Upheaval at the end of the 1970s" (Rutgers Univ. Press), reframing the map of the end of the much-maligned Seventies decade. He is currently working on a history of the repression leveled at the Communist Party USA, which will also be published by Rutgers Univ. Press.
He has a BA in Social Sciences and History magna cum laude, from New York University. Originally from the Central New York town of Herkimer, Leonard lived most of his adult life in Brooklyn, but he now calls Los Angeles home.
Links to Aarons many wonderful works, here:
Website: http://www.aaronleonard.net/index.html
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DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.In this the 13th episode I introduce the topic of purely instrumental music while also discussing words and images and other matters to be announced in the episode, including more good stuff from pianist Hampton Hawes.Here are some additional learning links related to the stream!
See you all soon and thanks for watching!http://www.interlochenreview.org/jack-driscoll
https://jaymcinerney.com/
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/hampton-hawes-best-songs-feature/
https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2016/05/raise-up-off-me-portrait-of-hampton.html
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This episode will conclude our series on Hannah Arendt's last book.Unlike Hannah Arendt, who passed before she could finish her book, we will conclude the series on Life Of The Mind. Look for some archival footage and other surprises in the episode. While I am sad to see this series go, I am anticipating a good, deep dive when we enter the world of Annie Dillard's An American Childhood in September. We look forward to seeing you all in the chat and have some surprises to share!DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.More on this special, multi part series, here:Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind” Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977. Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece. Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see) I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre) This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others. Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love. The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast. Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method. My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did. As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions. #hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema
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The sixth episode of our series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind continues with the discussion of volume 2, Willing, in which religious intellectual history is discussed as well as much else!
Season 6 , “Book Lunch”, Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind, Volume 2, “Willing”
This, the fifth episode of our miniseries on Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind, will mark the beginning of our discussion of Volume 2, Willing.
This is a significant moment, of course, for our series as well as Arendt's text in general. I anticipate that we will need an additional episode after this one - as I hope to give, as best as I can, equal amount of attention to both volumes.
More background on this ongoing special series, here:
Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind”
Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have “Thinking and Willing”, finally published in 1977.
Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece.
Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see)
I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre)
This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others.
Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love.
The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast.
Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method.
My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did.
As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions.
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For the twelfth episode of “All About Aesthetics” Mitch Hampton continues with the discussion of style, perhaps the most important element in aesthetics.
He will introduce elements of visual culture into the discussion while retaining some emphasis on written prose.
As in the preceding episodes he will try and represent aesthetics from the most commercially successful areas of life as much as the relatively obscure.
Style will be discussed as a basis for creativity rather than as an honorific that persons or things possess or lack.
More on this ongoing, special series, here:
On this, the part of our ongoing, long term Aesthetics series, I continue with a discussion of the power of artistic and cultural change from the early and middle 20th century until our own.
The examples will come from music, prose and visual work, and from the commercial as well as the independent and alternative worlds.
#ballet #pottery #novels #architecture #cinema #film #indiefilm #independent #arts #sculpture #movie #hollywood #painting #ballet #jazz #tap #hiphop #rocknroll #rock #salsa #bossanova #samba #africa #afrocuban #latinamerica #southamerica #dance #philosophy #criticaltheory #literarytheory #digital #analog #book #popularmusic #pop #singersongwriter #folkmusic #jazz #africanamerican #needlepoint #comic #comedy #standup #improvisation #piano #woodwinds #brass #guitar
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Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton
I seem to never tire of saying that among my many missions on this podcast is to have guests that are quite different than myself. Although Christine and I are both musicians and in the music world, I can't carry a tune to save my life and my truly awful singing voice is one of the main reasons I decided to purely instrumental music in terms of my own performance.
Not only does our guest have one of the best singing voices in her for any field or genre of music but she also speaks five plus languages and is well versed in a remarkably diverse repertoire of music Indeed her newest release is representative of just the kind of eclecticism I always champion. I always love having guests on my show who have been in the "classical music" world as it is a genre most misunderstood at times by the public and always worthy of continuation and celebration. I sincerely hope you enjoy watching this episode as much as we did recording it.
Ms. Moore’s Bio : ( Full Bio on her website below)
Praised by the Leipziger Volkszeitung for her lush sound and powerful expression, soprano Christine Moore Vassallo is a versatile performer with equal command in opera, recital, and contemporary music.
The Sacramento, California native counts among her many opera roles Mimi in La Boheme, the title role Madama Butterfly, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Micaela in Carmen, the title role in Suor Angelica, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, Leonora in Il Trovatore (described as "velvety and luscious" by SongWordSight Magazine), the title roles in Aida and Ariadne auf Naxos with such companies as the Leipzig Opera, Central City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua Institute, Utopia Opera, Create Opera, the Aldeburgh Summer Festival, Sacramento Opera, the Amato Opera and Lyric Artists of New York.
She curated and performed in the first ever concert of Arab composers, entitled "Nearer to East: Chamber Music from the Arab World" at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, which concert was lauded by the Library as one of the outstanding of the year. Christine speaks five languages and sings in ten, and has given numerous solo recitals featuring works of all genres of repertoire and languages, including in Granada and Madrid with Festival de Cancion Espanola, Trinity Concert Series in New York, the Library at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Old Stone House, Brooklyn. She made her UK debut in 2005 at the Paxton Chamber Music Festival in Scotland with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (praised by the Glasgow Herald) and has performed many new works by living composers, including the premiere at Merkin Hall NYC of Richard Thompson's song cycle The Shadow of Dawn as well as the NYC premiere of his opera The Mask in the Mirror, Andrew Rudin's Masha's Arias, and works by Michael Rose, Kareem Roustom, Halim El-Dabh, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Steve Gerber and Zaid Jabri with the Brooklyn New Music Collective.
In 2016 she founded the singers collective Lyric Artists of New York, producing operas and concerts in the New York area. In 2023 she made her Weill Hall at Carnegie debut, and is currently collaborating on a project with composer and pianist Patricio Molina set to premiere in 2025 of his songs set to Arab women poets of the Andalus period.
Album webpage on the Meridian Records website:
https://www.meridian-records.co.uk/acatalog/CDE84647-From-Al-Andalus-to-the-Americas.html
Christine’s Website: www.christinemooresoprano.com
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In this concert, the ten year anniversary of his "Hard Listening" project, Mitch Hampton attempts to create a style of performance in which he performs his original compositions for solo piano interspersed with a talk about his experiences and philosophies over time.This is also our first episode of Season 6 and we thought this a great way to celebrate how far we have come, all our many special guests over the year and all that is to come in Season 6!More on this very special event, here:“This year marks the tenth anniversary of the debut of my "Hard Listening" solopiano project.Thus far I have released two "albums", with Volume 2 in 2016 being a digital only release. To put it as briefly as I can here, the concept and project involves the extensive usage of a wide spectrum of popular musical languages of the 20th century but in a context of an improvisational as well as compositional solo piano style - intended for the recital or concert stage.In this performance I will perform one newer work in two movements but with the addition of a personal and informal "lecture" in which I talk further about some of the experiences and ideas that brought me to develop "Hard Listening”.Link to purchase Mitch’s album: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Listening- Mitch-Hampton/dp/B00NEQZK5WBuy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete?fan_landing=truehttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/http://www.audibletrial.com/JourneyofanAesthete#jazz #New England Conservatory#playwrighting#artsbroadcasting#theatre#books#music#travel#audiobooks#composing#augustwilson#creativity#humanities#legacy#writing#podcasts#audible#anchorfm#film#theatre#filmtheory#spirituality#composition#philosophy#literature#filmarchives#jazz#poetry#soundart#soundtracks#arts#philisophy#artists#folkart#artisans#creation#spiritual#meditation#academics #filmarchives #travel #travelwriting#music
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Buy Mitch a Coffeeaccount.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1“Michael Merschat On a Life of An Architect”Inside this episode with host, Mitch Hampton
By any measure I am an unusually outgoing person in public spaces. Indeed that is how we have come to have our producer for this show. And as I always like to say, some of our guests are people I have known personally and others I have not met until the date of the episode. Still others, like Michael Mesrchat, are ones I have met before the show, but more recently.
I first met Michael during the Christmas season of 2023 at Blue Mountain Pizza, a place renowned not only for its food but for its elaborate decorative displays for the Holiday season. I witnessed a man who, while waiting for his pizza, appeared to be investigating one of the many statues or dolls that fill the restaurant at this time, his interest might have been the type of metal used on a particular nutcracker drummer.
I asked him if he was an interior decorator of some kind and he replied that he was an architect.
For the longest time it had been my dream to have an architect on the podcast and I can't think of anyone better for such an episode than the present guest. As can be experienced on this episode
Michael is an architect who specializes in where people live and he has the kind of emotional intelligence and likability that anybody would want such an architect to have.
Although I feel I always learn an enormous amount in every episode we do, even when it is a field with which I have some prior familiarity going in, I have to say that I found this conversation to be especially enlightening on more than one level and I hope you enjoy watching this as much as we did recording it.
More about Michael Merschat and his beautiful work:Michael grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Asheville, NC. After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, he moved up to Washington, DC, to pursue his career in architecture. After two decades of city life, Michael returned home and found renewed connection with the land and rural community of his youth. He believes that we have an opportunity to bring thoughtful design principles into every home, effortlessly blending the natural flow of the land with modern architecture.He currently serves as the Education Director on the Executive Committee of the Asheville Chapter of the AIA and as Chairperson for the Capitol Area CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network).Links to Michael’s beautiful works:Website: www.opencornerarch.comSocial: https://www.instagram.com/open_corner_architecture/Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-merschat-2b7b444/Houzz: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/open-corner-stewardship-modern-architecture-pfvwus-pf~378136292?
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Special thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our recent "All About Aesthetics" livestream, episode 10 focused around Blake Edwards masterful film, "10".Enjoy and see you soon!More on this special stream ,here:For this, the tenth episode of the Aesthetics series, I will focus on the Blake Edwards 1979 masterpiece 10 with the large and unusually terrific cast of Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Brian Dennehy and Dee Wallace.
Although on a more surface level this is Edwards' comedic and even philosophic take on the Sexual Revolution and changing societal mores I will show how it is also compatible with the current discussion in this series of the shift from pre-Rock culture of the 30s-60s, represented by the main character George who is a jazz pianist and composer (!) and the post-Rock era (as well as disco), represented by Bo Derek, the woman to whom George is so deeply drawn.
In this sense 10 is as much about aesthetics styles and tastes as it is human relationships. It is also in so many ways quintessentially 1970s filmmaking, a nod back to my 1970s film series while being utterly timeless: one of the most classically and tightly written plays or scripts from Edwards, or really anybody, in the era.#boderek#blakeedwards #henrymancini #muzak #easylistening #sexualrevolution #julieandrews #annettehaven #dudleymoore #deewallace #briandennehy #bartending #cocktailounge #robertwebber #songwriting #hollywood #breakfastattiffanys #audreyhepburn #jacklemmon #waltermatthau #comedy #bedroomfarce #farce #samwasson #vacation #resort #1980s #playboy # #piano #jazz #1979 #1970s #johnritter #california #losangeles #marriage #wedding #hughhefner #polyamory #monogamy #theatre #playwright #sob #petersellars #theparty #leeremick #thedaysofwineandroses #thegreatrace #tonycurtis #thepinkpanther #auterism #warnerborthers #disco #1960s #1950s #dentistry #oralsurgery #slapstick
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Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our "Almost Summer" concert featuring your host Mitch Hampton and his wonderful jazz trio!
For our great replay crew, here is the link to watch and share.
You are all the best part of what we do!
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Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer". This is episode 3, Part 2 of 3 of the multi episode set.“Inside The Episodes: The Martin Davidson Show” I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world. Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career. Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush. He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories. Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount. I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbdLinks to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.ComLinks to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbdLink to watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI#henrywinkler #slystallone #hollywood #1970s #1950s #rocknroll #beachboys #almostsummer #motown #soul #stevemcqueen #1960s charlesbronson #genre #highschool #california #newyork #highschoolmovie #teenmovie #hbo #treatwilliams #perryking #mikelove #socal #brooklyn #flatbush #musical #varietyshow #marthacoolidge #heidiholicker #deborahforeman #michellemeyrik #quentinttarantino #newbeverly #losangeles #michaelbowen #allettieri #richardfleischer #sydneypollack #outofafrica #paulkoslo #lindacristal #tomberenger #virginiamadsen More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanae...https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast...http://www.audibletrial.com/Journeyof...New England Conservatory #music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry
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Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer".This is episode 3, Part 1 of the multipart special series.“Inside The Episodes: " The Martin Davidson Show”I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world. Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl- in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career. Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush. He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories. Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount. I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbdLinks to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.ComLinks to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbdLink to watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI#henrywinkler #slystallone #hollywood #1970s #1950s #rocknroll #beachboys #almostsummer #motown #soul #stevemcqueen #1960s charlesbronson #genre #highschool #california #newyork #highschoolmovie #teenmovie #hbo #treatwilliams #perryking #mikelove #socal #brooklyn #flatbush #musical #varietyshow #marthacoolidge #heidiholicker #deborahforeman #michellemeyrik #quentinttarantino #newbeverly #losangeles #michaelbowen #allettieri #richardfleischer #sydneypollack #outofafrica #paulkoslo #lindacristal #tomberenger #virginiamadsen More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanae...https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast...http://www.audibletrial.com/Journeyof...#music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry #soundart #soundtracks #playwrighting #theatre #arts
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Buy Mitch a Coffee account: venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer". This is episode 2 of 3 of the multi episode set.“Inside The Episodes: The Lee Purcell Show” I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world. Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career. Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush. He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories. Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount. I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbdLinks to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.ComLinks to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbdLink to the film, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI#henrywinkler #slystallone #hollywood #1970s #1950s #rocknroll #beachboys #almostsummer #motown #soul #stevemcqueen #1960s charlesbronson #genre #highschool #california #newyork #highschoolmovie #teenmovie #hbo #treatwilliams #perryking #mikelove #socal #brooklyn #flatbush #musical #varietyshow #marthacoolidge #heidiholicker #deborahforeman #michellemeyrik #quentinttarantino #newbeverly #losangeles #michaelbowen #allettieri #richardfleischer #sydneypollack #outofafrica #paulkoslo #lindacristal #tomberenger #virginiamadsen More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.https://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete?fan_landing=truehttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/http://www.audibletrial.com/JourneyofanAesthete#music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives
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Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer".“Inside The Episodes: Lee Purcell Marty Davidson and Almost Summer”I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world. Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career. Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush. He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories. Sandy Davidson has had a long career in wardrobe and costume design for movies and television, including Hero At Large with John Ritter, Eddie And The Cruisers with Tom Berenger, and t.v. movies like Something To Live For; The Alison Gertz Story. Additionally she is also accomplished in home and commercial interior design as well, including the world famous (but now defunct) The Foundry On Melrose in Los Angeles. Almost Summer is her first movie.
Of course having an episode with all of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. In the episode with all four of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount. I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbdLinks to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.ComLinks to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbd
Links to Sandy’s gorgeous work: https://www.sandydavidsondesign.com/bio
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More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts. He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human. Link to the film, here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAIhttps://anchor.fm/mitch-hamptonhttps://www.patreon.com/journeyofanae...https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast...http://www.audibletrial.com/Journeyof...#music #jazz #composing
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Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 For this, our fourth episode on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, the discussion reaches a climax for Volume 1. In this episode we will delve into the heart of Arendt's model of the thinking process itself - as well as some sneak previews for Volume 2 (Willing) which will commence in episode 5.DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.#hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema
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The ninth episode of All About Aesthetics will concern change in eras and the accompanying changes in technology and culture.
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Listeners, today we get to share our talk with music LEGEND, Pete Christlieb!
We are so very honored to have him on our show and hope you enjoy and share it with us!
Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton
Pete Christlieb has been among my favorite saxophonists and all around musicians for the past forty to fifty years at least. His biography reads like a who's who in jazz and popular music and he has excelled at having an original identity as a jazz improviser as well as one of the top flight performers in ensemble contexts, whether big back, symphony or rock group.
Christlieb has been working as a musician since he left high school at age 16 and has so many great stories about his unique career.
It was an honor to get to sit down with him and talk about his life and music and I hope you get as much joy from this episode as we did recording it.
Pete Christlieb Biography
Born into a home filled with classical music, there was little
question about Pete Christlieb’s career path. Pete’s father, Don Christlieb was a world renowned double reed player. His distinctive sound was heard on more than 750 productions over 50 years at 20th Century Fox.
Pete started working professionally just out of High School. He did gigs at the Lighthouse as a sub for his teacher Bob Cooper. His father took Pete to The Carriage House in Burbank, (Later renamed to Chadnies) to sit in with pianist Jimmy Rowles. Jimmy liked his playing and became a big influence on Pete’s conception. Jimmy trained Pete in his unique approach to jazz, inviting him to come by and sit in on Sundays.
Sarah Vaughan came in to perform several times. They became friends for many years. He met Carmen McRae and was able to play and record with her too.
It was a seven year sprint. “It was like swinging from one vine to the next. one band would end and the next would begin.” Pete was ready for a change. He had been playing with Louie Bellson “He was like a father and a best friend,” Pete said of his association with Bellson. In those days serial TV shows would vacation in other towns during the summer, mostly to get out of New York. Carson would take the Tonight Show to Los Angeles.” Carson productions was looking for musicians to fill out the band stand in Los Angles and asked Louie for some players to come in. He recommended Christlieb for the two week gig and again the next year. When the tonight show moved to Los Angels Pete was asked to join the band on a permanent basis, that became 20 years with the tonight show.
Pete was a regular at Dante’s , The Baked Potato and Al Fonses playing with other jazz greats like his favorites, Frank Rossolino and Conte Condoli.
Pete started Bosco records, his great dane’s namesake, and recorded his first solo Album, Self Portrait in 1981. These were followed by Going My Way & Dino’s Live and several others. Pete is well known for his albums with other tenor sax greats Bob Cooper, Warne Marsh, Gene Ammons, Don Lamphere, Hadley Caliman, Ferdinand Polvel, Ernie Watts & Rickey Woodard. Pete produced records for other artists including Louie
Bellson, Don’t Stop Now which earned him one of three Grammy Nominations for best jazz soloist.
He recorded an album with Freddy Hubbard. and has featured solos on Records and CDs like Natalie Cole’s “ Unforgettable.” The TV show, Family Guy featuring the Ron Jones Orchestra was recently added to his long list of credits. Pete continues to record with well-known musicians and recording artists.
Pete plays in his own quintet with wife Linda on trombone. Together they created the Tall and Small band, a ten piece band with their first CD out called “High On You.”
When asked if he didn’t become a musician what would he be doing with his life, he grins and says, “I’d probably be racing cars.”
Links to Pete’s beautiful works https://petechristlieb.com/
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Buy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Ham...On this, the seventh part of our Aesthetics series, I continue with a discussion of the power of artistic and cultural change from the early and middle 20th century until our own.
The examples will come from music, prose and visual work, and from the commercial as well as the independent and alternative worlds.DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.#ballet#pottery#novels#architecture#cinema#film#indiefilm#independent#arts#sculpture#movie#hollywood#painting#ballet#jazz#tap#hiphop#rocknroll#rock#salsa#bossanova#samba#africa#afrocuban#latinamerica#southamerica#dance#philosophy#criticaltheory#literarytheory#digital#analog#book#popularmusic#pop#singersongwriter#folkmusic#jazz#africanamerican#needlepoint#comic#comedy#standup#improvisation#piano#woodwinds#brass#guitar
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Buy Mitch a Coffee: https://account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Ham...On this, the fourth episode of my series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind we continue with a close reading and discussion of Volume 1, Thinking.More insights on this special, ongoing series from your host, Mitch Hampton:Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind”Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977.Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece. Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see)I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre)This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others.Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love.The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast.Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method.My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did.As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions.#hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema
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“The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton“Among the many film influences upon my consciousness, the two early films of Wes Craven, Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes have to be included as important. Given that I think the "auteur" theory is partly correct I followed all the pictures he made subsequently in the 1980s and 90s. Will Dodson is among those scholars and intellectuals who takes popular culture most seriously and it was a joy to talk with about some of our common interests and loves.”Will’s Bio and Links:Will Dodson is the Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, where he teaches rhetoric, literature, film and media studies.He is the co-editor of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper.His work has been published in Film International, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and elsewhere. His most recent essays are "'Why are You Doing This!?!' Having Flashbacks in The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2," included in ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and "Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven's Television Films," included in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).Links to Will’s Social Media and works: https://unity.edu/faculty/dr-will-dodson/ https://twitter.com/wdodson52?lang=en https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP https://www.instagram.com/wdodson52/ Links to Will’s Books:https://www.amazon.com/stores/Will-Dodson/author/ B093BKCSVP? isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ref=ap_rdr&is DramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=trueanthempress.comLink to Will’s Amazon author pagehttps://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP/ allbooks? ingress=0&visitId=a9dc8a7d-5468-4ec6-8722- bf894b059594About the authorDr. Dodson is the Ashby and Strong Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches courses on rhetoric, literature, and film, with a focus on exploitation and marginalized literature and cinema. He has published essays on Tod Browning, Jess Franco, Hugo Haas and Shirley Jackson, and various film genres in edited collections and journals including Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and MONSTRUM. He is the co-editor, with David A. Cook, of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema, a book series on exploitation films and filmmakers and the various ways in which they have subsidized mainstream cinema and culture and have represented marginalized identities. He is the co-editor with Kristopher Woofter of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press, 2021). Most recently, Dodson and Woofter recorded an audio commentary for the Kino-Lorber Blu-ray release of Tobe Hooper's "I'm Dangerous Tonight," for release in July, 2022.Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema - Series - Humanities, Literature and Arts #film #mediastudies #horror #carolclover #genre #bmovies #grindhouse #erotica #susanlucci #nevecampbell #johncarpenter #gothic #drewbarrymore #courteneycox #lindablair #leepurcell #frandrescher #tvmovie #television #wescraven #scream #davidhess #itsonlyamovie #davidarquette #kevinwilliamson #dawsonscreek #michellewilliams #jamesvanderbeek #katieholmes #joshuajackson #paulacole #1970s #1980s #1990s #nightmareonelmstreet #robertenglund #freddiekreuger #johnnydepp #ytk #2000s
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Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for Part 6 of your host Mitch Hampton's ongoing Aesthetic series!More to come on this series and thanks for making it a huge success with us!
More on this stream, here:"This is the sixth part of my series on Aesthetics.
Most of what I will discuss will be announced in the episode, but it might be, in part, music related."
ballet #pottery #novels #architecture #cinema #film #indiefilm #independent #arts #sculpture #movie #hollywood #painting #ballet #jazz #tap #hiphop #rocknroll #rock #salsa #bossanova #samba #africa #afrocuban #latinamerica #southamerica #dance #philosophy #criticaltheory #literarytheory #digital #analog #book #popularmusic #pop #singersongwriter #folkmusic #jazz #africanamerican #needlepoint #comic #comedy #standup #improvisation #piano #woodwinds #brass #guitar
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In this, our second episode of the series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, we dig deep into the first chapter of the first volume; Thinking.More on this ongoing series, here:Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind”Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977.Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece. Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see)I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre)This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others.Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love.The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast.Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method.My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did.As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions.#hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema
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Enjoy our recent livestream, "All About Aesthetics, Part 5" exploring the art of album covers and much more !
design #commercials #advertising #television #celebrity #stardom #starpower #1970s #sculpture #popart #painting #1980s #2000s #2010s #popmusic #entertainment #recordalbum #vinyl #media #albumart
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Thank you so much for coming to our livestream concert featuring your podcast host, Mitch Hampton on piano with his jazz trio!
Enjoy it as our bonus content to say thanks for being the best part of what we do! #CONCERT #Livestream #jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_GoRjbCSBk&t=16s
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"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest.
One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode."
Marc’s Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.)
Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.”
Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate’s degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”.
There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister’s boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic’s tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love.
You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.”
Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez
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"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest.
One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode."
Marc’s Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.)
Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.”
Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate’s degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”.
There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister’s boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic’s tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love.
You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.”
Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez
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Listeners, enjoy a spicy Valentine’s Day pop up stream with returning guest and poetess, author, performer, Jane LeCroy!!Poetry, music and muses!You might recall Jane as a guest in our first season and here is a link to learn more about her work, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvfIRjIn-AMInside this Episode with Mitch:“One of my dreams has always been to perform with poet and poetry teacher, improviser and performer Jane LeCroyat Carnegie Hall, or Weill Recital Hall, but until then, a special Valentine's Show will have to do. I hope you enjoy this as much as did we.”
Link's to Jane's beautiful work: :https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/contributor/jane-lecroyhttps://www.instagram.com/janelecroy/https://threeroomspress.com/authors/jane-lecroy-2/
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In this, the third episode of our ongoing aesthetics series, I am leaving the "content" up to the spirit of this Friday, while dealing with the themes of prose, prose styles and written texts in general.
aesthetics #SusanSontag #FunkyFridayatFive
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I popup and talk about music matters, live composing.
music #composing #NECA #MitchHamptonMusic #musiceducation
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Thanks to everyone who was there Saturday for this last episode ( Part 3) of our multi part "Book Lunch" series on Irving Singer's beautiful and deep, "The Nature of Love".
We had a great crowd and such a blast and if you missed it, enjoy it anytime here!
This is the Last episode of my Series on Irving Singer's three volume book "The Nature Of Love".More on this very special series, here:Inside this new book series with your host, Mitch Hampton:“The Nature Of Love”, by Irving Singer.Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussions of the subject.Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject. Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more.Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences.And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story.#mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton#BookLunch #author #TheNatureOfLove #IrvingSinger #MitchHampton#BookLunch #IrvingSinger #podcast #TheNatureOfLove #books#authorsoffacebook
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Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton:
When first I became interested and finally, obsessed with the 1970s it was but a few years away, in the 1980s. Had you told me that I would one day be involved with an entire show devoted to the subject I would never have know what you would have been talking about.
Alex and Matt not only have a podcast where they remind is that "it is always the 70s somewhere", but most importantly it is the way they discuss their subject that make for a great podcast: they approach every topic with an attempt at full comprehension and best of all always have what I would call a philosophic approach.
They never condescend to their subjects and their episodes find an all too rare balance between an average person's lay curiosity and an expert's knowledge.
You might notice that this might be the longest running times thus far of any of our episodes.
This is simply what happens you see when the subject of the 70s comes up with any seriousness or devotion: there is simply too much there for any easy and condensed summaries.
More about the Long Seventies:
We’re Matt & Alex
We love the 70s. We love the 70s so much that for us they last an extra six years, from about August 1968 (the DNC Convention debacle) to 1984 (Reagan’s re-election landslide).
This is a concept called the long seventies, and we first came across it in Bruce J. Schulman’s book The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. Schulman’s book offers some compelling arguments as to why this is a coherent concept, including demographic shifts, political alienation, and the rebirth of conservatism.
In this podcast we won’t rehash these arguments.
We aim to look at the myriad of other events and trends, large and small, that are worth delving into and investigating, It turns out the 1970s might be the most important decade of the 20th century for coming to an understanding of our current society.
Links to the Long Seventies Socials:
Website: https://www.thelongseventiespodcast.com/about
Twitter: https://twitter.com/longseventies
cyramcfadden #serial #talesofthecity #armisteadmaupin #differentstrokes #gordonjump #garycoleman #toddbridges #marytylermoore #evangelicalism #catholicism #protestantism #christianity #marincounty #california #starskyandhutch #newreligiousmovement #cult #steveallen #thelovefamily #brianallen #thefamilyinternational #childrenofgod #mosesberg #oshon #oregon #rajneesh #charlesmanson #tomo'neill #chaos #cia #fbi #sexuality #polyamory #polygamy #quentintarantino #bradpitt #margotrobbie #leonarddicaprio #1969 #1970s #fondue #disco #anarchism #occupywallstreet #adbusters #marxism #socialism #conservatism #liberalism #capitalism #haroldramis #ghostbusters #billmurray #danackroyd #normanlear #television #wernererhard #landmark #est #doriswishman #42ndstreet #grindhouse #halashby #johncassavetes #genarowlands #romanpolanski #dustinhoffman #straighttime #janefonda #cominghome #bh90210 #beverlyhills90210 #torispelling #lukeperry #aaronspelling #darrenstar #buffythevampireslayer #sarahmichellegellar #donaldsutherland #alvinsargent #edwardbunker #davidshire #ulugrosbard #garybusey bruceschulman #newyork #vietnam #protest #daysofrage #sds #weathermen #underground #bernadinedohrn #baadermeinhof #redarmyfaction #westgermany #eastgermany #germany #berlinwall #italy #redbrigades #bobavakian #revolutionarycommunistparty #progressivelaborparty #onceuponatimeinhollywood #joandidion #thewhitealbum #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #funk #soul #r&b #jazz #punk #rock
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Listeners, thank you so much for joining us for our recent, annual, solo New Year's episode where your host, Mitch Hampton explored the 1973 film,"Don't Look Now" and the thoughtful work of director Nicolas Roeg.
Mitch discusses the unique style of Nic Roeg's filmmaking with a focus on his 1973 "Don't Look Now".
nicolasroeg #Don'tLookNow #marilynmonroe #garybusey #dontlooknow #tonycurtis #louisbmayer #darylzanuck #HollywoodHits #filmcommentary #filmhistory #nicolasroeg #donaldsutherland #juliechristie #anthonyrichmond #1970s #venice #italy #clairvoyance #serialkiller #esp #tarot #theresarussell #michaelemil #gothic #jeremythomas #britishlionfilms #1973 #1985 #1980s #alberteinstein #edgarcayce #criterioncollection #cinema #film #daphnedumaurier #hitchcock #rebecca #joanfonataine #laurenceolivier #judithanderson #1940s #psychology #elisabethkublerross #nec #music #pinodonaggio #feminism #eroticism #gender #josephlanza #insignificance
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Happy Holidays Everyone! Thanks to all who joined us last week for our special holiday concert and in case you missed it, enjoy some music of the season, from us to you!We so appreciate you all listening and subscribing!More on this very special event, here:
Mitch Hampton ( your podcast host) returns on piano with his trio featuring Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on the drums for a special Holiday concert, featuring some brand new arrangements of seasonal classics and some surprises!OUR WAY OF THANKING YOU ALL FOR BEING ON THE JOURNEY WITH US AND CELEBRATING THE SEASON!!!!!#music #HolidaySpirit #concerts Mitch Hampton #mitchhamptontrio #concerts #christmasmusic #holidays #jazz #livestreaming
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“On Art, Prose and the Sea: A Conversation with James Sturz”Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:I was introduced to the work of James Sturz through another guest, Jill Clemens of our Nadina’s Cremes episodewith whom is shared a love for Hawaii as well as nature.
Little did I know at the time what a standout voice in prose James Sturz is. Not only is he the author of a novel that truly merits the adjective of original, Underjungle , he hashed a long career both as a reporter and journalist as well as deep sea diver and passionate environmentalist and activist. I found his combination of a commitment to literature as an art form with his concern for the ocean in particular and the wider ecology to express best one of the things our podcast is about.More about James and his wonderful work:Website:https://jamessturz.com/Underjungle: https://jamessturz.com/underjungleSocial and book links:https://www.facebook.com/james.sturz/https://www.instagram.com/jamessturz/https://twitter.com/jamessturzhttps://www.threads.net/@jamessturzhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sturz-a936954/https://www.amazon.com/Underjungle-James-Sturz/dp/1951213750/ref=sr_1_3?crid=14DPU1QFPI9KJ&keywords=underjungle&qid=1698426559&sprefix=underju,aps,1473&sr=8-3https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Underjungle
@JamesSturz @underjunglenovel #podcast #author #environment #amwriting #MitchHampton
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On this, our second episode in a series on aesthetics, I continue using Susan Sontag as our guide - as I will in all the episodes - but discuss disparate and diverse examples from design, to fine art and from art cinema to popular t.v. and much more, plus some surprises.More on this series from your host, Mitch Hampton:In reflecting on the theme and indeed the very name of our podcast, I embark on a series of Funky Friday episodes delaying with the aesthetic nature of life, culture, and art.In this first installation I inaugurate the series with the work of Susan Sontag, in particular her “Against Interpretation” and “On Style” from 1964, and relate these seminal texts on aesthetics with my own personal journey with all of the arts - with some emphasis on the visual art work in this first episode. As the series I will continue with many kinds of examples of human made things, from fine art to commercial design, prose and text, performance and much more some of which may surprise your host as the viewers as we go forward.#music #painting #illustration #poetry #philosophy #religion #spirituality #dance #ballet #susansontag #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990 #romantic #classical #modern #postmodern #pop #design #history #politics #literature #television #theatre
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Enjoy Part 2 in our multi part "Book Lunch" series focused around Irving Singer's three volume work, The Nature Of Love !
We had a blast with you all and more episodes of this rich text to come soon!
More on this "Book Lunch" series from your host, Mitch Hampton:
New multi part “Book Lunch Series” featuring Irving Singer’s “The Nature of Love”
November’s “Book Lunch” will be something a little different: a new three part/episode series on a single three volume work:
“The Nature Of Love”, by Irving Singer.
Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussions of the subject.
Singerwas a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject.
Singer’swork is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more.
Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’spluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences.
And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story.
#mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton #BookLunch #author #TheNatureOfLove #IrvingSinger Mitch Hampton
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Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:
At first screen glance Laine Nooney'sThe Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personalmight be perhaps a less likely subject for an episode.
Yet, given my steadfast interest in unconventional treatments of normally conventional subject matters as well as my overall interest in the period of time encompassing the 1970s into the 80s I don't think there is a better guest for our podcast than Nooney, nor a more appropriate book than his.
Although their work is both intellectual and social history of a kind, aesthetic issues are equally at play, both in the sense of their being an era of tech prior to the present one, as well as the creativity of individual tech people, some of whom are wonderfully portrayed by Nooney.
I hope you find this episode as interesting to hear as it was for us to record.
Laine’s Bio and links to their work:
Laine Nooney is an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University, specializing in historical, cultural, and economic analysis of the video game and computer industries. Their book, The Apple II Age: How The Computer Became Personal, is out now.
Their research has been featured in popular venues such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Motherboard, and NPR, as well as academic journals such as Game Studies, The American Journal of Play, and Journal of Visual Culture.
Recent Events + Goings on
How Computers Took Over Our Lives @ Factually!
Listen in on this fact-and-fun-filled conversation with Adam Conover on Factually!, as we leave no stone unturned on the origins of personal computing.
THE APPLE II AGE Reviewed @ The New Yorker
Kyle Chayka explores "the story of how computers became irrevocably personal" in his coverage of THE APPLE II AGE in The New Yorker.
BOOK EXCERPT @ Motherboard
Check out an excerpt of THE APPLE II AGE @ Motherboard: "Don't Copy that Floppy": The Untold History of Apple II Software Piracy. The article tells the story of one of the earliest copy protection battles of the personal computer era.
Social Media
Laine has public accounts on Twitter [@sierra_offline], Mastodon [@LaineNooney@mastodon.social], Bluesky [@lainenooney.bsky.social], and Threads [@sierra_offline]
$stevewozniak #billgates #stevejobs #apple #computer #1970s #1980s #floppydisc #gamer #pc #printshop #mysteryhouse #apple11 #jimwarren #bobreiling #foucault #fortran #radioshack #popularelectronics #softalk #robertawilliams #visicalc #byte #davidbalsam #martinkahn #coreykosak #familycomputing #microtimes #honeywell #mcgraw-hill #lgbtqia #billbowman #neilpostman #marshallmcluhan #alvintoffler #futureshock #nancydrew #hardyboys #wargames #atari #darkcrystal #jimhenson #kevindriscoll #infoworld #jacquimorby
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Enjoy our new multi part “Book Lunch Series” featuring Irving Singer’s “The Nature of Love”.Inside this new book series with your host, Mitch Hampton:November’s “Book Lunch” will be something a little different: a new three part/episode series on a single three volume work:“The Nature Of Love”, by Irving Singer.
Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussions of the subject.Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject. Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more.
Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences.And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story.#mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton
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In this initial installation of my first aesthetics series I talked about what the concept means to me, beginning with Susan Sontag's 1966 texts Against Interpretation, On Style an early, young adult experience at the 1987 Red Grooms show at the Whitney and much more.This is a new, ongoing series for us on aesthettics so stay tuned and watch this space! Please enjoy and share this stream with usExtended episode notes, Mitch Hampton, here:"In reflecting on the theme and indeed the very name of our podcast, I embark on a series of Funky Friday episodes delaying with the aesthetic nature of life, culture, and art.In this first installation I inaugurate the series with the work of Susan Sontag, in particular her “Against Interpretation” and “On Style” from 1964, and relate these seminal texts on aesthetics with my own personal journey with all of the arts - with some emphasis on the visual art work in this first episode. As the series I will continue with many kinds of examples of human made things, from fine art to commercial design, prose and text, performance and much more some of which may surprise your host as the viewers as we go forward."#music #painting #illustration #poetry #philosophy #religion #spirituality #dance #ballet #susansontag #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990 #romantic #classical #modern #postmodern #pop #design #history #politics #literature #television #theatrelife
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Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday for our recent "Funky Friday at Five"!!!! We had a blast sharing 7th installment in our deep dive 70's film series focused on some interesting examples of television from the era: featuring a special with Robin Williams and John Ritter from the earliest years of HBO.Please enjoy and share this with us!More on this episode, here:On this Funky Friday 70s Part 7: “A Potpourri", I return to my medium sized tv screen which might be the most appropriate setting thus far as I am featuring excerpts from television of the era of all kinds with a fulfillment of my earlier promise to show the John Ritter/Robin Williams improvisation from the Roxy in 1978 - made for HBO in its earliest years.”
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by our recent livestream event.
This "minisode" is a celebration of show favorite, Sanifu Al Hall's new album PROJECT 43, with a guest appearance by Hall!
More on this stream and where to purchase Sanifu Hall's album, from your host, Mitch Hampton
Link to purchase this beautiful album:
Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--just email us at aljonimusic@gmail.com ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.
“I was so enthusiastic about Sanifu Hall's newest Project 43, most of all his decision to release it on vinyl, that I decided he should return to say hi to us if he could for a mini- episode on his wonderful album.
The music on it is very composition and diverse as well as featuring plenty of solos from some great improvisers.”
Link to purchase this beautiful album:
Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--just email us at aljonimusic@gmail.com ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.
#trombone #jazz #florida #jacksonville #music #dougcarn #henryskipperfranklin #superdiscoedits #raycharles #sanifualhalljr #jonahpierre #juancarlosrollan #stevestrawley #bryantpatterson #stevenklein #jamondium #r&b #soul #disco #ron'coz'hall #sanifualhalljr #horacetapscott #panafricanpeoplesarkestra #aljonimusicorp #cosmosdwellerz #Jacksonville #Florida #SaintAugustine #Florida
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"On this Book Lunch I try and do some justice to Runia's book, whose subtitle Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, gives you a fairly decent idea of his intellectual project, as well as his highly original theory of history." Extended Look:In this book lunch I will discuss one of the more original and profound works of history to come along in many years: Moved By The Past by Eelco Runia.In this text Runia develops a sophisticated and contrarian theory of History that argues against the prevailing conventions of narrative oriented and deterministic History that are so popular.Instead Runia says that discontinuity is more common than the cause and effect structure of continuity. All too commonly this takes the form of individuals and collective groups of people such as whole nations being willfully destructive, "burning their bridges behind them" and embarking upon the unknown just for the hell of it - without this behavior being either inevitable or necessarily "caused" by preceding history. Runia is a practicing psychologist, an historian and a novelist and accordingly, "Moved By The Past" is a deeply humanistic work. Instead of dry, statistical and mathematical graphs and proofs, he deals with arts and letters: the novels of Sebald and Tolstoy, the poetry of Wordsworth, the writing of Giambattista Vico , the nature of moments and memorialization, as well as psychological theories of selfhood and behavior.In this book lunch I hope to do justice to this unique and imaginative book.#haydenwhite #foucault #history #wordsworth #romanticism #frenchrevolution #copenhagen #townsendceunterforthehumanities #ucberkeley #revolution #iraq #democracy #psychology #trauma #goethe #schiller #tolstoy #isaiahberlin #memory #holocaust #germany #europe #EU #911 #BookLunch Mitch Hampton #eelcorunia #movedbythepast #booktalk #bookreview #bookcommentary
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“One of the most persistent and embraced phenomenons in filmmaking in our current era is the love for resisting or rebooting many older popular genre films for contemporary purposes.
In this episode I was most happy to revisit painter Alexandra Carterand discuss a film she picked: Luca Guadagnino's 2018 “Suspiria”possessing the same title and some influence from the Dario Argento1977 classic.
We could both agree that his film is a totally unique creature all of its own and, as always, I enjoyed doing the deepest dive with her.”
Links to Alexandra's beautiful works:
https://www.alexandra-carter.com/view/55405/1/0/7315772
#matriarchy #matrilineal #wicca #religion #ballet #dance #cult #witch #bodyhorror #italy #germany #socialism #redarmy #terrorism #tildaswinton #darianicolodi #darioargento #dakotajohnson #chloegracemoretz #jessicaharper #Lucaguadagnino #davidcronenberg #rabid #thebrood #oliverreed #samnthaeggar #1970s #2018 #baadermeinhof #eastgermany #westgermany #berlinwall #mercecunnungham #yvonnerainer #thomyorke #radiohead #jonnygreenwood #ptanderson #margotadler #choreography
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Listeners, This one is extra special for us as Micheal is our very own sound designer and editor! What an honor to have him on and share his work and journey with you all!
Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:
"One of the things I appreciate most about our show, and it is deliberatively by design, is how different spans of geography and culture can nevertheless contain interesting commonality.
Michael Newton, the guest of this episode is a wizard or engineer par excellence the virtues of which aids our show tremendously.
Yet like my late father, he is from Indiana and I have always felt myself to be an honorary "hoosier".
Also as one of his fields of expertise is audio and sound, I found his account of the intricacies of these matters in this episode most interesting. I throughly enjoyed this episode and I do hope that our audience perhaps gains some increased interest in all matters audiophile as well.
More about Michael:
Michael Newton was born and raised in the small Central Indiana town of Rushville.
He attended school there until moving to Muncie to attend Ball State University, and would go on to acquire a bachelor's degree in Digital Audio Production in 2014.
During college and ever since, Michael has been involved in studio recording, post production, and live sound in and around Indiana.
Most recently Michael has been recording and producing his own podcast, Michael's Mixdown, where he discusses and breaks down recorded songs, and interviews musicians and audio professionals.
He is also the audio editor and mixer of the Journey of and Aesthete podcast.
Michael has also been the live sound engineer for the Gabriel Harley Band since 2018.
In his free time, Michael enjoys video games and board games, listening to progressive rock music, and spending time with his two dogs, Skipper and Ryder.
Link to his podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaelsmixdown
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Near the end of the extraordinary book that is the subject of this book lunch, The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion, the author, Marcel Gauchet, says the following about aesthetics, the very topic of our podcast:
"The aesthetic experience seems to me amenable to a similar analysis, insofar as it can be related to a primordial source, which in turn attests the continuing existence of a relation to the world, a relation previously the basis of religious sentiment. The capacity for emotion art the sight of things arises from a basic mode of inscription in being, which connects us with what used to be the meaning of the sacred for thousands of years."
Of course I read that passage when first I discovered this remarkable book, partly due to a now famous review of it in the New Republicby the late, great Jean Bethke Elshtain.
It is not every host of a podcast who was reading The New Republicin the 1990s - and then going out and buying an obscure text on the recommendation of one The New Republic'swriters.
Of course the name Gauchet is far from the celebration and fame of the more familiar and famous writers on religion Elaine Pagels and Karen Armstrong. But I have always felt that his book is among the most important ones on the subject and, as one of the aims of our podcast is to introduce to a wide audience intellectual matters that might be more unfamiliar, I was only too happy about my conversation with Michael Behrent.
Dr. Behrent’s Bio
My recent scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
An initial set of essays evaluated the political significance of his reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. My current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant
degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers (France) from the 1920s to the 1940s. A subsequent project seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s).
I have also written on nineteenth-century French political thought (particularly the relationship between religion and republicanism), the history of liberal and democratic thought, and contemporary French political philosophy.
Finally, I write about American politics and culture for several French publications, notably Esprit.
I also write about French politics and culture for several American and British venues (such as, Dissent, Foreign Policy, and Oxford University Press blog).
Links to Professor Behrent’s Work
https://www.pennpress.org/ 9781512825145/becoming- foucault/
For a more comprehensive list of his works, visit his website, here: https:// appstate.academia.edu/ MichaelBehrent
democracy #humanrights #sociology #individualism #multiculturalism #identity #raymondaron #France #socialismorbarbarism #claudelefort #corneliuscastoriadis #mauricemerleau-ponty #may68 #anthropology #christianity #islam #judaism #buddhism #politics #gladysswain #michelfoucault #alainbadoi #marxism #capitalism #neoliberalism #postmodernism #emmanuelemacron #robespierre #globalisation #francoismiterrand #jacqueschirac #spirituality #law #constitution
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Hi listeners!
This is part 6 of our ongoing 1970's cinema series.
More on this livestream event, here:I discuss three different films and their filmmakers: Fred Wiseman and hisWelfare (1975), Robert Kramer's Milestones (1975), and Chick Strand's Soft Fiction (1979).
Even by the independent standards of the era, these filmmakers were most original in style, doing things on screen utterly unique in representation, tone and visual language. With possibly further surprises as well.
documentary #zipporahfilms #NYC #1970s #abebeame #HEW #AIM #vietnam #gracepaley #feminism #anarchism #socialism #newleft #stonewall #zen #suzukiroshi #sanfranciscozencenter #daysofrage #weathermen #kentstate #jacksonstate #malcolmx #lizgarbus #hbo #joeberlinger #canyoncinema #saullevine #thefilm-makerscooperative #womenmakefilm #underground #robertkramer #chickstrand #johndouglas
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It is exciting to speak to another musician with whom I have more in common that usual. not only are we both alumni of both Interlochen Arts Academy andNew England Conservatory of Music but I find in his music a similar attraction to musical language and style.
This episode is one that I crafted out of our initial audio discussion, trying to incorporate into the episode many examples of Jim Stephenson'sprodigious production.
As always my reasoning is many layered.
I want to introduce Stephenson’s music to the widest possible audience of course but I also wanted to hear in his own words how he sees music, for example how deeply it is rooted in his many years as a working and professional trumpeter, and how what he composes is unafraid to connect with and touch the listener.
Luckily for me he is a most articulate guest on where contemporary classical music is today as well as its history.
I hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed being able to take the time to get inside the music.
Links to Jim’s Beautiful Music
Website: https://composerjim.com/composer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/composerjim/?hl=en
Works: https://composerjim.com/works/
https://www.cedillerecords.org/artists/james-m-stephenson/
Media, Reviews : https://composerjim.com/about/media-kit/
More about Jim
Leading American orchestras, instrumentalists, and wind ensembles around the world have performed the music of Chicago based composer James M. Stephenson, both to critical acclaim and the delight of audiences.
The Boston Herald raved about “straightforward, unabashedly beautiful sounds,” suggesting “Stephenson deserves to be heard again and again!” A formal sense of melody and tonality characterize his works, each embedded in a contemporary soundscape. These qualities, coupled with the composer’s keen ability to write to each occasion, have led to a steady stream of commissions and ongoing projects.
James M. Stephenson came late to his full-time composing career, having first earned a degree from the New England Conservatory in trumpet performance, and then going on to perform for 17 seasons in the Naples Philharmonic in Florida. The composer is largely self-taught and presents a musical voice that is truly individual. Colleagues and friends encouraged his earliest efforts and enthusiasm followed from all directions. As his catalog grew, so did his reputation. That catalog now boasts concertos and sonatas for nearly every instrument, earning him the moniker “The Concerto King” from Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Yeh.
With such prolific output, Stephenson’s music is well represented in recordings. Nearly all of his solo brass works (over 50) have been professionally recorded, and in total, his extensive catalog for all instruments can be heard on over 30 CDs.
James Stephenson is also a highly sought-after arranger and conductor, rounding out his constantly busy schedule. His arrangements have been performed/recorded/broadcast by virtually every major orchestra in the country, including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, New York Pops, and more.
Jim originally hails from the Greater Chicago area, as does his wife Sally. In 2007 the couple, along with their four children, returned to the region to pursue the life they now share.be heard on over 30 CDs.
James Stephenson is also a highly sought-after arranger and conductor, rounding out his constantly busy schedule.
Jim originally hails from the Greater Chicago area, as does his wife Sally. In 2007 the couple, along with their four children, returned to the region to pursue the life they now share.
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Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton
I first met our guest Jill Nadine Clements through my late father, probably about thirty odd years ago.
My father, Aubrey Hampton, was the founder, of course, of Aubrey Organics, a completely unique natural cosmetics company that was the first of its kind when it debuted in 1967.
That business closed in January of last year after a fifty year run. Jill is literally carrying on that tradition however; her emphasis is on creams and lotions as well as her unusually fabulous designs and "packaging."
It is one of the precious few businesses of its kind that upholds the ecological, health and cosmetic integrity that we started at Aubrey so very long ago.
It was also great to see her on video since it has been the far too long twelve years since we have been in contact!
I do hope that this episode inspires folks to purchase some of her products and I actually learned some things during it which I did not know.
I certainly hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did our reunion.
Links to Nadina’s Cremes:
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In Hawaii there is a term: " talking Story" (it’s not lies, it’s your Life and the wonders that have happened).
After 30 years of Nadina's Cremes and 1,000's of stores that have carried Nadina's... another dream come true: of moving to Hawaii and making Nadina's Cremes both East Coast and Hawaii.
First I'd like to tell of the joy and honor of the famous people who have shared appreciation for Nadina's Cremes.
Every person's Love of the product matters to me, but what fun to have the memories of these special talents.
I started Nadina's Cremes while traveling in the Renaissance Faires being an apprentice Potter. After three years doing the Renaissance Faires I had the pleasure and adventure of crossing Africa with a best friend from college volunteering In The Peace Corp.
We traveled all the way from West to East Africa! It was on the island of Lamu where lovely Muslim women took me into their homes to make cremes their way...
I then returned home in mid 1989 with only 5 accounts, Whole Foods being the first when they had only 2 stores.... I moved into my Grandmother's kitchen end of '89 and by '92, Nadina's Cremes had become a million dollar business in over a 1,000 stores.
I kept working hard, endless shows... grateful to have the tags of the jars be an avenue to educating about how important the Rain Forest is for our planet. Through the purchase of Nadina's Cremes we donated $1,000 to different environmental organizations; one being Rain Forest Action Network. The tags would fold out in color and show the canopy, slash and burn, logging then desertification. Plus, the address for RFAN at the end, they sent a testimonial that the tags helped.
A few more years go by and by luck Sarah Mac Lachlan purchased our Cremes in the special town of Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii, and in 1997 calls our company asking us to join her concert and craft vendor in the outdoor venues. WOW again... Mac Lachlan to be sold with her CD's and her artwork and t-shirts at her booth...
I have always cared to educate through our brochues to help our environment.
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If you didn't make it to our Summer concert, you can enjoy it here, as our gift of thanks to you for being a great audience!!!
Mitch Hampton at the piano, Zack Page on the big bass and Justin Watt on the drums for a concert of seasonal jazz in July
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Link to concert on You Tube: https://lnkd.in/geucZtCv
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We are so very delighted to share our first "Book Lunch" of Season 5 featuring the incandescent author, spiritual teacher and great human, Thomas Moore as we celebrate his new book,The Eloquence of Silence.
It is extraordinary to me that since I first read Moore's groundbreaking Care Of The Soul way back in the golden year of 1992 .
I am now going to speak with Moore face to face in 2023 on the occasion his newest book #TheEloquenceOfSilence.
Thomas Moore was one of our earlier guests on the show but this will be the first time for us to see one another! (link to that interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ditfProyS8)
Moore is, amazingly, 82 years of age as of our meeting, and as I savored his text.
It is organized around so many and diverse stories: Oscar Wilde's cucumber sandwiches in his celebrated play, Jesus Christ's sermons on the Kingdom, Nicholas Of Cusa's teachings on Christ, Dietrich Boenhoffer's fight against Nazism, Shunryu Suzuki's talks on Zazen, a chapter on the Heart Sutra, teachings from Sufi, and much more.
I very much look forward to seeing what he has to say on some of this.
Discussion of Emptiness and Silence is perhaps most suited to our current moment where we happen to find ourselves.
ABOUT THOMAS
Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul.
He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way.
In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman.
In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society.
His family members are also deeply involved in spiritual approaches to the arts: His wife, Hari Kirin, is an accomplished painter and teaches a course she has created on Yoga and Art; his daughter Ajeet is a musician and recording artist and spiritual teacher; his stepson Abraham is an architect focusing on design related to the social aspects of building.
Thomasalso writes fiction, arranges music and plays golf in New Hampshire, where he has lived for twenty years.
#sufi #Buddhism #Christianity #Islam #Jung #jameshillman #zazen #oscarwilde #heartsutra #prayer #meditation #spirituality #religion #soul #spirit #body #history #time #beginnersmind #kenosis #samuelbeckett #daimon #TheEloquenceofSilence
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In this fifth installment of my 70s film series I focus on the emerging interest in the decade in representing human beings outside the ,mainstream of typical Hollywood entertainment, as well as films that play with the intersection of fiction and documentary.
More on this livestream featuring your podcast host and cinema scholar, Mitch Hampton, here:
"1970s cinema part 5: Documenting the Underrepresented"
On this part 5 of 1970s cinema I deal with the visual representation of the documented and the real. I am interested in how fictional filmmakers flirted with documented material more or less taken from reality and how they integrated this material into more imagined or non documentary representations.
A lot of the films are to be announced but I will show clips from Jon Jost's Chameleon, Charles Burnett's Killer Of Sheep , Paul Mazursky's Harry And Tonto , Fred Wiseman's Welfare and more.
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Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton
What is in one television show from the wayback machine of fifty years ago?
Particular as we are deluged with so much to watch today?
Well, you could say, a lot.
I guess you might also say that I have been a fan of The Rockford Files and its star James Garner for as long as I have been conscious I never thought that one television show would be inspiring and meaningful enough to have its own podcast and come to think of it I never knew there would be anything like a podcast.
One of the many things I appreciate about hosts Eppy ( Epidiah Ravachol) and Nathan’s ( Nathan D. Paoletta ) show, "Two Hundred A Day, A Rockford Files Podcast"is that they essentially do a "close reading" of the show and as audiences of my podcast might know I hold that approach above practically everything.
They also represent two different generational takes on the show.
I very much enjoyed this episode.
It inaugurates the first time on our podcast we have had more than two people in a single episode I can only hope there are many more like this one in the future.
(Note: for those not in the know Rockfish was the name Rockford Filescharacter Gandy Finch, as played by the great Isaac Hayes, called Rockford.)
About the show
Two Hundred a Day is a podcast by Nathan D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol.
We are exploring the intensely weird and interesting world of the 70s TV detective show The Rockford Files.
Both celebration and analysis, we break down episodes of the show and go deep into how they work as well-constructed narratives.
In each episode of Two Hundred a Day, we watch an episode, recap and review it as fans of the show, and tease out specific elements that hold lessons for writers, gamers and anyone else interested in making better stories.
Links to Two Hundred a Day Podcast
Podcast: https://twohundredaday.fireside.fm/
Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/twohundredaday/posts
Twitter: Two Hundred a Day
Epidiah Ravachol: is a game designer from New York City who wholly-owns and operates the publishing company Dig 1,000 Holes. He has been the creator of the Dread role-playing game and an Imagination Playstorm participant.
Nathan D. Paoletta: is a graphic artist, game designer and independent publisher hailing from Coupeville, WA. He publishes his own games, including the award-winning World Wide Wrestling RPG, in addition to helping other creators make their visions a reality.
He posts pictures of his dog to instagram @ndpaoletta and obsesses over The Rockford Files on the Two Hundred a Day Podcast.
Find out more at ndpdesign.com.
**We are delighted to be highlighting and giving a shoutout to Gigi Garner's JGARF (James Garner Animal Rescue Fund)- we talked about it in the interview, and also it's a good associated cause! https://www.jgarf.org**
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On this episode inaugurating our Season 5 I sit at my piano - and maybe in my chair - and discuss how I compose music and use my many inspirations for projects. Sharing with you my own very intimate creative process at the keys.
Link to watch and share with us, here: https://youtu.be/PG4Ia1rBS8
More on this livestream and our Season 5 of the show:
Now in our fifth season, we continue our comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, across all art forms, the art of living life and the humanities as well as how creativity connects us to what it means to be human.
Through the lens of the intimate creative process of different artists, makers and creators, we deep dive into all things arts and humanities.
Your neurodivergent host, Mitch Hampton, is a journalist, world renown pianist and composer for films.
Together we explore the rich stories of these artists, what inspired them to become artists, to create as well as Mitch's own personal journey as an artist on the autistic spectrum. We learn how his music and podcast connect him to others.
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It's our Season 5 kickoff!
Thank each and everyone of you who have listened, shared and commented.
With each episode, guest and story, we explore what it means to be human - together- by celebraign the power of creativity across all art forms.
Here's to Season 5: more stories, more artists, more art forms, more livestreams, more art talks and much more!
We are so grateful for all of you and thanks for listening and watching!
Reach out anytime if you have suggestions for guests and shows!
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Enjoy our recent "Funky Friday at Five" which is the 4th part in a series that focuses in on the beauty of 70s cinema.
Your host, Mitch Hampton, a 70s scholar, explores how Filmmakers in the 70s seemed keen to document the wild, outrageous, garish or simply unusual aesthetics of the decade, particularly in filmed locations and public spaces.
More on this special livestream film series, here:
1970s movies were inordinately interested in the sociology of America, in examining how people associated with one
another, and in contests, sports, public spectacles, political rallies and so on.
Many times this took on an outrageous or satiric tone, as filmmakers at the time were aware of the strangeness or oddity of aesthetics.
Even when the scene is ostensibly utilitarian as to introduce setting or "background", 70s pictures had lots of attitudes about daily public - and private - life.
Examples will include Mother, Jugs And Speed, Used Cars,
LookingForMrGoodbar, Semi-Tough, StayHungry, and more!
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Notes on this "Book Lunch" from your host, Mitch Hampton:
"For this book lunch I revisit a contemporary classic - Jean Baudrillard's poetic, impressionistic, polemical book , "America" , from the early 80s.It is most interesting to reread the book now as the United States and the world is so very different than then, and yet in many ways, as his text reveals, the same.
I place Baudrillard's book in the tradition of French meditative and speculative writing like Camus, De Beauvoir, de Tocqueville, Montaigne, Montesquieu - far different in meaning and intent from the moralistic and prescriptive non-fiction writing that dominates today."
Note on Jean Baudrillard's America: I will be using the first and original edition of the text, most notable for the photography throughout by the great Chris Richardson.**
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Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton
One of my goals and themes in this podcast is the presentation and exposure of very difficult yet valuable and important human works of culture to a wide audience rather than assuming that their difficulty means that anybody who wants to be exposed to them doesn't have the right or ability to do so.
My reasons for this are really twofold: firstly, that such works are good and thus very influential in human affairs, and secondly. that I was exposed to these and through hard work was able to grow evolve and improve through the experience.
Also, I think, if I may risk overgeneralizing, that we tend to have internalized that such and such a topic is too intellectually hard, or irrelevant or, worst of all, too boring, and these prejudices only serve to make what was avoidable into the inevitable. I'd like to challenge that a bit.
Michel Foucault is one of the most brilliant and divisive figures in Western thought.
I was fortunate to encounter his work as a nineteen year old in the 1980s, under the supervision of some really smart people.
Most recently, I have been reading his latest work at the end of his life, also having been produced in the 80s, the erudition of which is so vast and fascinating that, I sometimes lament both the divisiveness over his work as well as the misuse of his work for very specific and partisan goals.
Some of these Michael and I get into in this episode even I feel we but scratched the surface.
Michael Behrent is one of the leading scholars of Foucault around today and seemed the perfect person to introduce Foucault's work to a wide audience.
His emphasis is on the opposite end of Focualt's career form which I discussed above; the very early work, coming out of the struggles of early twentieth century French and European life.
I also find Behrent to be a wonderful communicator and most generous in his enthusiasm for his subject.
Although this episode is a specific one on a particular thinker I like to think it could serve as one possible model to discuss practically anything.
Professor Behrent’s Bio
My recent scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
An initial set of essays evaluated the political significance of his reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. My current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers (France) from the 1920s to the 1940s. A subsequent project seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s).
I have also written on nineteenth-century French political thought (particularly the relationship between religion and republicanism), the history of liberal and democratic thought, and contemporary French political philosophy.
Finally, I write about American politics and culture for several French publications, notablyEsprit.
I also write about French politics and culture for several American and British venues (such as, Dissent, Foreign Policy, and Oxford University Press blog).
Links to Professor Behrent’s Work
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825145/becoming-foucault/
For a more comprehensive list of his works, visit his website, here: https://appstate.academia.edu/MichaelBehrent
Links to Michele Foucault's talks at Berkeley, here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkRjp29sQbKZsyhzgWrh5j--2BUlMNynh
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Thanks to all who joined us for our recent Book Lunch" livestream featuring a book from 1992 by the lateNeil Postmancalled “Technopoly”. We loved your insightful thoughts and questions.
I took the deep dive into one of the last great polemical works on culture and technology - Neil Postman's Technopoly. I situate Postman as one of the greatest examples of New York Jewish intellectual life of the twentieth century more generally, as well as possessing totally unique perspective on what technology can and can't do in particular.
More on this recent livestream event, here:
This “Book Lunch” will feature a book from 1992 by the late Neil Postman called “Technopoly”.
At once a humanities and liberal arts based and informed historical survey of attitudes towards technology in the United States as well as a cultural polemic, rereading it in our current moment makes it is some ways a book that could have been written his
very month even - as its examples are incredibly "dated" in a technical sense.
I will do the deep dive into Technopoly, the title word being Postman's neologism for a new kind of totalitarianism, one where machines rather than we humans would be in charge.
I situate the author's attitudes and perspectives within the context of the legacy of Marshall McLuhan in particular and the liberal arts
and humanities in general, the latter being in many respects the foundation of our very podcast.
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Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton
When it comes to nonfiction prose, surely the work and accomplishments of biographers and cultural and social historians might be at the forefront of meaningful documents of a given society.
When you being to consider what is involved in narrating the life story of a well known and public figure in the arts it becomes clear that this too is an art in itself.
The guest of this episode, Sam Wassonis one of the leading figures in such writing, not only is he a comprehensive and indefatigable chronicler of the history of Hollywood cinema, he is most unusual in his ability to understand equally both the classical Hollywood of the 1920s through the fifties as well as the New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s.
Wasson is also a consummate journalist who has been able to speak with many of the most important figures and players in both periods and has been crafting surveys of the periods and their creators.
Interestingly I first became familiar with Wasson for his biography of Bob Fosse, only later reading his work on Hollywood.
I see Wasson as somebody on whom future academic historians and fans alike will rely to get a real feelings for the qualities of popular art over the past sixty odd years.
Sam Wasson's Bio
L.A. native Sam Wasson studied Film at Wesleyan University and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before publishing his first book,A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards, “the critical resurrection of Blake Edwards" (Andrew Sarris). The subsequent publication of Paul on Mazursky,Wasson’s book of conversations with the legendary writer-director of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, occasioned Quentin Tarantino to declare Mazursky "one of the great writer-directors of cinema.”
Published in 2010, Wasson'sFifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Womanbecame a New York and Los Angeles Times Best Seller and a New York Times and Publishers' Weekly best book of the year. Winner of the Cinémathèque française’s Meilleur livre étranger sur le cinéma, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. has been translated into over a dozen languages and was named by Entertainment Weekly one of the best pop-culture books of all time.
For his full bio visit:https://www.samwasson.com/about
Links to Mr. Wasson’s works: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Sam-Wasson/s? rh=n:283155,p_27:Sam+Wasson
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In this the third part of an ongoing 70s cinema series I discuss the treatment of emotions -from detached humor, to intimate domesticity.
More on this Funky Friday, Here:
Seventies cinema is, above all else, about the undiluted, raw and immediate expression of human feelings in all of their authenticity.
The emotions I have in mind are not only those of the characters in the films but the attitudes too of the filmmakers.
The films see this expression as far more important than any solution or conclusion about what to do with any of these feelings.
This feature of 70s cinema is not for everybody, of course, but gives them their distinctiveness, across differences of genres and budgets.
Interestingly, humor and comedy is one of the ways they accomplish this - in addition to unsparing episodes of intense melodrama.
Rather than seeing these two modes as mere opposites I will show how they interact with one another, through the powers given to actors and radical tonal shifts within given films and, most unusually inside of single scenes.
Examples I discuss include Taxi Driver, A Woman Under The Influence, Nashville, Between The Lines , The Conversation and more to be announced.
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Inside this special livestream with your host, Mitch Hampton, here:
Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me At The Fountain", the first major book on the history of the mall a phenomenon that had an outsized influence for the past sixty years and, a Lange, makes clear in her book is often misunderstood and a force for as much positive as negative.
Lange's advantages as a writer are that she wears both the hats of a cultural or social historian and in her professional life is a design critic so she is equally as knowledgeable about aesthetics in the history of design and architecture.
I learned more from reading this book than I ever thought possible and will share Lange's prose and ideas with the audience, including some additional discussion of such classics as Robert Venturi's "Learning From Las Vegas", Martha Coolidge's movie Valley Girl , Charles Jenck's What Is Post-Modernism and some surprises revealed on the lunch.
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More from Mitch on this special event!
“As Spring is associated with creativity in general, I thought it would be fitting to do a trio concert of all original compositions."
The music is Yves Klein Blues, the first movement of Hampton's Second Jazz Concerto - "Because After All One Must Begin" - The (Count) Basie Plus, and two others to be announced.
All the music was written in the past five years!
The trio features Justin Watt on drums and Zack Page on bass
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Rob Chalfen is one of the living connections to the history of Boston and Cambridge's countercultural performing arts scene.
I have had the opportunity to perform in at least two of his iconic venues over the decades but did not know in those years just how knowledgeable he was about the political economy of the arts, though I did know him as a serious jazz historian and scholar and recording collector.
Rob Chalfenis what at one time would be identified as a hippie from the 60s and 70s, or as he would more accurately categorize it. "freak."
One of the things I have always appreciated about greater Boston is its attempt to combine political aspirations with aesthetics and Rob Chalfen has been in the thick of that over many decades.
I certainly learned a lot in this episode about Boston past and present.
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In this 2nd part of our ongoing series exploring the beauty and pathos of 1970's films, with your host Mitch Hampton! More on this series, here:In this, the second part of a 70s movie series, I will explore the most unusual editing style of 70s cinema.Many people think that 70s movies are unique for their slowness or long takes and the enormous attention paid to the actors on screen and, while all this is true, the uniqueness of 70s movies is that they use long takes in combination with very short, abrupt and jagged editing - often purposefully in violation of classical editing practice and without the usual preparations to prepare audiences for scene transitions. It is all these working together that give the films their visual and narrative style.One of the effects of this stylistic strategy is to create overall mystery in the films and an uncertainty in the viewer - qualities of mind that are actually closer to our daily lives, including our interior thoughts and feelings, than we often are often ready to admit.In psychological jargon, 70s movies are opposed to "closure". And unlike in films after the 1980s. the goal is not to show associational connection between one image and the next as in montage, nor to establish rhythm, but conversely, to create a cubistic and pluralistic vision of reality.Editors and films discussed will include Dede Allen, Suzanne Pettit and films like Night Moves, Girlfriends, Klute, some to be announced, and those of Nicholas Roeg. #films #Cinema #aesthetics #funkyfridayatfive
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Enjoy our recent "Book Lunch" livestream featuring Douglas Coupland's iconic "Generation X" !More on this special event from your host, Mitch Hampton:
"In this book lunch I go back to the novel that helped start the Gen X category, discuss Coupland's prose style and what it is like being in the generation that bears the name.
On this book lunch proud (but never flag waving) Gen X'er Mitch Hamptonreturns to the novel that started it all: Douglas Coupland's Generation X
While mainly discussing Coupland's invention with language and the overall "hangout" quality of I'd characters, he will also discuss more generally the often misunderstood and overlooked nature of the generation of which he is part."
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When first I was introduced to our guest it was courtesy of our producer.
At that time I was not acquainted with her work and career. Purvis is interesting in the theatre for a number of reasons, not the least of which is her equal proficiency in performance and direction as well as serious theoretical work, a breadth that is less common.
Her work in the theatre takes diversity most seriously as much more than a buzzword and some of her work consists in the translations and movements between and among different cultures from around the world, one example of which is the Chaepani intercultural performance project.
I found that we had an enormous amount in common intellectually and artistically and it was good to have conviviality with her on this episode.
Rosalie’s Bio
Rosalie Purvisholds a BA in Literature and Dance from Bard College and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Brooklyn College and a Phd in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University where her dissertation “Intimate Acts of Translation” focused on intercultural performance methods and translation and border studies in performance.
Since 2000, she has worked as a freelance director/performer in New York City where work has been featured at, among others, the Atlantic Theatre’s Second Stage, Theatre for the New City, the Brick Theatre, Dixon Place, the Estrogenius Festival, Teatro la Teo, the Culture Project, Teatro Circulo, 59 East 59, the Puerto Rican Traveling Company, Dance New Amsterdam, 78th Street Theatre Lab and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She also creates site specific works, globally.
Most recently, she joined a Kolkata-based performing arts collective and together they have performed at various national borders.
She has taught courses in performance, literature and writing most recently at Cornell University, Ithaca College, Presidency College (Kolkata) Jadavpur University (Kolkata), the City University of New York, Mercy College in the Bronx, Pace University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Marlboro College.
She is currently serving as Libra Assistant Professor of Theatre and English at the University of Maine.
Links to Rosalie’s beautiful work
https://www.rosalietpurvis.com/
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Thanks to everyone who came to our recent "Funky Friday at Five" livestream that was a first in a series all about the beauty of 70s arts, culture and film.
If you missed it, here it is and please share it with us!
You may not know your host, Mitch Hampton is a 70s scholar and currently working on a book about the decade! More on this stream, here:
Funky Friday @ 5: "70s Cinema Part 1, A new concept of beauty. My first foray into 70s cinema, t,v, and visual culture which I am currently writing a book about. #1970s #1970svintage #1970sfilm #author #AmWriting #podcast Journey of an Aesthete Podcast #filmcriticism
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In this book lunch I discuss Judy Blume's classic popular novel "Forever" with special attention focused on her special style of her prose and how this is in fact is what has most contributed to its popularity over so many years, more so than even the innately attractive subjects of love and sex.
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In a part two of a series started in January, this Funky Friday at Five continues your host, Mitch Hampton's discussion of the many styles of representing two characters in art with the example of Yasujirō Ozu - one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
More on this very special livestream event with podcast host Mitch Hampton, here: "In a part two of a series started in January, this Funky Friday at Five" continues the discussion of the many styles of representing two characters in art with the example of Yasujiro Ozu- one of the greatest filmmakers of the 2oth century.
Wonderful link to Criterion's collection of the films of Yasujiro Ozu: https://www.criterion.com/current/ posts/3836-the-sigmature-style-of-yasujiro-ozu
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Listeners, we are honored to feature our delightful talk with artist and comedian, Teresa Roberts Logan who shares with us her inspiring journey ! Inside this episode with host, Mitch Hampton: Teresa Roberts Logan is one of several guests who comes to our podcast courtesy of our producer, Laurie Strickland.
Initially I was most impressed with the artwork she did for our show ( pictured below) - what I feel to be an iconic man with the suitcase traveling the world of art humanity. What I later found out was her considerable career as a stand up comic ( link to a clip of her stand up here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wKWN5EWIk&t=6s).
I really relished hearing her stories of performing on the road and on television in the 80s and 90s. Teresa is somebody with lots of stores and lots of humor, some of which we were blessed to experience in this episode.
Teresa’s Bio:
Teresa Roberts Logan (aka The Laughing Redhead) is an award-winning standup comic and cartoonist who has appeared on HBO, The Comedy Channel, and A&E. She has toured clubs acrossthe U.S. and opened for Jerry Seinfeld and other famous people! As a cartoonist, she makes regular appearances at comics fests such as SPX, TCAF, and New York Comiccon. A Silver-Reuben-nominated cartoonist, Teresa has been doodling designs, and writing and drawing comics since she was a kid in Memphis, and did her first “Snobby Models” comic book (basically a bunch of models with their noses in the air, wearing funky paisley clothes.) In her early 20s, she landed in standup comedy from her job as a Hallmark artist/writer (she was dared by the Shoebox staff to do an open mic night), and has appeared on HBO, A&E, The Comedy Channel, and lists the finest clubs in the US on her resumé, from Zanies Chicago to Comedy Works Denver to Catch A Rising Star Vegas, and Gotham Comedy Club NYC. She has opened for Jerry Seinfeld, Ardal O’Hanlon, Maria Bamford, Ellen, and Paula Poundstone, among others. Taking the funny from page to stage and back again, her comics have been featured in The Center for Cartoon Studies’ nationally distributed “Cartoon Crier,” and her comics “Purty Funny” and “Noodlehead” chosen to be in Dirty Diamonds All-Girl Comics Anthologies most recent iterations. Her webcomic JESUS FREAK: LOSING MY RELIGION is ongoing, and its first volume is available in print.
She also loves painting on big canvases, and her work is in collections worldwide, including the extensive art collections of Kyoko Ono Cox and Whoopi Goldberg. Andrews McMeel Publishing (Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side) is her publisher, and she is on her third book with them, a coloring book full of Mandalas, following her first hit coloring book, “Posh Coloring Book: Paisleys for Fun & Relaxation,” and her book of cartoons, “The Older I Get, The Less I Care.” She is a regular exhibitor at New York ComicCon, TCAF, and SPX, where she sells her comics to pay for art supplies. Every two years, she takes a group of ne’er-do-wells onto the high seas, and conducts art journaling workshops, in between touring Mayan temples. She art directed a zombie movie in college, and loves zombies to this day.
She particularly loves travel, writing, drawing, being a mom, making things with pumpkins, and drinking wine, but not necessarily in that order.
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our evening of romantic piano music by our host, Mitch Hampton.
In case you missed it, please enjoy and share it with us!
More on the piano recital, here: In 1993, at the age of 25, Mitch Hampton made his first recording as a pianist. On that recording he composed and performed an original work for solo piano named Free Valentine, which was a variations on a famous song from Rogers and Hart.
Now at the age of 55, Mitch Hampton returns to that work and will perform some original and newer music, all of which can be considered "romantic" in the spirit of the Valentine season.
This will be the first time Mitch Hampton has performed solo piano in a concert style since 2017.
Link to Mitch's Music, here: https://mitchhampton.bandcamp.com
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"I always want to make a film that I feel like no one else is going to make." Andrew Bujalski
More on this special livestream interview from your host, Mitch Hampton:
There are so many wondrous things to say about our livestream guest Andrew Bujalski.
The first that comes to mind is how long I have known him.
Having met him on his first feature, the groundbreaking Funny HaHa wayback in 2002, no less, and been blessed to have my music as part of his score in his previous Support The Girls in 2018, I think it is a rare thing to watch a single and singular artist grow and evolve over such a length of time.
His newest feature, "There there", while not directly about the Covid Pandemic in plot, drew upon the Pandemic in its formal properties.
In "There there" he essentially created a new way of filming characters as well as environment: no two actors are in the same location and the photographic technology scanned great geographical distances.
"There, there" is a dense, humanistic work about human relationships and love, at once a critical document of our current moment and a continuation of the themes that have most concerned Andrew over the entire 00s to today, including some sweetness and heart alongside the struggles of his characters. I can think of no better decision by Magnolia than to release it on this Valentines Day.
It was a treat to speak in depth with Andrew as we discussed many things - all in keeping with the overall artistic and cultural interests of our podcast.
Andrew Buljalski's Biography
Andrew Bujalski was born in Boston in 1977 and studied film at Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
He wrote and directed the films FUNNY HA HA (2002), MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2005).
His first films all appeared on the New York Times’s “Best of the Year” lists.
Bujalski wrote both screenplays, and appears as an actor, playing a major role in both films. BEESWAX (2009) and COMPUTER CHESS (2013), Bujalski's third and fourth independent films, were filmed in Austin, where the director lives now.
COMPUTER CHESS is a period film set at a computer programming tournament in 1980, premiered at the Sundance FF and won the Alfred Sloan Feature Film Prize.
His film RESULTS (2015), premiered at Sundance FF. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (2018) had its world premiere at SXSW and will be released by Magnolia Pictures.
More about his new film "There, there":
A lover's doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies--counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters--every one looking to have a little faith rewarded.
Link to watch Andrew's Film, "There there":
https://www.magpictures.com/therethere/
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We discussed Wulf's new book on the birth of Romanticism in Jena and how this cultural, artistic and intellectual revolution made much of our world today.
More on this special livestream event:
Join your host, Mitch Hampton for his first “Book Lunch” of 2023, Wednesday the 25th on our show Facebook page! We welcome your thoughts and comments during the stream.
More on this special event here:
“This particular book lunch will be a moderately deep dive into Andrea Wulf's most important and wonderfully written “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and The invention Of The Self ” from this year.”
More about her work, here:
https://www.andreawulf.com
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Listeners, thank you so very much for joining us for our "FUNKY FRIDAY AT FIVE" featuring your host, Mitch Hampton!
We had such a great time with our livestream audience and hope you will share this with us.
More on Mitch Hampton's art talk, here:
On this Funky Friday Mitch discussed the varieties of stylistic expressions using examples from stage, screen, and more!
funkyfridayatfive #arttalk #podcast #podcasting #humanities #ArtsandHumanities #unity #creativity
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Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton
My very first familiarity with Todd Berliner comes from a single book: his book on 70s movies, “Hollywood Incoherent”.
Although my incentive to read this was partly due to ongoing research for my own book, there were many things I found intriguing about Berliner's book.
Only gradually over time did I begin to realize that my commonality with him was wider than interest in 1970s cinema: we also tended to look at movies and, most generally art, in very similar ways - ways we were fortunate to get into in this episode.
Like all my favorite scholars Berliner gets "inside" of what he discusses, rather than distract us with relatively irrelevant or unimportant material.
I enjoyed talking movies with him during this episode and it certainly brought me back to the days when I was around "haunts" like the Brattle, Film Forum, Coolidge Corner, or even the days of Cinema 5 and 16!
I hope the audience enjoys listening to this episode as much as we did creating it.
Professor Berliner’s Bio
Todd Berliner, Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, teaches film style, storytelling, and aesthetics and American film history. He is the author of Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2017), Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2010), and many articles and book chapters.
He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image in 2010 and currently serves as a board member.
Professor Berliner was the founding chairman of UNCW’s Film Studies Department and the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar awards, including the Laszlo Orszagh Distinguished Chair in American Studies.
He holds a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Links to Todd's beautiful work:
http://people.uncw.edu/berlinert/
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Enjoy Mitch Hampton's recent "Funky Friday at Five" Part 3 of his special music series.
He discusses writing for larger ensembles as well as the development of his solo piano "hard listening".
Link:https://youtube.com/watch?v=1S60hCAReiM… #musician #composer #composerlife #jazz #piano
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“The Madame B and Mitch Hampton Morning Holiday Show!”
More on this bonus stream, from your host, Mitch Hampton, here:
“An opportunity for a livestream episode with Madam B will be an occasion for many possibilities for discussion, including her deep knowledge of culinary matters, living in France and our shared interest in arts and culture.”
Madame B’s You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@heybichette543
Madame B’s Recent Podcast Episode with Mitch:
https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/episodes/The-Madame-B-Talks-e13dc6c/a-a5vufa0
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“The Madame B and Mitch Hampton Morning Holiday Show!”
More on this bonus stream, from your host, Mitch Hampton, here:
“An opportunity for a livestream episode with Madam B will be an occasion for many possibilities for discussion, including her deep knowledge of culinary matters, living in France and our shared interest in arts and culture.”
Madame B’s You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@heybichette543
Madame B’s Recent Podcast Episode with Mitch:
https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/episodes/The-Madame-B-Talks-e13dc6c/a-a5vufa0
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Hello listeners, thanks to everyone who joined us last night for our holiday concert featuring the Mitch Hampton Trio!
In case you missed,here it is, please enjoy and share it with us!
concert #jazztrio Mitch Hampton #mitchhamptontrio #piano #music #holidaymusic #holidayseason #Christmas#christmas2022 Interlochen Alumni
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Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton
“Interlochen Arts Academy at times appears to me to be a vast ocean whose streams extend quite far into my current life. Not only have many of its alumni been guests on this podcast, like Dmitri Matheney,Quinn Lemley, and Coleman Reaboi, but but many of its alumni also possess excellent networking skills that have enabled episodes to be fully realized.
In this case it was Jaques Wickham Davis who was in my graduation class and connected me with our current guest Emily Bracale.
I am happy Jacques did this because I discovered two beautiful works of art in the process.
Had I only known Emily by her high school major, I would have thought her main career would have been as a clarinetist!
Yet she has two illustrated books on the subjects of healing and grief that are important in their respective fields.
One common theme on our podcast is that at times guests have had more than a single career and are accomplished in more than a single medium.
Bracale is no exception to this principle.
I was very impressed with her books and was only too happy that she spoke candidly about her own health and history and even spiritual beliefs.
I feel her books would be helpful and meaningful to many in our audience and I hope you enjoy listening to our episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!
Emily’s Biography:
Emily Bracale is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and College of the Atlantic, with a B.A. in Human Ecology.
Her visual arts training began in early childhood from a clan of three generations of women artists and art teachers.
She has taught and supported the creativity of thousands of students from preschool through the college level, in private and public schools, summer camps, and independently.
She has held many solo art exhibits with an educational twist, most notably cultural travel sketches and paintings in “Visions of the World” and the “Lyme-Light” collection.
Many of her watercolor landscapes and seascapes are in private collections in the US and abroad.
She lives with her family in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Links to Emily’s beautiful works:
http://www.inthelyme-light.com
https://www.ourlastsixmonthsbook.com
https://www.visitacadia.com
https://www.facebook.com/paintyourownmainememories
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Hi listeners,
In case you missed it, here is your host, Mitch Hampton's recent "Funky Friday at Five!
More on the stream, here:
This is the second episode in which I discuss both my musical journal, some unusual qualities of my upbringing and education and how my interest in all of the arts informs my music.
composing #piano #pianolessons #pianoteacher #mitchhampton #funkyfridayatfive #podcast
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In this November "Book Lunch" I take the deep dive into Don Delillo's 1985 novel about an American academic midwestern family, societal unrest, consumerism and much more. Mitch dove deep into the pages and heart of this text, while also exploring the upcoming film adaptation!
More on this special livestream event, here:
Although it is a novel from the 1980s, Don Delillo's “White Noise” not only remains my favorite novel by him - yes even more even more than his “Underworld”, “Falling Man” and “Cosmopolis” - but will soon be a major film on Netflix, directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Adam Driver,Don Cheadle and Greta Gerwig!
Moreover it is still one of the greatest of contemporary novels and my book lunch will be a celebration and deep dive into it."
Link to the film: https://www.netflix.com/title/81317320
WhiteNoise #books #literature #filmadaptations #WhiteNoise #BookLunch
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Inside this Episode with your host,Mitch Hampton
Our current guestTanyaLoveBuddha comes courtesy from our producer Laurie Strickland.
Coming from our principle of equality, just as writer might read form their writing, musicals might perform music and painters show what they have painted, I thought it most appropriate to actually show in real time what someone with the gifts of Tanya does when she performs a Tarot reading.
While being in no way an expert on the nature of her art, I was more than happy for this opportunity to be able to observe a tarot reading.
As for the content of what she says about your host, there won't be any spoilers: as the flow of the episode is the best way to experience all that Tanya has to offer.
More About Tanya:
Tanya is an intuitive empath, natural-born seer, modern-day mystic, wayshower, and soul coach.
She has spent decades developing her natural abilities, delving deep into the esoteric world, psychology, and the understanding of humans and the human condition.
Tanya is a bridge between worlds, she has the unique ability to see truth and core issues effortlessly. She uses her finely tuned senses, vast knowledge of the metaphysical world, many psychic and storytelling skills, humor, experience, and deep compassion to guide, deliver insights and teach.
Her work has been described as shamanic as she is gifted with the innate ability to transform and transmute those who connect with her, yet she prefers to see herself as simply being of service.
She is often referred to as ‘the real deal’ and delivers spiritual guidance and soul medicine in a very grounded modern-day way.
Links to Tanya’s beautiful works and to book work with her:
Website: www.tanyalovebuddha.com
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TanyaLovebuddhatarot
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tanya_lovebuddha/?hl=en
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Listeners, in case you missed our recent “Funky Friday at Five” livestream series that featured your host, Mitch Hampton as he shares his journey as a professional composer and pianist.
In this, the first part of a series on music, Mitch discusses the beginnings of his life in music with some digressions on other arts and experiences.
More on this special livestream series, here:
More on this livestream event, here:
“In what will be an ongoing series of special music related Funky Fridays, your host, Mitch Hampton reflects on the unusual circumstances of his childhood and youth in both music education and musical appreciation and how all of his experiences continue to inform and inspire the very way he composes his own music today as well as his approach to the piano.”
podcast #piano #steinwaypiano #steinwayandsons #steinway #funkyfridayatfive #newenglandconservatoryofmusic
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Listeners, in case you missed it here is your host, Mitch Hampton's birthday concert for you to enjoy as bonus content!
You may not know Mitch is a concert pianist as well as a podcast host. He has scored films as well as, composed and performed all over the globe.
Mitch and his world renown trio play some standards from Cole Porter as well as, some newly composed music.
Thanks to all who came out and to the trio for so much wonderful music!
coleporter #music #jazztrio #podcast #concert #livemusicmusic
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Listeners in case you missed our pop up livestream stream with the amazing, multi faceted performer, Michelle Alexander, here it is!
We thank Michelle for stopping by the studio, playing some music and sharing about her journey as an artist! We always love adding bonus content for you all whenever we can.
More on this pop up livestream from host, Mitch Hampton: "This very brief popup livestream is the occasion of my meeting old friend and New England Conservatory classmate Michelle Alexander after close to twenty years.
I thought it might be fun to talk a little and record it for my podcast. Michelle Alexander like me is a pianist and we compare notes on our different journey in art and music."
art #music #journies #podcast @necmusic Journey of an Aesthete Podcast
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Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton
"As I say a lot when introducing guests on our show, there are some guests whom I have never had the opportunity to meet, only knowing them from their accomplishments in the public world.
Our guest Anna Shapiro is someone who I not only knew have known personally for almost two decades but she and I actually dated in the early 00s!
I have had the good fortune then to see both her her work evolve over a long stretch of time.
Like all the best artists Anna Shapiro is hard to encompass in a few words in a context like this. Straddling the worlds of sculpture, paint and performance, above all, her work is about the materials of life, how those materials sustain, benefit, and complicate our lives and the aesthetics of it all.
If I think about it, i can't think of any artist who can better represent the spirit of our podcast. An environmentalist, a feminist, Anna Shapiro also has worked as a park ranger, something about which I had no knowledge until this episode!
As always, one of the best things about this show is how each guest is always surprising and inspiring.
Anna’s Bio
Anna Shapiro is an artist and catalyst. She incorporates metal, textiles and other everyday materials into her sculptures. The work she makes connects social and ecological issues that have been important to her since her early employment as a wilderness guide and National Park Ranger.
Anna has received awards and residencies in Vermont, New York, Brazil and Latvia, and has spoken on panels about iron casting in relationship to five-element Chinese medicine and about eco-feminism.
She has published intermittently about these subjects.
Anna is known as the “wavelady” for her interactive performances “making waves”.
She loves molten metal, and has taught welding and iron casting at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI. Anna has also catalyzed many creative industries in Boston and Rhode Island including art spaces, festivals, alternative grocery stores and mobile hydroponic gardens.
Her studio is in Providence RI.
Links to Anna’s beautiful works
Website: annashapiro.com
Blog: wavelady.com
Instagram: @w.a.v.e.l.a.d.y
All the links and more information is on this post on my blog: http://wavelady.blogspot.com/2022/05/little-prompts.html
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Enjoy our October “Book Lunch”, as we welcome special guest author and public intellectual Azar Nafisiback to our show to discuss her new book Read Dangerously!
More on this episode from Mitch’s notebook
“While I do love to speak freely and spontaneously on a book that has become close to my heart or seems central to our collective lives in a moment or "snapshot" (as I would formulate it), there is simply nothing as powerful and valuable as being able to communicate with the author of the book in question in the moment.
This was nowhere more forcefully brought home than being able to have a conversation withAzar Nafision her book “Reading Dangerously”.
Not only is her book possibly one of the most important in our current moment it is also concerns our universal humanity as she expressed so eloquently during our conversation.
This is Azar Nafisi's second visit to our show and I always feel blessed when she is on our show as in a very real sense she represents the spirit of our podcast.
As you will hear she certainly knows her literature but many subjects came up into course of our show - issues of literature, philosophy as well as politics. I certainly hope you will celebrate her book with us as it one we will surely enjoy reading long into the future as much as we will now.”
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Listeners, in case you missed it, here is our recent wonderful livestream art talk, "Funky Friday at 5" featuring your host, Mitch Hampton.
Mitch talks with us about artistic legacy and the artists who help shape us and our arts & culture.
More on this special livestream, here:
"On Ancestry and Influence"
The recent passing of pianist Ramsey Lewis and French film giant Jean Luc Godard, two favorites, puts Mitch Hampton in a reflective mood about how artistic practice is always indebted to the many ancestors who have come before so that something can be created for the now and into the future.
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Thanks to everyone who came to our recent "Book Lunch" on Friday September 9th, featuring Louis Menand's "The Free World".
In case you missed it, here it is for you to enjoy and share with us!
bobdylan #jacksonpollack #newcriticism #structuralism #coldwar #sovietunion #american #vietnam #elvispresley #jamesbaldwin #susansontag #hannaharendt #thebeatles #georgemartin #lioneltrilling #unesco #rolandbarthes #jojhnlennon #familyofman 4pulitzerprize #williamfaulkner #themetaphysicalclub #americanstudies #williamjames #newyorker #johndewey #charlessanderspeirce #oliverwendellhomesjr #pragmatism #unitedstates #nationalhumanitiewsmedal #barackobama #nationalendowmentforthehumanities #NEH #harvardlawschool #columbiauniversity #1950s #1960s #20thcentury #GeorgeKeenan #MartinLutherKingJr
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton
“As I will never tire of expressing, one of the many goals of this podcast is to feature guests who have had different lives and careers than your host.
Although I have always been intensely interested in men's fashion and menswear and our guest Frank La Mendola started out as, among other things, a fashion illustrator, his particular journey involved becoming both a designer of accessories for women, notably handbags as well as the world of food culture and catering in his capacities as a baker and chef.
These are worlds that are most interesting to me and with which I have had little involvement.
I loved hearing his stories on this episode, in particular the relatable way in which he talks about his many careers.
He is both a tireless, hard worker, and yet never loses humility and a positive outlook, qualities which we were fortunate to feature on this episode.
As he said on this episode, he has had many lifetimes in this one and I certainly enjoyed hearing about some of those on this episode.”
Frank's BioFrank La Mendolais a designer, artist and culinary arts instructor.
A native to New Jersey, and an avid designer, gardener, and cook; thanks to a lifelong passion for art, nature, and food!
After studying fashion and design, Frank spent over three decades designing handbags in New York City, where I resided for several years, while traveling the globe for business.
A few years ago, after moving back to New Jersey, Frank decided to follow his other passions which are gardening, cooking and baking, and then began teaching Culinary Arts at a private all girls’ high school in Northern New Jersey.
Sharing behind the scenes and how to instruction for everything that takes place in the kitchen and garden, allows me to create content for Celebrate 365, which is the perfect mix and use of my professional background as an artist, designer and teacher.
Whether I'm growing vegetables or trying out new recipes, sharing these experiences with family, friends and followers, is incredibly satisfying... and why I started blogging.
Links to Frank’s many beautiful works:
- Website: https://www.365celebrate.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/franklamendola/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@frank_lamendola
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/365celebrate
- You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0WTbzQg7TeP0KWkYqZ5fQ
- Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklamendola/
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Thank you to everyone who joined us last night, to all the musicians and our tech team!
In case you missed it, here was our concert and we hope you enjoy the music.
Your podcast host, Mitch Hampton is also professional concert pianist and composer, having scored many films with a prolific music career, so we share this as some bonus content!
jazz #music #concert #livemusic Mitch Hampton
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Hello listeners!
In case you missed it, here is our wonderful talk with the spectacular #EddieAbreau!
We cannot thank him enough for joining us on our recent "Funky Friday at 5", to speak about his activism for autistic and neurodivergence.
It was extra special for us as our host, Mitch Hampton was recently made aware of his own neurodivergence and they both explore in this talk, how creativity has inspired them forward in their journeys.
It was a truly joyful talk and Eddie is an absolute inspiration to us all. We hope he will be back again soon!
More about this very special event from your neurodivergent host, Mitch Hampton, here:
“I believe I first became aware of Eddie Abreu on the recommendation of one of our guests Stephanie Persephone.
I am most glad she put in touch with one another.
I was first of all impressed with his style of dress which makes him already a soul brother of sorts.
Only later did I realize his contributions to activism for autistic and neurodivergence more generally as well as his work as a tutor.
He is also highly erudite.
Even though we have not yet met in person and both have deep connections to New York City, one of the features of our Internet Age is that people can meet in all sorts of ways.
I very look forward to learning much from him and our conversation for the Funky Friday.”
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"I have been reading Wendy Steinersince the publication of her 1996 book The Scandal Of Pleasure.
Imagine my astonishment that I actually got to speak with her on this podcast after so many years.
If I had to describe Wendy Steiner'scontribution in arts and letters I would discuss her first as one of the very best public intellectuals.In her case, one who writes books for a general readership on the subjects closest to my heart. For her art and beauty are essential and very real things in the world, never abstractions or options that come after necessities.
The ways she weaves examples into her prose from both popular and non- commercial works and, above all, HOW she writes of them - with great erudition and wisdom - seems to me so rare in today's world.
And I look forward to her next book on beauty - even if I must wait a year.
Only recently did I discover that she is a part of the world of opera in writing librettos.I have been learning from her for decades and I hope you can feel my enthusiasm at being able to discuss my favorite subjects in the world with her in this dream come true episode."
Bio:
Wendy Steineris the author or editor of fourteen books on aesthetics and cultural criticism, including The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (NY Times “100 Best Books of 1996”); Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001); and The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010). At the University of Pennsylvania, she was the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum (now the Wolf Center). A Guggenheim, ACLS, Bellagio, and NEH Fellow, Steiner received a NYSCA Individual Artist’s Grant for her photography-opera-hologram installation in the 2022 Venice Biennale, Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images (composer, Frances White).
For the 2019 Biennale, Steiner co-designed Traces on the Farther Side (with Andrew Lucia), a “digital visualization” of an earlier composition by White. Steiner is the librettist of four operas with composer Paul Richards, two of which premiere in 2022: Mondo Novo, in the Vienna Summer Music Festival; and A Braided Light, commissioned by White Snake Projects in Boston.
Steiner lives in New York, where she is at work on a new book, “The Beauty of Choice: Aesthetics and the Agency of Women.”
Links to Wendy’s beautiful works:
Website: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~wsteiner/
Links to Wendy's Books:
https://www.amazon.com/Wendy-Steiner/e/B000APVXBA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
A recent webinar about Wendy’s Venice Biennale project,
Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrplK6Zkgk
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Enjoy our recent "Book Lunch" featuring Kei Hiruta's masterpiece, “ Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity”.
Share it with us, leave a comment and thanks for being the best part of our show!
More on this “Book Lunch” from your host, Mitch Hampton
“Looked at as two individuals, both Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt are, objectively speaking, two of the greatest thinkers in twentieth century thought.
Both were Jews who fled the two dominant totalitarian regime of the 20th century- Berlin fleeing Soviet Russia as a child to become a major figure in British political philosophy, Arendt fleeing Nazi Germany as a young woman to become a leading thinker in the United States.
Berlin single handedly developed the most influential idea of values pluralism in the middle of the 20th century.
Likewise, Hannah Arendt was a scholar who analyzed both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, helping clarify and solidify contemporary understandings of totalitarianism. And both were much more than these: Berlin had roots in Oxford philosophy and wrote on a wide array of topics, from Russia history to Machiavelli.
Hannah Arendt developed original ideas about what democracy actually means.
In Kei Hirta's one of a kind book, "Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity", it is revealed that these two figures were at odds during their lifetimes.
Though Berlin outright hated Hannah Arendt and Arendt more or less ignored and/or was aloof towards Berlin, this strained relationship is much more than an historical curiosity or gossip, but rather raises profound issues that continue today - issues concerning styles of philosophic thought, for example European versus Anglo-American, and beliefs about statecraft and public and private life.
Hirtua explores all of these issues in ways that taught me an enormous amount and will prove to be of lasting important in non-fiction on ideas and the history of political thought in the contemporary period."
Related Links: https://aias.au.dk/aias-fellows/kei-hiruta/ https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-kei- hiruta
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In case you missed it, enjoy our recent Funky Friday at 5 art talk, featuring special guest, Quinn Lemley!
More about the livestream here:
“There can be no doubt that the heat was on this past July 8th at 5 when we are joined by triple threat singer, dancer and actor Quinn Lemley, star of Rita Hayworth The Heat Is On!, Secrets of Broadway, From Burlesque to Broadway and much more.”
More about Quinn’s beautiful work, here: https://quinnlemley.com https://www.facebook.com/officialquinnlemley/videos/400471748691191
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Listeners!
Today we celebrate with you SEASON 4 of our show!
We are SO grateful to you all for being on the journey with us and we are so excited to share what we have planned for this season.
In case you missed our celebratory livestream today featuring your podcast host, Mitch Hampton, here it is , full of surprises and a lively discussion about the arts, 1970s' ( Mitch is a 70's scholar) and Season 4 of our show.
Please listen, subscribe, share and leave a comment!
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Every guest on our show is wholly unique.
In the case of Blake Gopnikhe might be most well known for a definitive and conprehensive biography of Andy Warhol.But one of the many things that goes into making such a good biography, of course is the learning, dedication and research of the author.Nowhere is this more than case than with Blake Gopnik.
He is so well versed in so many aspects of the arts and art history, in particular the category of fine arts, that at times I had to work to catch up with him.
That is the kind of thing we like to do on our podcast and I hope that whether you are longtime Warhol fan, novice or skeptic, and whatever your relationship to fine art, that you will enjoy this episode as much as we did concocting it.”
Blake Gopnik’s Biography
Blake Gopnik, Warhol, my comprehensive biography of the Pop artist, was published by Ecco at HarperCollins in 2020. I’ve been the staff art critic at the Globe and Mail, the Washington Postand Newsweekand am now a regular contributor to the New York Times.
I got my PhD in art history from Oxford University.
Links to Blake Gopnik’s Work
BlakeGopnik.comWarholiana.comPublisher’s page for Blake’s Warhol book (and its free endnotes) at HarperCollins.com/Warhol
Links to Blake's SocialsTwitter: @BlakeGopnikInstagram:@Blake_Gopnik, Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/blake.gopnik
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We were so honored to have had as our guest for our recent May 31st "Book Lunch", featuring author Laurie Verchomin. We discussed her poetic and classic memoir, "The Big Love: Life And Death With Bill Evans", which in my view one of the best jazz books to have come out in a long time, in part for the individual uniqueness of the author's perspective.
We also discussed her spiritual journey and her artistic progress. I also wrote an original piano piece to thank Laurie called "Verchomin's Buddha Nature".
It was so special to have her on and we know you will love it !
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"In case you missed it, please enjoy our recent "Funky Friday at Five" art talk with artist Alexandra Carter, as we deep dive discuss the brilliant film, "The Lost Daughter" by brilliant director, Maggie Gyllenhaal. A little more about the livestream, here: On this particular Funky Friday at 5 , special guest Alexandra Carter and I take the deepest dive into Maggie Gyllenhaal's remarkable film "The Lost Daughter" on Netflix, in my view one of the best films from last year. Of course we are likely to discuss other things as well which we will leave to the spontaneity of the moment."
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Enjoy a May Bonus Pop Up Livestream Art Talk just for you! We deep dive into creativity, inspiration and how the arts unite us!
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One of the most unfortunate developments in the post internet age is the loss of town and local newspapers.
Our guest Andy Heintz is a veteran of that era.
One of the many advantages of localized journalism is what I personally was trained to report as first order of business back when I was a journalist in the 80s and 90s: the "big five" of who, what, where, how and why.
You start from basic facts about a school board, the water table, farm food production, the weather, elections and so on. After that you can interpret as much as you like, but there had to be a consensus concerning facts.
Our guest Andy Heintz learned the art of this type of reporting in the American Midwest. And like other reporters, he is still very much with us, even if this or that newspaper is not - making me hopeful that this necessary function in society can be rejuvenated.
Heintzis also a political activist and a drug counselor and I hope the fact that we got into all of these subjects will help the audience feel invigorated as to the function of basic journalism as well as whatever interpretations they will realize once in command of basic facts.
Close regular audiences of our podcast should realize that I don't love politics as a field as much as I do some other things yet it remains an indispensable, even relentless fact itself of all of our daily lives.
Andy's Bio
Andy Heintz is a freelance writer who covers human rights, democracy, women's rights, environmental issues, labor rights and cultural issues.
He is the author of Dissidents of the International Left.
His work has been published in progressive media outlets in the United States, South America, England India, Pakistan, Syria, France and Australia.
He his work has been featured in The Progressive, NACLA, Foreign Policy in Focus, New Politics, New Internationalist, CounterVortex, News International in Pakistan, Tikkun, The New Arab, Balkan Witness, Secularism is a Women's Issue and Democracy in Africa
Links to Andy’s beautiful works:
New Internationalist articles and biography
Foreign Policy in Focus articles
NACLA
Progressive column
Tikkun
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We loved seeing you all last week for our recent "Book Lunch" that featured #NathalieLeger's wonderful book, "A Suite for Barbara Loden".
In case you missed it, here it is for you all to enjoy!
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Hi everyone! Thank you all for coming to our recent "#FunkyFridayatFive" last week. We had a wonderful turn out and in case you missed it, here is your host Mitch Hampton discussing all things art and life long learning! New England Conservatory #music #jazz #composing #humanities #podcasts #audible #anchorfm #film #theatre #philosophy #filmtheory #filmarchives #spirituality #jazz #composition #literature #poetry #soundart #soundtracks #playwrighting #theatre #arts #travel #augustwilson #legacy #writing #philisophy #artsbroadcasting #books #audiobooks #creativity #artists #folkart #artisans #creation #spiritual
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Hello listeners!
We have a special bonus episode for you, a recent concert by your host, Mitch Hampton and his Trio.
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The reason for Aryeh Cohen-Wade’s presence on our show is at least twofold. I fell into being a regular listener to his show Culturally Determined which for at least a year was a show on the bloggingheads site. I am always, as an aesthete, and some other identities as well looking for culture that reflects or at least is congenial to my sensibility. The usually young guests he would have on did discuss politics a lot but always appeared to do so from an awareness of aesthetics. Then there is Aryeh's approach to interviewing which always knowledgable and culturally connected to the guests but which had a bit of self effacing shyness which I find to be the most welcome approach in our particular moment. He is respectful of his guests and his attitude always seems to draw out the guests in ways that would never be possible were he to be slick, aggressive or wear his considerable learning on the sleeve. I sensed he had a strong literary background, in particular one memorable episode with a Philip Roth biographer, and it turns out that he did - which to me is far more important a criteria for a show in which politics often comes up than, say, a political science degree. The world of the internet and social media being what it is, I reached out to him and was only too happy to do this episode. In keeping with a consistent theme on our show both "high and low" things are discussed from popular movies to more obscure books. His show gives me immense hope for the future: that literary values will continue to have a place, while at the same time in communication with things most popular and trending. I hope not only that you enjoy our episode but to gain Aryeh Cohen-Wade many more listeners. Aryeh Cohen-Wade’s Bio An editor, podcaster, and writer with over a decade of experience in digital media. He hosts the podcast "Culturally Determined," and his writing has been published in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Examiner. He is adept at writing and editing for the web, print, newsletters, and social media. Social Links to Aryeh Cohen-Wade’s Works Culturally Determined on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culturally-determined/id981282353 Personal website: https://aryehcw.wordpress.com/ Link’d In You Tube Twitter Spotify
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I first met our current guest,Alexandra Carter,when she was 19 years old and an intern in a place in Boston called the Mills Gallery.
That period of my life was interesting for a couple of reasons - both of which are related to this podcast.
For one I was becoming intensely interested in contemporary visual and installation art at that time because I was starting to see a spiritual connection between the different art mediums.
For another I also stared hanging out with and seeking the company of actors, filmmakers, performance artists and sculptors too, even doing piano performances in visual art settings like galleries in addition to the normal bars, restaurants, and clubs.
(The theme of the connections between all of the arts of course is a dominant one in this very podcast).
As a result of this shift in my consciousness I purposely sought out the company of artists who were not necessarily musicians, in particular what we would call the "fine arts".
At that time I was aware of Alexandra's interest in painting but little did I know what would emerge from her talent and hard work some fifteen years later.
One of the things I most admire about her work is her steadfast commitment to the figural and representational.
Though it is quite abstract in various ways, the human figure and story is very much present in her work.
I also like very much how her work grows directly out of her own personal experience and biography and appears to foreground these in a fearless and expressive way.
I very much enjoyed this episode.
It was an opportunity to discuss certain aesthetic matters I don't always get a chance to discuss and to do so in a relaxed and welcome environment.
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did creating it.”
Artist’s Statement:
My work is an exploration of the psyche in the form of painting and drawing influenced by print media, collage, and performance.
While riffing on themes of gender, fairytale, and masquerade, I play with the relationship between control and catharsis, visualizing the body coming out of itself, exposing not only one’s guts but one’s internal state--one’s emotions, one’s craziness--in a way that can seem both pleasurable and painful. I draw from my personal background (especially my origins on a cranberry farm in New England) as well as literature, mythology, dance, and costume.
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Website:https://www.alexandra-carter.com/
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Hi folks,
In case you missed it, here is our first, "Book Lunch"!
More on the new series from Mitch:
"In this, I believe my very fist “Book Lunch”, I discuss the door stop sized biography of Andy Warhol (just under 1000 pages!) by art critic and journalist Blake Gopnik.
I will have some additional comments on the hit Netflix series based on the Warhol Diaries as were edited by Pat Hackett.
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On this Funky Friday at 5, which we feature every month on ourshow Facebook page here:https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast
Your host, Mitch Hampton , talked with returning guest Tyler Bejoian on his newest album, The Bullfrog's Lamentation by Tyler & the Names!
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I believe it was Jon Jost, our very first guest on this podcast who first put me in touch with Beth Levin.
I am most happy he did because Levin is an ideal guest if you want to hear about the world of the piano as instrument and classical music more generally.
Many decades ago - in the middle 1980s to be exact - I was exciting a period in which I was strictly trained in what is called the Classical field and decisively entering the jazz and popular field.
I learned so much through my classical training and, though part of me did love it, my greatest wish and dream was to do original music rather than that written boy others - even if those others were the best composers of all time.
A major theme in this podcast is that of artistic choice and every artist needs to decide what choice best reflects who they are. I feel that in having Beth Levin on the show, as corny or highfalutin as the following might sound, is a something like a living link to the world of Beethoven - and much more.
Beth Levin is that good and also that deeply rooted in that particular musical tradition. I can't think of a more exciting or pleasing episode for your your pianist-host and my only hope is that our enthusiasm for the piano is communicated thoroughly as you listen to our episode.
Bio
Brooklyn-based pianist Beth Levin is celebrated as a bold interpreter of challenging works, from the Romantic canon to leading modernist composers.
The New York Times praised her “fire and originality,” while The New Yorker called her playing “revelatory.” Fanfare described Levin’s artistry as “fierce in its power,” with “a huge range of colors.”
Debuting as a child prodigy with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age twelve, Levin was subsequently taught and guided by legendary pianists such as Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Sure and Dorothy Taubman. Another of her teachers, Paul Badura- Skoda, praised Levin as “a pianist of rare qualities and the highest professional caliber.” Her deep well of experience allows an intuitive connection to the great pianistic traditions, to Bach, to Mozart, to Beethoven.
Critics hail the immediacy of her performances. “Levin plays with a rare percussive audacity, making notes and phrases that usually rush by in the background stand out in high relief,” writes Richard Brody in The New Yorker.
Website: https://www.bethlevinpiano.com/ Social Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ beth.levin.music/ Link’d In: linkedin.com/in/beth- levin-30909332 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ bethlevinpiano/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/op109
Links to Beth’s beautiful piano works: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7phxpwTfe2OtH043hJ4nfO https://soundcloud.com/bethlevin1/ravel-gaspard-de-la-nuit- no1-ondine https://soundcloud.com/wkcr/beth-levin-on-wkcr https://soundcloud.com/bethlevin1/dante-sonata https://open.spotify.com/artist/7phxpwTfe2OtH043hJ4nfO Excellent article about Marian Filar by Mark AInley of the Piano FIles: https://www.thepianofiles.com/the-magnificent-marian- filar/ Beethoven 3rd concerto of mine/ 2017, Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awd_h_XwFos
Links to Beth’s written works: Over the years I've written articles for: lafolia.com https://www.lafolia.com/a-look-at-schuberts-sechs- moments-musicaux-op-94-d780/ https://www.lafolia.com/?s=beth+levin **** https://soundcloud.com/bethlevin1/dante-sonata
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This particular episode started, as so many of our episodes do, with a particular work of art or singular human instance of the aesthetic.
The work in question happens to be a photograph that Deborah Turbeville took for Vogue Magazine in 1975. Indeed I was so taken with it enough to acquire one signed by Turbeville.
A couple of years later, as I find myself with a podcast, I had many ideas as to one or more episodes connected with that photograph.
Perhaps a show on Deborah Turbeville, on modeling itself?
It seemed that a single photograph opened up more than I could have realized when first I discovered Turbeville's work.
I want to say that this is entirely in keeping with the nature of the artistic expression in all of its forms.
It is utterly mysterious and things that seem on first blush or glance to be quite remote and disconnected only later, upon deepest examination to be as connected as to form a symbiotic unity.
It could be a single photograph as much as a singular life.
Sunny Redmond, our extraordinary guest on this particular episode, appears have so many experiences within this single and singular lifetime.
Here was me wanting to discuss modeling, and the 70s and fashion and glamour and it turns out upon a little research that we would have to also discuss Hopi culture, traditional healing, the Grand Canyon and much more.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love the eloquence and directness of Sunny's discussion of her remarkable life. It seems rare to me for one person to have done all that she has.
I can hear her voice most likely saying to me now that "it was the most natural thing in the world" and I am glad that it is.
I was only too happy that she created the time and space to be on our show and I hope the listener might be inspired too to take a look at this thing we, for lack of a better word, call spirituality.”
For the arts and spirit are intimately connected and Sunny Redmond knows a lot about both.
Links to Sunny’s beautiful works:
Website: https://sunnyredmond.wordpress.com
Article: https://sunnyredmond.wordpress.com https://www.taosnews.com/la-vida/sunny-redmonds- wholistic-approach-to-healing/article_67ff17a0- bd7c-5f7a-8d58-9bd369505de7.html
Bio: For an extended look at Sunny's biography & journey, please visit her website & our show Facebook page:
"I assist individuals seeking their essential self. By reading the energy bodies and assessing where energy is held resulting in symptoms, the body gives me a map to proceed. With sensitivity, experience and technique I support the restoring innate wholeness and ease. The Mastery level work is long lasting, non-invasive and life altering in a deeply missed and longed for way. My truest connection to spirit is through serving exquisitely and humbly with respect. 25 years of experience, wise counsel with a Specialty in Trauma."
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“Robert Pippin is one of the precious few thinkers, writers and teachers who stands out in the worlds of philosophy and the humanities for his devotion and attention to the arts most broadly construed.
While others in his field might want to write on Hegel alone (about whom Pippin writes better anybody - see his Hegel's Prac- tical Philosophy - for but one example) Pippin has been pro- lific in writing on some of the major arts and artists of our modern and contem- porary periods, including Hollywood Westerns, Proust, Henry James, Douglas Sirk , crime and Film Noir movies, Coatzee novels, and paintings from all periods and eras.
Even better it was revealed to me that he is deep in the footage of a book on the great Robert Bresson.
In short, he writes on a lot of things and on those things very well.
I must admit that my initial familiarity with him was back in the 1990s and due to my ongoing intense interest in Hegel, a philosophy who is experiencing a resurgence of interest at the moment, and even though I take Hegel to be for all ages and who though found to be difficult (an adjective that itself came up more than once in our episode) by many people I feel to be simply indispensable in the "canon" of the great philosophers.
I found Robert Pippin to be in general very open and helpful in clarifying what can often be miscon- strued as obscure in certain quarters.
Like the episodes with Elizabeth Anderson and George Kateb, this is one of those episodes where I was able to go into the weeds al little more than is usual and indulge my love for philosophy.
I can only hope that some of this love is infectious and is as interesting for the listener as it was for us to conduct the episode.”
Links:
Website: voices.uchicago.edu/rbp1
Books: https:// press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/P/R/ au5252783.html
Bio
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He is the author of several books on modern German philosophy, including Kant’s Theory of Form; Hegel’s Ideal- is: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; Hegel’s Practical Philosophy; After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philoso- phy of Pictorial Modernism, and Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic; a book on philosophy and literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life; and five books on film.
His last two books are Filmed Thought: Cinema as Re- flective Form, and Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts, both published by University of Chicago Press.
He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, and of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.
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“I could never fail to marvel at guests like our current one in February Anastasia Rose.
Like some or many of our guests she exhibits enormous talent and ability not only in more than one endeavor but seems to do so while possessed of integrity, an engaging temperament, and thus an ideal guest for our podcast as well as inspiration to others.Like me she is both a musician and neurodivergent but quite unlike me she has chosen to do everything in music from playing wind instruments, teaching and leading band, playing guitar as a singer-songwriter, playing in a punk band all in addition to being a pianist (and I am sure some other things I can't think of at the moment).
Moreover, she is also a music therapist and has her own business helping people of the most diverse psychological needs and backgrounds.
I feel something of her spirit, in its commitment to her practice and eclecticism in styles, bodes well for our future more generally and I certainly enjoyed hearing her discuss her journey.”
Bio
NURODIVERGENT, MUSICIAN, POET, ARTIST & MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE
Originally hailing from Texas, Anastasia Rose has found a new home in the greater Denver metropolitan area. Her music combines multiple genres to encompass a nostalgic yet nouveau style with influence from Florence + The Machine, Elliott Smith, Death Cab For Cutie, Regina Spektor, and Ingrid Michaelson. Anastasia recently released her first solo single, Cosmic Love, a three song album which was written, performed, and produced by her.
From a young age, Anastasia took to music performance, composition, and education in a virtuosically natural fashion. She was singing before she was talking and playing the piano before she knew how to make friends. Music was always there for her and thus it was bound to become her passion and career as an adult.She is the CEO and primary therapist for Creative Remedies, LLC -- a therapy and lesson business aiming to offer therapeutic music experiences and education to all who seek it across the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, neurology, socioeconomic class, religion, and more. Anastasia's music career is eclectic.
She has performed with ensembles such as the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps and Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps which showcased and competed in front of upwards of 20,000 people at venues like the Lucas Oil Stadium (home of the Indianapolis Colts), Sports Authority Field (home of the Denver Broncos), and MetLife Stadium (home of the New York Giants and New York Jets).
Anastasia has also performed for various venues and festivals around the Denver metro area such as Herman's Hideaway, Your Mom's House, the People's Fair, Swallow Hill Music, and the Broomfield Summer Concert Series. She has also been part of ensembles that have opened for artists and bands across genres such as Emma Back, Younger Than Neil, and Write Minded.
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Links: Performance/composer side: https://anastasiarosemusic.com
Therapist/music teacher side: https://www.creativeremediesllc.com
Sampling of her new tracks: https://anastasiarosemusic.com/music
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“ I came upon the guests in this particular episode, Reza and Luke Nasserbakht of The Hop, custom shirt makers , in much the same way as I have come across people in my daily life: responding to my immediate environment in the moment with as little prior prejudice or planning as is possible. Much as I found our producer, Laurie Strickland simply by the ritual of getting a coffee in a coffee shop, Think Coffee to be exact, I was struck by a storefront on Elizabeth Street in Lower Manhattan.
The beauty and design of it which led me into that environment, couple of course with my open-minded curiosity as much as my love of beauty. At that time I had very few shirts bespoke, resorting mainly to made to measure and the very best ready to wear. If you fast forward to today in 2021 their business has changed location: they are in a much tonier address uptown on Madison Avenue in a vicinity of New York City known for the better menswear and custom tailoring more generally. To me, of course it is very much the same family, and the very best level of craft and, dare I say, art. I thought it would be interesting given that my physical body has changed, like so many around the world at this time, to start from scratch and with a single shirt, to offer one simple example of what someone like Reza does and to include this episode as part of a larger series on clothing which inaugurated with Avery Lucas.
I recorded some short audio interviews with both the father and his son Luke at their new space in Manhattan. The other thing that was clear to me is the validity of my snapshot theory of art applies here too. One thing that should be immediately clear concerning this particular episode is the extraordinary steadfastness and commitment to quality of craft, both over the longest period of time, as well as the greatest expanse of global geography. I met this family at a certain period of time and location of the years 2010 and 2011. Yet from their point of view what matters most is the very real progress involved in their move uptown.
There is a palpable sense of pride in this move as best reflecting what they are all about. In a sense that is their current "snapshot." And we see two opposites: on the one hand there is the sometimes great changes in the cut or silhouette of clothing in popular fashions seem to sweep the decisions of everybody, both in the initial construction of all clothing as well as the habits of those who will wear it.
Yet on the other hand we see the absolute consistency of both measurements which are objective as well as quality of craft which always applies, no matter the garment in question, and how this commitment to such quality is passed on though generations and eras so that it can be enjoyed in the world, notwithstanding the vagaries of where any of us happen to find ourselves.
For me what Reza and his son practice is as important as anything in art and culture."
Reza, Luke and The Hop's Bio
A FAMILY CUSTOM
OUR FAMILY HAS BEEN MAKING CUSTOM SHIRTS FOR OVER 100 YEARS. WE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE SHIRTS FROM OUR FATHER WHO LEARNED HOW TO MAKE SHIRTS FROM HIS FATHER. IN OUR FAMILY, WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF EXPERTLY CRAFTED GOODS. IN QUALITY OVER SPEED. OUR SHIRTS ARE MADE WITH THE FINEST QUALITY MATERIALS AND AN EXPERIENCED HAND.
Links to Reza & The Hop’s beautiful work
Website: https://thehopnyc.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehopny
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ thehopnyc/
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This particular episode is unlike any of the previous ones to date as far as I am aware.
Of course every guest is unique and special but what stands our on this one is the response of the host - me. Lou Beach cracks me up so much and you can certainly hear more laughter coming from me than is usual on this podcast.
I am talking rolling, falling off a chair laughter. (Which I almost did a couple of times).
Of course part of this is the good sense of humor and charm of Lou Beach , elements that certainly make their way into his work. I should add that it is very hard to get me to laugh out loud at anything, an admittedly sore spot of my many friends and acquaintances who like to kid around and tell jokes.
I first became aware of him through record album covers, first the Liquid Love album from Freddie Hubbard and then the great Weather Report album covers (also on Columbia) in the 70s.
Only later did I realize there was so much more to Lou Beach.
As I have said before on other occasions and I believe during our conversation on this episode, I don't really believe in or abide by the ordinary boundaries and demarcations of styles of art. For me these physically reproduced popular album covers are as valid and valuable as the un-reproduced fine oil paintings.
Of course the meaning and intention is very different but the qualities I admire in Lou Beach's work - the radical whimsy, fearlessness, graphic surfeit of color, and the juxtaposition of disparate pop emblems and figures - are qualities that you can only really get with his style and the world of illustration itself.
Collage too is till very valid; I often have though of the spirit and impulse of collage, though it does date as far back as the Germany of the 1920s, to be always relevant and in its own way most realistic.
The content and figures in it are ones that are all a part of our daily lives, for better and for worse. Beach's work too, like the politically oriented ones in that Germany of the 20s, has a most serious dimension along side the popular and he is one of those few visual artists whose work refuses to be coy and always to be remembered. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
Links to Lou's Beautiful Works : loubeach.com
Lou Beach's Bio: For the extended version of Lou's Bio, visit our show Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast
Lou Beach (né Andrzej Jerzy Lubicz-Ledwochowski) was born in Göttingen, Germany in 1947, the son of Polish parents displaced by the Second World War.
The family emigrated to Rochester, NY in 1951 where Lou attended public schools and junior college. He travelled to California in 1968 where he began his artistic career by making assemblage art and studying the Surrealists, visiting galleries and museums, and creating collages from pictures cut from old Life magazines. He worked during this time in bookstores, as a delivery man, moved furniture, and ran a punch press and forklift. A road trip across country, ostensibly to travel on to Europe from the East Coast, brought him to Boston where he lived from 1972 until 1979, much of the time as the sexton at the famous Arlington St. Church.
There he created collages in earnest and had his first one man show at the newly established Boston Center For The Arts, as well as being hired for several illustration assignments.
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“As I have said probably too many times in these posts our guests include people I have met personally and those whom I have never met not really only the artworks that are their creations in the widest sense of both art and creation.
I knew Skip Elsheimer because he was a man that traveled with 16 millimeter cans of ephemeral type movies to do live shows of such material. Back in the early 00s I attended some of midnight shows in Boston and a whole history of filmmaking was opened up to me.
Thanks to Skip this was really my first time seeing these type of movies in so concentrated and certainly curated fashion. Like a lot of us, of course some of these films had seen as a child in schools since educational films are a large portion of these films. But it encompasses much more: movies made by churches and religious groups, educational television and movies made by manufacturing corporations, NASA, government agencies even bureaucratic safety files.
Skip is one of the experts on such material.
Not only does he collect them and share his treasures with the world, he does so in both the most articulate and engaging a fashion with an enthusiasm that is infectious as well as integrity and civility, these last two features in short supply these days in too much of our culture.
Much like my own definition of art itself - which aims to call into question the boundaries between works made for mere utility, or entertainment as well as those made for the most idiosyncratic and self expressive of reasons - Skip's project gets us to look at the films he has collected in a genuinely original way, in an historical and, I would add, aesthetic way.
When we see one of these films from 1972 or 1952 we are seeing aspects of our history. Some of this material is best described as dubious, especially political, business and corporate and government propaganda. Other material has legitimate artistic value. Still other material is interesting as an historical aesthetic document of how people lived appeared and even dressed in a particular moment. To me all of it is most interesting but I am also aware that not everybody might get as excited as do I by these films.
Whether you are a fan or not of this incredibly large part of film history, Skip is among its most eloquent and informed spokespeople and as such it was a joy for me to have him as guest on our show.
During this episode Skip and I have discussion of one film in particular: Malakapalakadoo, Skip Two.
Like its title, which I can't seem to pronounce, it is to me anyway the strangest thing ever committed to film or video, though that is one man's opinion.
It was made for children evidently and by Encyclopedia Britannica, no less. Skip's wife dislikes it; I love it.
But that is in the nature of artistic evaluation."
Links to Skip's beautiful work:
Website: https://avgeeks.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV78nuSmJxTtHaD4wnzPJkA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AVGeeks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_mrBMLxKQ&t=214s
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“I am sure it would come as little surprise to know that of all the variety of musical styles the one that has had the most influence on my own musicianship is what has gone by the name of jazz. Still, even within the majestic mansion that is African-American classical and popular music there are so many rooms and hallways.
One of the most important is the contribution of Latin and Afro-Cuban and Brazilian musicianship, particularly in the art of percussion.
Our guest in this episode, Frank Colon is one of the leading masters in this field. I know him more for his stint in the Tania Maria band since I have been an avid fan of her starting in the 1980s. I suppose you could say that when I watched her perform I hadn't the slightest notion that I would one day have any kind of show where I could discuss the life and career of any of the musicians with whom she has worked. Back then there were no podcasts.
So it was with great delight that Frank Colonresponded to a message I left on one of his videos on his channel.
It is a mysterious thing really why any of us in music gravitate towards the music we love.
On this episode you will hear me asking about a lot of pianists who might not be household names or famous, like the late, great Jorge Dalto, Frank Colonhas played with these and many more.
I think from time to time it is good to mention these cats. Who knows; maybe they and their music will find more or newer listeners in the future?
But the love of the music is the important thing and, additionally like many guests on our show, Frank Colon is multi talented in seemingly depart fields, even becoming a master at martial arts.
Someone so multi talented and accomplished makes, of course, for a most exciting episode and I hope you enjoy hearing about his journey as much as we enjoyed exploring it in this episode.”
Frank's Bio:
Frank Colón’s music will move your body and soothe your soul. His sophisticated, hot, and soulful music raises consciousness, brings people together, and promotes peace!
Frank is a specialist in Latin-Caribbean, Brazilian, and Asian percussion instruments, including congas, bongos, timbales, bata drums, shekere, cuica, berimbau, and tabla drums, among others.
The Frank Colón Bandconsists of (1) a Quartet (piano/keyboards, bass, drums, percussion) or (2) Quintet (piano/keyboards, bass, sax/trumpet, drums, percussion) performing songs from his CDs.
Frank is also available for motivational percussion clinics as well as recording work.
Links to Frank’s beautiful work:
www.frankcolonpercussion.com
https://youtu.be/S0inko59oTw
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“I feel that our podcast might be unusual, perhaps even fairly original, in our inclusive attitude and sensibility.
It is easy enough to understand that a painting, a television show, a comedy show, and a record album are works of art, not identical with the reality of daily life: they are, in a most useful word, representational.
Yet at the same time in language about culture we often say there is art to matters or practices which are part of daily, real life, where art has an evaluative and not merely descriptive connotation.
In a phrase we say there is an art to a practice when it is done well, and "artful" is often an adjective of praise.
This particular episode concerns the art of therapy.
Our guest Nancy Loeb is unique in at least a couple of ways.
One of those ways is that she engages in conversation or talk with another human being, the goal of which is to transform their lives for the better.
The other way she is unique is in her commitment to helping those who have suffered the most harm in our society.
Psychotherapy occupies a most interesting place in society: it addresses itself to our consciousness as human beings in a rather direct manner and regular listeners to our podcast and readers of our blog know that my main criteria for the understanding of art itself is that it is all about consciousness.
Looked at in this way, having a guest on our show who is a most valued and valuable therapist might actually have a spiritual connection to the guests on our show who are the painters and the poets, whether this connection is otherwise acknowledged or not.
I love many things about this particular episode; one thing that stands out to me above all are the stories, the histories of her patients, and also her sharp clarity in articulating those stories in a relatable manner for our listeners as well as honoring each of them as unique human beings.
This is very important: it is one thing to commit yourself to helping those in the kind of troubles discussed on this episode,
That alone seems to me remarkable and worthy of attention and praise.
It is just as valuable that Nancy Loeb can fluently describe them as well as she does, both respecting their privacy, of course, but also their individuality and their truth.
One of my goals as a human being, even more than as host of this podcast, is to always become a better listener.
I certainly appreciate that Loeb shared her experiences with her patients with us; it is a real gift and I feel it is completely in keeping with the spirit of our podcast which is always reflecting upon what it is to be human.”
Links to Nancy’s beautiful work:
Website:https://mapsatlanta.com/our-clinicians
Run for the Rose Foundation
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“The first and perhaps major reason that Avery Lucas is one of our guests is that I love clothes and I've loved them for the longest time, at least since I was a teenager.
Writing this now at the age of fifty-three I had a rather short window of time during which I was able to order a few bespoke clothes.
Although our guest was unfortunately not a man who made any of those bespoke clothes, his name was first on the list for an experimental series on tailoring and the art of clothes making. (And as Lucas himself emphasizes it is most certainly an art, and, from my vantage point one of the highest of the arts).
Although I have not experienced the "bespoke" route with Lucas I did have closest contact with him in the 1990s:
I regularly shopped at Saint Laurie then, right at the time he was a chief designer and tailor there!
Although I was not able to order bespoke at that time I was always conscious of his greatest style sense and would admire what he was doing as I purchase quite good garments from other sections of that wonderful store.
His spirit certainly presided there.
He is one of the very few clothiers who has been both a designer as well as cutter and tailor.
Many clothes sellers in menswear, although they may be quite knowledgeable and authorities of a sort on menswear, themselves do not know clothes from the inside out; there are some who cannot sew or cut paper patterns for example. Avery Lucas can and does.
Also his taste level is unparalleled, as he is one of a generation from the 70s and 80s with the wealth of experience that one can only get from several decades in the business.
Also he speaks like a poet; that is, he is a great orator and raconteur, which, after all, is most important for a podcast.
I loved hearing his passion about his life's work on our show and he expresses that passion well for the wides variety of listeners.
Whether anybody plans to to ever wear his kind of clothes or not, it is abundantly clear from this episode that Lucas talks about his craft in ways remarkably similar to what fiction writer, journalist sculptor, painter or filmmaker would have to say about what they do.
I hope you enjoy this one as much as we did.”
Links to Avery’s Beautiful Work
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mobydic.56/
https://www.instagram.com/quarter_to_nine/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/avery.lucas.332
Avery Lucas, a master tailor, and master of the art of dressing. Some highlights include The TV show Empire Boardwalk was an outstanding awards winner for five years, he crafted the clothes for Steve Buscemi and his character Nicky Thompson in the show as well as, Malcom X, Mo Better Blues and more.
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"The presence of Stevo Bortz on our show can be traced more or less directly to my love of jazz music as well as big band typed music.
Over the years I have been able to listen to his plentiful uploads of the Hank Levy Towson State University Ensemble; this is most interesting to me for more than one reason. Firstly, Hank Levy wrote all of these charts, some fo which I would not be able to hear as there aren't always public documents of many of the compositions.
Is is true there are famous ones from Levy, most notably the chart Whiplash which was made into a famous movie of the same name and which serves as one of the central compositions played by the protagonist of that film. And of course Hank Levy had written for the Stan Kenton and Don Ellis bands in the 70s as well as many others.
But Hank Levy presided over this department in Baltimore for several decades and they made these recordings. Because of Stevo Bortz I could hear these college ensembles play some, in my view, gorgeous music, as well as enjoy the 1970s artwork and photos that would invariably accompany the physical documents of these recordings.
For me though the main things was the sound of these uploads. They sounded good in the way that older vinyl material can often so sound.
Yet in a very real sense this question of audio is but one part of Stevo's project.
As Stevo made so eloquently clear on our episode, his interest is in sound preservation of course, but also preserving history more generally - in his phrase, the underrepresented.
This of course doesn't necessarily involve professional music; it also can involve family histories, high school archives, local bands and much more. I have to say that what I love most about Stevo as a guest is the way he articulates his enthusiasm for his project. Hearing him speak made for more than one inner Amen from your host in response to some of what he said.
I certainly hope you feel his enthusiasm and possibly look at past, present, future in a whole new way."
Stevo’s Bio, Links to his beautiful work, organizations he loves:
The SterArt Recording Legacy locations are as follows:
Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/c/SterArtRecordingLegacy
The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@themustardking
For me personally, just a link to my podcast website would be enough (if you include it, please make sure it is notated as being Not Safe For Work , and by Not Safe For Work I mean literally there will be swear words and inappropriate content within the first few lines of the website.
Steno’s PodcastFriday Night Fanfiction https://www.fridaynightfanfiction.com
Organizations dear to Stevo:
As for organizations dear to me, I guess the two that come immediately to mind would be The Internet Archive , which is always in need of people uploading relevant material, donations for storage space, and volunteers for helping archive history.
The Internet Archive: https://archive.org
I am also a huge advocate for early literacy programs, especially for the underprivileged, so Page Ahead Children's Literacy Program is very dear to me.http://www.pageahead.org
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"I am not able to introduce properly our guest Elizabeth Anderson without first being candid about my love for a certain kind of philosophizing and I don't mean "popular" philosophy" but the rather unpopular work that is ensconced in the academy. Indeed had I not gone into music and artistic practice more generally I most would surely have loved or ended up with some kind of career in an academic discipline like philosophy save for one reservation I had: what I perceived as the stifling politics and necessary socialization of such an environment.
Such was my interest in the field that I read an obscure Ph D thesis by our current guest before she became as well known as she is today:Value In Ethics And Economics, way back in 1993.
I don't think there were many pianists/composers who read that book back then but then again I have always had the most eclectic of tastes, as well as ranges of interests, something that I have found to be most helpful in our podcast.
A few decades since, Elizabeth Anderson has not been content to be a scholar but has become a prominent public intellectual, and in my view, one of the very best. She writes on issues that affect so many of us in society, from integration to the ethics and conditions of our workplaces.
Much like our episode with George Ketab , I really enjoy episodes like these where I can put all of my reading and education to some use and go into the weeds a little bit which for me is a way of relaxing in fact.
Anderson studied with one of the greatest thinkers in the twentieth century, John Rawls, and some of his influence of course is present. Yet Anderson is a unique and independent thinker, appearing to follow wherever the evidence leads. Given my love of the quotidian of course I am partial to her pragmatic attention to daily life and what it feels like as well as her considerable vision for a better future, that she thinks completely with in the realm of human possibility.
My wish is that the listener gets as much enjoyment from our discussion as we did engaging in it."
Professor Anderon's Bio
Professor Elizabeth Anderson specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. She is particularly interested in exploring the interactions of social science with moral and political theory, how we learn to improve our value judgments, the epistemic functions of emotions and democratic deliberation, and issues of race, gender, and equality.
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Deb/Madame B statement:
I am an American who left America. (Frankly that will probably be the most interesting thing about me to most of your listeners). I am
a teacher
a pastry chef
a cat lover
a FOREVER Chicage girl and Bob Newhart lover.
Links to Madame B:
@madame.b.in.paris
Inside the Episode with Mitch
"The connections between any two individuals are ultimately matters of mystery and should remain so.
By that I of course do not mean that we shouldn't have basic facts of how people meet and know others; I mean that the bonds and relations among people have a specialness that can never be reduced to a single source, cause or purpose.
I mean I could give very linear facts some of which are made clear on this particular episode.
That I knew filmmaker Anna Biller who in turn happened to know one Madame B.
Of the guests I have known on the show I believe this might be one of the only few I have only met online and long distance. Sometimes one fact about a person - in the case the love for Bob Newhart - can go an awfully long way.
And with any shared interest it has to be the right shared interest.
But in all seriousness, this guest is absolutely brilliant in more than one sense.
She has sometime close to an absolute understanding of aesthetics as well as, in ways I had not originally known in human psychology a field she briefly considered making a full profession.
She had on more than one occasion asked me why I am always the host.
Also that I should have a regular advice column on the podcast, "Ask A Dandy", an idea that, though interesting doesn't exactly work for now since this isn't a fashion or lifestyle podcast at all.
So instead we came up with this.
I thought it would be fun to do half hour episodes and link them; on each we would take turns being the guest and host respectively.
Even though I have traveled the world myself, but mostly in the 1990s, not so much in the past twenty years I must say, I am always in awe with those who seem to travel with freedom, one reason I loved having Smriti Shankar as one of our guests.
I think moving from one apartment to another in the same city is a trauma and an ordeal, from one state to another more intense and still haven't gotten over that as it was only over two years ago.
Deb of course moved to France.
Sometimes I think she has more wisdom than most. In Madame B's case she moved to France and married a Frenchman, and not only that had already lived in Germany for a period!
She is someone who is clearly not afraid to travel.
I think it is important, especially in a rather youthful genre like the podcast, to break it up once in a while, not only for variety, but also that humans need different forms what each unique form can deliver or do.
I enjoyed speaking with Deb; her high intelligence makes for world class conversation and I think it might be nice for a return engagement at a later date."
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“Anything humans make of an artistic nature has to be literally brought into some kind of physical existence. Even if it is a lone person talking outside there has to be some kind of preparation of sorts, both the internal preparation of the one speaking, as well as how the physical setting is to be negotiated, the question of audience, if that is to be planned at all, the start and stop times of the speaking and so on. Interestingly we are very well aware of this when it comes to life outside the arts, the most prosaic or necessary things in life like housing or buildings in general. I believe we lose sight of this fact when its comes to the arts.
That is, we tend to regard the arts as magically falling out of the sky and not a humanly made thing in the world like anything else, and one of the many missions of our podcast is to bring such matters into focus.
I think Jaimee Wriston makes a wonderful representative of this principle, both because she has come out with a brand new novel, with a new publisher and we could discuss one of the most important aspects of being artist: getting a particular work out there. She also is so very articulate about such matters and that is important. It has been most interesting to follow the work of one particular writer like Jaimee Wriston.
When first I encountered her novel Shark Girls on a long Amtrak ride alongside the Easter regional in a sleeper car I certainly had no idea about ever having a podcast or having its author on an episode. I am thankful for this opportunity and hope you enjoy hearing her discuss this aspect of being a writer in the world as much as you do reading her.”
Jaimee’s Bio,links to her beautiful worksJaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of seven books of fiction: How Not to Drown (2021), Vanishing Acts, Wild Things, Shark Girls, Dream Lives of Butterflies, Climbing the God Tree, and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile. Her books won the 2021 and 2018 International Book Awards, CNY 2017 Fiction Award, Willa Cather Fiction Prize, Zephyr Prize, IPPY Gold Medal, Ian MacMillan Fiction Award, and more. Her stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, and many other venues. She is a recipient of the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and delivered the 2020-2021 Harpur Dean’s Distinguished Lecture. Originally from Hawaii, she lives in upstate New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton University. When you reference How Not to Drown in any promo, this is a good way to introduce it: Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in General Fiction! My website link: www.jaimeewristoncolbert.com New novel links: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653401/how-not-to-drown-by-jaimee-wriston/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1643855573?tag=randohouseinc7986-20 It’s available at a large number of online venues but I don’t want to “drown" you in links—the Penguin-Random House link has tabs for a bunch of others, and of course Amazon….
My other Books (Amazon Links): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1604890444/ref=cm_sw_su_dp Shark Girls https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Acts-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1944388257 Vanishing Acts https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Things-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1943491054 Wild Things https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Butterflies-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert/dp/1886157596/ref=pd_lpo_2?pd_rd_i=1886157596&psc=1 Dream Lives of Butterflies Two interviews about How Not to Drown, one in Hypertext Magazine the other on a premier website for eco-fiction: Sirens & Selkies – An Interview with Jaimee Wriston about her new book, How Not to Drown. Anita Gill, Hypertext Magazine. May 2021. https://www.hypertextmag.com/sirens-and-selkies-an-in
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"From the outset of our episode with Ellen Burstyn you will hear her beloved puppy make their presence known and would continue to "chime in" a couple of times for the duration. In many respects this was more welcome than not, if only because it is in the very nature of the podcast form itself to be at least partially intimate and homey. In a podcast you get to experience a person discuss their accomplishments but they will do so often in settings that are more relaxed or casual than would be the case in a traditional t.v. talk show or radio spot.
I like to think that is one of the beautiful features of the podcast as a form
Ellen Burstyn might be one of the most famous guests we have ever had on our show.
That fact alone, however, might not be nearly as remarkable as the further fact that in her case the fame is completely deserved.
In her case fame and recognition form a one-to-one perfect match with merit.
Burstyn, of course, is one of the greatest actors and, as I explain probably a little too profusely in the episode, I have had the greatest fortune to watch her performances over many decades, in some cases in live theatre.
I can't or won't be able to do a summary of Ellen Burstyn in the space here except to say that, in keeping with the in depth nature of the podcast I had the opportunity to ask her about some of my personal favorite performances that have meant a lot to me over the years.
Of course another host might have done a more comprehensive or less personal episode - one that focuses less on certain movies and plays or on some other facets of an extraordinary biography. I like to think that our ability to have taken the time to go into individual projects might be more rewarding than to hastily gloss over such projects.
As I admitted at the outset of this interview, I was very nervous.
But hopefully over the course of the hour you can listen to someone who is a master at the art of acting and hear her articulation of her ongoing life and career with all of the excitement and enjoyment I had in being so blessed and fortunate to have Ms. Burstyn as a guest."
Ms. Burstyn's Biography
Ellen Burstyn's sixty year acting career encompasses film, stage and television. In 1975, she became the third woman in history to win both a Tony Award and an Academy Award in the same year for her work in Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in the film Alice Doesn't Live H as a guest.for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Award for Best Actress. She became a “triple crown winner” when she received her first Emmy for a guest appearance on Law & Order: SVU (2009). She won her second Emmy for her role in Political Animals (2013). Additionally, she has received six Emmy nominations and five Academy Award nominations, including her nomination for Best Actress in The Exorcist (1973). Her most recent films include Pieces of a Woman (2021) and Queen Bees (2021). Her past work includes The Last Picture Show (1971), Resurrection (1981) and Requiem for a Dream (2000). She most recently starred in 33 Variations in Melbourne. Ellen is currently co-president of the Actors Studio alongside Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin. In 2006, she became a national best-selling author with the publication of her memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself.
Links to Ms. Busrstyn's stunning body of work: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/
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"Robin Mahaffey comes to as guest courtesy of our producer, Laurie Strickland.
I must say that every time Laurie has recommended someone she knows personally for a guest, whether Kerry Lilly or Joey Romer, it has turned out to be a most memorable episode experience.
Robin is no exception.
Also, like some of our other guests, she has lived several lives, artistically and otherwise.
I was in awe of Robin, not only her many accomplishments but also in her attitude towards life itself.
She has made dolls and sculptures can knit and sew all sorts of creations, has been a seamstress and even worked in an assembly line for General Motors.
Her work is no stranger to whimsy - one of the pieces was inspired by Shel Silverstein - and she has used her artwork to help others in her community.
As I said to her she is one of those artists uniquely gifted in creating visually within physical space, and most importantly, being able to see how to create with their own hands for that space, something I have observed to be essential in certain kinds of visual artwork and is little remarked upon or even taken for granted by many.
Of course at our podcast we make note of this feature and I can't think of any better representative of this gift than our guest.”
Robin’s Biography
People often ask me where I get my ideas.
I have no real answer for that- they just seem to pop up in my head. Sometimes they come to me in a dream, or in the shower. Never any rhyme or reason, ideas just have their own minds, and come to visit when they feel like it. The key is to be aware of when and how they visit- and- to pay attention. I keep note pads everywhere- so when an idea does show up-I need to be able to write it down- or, it quickly leaves my brain- and goes to live in never-never land.
I grew up in Delaware in the sixties on a small farm. My grandparents had 100 acres and gave my parents 1 acre on which my father and mother built the house I shared with a sister and two brothers.
It was a wonderful childhood.
There was an adjoining farm of 100 acres I was allowed to play on, so my playground consisted of 200 acres of pasture woods, a croc, and ponies.
Ah….. The ponies.
My grandmother put me up on the first ( which was actually a mule) when I was two.
I was smitten by the horse bug- and have been addicted ever since.I rode almost every day- and when I wasn’t riding horses- I was reading about horses- or braiding binder twine into leads, halters, and harnesses for them. When I was inducted into the honor society in school- I received a special award ( a box of quaker oats) for reading every book in the library that had a horse in it.
Growing up on a farm made me be resilient.
I learned how to amuse myself, make do with what I had, and to be creative with my surroundings and materials available.
My grandmother and mother made most of my clothes. They usually had some type of hand work going on at all times- knitting, crochet, rug working. It seemed very natural to be able to create things with my hands. This is a skill I have honed for many years.
It is just an inherent part of my makeup, rooted in my DNA. I usually have many different projects going on simultaneously. That way if I hit a snag on one, I hop over to another. When I least expect it, as in the shower, or 3am- the answer to fixing the snag shows up. Sometimes those pesky little ideas have their own mind-and show up hone they are good and ready.
One of my favorite sayings I live by and share with others is, is “Sit up straight and pay attention”.
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“Of course there are many learnings that are little else but a mechanical skill, and in such cases there may well be a best way. But to become a different person because of something you have learned - to appropriate an insight, a concept, a vision, so that your world is altered - that is a different matter. For that to happen you need a reason. And this is the metaphysical problem I speak of.” Neil Postman
" It is a rare thing to encounter somebody with the character and spirit of our guest Dr. Michael Bennett.
This episode occurs at a time when society has never been more obsessed with the question of education and what it is for. Bennett came recommended by our producer Laurie Strickland.
Like some of our other guests he has had more than a single career in one lifetime; listening to him speak felt as if he were also recounting more than one life- time!
Bennett loves teaching high school as much I believe as any teacher possibly could.
He also has a scholarly side as he is working on his dissertation.
Now I must confess I could easily listen to him discuss his sales career with as much interest as when he is discussing teaching high school English and if you think about it, the fact that he had a rich, working life prior to becoming his calling, a teacher, might be one of the reasons why he is a good teacher.
One of the main themes I took from our fascinating episode (Bennett is one of those great talkers who you never want to shut up, admittedly rarer than the alternative) is the impor- tance of passion in a human life and identity in the special sense he appears to use that word. I don't want to say too much in these notes because I really don't want to spoil the effect of him telling his own story which, as I am sure he would say, is what education is all about.”
Mike’s Bio
“It’s a known fact that we don’t get to choose the circumstances of our birth.
Born a long time ago, Dr. Bennett grew up in a home that was full of darkness and resentment. As the years passed, Dr. Bennett escaped into the pages of lit- erature. While he thought it was escaping his reality, in fact, the escape was the beginning of his journey.
After a stint as a Combat Medic in the Army, Dr. Bennett went to school, earned his first degree, and join the treadmill of corporate America.
After selling his soul for too many years, he walked away from the wealth and the expense account to enter the classroom and embrace what Dr. Bennett calls, “the voice.”
Along the way, Dr. Bennett has earned four more degrees and taught in a variety of settings. He’s married, enjoys travel, ultramarathons, cycling, kayaking, and of course, reading.
Links to Michael’s beautiful body of work:
Dr. Michael Bennett Ed.D , Allatoona High School Honors 9th Literature & Honors British Literature, AHS Travel Coordinator JV Girls’ Soccer Coach
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Vocational Identity: What Makes a Teacher and Why Do They Teach? A Qualitative Narrative Study https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcon- tent.cgi?article=1030&context=seceddoc_etd
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Colman Reaboi , like Dmitri Matheny, is one of the people I have known since my Interlochen High School days.
I am fifty-three now and since so much time has gone by it only makes sense that somebody of Colman's enormous talent and, above all, work ethic, would have done as many things with his abilities as he has as the decades have progressed.
When last I checked in with him I was mostly familiar with his singing. But when you think about the fact that he has had careers in both opera and popular musical theatre and has entered the world of synagogues and being a cantor, even though there is the common thread of the voice it seems like a remarkable range by any estimation. As he pointed out on our episode it is most hard for a vocalist to switch from opera to popular or "Broadway" styles as the techniques are so very different.
Even some fine vocalists in opera or classical never make the transition.
Colman is one who has.
And the fact that Colman's spiritual life has only grown as he has grown places Colman among the ranks of our multi-talented guests to be sure. As always on every one of our episodes, I learned things about Colman about which I had no knowledge whatsoever beforehand. It is one thing to encounter even someone you know, whether in passing or a scheduled meeting; a podcast episode is an other meeting entirely.
It makes possible far more than could be achieved in other settings.
This episode is no exception. I certainly hope you enjoy hearing what a world class vocalist, and much more, has to say as much as I enjoyed hearing him say it.
My episode with Colman was a beautiful occasion.”
Colman’s Bio Cantor Reaboi’s career has led him to serve three synagogues in Tampa Bay, Fla. In New England he served Temple Torat Yisrael in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Temple Tifereth Shalom in Peabody. Most recently, Cantor Reaboi served as cantor and educator for Emanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City. Cantor Reaboi is a professionally trained spiritual leader and singer who also has extensive experience performing concerts of classical, Broadway, and Jewish repertoire. “As a Spiritual Leader, I strive to help connect Jews to Judaism…through study, prayer, a shared history, or a newfound identity. Whether it is connecting spiritually or culturally, Judaism offers something for everyone,” said Cantor Reboi about his new home at Ahavas Achim. “
As a human being, I desire to create connections between myself and my new community…to help strengthen the bonds that connect G-d, the Jewish people, and others from outside of Judaism who wish to be included.
The Torah commands us to love the stranger in our midst.” Cantor Reaboi attended the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he majored in Vocal Performance and Opera. He is a graduate of Hebrew College in Newton, and of the Cantorial Internship program (CICA) of the Cantors Assembly. He is an alumnus and past soloist of the Zamir Chorale of Boston.
He was also a guest cantor for the Prague Jewish Community, where he conducted services, performed concerts, and lectured at the Prague Jewish Museum. More highlights about Cantor Reaboi: Spiritual Leader at Congregation Ahavas Achim, Westfield, MA and works at Jewish Chaplain at Westfield State University and Enrichment Instructor, 4th Grade Teacher, Holocaust studies teacher at Temple Shir Tikva A link to a wonderful story featuring Colman’s beautiful work with the community during Hanukkah 2020/Covid-19 : https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/hanukkah-celebration-continues-in-westfield/
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"My first encounter with Bruce Schulman was, of course, through his book on The Seventies.
This would have been in 2003, just a couple of years after September 11th in fact, and I think I first saw the book and was compelled to gaze at its cover on account of its title. I may have bought it at one of those mass market bookstores then in abundance at the time, possibly at a Barnes And No- ble. I bought the book and read it in its entirety in one night, an- nounced to the paper for which I was then writing, Organica (and of which there exist no digitally archived copies whatsoev- er, for all sorts of complicated reasons I won't get into here) that I was determined to find the man behind the box in person and do a story on him.
This wasn't difficult to do since I was living about a mile away from where he was teaching then at Boston University. I found him to be an unusually warm and open man, utterly without pretensions, and beautifully, more than once during the interview a student and then a student's parent stopped by to say him and tell him how inspirational his class was. I hope that his book continues to be the major text on the sub- ject of that era for the foreseeable future.
People often ask me why I am so interested in 1970s.
Part of it is my love for the underrepresented, the orphaned, and the, for lack of a better word, "unloved."
I am always drawn to that which society considers undramatic, which of course relates to my love of the quotidian. Now we are discussing perception here not facts.
Often something initially thought of as completely irrelevant or a waste of time emerges in hindsight to be the most important thing in the world: one era's costume/period drama is another era's kitchen sink drama". It continues to be the case that the 70s are sandwiched, like a middle child, hell like out entire "generation X" be- tween these other incredibly dramatic and huge in demo- graphic eras. I believe "the 60s" continues to be more popular an unreflective catch phrase far more than "the 70s".
I further believe that when you get past the 60s branding as "cool" or "revolutionary" you realize that not everything im- portant happened within its confines. People often say that not everything can be explained by a gen- eration or an era.
Of course that is true, but neither is it the case that generations or eras are unimportant. Since I look at the present with the eyes of Chuck Klosterman in his, in my view, master- piece of non-fiction, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking about the present as if it were the past, I see contempo- rary things with some critical distance and this makes me keenly at- tuned to how much of the contemporary is in a highly specific style unique to our age, and not ultimately better nor worse than earlier styles, but still a style all the same.
Style is that which you can't ignore and never shuts up.
Bruce Schulman is one of those innovative historians who regards popular culture and the arts as central to history, as im- portant if not more decisive than the actions of politicians. gras roots political campaigns or what generally gets counted in the history books.
Speaking to him was a delight from beginning to end and I hope you share in that enjoyment as you listen. “
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"Sanifu Hall never does things in a predictable way.
When last we met him it was in the very beginning stages of our podcast, in 2019, in fact. ( click to listen to that episode).
Since then he has composed a great body of music. Not only that, but he has assembled world class musicians who happen to be in his home base of Jacksonville, Florida , to perform it and, most of all, a gem of a recording studio in which to record it.
And he has told me he is going to go to California for a reunion of sort with Henry The Skipper Franklin , one of the giants of bass in the West Coast, who will be part of Sanifu's project. Sanifu has had the longest association with Henry Franklin going back at least to the 1970s and their Black Jazz Records label.
A wonderful NPR segment about the label can be found here: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/22/915323876/rediscovering-the-enormous-social-and-spiritual-legacy-of-black-jazz-records
Such is the nature of his musical journeys. I will be talking to him about the Los Angeles of the 70s, a personal favorite topic, and he will remark in passing that he was on the same bill as both singers Carmen MaCrae and Dinah Washington at the club Donte's!
Now these were two of the greatest female vocalists of their generation and Sanifu shared the stage with them. That is the kind of career he has had and the kind of man that he is that he is more than willing to discuss it with vivid detail but sees is it but one stop on the journey.
Not all musicians or even artists are as articulate as is Sanifu, which of course makes him a perfect guest. He speaks in a way that I think connects even with non-musicians, and when he does get a little technical it is never off putting and always engaging.
I always enjoy speaking with him as much as I do his music.”
Sanifu’s new Promo Video for his upcoming album he speaks about in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFEbT5hRZ8k
“Although the music is based with a Jazz foundation, it is also infused with elements of other music genres.” Sanifu Al Hall Jr.
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“The decision to approach Elizabeth Williams has a long journey; indeed one connected initially more to prose, rather than drawing or visual art, and going back a couple of decades. In 1984 the writer/journalist and film and t.v. producer Dominck Dunne wrote an extraordinary essay for Vanity Fair magazine that had much influence upon me.
Titled "Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of his Daughter's Killer", the piece, including the aesthetic details and judgements of, say, the judge, the jury and the defendant's demeanor, as well as the psychological dimensions of Dunne's experience ranks for me as among the best writing of that decade at least (and of course launched him as a major crime reporter on O.J. Simpson and others).
The connections between the many episodes on our show is immense.
Dunne's daughter who was murdered was, of course, Dominque Dunne who at the time of her murder was not only featured in an episode of Hill Street Blues, the plot of which was precisely the subject of domestic violence, but was also prominent in a number of t.v. movies that Amanda Reyes and I discussed. (I had offered on my latest episode with her to do a whole show on The Day The Loving Stopped.) (Link to listen to the episode with Amanda Reyes mentioned can be found here:https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/episodes/INTIMATE-STRANGERS-episode-with-Amanda-Reyes-eoipb4/a-a49a1c5) Dominck Dunne's son, Griffin Dunne, is also quite accomplished. But that one essay had a long lasting effect on me. It made me most conscious of the plight of crime victims and their families and loved ones, and thus, the victim's rights movement. And this was further complicated still by my then anti-death penalty activism, as these two communities, both of which I have great sympathies, often have come into conflict. So the daughter Dominique Dunne was on track to be a major star in Hollywood and you can observe her work on Hill Street Blues as well as other productions. In turn this one essay caused me to be a moderate "true crime" buff.
I should mention the late Michelle MacNamara in this regard, probably the best or most representative of this kind of interest. And all the while I was haunted not just by Dominck Dunne's written account but all of these high profile criminal cases. They are almost always used not only in televised news reports but in so many prominent documentaries.
Of course one of the themes of this podcast is calling into question the boundaries around fine art, utilitarian art, and the commercial and obscure and so on. So you could say that this episode is very much in keeping with the spirit of our podcast. I was excited to discuss the things we did on this episode and I should note, not a moment too soon that the nature of our discussion is unconventional given the subject matter. We are discussing the the nature of the worst crimes that have been committed by men in the past forty plus years; you could say the nature of evil comes into play. But we are also discussing them in the terms of public service: Williams' illustrations of these perpetrators or predators are essential for the legal system as well as basic, everyday journalism, yet they also keep alive the tradition of portraiture and illustration, which is fundamental to the history of art. Also, speaking more generally, Williams' story is the story of anybody who endeavors to become good at something; meeting mentors or masters in the chosen field, and all the stops in the journey along the way. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did creating it! “
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Please note: Henry's work is so comprehensive and gorgeous, we have only selected a few images to highlight.* Visit https://horenstein.com to dig deeper and truly appreciate the scope of his work. From Mitch's Notebook about this episode: "I must immediately mention a film in which I played a role in its kickstarter funding that Henry Horesntein made called Partners , if only because we failed to get to that stage of Henry's career on the show, so prodigious has been his output. The film is an unusual portrait of these couples, whose lifestyles are contrary to the "mainstream" of society, talking about their romantic and sexual lives in a most immersive and direct fashion, using a single backdrop. When I watch it I am reminded above all of Shirley Clarke's masterpiece Portrait Of Jason, though that is black and white and of a single person talking rather than a diverse group of individuals speaking intimately of their lives. All of this of course only confirms why Henry Horenstein is a perfect guest for our podcast. That I wanted to spend some time discussing his study with the great E. P. Thompson - perhaps the premier socialist British historian of his generation (in a way the Howard Zinn** of England) as well as our mutual friend and, like Henry, RISD instructor Richard Merkin is all testament to the wide and highly diverse career Henry has had. As for Merkin, he remains a major influence on my own dress and I am fortunate to own a signed painting of his which I proudly hang in my living room. Henry describes his art in terms of history and documentary. One of the things that is most important to me on this show is hearing how a creator talks about their own work. Of course when I look at any of Henry's photographs I am seeing photographs I love to look at and can return to again and again without ever losing interest in them.
I certainly am not thinking of any of the more pulitosophic terrain that we were fortunate enough to get into in this episode. Still less do I ever really know what was behind or went into making an artwork; only the actual author can know that. And I know that we always want to hear as much about that as the artist is willing to express. I enjoyed the hour we spent in this episode immensely and certainly learned a lot from it.” Henry’s Biography: Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s. He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Honky Tonk, Shoot What You Love (a memoir), Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography. His Shoot What You Love serves both a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground, which will premier in 2021. Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston. Additional Links to Henry’s beautiful body of work: Henry's Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Henry+horenstein&ref=nb_sb_noss Website: https://horenstein.com/partners Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/HorensteinPhotography/ Visit our show Facebook page for a more in depth look at Henry's maginifent body of work: https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast
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I'm not much for multitasking.
You'll notice I played a little piano - the theme song to our show in fact - and then I started talking. I didn't try to do them together.
And I never went into that style of music where you sing while you accompany yourself on the piano.
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“I never know how I am going to connect with a guest. Some- times the guest comes to me and there was no instance of this more welcome than when Dr. Philander Ratliff introduced himself on the fb. While I was ensconced on a feed from the fb, I received the fol- lowing song: https://www.reverbnation.com/philandervanratliffI knew next to nothing about who was being this music, but I loved what I was hearing, everything about it. I have always been a fan of popular rhythm and blues and soul and this cut was deeply rooted in all of that. It was only later that I learned that one of the people behind the cut also had a career as a nurse and, finally, a doctor.
Dr. Ratliff has deep roots in the music scene of Chicago. Indeed the choir director of the church he had grown up in was no less than Ramsey Lewis' father. All artistic creation is rooted in various traditions and styles, these can come from literally anywhere and Chicago , of course has always been at the forefront of such contribution. I found my conversation with Dr. Ratliff nothing short of a de- light. As in all of my episodes I learn so much from the guest. In this case I learned that, much like Joey Romer or Kerry Lil- ly, Dr. Ratliff has seemed to have lived more than one lifetime with a single life; I was always learning of many accomplish- ments. Someday, when we turn a corner in this moment we all find ourselves in, I look forward to meeting with him in person, hopefully with a piano alongside us. I hope you enjoy this one as much as we did recording it.” This clip of a news story about Dr. Ratliff’s work, says it all: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-proud-philan- der-ratliff-guitar-impact-family-center/2111120/
Phil’s Bio Dr. Philander Van Ratliff FB: Philander Van Ratliff Tatemusicgroup.- com Philander Van Ratliff/Reverb na- tion Amazon.com, I tunes, Spotify, SoundCloud Dr. Philander Van Ratliff Professional Guitarist/Singer/Writer/RN/Medical School Graduate 2018 from IUHS School of Medicine Raised in Chicago ,Il Projects in The 1960's-1970 Graduated from Proviso East High School, May- wood, Il. 1979. Studied Classical Music at Triton College, River Grove ,Il. Graduated From Triton College in 1990 ADN Nursing (RN) Became a Trauma/ER Nurse at Cook County Hospital in 1992-2017 Sworn State Certified Part-time Police Officer -Bellwood ,Il 2001-2016( Retired) Guitar Instructor/ THE IMPACT FAMILY CENTER ,CHICAGO, IL. -Founder Marsha Eaglan Appearances on Chan- nel 5, 7, Telemundo television on Teen De- pression and Suicide Prevention. Discussed Violence in the Com- munity at large and po- tential solutions with teens and their peers. “Well I was raised in the City of Chicago. In 1972 we moved from the projects to Maywood , Il . I was an avid member of Friendship Baptist Church, on Chicago's Westside. There I sang Soprano in The Angelic Choir! In 1973 I had Cancer, Ewing's Sarcoma! The Docs didn't expect me to live ; but God made the final de- cision. Forty eight years later I'm still here!! I always had my Guitar with me for comfort through my De- pression during Chemotherapy/Radiation and My Celebration of Survival! I've always been a positive individual and reflect that in my Music. It's Amazing to watch those children learn music and poetry at THE IMPACT FAMILY CENTER of Chicago. At THE IM- PACT CENTER of Chicago the Children were able to Dis- miss the Violence in the Streets and relax and focus on Poetry, music, computers and most of all, be- ing them- selves! Lastly, when my Residency in Psychia-try complete, I will Center my focus on PTSD in Children and Violence Prevention in the Community!! I love to save lives and My Heart is in My Music"! Additional links and an expanded view of Dr. Philander Ratliff’s beautiful life, legacy and work can be found on our show Facebook Page here: https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast
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"Theo Horesh is one of the guests on my show I have known personally, from the all too brief (in my opinion) time he happened to have been living in the Boston area.
I would run into him at a coffee shop in Cambridge and we would discuss many matters of note. He was very well read, could and would talk about practically anything and everything in a fearless manner, and I don't need to tell you that these are not traits to be found on every corner. He usually stands out in any room because of his tall height, his rock star hair, and bodybuilder physique.
But you would never necessarily want to bring any of this up to him because Theo is one of those old souls who truly wants to change the world for the better, and that is pretty much his raison d'être.
What I didn't know at that time when we were just being casual interlocutors was how deeply he has been a political activist for practically his entire adult life, and in many respects a successful one.
Interestingly for somebody as young as him he is, (he is an Xer and not a Boomer), he is like the archetypal 1960s activist who never compromised or gave up. I certainly can't see him burning out!
A great part of this could be his work not only in massage therapy for many years but also his serious devotion to spirituality, meditation practice in particular.
His goal is nothing short of the fullest development and improvement of the world over time, and he has a skill in working with others that is exceedingly strong.
While he has enormous integrity and ethical conscientiousness, he also understands how to work with the widest variety of other people, knowing what will bring the most possible outcome and he is certainly more good natured than a lot of politicos.
What I didn't know at that time was how deeply he has been a political activist, for practically his entire life. Since this would have been 2010 or '11 this was the time in my life when i had started my abandonment of most of politics and political life, (my only concession is that I do continue to vote, and when I say vote I mean viable candidates who are front runners) but all of this is a topic for another day) a project upon which I embarked around the Y2K. (Remember the Y2K?) But before then I had been an activist for who seemed to me the longest time, in the 80s and 90s. (It felt to me like fifty years which is one indication it was time to change course). I realized that art was much more important to me that politics and I had to make certain choices.
All of our journeys are very different which I believe our guest Theo would be the first to note.
Theo is also an author, and a prolific one who is on mission to write highly readable and accessible political prose on things that matter to everyday people.
His latest book, a combination of polemic and sober analysis called The Fascism This Time And The Global Future Of Democracy is to my mind a must read. Theo and I have disagreed sharply over the years, a fact which makes this episode sure to not be a boring one but on the main issue at hand he and I are decidedly united.
I decided to call this The Politics Show, ever mindful that there is an art to politics too, though whether the art is good or bad might be more important than is usual."
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“Back in the day, in an era that now seems ever more remote, the early 00s, there was this phrase in popular culture that got started about the virtues of being the kind of guy (I think it was the gender specific "guy", but maybe not, let's say person in the current interests of 2021) that you "could have a beer with."
It was never really specified what this meant, yet everyone just seemed to know what this was and that it was a good thing, indeed the very best thing.
It usually applied to people that had some kind of flaw in their job performance, especially politicians, (I think a certain U.S president then, but don't quote me) but were just so damned likable that it made whatever flaw the person had sort of evaporate under the power of likability.
Perhaps "someone you wanna have a beer with" meant someone relatable; perhaps, even more intensely, somebody who "had your back."
In popular cinema Tom Hanks is a figure like this, as was Jimmy Stewart in a much earlier era.
On the surface, Joey Romer and I have little in common in terms of life experience, but that, in essence, is what our podcast is all about.
I want people on my show who have different skills than mine and have seen different things.
I have never been surfing, have never had anything to with law enforcement - on either side of the law - and am not a dog owner. I am also, as far as I can guess, not anybody who would be mistaken for a humanitarian.
Yet Joey is all of these things, and possibly a whole lot more, surely more than can be contained within thirty minutes.
Romer's people skills are genius level in terms of intelligence and that made this half hour among the best I have had the privilege to have on this podcast.
Every guest on my show has something that is totally unique that I love, and these are quite different from guest to guest.
With Romer it is his spirit, his enthusiasm, and, well, his character, not to be too pretentious about it.
He has also seen Point Break twice which tells you a lot already.
I hope this podcast episode is as enjoyable to listen to as it was to create.”
Joey’s Bio
Joey is a retired Saint Johns County Sheriff’s Deputy.
He started training dogs at age 11.
He has trained with the Renowned German Police K9 Dog Trainer, Sascha Bartz, in Germany. He has over 40 years of training experience.
He specializes in behavioral issues, obedience, protection, tracking, odor detection and also an evaluator for Canine Good Citizen with the AKC.
Joey was a member of the K9 unit of the St. Johns County Sheriffs Office for 18 years and served as a K9 Sergeant.
Prior to his retirement, he was the head of training for the department’s K9 unit.
These K9s were trained for bomb, weapon or drug detection, human tracking, search and rescue, criminal apprehension, handler protection or a mixture of any of the above.
Joey has trained and certified Police K9 units with both American K9 Detection Services LLC and Southern Coast K9.
He as worked with K9’s in multiple countries such as Germany, Panama, and Indonesia.
As a certified AKC trainer, he will assist you with all training needs.
Links to Joey’s beautiful work and organizations dear to him:
https://www.smartpaws.us
https://www.facebook.com/smartpawsk9/
https://www.sjso.org
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"One of the earliest film critics I ever read was Pauline Kael , who was an enormous influence on so many of us in the 70s. I would literally read all of her reviews for films as I watched them in theaters, comparing notes. I Lost It At The Movies was a late 70s favorite and I could recite whole passages of her prose from memory at that time. Yet this was only a prelude to further developments, even changes of heart. In the beginning of the early 80s I had not yet discovered the great Manny Farber, nor our guest Jonathan Rosenbaum.
I think my first encounter with Rosenbaum was through a now classic book on Jacques Rivette from the 1970s but that I was to read only later, in the 1980s. (I was not that precocious as child - Kael was about my limit.) I was so hungry to read anything about Rivette that it was inevitable I would discover Rivette: Texts and Interviews (BFI, 1977). This in turn led me to realize what an unusually diverse thinker Rosenbaum truly was. Like Farber, Rosenbaum is adamant that criticism is an art form and he treats it as such, in attitude as well as in the prose style that is reflective of his whole attitude. In this sense he also follows Henry James. One of the hallmarks of a great critic, and not merely a good or competent one is if you can tolerate reading them when their opinions or verdicts are contrary to your own. For example, I certainly don't agree with Rosenbaum about Tarantino just as I strongly disagreed with Kael about Tarkovsky and Cassavetes. I think there is room, and room should be made, for both Quentin Tarantino and Kelly Reichardt. I might be unusual in this sense. I told Rosenbaum at the outset of this episode that "he really gets inside of the movie". If any of us "gets inside" of an artwork, really inside of it, we will grow and expand as people. One of the blocks to doing this is too much extraneous stuff that gets in the way. I appreciate that Rosenbaum can talk as freely and knowledgeable about McCoy Tyner and Billie Holiday as much as Jerry Lewis, Pedro Costa, or Anna Biller and Guy Maddin. He is good friends with filmmaker Mark Rappaport who was also friends of my late father, Rosenbaum has always championed the underrated or unknown, like our very first guest on this podcast, Jon Jost . Sometimes the personal and artistic commingle and this is where a culture can really develop. It was heartening to hear him say cinephilia is living and living well. As he continues to teach into the future I hope others, too, become cinephiles.”
Jonathan’s Bio: Jonathan Rosenbaum was film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008. His books include CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS 2 (2019), CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS (2018), GOODBYE CINEMA, HELLO CINEPHILIA (2010), THE UNQUIET AMERICAN (2009), DISCOVERING ORSON WELLES (2007), ESSENTIAL CINEMA (2004), MOVIE MUTATIONS (coedited with Adrian Martin, 2003), ABBAS KIAROSTAMI (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, 2003, 2018), MOVIE WARS (2000), DEAD MAN (2000), MOVIES AS POLITICS (1997), PLACING MOVIES (1995), THIS IS ORSON WELLES by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich (edited, 1992), GREED (1991), MIDNIGHT MOVIES (with J. Hoberman, 1983), and MOVING PLACES (1980). He has taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York University, the School of Visual Arts (in New York), the University of California branches at Berkeley, San Diego, and Santa Barbara, the University of Chicago, the University of St. Andrews (in Scotland), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, KinoKlub Split (in Croatia), and FilmFactory (in Sarajevo). He maintains a web site archiving most of his work at jonathanrosenbaum.net . Visit our show Facebook page for more extensive links to Jonathan’s beautiful work.
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“I often have the reconfirmation of the dictum that each individual life is so vast, mysterious and, in part, a process rather than any final thing, that we would all do better to take a step back and be more cautious in what we are prone to say about others, and this quite apart from whether the assertion is positive or negative. Robert Riskin , the socialist screenwriter of It's A Wonderful Life, 1946) has his angel Clarence say that "each mans life touches so many others' lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
One of the things our podcast is about is preventing any additional holes, mainly though what goes by the term connection. Among all the guests on my show, Stephanie occupies a piston in between those I know quite well and those whom I have never even met.
Talking with, for the first time after close to a decade brought back memories of my life in Boston, especially the world of vintage clothing and fashion more generally (and come to think of it all thrift stores!)
Thus in a way this episode links in my mind two periods of time that appear to at once be most far and most near and connect to our episode with Amanda Maciel Antunes. I really discovered a whole different part of our guest through her facebook page, neurospace, which is a sort of community for people, like, your podcast host, identify as neurodivergent in one way or another. Stephanie is most gifted visually, as well as many other endeavors (like so many of our guests), and as is clear from this episode, her artistic output dates back to her youngest years. I really loved speaking with her for many reasons; of course I enjoyed hearing her story as well as her interpretations of things.
Of course none of us ever knows the connections between individual people. Back in 2008 I knew her as an expert on clothing, and would see her dating pieces with great accuracy and conscientiousness. I could never have known we would be speaking again, and about autism no less, during a pandemic, with me in little town in North Carolina, and her in the grand city of Los Angeles.
Accordingly I do consider the technology that enabled us to speak across such great geographical distance nothing short t of a miracle. If I am often the severest critic of the internet, age, and I will continue to be so long as I am alive and we are still in such an age, I am also aware of the many pluses alongside the minuses. Looked at in this way you can consider this episode one of our most important as well as a symbol or emblem of our podcast. I have managed to overcome some of my (originally, considerable) trepidation at every discussing what I would call my private life.
Thus, this episode marks a continuation of that decision as well.
Near the end of our episode I express a wish that she come back and we continue our discussion: the passage of time these days reveals that many more changes are bound to occur in any interim, however small, or so it appears. My hope is that our listeners enjoyed this episode as much as did we and are not averse to a return engagement. The journey of our podcast continues.
Stephanie’s Bio : Stephanie Persephone is an autistic poly- synesthete who has been creating art since they were able to use a crayon, without any formal training or education. Their current works are inspired by the seen and unseen elements of nature and reality. They are a multimedia artist exploring the multidimensional universe in Los Angeles, where they currently reside.
Links to Stephanie’s Beautiful Work: Website: https://stephaniepersephone.com Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/ stephaniepersephone / Twitter:https://twitter.com/polysynesthete RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/ persephone777/shop? artistUserName=persephone777&asc=u
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Inside the episode with Mitch Hampton
"There are literally thousands of t.v. movies that Amanda Reyes and I could have covered.
I often ask myself why I like this particular one so much.
I think that, in all honesty it comes down to at least three reasons: the emotional directness of the content, the production style(s) of the period in which it was made and the many sided treatment of the social problem it attempts to represent.
Emotional directness in dramatic art is a long and abiding interest of mine. Some of my favorite works of art happen to not be emotionally direct in the sense that I am thinking; this quality is not a requirement for me nor an assurance of greatness in and of itself. But when I am thinking of emotionally direct visual drama I do think of Intimate Strangers alongside Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence.
The many sidedness is Intimate Strangers' greatest strength; it might also be the one quality likely to not be embraced or to be misinterpreted by a contemporary audience. Yet it is nevertheless a fact that people who do evil in the world are always human, never monsters.
This film judges harshly Dennis Weaver's character but never stops letting us in on his interiority, his hopes, wishes and dreams. It is the role of the artwork to get into the weeds of all of this. Intimate Strangers ones fairly far for a television production.
I always love speaking with Amanda Reyes.
She has a love for and knowledge of popular culture that is positively encyclopedic - far greater than my own - and she brings to the subject an intelligence and sensitivity noamtmer the material. Her tastes appear to tend towards the highly supernatural and gothic; mine are decidedly more "naturalistic" but our shared love makes for most interesting episode if I may so myself.”
Link to the film so you can enjoy it with us ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdzgl19EEqs&t=3394s
Amanda’s Bio and Links to her beautiful work:
Amanda Reyes is an archivist, author, film and television historian and academic.
She edited and co-wrote Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 (Headpress, 2017) which celebrates the made for television film, and was featured on Barnes and Noble’s Best of Horror list for 2017.
She's been a guest speaker at international film festivals and conferences in such places as the UK, Australia, and the United States. She's also contributed commentary tracks for several made for television Blu-Ray and DVD releases, including the made for TV movies The Girl Most Likely To... (1973), Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Amazons (1984) and Death Dreams (1991), all of which were released through Kino Lorber in 2019.
For 18 months, Amanda also curated a quarterly series of made for TV mystery screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse, and has hosted other screenings in conjunction with the Austin Film Society.
When she has a moment, she also podcasts and blogs about anything vintage small screen.
Links: Made for TV Mayhem (blog): www.madefortvmayhem.com Made for TV Mayhem Show (podcast): www.tvmayhempodcast.wordpress.com
Social media:
Twitter: @madefortvmayhem https://twitter.com/madefortvmayhem
Facebook: Made for TV Mayhem https://www.facebook.com/madefortvmayhem/
Instagram: @madefortvmayhem https://www.instagram.com/madefortvmayhem/
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“I usually mention that our guests can be categorized into those i know personally and those I have never met, in the case of the latter, making our conversation on the podcast the very first contact with them. Of course among the ones I have never met I try and become well aware of what we could call their accomplishments, in most instances, well before the airdate. Kerry is someone that our producer Laure Jill Strickland knows personally and I was most fortunate that she suggested him as a guest. Like many of our guests Lilly has done many things with his life, so much so that it would appear he has had multiple lifetimes within a single lifetime. He has worked as a coal miner, and, significantly, during a period in United States history when mining happened to have been a major source of basic energy in large parts of the nation, Yet he is also an ordained Methodist minister and steel drummer! Of course those three accomplishments do not exceed the full scope of our guest but you can see with that resume that he is full keeping with the spirit of our podcast more generally. I really enjoyed listening to hims speak about his life and the things he has seen and observed, and could easily have listened to him for an hour more. I hope out listeners share in my enjoyment.” Kerry’s Bio and more about his passions: Born in Beckley WV to two wonderful parents. My mother was a life long educator. My father was a coal miner, butcher, farmer, and grocery store owner. I have four wonderful siblings. I have 3 kids and 6 grandkids. I am a graduate of West Virginia University. I have a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary. I served 6 churches in West Virginia. I was also a regional director for YouthWorks! I started working in the coal mines in 1973. I have worked at mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. I was a Co-founder of Red Bone Mining Company along with my brother Charlie. We mined coal for 35 years as a small mining company. I have been a coal miner, a pastor, youth worker. I was a founding member of I was a founding member of FAITH Food Pantry in West Hamlin, WV. I was an original member of the Woodburn Commission in Morgantown WV. I have been a mine rescue team member and captain. I have an AA from Liberty Bible Institute. I am a retired Elder in the West Virginia Annual Conference of the Untied Methodist Church. I am currently a member of Grace UMC in St. Augustine, FL. My greatest joys are my grandkids, biking, kayaking, and camping. Visit our show website and facebook page to see more links and wonderful photos! https://www.facebook.com/journeyofanaesthetepodcast https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com Additional links to places dear to Kerry : Concerts in the Loft, Wesley UMC , Morgantown WV
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On this solo episode to inaugurate the New Year of 2021, Mitch Hampton gets a little more personal than usual, plays some brand new piano music at his home Steinway, discusses his autism diagnosis, what he loves about his guests, some recent movies and more! More on the episode from Mitch's notebook:
"Doing a solo episode in an historical moment in which I most assuredly have spoken less in four months than I normally would have in a single day in the prior means that I certainly feel out of practice in speech and thus more nervous than is usual for these episodes - ones in which I don't have the luxury of leaning on a guest. So I leaned on my piano instead. Getting a little serious, I tried to have a "personal" touch in this episode. Another problem when I do a solo episode is that after making an enormous list of thousands of things I could possibly talk about I then have to decide which ones to eliminate - necessarily the majority of these -, both in the interest of time and the listener/audience's sanity. Then, when I finally commit to press the record button, after all is said and done I usually realize how nothing ever turned out as I had planned. (John Lennon's definition of life). "I forgot to mention that, and this, and that over there. How could I have forgotten all of that? I talked about that? What am I crazy? What are people going to say? I wrote it down. Now where did I put that piece of paper. I need to do that again." And so on. The most obvious omission would probably have to be my failure to mention that the company form which I was fired was one in which I kind of one of the people who started the damned thing and in which I had a comprehensive experience, including assembly line factor work, silkscreening bottles, talking to health food stores all over the U.S., sales, bookkeeping, and having to have regular conversations with the likes of Jerry Garcia when he called to place an order. Of course every single work of art ever made, now and in perpetuity, is made as much out of absence and presence. And I fully embrace what I did for January of this new and hopefully, minimally decent new year much as I embraced the moment when I pressed play. I hope this ultimate commitment was communicated to my listeners. Finally, there is the question of my interests, which are passionate, intense and diverse. I talked of MANK because it was fresh in my consciousness But I could have just as easily discussed Never Rarely Sometimes Always, in every way the aesthetic opposite to Mank, but utterly qual in excellence, a "road" movie of two teen girls traveling from Pennsylvania to New York City to obtain needed medical procedure that has all but been banned in their rural town. Or I could have discussed the many, usually four or five books, I have been reading, since I can never read one book at a time. Just as there is always more to say, in future episodes, these forgotten things might get said, or not, or transformed into things better off saying so that there is no longer any question. Such is the journey of our podcast, and art itself.
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“The manifold connections by which one individual touches another can be a quite mysterious and beautiful thing.
In the case of our guest Candace English everything starts with this film by a man named Jon Jost called Rembrandt Laughing.
I happened to see it on television in the 1980s in the middle of the night, I am going to guess 2:30 AM, that kind of thing, and this little picture touched me very deeply. A composer and instrumentalist Jon English happened to be one of the actors in that film and eventually, as I became a "fan" of Jost's oeuvre, I noticed that this one Jon English composed music for many of Jost's films. When one thing leads to another like this you are definitely on a journey, and you wouldn't be crazy to suspect it is a "guided" one.
Jost, of course, was our very first guest on this podcast.
Listen to his episode here: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/episodes/Spirit-of-Independence-A-conversation-with-Jon-Jost-e4rg31
Later on I did a live music session with Bill Fouty the bassist. Bill was impressed that I even knew who Jon English was.
He said to me, "well do you know Candace English? You gotta talk with Candace English; she's a good friend of mine."
What united these three people was of course the San Francisco of the 80s, but it was also something else a little more ineffable, a love for art itself in all of its forms.
I marvel at people like Candace English .
I could never really carry a tune with my mouth; she sings some of the most difficult music ever written for a vocalist and pulls it off masterfully and beautifully.
She also composes, of course, and probably lots of other things we didn't even get into on our episode. She is equally adept in the classical and jazz styles and was a major figure in the avant-guard music scene.
I hope you enjoy listening to this one as its one where I was more than a little surprised by some things I did not know, as you will hear. Candace has been involved in practically every aspect of music and that diversity shows in the topics we discuss on this episode.”
Links to Candace’s Beautiful work
candacenatvigenglish.comcandacenenglish.commusicintheblood.comtinytownpark.comhttps://soundcloud.com/moonglow-violin
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton “From South to North: A conversation on visual art, Geography and personal biography with Danielle Norris” Danielle Norris is an artist who I knew very well when I was living in Boston. She had been working, among other gigs, as a waitress in one of the oldest and more famous of spots in Cambridge . You can see that she did the artwork for Tyler Bejoinas' album on which I played keyboards. But even as I knew her personally, there were many things I did not know about her art until much later and this opened a whole world in much the same way as her artwork is unafraid to open up a world. The word that Danielle first used when describing her artwork was “realism”. And notably and uniquely, her work is unafraid to use representations of culture and real life, many times quite popular ones. Her work comes out of her own experience as well as the images and symbols of pop culture and photography. I really enjoyed this conversation and learned a lot from it. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much we enjoyed doing it and hope you engage with her artwork and more info in the links provided here.” Danielle’s Bio Danielle Norris is a painter working to explore the framework of conceptual photo realism. Originally from the mountains of western NC , she studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , graduating in 2014. Since then she has moved to Upstate NY where her multidisciplinary practice has turned primarily to painting. She was accepted into the Yale Norfolk painting residency in 2013 , and has shown work in Boston , New York City, and Hudson NY. She also currently works as a painting assistant to the artist Jeffrey Gibson. Links to learn more Danielle’s wonderful work: @danielle____norris arieldaniellenorris.com https://www.arieldaniellenorris.com/cv
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“Readers of this blog and listeners to this podcast will know that I made a dramatic change in geographical address in the year of 2017, from Boston to Weaverville, North Carolina. In the interest of full honesty, I was and remain ambivalent about this move as it was made for reasons of unforeseen circumstance and not for any I would call personal choice - by any definition of the word choice.
One of the unequivocal positives of this move is that I am able to record this podcast out of my home; equally I am able to work from my favorite instrument, Steinway. And then there are the personal connections that are most positive. I think I first met out guest Jim McCoy at the weekly music open mic they used to have here at Blue Mountain Pizza. I did not know who he was but heard him sing an old anti- Vietnam War Phil Ochs song! Needless to say this was not the usual repertoire I was used to hearing at this open mic.
Well it tuns out that the singer was none other than Jim McCoy, who, until his retirement, was the pastor at the Weaverville Baptist Church here just one block away from the pizzeria. He is part of what can only be called a thoroughly musical family (his daughter is a pianist with her own rock group, his wife has been a Minister Of Music at the church, music teacher and choral conductor).
I want to say that Jim McCoy's all around friendliness, intelligence, even integrity has been an invaluable boon to me as a displaced yankee. I also thought that this episode would make a most appropriate one for December. The question of religious affiliation and tradition is one of the most complicated ones in human society. It happens to be a subject on which I happen to be widely read, as it so happens as a side effect of my intense interest in intellectual history and philosophy, but I won't go into all that here. I think there is both good and bad religion in human life and that this situation is no different from any other field or human endeavor. I really appreciated this conversation with Jim McCoy; he is representative of all that is best in Christianity, but I hope that the subjects we cover - vast, considering his erudition - will be relevant for all our listeners.”
Jim’s Bio
I was born in Salisbury, NC into a musical family. My Dad played guitar in bands prior to World War II, and Mother was a church pianist/organist. At home they played everything from 'St. Louis Blues' to hymns. I received my first guitar in the eighth grade during the British invasion and played in Beatle bands. In 1973, I was selected to be a member of a summer folk group. The other guitarist chosen for the five-member ensemble would become my wife three years later. Jane is a vocalist and voice teacher, having taught privately and at several universities. She is also a church musician. Our two grown daughters are Claire and Sarah.
Both are married, and both are piano teachers. I have been in several ministry positions: campus minister, hospice chaplain, and pastor.
Currently, I am a chaplain at a state prison unit in Asheville, NC. I help facilitate religious practices and services, and try to offer honest conversation with those who seek it. I also strongly encourage any expression of creativity - reading, writing, drawing, singing, etc. In his memoir Wrestling with the Devil, Ngugi wa Thiong'o writes, “ I offer...my experience of survival in a maximum-security prison as a testimony to the magic of imagination. The power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement is truly the story of all art."
I blog occasionally at my word press site 'Borrowed Language' and at the Ekklesia Project website (ekklesiaproject.org). Organizations dear to me are: "The Ekklesia Project has become a gateway into some wonderful ecumenical conversations and friendships. Baptist Ministers Union in Asheville is an African- American group of pastors. They have welcomed me into their fellowship. and the newspaper in new ways. Jubilee Partners
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“Of all of the guests I have had on my show whom I have had the great fortune to know personally, I believe Dmitri Matheny would count as the oldest of friends since my association with him goes back at least to early 1983 - at Interlochen Arts Academy . When we were both living in Boston, I was the pianist with a wonderful group he organized.
I have to say, without reservations, that not only is Dmitri a superb all around musician but is one of the most organized and conscientious people in the arts I have ever known and it is a rare thing indeed when those coexist in the same soul. He was able to get us a lot gigs in that band and he is that rare artist who also happens to have a business sense. He also happened to have made his instrumental speciality one of my favorite of all the horns: the flugelhorn. (And made what I still consider the greatest Christmas Jazz album , to which I contributed an arrangement) https://dmitrimatheny.bandcamp.com/album/santas-got-a-brand- new-bag
You will note that we talk a lot in this episode about the music and musicians we love. I truly believe that to be the best artist one can be requires finding an individual, you can say a mentor, to help be a guide. This is education of the highest sort and of course can happen either in or outside of an institution. This is a very old school, "apprenticeship" method and I can't imagine having gone about things in any other way. One of the advantages of having that one mentor like this is that you are getting a partial glimpse into that mentor's mind on a one- to-one, intimate level, something I can't see happening to the same effect in a crowded classroom. In Dmitri's case this mentor was none other than the great Art Farmer, no less. In my case it was pianist/composer Stanley Cowell. Of course it is a truism that sometimes the best performers aren't always the best teachers; in my case I was most fortunate that the two coincided., since Cowell remains one of my favorite pianists. We talk a lot about Art Farmer on this episode and you will know why if you know Farmer's playing. I really enjoyed this conversation; it was like a reunion of sorts after about two decades and it was one that was a joyous occasion. One of the reasons his business sense was so welcome, at least in the case of our kind of music, is that he would show up to a gig or a session and everything was so well planned and executed in terms of logistics that you could really be most free, let go, and blow, like the old expression, "that cat's charts play themselves."
Dmitri Bio Winner of NW Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year honors in the Seattle Earshot Golden Ear Awards, flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music). An honors graduate of Berklee College of Music , Dmitri Matheny vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer. Since then he has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal international following, releasing eleven CDs and touring extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The San Francisco Chronicle calls Matheny “one of the jazz world’s most talented horn players.”
Links to Dmitri’s beautiful works:
Website http://www.dmitrimatheny.com Tour https://www.dmitrimatheny.com/tour Touring History https://www.dmitrimatheny.com/touring-history Biography http://www.dmitrimatheny.com/biography Music http://www.dmitrimatheny.com/music Videos http://www.dmitrimatheny.com/videos Discography http://www.dmitrimatheny.com/discography Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Matheny Instagram http://instagram.com/dmitrimatheny Twitter https://twitter.com/dmitrimatheny YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/papillonrecordings https://dmitrimatheny.bandca
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Inside the episode with Mitch Hampton “Being Open To One's Entire Environ- ment: A conversation with singer/song- writer Tyler Tyler Bejoian ”
Tyler Bejoian is one of a handful of guests on our show with whom I have had a personal association, long before we had this podcast, and even before podcasting was a thing.
Originally we were friends because of shared cinephilia, back in the day when people gathering together to look at pictures on a shared screen was a thing.
Where we were living in the Boston area had some of the greatest repertory and current movie houses in all of the United States: The Brattle Theatre , the Harvard Film Ar- chive, and the Coolidge Corner Theaters .
Only later was I a keyboardist in his band, Tyler And The Names which can be found here: https://tylerandthenames.bandcamp.com/album/long- gone-carrier
This was noteworthy because it had been at least twenty years since I had performed that type of music in any capaci- ty.
Then again, to put it more accurately, it was an entirely unique experience overall because the music had a lot of in- fluences, from folk as much as rock, and some other things in there as well which I think Tyler can explain a lot better than myself.
I always have liked Tyler's lyric content, his sense of humor, and the sensibility in his songs.
The experience of playing with loud electric guitars and so on had its pleasures to be sure.
This episode was recorded wayback in February.
I'd like to think, though, as with all of our episodes, that it has a timeless quality, both in the topics of conversation, as well as the spirit in which the topics were discussed.”
Tyler’s Bio and links to his beautiful work:
Tyler Bejoian is a Massachusetts based musician. He has been playing with his band Tyler and the Names for the last several years.
Their most recent al- bum is Outskirts of the Gala .
https://tylerandthenames.bandcamp.com/album/ long-gone-carrier
https://soundcloud.com/tyler-bejoian
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“ I think the very first time I became aware of our guest Melanie Mayron it would have to have been in the August of 1978 when, at the age of eleven, I went on a hot and blissfully underpopulated New York City in August 1978 late afternoon to see this movie called GIRLFRIENDS. I dearly wish I remembered the exact theatre that was exhibiting it in that first run. (Was it The New Yorker? Bleeker Street Cinema?)
But it was in Manhattan of August of 1978 which was the location and time of so much of that film's subject. I loved this picture as much as an eleven year old could and I loved this protagonist by the name of Susan Weinblatt .
A few years later in the 1980s I would see her on stage in the play debut of Crossing Delancey, which was in fact written for her.
As I mentioned on this episode Mayron was in two of my all time favorite moves: Girlfriends just mentioned, and the other was CAR WASH . Both are are on my 100 Greatest list in fact. She was one of the names on this dream list that our producer, Laurie Strickland urged me to start and maintain.
Mayron is remarkable on a number of levels. One thing which I feel is taken too lightly by many is her flexibility with a the widest breadth of styles, not as easy as some might think.
Not only does she excel in the broadest of comedies like Car Wash and the severest of dramas ( Playing For Time , Missing ) as well as stage and screens large and small, she is at the forefront of the current streaming revolution in home entertainment in shows like Grace And Frankie , Jane The Virgin , Glow and more.
Thus her career has encompassed the many historical changes from practically five decades, from somebody in the thick of experience as a creator of those changes. She is also an accomplished director, producer as well as actor and, in what was news to me, the world of skin care and cosmetics, Mayron’s Goods and Supply: https://mayronsgoods.com I truly loved speaking with her on this episode as it was a chance to visit some of my favorite touchstones of film and t.v. in our time and from the point of view of someone who was one of its chief creators.”
M E L A N I E M A Y R O N Melanie Mayron was nominated three times and won an Emmy Award for her role on the groundbreaking ABC drama “thirtysomething.” She was nominated for a British Academy Award for her starring role in the film, Girl Friends and won the Best Actress Award at the Locarno Switzerland Film Festival. Melanie has acted in feature films as well as television, among them Car Wash, Costa Gavras’ Academy Award winning Missing, and My Blue Heaven. She was last seen as Professor Donaldson in a recurring role in the CW’s Jane the Virgin. She performed on Broadway and Off. Melanie has forged an additional career as a director in movies and television and has directed episodes of the critically acclaimed HBO series, “Tell Me You Love Me “ as well as “In Treatment.” She was nominated for a Director’s Guild Award for Toothless, for ABC, starring Kirstie Alley. She has directed over a hundred episodes for television including this season’s Tommy on ABC starring Edie Falco, Lincoln Rhyme for NBC and for ABC The Baker and the Beautis. Her extended bio and links is on our podcast Facebook page.
She is also the brand owner of Mayron’s Goods and Supply, a botanical line of skincare formulated by her chemist Dad.
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton
"Regular listeners to our podcast will note I mention that there are both guests I have known personally and then there are those I have never even met. Amanda sits firmly in the former group as I got to know her through a mutual interest (in my case a most serious hobby): clothes, fashion in general and vintage in particular. We were all part of the same larger artistic community for a good decade centered around a woman named Amy Berkowitz who owned a truly fabulous thrift store (and has since unfortunately passed).
The spirit in Boston at that time - the early to mid 00s - was most generous; people from all walks of life could gather and attend events and parties and feel they were a part of something exciting and there was a real sense of that often overused word community. Still better, since some of the vintage clothing was extremely affordable, and there was this community spirit, people who maybe did not have as much budget wise were able to get involved as well. When first I met our guest Amanda Maciel Antunes she was from Brazil , working and making her way in a new country and city. What I did not yet know at the time was the full extent of her talents and interests.
She had a passion not only for clothes and design (she works as a costume designer in addition to other projects) but also for performance art and even publishing, as she created a magazine in those years and managed to put out several issues. You could say that Amanda Antunes fits the profile of an all around visionary and producer, the kind of artist who seems able to make things happen successfully not fruition after the initial ideas are developed. Lately she has become involved in archiving, as she is part of a project involving the legacy of Anais Nin and the history of Los Angeles, her current and new home.
It is hard for me to accurately and precisely describe the nature of her artistic practice as I feel she expresses these best herself, in her own words, as she did so well on this episode.
Like some other episodes there is a lot to ponder and reflect upon here: the nature of the art scene, immigration, different languages, personal history and memoir, and probably even much more. I do hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation!
Amanda’s Bio
In my artistic practice I’m interested in our perception of language as myth and how the mind manifests them into matter. In a variety of mediums, painting, writing, film, assemblage, sound and performance; my work seeks a conversation between the extremes of selfhood. I was born and raised in a village in rural Brazil named after a ruined river: due to the environmental impacts of mining which directly and indirectly affected its biodiversity. I have always been concerned with the nexus of people and their transitory environment, raised a daughter and granddaughter of farmers to pursue avenues of interrogation and affinity to our habitat. In 2015
I established a residency studio practice in LA and have since been active in the community, in my work as an artist and activist as the co-founder ofNasty Women LA .
Links to Amanda’s Beautiful body of work
Website: amandamacielantunes.com
You Tube Recent Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRz1GiARGzA
More current projects shared on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandamacielantunes/
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"I talk with veteran actor, write, producer, and teacher on his life in the art of acting."
Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton:
"The diverse group of guests on our podcast encompass both those I have never met and only know from their work in what you might consider a "public" sense. Then there are those guests whom I have had the good fortune to know personally. I have never gotten to know the actor Austin Pendleton in a personal manner but I know for sure my first conscious awareness of him was most probably from his role in the Peter Bogdonavich masterpiece What's Up Doc (1972), which I saw on the big screen at the age of six, with Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
I was not so fortunate to have seen his early 1970s musical or theatre work, yet it feel like I have seen him in so many television and movie productions as well as on Broadway (Doubles comes to mind from the 80s) and my now father produced his play Orson's Shadow, that I can confidently say that he has been such a large part of the world of both theaters, movies and t.v. that I feel that I grew up with him to the extent that one can group up with a "named actor."
I never dreamed I would have had the opportunity to speak with him on this context in my own podcast. Austin Pendleton is, among many other things, what sometimes people call the real deal. He is one of the greatest living actors, period, regardless of genre or style of production.
He is also beloved as a teacher of acting and playwright and director in his own right.
It is always an honor to be able to talk to someone who cells at what they do artistically, especially if they are as generous as is Austin, as well a clear about his own life experiences and what they have meant to him. "
Austin's Bio
Austin has appeared on, off and off-off Broadway, in such productions as The Diary of Anne Frank (with Natalie Portman), Fiddler on the Roof (the original cast, with Zero Mostel), Doubles (with Ron Leibman), Educating Rita (with Laurie Metcalf), Mother Courage (with Meryl Streep), Romeo and Juliet (with Lauren Ambrose), The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (for which he won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award), Hail Scrawdyke (for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award, a production directed by Alan Arkin), and in such roles as Richard III, Richard II, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Shylock and many others. He is also an Ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and has acted and directed there and in many other regional theatres. He has acted in over 100 film and television shows. Film credits include My Cousin Vinny, A Beautiful Mind, 2 Days in the Valley, Finding Nemo, Searching for Bobby Fisher, Catch-22, The Muppet Movie, and many more.
Television credits include Homicide, Oz, Law and Order, Life on Mars, Miami Vice and many other shows. His Broadway directing credits include Spoils of War, The Runner Stumbles, and a Tony nomination for directing Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton in The Little Foxes. His three plays (all published and all widely produced) are Orson's Shadow, Uncle Bob, and Booth; he has also written the book for a new musical called A Minister's Wife, in 2009 at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois, and scheduled for production next spring at Lincoln Center in NY.
He is the star of Everyone's Carol, as Ebenezer Scrooge.
He teaches acting at HB Studio in New York.
Links to Austin's beautiful work:
HB Studios **, Steppenwolfe Theatre
Everyone’s Carol
Starring Austin Pendelton Documentary, Playbill**
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“ I came across the work of Dr. Azar Nafisi at exactly the same time I was undergoing a spiritual transformation regarding the value of the arts and letters. This was the time of the years 2001 and a few years after.
At that time I gave no thought at all to the internet (though perhaps I should have!) and podcasts were not yet even an idea (as far as I know) on anybody's mind. But I was giving a lot of thought to the arts in its many forms and books as specific medium were a big part of that.
You could say that of all of the episodes thus far this one is the most bookish one.
Dr. Azar Nafisi's knowledge and wisdom on literature is unsurpassed. You might say that some of the themes I am pursuing now in this very podcast were present as something like an acorn in those years. I was already primed to enjoy her Reading Lolita In Tehran by the very nature of its subject matter and what I was undergoing personally: in a phrase the value of art and the defense of such value against all those who are insensitive (or worse) to its value.
The very style and meaning of her book was what I needed to read the most then and it is a book I have returned to many times since. One of her strengths is her ability to weave politics and aesthetics in the truest way, and moreover, in a way that really communicates with a wide audience. Her decision to teachNabokov and F Scott Fitzgeraldin the Iran of the mid 1990s was, to my mind, one of the most valuable political acts anybody could have done at that time. (Similar in certain respects to Susan Sontag's producing Waiting For Godot in Sarajevo in 1993).
As she makes clear in this episode she regards the medium of the novel itself as "democratic." Yet she is wise enough to know that not everything can or should be always so political. In Reading Lolita there is a most arresting passage in this regard:
"It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing."
I really enjoyed discussing Henry James and Jane Austen and many others with her. I hope you enjoy hearing her discuss these as well. I hope at a future date she can return and discuss even more, so rich is her knowledge and erudition.”
Dr. Azar Nafisi's Biography : Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. Earning high acclaim and an enthusiastic readership.
Read her full bio here: https://azarnafisi.com/about-azar/
Additional links to Dr. Nafisi's beautiful work here:
https://azarnafisi.com/
Twitter @azarnafisi
Facebook @azarnafisi
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Featured Artists in this episode:
Hannah Sharafian: is an actress, playwright and teacher in NYC
Tyler Bejoines: is a singer/songwriter and leader of band Tyler And The Names, based in Massachusetts
Jane LeCroy: is a poet, punk/folk/rock singer and bandleader of The Icebergs and teacher in the NYC public school system, resident of NYC
Heather Kapplow: is a multimedia artist based in Massachusetts. Her Walking In The Time Of Covld, is an interactive and collaborative work specifically about current life.
Lin Marcoux is a Bodywork therapist and healer in North Carolina
Amanda Maciel Antunes is a multimedia artist, costume designer, and archivist in Los Angeles “I have said many times before that on my show there are both guests whom I have never met in person, as well as those who I can count as closest friends.
Of the six people who make an appearance in this episode only one, Hannah Sharafin, is someone who not only have I never met before the show, but was relatively unknowledgeable about her work.
The others include people who I have known quite well, more or less, and over at least a couple of decades.
I say all of this because one of the results of something like Covid19, and this result is something I have seen little remarked upon in the popular media/press, is that it encourages or even necessitates a certain soulfulness, in Thomas Moore's sense of that word.
One aspect of soulfulness concerns friendship and human connection more generally, and conversation is key.
This increase in soulfulness does not necessarily constitute a full stop silver lining. I harbor suspicions that much desired improvements (should they come to pass as many activists want, to name one example) to come out of this will prove to have downsides themselves in the long run, compromised as they are by the corrosiveness of what we are living through.
I would be dishonest if I did not state these doubts.
There are times for civility and then there are times when one must be true to oneself and to one's own convictions.
You will also note that I am more forthcoming, even blunt, in this episode about some of my own convictions, for example by Camus', or Schoppenahuer brand of pessimism (as explicated in the Joshua Foa Diensteg book Pessimism) in the Jane LeCroy section, or my willingness to make jokes about the phrase "flatten the curve" since the phrase sounded to me like the name of a jazz fusion instrumental song from the early 80s, thus my reference to the musicians Will Lee and Steve Gadd in the Tyler Bejoines, and knowing upon reflection this might be in bad taste to many since it ignores the actual meaning of the phrase (which is most serious) in favor of it's sound in a different context.
But all of these are examples of soulfulness in that they are a way for me to reach back into things I love most deeply, and these are usually things from the past, like beloved music or works of philosophy. There is no excerpt where this tendency is more apparent than in my conversation with Tyler Bejoines.
But what all of these examples have in common is that not only might they be seen as "trivial" or off topic to the centrality of this virus in some quarters, but that they are supreme examples of art of all kinds, which, if you think about it, is why this podcast exists to begin with.
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton
“I confess I tend to lay it on pretty thick when making self deprecatory jokes about all the many things I claim to not be able to do well, whether it is drawing or, not able to do at all in the case of our current episode any kind of sculpture. In this particular episode I happen joke about how I am "impaired" in seeing objects in three dimensional space for example, and sing the praises of Beth and Rob Magnum in their "visual intelligence" and their ability to turn out beautiful and handcrafted works of pottery.
But all joking aside, my point in all of this is actually more far reaching. My point is never to judge or compare in a thumbs up/thumbs down juvenilia. Rather, my aim is a philosophical one: to emphasize that are as many different paths as to the way of art as there are ways of being in the world. That, although all the arts are one, nevertheless the arts come in many different mediums of expression. There is nothing I love more than spending quality time with people who have skills that I personally lack. Not only do I learn an enormous amount about what it is like to walk in another's shoes, I am also reminded that there are no "little things" in art and nothing can be taken for granted. Being in the physical space of Magnum Pottery and hearing heir life stories was to me what our podcast is all about. I hope you enjoy listening to it every bit as much as I enjoyed bring there. “
More about Mangum Pottery:
Nestled into the Blue Ridge mountains Of Buncombe County near Asheville, North Carolina lies the historic town of Weaverville. Stroll down Main Street and you may wander into this working pottery studio.
As you step into the gallery you’ll see displays of pitchers, teapots, and tableware next to hand built vases, ceramic furniture and banjos. Beyond the wares are craftsmen hard at work. Potters Rob and Beth Mangum continue a creative tradition started by Rob’s parents over forty years ago.
Continued here…..
Links to Mangum Pottery’s beautiful work:
Website: https://www.mangumpottery.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mangumpottery/
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6Fe9ek2uThby5L-XjVV5Q
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mangumpottery/
Links and details about Rob's beautiful music, gratefully used in this episode, thanks Rob!
Featured songs are : Opening song is Evie Ladin featuring Bob Mangum called “Checkin' on the Taters”.
The closing song is from Bob Magnum called “Primordial Chowder” from “In The Midst, Migratio”.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Barsters-129964614073495/
https://soundcloud.com/rob-mangum-837747707
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Mitch's Note on this episode:
"As we find ourselves in the middle of Season Two of our podcast, Journey Of An Aesthete I thought I should like to record a second solo episode which I guess means me sitting in front of the microphone and speaking all alone with the listeners/audience. I always get really nervous with these episodes as, speaking historically I have done very little in the way of public speaking like this, by which I mean it has happened so infrequently that I don't feel as practiced as I should like - though this podcast itself is making up for lost time. It isn't that I have a phobia or fear of public speaking - in truth whenever I do it
I feel at least moderately comfortable - it is just that it is a conviction of mine, whether founded or not, that one always does something best the more they have done it. I really don't know much about being a "natural" or whatever the term is. Alongside that vein I thought I would play just a little bit of piano, in this case the first (and in part the only) music I have committed to composing in the times since late March or early April. It promises to be a much longer piece, and aside from the somber tone of the opening that you will hear here, will have as many passages that are upbeat, even joyful in the fullness of the completed work.
I gathered some selections to read on this, our second solo show. I always have a deep feeling of indebtedness to others, thinker and artists that have come before me and I always to try to utilize my show as a platform to honor them. When I am forced to talk about my own piano playing I always try and mention my debt to my teacher Stanley Cowell, to name but one example. But some influences are people whom I have never met; I only know the works authored by the creator, not the creator herself. I have always felt that "the work" this might be the "best" part of themselves, which, though might be controversial to say (even though daily news reports sort of confirm my theory. And I mean no disrespect to any family members or loved ones of artists who really feel that the artist in their life is really great as a human being, never mind what they have made or that they are also known in public). I read Elizabeth Bishop's One Art which for me is a truly perfect poem which is saying a lot. I then read one of the first life changing books I ever encountered, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Shunryu Suzukim book I was most fortunate to encounter at the age of 13 or 14 and which has accompanied me on just about every "stage" of my life until the present at age fifty-one.
I do read it as a beautiful work of art, even poetry. I don't know if this is the correct or, in Suzuki's common formulation, the "right understanding" to read it in such a way but for what it's worth I also happen to think it accurate in many respects as a document of our daily lives, speaking in a broad register, thus making it in at least one instance a confirmation of Keat's proposition of Truth and Beauty being synonymous.
The book Foregone Conclusions has a review from The New Republic that I uncovered from wayback in 1995: https://newrepublic.com/article/63010/the-illusion-fate The Frank Loesser letter is a hoot and very funny. Its prankish and insouciant tone I feel has some seriousness in calling into question our received categories of artistic evaluation more generally even as I am not now prepared to take on fully the "populism" (egalitarianism?) of Loesser's narrator in the letter.
As far as the arts go, I have no caution. I love all of them without reservations, enthusiasm that I hope is expressed in episodes like this one.”
Links to Mitch’s Body of work:Journey of an Aesthete Podcast http://themoderatecontrarian.blogspot.com https://mitchhampton.bandcamp.com https://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete
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From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode
“As with some other guests,Erin Kinard is one who I have known personally, at least since the two years of living here in Weaverville. While I did know her for her singing as she has been a regular at Blue mountain here with just her and her guitar, and I did know her to possess both a truly beautiful voice and gift for songwriting there was much more.
I did not know until later that she is the president of Girls Rock in North Carolina, is an instrument maker, plays drums, has her own rock duo Rooster, and probably a whole bunch of other things we never got a chance to even get to on this particular episode.
We played together on a couple of the selections. I always enjoy the opportunity to really accompany someone and try and match their style the best that I can, particular when it is in a style of music that I don't often get to perform.
True to the spirit of our podcast, Erin Kinard is somebody who does many kinds of things in music, never content to be pigeonholed or stick with one genre.
Much like my episode with Bill Fouty, this one where we talked a bit about the nature of music making itself as an art and craft as well as play some numbers.
I hope it is as enjoyable to listen to as it was for us to record it.”
Erin’s Biography
Erin Kinard
Musician / community organizer / sign language interpreter
Erin Kinard has been a member of the Asheville community since 2010 and a lifelong supporter of the arts.
Born and raised in Charleston, she attended the Charleston County School of the Arts, studying dance and music.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music History at the College of Charleston.
In 2014, Erin founded Girls Rock Asheville, a camp seeking to create more space for more women and girls in music.
She currently serves on the board and council of Girls Rock Asheville.
Erin earned an associates degree in Sign Language Interpreting from Blue Ridge Community College and has worked in this field in public school, spiritual and mental health settings.
Since 2016, Erin has been playing drums and singing in the folk-rock duo, Rooster, with Annie Myers.
In February of 2020, the band released an 11 song album of original music.
Check their wonderful music out here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-568520317/tracks
Erin plays guitar and drums actively and also passively plays bass, piano, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica and whatever else she can find. Erin is a lifelong learner, lover of science and courageous adventurer.
www.roostermusicavl.weebly.com
www.girlsrockasheville.org
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From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode
“Meghan Daum is somebody I became acquainted with as part of my ongoing love for creative non-fiction, the kind of prose that comes out of a meeting of literary criticism, personal memoir, the opinion column and essays, and some other genres thrown in for good measure.
Reminiscent ofJoan Didion, George W. S. Trow, and others, Daum's nonfiction writing is thoroughly independent: she is beholden to no fixed political point of view or ideology and is always open to the newness of experience and what life might throw at us tomorrow but never so open as to lose an indispensable, critical skepticism.
Best and most of important of all, she is very funny and she is one of the best humorists in prose today.”
Her latest, The Problem With Everything, is her take on the state of the world of the past four years or so and there is in a large sense no better guide to such matters than Meghan Daum.”
Meghan’s Bio
Meghan Daum is the author of six books, most recently THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING: MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE NEW CULTURE WARS.
A Los Angeles Times opinion columnist from 2005 to 2016, she is now a biweekly columnist for Medium’s GEN Magazine.
She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2016 NEA grant and is on the adjunct faculty of the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
She has written for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Vogue.
Links to her body of work:
Twitter: @meghan_daum
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Meghan-Daum-44319076324/
Website: www.meghandaum.com
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"All About the Golden Age of the Made For T.V. Movie with Amanda Reyes
From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode:
“One of many, in my view, most unwelcome developments in public commentary as of late are the explicit demarcations being made regarding culture - usually between the trivial and the essential, or between the irrelevant and the mandatory.
The suppressed question then becomes, who gets decide where that line is and should we all fall in line? I am not suggesting that some works of art are not in fact better than others in all sorts of ways, but I am stating that those evaluations have little or nothing to do with the style of art and when, where, or how it was made.
I have been a fan of Amanda Reyes' podcast, Made For T.V. Mayhem for sone time now and one of the many things I love about her show is that, for her, dramatic feature productions made for television in the 70s and 80s are never irrelevant and always valuable. Reyes is both a film and television historian and scholar as we all as a film archivist and thus it was a real joy to finally sit down with her and discuss some frankly forgotten gems that happened to have been made for the small screen over several decades. Is Night Terror (Night Drive) starring Valerie Harper dated or irrelevant?
Since it is a film representing in frank terms a woman trying to find herself amidst an extreme situation, and since things like that do happen in life, for better and worse, we feel that that particular t.v. movie is always ever relevant. If you listen to our episode you might be inclined agree. We hope you enjoy our discussion as much as we did having it. I learned a lot from Amanda Reyes.
Her mind moves very fast and I have to struggle to keep up with her, which in itself was lots of fun. She knows more about television and television history than anybody I have ever met and is a genuinely warm and engaging conversationalist. "
Amanda Reyes is an archivist, author, film and television historian and academic. She edited and co-wrote Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 (Headpress, 2017) which celebrates the made for television film, and was featured on Barnes and Noble’s Best of Horror list for 2017. She's been a guest speaker at international film festivals and conferences in such places as the UK, Australia, and the United States. She's also contributed commentary tracks for several made for television Blu-Ray and DVD releases, including the made for TV movies The Girl Most Likely To... (1973), Nightmare in Badham County (1976), Amazons (1984) and Death Dreams (1991), all of which were released through Kino Lorber in 2019. For 18 months, Amanda also curated a quarterly series of made for TV mystery screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse, and has hosted other screenings in conjunction with the Austin Film Society. When she has a moment, she also podcasts and blogs about anything vintage small screen.
Made for TV Mayhem (blog): www.madefortvmayhem.com
Made for TV Mayhem Show (podcast): www.tvmayhempodcast.wordpress.com
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton
“From 1470 to 2020, with a few stops in between: a musical conversation with bassist Bill Fouty "
“Bill Fouty is one of the many fine musicians I have had the privilege to meet and work and play with over the years. He is an expert on the bass and I was quite overjoyed at the prospect of playing with him as he unearthed an actual cello from Italy in the year of 1470 (!)
I had not known he was going to bring that particular instrument to our episode but bring it he did.
Bill is one of those consummate musicians with whom I have been privileged to associate. He has an understanding of music and expression and has played the widest diversity of musical styles with proficiency and then some.
He also has deep connections to the West Coast jazz scene of the 1960s through the 80s, a scene I have always admired for its own inimitable style. In my language, he knows "the changes."
Our episode had a casual rehearsal type atmosphere.
We did some things you could call pedagogical or "Music 101" and some things that were just purely improvised music of the kind we are most fond of doing.
I hope you enjoy listening to this as much we enjoyed performing it. “
Links to the body of Bill’s beautiful work:
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From Mitch’s notebook about this episode:
“I have always been almost as interested in certain topics like history and philosophy as much as the arts. The first time I encounters the name George Kateb was in a quite old book from the early 1990s where the phrase "positive alienation" was attributed to one George Kateb. More familiar with the word alienation as being (only) a pejorative the curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to find out what in the world a positive form of that would even look like.
I eventually found myself basically reading (almost) everything the man has written .Kateb is perhaps unusual on our podcast in that he is specifically a political philosopher and not, say, a playwright, actor or musician.
But if you dig a little deeper into his work, especially the fact that Emerson, that most aesthetic minded of American philosophers, was one of his biggest influences the choice of Kateb seems in every way a perfect one for Journey Of An Aesthete.
I really enjoyed our discussion and both for those familiar as well as unfamiliar with what is called political philosophy I certainly hope it is as enjoyable to listen to as it was for us to have this discussion with one of my favorite writers and thinkers.”
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From Mitch’s Notebook on the episode:
“I aim to have guests of every stripe on my show. The reasons are many. Part of it is my conviction that the arts come in different mediums - visual and aural, for example. One of the other reasons (I am sure I will leave out or forget some reasons - there are many) is actually more idealistic. I actually think that people different from one another. even to a degree that we can say is profound, should have a seat at the same table, so to speak, in order to actually, well, speak.
Some of my guests I know personally, others I have never met. My interest in alternative art spaces in general, particularly those spaces unafraid to mix sometimes radical politics and aesthetics, brought me into contact with Jane LeCroy, I believe, if memory serves, because we shared the bill on one event or another in Manhattan. I have always enjoyed collaborating with her because I am able to have a maximum of musical freedom, especially improvisation, while being able to honor the words she both writes and performs. Jane, true to the spirt of our podcast, is many things, never content to stay with a single medium.
She is a poet who also is part of a postpunk rock band as part of her poetic practice, She is also involved in avant-garde sound performance which is different from her rock music project. She is a political activist, a mother, freethinker and atheist, vegetarian and many other things. And being a native New Yorker, has has also been a teacher of poetry in the New York City public school system, which if she did nothing else, would alone certainly qualify her to be a notable guest on our show.
Jane LeCroy's poetry engages with large ideas, stemming from her interest in both philosophy and science, including physics and cosmology, and she is unafraid to write and perform poetry on some fairly universal subjects - love and justice are two favorites - and to do so in a way that can communicate so effectively with a wide audience.
Jane LeCroy embodies the spirit of Journey Of An Aesthete. “
Jane’s Bio
Jane LeCroy is a New York based poet, singer and performance artist, home-birthing mother of 3, teacher, atheist, vegetarian, hedonist. She serves the poetry gods. By day she surfs the subway lines from one borough to the next, teaching kids creative writing, and publishing their work. By night, she writes porn under a pseudonym, or you might find her seducing patrons as a feature character in The Poetry Brothel. Three Rooms Press published, “Signature Play” a multimedia collection of her lyric poems.
Her writing is in the Smithsonian, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Poets House, Yale Library, and you can find her DNA in the Library of Congress, where her hair binds one of her poetry chapbooks, “Names” published by Booklyn’s award winning ABC chapbook series that is part of the institution’s collection.
Jane’s recording career began in the early 90’s with the punk label, Bloodlink Records, release of her spoken-word vinyl 7inch titled “Guilty”.
Since then she has made over a dozen recordings, with various projects, including the feminist poetry collective, Sister Spit and the 90’s major label punk outfit, Vitapup.
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In this episode I discuss with Mike White his movie podcast The Projection Booth, the movies he loves, his approach to interviews and podcasting and all matters of cinephilia."
"Movie Talk with Mike White”
From Mitch’s notebook on the episode:
“I first discovered Mike White through his wonderful cinema podcast, The Projection Booth. There are two reasons I love it, and I am speaking as a cinephile, I hasten to say.
One is that he has really long form explorations of single films, thus treating the films as artistic texts to be taken seriously, in terms of analysis. There is no cute thumbs up.thumbs down brevity.
Secondly, he does this from the perspective of a regular guy/gal.
That is, he exhibits the joy and love for cinema of people who are not necessarily academic experts while at the same time delving deep into film as an art. Thus, he achieves a balance rarely found in discussions of this kind.
Also I really appreciate his civility. He always talks with guests in the most gracious and respectful manner, never lording it over anybody or indulging in overwrought pretensions.
Listening to his podcast gave me inspiration for my own podcast, actually even though our sensibilities are different in certain respects. his relation with discussion gave me one model for how to behave on a podcast. And, last but not least, I like the way he themes his show, centered around a single film.
This goes back to turning attention to the text itself which is also one of my guiding principles on my show.
I learned a lot on this episode.
We discussed the zine culture of the 90s, his background in the American Midwest, and much more.
He was every bit the gracious conversationalist I knew he would be. "
Mike White’s Bio:
Often mistaken for the ginger screenwriter/actor of the same name, Mike White began publishing the film fanzine Cashiers du Cinemart in 1994 and has been a contributor to publications such as Cinema-Scope, Paracinema , Detroit's Metro Times, and Detour-Mag.com.
He's served on juries at the Slamdance , Cinekink , MicroCineFest , Blue Water, and Kansas City film festivals. Additionally, he's been featured in the documentaries David Goodis: To a Pulp and The People Vs. George Lucas. In 2010, BearManor Media published Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection.
Mike’s wonderful podcast link is here: http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton“Jon Stepp: The Value Of the Handcrafted”
From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode:“ I first became acquainted with Jon Stepp more for the joy of conversation with him than for any particular knowledge of his artistic practice.
Later I was to discover that he was a visual artist in all sorts of media and was quite eloquent in expressing what it means for him to do his art. It is true that many artists are not always the most articulate on such matters perhaps for reasons of psychological introversion as much as the strength that visual artists have which, of course is not the same as prose of speech of course.
One my cardinal rules on Journey Of An Aestheteis that if you can and are willing to talk about your artistic practice you are most welcome to do so and I'd love to have you as a guest.
For me there is an inherent interest and value in having a oral record of the artist in their own voice.
And the proof has been in the listening on my show since everybody on my show, no matter their personality style or what kind of artistic medium they practices has been most interesting to listen to.
It makes it all the better, of course is they are as versed in the art of conversation as is Jon which one of the reasons, among others, of course,
I loved having him on my show.
Links to check out more of Jon’s beautiful handcrafted work:
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A comprehensive look at the career of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski, including detailed discussion of how his films up to now were made, especially the originality of their style, his educational background at HarvardwithChantal Akerman, working with both professional and nonprofessional actors, issues of reception and distribution, films both of us have loved, and much more.
Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton
“Back in the period around 2001 or thereabouts I was fortunate to have been an early viewer of Andrew Bujalski's Funny HaHa. This low budget character centered comedy of manners set in the Boston area was destined to change the course of American cinema forever. In a very real sense, though Bujalksi being ever humble among other qualities would not give assent to this, had Bujalski not made that first feature, you could argue there might not have ever been Lena Dunham's Girls. Bujalksi made it okay for filmmakers to make extremely awkward and naturalistic movies primarily about relationships but completely outside of all of the conventions of studio filmmaking. Bujalski's films are as complex emotionally as anything from Harold Pinter, and by design they use ellipsis to keep viewers on the edges of their seat as to what is going on between the characters.
I actually did not know at the time that he was or had been ensconced at Harvard and had studied with the likes of Chantal Akerman. I also had not idea that his work would have the large effect that it has. At the time it was extraordinarily divisive and I could count among my friends both those who hated the films, considering them meandering and plots or overtly consumed with the whining of relatively privileged characters, as well as those like myself who though that Bujalksi was one of the precious few people expressing what was actually going on in human relationships in the contemporary world, warts and all.
Bujalski, like most good filmmakers, knows his cinema history and our conversation proved wide ranging as we talked about everything from Francois Truffaut to the Rocky movie franchise all off which made for a one of a kind conversation, as one of a kind as his movies. His latest Support The Girls should be seen wherever you can.”
Andrew’s Bio
"Andrew Bujalski has written and directed six feature films. He types 89 wpm."
Some website links to his works:
Support the Girls | Magnolia Pictures
RESULTS: http://www.magpictures.com/results/
Computer Chess: http://www.computerchessmovie.com
Beeswax: http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/beeswax.html
FunnyHaHa : http://www.funnyhahafilm.com
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From Mitch's Notebook:
"I have an archivist’s passion for things past and largely for aesthetic rather than political or sociological reasons - and the fact that it is aesthetic makes all the difference. I suspect that my psychological state is really about the same as the Thora Birch character’s response to the old artifacts she discovers from her friendship with the Steve Buscemi/Seymour character in the wonderful film version of Ghost World.
She instantly falls in love with the objective beauty of the old blues vinyl record as well as animations and illustrations from the thirties to which she is exposed. Her curiosity and openness is essentially the aesthetic capacity of the human being and it is not coincidental that her character is someone in her late teens.
The film Ghost World is discussing the first time you experience a work of art as much as it is discussing first friendships and loves. (The main reason I am taking this time to emphasize it in this context). There is a special understanding that you can have for something by it being completely new to you while you are also aware that what happens to be new to you in particular is in actuality old to many more other people and and is not tied to your actual lived experience.
This is how I suspect historians and anthropologists must feel towards some things, as well as art preservationists. Conversely, there is a way to know something by virtue of having directly experienced it that is superior in ways to not having experienced it. But my main point is that you need both, contrary kinds of responses and reasons in your interaction with the culture. You need both the observer distance and participant closeness, not necessarily at the same time or for same things of course, but in the fullness of lived experience over a lifespan.
Thus when Laurie Jill Strickland gave me this wonderful present of the original artwork for the poster of Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl a powerfully similar state as in Proust’s Madeline took hold of me - because the dress the illustration depicts being worn by Deborah Foreman was identical to the one worn by a girl I had loved in my teenage years. I always have reservations about discussing the subjects of both love and sex, not out of any coyness on my part: to put it bluntly I am about as opposite a prude as you can imagine a human can be. I am not much less reserved when it comes to the subject of my personal life in general.
You could chalk it up to my Libran sense of diplomacy. Or you could say it is my (inordinate) need to be loved, much like the part of me who plays piano. It is also most curious, even ironic, that something so universal as love can also be so controversial. Then again, universal things involve the most people which increases the chance of disagreement. I am anxious about all of these things.
And yet….On the other hand, here we are in February and both love and sex are inevitably on everybody’s mind at this time. As well as movies of course, surely one of the most romantic of art forms. What I am really saying is that this movie Valley Girl is a beautiful and fun movie; it is as much entertaining as it is edifying in about equal measure. "
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Mitch talks with Daniel Kremer about both his cinema scholarship as well as prolific filmmaking on the occasion of the release of his Overwhelm The Sky.
“I guess I first became acquainted with Daniel Kremer before actually seeing any of his films because the man has an encyclopedic knowledge of film history; he knows as much if not more about cinema than anybody I have ever met. But being an expert on film doesn't necessarily mean you can make good or great ones. In Kremer's case I have to say that all of that knowledge has more than paid off. In terms of his output of movies since he is quite prolific, patterning his production procedures on the Zoetrope model of Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s. Region is also important, in terms of connecting the art to a unique place and the people within it, in Kremer's case, San Francisco. Kremer's beat is the power and centrality of the actors. In his films this approaches the quality of Cassavetes, or Rivette or Pialat. Kremer's films do have structures and plot, in some cases quite intriguing, even suspenseful ones, but he is also committed to the art of improvisation within that narrative structure and what it cam do for a narrative film. In a Daniel Kremer film there are never overlooked characters and everyone matters and has "their say". His current film Overwhelm The Sky is becoming something of a hit and I have to say that every positive review is well deserved. The film has an epic feeling and is visually beautiful while holding to Kremer's commitment to respecting the actor. His Raise Your Kids On Seltzer is one of 4th most interesting films I have ever seen on the subject of fundamentalism and the effects of cults on family life. Kremer is also a film archivist, working with the celluloid itself as well as a writer and critic. His book on film director Sidney Furie is highly recommended, and I eagerly await his forthcoming book on one of my favorite film directors , Joan Micklin Silver. "
IMDb Bio: Filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University's film program and now lives in San Francisco. In 2007, while living in Philadelphia, he directed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007) and was presented with four Best Documentary prizes for Yarns to Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home (2007), a personal essay film about having grown up with a severe stutter. His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards. Following that film's international festival tour (which included Rotterdam), he moved to New York City, where he lived for nearly seven years. At one point, he studied to be an Orthodox rabbi, but gave it up to continue pursuing film. In 2011, he completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011). The film was lensed predominantly in India and is distributed on Fandor. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015), Ezer Kenegdo (2017), Overwhelm the Sky (2018), and Even Just (2019).
www.bricolagefilms.com
www.confluencefilm.com
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Ring in the New Year with us with this inspirational episode as we sit down with Olympic Marathon Runner, Doug Kurtis , about what is possible!
From Mitch's Notebook on the episode:
"If you will recall if you have heard our Smriti Shankar episode . I say early on that I dreamed of being able to talk with an athlete on our show under the principle that it is a very good idea to explore ideas with people who have lived a life very different than one's own.
Though the example I used was of an anonymous football quarterback, I finally did get to speak with an athlete, in this case Olympic Marathon runner Doug Kurtis.
Doug is a phenomenal runner but of course he is much more.
He has been a sportswriter in Michigan, worked in the auto industry in Detori and continues to be a motivational speaker. What better way to bring in 2020 with a conversation with him! We certainly enjoyed having him on the show."
More on Doug’s “runnography” and his body of work:
Doug is currently the director of the Corktown Races - www.corktownrace.comHe’s easy to find on Facebook. People just need to remember my last name starts with a K !There are a lot of articles and video of him through Google and www.runmichigan.com
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Inside the Episode with Mitch “ The Holiday Show” With special guest, Laurie Jill Strickland creator of Everyone’s Carol From Mitch’s Notebook on the episode: “ Back in the (Analog) day everybody and everyone would do a Christmas timed and themed show of some kind. One of the joys of growing up when I did is seeing what The White Shadow or Eight Is Enough or The Waltons and Family would do for a Christmas show.
Then there were the sometimes outrageous comedy and variety shows of the time with those start studded lineups.
Many artists have been inspired by Christmas and, invariably, have brought their unique concerns and interpretations to the season in their own ways, whether these be an action thriller or family comedy for the big screen or unorthodox reflections on the Life of Jesus on the avant-garde stage. I'd like to think I can be able to gleam something from all of it. Journey Of An Aesthete is a show for our digital age of course, but some things should never change and I can't see why we shouldn't continue to honor this time as always has been done.
For this particular show I am blessed to have a producer who is, among other things, a Charles Dickens scholar and interpreter. Laurie Jill Strickland developed over many years her version of Charles Dicken's , A Christmas Carol in Prose ; being a Ghost Story of Christmas Carol, called Everyone’s Carol.
One of the things you can truly say about it is that it as close as is possible to the heart of Dickens' original text. We are happy to have had her on the show to discuss this in what is a most spontaneous, all but live, Holiday episode of our podcast. And as our podcast is always about what it means to be human, this episode is intended for everybody.”
A little more about Laurie and her body of work: Laurie is an award winning writer, producer , director who creates shows across genres and mediums.
Her production, mentioned in this episode, Everyone’s Carol is a culturally diverse, modern production that has performed all over the globe. Everyone’s Carol also includes a pre show Dickens holiday lobby festival with food, drink, bespoke holiday items, community tables where are all welcome, no matter what they celebrate and a Dickens education unit that serves children in shelters and title one schools with limited artistic opportunities. Everyone’s Carol will next be in Denmark in 2020.
Laurie is the recent recipient of the Jean Louis and Louise Bourgeois artistic grant, Macy’s arts & humanities award, Michelle Obama Arts award and Dickens writing fellowship in France. Some of her recent projects include: Journey of an Aesthete Podcast, Urania, Everyone’s Carol, and Something Higher: The incredible story of Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham.
Laurie coaches and teaches folks about creating their own writing projects, writing for businesses, entrepreneurs and consults on numerous stories in development in film, theatre and television through her company, Laurie’s Stories.
Creating shows, listening to and telling stories is her passion.
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Episode 9 : “Music with Mitch, Second Edition”
For this special episode of Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast , your host, Mitch Hampton, records live at his Steinway piano.
An Alumni of New England Conservatory of Music , Mitch discusses his process of creating original music. Mitch is a world renown musician and composer who has scored for many major films, toured the world playing piano , and has produced many albums.
This is the second segment in an ongoing series for Journey of an Aesthete Podcast , where from time to time, in between hosting other artists and guests, our host, Mitch Hampton, takes us up close and personal, into his own creative process as a musician and podcaster. We here at Journey of an Aesthete Podcast see our show as a story quilt, each interview and guest a quilt square, an exploration, a door Mitch opens for us into new worlds, exploring the creative process for all artists of all kinds, across mediums and genres…. Always our compass being the value of the arts and the creative journey of any kind, and, “ What it means to be human”…….
These more personal episodes from Mitch’s interior process and world, are the “threads” if you will, the binding of the quilt into a whole. Enjoy and find more links to Mitch’s body of work below!
From Mitch’s notebook about this episode:
"I should say that I originally came up with the idea of an ongoing series where I sit at the piano and simply talk about music in general, and how I compose in particular, when I realized that my YouTube feed was filled with hundreds of instructional how-to music videos, some of them by rather prominent names in music. I was struck of course by the sheer volume of information being offered at a mere click, and sometimes I would watch and say are they going to mention this or that and the other thing, and invariably they always did mention the thing in question.
Consequently I knew that if ever I did anything with me talking at the piano I would vow to do something completely unlike all of those videos that are out there. Rather than have a goal of teaching music per se I would reflect philosophically how I actually compose music in real time and I would do so in non-technical language with an eye, or ear, towards art and aesthetics in general rather than simply music.
I have no idea if my idea is enjoyable, or interesting, or not. In this particular episode I talked mainly about how some music can have many chord changes or few and use as a test case a piece I am working on that is self consciously minimal in its harmonic density.”
For more information about Mitch's body of work, links to Mitch's albums, click here and enjoy!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mitch-hampton/434517595
https://mitchhampton.bandcamp.com
https://vimeo.com/123552097
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Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton:
“I was first introduced to Jaimee Wriston Colbert by her daughter Mailie Colbert, who told me I should read her mother's books. I readClimbing The God Tree, and later Shark Girls, and more recently, Vanishing Acts with the greatest pleasure. Colbert's work is exciting in its formal inventiveness: it blurs the line between short stories and the novel for one, magical thing, moreover it is fiction rooted in the real lives of ordinary humanity, sometimes, and in some instances people who are unfortunately forgotten or overlooked in a lot of books and stories. The characters in Colbert's fiction really are like the people you could know in life except that she gives you more than a glimpse into their inner lives such that would be ordinarily unavailable to you in life. The people in Colbert's fiction have extraordinary dignity and integrity, even in some of the hardest social situations, and the struggles of the characters come alive in ways that make you look at human social life in a thoroughly novel way. In the proverbial phrase, you grow to care about them as you read. In having Colbert on the show, the artistic medium being celebrated is what used to be called the art of prose, and it is a medium in which she undoubtedly excels.”
Jaimee’s Biography: Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of six books of fiction: Vanishing Acts, winner of a 2018 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, and finalist for the 2018 American Fiction Prize, 2018 Foreword Indies Book of the Year, the National Indie Excellence Award in Literary Fiction, and the 2019 International Book Award in Literary Fiction; Wild Things, winner of the CNY 2017 Book Award in Fiction and the 2018 International Book Award in Fiction-Short Stories; Shark Girls, finalist for the USA Book News Best Books of 2010 and ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year; Dream Lives of Butterflies, winner of the IPPY Gold Medal/First Place Award for story collections; Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Tampa Review, and Prairie Schooner, and broadcast on “Selected Shorts.” She was awarded the 2012 Ian MacMillan Fiction Prize for “Things Blow Up,” a story in Wild Things. Other stories won the Jane’s Stories Award and the Isotope Editor’s Fiction Prize. She was recently awarded the 2018-2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Originally from Hawai’i, she is Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY, Binghamton University.
Links to Jaimee’s Works: https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/jaimeewristoncolbert http://www.fomitepress.com/Vanishing_Acts html http://www.newletters.org/bkmk-books/wild-things https://livingstonpress.uwa.edu/htm%20(web%20pages)/shark_girls.htm https://www.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=jcolbert https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimeewristoncolbert/ https://www.facebook.com/jaimee.wriston.colbert:
Artist's Referenced: Tillie Olson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_Olsen Jack Driscoll: https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/tell-me-the-landscape-in-which-you-live-an-interview-with-jack-driscoll/
*Please note a correction in the episode, artists mentioned in the episode : I mention an important novella by Tillie Olsen called Tell Me A Riddle. I say that the filmed version was directed by John Sayles. John Sayles was not the director. Lee Grant was!
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The Art of Sound and Image: a conversation with Maile Costa Colbert
Inside the episode with Mitch Hampton:
I have known Maile Colbert personally for more than a decade, originally going back to the days when I frequented Mass Art Film Society where she presented some of her very first work, including a film about artist Sophie Calle, and my interest in some of the faculty at CalArts with whom she studied, including James Benning. Maile Colbert, like so many of the guests at Journey Of An Aesthete, is an artist whose work involves the aesthetic itself, but for what it reveals about us.
She is unique in that her art focuses on what I would call the textures of sensory life. She works in what is sometimes called experimental sound and does sound design for her own projects as well as those of others. She also makes film and video and has created an opera, Come Kingdom Come. She is interested in what the world sounds and looks like and what, as elements of "found" nature and created culture, the experience of our senses tells us about what it is to be human at this point in our collective history. Equally serious about and sensitive to the visuals and sounds of life, her work defies all traditional categories or genres and urges us to pay greater attention to the environment around us.
Maile’s Bio:
Maile Costa Colbert is an intermedia artist, researcher, and educator with a focus on audio-visual time-based media. She is currently a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on sound studies, cinematic sound design, and its relationship with soundscape ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and a visiting lecturer at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place (http://www.mailecolbert.com/proj-wayback.html), and asks what we might gather from listening to and sounding a past. She is a collaborator with the Portuguese art and culture organization Binaural (www.binauralmedia.org), a member of CineLab, IFILNOVA's research lab for cinema and philosophy (www.fcsh.unl.pt), and is an editor and author at Sonic Field - sonic arts, sound studies, and listening culture (http://sonicfield.org/author/mailecolbert/). She has exhibited, screened, and performed globally.
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Since the publication of his Care of The Soul in 1992, Thomas Moore has been a bestselling author on all matters important to the human being. He has a background as monk, musician, psychologist and practicing psychotherapist with deep connections to Carl Jung, and is very erudite on all of the humanities, making him an ideal guest forJourney Of An Aesthete Podcast.
Moore holds Ficino, Erasmus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and J S Bach as special influences and attempts to bring their insights into the contemporary period.
He is as widely versed in spiritual traditions as he is in the secular liberal arts and in books like Soulmates, The Soul Of Sex, The Re-enchantment Of The World and, currently, Ageless Soul., renders his philosophical commitments in the most beautiful prose.
One of his central insights is that what he calls "literalism" is the biggest problem for our world today; consequently, he attempts to heal the effects of this literalism through a more poetic consciousness about all aspects of life.
It was certainly an honor to have him as guest on the show.
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Smriti Shankar is a woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. Lots of people often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India. Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined.
Check back with us for live updates with Smriti on the road about her travels in some live episodes soon!
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Back when I was living in Boston, which proved to be my home for most of my adult life since it was close to thirty years, I enjoyed the daily ritual of the Peets Coffee in Harvard Square. A lot of international travelers would came through that particular coffeehouse, if not actual students at Tufts, Harvard or MTI and so on, then visiting professors, families, and random business and leisure travelers. A serendipitous meeting with Smriti Shankar proved to be most illuminating since I became aware of her extraordinary Traveling Boots project. Smriti is a married woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. People often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India, the updates of which can be linked to here. Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, to put it simply, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined. Her project is very much in keeping with the theme and spirit of Journey OF an Aesthete, perhaps even in the most literal sense of those words. Welcome to Journey Of an Aesthete, Smriti Shankar.
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" Mr. Sanifu Al Hall Jr. : The Consummate Musician "
AL Hall Jr. is that uncommon individual: the consummate musician or musician's musician. He has literally done it all. From session work on the trombone to touring and recording with some of the best musicians of the previous century - Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Freddie Hubbard, Sammy Davis Jr. for starters, Hall has also played a critical role in recording and producing musical projects as much as composing, arranging and performing. Accordingly, Journey Of An Aesthete is happy to talk with him.
Extended Look Inside the Episode with Mitch:
In a very real sense having Sanifu Al Hall Jr. on my show at this early date is perfection in scheduling because as a man, musician and artist he exemplifies everything this podcast is about.
He is consummate musician who has mastered and played in every musical style. He has played trombone with some of the most important artists of the 20th century. Indeed he was in the Ray Charles Orchestra in the years of the early 1970s which was one of the great big bands of that era. He has toured with the great Marvin Gaye in the late 70s and was part of Stevie Wonder's Secret life Of Plants Tour. And that is just for starters. He is a composer and producer, a key member of the Black Jazz label (Gene Russell's label), one of the important jazz labels of the 1970s, contributing arrangements and compositions as much as his own trombone mastery on recording sessions.
He is also a true audiophile and was and is an innovator in recording technology and the arts of studio recording more generally. A musician's musician, he is is also one of the few musicians I know of to work in both straight ahead jazz contexts as well as RnB and dance music with equal facility as well as wind ensemble and classical.
He has done it all.
He also happened to write music for and produce for one of my favorite brass (trumpet and flugelhorn) players Freddie Hubbard. We will talk about his defiance about musical boxes and categories and much more. Moat recently we are lucky to have released some older sessions he conducted of some of his soul infused compositions, in an ensemble called the Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra I believe in a couple of cases this is the first time the tracks have been released.
We are happy to welcome... Sanifu Al Hall Jr.
Links to Al's Blogs:
https://alhalljr.wordpress.com/author/sanifualhalljr/
https://sanifu.blogspot.com/
Links to Al's works:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/480312-Al-Hall-2?page=1
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7222344-Sanifu-Al-Hall-Jr https://www.jamendo.com/artist/360061/sanifu https://cosmosdwellerzarkestra.bandcamp.com/ https://www.reverbnation.com/aljonimusic
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...in which our host, Mitch Hampton, introduces himself and his passions. Through the vantage point of the late, great Isaiah Berlin's ideas about pluralism, he reflects on what art is, has been and can be, the reality of stylistic diversity, with some personal reflections from the host's early life, movies, musical training and much more.
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