by Chad | Oct 2, 2017 | Creativity Forum, Top Five and Why, Trends and Culture
This is a special Top 5, equipped with a Top 5 right behind. In other words, this could have easily been a Top 10, but no double-albums here. Only ifs and buts, no beer and nuts. Big role or small, good guy or bad, Hoffman’s talent, craft and discipline was...
by Chad | Sep 25, 2017 | Community, Creativity Forum, Top Five and Why, Trends and Culture
If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important… I don’t have to know what a song means. All Top 5 and Whys are tough, but this may be the toughest. The point of the Top 5 and Why is to skim the tippy-tops, to point at the high-heights. We could be systematic and...
by Chad | Sep 19, 2017 | Creativity Forum, Top Five and Why, Trends and Culture
Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black is where it’s at. He’s funny, a better singer than you might think, and has morphed into a gifted character-actor as well. He has a long list to choose from, but if you’re forced to choose just five,...
by Chad | Oct 13, 2014 | Book Reviews, Community, Creativity Forum, Trends and Culture
“It’s no easy business to be simple.” Gustave Flaubert had a terrible time keeping his life and art simple in the ways he wanted them. Of course, he did manage to achieve something through his years of toil and search for le mot juste, and the...
by Chad | Jun 23, 2014 | Book Reviews, Creativity Forum
“History handles our past like spoiled fruit.” If you haven’t discovered Charles Wright until now, he’s a great choice for U.S. poet laureate, and as an excellent beginning point, I recommend his mid-career trilogy, Negative Blue. Becoming a...
by Chad | May 20, 2014 | Book Reviews, Creativity Forum, Trends and Culture
Invisible Cities is Calvino at his thematic and structural best. For more about this amazing book check out his Top 5 and Why. The following excerpt was recorded at the 92nd St. Y on March 31st, 1983. Skip ahead to the English portion of his reading if you prefer at...
