Interrelativity

Category: Music

  • KT Tunstall @ The Moore, Seattle (a concert review)

    KT Tunstall and her band of mostly unplugged musicians gave an energetic performance at The Moore Theatre in Seattle last night. The music was drastically fantastic, and her rapport and repartee with the audience was light-hearted and engaging. I first discovered her through spam – one of the weekly emails RealNetworks used to send out…

  • Political Song and Dance – and Humor – with The Capitol Steps

    Amy and I enjoyed a hilarious political revue by The Capitol Steps comedy song and dance troupe ("We put the ‘mock’ in Democracy’") at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle last night with our friends Dave and Lisa. Among the entertaining songs – and insightful (and inciteful) prologues – included in last night’s show were: Ebony…

  • Music and Personality: Reflective and Complex

    As part of my ongoing personal and professional re-engagement with music (since the initiation of my instigation at MyStrands), and renewed exploration of how tastes in music and other media can offer new opportunities for engagement marketing, I was reading up on some of the work by Peter Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling on music…

  • Commenting on Validation / Validating Comments

    Ever since my last post, which started out about locked-in syndrome (inspired by The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), but which developed into a revisitation of a frequently discussed topic [on this blog] – "the need for approval … for validation … for appreciation … for mattering" – I’ve been attuned to validation in a…

  • Chicago at the Chateau (A Concert Review)

    The band Chicago put on a surprisingly strong — but surprisingly short (one hour, forty minutes) — show last night at Chateau Ste. Michelle.  Approximately 3,800 people came out to enjoy the music, wine and fabulous weather at the winery. I don’t think I’ve attended another concert where so many people were singing so many…

  • CSNY vs. GWB at WRA (A Concert Review)

    Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young rendered a rousing rock and roll revue that combined retrospection with rekindled rebellion at the White River Amphitheatre last night.  While I don’t believe U.S. President George W. Bush was physically present at the concert, representations of him — including his words and actions (and their consequences) — were front…

  • Unfolding Radiance

    Dan Oestreich is one of my favorite bloggers. One of the insights that has unfolded for me, through regularly reading Dan’s blog, Unfolding Leadership, is that everyone is a leader: like it or not, I am always "leading by example", intentionally and unintentionally.  His latest post, On the Capability to Lead, weaves together many rich,…

  • The Wahwah Model for Breakthrough Ideas

    Kathy Sierra has returned to the blogosphere with yet another inspiring and provocative post, this time about what she and her colleagues call the EQ model for breakthrough ideas, based on a sound equalizer (EQ) metaphor with various sliders used to model features and potential features in a new product or service.  Kathy suggests that…

  • Mistakes vs. Lessons, Masculine vs. Feminine

    One final note about the NPR interview with Paul McCartney and his producer, Nigel Godrich: Godrich mentioned a “mistake” that McCartney made during a cut that was his “favorite moment in the song” (Fine Line)… and he convinced McCartney to incorporate that into the final cut. This called to mind Sheryl Crow‘s song My Favorite…

  • Openness, Vulnerability, Kindness and Greatness

    I was catching up with Dan Oestreich’s blog this morning, getting inspired by Dan’s writing about — and modeling — the value of being conscious and open.  I took a break to drive the kids to school, and on the way back, listened to Steve Inskeep’s interview with Paul McCartney on NPR, which provided yet…