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Letting my freak flag fly

26 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by dunkablog in Creativity, Music, Writing

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5150, Amazon, Brooks Brothers, CD Baby, iBook, iTunes, Nook, Plow This Land, Smashwords, the Acres, Uniform resource locator

Enough already with the JC Penney permanent press pants and the Brooks Brothers no-iron button downs.  I’m in my flip flops, a tank top, and a pair of shorts.  My belly is hanging over the waistline.  Not just literally, but figuratively as well.

I am a musician, a poet, a writer, and then I do a ton of business-related stuff all week long.  It is exhausting, but it pays the mortgage.

Today I’m dedicating my post to two works of art that actually made it out into the world and deserve mention.

My novel, 5150, which is available as an e-book on Amazon, iBooks, Nook, and a bunch of other places thanks to Smashwords.  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366295

5150cover

And the CDBaby helped me get the album “Plow This Land” by the Acres out onto iTunes, which was no small chore.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/theacres

theacres

There are more fancy ways to show you these great works of art besides a mere link to an external URL, but I have yet to figure out how to make them work on here.  They just look like gibberish.

I encourage you to explore them.  Samples are free.  If you like what you read or hear, tell a friend about it.  I’m feeling like I have been reduced to shameless self-promotion, so I will stop here.


 

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Honoring both left and right brain activities

25 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by dunkablog in Business, Creativity

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5150, Brain, business, creativity, Lateralization of brain function, Left Brain, Lefthanders, Logic and Foundations, Math, People, Right Brain, the Acres, Theory

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a banker and a poet.  He had two sets of friends, and each entered his house through a separate door.  His house, much like the human brain, was divided into left and right hemispheres.  He welcomed his creative friends to his house through the right door, and his banking cronies always came in through the left.  Never the twain did meet.

My three year stint at USC’s Marshall School of Business was a powerful experience.  I likened it to a “mind fuck” at times, but what it really did was put me back in touch with the left side of my brain, where logic and reason reside.  I don’t much like it over there, but it’s a good place to go when living through a great depression.

To honor my full capabilities, I have divided my blog into two main categories: Creativity and Business.  Right brain creative stuff and Left brain logic.  Dunkablog will now contain posts about either – and occasionally, such as this little treatise, it will cover both.  Having recently published my book again in a new edition, and also succeeded in getting the Acres to appear in the iTunes Music store (at long last), I will need to spout off about my creative endeavors as often as I write about the calculating world of business.

Unlike TS Eliot, however, you may enter through either door, and the parlor on the left is free to comingle with the salon on the right.

Happy reading!i

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