THRU Magazine ArchiveCo-Founder of THRU Media. A background in non-profit, music, and radio preceded my ambitions here. Now, I aspire to produce new media and publish independent journalism at this site and beyond.
As a kind of soft opening to the Improvisation Summit of Portland in 2014, Creative Music Guild partnered with Northwest Film Center to screen a film called, The Reach of Resonance. Although not many ideas are particularly new and few techniques presented there are truly groundbreaking in contemporary art, I found extraordinary value to it. […]
Prying open my love vibes with Larry Yess, we talk about our early lives, recording on 4-track tape, Daniel Johnston, and many things in a stream of talk. And after moving in to a new home studio and migrating the website, we have ourselves a new wave for the podcast. Please enjoy. The music is […]
In 2002, I marched downtown Los Angeles, along with tens of thousands of protesters, in awe and love for the outpouring of support against the Iraq war. At the end of the march, we were entertained if not inspired by an all-star band including Jackson Brown, Slash, Ian Gillan, as well as Hollywood actors including […]
John and Faith Hubley are possibly the best-kept secret in town. Actually, as commercial animators they produced a living, and one of the most iconic bits in advertising. It is touching and creative enough that even Don Draper would be proud to produce it. My love for older things might be the illusion that cultural […]
Going to the movies, at its best, is a transformative experience. Even if it is temporary, the great joy of seeing a film has less to do with what happens on screen than how you feel when you walk out. That is how I would describe my reality after Hubley. It may be temporary, but […]