The greatest gift I’ve received yet this season was the opportunity to perform The Rucksack Cabaret at the Blue Owl. I wrote the songs while I was travelling to write The Rucksack Letters, but it wasn’t until recently that I finally arranged them into a storyline and fleshed out...

GrowthBusters – Hooked on Growth, written and produced by Dave Gardner, is a non-profit, feature-length documentary to be released 2011.  The film explores the destructive consequences of our addiction to consumption and how we can overcome it. To honor the musicians who have devoted...

As a young man, I have fond memories of the Muppet Show and its wonderful cast of characters. The Muppet Movie was my introduction to the road trip. Long before Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson, and the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test inspired me to explore my society, I was inspired to be an...

We live in a chaotic world where all sorts of things are bound to go wrong. However, it is not so much what is going on around us that is important. It is how we react to it that really makes the difference. In a Modern Hippie TV interview we did recently with artist Gale Fulton Ross, she...

As I started to consider what songs to play for my audition on Sunday, I went first for the ones that held a special meaning for me and pointed at what kind of changes I wanted to see in the world. Yet I’ve been told that I tend to come across a little too serious at times what with the...

Although I was familiar with a few of Tears for Fears’ hits, it wasn’t until I watched Donnie Darko that I first heard a cover of the song Mad World. It was later that I learned the song, released almost thirty years ago, was their first international hit. Does anyone else feel a...

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I began this expedition. Although I knew that I was on the right path, I wasn’t quite sure where the path would lead. I had no money to put toward my trip, and I was pretty unsure how I would afford to make it to Atlanta, much less actually be able...

When I was writing about how the times were changing the other day, I mentioned that historically, the Church has held the commission to give water to the thirsty. However, over the last several years, many have been disenfranchised with organized religion due to a number of scandals,...

This is not the first time that I have been called “crazy.” Before I discovered that there was a clinical diagnosis for my particular traits, I’ve been known to do things a little off kilter. After I was diagnosed with the deficit of attention which seems to have taken the...

To listen to Bob Dylan speak now, he never wanted to be the voice of the Hippie movement. He never wanted to lead a revolution. All he wanted to do was be an artist. Because of his focus on that, he has given us some of the most poignant songs to come out of American music in the last century....