A small epiphany from the exceptionally mundane. When washing dishes my feet are idle but my mind is wandering. This morning I wandered into thoughts of sponge production costs and change management. I’ve been buying a certain national brand of sponge for years now (I cook a lot–therefore I wash a lot of dishes). But […]
Author: Mark Egge
The Knife: Music for the 21st Century
The clean narrative of music’s progression from 60’s pop to 70’s rock to 80’s metal to 90’s alternative shatters violently at the turn of the century. Musical shrapnel shoots violently across the vast empty space of the universe. Genres proliferate at a dizzying rate, at the rate at which the universe expands. As a listener, […]
2012: Year in Review
2012 was a good year, full of activity. This spring I canyoneered or climbed or adventured almost every weekend until moving from Phoenix in May. Then, I travelled to Sweden, and throughout the Rocky Mountains until September. In September, I moved to Golden, CO with Kendra and Sagar, where Sagar and I started a business. […]
Ahoy! Punch Brothers, Live in Boulder
Punch Brothers December 9th, 2012 – The Boulder Theater Every once in a great while, you go to a show, and come away with a sense of positive eubilation. Sometimes it’s the perfect blend of intoxication and music —lost into a meaningful and moving haze. Others, it’s the circumstances–what happened before, or after. And still others, […]
Blind Dogs and Bullet Holes
If there’s a dog on my mind, it would have to be Izzy. She’s a six-year-old, blind Weimaraner, who is currently (and constantly) trying to climb into my lap. Kendra and I (okay, mostly Kendra) are providing a foster home for the local Weimaraner rescue. We’ve had Izzy for five or six weeks, now. There’s […]