Shredding at The Zodiac with The Mostly Don'ts Hello and welcome to the Mindful of Madness podcast. This week on the show we have the incredibly talented Andrea Stone! When I started this thing I knew I had to talk to Andrea because in addition to being a fantastic singer and guitarist she's also run … Continue reading Mindful of Madness Ep. 7 Andrea Stone: Music/Live performance
This week on The Mindful of Madness Podcast I chat with Pueblo's proudest son (Not an official title) John Brown. John is a killer comic and we get deep on how to navigate our current climate on stage and dig into John's past as a Juggalo, birthday clown, theater performer and finally comedian. Here are … Continue reading Mindful of Madness Ep. 5 John Brown
There’s an extra Sunday in August this year so I guess it’s bonus blog time! I really wasn’t sure what to talk about this week, the last couple entries have gone pretty deep and I’m just not sure I have the emotional energy to go there with this one, so instead I thought I’d talk … Continue reading Plans
Back in March I wrote an entry about how I already missed performing stand-up comedy after something like 2 weeks in lock down. Well it’s June now and I haven’t done comedy in over three months. I may be going insane. I was doing ok for a minute there; writing a lot, catching up on … Continue reading I Miss Comedy
COLORADO SPRING, CO - Physical education teacher Grant Grinner discovered a sentient fungus while cleaning out the boy’s locker room at Northgate Middle School in Colorado Springs last week. “Nobody had been down in the locker room since the whole (COVID-19) lockdown thing started,” Grinner said just hours after finding the thinking mold. “I knew … Continue reading Breaking: Sentient life found in boy’s gym locker
Earlier this week I re-watched Mike Birbiglia’s second directorial outing, Don’t Think Twice. It’s a great indie movie about an improv team at a crossroads. They’re all getting older, their theater is getting shut down and one of their members gets a job at Weekend Live, an SNL rip off so on the nose I’m … Continue reading Unsolicited: Jealousy
There are a lot of reasons artistic endeavors fail; lack of talent or training, a weak personal support system or terrible personality. Hell, sometimes good old fashioned bad luck sinks an idea. But in my very humble estimation, FEAR the single greatest obstacle to good art. In the words of the late, great Frank Herbert, … Continue reading Unsolicited: Fear
Well shit’s looking pretty grim my friends. Folks are dying, the stock market is in the toilet. Open mics are canceled. OH GOD THE OPEN MICS ARE CANCELED. If you aren’t a comedian, this is probably a relief. But for a very small percentage of the population, in these early days of the global pandemic … Continue reading Art in the Age of Quarantine
Hi Guys, Andrew here. Just a brief explination before we start the story. I decided to do something a bit different this month! It’s always been a dream of mine to write for television, and despite the fact that I have no hollywood contacts I wrote a half-hour comedy pilot. In a sense this is … Continue reading Tom in the Mail Room
Hey welcome to Unsolicited, a new monthly addition to Mindful of Madness where I’ll spend a bit of time every month talking about what’s going on in my life and artistic pursuits. I’ll talk about writing and comedy and maybe even photography, always with the cynical, hard-nosed humor I work really hard to keep out … Continue reading Unsolicited: Self-Promotion Blues
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