cursive

You can find the written version of this blog post at: 

http://ridgelightranch.com/improve-memory-confidence-grades/ 

Here's the Highlights:

• The benefits for handwriting
• How to improve handwriting
• Handwriting is an art form
• Practice, Practice, Practice!

Things I mention is this episode:

• “The Man Health Perks of Good Handwriting”  from the Chicago Tribune June 15, 2011 by Julie Deardorff, 
• “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades”  from The New York Times, June 2, 2014 by Maria Konnikova
• Renaissance - Impressionists Amazing Artist Handwriting Sheets
• American Amazing Artist Handwriting Sheets
• Making a Statement with Grant Wood’s American Gothic Lesson plan
• Painting in Tones Like OKeeffe Lesson Plan
• Drawing Botanicals like Linnaeus Lesson Plan

The Balvenie's Jonathan Wingo sits down with me to co-host a 10 song playlist with paired whiskies. We intro the tracks and talk about why whisky is the best thing to pair with music. Some great bottles, and even greater songs in the mix. Sit back, tune in, and enjoy this great playlist. Get the Spotify playlist here! With 2 extra tracks.

Tim Kasher is probably best known as the singer of indie-punk mainstays, Cursive & The Good Life - things that the FM3 hardly talk about in our lengthy conversation with this modern rock legend! Also barely mentioned: Tim’s directorial film debut, ‘No Resolution’, screening in most major US cities this September with a Q&A and musical performance by TK (09/11th at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco, for local listeners). What we DO talk about is Tim Kasher’s love of horror films old & new, being a movie lover living in Hollywood, being a fan-fiction screenwriter, and of course, a little food talk.

On today's episode I talk to musician Tim Kasher. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Tim has been playing music since he was young. One of Tim's first bands, Slowdown Virginia was shortlived though they inspired other bands to form like The Faint and Bright Eyes, and Lumberjack Records, the record label that put out their one album, became Saddle Creek, one of the biggest indie labels around. In 1995, Tim formed Cursive, which in their 20 years together have released numerous EPs and seven albums, including their 2003 breakthrough LP The Ugly Organ. In 2000, Tim started a solo project called The Good Life, though this quickly grew into a full fledged band, leaving Tim to record albums on his own. Those solo works include The Game of Monogamy in 2010 and his latest No Resolutions, which was released earlier this year on 15 Passenger Records, a label Tim formed with some of his Cursive bandmates.

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