Creativity Is The Cure

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Digital Storyteller and musician Rev. Samuel discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.

Topics include; Torch and Hammer, Schwag, Where Is the Chesterfield King?,The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Monkey's Paw, The Sphere of Density, The Interloper, Save the Cat!, Salem's Lot, Destroy All Monsters, Star Trek, Smog Monster aka Hedorah, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Lord of the Rings (1978), Mohair at the Insect Salon, Malcolm The Vampire!, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Chesterfield Kings, Mad Cow Tippers, The Living, Koo Koo Boy, Andro, Andy Babiuk, Tchad Blake, Mike Boise, David Bowie, Aleister Crowley, Billie Eilish, Baron Von Eisenstropher, Terry Gilliam, Steve Harris, Alex Kelley, Mark Lindsay, Calvin May, Emerson Mitchell, Grant Morrison, Butch Vig, Burning Man, Rochester, New York, Geva Theatre, The George Eastman Museum, Jazzberry's, The Bug Jar, Native Instruments, The Canon XL1, AI, bass guitar, cartoon animation, web design, cowpunk, wooden ducks, sigils, chaos magic and everything ravens need to know about eating magic beans to grow bigger!

*The song "Torch and  Hammer" by Emerson Mitchell is featured after the interview.

Recorded on the phone July 2025 between Rochester, NY and Palmdale, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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J.C. Gabel continues to discusses with Malcolm how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 4 of their discussion focuses heavily on the current global financial system and how it affects book publishers.

Topics include; Los Lobos, Warren Ellis, Rutger Bregman, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Los Angeles culture and history, Dub Lab, Big Table podcast, The Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1 and 2, Slash: A Punk Magazine from Los Angeles, 1977–80 and everything you ever wanted to know about living in an Orwellian dystopia!

*Recorded July 2025 in Silver Lake - Los Angeles, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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Drummer, composer and painter Chris Parker discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.

Topics include; Saturday Night Live, Bob Dylan, G. E. Smith, T-Bone Wolk, Will Lee, Steve Gadd, Frida Kahlo, Thelonious Monk, Stuff, Brecker Brothers, Don Grolnick, Steve Khan, David Sanborn, Quincy Jones, The Parker Brothers Extravaganza, Sneaky Cookin', Mikell's, Woodstock, New York, Salt-N-Pepa, Emu Sp1200, music education, double drumming, sketching, painting, watercolors, art lampoons, civet coffee and what it was like growing up playing Bijou (Rhumba a la Jazz) with exotic dancers at age 11!

The song "You're a Giver" by The Chris Parker Quartet is featured after the interview.

Recorded on the phone July 2025 between Athens, NY and Palmdale, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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J.C. Gabel continues to discuss how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 3 of our discussion focuses heavily on books, film and music. 

Hat & Beard Press is an independent, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. 

Topics include; Fred Armisen, Trenchmouth, The Flaming Lips, Brian Wilson, Pulp, Suede, Nikola Tesla, La Bamba, Lou Diamond Phillips, Los Lobos, The Byrds, Love, William Shatner, Amoeba Music: What's in My Bag?, Criterion Closet Picks, Marc Maron, Stop Smiling: The magazine for high-minded lowlifes, Elijah Wood, The Elephant 6 Recording Company and the theory that there are currently more independent bookstore in London and Paris than in the United States!

*Recorded July 2025 in Silver Lake - Los Angeles, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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Pilates instructor, dancer and studio owner Grace Wang Caltabiano discusses how creativity affects her work and personal life.

Topics include; Pilates, scholarship, ballet, balance, red light therapy, Studio Reformers, full body strength and longevity, Joseph Pilates, Madonna, Wayne Brady, Tom Caltabiano, Ray Romano, Ed Begley Jr., Living with Grace and how Grace Anatomy is very likely the only pilates studio in the USA that features sour dough bread with freshly cracked pepper and a crock of olive oil!

*Recorded July 2025 in Burbank, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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J.C. Gabel continues to discusses with Malcolm the current state of independent book publishing in the USA and how creativity affects his work and personal life. Part 2 of our discussion focuses heavily on music. 

Hat & Beard Press is an independent, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. 

Topics include; Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, The Cure, Robert Smith, Anton Corbijn, Orian Williams, Genesis P-Orridge, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Bauhaus, David J, Wilco, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Captain Jazz and Super Furry Animals!

*Recorded July 2025 in Silver Lake - Los Angeles, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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Multi-disciplinary artist-teacher who often playfully explores the chaos of waste and recyclable materials, both in her own work and with her elementary school artist-students. Jamia Weir discusses how creativity affects her work and personal life. 

Topics include; Sister Corita Kent, Brian Wilson, The Artist's Way, Skirball Cultural Center, plarn, flow, mimes, clowns, puppetry, plastic bag portraits, junk sculpture, environmental mindfulness, upcycling, artprov, improv quilting, art education and her illustrious love affair with carboard!

*Recorded July 2025 on the phone between New Haven, CT and Palmdale, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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J.C. Gabel discusses the current state of independent book publishing in the USA and how creativity affects his work and personal life. 

Hat & Beard is an independent, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house. With our book imprint, Hat & Beard Press, we create original, illustrated nonfiction books of pop-cultural and historical significance that draw on existing cult audiences.

Topics include; STOP SMILING: The Magazine for High-Minded Lowlifes, Amazon, Whole Foods, Barnes & Nobles, Waterstones, Borders, Kinkos, Tower Records, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, 4th class book rate and Pitchfork magazine.

*Recorded July 2025 in Silver Lake - Los Angeles, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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German multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Markus Reuter discusses how creativity affects his work and personal life.

Topics include; Stick Men, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Andy Toomey, Guitar Craft, Psychology, Luther U 8-string Touch Guitar, Chapman Stick, Reeves Gabrels, Berlin, Germany, meeting Robert Fripp in the corridor of castle in Switzerland and how the Warr Guitar unifies the hemispheres of the brain!

*Recorded on the phone July 2025 between Berlin, Germany and Palmdale, CA.

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**Stream For Consciousness Part 1 by Markus Reuter included after interview.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.

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Creative Rhythms owner and Founder Gail Jackson discusses how creativity affects her work and personal life.

Gail is a Certified  Mindfulness Teacher through Engaged Mindfulness Institute, Certified in Sound Healing and Therapy, a Village Music Circles Global Trainer, a REMO-Endorsed Drum Circle Facilitator, trained HealthRhythms Facilitator, Rhythm2Recovery Facilitator and Music is Medicine Facilitator. She is a professional member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and the Drum Circles Facilitators Guild. 

Recorded July 2025 on the phone between Anchorage, Alaska and Palmdale, CA.

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CREATIVITY IS THE CURE is a podcast about how creativity influences people in their daily lives and work. In each episode, Malcolm Moore interviews fascinating people of diverse ages, cultures, spiritualities, and professions. For more info, go to www.creativityisthecure.org.