For the past several years, Dean Haglund, Phil Leirness, and Jon Lawlor have been getting together almost weekly to hold each other’s feet to the fire in the pursuit of creating art that is filled with life, while also learning how to live more artfully. Now, Chillpak Hollywood Presents … “The Art Life” as a regular podcast!

This week’s topics include …

*Wine-based cocktails

*Explosionism Rock

*Comedy as a “funny way of being serious”

*The writing of Monty Python

*In an age of algorithms, AI, populism, corporate media mergers and divisiveness, what themes would need to be included in a contemporary manifesto that could serve a “Declaration” of independent artists

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