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 …

*Dean’s reasons for spending the week in Los Angeles

*The art Dean saw while in Southern California, and a new comedy club downtown

*How his time away will aid Dean in terms of his art commissions

*A song that Jon has completed and is waiting to release until he can make the accompanying music video

*The importance of thinking about and forming a relationship to death

*Age vs. youth in politics, and power/control dynamics

*The ritual of being married and why so many Americans are eschewing marriage

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