What’s Better: Live Music Or Reading Your Favorite Book?

Empty Bottle Book Bike

As we told you before during the Open Book Blogathon, we LOVE books. And reading them is a major source of inspiration that fuels the ideas and concert experiments we do on Live Fix. So here’s how you can enjoy a live show with a great line-up at the Empty Bottle and support Chicago organization [...]

Open Books Blogathon 2009: Reads To Feed Your Fix

Books play a huge role in Live Fix. And I’m always curious to see which books are on the shelves of my favorite music writers. So during the final moments of the Open Books Blogathon 2009 I’d like to give you a peek of my bookshelf and share with you a list of books that inspire my [...]

Open Books Blogathon 2009: A Case for Literacy

  Welcome to the Catania Library!  The above photo is a part of the growing “library” of books that my wife Colleen and I have been creating since we got married and merged our own collections.  There’s everything from Stephen King to Martin Luther King in our collection. And we take a lot of pride [...]

Blogging For A Cause: Open Books Blogathon 2009

   In a few short hours I’ll be doing something I haven’t done before.  I’m putting my blogging skills to the test and contributing Live Fix blog posts this Saturday for a good cause that doesn’t directly involve live music.  I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2009 with the crew at Open Books. “Open Books will present 48 [...]