High Resolution Life

Jeff Hampton joins us again on this episode, which truly ends up being a wild ride. We talk about Russian composers (a large portion of time is devoted to Prokofiev), linguistics, diction, drug use by soldiers during the 20th century, Gustav Mahler and COVID-19. Want to know how we got there? Tune in and join us on this wild ride! Check out Jeff's podcast, Six Pack and a Song, that he produces wit...

We're back for 2021! Today we introduce Wyman Brent on the podcast! Listen to Wyman Brent's story of how he founded a Jewish library in Vilnius, Lithuania.  To learn more about the Vilnius Jewish Public Library, check out their website here .

In this episode, we welcome Amy Podoletz to the podcast to share her expertise on the animation genre known as anime! Amy is a graduate of Seton Hill University, majoring in Information and Library Sciences.  I decided to delve into a little bit more of what narratives anime focuses on and some of the anime series that Amy recommends to check out... If you don't know anything about anime or w...

On this episode of High Resolution Life, we welcome Jeffrey Hampton back to the podcast! This time we talk about atonal music, locusts and telemarketers. How do they all relate to this episode? Well, this episode evolved from a phone call rant that was paused so the conversation could be shared with you all! Atonal music is a type of music that moves away from a typical tonal center (think of your...

Today we welcome John Moist to High Resolution Life! John Moist is a doctoral student studying communication at University of Illinois, and his studies focus on rhetoric, technology and economic topics. Annette and John were both born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and are both former homeschoolers. John Moist has joined Annette on the podcast to talk about being raised as homeschoolers, how...

Returning to a dream that has eluded you for years is hard enough, but what happens when you come back to making your dreams come true in a world that’s been unexpectedly thrown into a pandemic? Annette discusses returning to being a full time student and pianist, and the struggles of working class musicians with her friend of over a decade, Jeffrey Hampton, and everything involved with carving ou...

What would you do if you woke up one day and found you would have to relearn everything you thought you knew how to do? Walk, talk, eat... Even breathe? A long time friend of Annette's, Jess Stellabotte, discusses how she has spent the past few years recovering from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).

Meet Annette - or, re-meet Annette in Podcast form. Here I explain that I'm starting a podcast, what I'm starting it for and what I hope to get out of it, and what I hope you also get out of it. It's essentially a kind of journal podcast, I suppose, since I'm examining a lot of different sides of life that are interesting and exciting to me, and they are different situations, thoughts and people t...