Arroe Collins Like Its Live Unplugged And Totally Uncut

I don't know where to begin.  Only because during my daily writing this morning put the best part of the handwritten conversation in the final thought.  My discipline is three pages.  That's it no more.  There are other journals that are to be used.  Not these.  Talk about treating your creative self like a child right?  On this podcast I put a ton of energy into...

Cherished are the pages of shared points of view.  Each journal a personality of its own.  Most carry the trials and trails of 2.5 to 3 months.  Not as a way of counting down the rest of my life but to hold onto and study how the events unpredictable came into being then were played out by way of ____

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 31: The Voices Imagine making it past the Blind Auditions on NBC’s The Voice. That first initial push through an eighteen seas...

Life rarely follows one path so directly. Nashville-based guitar maestro Phil Hughley knows this fact intimately; during his childhood in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Hughley saw Eric Clapton perform on television, and he fell in love with the guitar. It changed his life. He spent his adolescence learning everything he could musically, studying guitar and learning how to bend it to his will. While music...

The one thing I've really seen a lot of during social distancing is how incredibly close musicians are getting with their fans and followers.  It's over the internet but I swear it's never been so personal.  A new age of music meeting those who receive it has been given birth.  Another side of the picture also showcases an amazing journey of how the singer/songwriters are sharing th...

Hailing from a small town in the UK, Dyson made the move to London at 17 to hustle her way into the music industry. She moved to Sweden at 24 to explore the Swedish pop writing scene, which she feels fully shaped her as a songwriter. She went on to write for a K-pop group, Girls Generation. Her most notable writing credits are for the K-Pop group BTS, which helped her achieve two Billboard #1 albu...

Being transparent has always been my walk.  Not always a good place to stand.  Not everybody wants to tune into where reality currently hangs its hat.  Growing up my parents were always extremely honest.  When times were bad Dad let us know about it.  When times were good we were eating at the nearest family restaurant.  The Lyrics from Billy's Forest is nothing more...

We must remain truth filled by way of being transparent with moments of unpredictable discomfort and unrest.  We've made it too easy to cover it up.  There are no dogs following us with bags to pick up what we are dropping off.  We are creatures of rituals.  There is no new normal.  It's a readjustment of our lives.  Remaining truth filled we are in the presence of no...

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 30: The What If Factor Tyler Perry’s Sistas has returned to BET. It’s one of the most down to earth relatable dramas without o...

Lauren grew up in Albuquerque and started playing piano at 3 and began singing at 9. Lauren graduated high school in less than two years to focus on music. She moved to California to study music but decided to leave and immerse herself in the music industry instead. Lauren has experienced some success with a song called “Paper Doll,” which played on Spotify’s New Music Friday and had song syncs on...

A romantic comedy about a group of friends navigating love, life, and relationships as they reach the mid-point. At the heart of the story is Adam (Scott Evans), a talented painter now stuck ghost painting for successful contemporary artist Ravella Brewer (Patricia Clarkson). He and Marklin (Augustus Prew) are at the five-year mark of their relationship. They don't have kids, they're not married,...

Pod-Crashing Episode 53 The Writing Instrument Making your voice last longer than a three hour Capitol building protest. We’ve all seen the 5 o’clock news and saw in the end that decision makers weren’t moved. I posted on Facebook. Sometimes we have to be reminded of how important a Writing Instrument is. We can easily get lost in a sea of protest banners and other people’s loud voices without rea...

Now that the daily number of Coronavirus deaths aren't earth movingly high in New York newsrooms across the nation are reaching toward the new story.  Oh I know!  Lets put focus on the mental conditions caused by the impact of these forty plus days of social distancing.  I've been begging for this news day approach for seven weeks.  Now they're just getting to here?  I spo...

We’ve all been there. The co-worker who always asks you to donate to the latest worthy cause, the wedding invite for a couple you barely know, your bff who never seems capable of carrying her own stuff when you go out. Its maddening and so often makes you feel frustrated because you always say yes!  With her characteristic humor, bestselling author, Sarah Knight deals self-help with an edge a...

The show that invented the reality competition genre is back for its 35th season with The  Challenge: Total Madness airing Wednesday nights on MTV. Following a successful season of “War of the Worlds 2,” the explosive new season returns to a solo game format where no one is safe and  it’s every traitor for themselves. Twenty-eight players (including 21 veterans and seven rookies) will fa...

I'm not really sure if all that's been or has been written will be visited again in the years beyond the Coronavirus.  It might actually be too much weight for the growing journey.   I was daily writing through September 11th and the financial crisis of 2008 and returning to that writing has fueled huge amounts of fear by way of never wanting to re-experience those days of doubt, fe...

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 29: From Covid-19 The Next Wave Of Opioid Addiction The reality behind the reality is that we’re still in the midst of the Opi...

Michael asked for voice lessons for Christmas when he was 6. His parents were surprised by the request since they lived in a small town where their life revolved around sports, but they agreed to pay for the lessons. Shortly after, Michael got involved in community theater and began performing at local events. At 10, Michael was diagnosed with a digestive disease that kept him from playing sports,...

While social media enables us to make connections with more people than ever before, social isolation is a growing epidemic in the United States. The National Science Foundation reported in 2014 that the number of Americans with no close friends has tripled since 1985, and an unprecedented number of Americans are living alone, particularly people over sixty. Meanwhile, the youngest generations amo...

An Australian Western movie?  The True History Of The Kelly Gang.  Out this weekend but does it truly entertain a quarantined viewing audience?  Although the film says its not a true story, Ryan extended his reach and located many connections that made this gang extremely real.  Also new this weekend on Netflix is Extraction which he says is the perfect rocker for your passion...

There used to be a time when anything with sound drove me insane.  It must be a radio thing.  Sitting in a production studio trying to craft a great feature and or commercial and the commotion outside the door bled onto the recording tape or digital device.  I had to start  over.  Time I wasn't going to get back.  On this podcast we travel into that area again by look...

I hold in my hand a tool.  Decades Of students have been taught to call it a pen.  I cringe that that because you'd never walk up to a violinist and talk about their shoulder guitar.  Your pen is your voice.  Your strength and weakness.  Its light and darkness.  Take that pen and create thought then build bridges to podcasting and blogging.  Make your way to opin...

Hey it’s Arroe. This is Play It Forward. A look at the unexpected changes endured by entertainers, writers, camera people and all others affected but not infected by the global invasion of the Coronavirus. No wait. This episode is different. Corii has Covid-19 The goal is to feature two different types of episodes. The individual conversations as well as a collected array of the entire picture. Re...

Groundbreaking treatments will improve the lives of millions of people — potentially treating diseases like sickle cell — but there are worries that scientists will take gene-editing technology  too far, using it to modify germline DNA in order to enhance certain traits deemed “preferable.” As THE GENE demonstrates, those fears have already been  realized: in November 2018, Chinese resea...

Looking deep into space, by definition, means looking back in time—and the Hubble Space Telescope can look very far back, including at stars, nebulae, and galaxies that are millions, even billions, of years old. If there is a single legacy of Hubble as it turns 30 years old and nears the end of its useful life, it is this: It has done more to chronicle the origin and evolution of the known univers...