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Why Creative Work Stays Unfinished

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The Gospel According To Otis: Feeding Every Cat

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Unleashing Your Creativity

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When Passion Meets Reality

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The Gospel According To Otis: Sonic Illusion

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Utilizing Loops In Recording

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Why Your Cold Outreach Isn’t Working

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The Gospel According To Otis: Night Moves

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: The Society Of The Image

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How To Stay Creative While Working A Full-Time Job

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The Gospel According To Otis: Seeds

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: The MOB Recording Studio

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Truth Doesn’t Speak For Itself

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The Gospel According To Otis: I Am The Pilot

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Red Headed Stranger

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When Media Filters What You Believe

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The Gospel According To Otis: Morning Inspection

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Marco Bass Guitars

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You’re Keeping Score Wrong

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The Gospel According To Otis: Control

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: A Foray Into High-End Audio

At the height of the COVID pandemic in 2021, Mack-n-Cheeze Music sat down with Erik Owen, owner of Gig Harbor Audio, to talk about the art of listening. In a time when live music had gone silent, the conversation turned to analog sound, high-end audio systems, and why the listening experience still matters.
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When Systems Shape The Art

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The Gospel According To Otis: Panic

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Free Electron Media

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Creative Recalibration: The Cost Of Consistency

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The Gospel According To Otis: Interpreting Art

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Windstudios’ Mommy

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You Think You’re Built For This?

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The Gospel According To Otis: Law Of Averages

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Creative Destruction In The Music Business

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The Cost Of The Dream

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The Gospel According To Otis:Nine Lives

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Sahara

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Why You Should Write the Book You Fear

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The Gospel According To Otis: Focused Pursuit

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Podcast #10 with Adam Pulchalski

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Why Creatives Have Stress Dreams

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The Gospel According To Otis: Creative Momentum

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: The Realm Of Creativity

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Why Creative Progress Is Cyclical, Not Linear

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The Gospel According To Otis: Creative Instinct

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Embracing Constraints In Art

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Why Passion Is A Terrible Strategy

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The Gospel According To Otis: Creative Destiny

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Tell Me No Lies

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Six Questions Serious Creatives Avoid Answering

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The Gospel According Otis: The Agreement

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Chris CD Littlefield

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Hand Prints In Clay

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The Gospel According To Otis: Sustained Fervor

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Michael Clune

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Since When Is Survival A Compliment?

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The Gospel According To Otis: Night School

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Mack-n-Cheeze Presents: Mark Holter

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When Work Life Balance Becomes an Excuse

Work life balance sounds reasonable. It promises stability, care, and control. But for creative work, balance often enters right where momentum disappears. This post examines how maintenance quietly becomes avoidance, why access to the work erodes, and what actually keeps creative effort alive under real constraints.
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The Gospel According To Otis: Hard Truths

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: The Home Studio

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Artistic Truth Through Suffering

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The Gospel According To Otis: December Truth

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Five Books That Punch Through The Excuses

These are the books that didn’t pat me on the back—they cut through my excuses. Drawing on Kafka’s belief that a real book should “bite and sting,” this post looks at five books that challenge creators to stop drifting and face the work with honesty and discipline. Not perfect books—impactful ones. The kind that leave…
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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Nineteen

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Brewing Is Art

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The Mirrors Of Ourselves

We all stand in front of a mirror—some of us just finally decide to look. This post digs into the stories we tell ourselves, the limits we inherit, and the internal fractures that shape our creative lives. From Tolstoy’s war with his own reflection to losing my own recording space, the message is clear: circumstances…
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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Eighteen

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Mackncheeze Music Presents: Embracing Technophilia

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Why Creatives Are Being Forced To Conform

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Sixteen

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Seventeen

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The Gospel According To Otis: I Am The Genius Of Myself

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Bridges Burned

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The Creative Identity That Outlives Chaos

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Fifteen

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Todd Ainsworth and Hartwood

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The Kings and Queens of Nothing

The Kings and Queens of Nothing cuts through the myth of success. Crowns of art, money, and culture look radiant—and then they eat their owners. From 19th-century stage idols to modern icons, this is a reckoning with fame, ego, and purity. Don’t chase coronation; build work that lasts after the applause dies.
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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Fourteen

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Music And The Sublime

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How To Build The Art Only You Can Imagine

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Thirteen

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Danny Godinez and Good Intentions

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The Power of Being Weird

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Twelve

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Mack-n-Cheeze Music Presents: Two Different Worlds

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Creature Feature Fridays: Where Halloween Never Ended

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The Gospel According To Otis: Happy Halloween

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Performative Contradiction:Words That Kill Creativity

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Antifragile Creativity

Technology promised perfection. Instead, it exposed our fragility. Antifragile Creativity is about building art that doesn’t just survive disruption—it draws power from it. In a world where AI glitches, software crashes, and updates break what once worked, the true artist learns to adapt, evolve, and turn chaos into creation.
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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Eleven

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Reinvention As Creative Transformation

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The Gospel According To Otis: Lesson Ten
