For the past two years, I’ve been stealthily working on a startup called www.getmotivatedbuddies.com, a social platform to help people follow through with difficult behaviors like exercise, studying, and work, by partnering people working towards similar goals as buddies and in groups and challenges. It is a platform designed to improve wellbeing through positive behavior change and accountability.
There is an exorbitant amount of expert information about what interventions work to improve wellbeing: e,g. exercise more, eat less. But there is no help for people to systematically take action taking into account their day to day struggles and successes.
Although we’re not yet released we have a superb team of people, which I will announce soon, and passionate committed users for our beta site from around the world.
An insanely enjoyable interview with the Mistresses and Master of the Dragon Academy Dropouts Podcast about the new Federal Reserve chairman final season of Dragons Race to the Edge on Netflix.
They're a clever, insightful, and perhaps most important, fun group who love the show, and rightly so!
Click here to listen.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, directed by Artistic Director, Michael Barakiva.
"Juilliard-trained Michael Goldstrom rises to the challenge with a brilliant, bawdy, bravado performance. With a physical appearance and acting style reminiscent of a restrained Robin Williams, Goldstrom is a bundle of taut energy held loosely, delivering delightful comic moments with focus and precision." - Syracuse.com
THE ACADEMY—A PROGRAM OF CARNEGIE HALL, THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, AND THE WEILL MUSIC INSTITUTE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat is a Faustian story of a soldier who trades his fiddle with the Devil in exchange for a magic book. The work contains some of Stravinsky’s most colorful music and is a piece where tango, waltz, and ragtime rub elbows with Lutheran chorales. Ensemble ACJW—called “fun, fearless, and effing great,” by Time Out New York—performs this devilishly entertaining work in the finale to its Carnegie Hall series.
‘Metromaniacs’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company Lansburgh Theatre
Mistaken identity, misplaced ardor and a fight for true love ensues in David Ives’ adaptation of Piron’s classic 1738 French farce. Add to the chaos some scheming servants, pseudonyms and disguises and there is much to untangle before love-plots are resolved and a happy ending found.
Continuing the successful partnership between Artistic Director Michael Kahn and David Ives, STC presents the third play in Ives’ series of rediscovered French comedy masterpieces, following The Heir Apparent (2011) and The Liar (2010). A world-premiere translation and adaptation, Ives’ presentation of Alexis Piron's The Metromaniacs once again applies his brilliant sense of comedic timing to a lost classic. Michael Goldstrom performs as Mondor.
Michael Goldstrom as Trader Johann on Dragons Defenders of Berk
