bad song hit song
Some of the books we’re looking at in the songwriting course include Bob Snider On Songwriting, John Sobol You Are Your Media & Kodwu Eshun More Brilliant Than The Sun. […]
Bob Wiseman
A blinking biped in the age old tradition of song and dance.
watching the wheels
The guy from the record label admires me, talks about how many things I’m associated with that move him and says other flattering things. I play him the two people […]
van the man
Ducked into a cafe during the rain this afternoon. 60s playlist inside starting with Ohio by Neil Young, favourite part for me, “how can you run when you know?” Followed […]
bad shoes
Attended a training day for the university where I’ll be teaching a course on songwriting this fall. About 40 new teachers invited to this training session from kinesiology to to […]
he was an outlaw
There were many people I came upon who admired Lenny Bruce. Who talked about him as an important catalyst for change re: censorship. Some people said everyone owes him for […]
Skiing
Bought one of those Masterclass tutorials, advertised everywhere, the ones that annoy me and come on all the time. Bought it as present to myself, on writing, by Margaret Atwood. […]
closer
There was a composer who could tell whenever he was getting close to writing something that pleased him, because before it was finished he would start writing the next one.
the rules for getting there
again aiming for that space, where in order to cross the tightrope I mustn’t think and if I start to or notice my thinking, I fall off. get back on, […]
making sense
Heard a couple much-younger-than-me folks discussing Morrisey’s stance about animal rights, they were very critical.Me: You don’t think he should make his opinion public?Guy: No it isn’t the proper platform […]
imagining
Organizing the Major Research Project for my Masters requires transcribing interviews. Using transcription software I can play back recordings and watch the words automatically textualize on my computer screen. There […]