a tale told by a idiot
A student in the songwriting class waited after the class ended and everyone left, then asked me if I thought he would make it in music. Said I have no […]
Bob Wiseman
A blinking biped in the age old tradition of song and dance.
ad wars
Occasionally I remember to click on Golf Digest, Steak World, Lithuania Today, How to Teach Science, Learn Japanese, Best Strudel Recipes – altering the algorithm of advertisements that come my […]
dec 8 in memoriam
Tonight the anniversary of John Lennon’s life ending from gunshot. What a sad confusing night that was. I remember hearing it on the news when he was still in hospital. […]
7 samurai at bathurst and bloor
I went to the open stage that is predominantly hip hop. Usually takes place in Scarborough but once a month moves to Bathurst and Bloor. I have been 5 times […]
echo
From among a few subjects I decided on gender and capitalism for my final Marx paper. . The requirements were to suck up 10 articles and spit back who says […]
the joy of braining
Writing a new piece avoiding playing previous patterns. As days pass the unfamiliar becomes less confusing. The new ideas moves into instinct. Slowly, the need to think through each finger’s […]
commercial
There was a singing sound, a low frequency seemed like an Eddie Vedder machine. In a moment the subway started moving and looking up the sound source was a strong […]
light bulb
Sometimes I can see the moment the light bulb went off in his head, all those years ago, he couldn’t help himself. Another year, another try to get through without […]
doublespeak
I read John Hammond’s autobiography when I was young and after thought A&R people were suppose to discover talent like he did (Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Billie Holiday, […]
syllabus for sun ra
The course Sun Ra taught in 1971 at UC Berkeley was called “The Black Man in the Universe,” or “The Black man in the Cosmos.” This was the required […]