the gcmsw
Was asked if I could do a workshop in Vancouver in March. Came up with this. THE GREAT CANADIAN MUSIC SURVIVAL WORKSHOP Songwriting accidents, film-score sorcery, video-making on a budget, […]
Politics
mtl
At the end of my interview with the Montreal radio station, the DJ shifted into a solemn tone and said he wanted to ask about a very serious anniversary. The […]
by which we measure our pain
Soon it will be the anniversary of Lennon’s murder, that national psychic car crash of 1980. I remember the night like a concussion. One of the zillions of poor bastards […]
truth
At the accordion store I used the bathroom. Saw this on the wall, “How do you know a music lawyer’s telling the truth?Don’t worry it’s never come up.”
the singer songwriter
A few weeks ago I told a friend I would help her with the sound at her show. I didn’t want to, truth be told. I am not a sound […]
reaching for the stones, not the beatles
The world mistakes plainness for blasphemy. John Lennon said things plainly, maybe too plainly. The Beatles said they were “bigger than Jesus,” which was not asserting divinity, just interpreting sickness. […]
smile, deflect, dodge the music
Reading Coleman Hughes’s tweets about Candace Owens. I like his podcast very much. Says what he thinks all the while not sounding like a sermon. I liked his rap songs […]
illusion of knowing
At a party two weeks ago, I heard an American in his eighties, a retired teacher talk about murder. A moment earlier the conversation was about food, about school, ordinary […]
it’s their game
I wasn’t expecting congratulations when I mentioned handing in my PhD writing yesterday, all I really did was hit submit. People replied as if I’ve suddenly become Dr. Wiseman, but […]
patreon free speech
Lately, I’ve been in conversations about platforms like Patreon or Locals, and how they differ from traditional blogging. I will try one of them, but I’m drawn more to Locals […]